Functional materials

Functional materials - general

• Ferroelectrics without domains
• White OLEDs
• Proton conducting membranes
• In Situ XRD Studies of the Hydration Degree of the Polymeric Membrane in a Fuel Cell
• Carbide-Derived Carbons – From Porous Networks to Nanotubes and Graphene

Organic photovoltaics

• An overview article of dye-sensitized solar cells
• X-ray transient absorption study of Ru-dye-sensitized TiO2 nanoparticle ("laser pump, x-ray probe")
• Challenges in Understanding Defects in Organic Materials: A Theorist View, Focus on Conjugated Polymers
• A Review of Charge Transport and Recombination in Polymer/Fullerene Organic Solar Cells
• Charge carrier mobility and lifetime versus composition of conjugated polymer/fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Batteries

• Identification of cathode materials for lithium batteries guided by first-principles calculations
• Charge self-regulation upon changing the oxidation state of transition metals in insulators
• First-Principles Prediction of Vacancy Order-Disorder and Intercalation Battery Voltages in LixCoO2
• Challenges for rechargeable Li batteries
• A lithium superionic conductor

Topochemistry

• Diels−Alder Topochemistry via Charge-Transfer Crystals: Novel (Thermal) Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations

Instrumentation

• Sapphire anvil cell
• Novel in situ setup to study the formation of nanoparticles in the gas phase by SAXS (aerosol generator)

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