With the increasing demand for low-cost and environmentally friendly energy, the
application of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as reliable energy storage devices in …

In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …

Microporous membrane separators (MMS) are at the heart of rechargeable lithium/sodium
ion batteries (LIBs/NIBs) because they prevent short circuits and serve as a channel for ion …

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) relies on alternated, self-limiting reactions between gaseous
reactants and an exposed solid surface to deposit highly conformal coatings with a thickness …

Electrocatalytic water splitting (2H2O→ 2H2+ O2) is a very promising avenue to effectively
and environmentally friendly produce highly pure hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) at a large …

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 RR) to formate provides an avenue to the
synthesis of value-added carbon-based fuels and feedstocks powered using renewable …

Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenides (G6-TMDs), most notably MoS2, MoSe2, MoTe2,
WS2 and WSe2, constitute an important class of materials with a layered crystal structure …

Solid-state batteries (SSBs) have attracted increasing attention as one of the most promising
next-generation batteries. However, various challenges remain for SSBs toward practical …

Processing at the atomic scale is becoming increasingly critical for state-of-the-art electronic
devices for computing and data storage, but also for emerging technologies such as related …

It has been a strong desire for researchers to control material growth at the molecular and
atomic levels. Molecular and atomic layer deposition (MLD and ALD) are two such …