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Solar‐driven vaporization is a sustainable solution to water and energy scarcity. However, most of the present evaporators are still suffering from inefficient utilization of converted thermal energy. Herein, a universal sandwich membrane strategy is demonstrated by confining the hierarchical porous carbon cells in two energy barriers to obtain a high‐efficiency evaporator with a rapid water evaporation...
Ultralong organic phosphorescence (UOP), enabling of persistent luminescence after removal of external excitation light, shows great promise in biological applications such as bioimaging in virtue of antibackground fluorescence interference. Despite of good biocompatibility and outstanding phosphorescent properties, most current organic phosphors are hydrophobic with poor water solubility in the form...
In article number 1905516, Wen‐Wei Wu and co‐workers fabricate the hybrids of heterojunctions of few‐layer MoS2 in terms of diverse layer variation and stacking configuration, through in‐situ scanning/transmission electron microscopy heating. The salient dynamics inherent in few‐layer MoS2 are investigated and first observed at the atomic scale, including scrolling, folding, etching, and restructuring...
Layered MoS2 is a prospective candidate for use in energy harvesting, valleytronics, and nanoelectronics. Its properties strongly related to its stacking configuration and the number of layers. Due to its atomically thin nature, understanding the atomic‐level and structural modifications of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides is still underdeveloped, particularly the spatial control and selective...
Discontinuous cobalt manganese oxyhydroxide (CMOH) film shows much higher atom efficiency and performance in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) than the completely continuous ones. In article number 1903363, Jiaxing Huang, and Chun‐Hu Chen, and co‐workers prove that the heterojunction edges are responsible for the OER enhancement with facilitated charge transport and kinetics. This concept is highly...
Thin film electrocatalysts allow strong binding and intimate electrical contact with electrodes, rapid mass transfer during reaction, and are generally more durable than powder electrocatalysts, which is particularly beneficial for gas evolution reactions. In this work, using cobalt manganese oxyhydroxide, an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst that can be grown directly on various electrodes...
A new hole transporting material (HTM) named DMZ is synthesized and employed as a dopant‐free HTM in inverted planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Systematic studies demonstrate that the thickness of the hole transporting layer can effectively enhance the morphology and crystallinity of the perovskite layer, leading to low series resistance and less defects in the crystal. As a result, the champion...
In article number 1904688, Jian Zhang, Xing'ao Li, and co‐workers present atom‐scale modulation of electronic regulation in nonprecious‐based electrocatalysts VOOH‐3Fe (3% Fe, mole ratio) exhibiting a low overpotential of 90, 195 and 300 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm−2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and overall water splitting in alkaline media,...
As an essential member of 2D materials, MXene (e.g., Ti3C2Tx) is highly preferred for energy storage owing to a high surface‐to‐volume ratio, shortened ion diffusion pathway, superior electronic conductivity, and neglectable volume change, which are beneficial for electrochemical kinetics. However, the low theoretical capacitance and restacking issues of MXene severely limit its practical application...
Atom‐scale modulation of electronic regulation in nonprecious‐based electrocatalysts is promising for efficient catalytic activities. Here, hierarchically hollow VOOH nanostructures are rationally constructed by partial iron substitution and systematically investigated for electrocatalytic water splitting. Benefiting from the hierarchically stable scaffold configuration, highly electrochemically active...
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP) photodetectors have presented unprecedented device performance mainly owing to outstanding material properties. However, the solution‐processed OIHP polycrystalline thin films with defective surface and grain boundaries always impair the key parameter of photodetectors. Herein, a nonfullerene passivation layer exhibits more efficient passivation for OIHP...
Inspired by the stomata of plant leaves, Naien Shi, Yue Lin, Min Han, and co‐workers fabricate 2D Cu‐N‐C nanodisks with stomata‐like interconnected hierarchical porous topology by etching Cu‐tetrapyridylporphyrin (TPyP)‐metal–organic frameworks carbonization product (Cu@Cu‐N‐C) in article number 1902410. Such nanodiscs manifest superior oxygen reduction reaction performance, outperforming Cu@Cu‐N‐C,...
Metal,N‐codoped carbon (M‐N‐C) nanostructures are promising electrocatalysts toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) or other gas‐involved energy electrocatalysis. Further creating pores into M‐N‐C nanostructures can increase their surface area, fully expose the active sites, and improve mass transfer and electrocatalytic efficiency. Nonetheless, it remains a challenge to fabricate M‐N‐C nanomaterials...
2D materials, namely thin layers of layered materials, are attracting much attention because of their unique electronic, optical, thermal, and catalytic properties for wide applications. To advance both the fundamental studies and further practical applications, the scalable and controlled synthesis of large‐sized 2D materials is desired, while there still lacks ideal approaches. Alternatively, the...
Flexible planar micro‐supercapacitors (MSCs) with unique loose and porous nanofiber‐like electrode structures are fabricated by combining electrochemical deposition with inkjet printing. Benefiting from the resulting porous nanofiber‐like structures, the areal capacitance of the inkjet‐printed flexible planar MSCs is obviously enhanced to 46.6 mF cm−2, which is among the highest values ever reported...
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs)‐derived porous carbon is proposed as a promising candidate to develop novel, tailorable structures as polysulfides immobilizers for lithium–sulfur batteries because of their high‐efficiency electron conductive networks, open ion channels, and abundant central ions that can store a large amount of sulfur and trap the easily soluble polysulfides. However, most central...
2D metal oxide nanosheets have attracted substantial attention for various applications owing to their appealing advantages. Yet, the exploration of effective methodology for fabrication of metallic 2D metal oxides with a high concentration of N dopants in a scalable manner remains challenging. Herein, a topochemical strategy is demonstrated on vanadium oxide nanosheets by combining 2D nanostructuring,...
In article number 1900583, Kun Rui, Jiaxu Yan, Jixin Zhu, and co‐workers report a topochemical strategy for large‐scale production of 2D vanadium oxide nanosheets featured with desirable metallic electron transportation. As evidenced by density functional theory calculations and experimental results, the electron band structure engineering can be realized by rational incorporation of nitrogen dopants...
2D metal‐porphyrin frameworks (MPFs) are attractive for advanced energy storage devices. However, the inferior conductivity and low structural stability of MPFs seriously limit their application as flexible free‐standing electrodes with high performance. Here, for the first time, an interlayer hydrogen‐bonded MXene/MPFs film is proposed to overcome these disadvantages by intercalation of highly conductive...
Flexible devices integrated with sensing and energy storage functions are highly desirable due to their potential application in wearable electronics and human motion detection. Here, a flexible film is designed in a facile and low‐cost leaf templating process, comprising wrinkled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as the conductive layer and patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with bio‐inspired microstructure...
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