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    Investigating the role of undercoordinated Pt sites at the surface of layered PtTe2 for methanol decomposition

    Transition metal dichalcogenides, by virtue of their two-dimensional structures, could provide the largest active surface for reactions with minimal materials consumed, which has long been pursued in the desig...

    **g-Wen Hsueh, Lai-Hsiang Kuo, Po-Han Chen, Wan-Hsin Chen in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Dual-plasmonic Au@Cu7S4 yolk@shell nanocrystals for photocatalytic hydrogen production across visible to near infrared spectral region

    Near infrared energy remains untapped toward the maneuvering of entire solar spectrum harvesting for fulfilling the nuts and bolts of solar hydrogen production. We report the use of Au@Cu7S4 yolk@shell nanocrysta...

    Chun-Wen Tsao, Sudhakar Narra, Jui-Cheng Kao, Yu-Chang Lin in Nature Communications (2024)

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    The influence of dilute aluminum and molybdenum on stacking fault and twin formation in FeNiCoCr-based high entropy alloys based on density functional theory

    Stacking faults, as defects of disordered crystallographic planes, are one of the most important slip** mechanisms in the commonly seen lattice, face-centered cubic (FCC). Such defects can initiate twinning ...

    Peijun Yu, Yu Zhuang, Jyh-Pin Chou, Jie Wei, Yu-Chieh Lo, Alice Hu in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Tunable Schottky barrier in graphene/graphene-like germanium carbide van der Waals heterostructure

    The structural and electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructrue constructed by graphene and graphene-like germanium carbide were investigated by computations based on density functional theory ...

    Sake Wang, Jyh-Pin Chou, Chongdan Ren, Hongyu Tian, ** Yu in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Cyclability evaluation on Si based Negative Electrode in Lithium ion Battery by Graphite Phase Evolution: an operando X-ray diffraction study

    Artificial graphite (FSN) additive is employed as internal structural label for projecting cyclability of Si material native electrode in a mass ratio of Si/FSN = 1.0 in Li ion battery (LIB). Results of operando ...

    Chih-Wei Hu, Jyh-Pin Chou, Shang-Chieh Hou, Alice Hu, Yu-Fan Su in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Platinum-trimer decorated cobalt-palladium core-shell nanocatalyst with promising performance for oxygen reduction reaction

    Advanced electrocatalysts with low platinum content, high activity and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction can benefit the widespread commercial use of fuel cell technology. Here, we report a platinum...

    Sheng Dai, Jyh-Pin Chou, Kuan-Wen Wang, Yang-Yang Hsu, Alice Hu in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Synthesis of two-dimensional TlxBi1−x compounds and Archimedean encoding of their atomic structure

    Crystalline atomic layers on solid surfaces are composed of a single building block, unit cell, that is copied and stacked together to form the entire two-dimensional crystal structure. However, it appears tha...

    Dimitry V. Gruznev, Leonid V. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Matetskiy in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    A Strategy to Create Spin-Split Metallic Bands on Silicon Using a Dense Alloy Layer

    To exploit Rashba effect in a 2D electron gas on silicon surface for spin transport, it is necessary to have surface reconstruction with spin-split metallic surface-state bands. However, metals with strong spi...

    Dimitry V. Gruznev, Leonid V. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Matetskiy in Scientific Reports (2014)