Direct Bottom-Up In Situ Growth: A Paradigm Shift for Studies in Wet-Chemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles

GA Vinnacombe-Willson, Y Conti, A Stefancu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Theoretical insights into the mechanism of selective nitrate‐to‐ammonia electroreduction on single‐atom catalysts

H Niu, Z Zhang, X Wang, X Wan… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Selective nitrate‐to‐ammonia electrochemical conversion is an efficient pathway to solve the
pollution of nitrate and an attractive strategy for low‐temperature ammonia synthesis …

Scaling deep learning for materials discovery

A Merchant, S Batzner, SS Schoenholz, M Aykol… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Novel functional materials enable fundamental breakthroughs across technological
applications from clean energy to information processing,,,,,,,,,–. From microchips to batteries …

Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

S Zhang, F Ye, X Wang, R Chen, H Zhang, L Zhan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Controlling the perovskite morphology and defects at the buried perovskite-substrate
interface is challenging for inverted perovskite solar cells. In this work, we report an …

Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst

J Guo, Y Zheng, Z Hu, C Zheng, J Mao, K Du… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the
shortage of freshwater resources. Seawater is abundant but must be desalinated before use …

Rational design of Lewis base molecules for stable and efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

C Li, X Wang, E Bi, F Jiang, SM Park, Y Li, L Chen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lewis base molecules that bind undercoordinated lead atoms at interfaces and grain
boundaries (GBs) are known to enhance the durability of metal halide perovskite solar cells …

Active hydrogen boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

K Fan, W **e, J Li, Y Sun, P Xu, Y Tang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia is a promising alternative strategy to the
traditional Haber-Bosch process but suffers from a low Faradaic efficiency and limited …

Non-iridium-based electrocatalyst for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis

ZY Wu, FY Chen, B Li, SW Yu, YZ Finfrock, DM Meira… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Iridium-based electrocatalysts remain the only practical anode catalysts for proton exchange
membrane (PEM) water electrolysis, due to their excellent stability under acidic oxygen …

A lithium superionic conductor for millimeter-thick battery electrode

Y Li, S Song, H Kim, K Nomoto, H Kim, X Sun, S Hori… - Science, 2023 - science.org
No design rules have yet been established for producing solid electrolytes with a lithium-ion
conductivity high enough to replace liquid electrolytes and expand the performance and …

Ampere-level current density ammonia electrochemical synthesis using CuCo nanosheets simulating nitrite reductase bifunctional nature

JY Fang, QZ Zheng, YY Lou, KM Zhao, SN Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of electrocatalysts capable of efficient reduction of nitrate (NO3−) to
ammonia (NH3) is drawing increasing interest for the sake of low carbon emission and …