10.1002/aenm.201702533

2017-12-22

Abstract Multijunction solar cells are designed to improve the overlap with the solar spectrum and to minimize losses due to thermalization. Aside from the optimum choice of photoactive materials for the respective sub-cells, a proper interconnect is essentia...

10.1002/aenm.201701655

2017-12-22

Abstract Recently, a new method to effectively engineer the bandgap of barium bismuth niobate (BBNO) double perovskite was reported. However, the planar electrodes based on BBNO thin films show low photocurrent densities for water oxidation owing to their poo...

10.1002/aenm.201702489

2017-12-22

Abstract In this work, a new benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDT) building block containing alkylthio naphthyl as a side chain is designed and synthesized, and the resulting polymer, namely PBDTNS-BDD, shows a lower HOMO energy level than that of its alkoxyl ...

10.1002/aenm.201702323

2017-12-22

Abstract Cu2O is one of the most promising light absorbing materials for solar energy conversion. Previous studies with Cu2O for water splitting usually deliver high photocurrent or high photovoltage, but not both. Here, a Cu2O/Ga2O3/TiO2/RuOx photocathode th...

10.1002/aenm.201770140

2017-12-20

Room-temperature sodium-sulfur (RT-Na/S) batteries hold great promise for future large-scale stationary applications. This emerging technology consists of sodium anode and sulfur cathode, both of which are nontoxic, easily accessible, abundant and low cost as...

10.1002/aenm.201770141

2017-12-20

In article number 1700260, Qiang Zhang and co-workers review high-sulfur-loading Li–S batteries enabled by multiscale hierarchical design principles. How to bridge the ‘sulfur cathode’ and ‘lithium anode’ is the key to fill the gaps for better Li-S batteries....

10.1002/aenm.201770144

2017-12-20

In 2016, the International Symposium on Next-Generation Batteries was held at the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) in the innovation campus (top part of the photo taken by Dr. Zhixin Tai) of the University of Wollongong. ISEM has ...

10.1002/aenm.201702182

2017-12-19

Silver nanowire (AgNW)-based transparent electrodes prepared via an all-solution-process are proposed as bottom electrodes in flexible perovskite solar cells (PVSCs). To enhance the chemical stability of AgNWs, a pinhole-free amorphous aluminum doped zinc oxi...

10.1002/aenm.201702514

2017-12-19

Various doped materials have been investigated to improve the structural stability of layered transition metal oxides for lithium-ion batteries. Most doped materials are obtained through solid state methods, in which the doping of cations is not strictly site...

10.1002/aenm.201701928

2017-12-18

The stability of a perovskite solar cell (PSC) is enhanced significantly by applying a customized thin-film encapsulation (TFE). The TFE is composed of a multilayer stack of organic/inorganic layers deposited by initiated chemical vapor deposition and atomic ...