Understanding melt pool characteristics in laser powder bed fusion: An overview of single- and multi-track melt pools for process optimization
October 2023
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has made significant progress in producing solid and porous metal parts with complex shapes and geometries. However, LPBF produced parts often have defects (e.g., porosity,...
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Synthesis and modification strategies of g-C3N4 nanosheets for photocatalytic applications
February 2024
Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets (CNNs) become the most promising member in the carbon nitride family benefitted from their two-dimensional structural features. Recently, great endeavors have been...
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A review on additive/subtractive hybrid manufacturing of directed energy deposition (DED) process
October 2022
Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are reliable techniques to build highly complex metallic parts. Direct energy deposition (DED) is one of the most common technologies to 3D print metal alloys....
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Cu-based bimetallic electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction
January 2022
The extensive consumption of fossil fuels has caused the rapid increase in the CO2 level in the atmosphere, forcing people to find a clean and efficient technology of CO2 conversion to alleviate CO2...
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A review of Ni based powder catalyst for urea oxidation in assisting water splitting reaction
July 2022
Water splitting has been regarded as a sustainable and environmentally-friendly technique to realize green hydrogen generation, while more energy is consumed due to the high overpotentials required...
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Electron-enriched single-Pd-sites on g-C3N4 nanosheets achieved by in-situ anchoring twinned Pd nanoparticles for efficient CO2 photoreduction
April 2024
Modulating electronic structures of single-atom metal cocatalysts is vital for highly active photoreduction of CO2, and it's especially challenging to develop a facile method to modify the dispersion...
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Insight into the self-discharge suppression of electrochemical capacitors: Progress and challenges
January 2023
The ever-growing demands for renewable energy sources motivate the development of energy storage systems. Among them, supercapacitors are received increasing attention due to their high power density,...
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Advanced strategies for solid electrolyte interface design with MOF materials
February 2024
Emerging energy technologies, aimed at addressing the challenges of energy scarcity and environmental pollution, have become a focal point for society. However, these actualities present significant...
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Design of titanium alloys by additive manufacturing: A critical review
January 2022
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an innovative technology that creates objects with a complex geometry layer-by-layer, and it has rapidly prospered in manufacturing metallic parts for structural and functional...
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Halogen modified organic porous semiconductors in photocatalysis: mechanism, synthesis, and application
April 2024
Photocatalysis is considered as the promising energy conversion way to resolve the issues of energy crisis and environmental pollution. As the key point of the photocatalysis, the photocatalyst determines...
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Facet-engineered growth of non-layered 2D manganese chalcogenides
April 2024
Non-layered two-dimensional (2D) materials have sparked much interest recently due to their atomic thickness, large surface area, thickness- and facet-dependent properties. Currently, these materials...
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Novel high-entropy perovskite-type symmetrical electrode for efficient and durable carbon dioxide reduction reaction
October 2023
Excessive emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) has posed an imminent threat to human's environment and global prosperity. To achieve a sustainable future, solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC), which can...
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Constructing Cd0.5Zn0.5S/Bi2WO6 S-scheme heterojunction for boosted photocatalytic antibiotic oxidation and Cr(VI) reduction
January 2023
The development of distinguished photocatalysts with high photo-carrier disassociation and photo-redox power for efficient elimination of pollutants in water is of great significance but still a grand...
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Hollow semiconductor photocatalysts for solar energy conversion
April 2022
The development of high-efficient photocatalysts plays an important role in the sustainable utilization of solar energy. Hollow nanostructured photocatalysts are vital for solar light utilization and...
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Theory-oriented screening and discovery of advanced energy transformation materials in electrocatalysis
January 2022
Various metal-based electrocatalysts from nanocrystals, to clusters and single-atoms, have been well-discovered towards high-efficient power devices and electrocatalytic conversion. To accelerate energy...
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MXenes in tribology: Current status and perspectives
April 2023
MXenes are an emerging class of new two-dimensional materials, which have been widely used in energy storage, catalysis, sensing, biology, and other fields due to their unique structure and properties....
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Functional inorganic additives in composite solid-state electrolytes for flexible lithium metal batteries
February 2024
Flexible lithium metal batteries with high capacity and power density have been regarded as the core power resources of wearable electronics. However, the main challenge lies in the limited electrochemical...
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Self-recoverable NIR mechanoluminescence from Cr3+ doped perovskite type aluminate
April 2024
Mechanoluminescent (ML) materials, which have the ability to convert mechanical energy to optical energy, have found huge promising applications such as in stress imaging and anti-counterfeiting. However,...
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Plasma induced dynamic coupling of microscopic factors to collaboratively promote EM losses coupling of transition metal dichalcogenide absorbers
June 2024
Plasma as the fourth state of matter has attracted great attention for material surface modification, which could induce changes in material microscopic factors, such as defects, phase transitions,...
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Progress and prospect of low-temperature zinc metal batteries
April 2022
The commercial application of aqueous zinc metal batteries in the field of large-scale energy storage is still suffered from their low-temperature operation, in which the electrochemical behaviors of...
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Chemically bonded BiVO4/Bi19Cl3S27 heterojunction with fast hole extraction dynamics for continuous CO2 photoreduction
February 2024
Surface charge localization and inferior charge transfer efficiency seriously restrict the supply of reactive hydrogen and the reaction dynamics of CO2 photoreduction performance of photocatalysts....
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Construction interlayer structure of hydrated vanadium oxides with tunable P-band center of oxygen towards enhanced aqueous Zn-ion batteries
April 2024
Layered materials with adjustable framework, as the most potential cathode materials for aqueous rechargeable zinc ion batterie, have high capacity, permit of rapid ion diffusion, and charge transfer...
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Light-driven H2O2 production over redox-active imine-linked covalent organic frameworks
April 2024
Imine-linked covalent organic frameworks (COFs) provide distinctive prospects for promoting photocatalytic H2O2 production, yet the intricate involvement of imine-derived linkages chemistry under light...
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Interface issues and challenges for NASICON-based solid-state sodium-metal batteries
June 2024
All-solid-state sodium (Na)-metal batteries (ASSSMBs) are considered promising candidates for large-scale energy storage systems due to their abundant sodium resources, unparalleled safety performance,...
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Insight into the effect of Ti substitutions on the static oxidation behavior of (Hf,Ti)C at 2500 °C
April 2024
Hf-based carbides are highly desirable candidate materials for oxidizing environments above 2000 °C. However, the static oxidation behavior at their potential service temperatures remains unclear....
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