Self-assembly of block copolymers towards mesoporous materials for energy storage and conversion systems

C Li, Q Li, YV Kaneti, D Hou, Y Yamauchi… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) provides a versatile strategy for controllable
preparation of a broad range of functional materials with different ordered structures. In …

Hollow nano-and microstructures as catalysts

G Prieto, H Tüysüz, N Duyckaerts… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Catalysis is at the core of almost every established and emerging chemical process and also
plays a central role in the quest for novel technologies for the sustainable production and …

Single-micelle-directed synthesis of mesoporous materials

T Zhao, A Elzatahry, X Li, D Zhao - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Functional mesoporous materials with multilevel architectures, ranging from 0D to 3D, are
typically prepared using surfactant-templating methods. In these methods, surfactants first …

Earth-abundant transition metal and metal oxide nanomaterials: Synthesis and electrochemical applications

G Maduraiveeran, M Sasidharan, W ** - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Earth-abundant transition metal and metal oxide (EATM&MO) nanomaterials offer numerous
positive attributes such as catalytic activity, selective enzyme-mimicking catalysis, energy …

Nanostructured anode materials for lithium ion batteries

P Roy, SK Srivastava - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
High-energy consumption in our day-to-day life can be balanced not only by harvesting
pollution-free renewable energy sources, but also requires proper storage and distribution of …

Microwave-Assisted Morphology Evolution of Fe-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Derived Fe2O3 Nanostructures for Li-Ion Storage

W Guo, W Sun, LP Lv, S Kong, Y Wang - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
The metal–organic-framework (MOF) approach is demonstrated as an effective strategy for
the morphology evolution control of MIL-53 (Fe) with assistance of microwave irradiation …

Multilayer CuO@ NiO hollow spheres: microwave-assisted metal–organic-framework derivation and highly reversible structure-matched stepwise lithium storage

W Guo, W Sun, Y Wang - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
A unique CuO@ NiO microsphere with three-layer ball-in-ball hollow morphology is
successfully synthesized by Cu–Ni bimetallic organic frameworks. The beforehand facile …

Facile fabrication of MOF-derived octahedral CuO wrapped 3D graphene network as binder-free anode for high performance lithium-ion batteries

D Ji, H Zhou, Y Tong, J Wang, M Zhu, T Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, an effective and facile strategy to fabricate binder-free electrodes composing 3D
graphene network (3DGN) and octahedral CuO has been proposed. In this design, Cu …

In situ fabrication of three-dimensional, ultrathin graphite/carbon nanotube/NiO composite as binder-free electrode for high-performance energy storage

W Liu, C Lu, X Wang, K Liang, BK Tay - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal oxides have attracted considerable attention as promising electrode materials for
energy storage, but the use of metal oxides for electrodes still faces challenges such as …

Growth of hierarchal mesoporous NiO nanosheets on carbon cloth as binder-free anodes for high-performance flexible lithium-ion batteries

H Long, T Shi, H Hu, S Jiang, S **, Z Tang - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Mesoporous NiO nanosheets were directly grown on three-dimensional (3D) carbon cloth
substrate, which can be used as binder-free anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). These …