RSC – J. Mater. Chem. A latest articles- Solar-Driven Dehydrogenation and Dehydration of Formate to Syngas with Near-Zero CO2 Emission February 21, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08991J, PaperHang Yin, Zhehao Sun, Kaili Liu, Zhuofeng Li, Ary Anggara Wibowo, Jiayi Chen, Huimin Gu, Xuecheng Jing, Yilun Chen, Daniel MacDonald, Guohua Jia, Ido Hadar, Zongyou YinSyngas, a vital H₂ and CO mixture, is crucial for industrial applications and advancing the circular carbon economy. Traditional photocatalytic CO₂ […]Hang Yin
- Highly efficient organic solar cells enabled by ultraviolet-ozone treated molybdenum oxide hole transport layers. February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07795D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Apostolos Panagiotopoulos, George Kakavelakis, Kyriakos Almpanidis, Leslie Askew, Dimitar Kutsarov, S. Ravi P. SilvaThe application of ultraviolet ozone (UV-Ozone) treatment of thermally evaporated molybdenum oxide (MoOx) as a hole transport layer (HTL) […]Apostolos Panagiotopoulos
- Tuning interfacial *H coverage and aldehyde adsorption configuration for selective electrocatalytic hydrogenation of furfural February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5TA00403A, PaperMin Zheng, pengtang wang, Yingjie Gao, Chen Peng, Yao Zheng, Shizhang QiaoElectrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) of furfural (FF) to 2-methylfuran (2-MF) and furfuryl alcohol (FA) is regarded as a sustainable method for upgrading biomass-derived feedstocks into valuable chemicals. It is challenging to...The content of this RSS Feed (c) […]Min Zheng
- Strong relaxor enabled excellent capacitive energy storage performance in Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based binary system February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA09041A, PaperZhiqing Li, Bing Xie, Zhiyong Liu, Kun Guo, Kai Li, Haibo Zhang, Huajie LuoDielectric ceramics have attracted significant interest in power electronic systems owing to their high-power density and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. However, achieving excellent capacitive energy storage performance, including high recoverable energy...The content of this RSS […]Zhiqing Li
- Enhanced Stability of Ge-Doped CsPb(I1-xBrx)3 Perovskite Solar Cells February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08572H, PaperRuiping Chen, Yan Wang, Saqib Nawaz Khan, Feifei Xing, Simiao Li, Yiheng Rao, Hao Wang, Zengxia MeiAll-inorganic CsPb(I1-xBrx)3 perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have increasingly broken record power conversion efficiency (PCE), however the poor stability in humid environment is still a serious bottleneck. To suppress the humidity-caused...The content […]Ruiping Chen
- Free-standing graphene films decorated with lithiophilic particles as host electrode for lithium plating/stripping in anode-less lithium metal batteries February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07788A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Mingliang Bai, Min Zhong, Wenzhuo Shen, Jiali Zhang, Shouwu GuoThe host electrode is key to the lithium plating and stripping in anode-less lithium metal batteries. In the work, we fabricate a series […]Mingliang Bai
- Steam Activation of Pitch-Based Carbon Fiber for Increasing CO2 Adsorption Behaviors February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5TA00486A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Choong-Hee Kim, Mantae Kim, Jaein Lee, Hokab Choi, Seul-Yi Lee, Soo-Jin ParkActivated carbon fibers (ACFs) have attracted considerable interest as versatile adsorbents for gas separation, water treatment, and similar applications due to […]Choong-Hee Kim
- An FePb-doped RuO2 coupled amorphous/crystalline heterophase for efficient acidic oxygen evolution reaction February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4TA09261A, PaperYan Zhao, Yu Long, Wenwen Liu, Zhenyong Han, Yuteng Cui, Zhijun Li, Wanglei Wang, Zhiyao Duan, Xiaogang FuA Fe and Pb dual doped RuO2 catalyst with amorphous/crystalline heterostructures demonstrates excellent acidic OER performance and stale operation in PEMWE.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use […]Yan Zhao
- Pinning and elongating of electric treeing induced by wrinkled nanosheets in polymer dielectrics towards significantly enhanced high-temperature energy storage performance February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5TA00457H, CommunicationXuyuan Fan, Linwei Zhu, Zelong Chang, Qingyang Tang, Davoud Dastan, Runhua Fan, Zhicheng ShiThe polyetherimide composite with 0.2 wt% alumina nanosheets exhibits pinned, elongated breakdown paths due to wrinkles, achieving an ultrahigh energy density of 8.27 J cm–3 (>90% efficiency) at 150 °C, 420% that of pure […]Xuyuan Fan
- Highly efficient thermoelectric converters based on metalloporphyrin nanotubes February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08282F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Qusiy H. Al-Galiby, Laith Abdulhassan Algharagholy, Hatef Sadeghi, Victor Garcia SuarezNovel devices based on porphyrin nanotubes may lead to a wide range of uses in electronic functionality and thermoelectric conversion. π-conjugated metallo-porphyrin […]Qusiy H. Al-Galiby
- Bottom-up assembly of recyclable van der Waals-integrated photocatalysts towards efficient photoelectrocatalytic degradation February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07813F, PaperHua-Jun Chen, Zhao-Ming Lu, Yanling Yang, Xiao-Lei Shi, Jin-Geng Chen, Ze-Nan Hu, Biying Zhang, Yue-Feng Chen, Yu Sun, Zhi-Gang ChenLarge-scale synthesis of recyclable photocatalysts for pollutant degradation remains a challenge. Epitaxial growth of powdered photocatalysts on recyclable substrates is constrained by the dedicated materials with highly matched […]Hua-Jun Chen
- Unveiling Critical Role of Metal Oxide Infiltration in Controlling the Surface Oxygen Exchange Activity and Polarization of SrTi1-xFexO3-δ Perovskite Oxide Electrodes February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08529A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Hyunseung Kim, Han Gil Seo, Sejong Ahn, Harry Tuller, WooChul JungEnhancing the oxygen reduction activity of mixed electronic-ionic conducting oxides holds paramount importance in various energy and fuel conversion technologies. One effective […]Hyunseung Kim
- Structural engineering through modulator incorporation in UiO-66-NH2 metal–organic frameworks for piezoresponse regulation February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07509A, PaperZhi Yu, Dingqi Wang, Tian Zheng, Ali Zavabeti, Yongqiang Wang, Chao Wu, Jianing Yang, Yalou Guo, Paul A. Webley, Gang Kevin LiUiO-66-NH2 (Hf/Zr) MOFs were structurally tuned with acetic acid (AA). Increasing AA creates missing-linker defects and incorporates more modulators, breaking symmetry and boosting the piezoresponse-a simple […]Zhi Yu
- Understanding the role of acidity on the surface exchange reaction in mixed conductors: What is the effect of surface hydration? February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07063A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.David Schwenkel, George Frederick Harrington, Roger A De SouzaAn increasingly robust body of evidence attests that the kinetics of the oxygen exchange reaction at the surface of mixed ionic-electronic conducting oxides can […]David Schwenkel
- Structural and chemical mapping of Au-Co(OH)2 electrocatalytic films shows the formation of ordered Au crystallites and the suppression of Co oxidation February 20, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08612K, CommunicationRusha Kamar, Cameron M. Kewish, David J. Paterson, Xiaodong Wang, Anthony Peter O'Mullane, Michael M W JonesTransition metal oxide catalysts typically reconstruct both chemically and structurally during the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here we simultaneously map the changes in both the crystallinity and chemistry of an...The content […]Rusha Kamar
- Enhancing redox stability of lithium–oxygen batteries via introducing an oxygen pre-coordinated vanadyl phthalocyanine catalyst February 19, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07071B, PaperBoran Kim, Hyunji Kweon, Yeji Lim, Hyunyoung Park, Jongsoon Kim, Won-Hee RyuOxygen-pre-coordinated vanadyl phthalocyanine is introduced as a catalyst for Li–O2 batteries, stabilizing superoxide radicals and enhancing Li–O2 reaction. Redox mediation mechanisms and reaction pathways confirm its catalytic efficacy.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, […]Boran Kim
- Epitaxial Growth of Phase-pure and Stable β-Fe2O3 Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition Method February 19, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA09033K, PaperHang Yin, Chenwei Ni, Jiangshan Qu, Pengfei Zhang, Xuefei Zhao, Jingying Shi, Can LiThe metastable β-Fe2O3 has been less investigated due to the challenges in preparing phase-pure materials with high thermal stability. In this work, by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method, we firstly...The content of this RSS […]Hang Yin
- Multifunctional Dual Crosslinked Ti₃C₂Tx MXene Based Hydrogels for Wearable Sensors with Enhanced Mechanical Robustness and Broadband Microwave Absorption February 19, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5TA00035A, CommunicationChen Su, Mingyu Li, Shuai Zhang, Weiqing Liu, Yuanzhang Wang, Peipei Li, Huanran Feng, Ming-Shui Yao, Weiwei Wu, Lu ZhangThe development of multifunctional hydrogels with enhanced mechanical, electrical, and electromagnetic properties has become a key focus in various advanced applications, including wearable electronics, strain sensors, and electromagnetic […]Chen Su
- Separation of Hydrogen Isotopes using a protonic ceramic fuel cell February 19, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA07321E, CommunicationMeilong Chen, Kai Zhao, Jun Li, Guixiang Lin, Li Du, Dustin Banham, Min ChenSeparation of hydrogen heavy isotopes is a task of vast proportions for nuclear energy production. For the first time, the hydrogen and deuterium are efficiently separated using a protonic ceramic...The content of this RSS […]Meilong Chen
- Ultra-Stable Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries with Ferroelectric Oxide-Enhanced PVDF-Based Hybrid Solid Electrolytes February 19, 2025J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4TA08724K, PaperJie Zhao, Saifang Huang, Yuyan Zhao, Can Cui, Yudong Zhang, Haiqin Lin, Cuijiao Zhao, Weiji Dai, Zhuofeng Liu, Xin Song, Peng CaoPolymer electrolytes are promising for solid-state lithium metal batteries, while the intrinsic limitations such as low room-temperature ion conductivity and moderate electrochemical stability exist. Introduction of […]Jie Zhao
- Solar-Driven Dehydrogenation and Dehydration of Formate to Syngas with Near-Zero CO2 Emission February 21, 2025
