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    Stable 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...

    Wenxiang Zhu, **angcong Song, Fan Liao, Hui Huang, Qi Shao in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Iridium 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...

    Fan Liao, Kui Yin, Yu** Ji, Wenxiang Zhu, Zhenglong Fan in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Coupling 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...

    Zhenglong Fan, Fan Liao, Yu** Ji, Yang Liu, Hui Huang, Dan Wang in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Iridium 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...

    Qian Dang, Hai** Lin, Zhenglong Fan, Lu Ma, Qi Shao, Yu** Ji in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Author 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

    Qingyao Wu, **g**g Cao, **ao Wang, Yan Liu, Yajie Zhao, Hui Wang in Nature Communications (2021)

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    A 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...

    Qingyao Wu, **g**g Cao, **ao Wang, Yan Liu, Yajie Zhao, Hui Wang in Nature Communications (2021)

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    The 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...

    Liangbin Liu, Yafei Cheng, Lili Zhu, Shuit-Tong Lee, Fan Liao in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    A 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...

    Lili Zhu, Hai** Lin, Youyong Li, Fan Liao, Yeshayahu Lifshitz in Nature Communications (2016)

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    Smart 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 ...

    Fei Hu, Haiyang Lin, Zhaoshun Zhang, Fan Liao, Mingwang Shao in Scientific Reports (2014)

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    The 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...

    Tao Wang, Zhaoshun Zhang, Fan Liao, Qian Cai, Yanqing Li in Scientific Reports (2014)