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Advances in n-type Bi2O2Se thermoelectric materials: Progress and perspective Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Zhifang Zhou, Wenyu Zhang, Yunpeng Zheng, Yueyang Yang, Bin Wei, Chang Liu, Jin-Le Lan, Ce-Wen Nan, Yuan-Hua Lin
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Developing flexible solid‐state zinc air batteries based on NiFe@NC catalyst and dual network hydrogel electrolyte Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Lifeng Hang, Jinwu Liu, Funian Mo, Dandan Men, Hua Wen, Guihua Jiang
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Dopant induced band convergence leading to high thermoelectric power factor in Mg2Sn Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Bharti Agrawal, , Johannes de Boor, Titas Dasgupta
Band convergence is a common technique for enhancing the power factor of thermoelectric (TE) materials. This is usually achieved by solid solution formation in compounds having specific electronic band features. In this work, we show that a similar band convergence effect can be achieved in Mg2Sn by doping with small amounts of Bi. To identify this effect and the possible reason behind it, a detailed
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Preparation and structure optimization of 2D MXene nanocomposites for microwave absorbing application Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Ping-an Yang, Wenjiao Deng, Jiufei Luo, Rui Li, Penghua Li, Yichen Yin, Xin Huang, Yuxin Zhang
With the increasing application of electromagnetic waves (EMWs), issues related to electromagnetic (EM) radiation and interference have become more prominent, rendering research on EMW absorbers a highly topical subject. 2D MXenes have emerged as up-and-coming EM-absorbing materials due to their inherent characteristics. These include high electrical conductivity-induced strong dielectric loss, abundant
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Ambient synthesis of one-dimensional core-shell nanocomposites by encapsulating SiC nanowires with layered double hydroxide nanosheets for high-performance microwave absorption application Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Kun Zhang, Zhizhen Xu, Siyao Cheng, Yuting Li, Yongjun Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yaxin Wang
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Recent advances in atomic layer deposition-based interface modification engineering in thermoelectric materials Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Shuankui Li, LiangLiang Wang, Danning Ma, Yuanxin Jiang, Kai Guo, Jun Luo
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Pressure-induced remarkable four-phonon interaction and enhanced thermoelectric conversion efficiency in CuInTe2 Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Jincheng Yue, Siqi Guo, Junda Li, Jiahui Zhao, Chen Shen, Hongbin Zhang, Yanhui Liu, Tian Cui
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Band splitting under strain: A route to broad-spectrum absorption Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Jinsen Han, Hongli Guo, Xiaoxiang Yu, Kang Lai, Jiahao Chen, Dongdong Kang, Jiayu Dai
A strategy to split bright exciton bands is proposed to achieve broad-spectrum absorption in two-dimensional semiconductors. Based on ab initio many-body perturbation theory and Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations, we predict that post-transition-metal chalcogenides monolayers can realize broadband absorption under biaxial tensile strains. We find that top valence bands responsible for the strongly
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Tuning strategy for Curie-temperature enhancement in the van der Waals magnet Mn1+xSb2−xTe4 Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 M. Sahoo, M.C. Rahn, E. Kochetkova, O. Renier, L.C. Folkers, A. Tcakaev, M.L. Amigó, F.M. Stier, V. Pomjakushin, K. Srowik, V.B. Zabolotnyy, E. Weschke, V. Hinkov, A. Alfonsov, V. Kataev, B. Büchner, A.U.B. Wolter, J.I. Facio, L.T. Corredor, A. Isaeva
The van-der-Waals antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 is one of the few materials that realize the sought-after quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state and quantized surface charge transport. To assess the relevance of its isostructural analog MnSb2Te4 as a potential QAH candidate, the roles of Mn/Sb site mixing and cationic vacancies need to be clarified. Recent findings have shown that non-stoichiometry
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Simultaneous modulation of solar and longwave infrared radiation for smart window applications Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Guo Li, Jiayun Wang, Xinyu Zhao, Yuehong Su, Dongliang Zhao
Windows have widespread applications in our everyday life, such as in buildings and automobiles, primarily fulfilling roles of light management, aesthetic enhancement, thermal insulation, and isolation from the ambient surroundings. Nevertheless, it is imperative to acknowledge that the extensive utilization of transparent enclosures may entail a concomitant surge in energy consumption. To address
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Innovations in self-powered nano-photonics of emerging and flexible two-dimensional materials Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Muhammad Abubakr, Ehsan Elahi, Shania Rehman, A. Dahshan, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Muhammad Rabeel, Zeesham Abbas, Muhammad Faheem Maqsood, Malik Abdul Rehman, Jonghwa Eom, Sungho Kim, Deok-kee Kim, Muhammad Farooq Khan
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Ultrabroadband metastructure absorber with angular stability for conformal applications Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Yubing Duan, Qingxuan Liang, Zhen Yang, Xin Wang, Pan Liu, Dichen Li
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Anomalous Nernst effect in honeycomb and kagome magnet LaCo5 at room temperature Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Sheng Xu, Liqin Zhou, Shu-Xiang Li, Xiang-Yu Zeng, Chenxi Jiang, Jun-Jian Mi, Zheng Li, Tian-Long Xia, Zhu-An Xu
Magnetic order-induced time reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome lattice is predicted to generate Weyl semimetal and Chern insulating phases. The two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattices with spin orbit coupling (SOC) and ferromagnetism are also known to host the Chern insulating phase. Here, we study the transport properties of the ferromagnetic topological material LaCo5 crystals with TC = 840 K
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Unleashing the potential of gallium oxide: A paradigm shift in optoelectronic applications for image sensing and neuromorphic computing applications Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Naif H. Al-Hardan, Muhammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, Azman Jalar, Mohd Firdaus-Raih
Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) is an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor material that has gained attention in recent years owing to its potential applications in optoelectronic devices. Ga2O3 has become a potential material for high-performance solar-blind ultraviolet (UV–C) photodetectors in the wavelength range of 200–280 nm. One of its emerging applications as a photodetector is as an image sensor. It has been
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Construction of CoFe2O4/MXene hybrids with plentiful heterointerfaces for high-performance electromagnetic wave absorption through dielectric-magnetic cooperation strategy Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Zhengzheng Guo, Peien Luo, Ze Zong, Zhengyan Chen, Ping Song, Yanling Jin, Fang Ren, Penggang Ren
Developing high-efficiency electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorption materials is urgently demanded but challenging to tackle the increasingly serious electromagnetic radiation pollution. In this regard, a novel multi-heterostructure hybrid consisting of two-dimensional MXene nanosheets and zero-dimensional CoFe2O4 nanoparticles was successfully constructed by facile solvothermal approach. Benefiting from
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Pseudo-spin model of argentophilicity in honeycomb bilayered materials Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Godwill Mbiti Kanyolo, Titus Masese
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Encapsulated Ag2Se-based flexible thermoelectric generator with remarkable performance Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Shuaihang Hou, Jiawei Huang, Yijie Liu, Yi Luo, Xiaodong Wang, Li Yin, Xiaoyu Sun, Zuoxu Wu, Jian Wang, Jiehe Sui, Jun Mao, Linfeng Fei, Xingjun Liu, Qian Zhang, Feng Cao
Flexible thermoelectric generators hold great potential for powering wearable electronics. Herein, we employ a novel encapsulation technology to fabricate a Ag2Se-based composite film, which possesses a remarkable room-temperature power factor (PF) of 25.6 μW cm−1 K−2 and a peak PF of ∼27 μW cm−1 K−2 at 380 K. The microscopic origin of the above performance is attributed to the appearance of CuAgSe
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Photocarrier transport reconstruction and dramatical performance enhancement in ultrawide-bandgap ε-Ga2O3 photodetectors via surface defect passivation Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Wenrui Zhang, Wei Wang, Jingxuan Wei, Shihong Xia, Jianguo Zhang, Li Chen, Dongyang Han, Keming Jiang, Zhenhai Yang, Shen Hu, Li Ji, Jichun Ye
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Engineering metalenses for planar optics and acoustics Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Beomseok Oh, Kyungtae Kim, Dongwoo Lee, Junsuk Rho
Metalens, a two-dimensional planar system composed of strategically engineered subwavelength structures, facilitates precise manipulation in the process of both light and sound. Benefiting from the synergy between theoretical exploration and cutting-edge fabrication in the past decade, metalenses have attracted considerable attention owing to their thin structure and large number of degrees of freedom
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Electronic structure modification of FeWO4 through F doping for enhanced oxygen reduction performance in zinc–air batteries Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Jian-Chun Wu, Xi-Cheng Shen, Huan Wang, Dai-Jie Deng, Su-Qin Wu, Yue Gong, Lin-Hua Zhu, Li Xu, He-Nan Li
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Enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting performance of GaN nanowires on textured Si (100) platforms: The role of texturing in 3.69 % STH conversion efficiency Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Fawad Tariq, Ameer Abdullah, Mandar A. Kulkarni, Hamza Thaalbi, Indrajit V. Bagal, Soon Hyung Kang, Jun-Seok Ha, Sang-Wan Ryu
Nanostructured GaN semiconductors, including 0D quantum wells and 1D nanowires (NWs), as well as 3D nanoporous structures, have the potential to enhance the efficiency of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells due to their shorter charge carrier transfer paths, accelerated separation of photogenerated carriers, and enhanced sunlight absorption. However, their practical applicability is limited due to poor
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The effect of binding energy on optimizing the interfacial thermal transport in metal-MoS2-dielectric nanostructures Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jing Zhou, Haibo Zhao, Xuanhui Fan, Kunpeng Yuan, Zhitong Wang, Zhongyin Zhang, Donghao Li, Xiaoliang Zhang, Haisheng Chen, Dawei Tang, Xinghua Zheng, Jie Zhu
The development of MoS2-based devices presents a significant challenge due to the poor interfacial thermal transport of metal-MoS2-dielectric structures, which results in severe thermal dissipation issues. This work aims to investigate the effects of various strategies, including modifying metal electrodes, adjusting the number of MoS2 layers, and incorporating van der Waals heterostructures, on the
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Programmable self-assembly of microstructures on mimicked three dimensional functional surfaces Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Zhaolong Wang, Haoyong Song, Mingzhu Xie, Ziheng Zhan, Junkai Zhao, Yongping Chen
Capillary force has been extensively investigated to drive the construction of complex microstructures, though most of those previous self-assembled microstructures were on flat surfaces. In this study, we propose a capillary-force-driven self-assembly strategy working for bionic three-dimensional (3D) functional surfaces. Precisely printed micropillar arrays with an extremely large format using projection
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Thermoelectric figure-of-merit of metastable crystalline ST12 germanium allotrope Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Han Meng, Masato Ohnishi, Meng An, Junichiro Shiomi
Computational science has facilitated significant improvement in identifying stable crystal systems that are good thermoelectric materials with a high figure-of-merit (ZT). One approach for further discontinuous improvement is to explore the metastable phase of the crystals, particularly because there is an increasing need for thermoelectric materials operating at room temperature in energy harvesting
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Pressure-induced metallic state in a van der Waals cluster Mott insulator Nb3Cl8 Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 P.F. Shan, X. Han, X. Li, Z.Y. Liu, P.T. Yang, B.S. Wang, H.Y. Liu, Y.G. Shi, J.P. Sun, J.-G. Cheng
We report on the pressure-induced metallization of a van der Waals cluster Mott insulator Nb3Cl8 by employing the resistivity measurements under high pressure. Upon compression, its resistance and energy gap are suppressed gradually with exhibiting the fully metallic state at a critical pressure of Pc ≈ 70 GPa. Hall resistance measurements revealed a significant band-structure reconstruction around
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Edge-pinning effect of graphene nanoflakes sliding atop graphene Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Yingchao Liu, Jinlong Ren, Decheng Kong, Guangcun Shan, Kunpeng Dou
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Room-temperature ferromagnetism in Fe-doped SnSe bulk single crystalline semiconductor Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Guangqiang Mei, Wei Tan, Xingxia Cui, Cong Wang, Qing Yuan, Yafei Li, Cancan Lou, Xuefeng Hou, Mengmeng Zhao, Yong Liu, Wei Ji, Xiaona Zhang, Min Feng, Limin Cao
The quest for pragmatic room-temperature (RT) magnetic semiconductors (MSs) with a suitable bandgap constitutes one of the contemporary opportunities to be exploited. This may provide a materials platform for to bring new-generation ideal information device technologies into real-world applications where the otherwise conventionally separately utilized charge and spin are simultaneously exploited.
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Controllable analog-to-digital bipolar resistive switching behavior and mechanism analysis in δ-MnO2-based memristor Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Zelin Cao, Bai Sun, Shuangsuo Mao, Guangdong Zhou, Xuegang Duan, Wentao Yan, Siyu Sun, Xiaoliang Chen, Jinyou Shao
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Dilute Sc/Y doping in SnTe for efficient charge transport modulation and high thermoelectric performance Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Fengkai Guo, Songnian Zhao, Yuxin Sun, Jianbo Zhu, Zihang Liu, Ruiqi Wang, Bangming Li, Zhiguo Wei, Qian Zhang, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui
As a highly potential environmental-friendly medium-temperature thermoelectric material, pure SnTe exhibits relatively poor performance due to its intrinsic high carrier concentration and large energy offset between the two valence bands. In the present work, dilute Sc/Y doping is innovatively adopted to synergistically decrease carrier concentration and achieve strong band convergence. The Hall measurement
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Covalently linked graphene oxide-transition metal disulfide quantum dots nanocomposites featuring enhanced nonlinear optical absorption Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Zhiyuan Wei, Zihao Guan, Fang Liu, Yanyan Xue, Naying Shan, Yang Zhao, Lulu Fu, Zhipeng Huang, Jun Xu, Mark G. Humphrey, Chi Zhang
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Structural evolution of Ru/Te interaction for hydrogen generation engineered by proof of concept via carbon doping Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Fulin Yang, Qiaowei Wang, Jie Li, Ligang Feng
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Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in ‘defective’ half-Heusler Nb0.8CoSb Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Kumar Saurabh, Vineet Kumar Pandey, Ankit Kumar, Prasenjit Ghosh, Surjeet Singh
The half Heusler alloys are potential mid-to-high temperature range thermoelectrics due to their high power factor, solid structural stability and high mechanical strength. However, the high lattice thermal conductivity inherent to these materials reduces the zT, rendering them less useful for practical applications. The ‘defective’ half-Heuslers provide an attractive alternative to mitigate these
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Coexistence of superconductivity and topological aspects in beryllenes Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Jingyu Li, Muchun Guo, Jianguo Si, Lanting Shi, Xianbiao Shi, Jiang-Jiang Ma, Qinyong Zhang, David J. Singh, Peng-Fei Liu, Bao-Tian Wang
By employing first-principles calculations, we theoretically propose that α- and β-beryllenes are two dimensional superconductors with Dirac bands at ambient pressure. Be-p orbitals dominate the electronic structure near the Fermi level, with two-band and three-band Fermi surfaces for α- and β-beryllene, respectively. α-beryllene hosts intrinsic type-I Dirac Fermions with the existence of nontrivial
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Turing pattern and chemical medium-range order of metallic glasses Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Songling Liu, Xinyu Luo, Jingshan Cao, Zhaoyuan Liu, BeiBei Xu, Yonghao Sun, Weihua Wang
The formation of bulk metallic glass requires the constituent elements to have a negative heat of mixing but has no restrictions on its magnitude. An understanding of this issue is lacking due to the absence of a valid method for describing chemical ordering of metallic glasses. For example, the radial distribution function is ineffective in identifying the elemental preferences of packed atoms. Here
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Advances in multicomponent systems: Liquid crystal/nanoparticles/polymer Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Aleksandra Gridyakina, Natalia Kasian, Miłosz S. Chychłowski, Marta Kajkowska, Piotr Lesiak
Multicomponent systems based on liquid crystals are of great interest both in the field of scientific research and in the field of practical application. To date, one of the most studied systems are liquid crystal/nanoparticles and liquid crystal/polymer systems. Each system individually has its own advantages and disadvantages which limit their field of application. The way to circumvent the drawbacks
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Penta-MN8 family: First realization of type-5 pentagonal tessellation in 2D hexagonal crystals with intriguing properties Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Peng-Hu Du, Dongyuan Ni, Yiheng Shen, Jiewei Cheng, Changsheng Hou, Qiang Sun
Tessellation of the Euclidean plane by congruent pentagons has long been of great interest. However, periodic pentagonal patterns realized in crystallography reported so far are limited to type-2 or type-4 tiling in typical square lattices. Based on the recently synthesized N18 macrocycles together with Hückel aromaticity and 18-electron rules, we design a family of pentagonal metal polynitrides, penta-MN8
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Water engine enabled by Janus membrane for precisely controllable long-distance micro-boats driving Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Mingzhu Xie, Ziheng Zhan, Wanqing Xu, Ce Zhang, Zhaolong Wang
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Enhancing the effective mass and covalent bond strength of Cu3SbSe4-based thermoelectric materials by Mn/Sn co-doping Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Sitong Wei, Lu Yu, Zipei Zhang, Zhen Ji, Sitong Luo, Jingxuan Liang, Weiyu Song, Shuqi Zheng
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An easily degradable composite separator with high affinity to ionic-liquid-based electrolytes for safe Li-ion batteries Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Yaqian Li, Pingan Li, Xiwei Lan, Yingjun Jiang, Xianluo Hu
Ionic-liquid-based electrolytes emerge as a viable alternative to commercial carbonate electrolytes due to their superior stability and safety, especially at high temperatures. However, their affinity to the currently widely used polyolefin-based separators is poor. Herein, an economical and environmentally friendly separator composed of hydroxyapatite and cellulose nanofibers is designed and fabricated
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Role of copper as current collectors in the reductive reactivity of polymers for anode-free lithium metal batteries - Insights from DFT and AIMD studies Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Liang-Ting Wu, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, Daniel Brandell, Chia-Ni Tsai, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Yeh-Wei Li, Jyh-Chiang Jiang
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Enhancement on thermoelectric performance by Ti doping and vacancies Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Xuan Hu, Sikang Zheng, Qihong Xiong, Shuai Wu, Yuling Huang, Bin Zhang, Wen Wang, Xincan Wang, Nanhai Li, Zizhen Zhou, Yun Zhou, Xu Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhou
Due to the exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivity, AgSbTe2 has emerged as a promising thermoelectric material. However, unlike other IV-VI compounds, most reported AgSbTe2 samples exhibit relatively poor electrical performance due to low carrier concentration. Herein, an unusually strategy of introducing dopants and vacancies on the same site of Sb is adopted, which significantly improves the
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Selenate promoted stability improvement of nickel selenide nanosheet array with an amorphous NiOOH layer for seawater oxidation Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Hui Zhang, Xun He, Kai Dong, Yongchao Yao, Shengjun Sun, Min Zhang, Meng Yue, Chaoxin Yang, Dongdong Zheng, Qian Liu, Yonglan Luo, Binwu Ying, Sulaiman Alfaifi, Xuqiang Ji, Bo Tang, Xuping Sun
Seawater electrolysis offers significant potential for green hydrogen production, the presence of harmful chlorine species, nevertheless, can cause severe anode corrosion. Here, we present our recent finding that selenate anions adsorbed nickel selenide nanosheet array with an amorphous NiOOH layer on Ni foam (NiSe2@NiOOH/NF) serves as a high-efficiency and durable electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution
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Nanoengineering of metal-based electrocatalysts for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction: A critical review Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Sina Pourebrahimi, Majid Pirooz, Shabnam Ahmadi, Mohammad Kazemeini, Leila Vafajoo
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Enhancing the selectivity of CO2-to-HCOOH conversion by constructing tensile-strained Cu catalyst Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Zhe Wang, Zijian Li, Shangguo Liu, Liqiang Hou, Xiaoqian Wei, Xien Liu, Qing Qin
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Cerium guided site-selective crystal disorder engineering of MIL-88B(Ni) frameworks for electrocatalysis offering high-performance water oxidation Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Nabeen K. Shrestha, Supriya A. Patil, Jun Ho Seok, Amol S. Salunke, Sangeun Cho, Akbar I. Inamdar, Youngsin Park, Sang Uck Lee, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im
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High-capacity hydrogen storage through molecularly restructured and confined hydrogen hydrates Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Rojan Firuznia, Amir Abutalib, Alireza Hakimian, Sina Nazifi, Zixu Huang, T. Randall Lee, Jeffrey D. Rimer, Hadi Ghasemi
In the future landscape of sustainable energies and in combating global climate challenges, hydrogen plays a crucial role in both stationary and portable energy systems that currently supply 18 % of the total energy demand. High-capacity, safe, and cost-effective hydrogen storage is critical for advancing the hydrogen economy but remains a dauting challenge. A range of advanced material systems including
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Composite design of half-Heusler thermoelectrics: Selective doping of grain boundary phases in NbFeSb by InSb Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Ruben Bueno Villoro, Raana Hatami Naderloo, Dominique Alexander Mattlat, Chanwon Jung, Kornelius Nielsch, Christina Scheu, Ran He, Siyuan Zhang
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Recent progress in color-preserving radiative cooling: Multispectral control in visible and infrared wavelength Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Hongyun Xing, Xiaochi Shu, Binbin Hong, Neng Wang, Wanlin Wang, Guo Ping Wang
Color-preserving radiative cooling (CRC) is widely studied as a sustainable technology for outdoor structures due to its energy-saving and aesthetic capacities. Direct sunlight can cause outdoor structures to become extremely hot, leading to high energy consumption for cooling. To address this issue, CRC has been explored as a means to lower the temperature of outdoor structures. However, preserving
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Photon recycling in organic semiconductor films using plasmonic metasurfaces Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Zhongkai Cheng, Nasir Javed, Fang Zhao, Deirdre M. O'Carroll
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Theoretical investigations on ternary defective diamond-like infrared nonlinear optical materials in Be-Ga-Se system Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Linan Wang, Dongdong Chu, Deqiang Yin, Congwei Xie, Zhihua Yang, Junjie Li, Shilie Pan
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Towards energy filtering in Mg2X-based composites: Investigating local carrier concentration and band alignment via SEM/EDX and transient Seebeck microprobe analysis Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sanyukta Ghosh, Harshita Naithani, Byungki Ryu, Gregor Oppitz, Eckhard Müller, Johannes de Boor
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Double alkaline earth metals sulfide SrMgGeS4 with high laser-induced damage threshold and strong second-harmonic generation Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Hongshan Wang, Yu Chu, Xueting Pan, Zhihua Yang, Shilie Pan, Junjie Li
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Intrinsically conductive and nano-scale reconfigurable liquid metal nano-capsules Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Dan Xu, Jinwei Cao, Fengyuan Zhang, Xin Gao, Shengbin Li, Fei Liu, Shengding Wang, Shiying Li, Jinyun Liu, Yuanzhao Wu, Yiwei Liu, Jie Shang, Run-Wei Li
Liquid metal (LM), particularly Gallium-based alloy, has emerged as an indispensable material for artificial skins, offering vast potential in wearable prophylactic medicine, AI-based human-machine interfaces, bodily-kinesthetic monitoring, etc. Nanosized LM has been adopted to facilitate its processability in various LM-elastomer interfaces, stretchable circuits, and dynamic self-healing devices.
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Enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe through introducing PbSe by a fast preparation method Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Wenyu Zhang, Zhifang Zhou, Yueyang Yang, Yunpeng Zheng, Bin Wei, Jin-Le Lan, Ce-Wen Nan, Yuan-Hua Lin
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Cubic phase stabilization and thermoelectric performance optimization in AgBiSe2–SnTe system Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Zhentao Guo, Yu-Ke Zhu, Ming Liu, Xingyan Dong, Bin Sun, Fengkai Guo, Qian Zhang, Juan Li, Weihong Gao, Yu-dong Fu, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, Zihang Liu
AgBiSe2 is a lead-free thermoelectric (TE) material that demonstrates excellent TE performance in its high-temperature cubic phase. However, the known order-disorder transition at around 580 K induces internal stress caused by the sudden change in thermal expansion coefficient, negatively impacting TE device operation. In this study, we heavily alloyed AgBiSe2 with SnTe to increase configurational
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Brighten strontium aluminate long-persistence materials via optimizing defect energy level distribution Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Jiaren Du, Jiaping Zhang, Tengyue Wang, Pengshang Zhou, Lejia Cao, Qingpo Liu, Hengwei Lin
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Gapless linear dispersion in Bi2Se3 nanoparticles for high-performance broadband photodetectors Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Soheil Ghods, Ali Esfandiar, Jun-Hui Choi, Azam Iraji zad, Mukkath Joseph Josline, Sein Kim, Jae-Hyun Lee
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Recent advances of perovskite oxide-based cathodes in solid oxide electrolysis cells for CO2 electroreduction Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Jiayi Chen, Xin Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Zheng Zhen, Ya Chen, Xiantai Zeng, Lifeng Cui
CO2 reduction plays a vital role in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), whereas electroreduction method has attracted considerable attention because of its high selectivity, safety, and energy efficiency. Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) have exhibited significant advantages in CO2 reduction and utilization. Among all the components of SOEC, the cathode materials are crucial due to
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Magnetic ordering boost excellent thermoelectric performance of flexible films Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Shaoqiu Ke, Xiaolei Nie, Xiaoling Ai, Xiangyu Li, Wenjie Xu, Kai Fu, Tiantian Chen, Chengshan Liu, Wanting Zhu, Ping Wei, Wenyu Zhao, Qingjie Zhang
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High harmonic generations triggered by the intense laser field in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs honeycomb quantum well wires Mater. Today Phys. (IF 11.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 B.O. Alaydin, D. Altun, O. Ozturk, E. Ozturk
Under constant electric and magnetic fields, the potential profile of the honeycomb quantum well wire (HQWW) is studied for varying intense laser fields to trigger and optimize high harmonics (nonlinear optical rectification, second and third harmonic generation coefficients). The finite element method has been used to simulate wavefunctions and their corresponding energy levels under effective mass