In: Advanced Science, 2021, p. 2100995
As wearable technologies redefine the way people exchange information, receive entertainment, and monitor health, the development of sustainable power sources that capture energy from the user's everyday activities garners increasing interest. Electric fishes, such as the electric eel and the torpedo ray, provide inspiration for such a power source with their ability to generate massive...
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In: CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 2020, vol. 74, no. 9, p. 667–673
CO2 emissions into the atmosphere account for the majority of environmental challenges and its global impact in the form of climate change is well-documented. Accordingly, the development of new materials approaches to capture and convert CO2 into value-added products is essential. Whereas the increased availability of renewable energy is curbing our reliance on fossil fuels and decreasing...
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In: Advanced Materials, 2020, p. 2001702
Sulfide‐based all‐solid‐state batteries (ASSBs) have been featured as promising alternatives to the current lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) mainly owing to their superior safety. Nevertheless, a solution‐based scalable manufacturing scheme has not yet been established because of the incompatible polarity of the binder, solvent, and sulfide electrolyte during slurry preparation. This...
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In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, vol. 59, no. 35, p. 15166-15170
Dimensionality plays an important role in the charge transport properties of organic semiconductors. Although three‐dimensional semiconductors, such as Si, are common in inorganic materials, imparting electrical conductivity to covalent three‐ dimensional organic polymers is challenging. Now, the synthesis of a three‐ dimensional π‐conjugated porous organic polymer (3D p‐POP) using...
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In: Chemistry of Materials, 2020, vol. 32, no. 10, p. 4185–4193
Organosulfur polymers have emerged as promising electrode materials for lithium– sulfur (Li–S) batteries, mainly because of their ability to incorporate and stabilize high sulfur content. The low ionic and electronic conductivity of these polymers, however, limit their cycling performance at high active mass loadings. Moreover, Li–polysulfide (Li–PS) shuttling, a fatal phenomenon in...
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In: Chem, 2020, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 1046–1048
2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have received considerable attention because of their crystallinity, permanent porosity, and tunability, yet they exhibit low in-plane conductivity. In this issue of Chem, Fischer and co-workers report an approach for growing 2D COF thin films featuring high in-plane conductivity for potential use in organic electronics.
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In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2020, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 985–991
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials that have been actively explored for various gas storage, separation, and conversion applications because of their structural tunability. While the micropores (<2 nm) in MOFs are essential for increased gas affinity, these small pores significantly decrease the mass-transport kinetics. One way to address this challenge is to ...
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In: ChemCatChem, 2020, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 1922-1925
Porous nitrogen‐doped carbons (NCs) are sustainable alternatives to the toxic mercury‐based acetylene hydrochlorination catalysts applied in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride. However, the application of NCs as metal‐free catalysts is hampered by their insufficient durability under industrially relevant process conditions. In particular, pore blockage leads to accelerated...
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In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, vol. 58, no. 47, p. 16795–16799
A new strategy for the synthesis of a covalent triazine framework (CTF‐1) was introduced based on the cyclotrimerization reaction of 1,4‐dicyanobenzene using lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) under ionothermal conditions. LiTFSI not only served as a catalyst, but also facilitated the in situ generation and homogeneous distribution of LiF particles across the framework....
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In: Advanced Materials, 2019, p. 1905048
Although being incorporated in commercial lithium‐ion batteries for a while, the weight portion of silicon monoxide (SiOx, x ≈ 1) is only less than 10 wt% due to the insufficient cycle life. Along this line, polymeric binders that can assist in maintaining the mechanical integrity and interfacial stability of SiOx electrodes are desired to realize higher contents of SiOx. Herein, a...
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