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Alkaline oxygen evolution electrocatalysis driven by Fe-MOF nanosheet array
10.1039/C8QI00163D 2018-04-13 It is highly desired to develop high-performance non-noble-metal electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline solutions. In this communication, we report the hydrothermal synthesis of Fe-MOF nanosheet array on nickel foam (Fe-MOF/NF) using... |
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Homochiral metal-organic frameworks for industrially relevant asymmetric catalysis
10.1039/C8QI00063H 2018-04-11 Homochiral metal-organic frameworks (HMOFs) are attractive materials for asymmetric catalysis because they have high surface area and uniform active sites. The variety of catalytic applications reported so far indicate that HMOFs catalyse a range of transform... |
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Na6Zn3MIII2Q9 (MIII = Ga, In; Q = S, Se): four new supertetrahedron-layered chalcogenides with unprecedented vertex-sharing T3-clusters and desirable photoluminescence performances
10.1039/C8QI00182K 2018-04-10 Four new quaternary chalcogenides with the formula of Na6Zn3MIII2Q9 (MIII = Ga, In; Q = S, Se) have been succesfully synthesized for the first time. They are isostructural and crystallize in the monoclinic C2/c space group. Seen from their structures, they ex... |
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Crystal chemistry and thermoelectric transport of layered AM2X2 compounds
10.1039/C7QI00813A 2018-04-09 Compounds that crystallize in the layered CaAl2Si2 structural pattern have rapidly emerged as an exciting class of thermoelectric material with attractive n- and p-type properties. The more than one hundred AM2X2 compounds that form this structure type - char... |
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Comprehensive Studies on Phosphoric Acid Treatment of Porous Titania toward Titanium Phosphate and Pyrophosphate Monoliths with Pore Hierarchy and Nanostructured Pore Surface
10.1039/C8QI00146D 2018-04-09 Simple post-treatments of the porous titania monolith in varied concentrations of phosphoric acid solution provide a series of monolithic titanium phosphates (TiPs) with a hierarchically porous structure together with exquisite macropore surface. Depending on... |
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Luminescent metal organic frameworks as chemical sensors: common pitfalls and proposed best practices
10.1039/C8QI00090E 2018-04-09 The ever-increasing need to determine and monitor the chemical constituents of the constantly evolving environment has led the global scientific community to invest considerable research effort in the development of efficient and user-friendly chemical sensor... |
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Hydrothermal synthesis of ternary MoS2xSe2(1-x) nanosheets for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
10.1039/C8QI00241J 2018-04-09 Transition metal dichalcogenides have shown their promise as highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts. In this work, we demonstrate a one-pot hydrothermal synthesis of ternary 2H-MoS2xSe2(1-x) nanosheets for enhanced hydrogen produc... |
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Defect-mediated electron–hole separation in semiconductor photocatalysis
10.1039/C8QI00122G 2018-04-06 Defects play important roles in semiconductor photocatalysis, which not only can act as active sites but also serve as recombination centers for electrons and holes. The rational control of defects appears to be particularly important. Defect engineering in s... |
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A reassembled nanoporous gold leaf electrocatalyst for efficient CO2 reduction towards CO
10.1039/C8QI00023A 2018-04-05 Herein, we prepared a free-standing nanoporous gold leaf (NPGL) catalyst by simple one-step de-alloying of the Au–Ag alloy. It displays a much higher CO Faradaic efficiency (CO FE) of 90% and current density (mass activity) of 20.51 A g−1 as compared to the n... |
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Deflagration synthesis of nitrogen/fluorine co-doped hollow carbon nanoparticles with excellent oxygen reduction performance
10.1039/C8QI00200B 2018-04-05 Critical factors such as doping content, electronic conductivity and porosity need to be addressed to obtain excellent oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance with metal-free carbon-based materials. However, creating a facile approach to obtain carbon mat... |