Yury Gogotsi was a chemist from the very beginning. He feels the excitement of scientific discovery, and cannot imagine doing anything else.
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Perovskite Perspectives: Henry Snaith and Zhiping Wang Discuss Thermal Instability
Henry Snaith and Zhiping Wang discuss the reasons behind thermal instability in perovskite structures, and the solutions under investigation.
Energy Perspectives: Yan Yu Outlines Rate Performance in Sodium-Ion Batteries
Yan Yu outlines the cause and effect of slow ion transportation in sodium-based battery systems. See her paper on graphene for sodium storage in Small.
From E. Coli to Your Plate? Engineering Curcuminoids from Glucose
Curcumin produces the intense golden-yellow of curries. It’s also being explored as an antioxidant. A reliable source can now be generated from glucose.
Advanced Nostalgia: Highlights from the Archives
A peek into the Advanced journal archives reveals some of the interesting and creative work published over the years that is still being cited today.
Energy Perspectives: Haoshen Zhou Talks Solid Electrolyte Resistance
Haoshen Zhou takes a moment to outline the challenges for researchers trying to interface electrodes with solid electrolytes.
Perovskite Perspectives: Weiguang Xie and Jianbin Xu Draw Grain Boundaries
Weiguang Xie and Jianbin Xu explain the problems caused by grain boundary defects in perovskite materials used to create solar cells.
World’s Smallest Transistor Goes Solid-State
A team at KIT has reached a new limit for electronics, with a quasi-solid-state transistor that functions via the switching action of a single atom.
Recent Battery Research: Because Knowledge is Power
Solid-state and calcium-ion technologies, new SEI concepts, and intercalation electrodes are at the top of the list for the latest advanced battery research.
Gene Therapy: Virus-like Delivery System Takes the Heat out of Melanoma
Targeted viral-based gene therapies come with their own risks. A new gene delivery system mimics viral therapies to infect cancer cells with vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein, with a similar transfection efficiency as the virus itself.