Title: N-heterocyclic carbene coordinated metal nanoparticles and nanoclustersAuthors: Hui Shen, Guolong Tian, Zhen Xu, Lingzheng Wang, Qingyuan Wu, Yuhao Zhang, Boon K.Teo, Nanfeng Zheng*Abstract: N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) represent one of the most important organic ligands in coordination chemistry, and have been recently attracting increasing attention in nanoscience. This review aims t...

Title: Recent progress in low-dimensional palladium-based nanostructures for electrocatalysis and beyondAuthors: Bingyan Xu, Ying Zhang, Leigang Li*, Qi Shao, Xiaoqing Huang*Abstract: Low-dimensional palladium (Pd)-based nanomaterials have been widely used as electrocatalysts, especially in the field of fuel cells, due to their inherent advantages, such as high electron mobility, abundant activ...

Title: Single-dispersed polyoxometalate clusters embedded on multilayer graphene as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient Li-S batteriesAuthors: Jie Lei, Xiao-Xiang Fan, Ting Liu, Pan Xu, Qing Hou, Ke Li, Ru-Ming Yuan, Ming-Sen Zheng, Quan-Feng Dong* & Jia-Jia Chen*Abstract: The redox reactions occurring in the Li-S battery positive electrode conceal various and critical electrocatalytic...

Title: Fast Acquisition of High-Quality Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Pure Shift Spectroscopy via a Deep Neural NetworkAuthors: Xiaoxu Zheng, Zhengxian Yang, Chuang Yang, Xiaoqi Shi, Yao Luo, Jie Luo, Qing Zeng, Yanqin Lin*, and Zhong Chen*Abstract: Pure shift methods improve the resolution of proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra at the cost of time. The pure shift yielded by chirp excitation...

Title: Quantitatively Deciphering Electronic Properties of Defects at Atomically Thin Transition-Metal DichalcogenidesAuthors: Si-Si Wu, Teng-Xiang Huang, Xiaolan Xu, Yi-Fan Bao, Xin-Di Pei, Xu Yao, Mao-Feng Cao, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang*, Dongdong Wang*, and Bin Ren*Abstract: Defects can locally tailor the electronic properties of 2D materials, including the band gap and electron density, and...

Title: Plasmonic Photoelectrochemical Coupling Reactions of para-Aminobenzoic Acid on Nanostructured Gold ElectrodesAuthors: Rajkumar Devasenathipathy*, Jia-Zheng Wang, Yuan-Hui Xiao, Karuppasamy Kohila Rani, Jian-De Lin, Yi-Miao Zhang, Chao Zhan, Jian-Zhang Zhou, De-Yin Wu*, and Zhong-Qun TianAbstract: Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) bridges photonics and photoelectrochemistry by providing an ...

Title: Efficient CO2 reduction MOFs derivatives transformation mechanism revealed by in-situ liquid phase TEMAuthors: Liangping Xiao, Guanghua Wang, Xingchen Huang, Shiyuan Zhou, Rusen Zhou, Youhong Jiang, Sangui Liu, Gen Li, Haimei Zheng, Shi-Gang Sun, Hong-Gang Liao*Abstract: Materials derived from MOFs have great potentials in energy conversion. However, the nanoscale transformation processe...

Title: Supercapacitor-Inspired Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Electrostatic Double LayerAuthors: Jianing Dong, Siying Huang, Jianjun Luo, Jiawei Zhao, Fengru Fan*, Zhong-Qun TianAbstract: Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is an efficient mechanical energy harvesting technology that relies on the coupling effects of contact electrification and electrostatic induction. Here, inspired by th...

Title: Synthesis of Axially Chiral N-Arylindoles via Atroposelective Cyclization of Ynamides Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted AcidsAuthors: Ze-Shu Wang, Lu-Jing Zhu, Cui-Ting Li, Bin-Yang Liu, Xin Hong, Long-Wu Ye*Abstract: In recent years, asymmetric catalysis of ynamides has attracted much attention, but these reactions mostly constructed central chirality, except for few examples on the synthesi...

Title: Exceptionally active and stable RuO2 with interstitial carbon for water oxidation in acidAuthors: Juan Wang, Chen Cheng, Qi Yuan, Hao Yang, Fanqi Meng, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Jianlei Cao, Leigang Li,Shu-Chih Haw, Qi Shao, Liang Zhang, Tao Cheng, Feng Jiao, Xiaoqing Huang*Abstract: Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a critical role in energy conversion technologies. Significant progres...