Exceeding the volcano relationship in oxygen reduction/evolution reactions using single-atom-based catalysts with dual-active-sites

X Li, S Duan, E Sharman, Y Zhao, L Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Finding cost-effective catalysts to drive oxygen reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER) is a
highly attractive goal. Most catalysts follow a volcano relationship of performance, making it …

Beyond color: The new carbon ink

P Wang, B Barnes, Z Huang, Z Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For thousands of years, carbon ink has been used as a black color pigment for writing and
painting purposes. However, recent discoveries of nanocarbon materials, including …

Radical Cation Salts of Hetera‐Buckybowls: Polar Crystals, Negative Thermal Expansion and Phase Transition

L Wu, Y Li, X Hua, L Ye, C Yuan, Z Liu… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Radical cation salts of π‐conjugated polycycles are rich in physical properties. Herein, two
kinds of hetera‐buckybowls, ethoxy‐substituted trithiasumanene (3SEt) and …

A review of fibrous graphite materials: graphite whiskers, columnar carbons with a cone-shaped top, and needle-and rods-like polyhedral crystals

Y Liu, Z Ma, Y He, Y Wang, X Zhang, H Song, C Li - New Carbon Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Fibrous graphite materials are highly attractive due to their unique morphologies, high
degree of orientation of their graphite microcrystallites, extremely good mechanical and …

A Nanoboat with Fused Concave N‐Heterotriangulene

L Zhou, G Zhang - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The surface extension of all‐carbon based bowl‐shaped molecules, such as corannulene
and sumanene, to synthesize even larger buckybowls has been widely studied, leaving …

A new preparation method of graphite cones from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons/polyimide composite carbon fibers

Y Liu, X Liu, Z Ma, Y He, X Zhang - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Graphite cone and whisker are a kind of non-planar graphite crystal material with a large
length-diameter ratio, exhibiting extremely high mechanical and conductive properties …

New paradigms in molecular nanocarbon science

IA Stepek, M Nagase, A Yagi, K Itami - Tetrahedron, 2022 - Elsevier
The discovery and study of new forms of carbon has always been inextricably linked to
breakthroughs in science and technology. A flurry of recent developments in the synthesis of …

Star-like, dopant-free, corannulene-cored hole transporting materials for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

MW An, B Li, BW Chen, ZC Chen, HR Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hole transporting materials (HTMs), owing to their unique bottom position in inverted
perovskite solar cells (PSCs), exert a considerable influence on the hole-transporting …

Synthesis and assembly of extended quintulene

H Hou, XJ Zhao, C Tang, YY Ju, ZY Deng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Quintulene, a non-graphitic cycloarene with fivefold symmetry, has remained synthetically
elusive due to its high molecular strain originating from its curved structure. Here we report …

Corannulene-based hole-transporting material for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

MW An, BS Wu, S Wang, ZC Chen, Y Su… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Core structures with linear, planar, and spiral conformations have been designed as
triphenylamine (TPA)-based hole-transporting materials (HTMs), which are the most …