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As with nearly all facets of daily life, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the traditional routines for science outreach and collaboration for battery researchers of all stripes. In-person conferences, meetings, lab visitations, and sabbaticals have largely been canceled or postponed, disrupting the typical avenues for communication between scientists, engineers, and researchers. Increasingly, researchers

Photon upconversion (UC), the process of combining two or more low-energy photons to generate a higher-energy excited state, is of interest for applications ranging from imaging to photodynamic therapy to solar energy conversion. Of the available UC mechanisms, molecular upconversion through sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) is particularly appealing because it can be achieved with low

The following joint Editorial was originally published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10979). We confront the terrible reality that systemic racism and discrimination impacts the daily personal and professional lives of many members of the scientific community and broader society. In the U.S., the brutal killing of George Floyd while in police custody is one of the most

The Supporting Information file was updated to correct for erroneously transcribed equations and values along with incorrectly calculated molar masses and atomic numbers. The equations used for the calculations performed in the original Letter were correct, and the correct kinetic energies were used in the original calculations. However, the corrections to the molar masses and atomic numbers, as indicated

Figure 1. TEM images of PbSO4–oleate capped (A) CsPbCl3, (B) CsPbBr3, and (C) CsPbI3 nanocrystals. (D) Photograph of CsPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, I) nanocrystals with varying compositions and thus emission covering the entire visible range. From refs 17 and 18. Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society. Figure 2. Tuning the band energies to achieve Type I and Type II heterostructures. From ref 13. Copyright 2019

While the current pause in global activity due to the coronavirus pandemic is a medical and economic tragedy, it is perhaps a breath of fresh air for planet Earth in terms of fossil fuel use and the emission of greenhouse gases which are responsible for long-term climate change. I am sure that I am not alone in hoping that this crisis can serve as an opportunity to redefine how we consume energy so

We found that we interpreted the data of the paper by Xia et al.(1) (ref 16 of the original article) incorrectly in our Perspective. Contrary to what we described on page 1889 (lines 44–54) of the original article, the input voltage was not iR-compensated. Additionally, the current density at this voltage should appear as ∼0.250 A cm–2 instead of ∼0.250 mA cm–2. This means that the system can deliver

Water splitting has emerged as a key process for obtaining clean molecular hydrogen, a primary energy carrier for replacing fossil fuels, and a valuable fine chemical for several industrial applications. In this framework, great research efforts are being devoted to finding appropriate photocatalysts for water oxidation/reduction, thus directly converting solar energy into hydrogen fuel.(1) To date

The name of the first author is misspelled in the original Letter. Instead of Sitaramanjaneva Mouli Thalluri, it should read Sitaramanjaneya Mouli Thalluri. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.

International conferences are an essential component of the timely exchange of ideas and results in the scientific community, where scientists present their results, gain new insights, and meet colleagues and collaborators. In early 2020, a global pandemic caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the corresponding disease (covid-19) resulted in a number of conferences being canceled or postponed.(1)

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