Developing methods and technology to harness sunlight for energy is one of the most important tasks of researchers at the forefront of the energy
Scientists discovered a family of nature-inspired polymers that, when placed in water, spontaneously assemble into crystalline nanotubes. The
More than forty years after the original proposal of organic molecular diodes, the electrical performance of such devices remains several orders of
Scientists created a new form of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites in atomically thin 2D sheets. These hybrid perovskites have shown promise as
The membrane separators in-between the electrodes of a redox-flow battery must allow the working ion to shuttle between the electrodes while
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Silicon has been successful because it is an electronically tunable semiconductor material that can be used in electronic devices. Graphene has
It was believed that the scaffolding nature of MOFs could only be prepared from rigid starting materials. The preparation of such porous materials
This new concept involves arrays of optical nano-cavities called metamaterials, which are added to thin-layered semiconductors (heterostructures)