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Advances in Plasmon Enhanced Up-Conversion Luminescence Phenomena for Energy Applications
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Wei Liu and Kaustav Banerjee offer their thoughts on and solutions for the performance problems suffered by HER catalysts.
Vision of a Sustainable Future
To address climate change, we need to reduce net anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to zero as soon as possible; that is, hopefully by 2050 or so.
Engineering Digest – Featuring Additive Manufacturing, Electrochemical Devices and More
This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers.
Technological Advances in 2D Hybrid Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
2D hybrid Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells are studied with regards to their light response and the resulting changes occurring in their material properties.
Advanced Theory and Simulations – New Journal in 2018, Now Open for Submissions!
A new journal from the Advanced Materials family covering all aspects of theory and simulation in natural sciences is launching in early 2018.
Ultrathin δ-MnO2 Nanosheets with Outstanding Electrocatalytic Performance for Overall Water Splitting
A novel synthetic strategy for introducing anion vacancies into semiconductors.
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