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Ionic Thermoelectric Gels and Devices: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Mao Yu, Huan Li, Yuchen Li, Shuaihua Wang, Qikai Li, Yupeng Wang, Benben Li, Kang Zhu, Weishu Liu
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Covalent organic frameworks for efficient hydrogen peroxide production EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ting He, Yanli Zhao
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Design strategies of iridium(III) complexes for highly efficient saturated blue phosphorescent OLEDs with improved lifetime EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Chengcheng Wu, Kefei Shi, Siqi Li, Jie Yan, Zi-Qi Feng, Kai-Ning Tong, Si-Wei Zhang, Yuewei Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Liang-Sheng Liao, Yun Chi, Guodan Wei, Feiyu Kang
This review explores the latest advancements of iridium(III) phosphorescent blue emitters by focusing on the design strategies employed for saturated blue phosphorescent OLEDs with enhanced operational lifetime. Saturated blue emission remains a challenging aspect of OLED technology, and iridium(III) complexes have emerged as promising materials to address this issue. The molecular design principles
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Tuning the local coordination environment of single-atom catalysts for enhanced electrocatalytic activity EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Wenhao Feng, Chunli Liu, Guangxun Zhang, Hui Yang, Yichun Su, Yangyang Sun, Huan Pang
The local coordination environment (LCE) plays a pivotal role in determining catalyst performance. By controlling the LCE of catalysts, the catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability of catalysts can be effectively increased. This influence is particularly pronounced in the realm of electrocatalysis, especially for single-atom catalysts (SACs). However, it is still a challenge to properly regulate
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Crystal nano-engineering: A new era for perovskite photovoltaics EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Francesco Lamberti, Teresa Gatti
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Recent advances in the surface modification strategies towards 3D carbon-based hosts for dendrite-free Li/Na/Zn metal anodes EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Chen Chen, Nian Wu Li, Le Yu
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Donor-acceptor-based conjugated polymers for photocatalytic energy conversion EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Chao Yang, Bei Cheng, Jingsan Xu, Jiaguo Yu, Shaowen Cao
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Metal-organic framework composites for photocatalysis EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Di Chen, Yu-Tao Zheng, Ning-Yu Huang, Qiang Xu
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Elevated temperature adsorbents for separation applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Shuang Li, Xuancan Zhu, Dongdong Wang, Peixuan Hao, Fangzhe Zhou, Yixiang Shi, Ruzhu Wang, Ningsheng Cai
Elevated-temperature adsorptive separation involves the selective and rapid adsorption of gas molecules on weakly bonding chemical sites of an adsorbent at elevated temperatures (80–500 °C) and the reversible desorption of the gas molecules at a low cost. It is a significant step in several reactions, such as pre-combustion carbon capture, indirect/direct hydrogen production, ammonia separation, oxygen
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Insight into the active sites of M–N–C single-atom catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Qin Pan, Yang Chen, Shuoshuo Jiang, Xin Cui, Guanghuan Ma, Tianyi Ma
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (CORR) to chemicals and fuels is a promising way to alleviate global environmental problems and energy issues. Among the various catalysts, metal-nitrogen-carbon (M–N–C) single-atom catalysts (SACs) have intrigued great excitement in catalysis due to their low cost and high efficiency. However, precisely identifying the active site structure at an atomic level
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Killing two birds with one stone: State-of-the-art progress in dual-functional photoredox catalysis for solar fuel conversion and selective organic transformation EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Feng Niu, Wenguang Tu, Yong Zhou, Rong Xu, Zhigang Zou
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Paired electrosynthesis design strategy for sustainable CO2 conversion and product upgrading EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Mengyao Gong, Changsheng Cao, Qi-Long Zhu
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MXenes as conductive and mechanical additives in energy storage devices EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Linfan Cui, Chuanfang (John) Zhang
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Self-powered triboelectric functional devices and microsystems in health-care applications: An energy perspective EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Keren Dai, Zheng-Yang Huo, Xuyi Miao, Peixun Xiong, He Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng You, Sang-Woo Kim
Health care is one of the most promising applications for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). In this review, we summarize recent advances in the three most popular health care-related applications of TENGs: microbial disinfection, interventional therapy and implantable microsystems. Furthermore, we discuss the evolution of important common technologies of TENGs in these three applications, which
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Applications and theory investigation of two-dimensional boron nitride nanomaterials in energy catalysis and storage EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Huanhuan Zhang, Yanyan Liu, Kang Sun, Shuqi Li, Jingjing Zhou, Shuling Liu, Huijuan Wei, Baozhong Liu, Lixia Xie, Baojun Li, Jianchun Jiang
Energy catalysis and storage are the key technologies to solve energy and environmental problems in energy systems. Two-dimensional (2D) boron nitride nanomaterials have aroused a great interest in the synthesis and application because of their unique 2D nature, large band gap, metal-free characteristic, high thermal/mechanical stability, and easy accessibility. The composition and coordination determine
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Microenvironment effect of covalent organic frameworks on chemical catalysis EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Qingyan Pan, Zepeng Lei, Yingjie Zhao, Wei Zhang
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Low-dose transmission electron microscopy study on halide perovskites: Application and challenges EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Libing Yao, Liuwen Tian, Shaochen Zhang, Yuan Tian, Jingjing Xue, Siying Peng, Rui Wang
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Design strategies of electrocatalysts for acidic oxygen evolution reaction EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Shubham Kaushik, Xin Xiao, Qiang Xu
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Critical review on the degradation mechanisms and recent progress of Ni-rich layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Qingmeng Gan, Ning Qin, Huimin Yuan, Li Lu, Zhenghe Xu, Zhouguang Lu
Ni-rich layered transition metal oxides possess remarkably high capacity and thus are very competitive cathode materials in high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric vehicles, but encounter the critical problems of fast degradation caused by the highly reactive nickel component. Here in this review we intensively summarize thedegradation mechanism of Ni-rich cathode materials including
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Recent advances and challenges of anodes for aqueous alkaline batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Lijun Zhou, Jinhao Xie, Diyu Xu, Yanxia Yu, Xingyuan Gao, Xihong Lu
The ongoing surge in demand for energy conversion and storage spurs the development of high-efficiency batteries. In recent decades, aqueous alkaline batteries (AABs) have been the focus point owing to the high safety, low cost, environmental benefits, impressive output voltage and theoretical energy density. However, the large-scale application of AABs is hindered by the poor cyclability and insufficient
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Advanced porous adsorbents for radionuclides elimination EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Mengjie Hao, Yanfang Liu, Weijin Wu, Shiyu Wang, Xinyi Yang, Zhongshan Chen, Zhenwu Tang, Qifei Huang, Suhua Wang, Hui Yang, Xiangke Wang
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Synthetic porous carbons for clean energy storage and conversion EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Xiao-Ling Dong, Lu Hou, Xu Hu, Yu-Tai Wu, Ling-Yu Dong, Xiao-Fei Yu, Guang-Ping Hao, An-Hui Lu
Synthetic porous carbons (SPCs) are important materials in fundamental research and industrial applications due to their diverse structures at different dimensions, intriguing physio-chemical properties, exceptional thermal and chemical stability, etc. In particular, the features including high electron conductivity, accessible active surface/interface, and developed porosity warrant their superior
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Aqueous transition-metal ion batteries: Materials and electrochemistry EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Sheng Zhu, Qian Wang, Jiangfeng Ni
The constant pursuit of alternative energy sources stimulates the rapid exploitation of energy storage systems. Compared to alkali metal-ion batteries, aqueous transition-metal ion batteries have captured increasing attention because of their high safety, eco-friendliness, abundant resources, and low cost. More importantly, their multivalent chemistry offers opportunities to realize storage technologies
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Design of ammonia oxidation electrocatalysts for efficient direct ammonia fuel cells EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Zhen-Hua Lyu, Jiaju Fu, Tang Tang, Jianan Zhang, Jin-Song Hu
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Recent progress on nanostructured iron-based anodes beyond metal-organic frameworks for sodium-ion batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Hui Wu, Guanglin Xia, Xuebin Yu
Considering the wide abundance and low cost of sodium resources and their similar electrochemistry to the well-established lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have been regarded as potential alternatives to LIBs. Iron-based materials have attracted considerable attention as promising electrode materials for SIBs due to their high theoretical capacitance, natural abundance, and
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Controllable catalysis behavior for high performance lithium sulfur batteries: From kinetics to strategies EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Guiqiang Cao, Ruixian Duan, Xifei Li
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Metal-organic frameworks for advanced aqueous ion batteries and supercapacitors EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Lingjun Kong, Mingren Cheng, Hui Huang, Jiandong Pang, Sheng Liu, Yunhua Xu, Xian-He Bu
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great promise for electrochemical energy storage applications due to their high surface area, tunable porosity, ordered crystal structure, and facile tolerability. However, some MOFs with high electrochemical performance are usually unstable in aqueous solutions, which limits their development in aqueous electrochemical energy storage systems, which are cheaper
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Conjugated porous polymers for photocatalysis: The road from catalytic mechanism, molecular structure to advanced applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Shanlin Qiao, Mengyu Di, Jia-Xing Jiang, Bao-Hang Han
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Advanced aqueous proton batteries: working mechanism, key materials, challenges and prospects EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Jia-Lin Yang, Jun-Ming Cao, Xin-Xin Zhao, Kai-Yang Zhang, Shuo-Hang Zheng, Zhen-Yi Gu, Xing-Long Wu
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Surface reconstruction-derived heterostructures for electrochemical water splitting EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Xu Luo, Xin Tan, Pengxia Ji, Lei Chen, Jun Yu, Shichun Mu
Electrocatalytic water splitting for green hydrogen generation is of great significance for renewable energy conversion and storage. The development of efficient electrocatalysts to reduce the energy barriers of the two half-reactions of hydrogen evolution (HER) and oxygen evolution (OER) is the key to realize the high-efficiency industrialization of electrochemical water splitting. With the continuous
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Hollow structures with rare earths: Synthesis and electrocatalytic applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Linchuan Guo, Zhaori Mu, Pengfei Da, Zheng Weng, Pinxian Xi, Chun-Hua Yan
Electrochemical conversion is an eco-friendly and controllable way to achieve sustainable use of energy. An enhanced energy conversion efficiency requires efficient electrocatalysts to reduce the electrochemical energy barrier. The hollow structures, which have the advantage of optimizing mass/charge transfer, provide a platform for full contact between the electrocatalysts and the reactants, which
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Interfacial engineering on metal anodes in rechargeable batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Chuanliang Wei, Liwen Tan, Yuchan Zhang, Zhengran Wang, Baojuan Xi, Shenglin Xiong, Jinkui Feng
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Room-temperature Electrochemical C1-to-fuel Conversion: Perspectives from Material Engineering and Device Design EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Xin Wang, Ximeng Lv, Gengfeng Zheng, Yongzhu Fu
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Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer: Electrode Design, Lab-Scaled Testing System and Performance Evaluation EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Qiucheng Xu, Liyue Zhang, Jiahao Zhang, Jingyu Wang, Yanjie Hu, Hao Jiang, Chunzhong Li
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Facet-Engineering of Materials for Photocatalytic Application: Status and Future Prospects EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Xiao-Mei Cheng, Jing Zhao, Wei-Yin Sun
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Alloy electrocatalysts EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Meng Du, Xinran Li, Huan Pang, Qiang Xu
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Customized design of electrolytes for high-safety and high-energy-density lithium batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Fangfang Zhai, Qian Zhou, Zhaolin Lv, Yuanyuan Wang, Xinhong Zhou, Guanglei Cui
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Three-dimensionally ordered macroporous materials for photo/electrocatalytic sustainable energy conversion, solar cell and energy storage EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Yang Ding, Chunhua Wang, Runtian Zheng, Soumyajit Maitra, Genwei Zhang, Tarek Barakat, Subhasis Roy, Bao-Lian Su, Li-Hua Chen
Three-dimensionally ordered macroporous (3DOM) materials have aroused tremendous interest in solar light to energy conversion, sustainable and renewable products generation, and energy storage fields owing to their convenient mass transfer channels, high surface area, enhanced interaction between matter and light, plentiful reactive sites as well as tunable composition. In this review, the state-of-the-art
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Pore space partition of metal-organic frameworks for gas storage and separation EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Anh N. Hong, Huajun Yang, Xianhui Bu, Pingyun Feng
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Advanced porous organic polymer membranes: Design, fabrication, and energy-saving applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Yanpei Song, Changjia Zhu, Shengqian Ma
Membrane separation technology is of great research interest in industry owing to its unparalleled merits such as high selectivity with unsuppressed permeability, reduced carbon footprint, small capital investment, and low energy consumption in comparison to traditional separation techniques. In the last few decades, polyamide membranes dominate the membrane industry until the porous organic polymers
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Application of MOFs and COFs for photocatalysis in CO2 reduction, H2 generation, and environmental treatment EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Yifeng Zhang, Hangxi Liu, Feixue Gao, Xiaoli Tan, Yawen Cai, Baowei Hu, Qifei Huang, Ming Fang, Xiangke Wang
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Recent progress of artificial interfacial layers in aqueous Zn metal batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Peixun Xiong, Ye Zhang, Jingran Zhang, Sang Ha Baek, Lingxing Zeng, Yan Yao, Ho Seok Park
Aqueous Zn metal batteries (AZBs) are considered as a promising candidate of existing lithium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage systems owing to their inherent safety, low cost, and natural abundance. However, the practical application of AZBs is still limited by severe dendrites, corrosion, and hydrogen evolution on zinc (Zn) anode as well as the dissolution of most cathode materials. Although
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Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Next-generation Electrochemical Energy Devices EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Yayun Zheng, Di Wang, Shubham Kaushik, Shaoning Zhang, Tomoki Wada, Jinkwang Hwang, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Rika Hagiwara
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Interfacial engineering of carbon-based materials for efficient electrocatalysis: Recent advances and future EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Yu Cheng, Haocong Wang, Tao Qian, Chenglin Yan
Carbon-based materials are widely studied for their unique advantages in electrocatalysis. Despite significant progress, the precise interface construction and mechanism exploration of carbon-based materials in the field of electrocatalysis is still in the early stages. Recently, our group and other peers demonstrated that by introducing heterogeneous components into carbon-based materials, and the
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Crystalline Porous Materials-based Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Luyi Chen, Kui Ding, Kang Li, Zhongliang Li, Xueliang Zhang, Qifeng Zheng, Yue-Peng Cai, Ya-Qian Lan
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Nanostructured Transition Metal Nitrides as Emerging Electrocatalysts for Water Electrolysis: Status and Challenges EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Liwei Lin, Shuqing Piao, Yejung Choi, Lulu Lyu, Hwichan Hong, Dohyeong Kim, Jeongyeon Lee, Wang Zhang, Yuanzhe Piao
Water electrolysis has aroused extensive research efforts due to its potential applications of sewage disposal, microorganism treatment and direct electrolysis for large-scale hydrogen production. At this background, transition metal nitrides (TMNs) have raised lots of attention, because their physical properties are similar to those of metallic elements and TMNs have unique electron orbital structures
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The marriage of two-dimensional materials and phase change materials for energy storage, conversion and applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Xiao Chen, Han Yu, Yan Gao, Lei Wang, Ge Wang
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Dealloyed nanoporous materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Qinqin Sang, Shuo Hao, Jiuhui Han, Yi Ding
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New insights in establishing the structure-property relations of novel plasmonic nanostructures for clean energy applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Priyanka Verma, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Robert Raja, Hiromi Yamashita
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Reticular frameworks and their derived materials for CO2 conversion by thermo−catalysis EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Jun Liang, Qiao Wu, Yuan−Biao Huang, Rong Cao
Reticular frameworks including metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs), and their derived materials have drawn global attention in the capture and conversion of CO2 as a cheap feedstock into fine chemicals and fuels due to their facile synthesis and programmable highly porous structures. This review comprehensively summarizes the progress in thermo−catalysis of CO2 conversion
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The chemistry and applications of flexible porous coordination polymers EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Nibedita Behera, Jingui Duan, Wanqin Jin, Susumu Kitagawa
Since the late 1990s, much progress has been made in the field of the chemistry of flexible porous coordination polymers (PCPs). Various PCP architectures have been recognized and several promising applications have been identified, e.g., in the areas of selective gas capture and separation, sensors, and drug carriers. The crystalline and flexible frameworks of PCPs can respond to various external
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Surface-coordinated metal-organic framework thin films (SURMOFs): From fabrication to energy applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Yi-Hong Xiao, Yi-Bo Tian, Zhi-Gang Gu, Jian Zhang
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Tuning metal catalysts via nitrogen-doped nanocarbons for energy chemistry: From metal nanoparticles to single metal sites EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Xueyi Cheng, Zhen Shen, Liu Jiao, Lijun Yang, Xizhang Wang, Qiang Wu, Zheng Hu
Most processes in energy chemistry require suitable catalysts to decrease activation energy, control reaction rate and increase selectivity. As a kind of very important supports, nanocarbons are widely used for constructing various metal-based heterogenous catalysts owing to their abundant microstructures and morphologies, tunable surface area, high stability, low cost and excellent electrical conductivity
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Recent research progress in PEM fuel cell electrocatalyst degradation and mitigation strategies EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Xin Wei, Ru-Zhi Wang, Wei Zhao, Ge Chen, Mao-Rong Chai, Lei Zhang, Jiujun Zhang
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Application of layered nanoclay in electrochemical energy: Current status and future EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Caihong Yang, Ruijie Gao, Huaming Yang
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Revisiting lithium metal anodes from a dynamic and realistic perspective EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Yifang Zhang, Shichao Wu, Quan-Hong Yang
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Two-dimensional materials for electrochromic applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-12 Jianmin Li, Yanling Zhuang, Jianmei Chen, Bingxiang Li, Longlu Wang, Shujuan Liu, Qiang Zhao
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Recent progress of asymmetric solid-state electrolytes for lithium/sodium-metal batteries EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-08 Bowen Jiang, Ying Wei, Jingyi Wu, Hang Cheng, Lixia Yuan, Zhen Li, Henghui Xu, Yunhui Huang
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Defective carbon-based materials: controllable synthesis and electrochemical applications EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Qilong Wu, Xuecheng Yan, Yi Jia, Xiangdong Yao
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Metal-organic frameworks for C6–C8 hydrocarbon separations EnergyChem (IF 25.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Zhaoqiang Zhang, Shing Bo Peh, Chengjun Kang, Kungang Chai, Dan Zhao
Hydrocarbon separations are crucial to the chemical industry for the production of valuable feedstocks. However, their structural and chemical similarities have proven daunting challenges to incumbent separation technologies, which are energy- and capital-intensive. Approaches capable of discerning and exploiting minute differences in isomeric hydrocarbons, in particular, may provide solutions to this