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Noncovalent modification of carbon materials with redox‐active organic molecules has been considered as an effective strategy to improve the electrochemical performance of supercapacitors. However, their low loading mass, slow electron transfer rate, and easy dissolution into the electrolyte greatly limit further practical applications. Herein, this work reports dual molecules (1,5‐dihydroxyanthraquinone...
Advanced functional materials with fascinating properties and extended structural design have greatly broadened their applications. Metamaterials, exhibiting unprecedented physical properties (mechanical, electromagnetic, acoustic, etc.), are considered frontiers of physics, material science, and engineering. With the emerging 3D printing technology, the manufacturing of metamaterials becomes much...
Bi Doped Graphene
In article number 2206218, Xianyang Lu, Thomas Frauenheim, Yongbing Xu, and co‐workers investigate femtosecond laser excitation induced electronic dynamic in Bi doped graphene, using time resolved and angular resolved photoemission spectrum. The Fermi surface in Dirac cone and carrier concentration is modulated by adatoms' content. This effectively tailors the competition between...
By introducing different contents of Bi adatoms to the surface of monolayer graphene, the carrier concentration and their dynamics have been effectively modulated as probed directly by the time‐ and angle‐resolved photoemission spectroscopy technique. The Bi adatoms are found to assist acoustic phonon scattering events mediated by supercollisions as the disorder effectively relaxes the momentum conservation...
The use of metal foil catalysts in the chemical vapor deposition of graphene films makes graphene transfer an ineluctable part of graphene device fabrication, which greatly limits industrialization. Here, an oxide phase‐change material (V2O5) is found to have the same catalytic effect on graphene growth as conventional metals. A uniform large‐area graphene film can be obtained on a 10 nm V2O5 film...
Anti‐icing coatings on outdoor infrastructures and transportations inevitably suffer from surface injuries, especially in extreme weather events (e.g., freezing weather or acid rain). The coating surface damage can result in anti‐icing performance loss or even icing promotion. The development of anti‐icing coatings that enables self‐healing in extreme conditions is highly desired but still challenging...
Electronic skins (e‐skins) have attracted great attention for their applications in disease diagnostics, soft robots, and human–machine interaction. The integration of high sensitivity, low detection limit, large stretchability, and multiple stimulus response capacity into a single e‐skin remains an enormous challenge. Herein, inspired by the structure of nacre, an ultra‐stretchable and multifunctional...
A highly electrically conductive film‐type current collector is an essential part of batteries. Apart from the metal‐based current collectors, lightweight and highly conductive carbon materials such as reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) show great potential as current collectors. However, traditional RGO manufacturing usually requires a long time and high energy, which decreases...
Hydrogen is regarded as the most promising green clean energy in the 21st century. Developing the highly efficient and low‐cost electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great concern for the hydrogen industry. In the water electrolyzed reaction, the overpotential and the kinetics are the main hurdles for OER. Therefore, an efficient and durable oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst...
On‐chip strain engineering is highly demanded in 2D materials as an effective route for tuning their extraordinary properties and integrating consistent functionalities toward various applications. Herein, rolling technique is proposed for strain engineering in monolayer graphene grown on a germanium substrate, where compressive or tensile strain could be acquired, depending on the designed layer...
Graphene has been employed as an excellent support for metal nanomaterials because of its unique structural and physicochemical properties. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with exceptional properties have received considerable attention in various fields; however, particle aggregation limits its application. Therefore, the combination of AgNPs and graphene based nanocomposites (Ag–graphene based nanocomposites)...
Graphene functionalized nanotips are expected to possess promising potential for various applications based on the outstanding electrical and mechanical properties of graphene. However, current methods, usually requiring a high growth temperature and identical crystal surface to match graphene lattice, are suitable for graphene formation on a flat surface. It remains a big challenge to grow graphene...
Silicon holds great promise as an anode material for lithium‐ion batteries with higher energy density; its implication, however, is limited by rapid capacity fading. A catalytic growth of graphene cages on composite particles of magnesium oxide and silicon, which are made by magnesiothermic reduction reaction of silica particles, is reported herein. Catalyzed by the magnesium oxide, graphene cages...
A porous, yet compact, RuO2/graphene hybrid is successfully prepared by using a disassembly–reassembly strategy, achieving effective and uniform loading of RuO2 nanoparticles inside compact graphene monolith. The disassembly process ensures the uniform loading of RuO2 nanoparticles into graphene monolith, while the reassembly process guarantees a high density yet simultaneously unimpeded ion transport...
In article number 1701026, Jiaxing Huang, Quan‐Hong Yang, and co‐workers, prepare a porous, yet compact, RuO2/graphene composite via a disassembly–reassembly strategy, achieving effective and uniform loading of RuO2 nanoparticles inside the graphene monolith. The disassembly ensures nanoparticle loading into the solid graphene monolith, while the reassembly guarantees a high density, while simultaneously...
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of high‐quality graphene has emerged as the most promising technique in terms of its integrated manufacturing. However, there lacks a controllable growth method for producing high‐quality and a large‐quantity graphene films, simultaneously, at a fast growth rate, regardless of roll‐to‐roll (R2R) or batch‐to‐batch (B2B) methods. Here, a stationary‐atmospheric‐pressure...
SnO2 suffers from fast capacity fading in lithium‐ion batteries due to large volume expansion as well as unstable solid electrolyte interphase. Herein, the design and synthesis of phosphorus bridging SnO2 and graphene through covalent bonding are demonstrated to achieve a robust structure. In this unique structure, the phosphorus is able to covalently “bridge” graphene and tin oxide nanocrystal through...
Other than the well‐known sulfurization of molybdate compound to synthesize molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) layers, the dynamic process in the whole crystalline growth from nuclei to triangular domains has been rarely experimentally explored. Here, a competing sulfur‐capture principle jointly with strict epitaxial mechanism is first proposed for the initial topography evolution and the final intrinsic...
The increasing demand of electronic devices for physical motion detection has encouraged the development of highly elastic strain sensors. Especially, to capture wide‐range physical movements, supremely stretchable and wide‐range strain sensors are required. Here, a novel transparent, bendable, stretchable, and wide‐range strain sensor based on a sandwich‐like stacked graphene and Ag‐nanowires hybrid...
Graphene has been regarded as a promising candidate for a new generation of transparent electrodes (TEs) due to its prominent characteristics including high optical transmittance, exceptional electronic transport, outstanding mechanical strength, and environmental stability. Comprehensive and critical insights into the latest advances in graphene‐based TEs (GTEs) since, but not limited to 2013, are...
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