Increasing the Supply of Renewable Electricity Creates Potential Energy Storage Applications for Synthetic Fuels Aggressive CO2 reduction targets are stimulating the conversion of fossil-fuel-powered electricity systems into renewable low-carbon systems. This energy...
An Economical Alternative to Noble Metal Catalysts for Renewable Energy Systems
A composite composed of cobalt/cobalt oxide nanoparticles embedded in free-standing reduced graphene oxide (Co/Co3O4-Gr) has been developed for complete water splitting.
Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals
Guest editors Kyung Eun Lee and Sang Ouk Kim present important recent contributions to the field of Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals and discuss how this research field will develop in the coming years.
Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Materials Optimisation and PEC Water Splitting
Triboelectric nanogenerators are an exciting frontier in small-scale applications, converting low-frequency mechanical energy into an alternating current.
Electrocatalysis Snapshots: Materials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
The slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction require new catalyst research like this to make water splitting systems commercially viable.
High-Performance Carbon Quantum Dots for Warm WLEDs
Highly efficient, red-emissive carbon quantum dots (R-CQDs) with a quantum yield of 53% are prepared and a CQD-phosphors-based warm white-light-emitting diode (WLED) is realized for the first time.
Hierarchically Porous Carbon Fabric for Highly-Sensitive Electrochemical Sensors
Functional porous carbon fabrics were presented with hierarchically porous structures of meso-pores in nanoscale nesting on fiber networks with cylindrical pores in micrometer scale.
Advances in Plasmon Enhanced Up-Conversion Luminescence Phenomena for Energy Applications
Focusing on the photocatalytic hydrogen production from water, as an energy carrier, several factors need to be considered.
Energy Perspectives: Wei Liu and Kaustav Banerjee Address HER Catalytic Performance
Wei Liu and Kaustav Banerjee offer their thoughts on and solutions for the performance problems suffered by HER catalysts.
Ultrathin δ-MnO2 Nanosheets with Outstanding Electrocatalytic Performance for Overall Water Splitting
A novel synthetic strategy for introducing anion vacancies into semiconductors.