Themed collection Energy & Environmental Science Readers’ Choice Lectureship
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Design and cost considerations for practical solar-hydrogen generators
Optimizing the design of solar-hydrogen generators can lead to economically viable devices.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2014,7, 3828-3835
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01453G
Carbon coated porous nickel phosphides nanoplates for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction
Prussian blue analogue (PBA)-derived carbon coated porous nickel phosphides nanoplates exhibit enhanced electrocatalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2016,9, 1246-1250
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE00100A
Self-supported formation of hierarchical NiCo2O4 tetragonal microtubes with enhanced electrochemical properties
Hierarchical NiCo2O4 tetragonal microtubes prepared by a self-supported chemical transformation process exhibit an excellent electrochemical performance.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2016,9, 862-866
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE03772G
Flexible energy storage devices based on graphene paper
Building a flexible lithium rechargeable battery is achieved through a graphene-based electrode.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 1277-1283
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00640H
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Active sites engineering leads to exceptional ORR and OER bifunctionality in P,N Co-doped graphene frameworks
Highly efficient bifunctional P,N co-doped graphene framework (PNGF) with both ORR and OER activities that are superior to noble metal catalysts.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2017,10, 1186-1195
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE03446B
Bismuth oxide: a versatile high-capacity electrode material for rechargeable aqueous metal-ion batteries
Bismuth oxide can store energy electrochemically in seventeen aqueous metal ion electrolytes with high capacity based on a “quasi-conversion reaction”.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2016,9, 2881-2891
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE01871H
Understanding the rate-dependent J–V hysteresis, slow time component, and aging in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells: the role of a compensated electric field
Ionic displacement modifying the electric field in the device is found as most likely reason for the hysteresis which is examined by separating fast and slow processes and comparing devices with and without blocking layer.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2015,8, 995-1004
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE03664F
New insights into the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on metallic copper surfaces
Having developed a new experimental methodology with enhanced sensitivity, we identify and quantify products from the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on copper and discuss mechanistic implications.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012,5, 7050-7059
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2EE21234J
About this collection
The EES Readers’ Choice Lectureship is awarded annually to one outstanding young scientist selected by the Editorial Board, from a shortlist of authors of the most-read articles from each issue of EES in the previous year. This collection features the Lectureship-winning articles by award winners since 2012.
The 2018 Lectureship was awarded to Professor Guo-liang Chai. Based at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), his current research interests focus on functional materials for energy storage and conversion.
EES Readers‘ Choice Lectureship winners