Developing cathode materials for aqueous zinc ion batteries: challenges and practical prospects

G Li, L Sun, S Zhang, C Zhang, H Jin… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Growth in intermittent renewable sources including solar and wind has sparked increasing
interest in electrical energy storage. Grid‐scale energy storage integrated with renewable …

Recent advances of aqueous rechargeable zinc‐iodine batteries: challenges, solutions, and prospects

D Lin, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous rechargeable zinc‐iodine batteries (ZIBs), including zinc‐iodine redox flow
batteries and static ZIBs, are promising candidates for future grid‐scale electrochemical …

Solution-processed two-dimensional materials for next-generation photovoltaics

S Bellani, A Bartolotta, A Agresti, G Calogero… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In the ever-increasing energy demand scenario, the development of novel photovoltaic (PV)
technologies is considered to be one of the key solutions to fulfil the energy request. In this …

Facet Engineered α-MnO2 for Efficient Catalytic Ozonation of Odor CH3SH: Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Active Centers and Catalytic Mechanism

C He, Y Wang, Z Li, Y Huang, Y Liao… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The oxygen vacancy in MnO2 is normally proved as the reactive site for the catalytic
ozonation, and acquiring a highly reactive crystal facet with abundant oxygen vacancy by …

Engineering Crystal Facet of α-MnO2 Nanowire for Highly Efficient Catalytic Oxidation of Carcinogenic Airborne Formaldehyde

S Rong, P Zhang, F Liu, Y Yang - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
The activity of exposed crystal facets directly determines its physicochemical properties.
Thus, acquiring a high percentage of reactive facets by crystal facet engineering is highly …

Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

J Wu, Z Lan, J Lin, M Huang, Y Huang, L Fan… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are regarded as prospective solar cells for the next
generation of photovoltaic technologies and have become research hotspots in the PV field …

A review on counter electrode materials in dye-sensitized solar cells

S Thomas, TG Deepak, GS Anjusree, TA Arun… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) present promising low-cost alternatives to the
conventional silicon (Si)-based solar cells. A DSC consists of several components, the most …

First-principles Green's-function method for surface calculations: A pseudopotential localized basis set approach

S Smidstrup, D Stradi, J Wellendorff, PA Khomyakov… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present an efficient implementation of a surface Green's-function method for atomistic
modeling of surfaces within the framework of density functional theory using a …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of conversion reaction in zinc batteries

X Chen, X Xie, P Ruan, S Liang, WY Wong… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Aqueous zinc-based batteries (AZBs) based on the conversion-type mechanism have
become a hot spot now due to their low cost, high safety, and large capacity, which provides …

Metallic nanoparticles in heterogeneous catalysis

A Sápi, T Rajkumar, J Kiss, Á Kukovecz, Z Kónya… - Catalysis letters, 2021 - Springer
Heterogeneous catalysis is a chemical process achieved at solid–gas or solid–liquid
interfaces. Many factors including the particle size, shape and metal-support interfaces can …