With the urgent market demand for high-energy-density batteries, the alloy-type or
conversion-type anodes with high specific capacity have gained increasing attention to …

In recent times, microwave synthetic strategies have been considered as one of the facile
methods for the development of efficient supercapacitor electrodes. Reduced graphene …

Artificial CO 2 photoreduction to solar fuels represents an eco-friendly and sustainable
solution to obtain" sunshine" feedstocks by using renewable energy media. Herein, we …

Abstract Lanthanum-based LaMO 3 (M= Fe, Co, Ni) perovskite nanofibers were effectively
fabricated by electrospinning approach coupled with calcination process. The crystallinity …

One-dimensional nano-structured materials have attracted attention due to its unique
properties afforded such as the across-linked structures and large aspect ratios. In this work …

Metal-organic frameworks were used as metal-nitrogen-carbon templates to synthesize Co–
N–C catalysts through a facile synthesis approach that combined a cobalt-based zeolitic …

Besides silicon's low electronic conductivity, another critical issue for using silicon as the
anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is the dramatic volume variation (> 300%) during …

The lithium ion battery is the most promising battery candidate to power battery electric
vehicles. For these vehicles to be competitive with those powered by conventional internal …

We report a facile method to synthesise and modify porous Co 3 O 4 nanosheets. The
nanosheets are prepared by hydrothermal reaction and calcination, then reduced with an H …

Tailoring transition-metal oxide nanoparticles with two-dimensional carbon has become a
favorite way to improve their electrochemical performance. In this study, a composite of …