Hierarchically structured porous materials: synthesis strategies and applications in energy storage

L Wu, Y Li, Z Fu, BL Su - National science review, 2020 - academic.oup.com
To address the growing energy demands of sustainable development, it is crucial to develop
new materials that can improve the efficiency of energy storage systems. Hierarchically …

Templated synthesis of nanostructured materials

Y Liu, J Goebl, Y Yin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Templating is one of the most important techniques for the controlled synthesis of
nanostructured materials. This powerful tool uses a pre-existing guide with desired …

Controlling mineral morphologies and structures in biological and synthetic systems

FC Meldrum, H Cölfen - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The unique and frequently beautiful morphologies that characterize many biominerals have
long been a source of fascination. While research began by looking first at individual …

Chemical reduction of three-dimensional silica micro-assemblies into microporous silicon replicas

Z Bao, MR Weatherspoon, S Shian, Y Cai, PD Graham… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The carbothermal reduction of silica into silicon requires the use of temperatures well above
the silicon melting point (≥ 2,000° C). Solid silicon has recently been generated directly …

Biomimetic and bioinspired synthesis of nanomaterials/nanostructures

G Zan, Q Wu - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, due to its unparalleled advantages, the biomimetic and bioinspired
synthesis of nanomaterials/nanostructures has drawn increasing interest and attention …

Biomimetic mineralization

AW Xu, Y Ma, H Cölfen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomimetic mineralization is a powerful approach for the synthesis of advanced materials
with complex shape, hierarchical organization and controlled size, shape and polymorph …

Insights into hierarchically meso–macroporous structured materials

ZY Yuan, BL Su - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
A great deal of progress has recently been made in the field of ordered porous materials
having uniform channel dimensions which can be adjusted over a wide range of length …

A hybrid planar-mixed molecular heterojunction photovoltaic cell

J Xue, BP Rand, S Uchida… - Advanced …, 2005 - collaborate.princeton.edu
A hybrid planar-mixed molecular heterojunction (PM-HJ) photovoltaic cell consisting of a
mixed layer of donor and acceptor molecules was studied. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used …

Ice-templated materials: Sophisticated structures exhibiting enhanced functionalities obtained after unidirectional freezing and ice-segregation-induced self-assembly

MC Gutiérrez, ML Ferrer, F del Monte - Chemistry of Materials, 2008 - ACS Publications
This review aims to demonstrate the capability of the ice-segregation-induced self-assembly
(ISISA) process for the preparation of materials with highly sophisticated structures (eg …

Carbon spheres

AA Deshmukh, SD Mhlanga, NJ Coville - Materials Science and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The discovery of fullerenes has opened up new studies in shaped carbon materials. In
particular the discovery that carbon atoms in fullerenes showed curved sp2 bonding also led …