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Open AccessStable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide
The oxygen evolution reactions in acid play an important role in multiple energy storage devices. The practical promising Ru-Ir based catalysts need both the stable high oxidation state of the Ru centers and t...
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Open AccessIridium oxide nanoribbons with metastable monoclinic phase for highly efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
Metastable metal oxides with ribbon morphologies have promising applications for energy conversion catalysis, however they are largely restricted by their limited synthesis methods. In this study, a monoclinic...
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Open AccessCoupling of nanocrystal hexagonal array and two-dimensional metastable substrate boosts H2-production
Designing well-ordered nanocrystal arrays with subnanometre distances can provide promising materials for future nanoscale applications. However, the fabrication of aligned arrays with controllable accuracy in...
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Open AccessIridium metallene oxide for acidic oxygen evolution catalysis
Exploring new materials is essential in the field of material science. Especially, searching for optimal materials with utmost atomic utilization, ideal activities and desirable stability for catalytic applica...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: A metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21490-z
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Open AccessA metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater
Artificial photosynthesis of H2O2 from H2O and O2, as a spotless method, has aroused widespread interest. Up to date, most photocatalysts still suffer from serious salt-deactivated effects with huge consumption o...
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Open AccessThe Surface Polarized Graphene Oxide Quantum Dot Films for Flexible Nanogenerators
Abundant disorderly-distributed surface functional groups, such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, ether and amino groups, endow an isolated graphene oxide quantum dot (GOQD) the polar property due to the symmetry breakin...
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Open AccessA rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorption energy o...
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Open AccessSmart Liquid SERS Substrates based on Fe3O4/Au Nanoparticles with Reversibly Tunable Enhancement Factor for Practical Quantitative Detection
There is a strong correlation between the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factor (EF), the excitation wavelength and the feature properties (composition, size, geometry and analytes). The ...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Dielectric Constants on Noble Metal/Semiconductor SERS Enhancement: FDTD Simulation and Experiment Validation of Ag/Ge and Ag/Si Substrates
The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method was employed to simulate the electric field distribution for noble metal (Au or Ag)/semiconductor (Ge or Si) substrates. The simulation showed that noble metal/G...