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January 2017 Volume 16, Issue 1 |
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Materials for sustainable energy | | | Energy demand from developed and developing countries continues to grow, together with concerns on the detrimental effects that an energy economy based on fossil fuels has on the environment. This Insight discusses the latest advances in materials science that may boost the transition to more sustainable energy systems.
Materials for sustainable energy |
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Dealing with data p1 doi:10.1038/nmat4841 Nature Materials now requests that all original research articles contain a Data Availability Statement declaring the accessibility of the data and where it can be found. |
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Materials for sustainable energy p15 Vincent Dusastre and Luigi Martiradonna doi:10.1038/nmat4838 |
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The path towards sustainable energy pp16 - 22 Steven Chu, Yi Cui and Nian Liu doi:10.1038/nmat4834 This Perspective provides an overview of the contributions of materials science to a sustainable energy future, and discusses possible regulatory paths to support this transition. |
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Energy conversion approaches and materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics pp23 - 34 Martin A. Green and Stephen P. Bremner doi:10.1038/nmat4676 This Review describes the sunlight conversion strategies [mdash] and their technological implementations [mdash] that are currently being investigated to realize solar cells with efficiencies beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. |
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Photovoltaic concepts inspired by coherence effects in photosynthetic systems pp35 - 44 Jean-Luc Brédas, Edward H. Sargent and Gregory D. Scholes doi:10.1038/nmat4767 Lessons learned from coherent phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems may be useful to improve energy- and charge-transport in disordered materials. This Review describes coherence and its potential beneficial effects in photovoltaics. |
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Sustainability and in situ monitoring in battery development pp45 - 56 C. P. Grey and J. M. Tarascon doi:10.1038/nmat4777 Significant progress in battery technology is crucial to ensure a transition towards a carbon-neutral society. Recent advances in both sustainability and operando techniques together with remaining challenges and possible solutions are now reviewed. |
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Energy and fuels from electrochemical interfaces pp57 - 69 Vojislav R. Stamenkovic, Dusan Strmcnik, Pietro P. Lopes and Nenad M. Markovic doi:10.1038/nmat4738 Advances in electrocatalysis at interfaces are vital for driving technological innovations related to energy. New materials developments for efficient hydrogen and oxygen production in electrolysers and in fuel cells are described. |
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Materials for solar fuels and chemicals pp70 - 81 Joseph H. Montoya, Linsey C. Seitz, Pongkarn Chakthranont, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Thomas F. Jaramillo and Jens K. Nørskov doi:10.1038/nmat4778 Converting sunlight into fuels is attractive for energy storage and photoelectrocatalytic technologies. Scientific challenges related to developing suitable photoabsorbers, efficient catalysts and understanding their interfaces are now reviewed. |
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Orientational order controls crystalline and amorphous thermal transport in superatomic crystals pp83 - 88 Wee-Liat Ong, Evan S. O'Brien, Patrick S. M. Dougherty, Daniel W. Paley, C. Fred Higgs III, Alan J. H. McGaughey, Jonathan A. Malen and Xavier Roy doi:10.1038/nmat4739 Room-temperature thermal conductivities in superatomic crystals are found to be proportional to the sound speed, while their behaviour can switch between amorphous- or crystalline-like, depending on temperature and the nature of superatoms used.
See also: News and Views by Cui et al. |
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Fracture in sheets draped on curved surfaces pp89 - 93 Noah P. Mitchell, Vinzenz Koning, Vincenzo Vitelli and William T. M. Irvine doi:10.1038/nmat4733 Curvature in elastic sheets can be used to control material failure and guide the paths of cracks.
See also: News and Views by Kamrin |
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Tailoring exchange couplings in magnetic topological-insulator/antiferromagnet heterostructures pp94 - 100 Qing Lin He, Xufeng Kou, Alexander J. Grutter, Gen Yin, Lei Pan, Xiaoyu Che, Yuxiang Liu, Tianxiao Nie, Bin Zhang, Steven M. Disseler, Brian J. Kirby, William Ratcliff II, Qiming Shao, Koichi Murata, Xiaodan Zhu, Guoqiang Yu, Yabin Fan, Mohammad Montazeri, Xiaodong Han, Julie A. Borchers and Kang L. Wang doi:10.1038/nmat4783 Heterostructures formed by the magnetic topological insulator Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te and the antiferromagnet CrSb are shown to exhibit emergent interfacial magnetic phenomena that can be tuned with the heterostructure geometry.
See also: News and Views by Hesjedal & Chen |
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Memristors with diffusive dynamics as synaptic emulators for neuromorphic computing pp101 - 108 Zhongrui Wang, Saumil Joshi, Sergey E. Savel?ev, Hao Jiang, Rivu Midya, Peng Lin, Miao Hu, Ning Ge, John Paul Strachan, Zhiyong Li, Qing Wu, Mark Barnell, Geng-Lin Li, Huolin L. Xin, R. Stanley Williams, Qiangfei Xia and J. Joshua Yang doi:10.1038/nmat4756 Calcium ions play a vital role in enabling synaptic plasticity in biological systems. The dynamic behaviour of these ions has now been emulated in a metal atom diffusion-based memristor. |
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Carrier generation and electronic properties of a single-component pure organic metal pp109 - 114 Yuka Kobayashi, Takeshi Terauchi, Satoshi Sumi and Yoshitaka Matsushita doi:10.1038/nmat4768 The electronic properties of bulk solids composed of zwitterionic tetrathiafulvalene-extended dicarboxylate radicals are investigated, showing highly conducting metallic behaviour in single-component molecular systems having only s and p electrons. |
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Direct-indirect character of the bandgap in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite pp115 - 120 Eline M. Hutter, María C. Gélvez-Rueda, Anna Osherov, Vladimir Bulović, Ferdinand C. Grozema, Samuel D. Stranks and Tom J. Savenije doi:10.1038/nmat4765 Time-resolved photo-conductance and microwave conductance investigations reveal that methylammonium lead iodide perovskites have an indirect bandgap at temperatures relevant to photovoltaic applications.
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Nanoscale structural oscillations in perovskite oxides induced by oxygen evolution pp121 - 126 Binghong Han, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Vasiliki Tileli, Andrew D. Gamalski, Eric A. Stach and Yang Shao-Horn doi:10.1038/nmat4764 Understanding interactions between water and oxides is crucial for energy storage and photocatalysis. The combined effect of water and electron irradiation on perovskite catalysts results in structural oscillation triggered by gaseous bubbles. |
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Localized dielectric breakdown and antireflection coating in metal-oxide-semiconductor photoelectrodes pp127 - 131 Li Ji, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Xiaohan Li, Kai Huang, Ye Zhang, Jack C. Lee, Allen J. Bard and Edward T. Yu doi:10.1038/nmat4801 Silicon-based photoelectrodes are attractive for solar fuel production, but suffer from vulnerability to corrosion. Using dielectric breakdown, a generic approach to improve the performance of metal-oxide semiconductor photoelectrodes is proposed. |
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Generation of subnanometric platinum with high stability during transformation of a 2D zeolite into 3D pp132 - 138 Lichen Liu, Urbano Díaz, Raul Arenal, Giovanni Agostini, Patricia Concepción and Avelino Corma doi:10.1038/nmat4757 Encapsulation of single-atom and particulate gold within growing zeolite frameworks generates active catalysts with exceptionally high thermal stability.
See also: News and Views by de Jong & Zecevic |
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Porous microwells for geometry-selective, large-scale microparticle arrays pp139 - 146 Jae Jung Kim, Ki Wan Bong, Eduardo Reátegui, Daniel Irimia and Patrick S. Doyle doi:10.1038/nmat4747 A porous microwell platform that generates large-scale arrays of microparticles with varying shape, size and modulus with high specificity shows applicability in anti-counterfeiting and cell-screening applications. |
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Complete prevention of blood loss with self-sealing haemostatic needles pp147 - 152 Mikyung Shin, Sung-Gurl Park, Byung-Chang Oh, Keumyeon Kim, Seongyeon Jo, Moon Sue Lee, Seok Song Oh, Seon-Hui Hong, Eui-Cheol Shin, Ki-Suk Kim, Sun-Woong Kang and Haeshin Lee doi:10.1038/nmat4758 The penetration of tissues with syringe needles is a common clinical practice that inevitably results in blood loss at the puncture site. This blood loss can now be eliminated using self-sealing haemostatic needles. |
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Retraction: Fast and long-range triplet exciton diffusion in metal-organic frameworks for photon upconversion at ultralow excitation power p153 Prasenjit Mahato, Angelo Monguzzi, Nobuhiro Yanai, Teppei Yamada and Nobuo Kimizuka doi:10.1038/nmat4827
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Retraction: Framing upconversion materials p153 Yoan C. Simon and Christoph Weder doi:10.1038/nmat4828
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