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Posted on March 13, 2018Research Highlight : Sulfur promoted Fe/N/C as highly efficient oxygen electrocatalyst for Zn-air batteries
Fe K-edge EXAFS analysis indicates that with the existence of S, the elements Fe, N, and C tend to form Fe–Nx-coordinated active sites.
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Posted on March 07, 2018Research Highlight : Roles of biogenic birnessite in controlling the mobility of heavy metals
Structure difference from abiotic birnessite and its environmental implications.
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Posted on February 06, 2018Research Highlight : Role of bifunctional catalysts for high performance Na-O2 batteries.
The local electronic and atomic structure of Mn and Pd at cycling stages of Na-O2 cell.
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Posted on February 05, 2018Research Highlight : Characterization of iron and sulfur in coal waste rock, Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
Geochemical and mineralogical characterization by XAS is discussed.
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Posted on November 03, 2017Research Highlight : Enhance performance of P3HT:PCBM photovoltaic cells
Dielectric coily blocks, which were excluded from the P3HT crystalline structure, accumulated on the crystals surface without decreasing the crystal quality and formed hairy crystals.Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 63, 285 (2017).
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Posted on February 23, 2017News : Hydrogen storage: Dehydrogenation Characterization
Dehydrogenation of a BCC alloy of composition 52Ti-12V-36Cr doped with 4 wt.% Zr7Ni10 was studied. Prior to final dehydrogenation the FCC dihydride phase is becoming metastable..
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Posted on November 01, 2016Research Highlight : GIXRD study of perovskite solar cell
quantitatively investigate how the choice of metal oxide support (planar TiO2, mesoporous TiO2, or mesoporous Al2O3) affects the stability of the perovskite film in the presence of moisture.
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Posted on August 17, 2016Research Highlight : Pressure dependent pyrochlore iridate crystal structure
No evidence of crystal symmetry change over the range of temperatures (~6 to 300 K) and pressure (~0.1 to 17 GPa) where electronic and magnetic phase transitions have been reported.
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Posted on July 07, 2016Research Highlight : Low band gap organic solar cell
A new low band gapthermocleavable polymer showing stable photovoltaic properties
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Posted on January 08, 2016Research Highlight : GISAXS Quantum Dot
Cleavable Ligands Enable Uniform Close Packing in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids uses a medium length thioamide ligand that is readily cleaved in a single chemical treatment, leading to quantum dot solids with uniformly packed domains 3 times larger than those observed in ligand-exchanged films.
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Posted on October 08, 2015Research Highlight : Hydrothermal biomass conversion
Examination of the dissolution, transformation, and gasification of pure cellulose and models of biomass residue under hydrothermal condition.Energy Science & Engineering Volume 3, Issue 3, pages 189–195, May 2015
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Posted on June 08, 2015Research Highlight : GIXRD from perovskite solar cell
GIXRD from Perovskite solar cell film In situ grazing incidence X-ray diffraction to monitor phase changes in perovskite degradation.