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Nano-crater morphology in hybrid electron-collecting buffer layers for high efficiency polymer:nonfullerene solar cells with enhanced stability

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00319J, Communication
Jooyeok Seo, Sungho Nam, Hwajeong Kim, Donal Bradley, YoungKyoo Kim
Organic solar cells based on solution processes take strong advantages over conventional silicon solar cells due to possible low-cost manufacturing of flexible large-area solar modules at low temperatures. However, the...
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Dipole controlled Schottky barrier in the blue-phosphorene-phase of GeSe based van der Waals heterostructures

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00413G, Communication
Lei Peng, Yu Cui, Liping Sun, Jinyan Du, Sufan Wang, Shengli Zhang, Yucheng Huang
Intrinsic dipole of blue-phosphorene-phase GeSe can be used to modulate the Schottky barrier height of graphene/GeSe van der Wall heterostructures by stacking in different patterns.
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Are Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion Materials Good Candidates for Photocatalysis?

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00373D, Minireview
Qingzhe Zhang, Fan Yang, Zhenhe Xu, Mohammed Chaker, Dongling Ma
The inability to harvest the broad spectrum of solar irradiation has constrained the practical applications of photocatalysis in environmental and energy sectors. Although the importance of largely improving visible photon...
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Superaerophilic copper nanowires for efficient and switchable CO2 electroreduction

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00259B, Communication
Yusheng Zhang, Zhao Cai, Yuxin Zhao, Xuemei Wen, Wenwen Xu, Yang Zhong, Lu Bai, Wen Liu, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yun Kuang, Xiaoming Sun
A facile polytetrafluoroethylene treated strategy is used to modify Cu nanowire electrocatalyst to achieve high CO2 reduction selectivity and suppress H2 evolution simultaneously.
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Low-cost Writing Method to Self-powered Paper-based UV Photodetectors Utilizing Te/TiO2 and Te/ZnO Heterojunctions

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00401C, Communication
Yong Zhang, Wenxin Xu, Xiaojie Xu, Wei Yang, Siyuan Li, Jiaxin Chen, Xiaosheng Fang
It has always been a challenge to prepare self-powered ultraviolet photodetectors (UV PDs) utilizing a green, facile and low-cost method. Here, we provide such an approach to fabricating self-powered photodetectors...
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Germagraphene as promising anode material for Lithium-ion batteries predicted from first-principles calculations

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00333E, Communication
Junping Hu, C. Y. Ouyang, Shengyuan Yang, Hui Ying Yang
Finding electrode materials with high capacity is a key challenge for developing Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Graphene was once expected to be a promising candidate, but it turns out to be...
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Recent advances in functionalized MnO2 nanosheets for biosensing and biomedicine applications

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00274F, Review Article
Juan Chen, Hongmin Meng, Yuan Tian, Ran Yang, Dan Du, Zhaohui Li, Lingbo Qu, Yuehe Lin
Schematic illustration of MnO2 nanosheets for applications in biosensing, bioimaging, drug delivery and cancer therapy.
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Nanoscale Mapping of Hydrogen Evolution on Metallic and Semiconducting MoS2 Nanosheets

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00346G, Communication
Tong Sun, Hanyu Zhang, Xiang Wang, Jun Liu, Chuanxiao Xiao, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Jeffrey Blackburn, Michael Mirkin, elisa m miller
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets is enhanced for the metallic (1T) phase relative to the thermodynamically stable semiconducting (2H) phase. To measure this difference, we employ...
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Converting Plasmonic Light Scattering to Confined Light Absorption and Creating Plexcitons by Coupling a Gold Nano-pyramid Array onto a Silica-Gold Film

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00286J, Communication
Peng Zheng, Sujan Kasani, Nianqiang Wu
This report presents a facile microfabrication-compatible approach to fabricate the large area of plasmonic nano-pyramid array-based antennas and demonstrates effective light management by tailoring the architecture. Firstly, a long-range ordered...
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Wettability of graphene:From influencing factors to reversible conversions

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00348C, Review Article
Jing Feng, Zhiguang Guo
As a member of carbon material family, graphene has always been the focus of research on account of its abundant excellent properties. Nevertheless, a variety of previous research work attached...
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In-situ doping and synthesis of two-dimensional nanomaterials using mechano-chemistry

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00369F, Communication
Srikanth Mateti, Alexey Glushenkov, Luhua Li, Qian Ma, Chunyi Zhi, Ying Chen
Doping foreign atoms into materials can modify their electronic configuration and tune their chemical and physical properties. Developing an efficient doping strategy is thus critically important for many new applications...
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3D quantum theranosomes: a new direction for label-free theranostics

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00287H, Communication
Sivaprasad Chinnakkannu Vijayakumar, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan
Quantum-scale materials offer great potential in the field of cancer theranostics.
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The interparticle distance limit for multiple exciton dissociation in PbS quantum dot solid films

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00341F, Communication
Naoki Nakazawa, Yaohong Zhang, Feng Liu, Chao Ding, Kanae Hori, Taro Toyoda, Yingfang Yao, Yong Zhou, Shuzi Hayase, Ruixiang Wang, Zhigang Zou, Qing Shen
The charge transfer rate constant knet of single exciton, biexciton and triexciton within the QD solid film is exponentially enhanced as the interparticle distance between the QDs decreases, in which the charge transfer occurs via tunneling of charges between the neighboring QDs.
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Are lanthanide-doped upconversion materials good candidates for photocatalysis?

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00373D, Minireview
Qingzhe Zhang, Fan Yang, Zhenhe Xu, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma
The most recent progress in high-quality upconversion particle synthesis, rational composite material design, and the combination with plasmonic metals renders upconversion-enhanced NIR photocatalysis increasingly more attractive than ever before.
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DePEGylation strategies to increase cancer nanomedicine efficacy

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00417J, Minireview
Li Kong, Fred Campbell, Alexander Kros
To maximize drug targeting to solid tumors, cancer nanomedicines with prolonged circulation times are required. To this end, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) has been widely used as a steric shield of...
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Nanoscale mapping of hydrogen evolution on metallic and semiconducting MoS2 nanosheets

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00346G, Communication
Tong Sun, Hanyu Zhang, Xiang Wang, Jun Liu, Chuanxiao Xiao, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Jeffrey L. Blackburn, Michael V. Mirkin, Elisa M. Miller
We directly map the catalytic activity on metallic (1T) basal sites and semiconducting (2H) edge sites within 2D MoS2 nanosheets.
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3D Pomegranate-like TiN@graphene Composites with Electrochemical Reaction Chamber as the Sulfur Host for Ultralong-life Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00343B, Communication
Yongsong Luo, Rongjie Luo, Qiuhong Yu, Yang Lu, Mengjie Zhang, Tao Peng, hailong yan, Xianming Liu, Jang-Kyo Kim
ABSTRACT: The low loading and poor cyclic performance of sulfur cathodes are among the critical barriers restricting the practical application of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. The rational design of composites consisting...
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Structural Complementarity from DNA for Directing Two-Dimensional Polydopamine Nanomaterials with Biomedical Applications

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00351C, Communication
Tao Ding, Yuxin Xing, Zhenqiang Wang, Haidi Guan, Liucan Wang, Jixi Zhang, Kaiyong Cai
Mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) possess a great potential in constructing 2D nanomaterials under mild bio-friendly synthesis, due to the unique layered structure during its self-polymerization. However, the manipulation of PDA oligomer’s...
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Low-cost writing method for self-powered paper-based UV photodetectors utilizing Te/TiO2 and Te/ZnO heterojunctions

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00401C, Communication
Yong Zhang, Wenxin Xu, Xiaojie Xu, Wei Yang, Siyuan Li, Jiaxin Chen, Xiaosheng Fang
A low-cost, facile and green writing method to fabricate self-powered paper-based UV photodetectors utilizing Te/TiO2 and Te/ZnO heterojunctions was achieved.
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Germagraphene as a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries predicted from first-principles calculations

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00333E, Communication
Junping Hu, Chuying Ouyang, Shengyuan A. Yang, Hui Ying Yang
We predict that germanium doping can help to turn graphene into an ideal LIB anode material with an extremely high capacity.
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