Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Lattice‐Strain Engineering for Heterogenous Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Z Hou, C Cui, Y Li, Y Gao, D Zhu, Y Gu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The energy efficiency of metal–air batteries and water‐splitting techniques is severely
constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction …

Visualizing interfacial collective reaction behaviour of Li–S batteries

S Zhou, J Shi, S Liu, G Li, F Pei, Y Chen, J Deng… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Benefiting from high energy density (2,600 Wh kg− 1) and low cost, lithium–sulfur (Li–S)
batteries are considered promising candidates for advanced energy-storage systems …

Torsion strained iridium oxide for efficient acidic water oxidation in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers

S Hao, H Sheng, M Liu, J Huang, G Zheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Acidic oxygen evolution reaction is crucial for practical proton exchange membrane water
splitting electrolysers, which have been hindered by the high catalytic overpotential and high …

From solution to thin film: molecular assembly of π-conjugated systems and impact on (opto) electronic properties

A Khasbaatar, Z Xu, JH Lee… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of conjugated organic molecules from solution to solid-state plays a critical
role in determining the thin film morphology and optoelectronic properties of solution …

Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting

C Hu, K Yue, J Han, X Liu, L Liu, Q Liu, Q Kong… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Designing an efficient catalyst for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of critical
importance in manipulating proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) for …

Periplasmic biomineralization for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Y Lin, J Shi, W Feng, J Yue, Y Luo, S Chen, B Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

Understanding and controlling the nucleation and growth of metal–organic frameworks

BP Carpenter, AR Talosig, B Rose… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic frameworks offer a diverse landscape of building blocks to design high
performance materials for implications in almost every major industry. With this diversity …

Colloidal synthesis of metal nanocrystals: from asymmetrical growth to symmetry breaking

QN Nguyen, C Wang, Y Shang, A Janssen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystals offer a unique platform for tailoring the physicochemical properties of solid
materials to enhance their performances in various applications. While most work on …

Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …