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Battery‐Supercapacitor Hybrid Devices: Recent Progress and Future Prospects
Tập 4 Số 7 - 2017
Wenhua Zuo, Ruizhi Li, Cheng Zhou, Yuanyuan Li, Jianlong Xia, Jinping Liu
Design and fabrication of electrochemical energy storage systems with both high energy and power densities as well as long cycling life is of great importance. As one of these systems, Battery‐supercapacitor hybrid device (BSH) is typically constructed with a high‐capacity battery‐type electrode and a high‐rate capacitive electrode, which has attracted enormous attention due to its potential applications in future electric vehicles, smart electric grids, and even miniaturized electronic/optoelectronic devices, etc. With proper design, BSH will provide unique advantages such as high performance, cheapness, safety, and environmental friendliness. This review first addresses the fundamental scientific principle, structure, and possible classification of BSHs, and then reviews the recent advances on various existing and emerging BSHs such as Li‐/Na‐ion BSHs, acidic/alkaline BSHs, BSH with redox electrolytes, and BSH with pseudocapacitive electrode, with the focus on materials and electrochemical performances. Furthermore, recent progresses in BSH devices with specific functionalities of flexibility and transparency, etc. will be highlighted. Finally, the future developing trends and directions as well as the challenges will also be discussed; especially, two conceptual BSHs with aqueous high voltage window and integrated 3D electrode/electrolyte architecture will be proposed.
Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides in Energy Storage and Conversion
Tập 3 Số 5 - 2016
Yu Zhong, Xinhui Xia, Fan Shi, Jiye Zhan, Jiangping Tu, Hong Jin Fan
High‐performance electrode materials are the key to advances in the areas of energy conversion and storage (e.g., fuel cells and batteries). In this Review, recent progress in the synthesis and electrochemical application of transition metal carbides (TMCs) and nitrides (TMNs) for energy storage and conversion is summarized. Their electrochemical properties in Li‐ion and Na‐ion batteries as well as in supercapacitors, and electrocatalytic reactions (oxygen evolution and reduction reactions, and hydrogen evolution reaction) are discussed in association with their crystal structure/morphology/composition. Advantages and benefits of nanostructuring (e.g., 2D MXenes) are highlighted. Prospects of future research trends in rational design of high‐performance TMCs and TMNs electrodes are provided at the end.
Evolution and Synthesis of Carbon Dots: From Carbon Dots to Carbonized Polymer Dots
Tập 6 Số 23 - 2019
Xia Chen, Shoujun Zhu, Tanglue Feng, Bai Yang
AbstractDespite the various synthesis methods to obtain carbon dots (CDs), the bottom‐up methods are still the most widely administrated route to afford large‐scale and low‐cost synthesis. However, as CDs are developed with increasing reports involved in producing many CDs, the structure and property features have changed enormously compared with the first generation of CDs, raising classification concerns. To this end, a new classification of CDs, named carbonized polymer dots (CPDs), is summarized according to the analysis of structure and property features. Here, CPDs are revealed as an emerging class of CDs with distinctive polymer/carbon hybrid structures and properties. Furthermore, deep insights into the effects of synthesis on the structure/property features of CDs are provided. Herein, the synthesis methods of CDs are also summarized in detail, and the effects of synthesis conditions of the bottom‐up methods in terms of the structures and properties of CPDs are discussed and analyzed comprehensively. Insights into formation process and nucleation mechanism of CPDs are also offered. Finally, a perspective of the future development of CDs is proposed with critical insights into facilitating their potential in various application fields.
Nanoparticle–Hydrogel Composites: Concept, Design, and Applications of These Promising, Multi‐Functional Materials
Tập 2 Số 1-2 - 2015
Praveen Thoniyot, Mein Jin Tan, Anis Abdul Karim, David James Young, Xian Jun Loh
New technologies rely on the development of new materials, and these may simply be the innovative combination of known components. The structural combination of a polymer hydrogel network with a nanoparticle (metals, non‐metals, metal oxides, and polymeric moieties) holds the promise of providing superior functionality to the composite material with applications in diverse fields, including catalysis, electronics, bio‐sensing, drug delivery, nano‐medicine, and environmental remediation. This mixing may result in a synergistic property enhancement of each component: for example, the mechanical strength of the hydrogel and concomitantly decrease aggregation of the nanoparticles. These mutual benefits and the associated potential applications have seen a surge of interest in the past decade from multi‐disciplinary research groups. Recent advances in nanoparticle–hydrogel composites are herein reviewed with a focus on their synthesis, design, potential applications, and the inherent challenges accompanying these exciting materials.
Photogating in Low Dimensional Photodetectors
Tập 4 Số 12 - 2017
Hehai Fang, Weida Hu
AbstractLow dimensional materials including quantum dots, nanowires, 2D materials, and so forth have attracted increasing research interests for electronic and optoelectronic devices in recent years. Photogating, which is usually observed in photodetectors based on low dimensional materials and their hybrid structures, is demonstrated to play an important role. Photogating is considered as a way of conductance modulation through photoinduced gate voltage instead of simply and totally attributing it to trap states. This review first focuses on the gain of photogating and reveals the distinction from conventional photoconductive effect. The trap‐ and hybrid‐induced photogating including their origins, formations, and characteristics are subsequently discussed. Then, the recent progress on trap‐ and hybrid‐induced photogating in low dimensional photodetectors is elaborated. Though a high gain bandwidth product as high as 109 Hz is reported in several cases, a trade‐off between gain and bandwidth has to be made for this type of photogating. The general photogating is put forward according to another three reported studies very recently. General photogating may enable simultaneous high gain and high bandwidth, paving the way to explore novel high‐performance photodetectors.
Recent Progress in Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Applications in Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Water Splitting
Tập 4 Số 4 - 2017
Wei Wang, Xiaomin Xu, Wei Zhou, Zongping Shao
The development of clean and renewable energy materials as alternatives to fossil fuels is foreseen as a potential solution to the crucial problems of environmental pollution and energy shortages. Hydrogen is an ideal energy material for the future, and water splitting using solar/electrical energy is one way to generate hydrogen. Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials with unique properties that have received rapidly growing attention in recent years for applications in water splitting due to their remarkable design flexibility, ultra‐large surface‐to‐volume ratios and tunable pore channels. This review focuses on recent progress in the application of MOFs in electrocatalytic and photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen generation, including both oxygen and hydrogen evolution. It starts with the fundamentals of electrocatalytic and photocatalytic water splitting and the related factors to determine the catalytic activity. The recent progress in the exploitation of MOFs for water splitting is then summarized, and strategies for designing MOF‐based catalysts for electrocatalytic and photocatalytic water splitting are presented. Finally, major challenges in the field of water splitting are highlighted, and some perspectives of MOF‐based catalysts for water splitting are proposed.
Recent Progress on Layered Double Hydroxides and Their Derivatives for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
Tập 5 Số 8 - 2018
Yanyong Wang, Dafeng Yan, Samir El Hankari, Yuqin Zou, Shuangyin Wang
AbstractLayered double hydroxide (LDH)‐based materials have attracted widespread attention in various applications due to their unique layered structure with high specific surface area and unique electron distribution, resulting in a good electrocatalytic performance. Moreover, the existence of multiple metal cations invests a flexible tunability in the host layers; the unique intercalation characteristics lead to flexible ion exchange and exfoliation. Thus, their electrocatalytic performance can be tuned by regulating the morphology, composition, intercalation ion, and exfoliation. However, the poor conductivity limits their electrocatalytic performance, which therefore has motivated researchers to combine them with conductive materials to improve their electrocatalytic performance. Another factor hampering their electrocatalytic activity is their large lateral size and the bulk thickness of LDHs. Introducing defects and tuning electronic structure in LDH‐based materials are considered to be effective strategies to increase the number of active sites and enhance their intrinsic activity. Given the unique advantages of LDH‐based materials, their derivatives have been also used as advanced electrocatalysts for water splitting. Here, recent progress on LDHs and their derivatives as advanced electrocatalysts for water splitting is summarized, current strategies for their designing are proposed, and significant challenges and perspectives of LDHs are discussed.
Metal–Organic Framework‐Based Stimuli‐Responsive Systems for Drug Delivery
Tập 6 Số 1 - 2019
Wen Cai, Junqing Wang, Chengchao Chu, Wei Chen, Chunsheng Wu, Gang Liu
AbstractWith the rapid development of nanotechnology, stimuli‐responsive nanomaterials have provided an alternative for designing controllable drug delivery systems due to their spatiotemporally controllable properties. As a new type of porous material, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely used in biomedical applications, especially drug delivery systems, owing to their tunable pore size, high surface area and pore volume, and easy surface modification. Here, recent progress in MOF‐based stimuli‐responsive systems is presented, including pH‐, magnetic‐, ion‐, temperature‐, pressure‐, light‐, humidity‐, redox‐, and multiple stimuli‐responsive systems for the delivery of anticancer drugs. The remaining challenges and suggestions for future directions for the rational design of MOF‐based nanomedicines are also discussed.
Control of Emission Color of High Quantum Yield CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>PbBr<sub>3</sub> Perovskite Quantum Dots by Precipitation Temperature
Tập 2 Số 9 - 2015
He Huang, Andrei S. Susha, Stephen V. Kershaw, Tai‐Feng Hung, Andrey L. Rogach
The Strong Light‐Emission Materials in the Aggregated State: What Happens from a Single Molecule to the Collective Group
Tập 4 Số 7 - 2017
Qianqian Li, Zhen Li
The strong light emission of organic luminogens in the aggregated state is essential to their applications as optoelectronic materials with good performance. In this review, with respect to the aggregation‐induced emission and room‐temperature phosphorescence luminogens, the important role of molecular packing modes is highlighted. As demonstrated in the selected examples, the molecular packing status in the aggregate state is affected by many factors, including the molecular configurations, the inherent electronic properties, the special functional groups, and so on. With the consideration of all these parameters, the strong fluorescence and phosphorescence in the aggregated state could be achieved in the rationally designed organic luminogens, providing some guidance for the further development.