Hierarchical nanowires for high-performance electrochemical energy storage

Addressing the Grand Challenges in Energy Storage

(2013) Jun Liu   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

High-Performance Two-Ply Yarn Supercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanotubes and Polyaniline Nanowire Arrays

(2013) Kai Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

From Chemistry to Nanoscience: Not Just a Matter of Size

(2013) Chunli Bai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Semiconductor nanowires: a platform for exploring limits and concepts for nano-enabled solar cells

(2013) Thomas J. Kempa et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Recent progress in high-voltage lithium ion batteries

(2013) Meng Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Cucumber-Like V2O5/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)&MnO2 Nanowires with Enhanced Electrochemical Cyclability

(2013) Liqiang Mai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Largely Enhanced Efficiency in ZnO Nanowire/p-Polymer Hybridized Inorganic/Organic Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diode by Piezo-Phototronic Effect

(2013) Qing Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Kinetics-controlled growth of aligned mesocrystalline SnO2 nanorod arrays for lithium-ion batteries with superior rate performance

(2013) Shuai Chen et al.   Nano Research

Piezo-phototronic Effect Enhanced Visible and Ultraviolet Photodetection Using a ZnO–CdS Core–Shell Micro/nanowire

(2012) Fang Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Reduced Graphene Oxide-Mediated Growth of Uniform Tin-Core/Carbon-Sheath Coaxial Nanocables with Enhanced Lithium Ion Storage Properties

(2012) Bin Luo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hierarchical MoS2/Polyaniline Nanowires with Excellent Electrochemical Performance for Lithium-Ion Batteries

(2012) Lichun Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hydrogenated Li4Ti5O12Nanowire Arrays for High Rate Lithium Ion Batteries

(2012) Laifa Shen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Studying the Kinetics of Crystalline Silicon Nanoparticle Lithiation with In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2012) Matthew T. McDowell et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hierarchical porous NiCo2O4 nanowires for high-rate supercapacitors

(2012) Hao Jiang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Electrical energy storage for transportation—approaching the limits of, and going beyond, lithium-ion batteries

(2012) Michael M. Thackeray et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Needle-like polyaniline nanowires on graphite nanofibers: hierarchical micro/nano-architecture for high performance supercapacitors

(2012) Shuijian He et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Enhanced Cu2S/CdS Coaxial Nanowire Solar Cells by Piezo-Phototronic Effect

(2012) Caofeng Pan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Substrate-Assisted Self-Organization of Radial β-AgVO3 Nanowire Clusters for High Rate Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

(2012) Chunhua Han et al.   NANO LETTERS

Kinetics of Initial Lithiation of Crystalline Silicon Electrodes of Lithium-Ion Batteries

(2012) Matt Pharr et al.   NANO LETTERS

MoO3–x Nanowire Arrays As Stable and High-Capacity Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

(2012) Praveen Meduri et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tuning Light Absorption in Core/Shell Silicon Nanowire Photovoltaic Devices through Morphological Design

(2012) Sun-Kyung Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Si/InGaN Core/Shell Hierarchical Nanowire Arrays and their Photoelectrochemical Properties

(2012) Yun Jeong Hwang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Branched nanowires: Synthesis and energy applications

(2012) Chuanwei Cheng et al.   Nano Today

Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

(2012) Steven Chu et al.   NATURE

Nanostructured high-energy cathode materials for advanced lithium batteries

(2012) Yang-Kook Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

In situ atomic-scale imaging of electrochemical lithiation in silicon

(2012) Xiao Hua Liu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Stable cycling of double-walled silicon nanotube battery anodes through solid–electrolyte interphase control

(2012) Hui Wu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Hierarchical mesoporous perovskite La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.91 nanowires with ultrahigh capacity for Li-air batteries

(2012) Y. Zhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coaxial multishell nanowires with high-quality electronic interfaces and tunable optical cavities for ultrathin photovoltaics

(2012) T. J. Kempa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Flexible hierarchical nanocomposites based on MnO2nanowires/CoAl hydrotalcite/carbon fibers for high-performance supercapacitors

(2012) Jingwen Zhao et al.   RSC Advances

Preparation and Lithium Storage Performances of Mesoporous Fe3O4@C Microcapsules

(2011) S. M. Yuan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

SnO2 Nanorod-Planted Graphite: An Effective Nanostructure Configuration for Reversible Lithium Ion Storage

(2011) Jong Guk Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Nanonet-Enabled Li Ion Battery Cathode Material with High Power Rate, High Capacity, and Long Cycle Lifetime

(2011) Sa Zhou et al.   ACS Nano

Epitaxial Growth of Branched α-Fe2O3/SnO2 Nano-Heterostructures with Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Performance

(2011) Weiwei Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Cu-Si Nanocable Arrays as High-Rate Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

(2011) Fei-Fei Cao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Co3O4 Nanowire@MnO2 Ultrathin Nanosheet Core/Shell Arrays: A New Class of High-Performance Pseudocapacitive Materials

(2011) Jinping Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Core/Shell Nanoparticles: Classes, Properties, Synthesis Mechanisms, Characterization, and Applications

(2011) Rajib Ghosh Chaudhuri et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Composition-Tailored Synthesis of Gradient Transition Metal Precursor Particles for Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials

(2011) Gary M. Koenig et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Self-assembled echinus-like nanostructures of mesoporous CoO nanorod@CNT for lithium-ion batteries

(2011) Feng Dan Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Three-dimensional tubular arrays of MnO2–NiO nanoflakes with high areal pseudocapacitance

(2011) Jinping Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Molybdenum oxide nanowires: synthesis & properties

(2011) Liqiang Mai et al.   Materials Today

Electrochemical energy storage to power the 21st century

(2011) Debra R. Rolison et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Rational Synthesis of Silver Vanadium Oxides/Polyaniline Triaxial Nanowires with Enhanced Electrochemical Property

(2011) Liqiang Mai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanoforest of Hydrothermally Grown Hierarchical ZnO Nanowires for a High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

(2011) Seung Hwan Ko et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multifunctional composite core–shell nanoparticles

(2011) Suying Wei et al.   Nanoscale

Li ion battery materials with core–shell nanostructures

(2011) Liwei Su et al.   Nanoscale

The lithium intercalation process in the low-voltage lithium battery anode Li1+xV1−xO2

(2011) A. Robert Armstrong et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Li–O2 and Li–S batteries with high energy storage

(2011) Peter G. Bruce et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Solution-processed core–shell nanowires for efficient photovoltaic cells

(2011) Jinyao Tang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Hole spin relaxation in Ge–Si core–shell nanowire qubits

(2011) Yongjie Hu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Rational growth of branched nanowire heterostructures with synthetically encoded properties and function

(2011) X. Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices

(2011) B. Dunn et al.   SCIENCE

Hierarchical MnMoO4/CoMoO4 heterostructured nanowires with enhanced supercapacitor performance

(2011) Li-Qiang Mai et al.   Nature Communications

Heterogeneous nanostructured electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage

(2010) Ran Liu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Complex Nanostructures: Synthesis and Energetic Applications

(2010) Xiaohua Liu et al.   Energies

Mesoporous vanadium pentoxide nanofibers with significantly enhanced Li-ion storage properties by electrospinning

(2010) Danmei Yu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Semiconductor Nanowire: What’s Next?

(2010) Peidong Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Single Nanowire Electrochemical Devices

(2010) Liqiang Mai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electrospun Ultralong Hierarchical Vanadium Oxide Nanowires with High Performance for Lithium Ion Batteries

(2010) Liqiang Mai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Functionally Strain-Graded Nanoscoops for High Power Li-Ion Battery Anodes

(2010) Rahul Krishnan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Building one-dimensional oxide nanostructure arrays on conductive metal substrates for lithium-ion battery anodes

(2010) Jian Jiang et al.   Nanoscale

In Situ Observation of the Electrochemical Lithiation of a Single SnO2 Nanowire Electrode

(2010) J. Y. Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion

(2009) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Impedance Analysis of Silicon Nanowire Lithium Ion Battery Anodes

(2009) Riccardo Ruffo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Lithium batteries: Status, prospects and future

(2009) Bruno Scrosati et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Single Nanorod Devices for Battery Diagnostics: A Case Study on LiMn2O4

(2009) Yuan Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Coaxial Group III−Nitride Nanowire Photovoltaics

(2009) Yajie Dong et al.   NANO LETTERS

Orientated Langmuir−Blodgett Assembly of VO2Nanowires

(2009) Liqiang Mai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Coaxial MnO2/Carbon Nanotube Array Electrodes for High-Performance Lithium Batteries

(2009) Arava Leela Mohana Reddy et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-energy cathode material for long-life and safe lithium batteries

(2009) Yang-Kook Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Single-crystalline kinked semiconductor nanowire superstructures

(2009) Bozhi Tian et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Carbon Coated Fe3O4Nanospindles as a Superior Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

(2008) Wei-Ming Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Synthesis of Lead Chalcogenide Alloy and Core-Shell Nanowires

(2008) Taleb Mokari et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanomaterials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

(2008) Peter G. Bruce et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mesoporous Carbon Materials: Synthesis and Modification

(2008) Chengdu Liang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Single nanowire photovoltaics

(2008) Bozhi Tian et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

MnO2/Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Coaxial Nanowires by One-Step Coelectrodeposition for Electrochemical Energy Storage

(2008) Ran Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Si/a-Si Core/Shell Nanowires as Nonvolatile Crossbar Switches

(2008) Yajie Dong et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sub-100 Nanometer Channel Length Ge/Si Nanowire Transistors with Potential for 2 THz Switching Speed

(2008) Yongjie Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

High Density n-Si/n-TiO2Core/Shell Nanowire Arrays with Enhanced Photoactivity

(2008) Yun Jeong Hwang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Building better batteries

(2008) M. Armand et al.   NATURE