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Highly efficient and stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution by molybdenum doped Ni-Co phosphide nanoneedles at high current density
There is an increasingly urgent need to develop cost-effective electrocatalysts with high catalytic activity and stability as alternatives to the traditional Pt/C in catalysts in water electrolysis. In this st...
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Insight into the influence of ether and ester electrolytes on the sodium-ion transportation kinetics for hard carbon
The electrochemical performance of hard carbon (HC) materials is closely related to the electrolyte used in the sodium ion batteries (SIBs). Conventional electrolytes carbonate (EC) demonstrates low initial Co...
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Recent advances in semimetallic pnictogen (As, Sb, Bi) based anodes for sodium-ion batteries: Structural design, charge storage mechanisms, key challenges and perspectives
In the recent times sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have come to the forefront as an economic and resourceful alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for powering portable electronic devices and large-scale gr...
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Evolution of mineral phases and microstructure of high efficiency Si–Ca–K–Mg fertilizer prepared by water-insoluble K-feldspar
Potassium feldspar (K-feldspar) was decomposed with limestone and dolomite as additives to prepare alkaline mineral silicon-calcium-potassium-magnesium fertilizer (abbreviated as Si–Ca–K–Mg fertilizer) via hig...
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Design of parallel-connected polymer tandem solar cells using efficient low bandgap PTB7-Th:PC71BM blend
Parallel-connected tandem cells adopting a highly efficient donor polymer, PTB7-Th, combined with acceptor fullerene PC71BM as the back sub-cell was introduced to further improve the performance of polymer solar ...
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Study of series-connected polymer tandem solar cells based on a highly efficient donor material of PTB7-Th
A highly efficient donor polymer, PTB7-Th, combined with acceptor fullerene PC71BM was introduced as the subcell in the series-connected tandem devices to achieve high-performance polymer tandem solar cells. Desi...
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Open AccessOptical simulations of P3HT/Si nanowire array hybrid solar cells
An optical simulation of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)/Si nanowire array (NWA) hybrid solar cells was investigated to evaluate the optical design requirements of the system by using finite-difference time-doma...
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Novel Organometallic Fullerene Complexes for Vehicular Hydrogen Storage
Experimental wet chemical approaches have been demonstrated in the synthesis of a new chainlike (C60-Fe-C60-Fe)n complex. This structure has been proposed based on 13C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, elec...
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Hydrogen Storage in Novel Carbon-Based Nanostructured Materials
Experimental wet chemical approaches to complex an iron atom with two C60 fullerenes, representing a new molecule, dubbed a “bucky dumbbell,” have been demonstrated. The structure of this molecule has been determ...
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Generalized Kubas Complexes as a Novel Means for Room Temperature Molecular Hydrogen Storage
We propose that generalized Kubas complexes of molecular hydrogen with light metal elements, such as B and Be embedded in carbon nanostructures, or related Be and B materials, could offer breakthrough performa...
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The stability of nanostructures fabricated on Si(111)-7×7 surface