In recent years, TiO₂ has been widely investigated as a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries because of its low volume change during the charge/discharge process, environmental benignity, and high safety. However, it suffers from poor e...

Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), which have several special properties such as negligible vapor pressure, high thermal and chemical stability, od molecular structure and property designability, have received a great deal of attention, and hav...

The dynamic behavior of the ammonium ion is closely related to the biological and chemical processes of life. A fast rotation of NH₄ in aqueous solution has been observed in previous experiments, which is unexpected from hydrodynamic theories because...

Four deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were prepared from tetrabutylammonium chloride: tetrabutylammonium chloride:propionic acid [TBAC:2PA], tetrabutylammonium chloride:ethylene glycol [TBAC:2EG], tetrabutylammonium chloride:polyethylene glycol [TBAC:2P...

The transition voltage of copper-vacuum-copper tunneling junctions with atomic protrusions on the electrode surface was investigated using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism combined with density functional theory. Our calculations show t...

Fullerene-derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) plays an important role in terms of electron transport in polymer solar cells. The electronic structure of PCBM is of much importance to investigate. In this study, the near-edge ...

Graphene has potential applications in many fields. In particular, two-dimensional graphene nanochannels assembled from graphene sheets can be used for filtration and separation. In this work, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investig...

Surface adsorption of a solution is still a challenging problem in the thermodynamics of surfaces. In this work, a new thermodynamic state function is defined. The equilibrium condition of surface adsorption is that the differential of this state fun...

Nine new D-π-A metal-free sensitizers INI1-INI9 with indolizino [3,4,5-ab] isoindole (INI) as electronic donor were investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT calculations. Compared to D5 and D9, some major factors ...

Li₃V₂(PO₄)₃ and its triple-cation-doped counterpart Li_2.85Na_0.15V_1.9Al_0.1(PO₄)_2.9F_0.1 were prepared by a conventional sol-gel method. The effect of Na-Al-F co-doping on the physicochemical properties, especially the electrochemical performance of Li₃...

Diamond-shaped carbon-coated CoCO₃ (CoCO₃/C) particles were prepared by a simple hydrothermal method, and carbon coating was realized using glucose as the carbon source. This study focuses on the electrochemical performance of CoCO₃/C as an anode mat...

The cuboid layered 0.6Li₂MnO₃-0.4LiNi_0.5Mn_0.5O₂ cobalt-free lithium-rich solid-solution cathode material was synthesized by a facile quick co-precipitation method. The prepared material was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photo...

By introducing a new method of solution preparation, systems of equimolar mixing cationic/anionic surfactants with dissymmetric lengths of alkyl tails were investigated using light scattering, rheology, and freezing-fracture transmission electron mic...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) pretreated with concentrated HNO3 and tetrabutyl titanate were used as raw materials to prepare CNTs-TiO₂ composite supports by the sol-gel method. Vanadium was then dipped into the CNTs-TiO₂ composite support to synthesize th...

The core-shell type poly(styrene-N-isopropylacrylamide)/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane) (P(St-NIPAM)/P(NIPAM-co-MPTMS)) composite microgels with thermosensitivity were synthesized by two-step polymerization methods...

NiMo/TiO₂-Al₂O₃ slurry catalysts with fluorine as an additive were prepared by complete liquidphase technology for hydrodesulfurization. The effect of different fluorine addition methods on the properties of the catalysts for 4,6-dimethyldibenzothiop...

MnO_x nanoparticles obtained by the emulsion method were loaded on a microporous tubular titanium membrane to prepare a functional MnO_x/Ti electrocatalytic membrane. The effects of calcination temperature on the crystal structure of MnO_x as well as th...

The detection sensitivity of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) microscopic probes is mainly determined by the LSPR property of the modified metal nanoparticle at the end of the probe. In this paper, spherical Au@Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with ...

Adenosine receptors (ARs) are crucial therapeutic targets, and selective adenosine receptor anta nists are promising for numerous therapeutic applications. In this study, three dimensional models of human adenosine A₁, A_2B, and A₃ receptors (A₁AR, A_2...

In this study, mesoscopic optical structured 2,9-dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenyl-1,10- phenanthrolin (bathocuproine, BCP) film was formed to enhance the out-coupling efficiency of a top blue organic light-emitting device (OLED). Based on the refrac...

Hierarchical nitrogen-enriched porous carbon containing micropores, mesopores, and macropores were prepared by a nanocasting pathway using a Schiff base precursor and SBA-15 as the hard template. The specific surface area and pore volume of the obtai...

We established and developed an in situ X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) experimental testing device for characterizing hydrogen-oxygen proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) on XAFS beamline BL14W1 at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Fa...

A novel, high-yielding synthesis of micro/nano ZnO pompons using glutamic acid fluoborate (GluBF₄) ionic liquid is reported. The precursor was prepared with zinc acetatedihydrate [Zn(Ac)₂·2H₂O] and sodium hydroxide (molar ratio = 1:6) as starting mat...

A series of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials (1-3) based on triphenylamine/diphenyl sulfone were synthesized by Suzuki cross-coupling reactions. The optical, electrochemical, delayed fluorescence, and thermal properties of th...