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    Rapid-charging aluminium-sulfur batteries operated at 85 °C with a quaternary molten salt electrolyte

    Molten salt aluminum-sulfur batteries are based exclusively on resourcefully sustainable materials, and are promising for large-scale energy storage owed to their high-rate capability and moderate energy densi...

    Jiashen Meng, Xufeng Hong, Zhitong **ao, Linhan Xu, Lujun Zhu in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Surface passivation for highly active, selective, stable, and scalable CO2 electroreduction

    Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to formic acid using Bismuth catalysts is one the most promising pathways for industrialization. However, it is still difficult to achieve high formic acid production at wide vol...

    Jiexin Zhu, Jiantao Li, Ruihu Lu, Ruohan Yu, Shiyong Zhao in Nature Communications (2023)

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    A solution-to-solid conversion chemistry enables ultrafast-charging and long-lived molten salt aluminium batteries

    Conventional solid-to-solid conversion-type cathodes in batteries suffer from poor diffusion/reaction kinetics, large volume changes and aggressive structural degradation, particularly for rechargeable alumini...

    Jiashen Meng, Xuhui Yao, Xufeng Hong, Lujun Zhu, Zhitong **ao in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Fast-charging aluminium–chalcogen batteries resistant to dendritic shorting

    Although batteries fitted with a metal negative electrode are attractive for their higher energy density and lower complexity, the latter making them more easily recyclable, the threat of cell shorting by dend...

    Quanquan Pang, Jiashen Meng, Saransh Gupta, Xufeng Hong, Chun Yuen Kwok, Ji Zhao in Nature (2022)

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    In-situ selective surface engineering of graphene micro-supercapacitor chips

    Surface modification of graphene oxide (GO) is a powerful strategy to develop its energy density for electrochemical energy storage. However, pre-modified GO always exhibits unsatisfactory hydrophilia and its ...

    Yiming Chen, Minghao Guo, Lin Xu, Yuyang Cai, **aocong Tian, **aobin Liao in Nano Research (2022)

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    Microstructuring of carbon/tin quantum dots via a novel photolithography and pyrolysis-reduction process

    A novel microfabrication process based on optimized photolithography combined with pyrolysis-reduction is proposed to fabricate interdigital porous carbon/tin quantum dots (C/Sn QDs) microelectrodes. C/Sn QDs ...

    Xufeng Hong, Liang He, **nyu Ma, Wei Yang, Yiming Chen, Lei Zhang in Nano Research (2017)

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    Improved conductivity and capacitance of interdigital carbon microelectrodes through integration with carbon nanotubes for micro-supercapacitors

    In the last decade, pyrolyzed-carbon-based composites have attracted much attention for their applications in micro-supercapacitors. Although various methods have been investigated to improve the performance o...

    Yanjuan Yang, Liang He, Chunjuan Tang, ** Hu, Xufeng Hong, Mengyu Yan in Nano Research (2016)