Driven by the need for new cathode battery materials with high energy density, fluorides have emerged as promising candidates due to their high voltages. From high throughput computations, dirutile LiMnF4 was identified as a promising cathode with a high conversion voltage and a theoretical specific capacity of 584 mAh/g. In this work, we study the formation of dirutile LiMnF4 through a new, lo...

We report for the first time a simple low-cost electrochemical route to synthesis of diameter-controlled hierarchical flowerlike gold microstructures with "clean" surfaces using gold nanoplates or nanopricks as building blocks without introducing any template or surfactant.

We report the synthesis of a soluble perylene-based small molecule for use as an n-type emissive material for organic optoelectronic device applications, and demonstrate the material in a light-emitting electrochemical cell configuration.

Electrochemical processing is a cost effective and low-temperature approach suitable for the fabrication of certain unique nanostructures that are difficult to obtain by other methods. Here we report on the synthesis of nanowires and nanoporous structures with the intention to control the magnetic properties of conventional materials. Nanowires with variable sizes (diameter 15 nm microns, and l...

Starch, one of the most commonly used polysaccharides, has been adopted for the first time as morphology-directing agent to the electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole (PPy) nanowires on various electrodes.

Nickel oxide nanotubes with great antibacterial activities, electrochemical capacitance, and magnetic properties have been synthesized through a precursor method with dimethylglyoxime as precipitant for the precursor, and the method has been developed for the synthesis of Ni/C nanorods.

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to identify a slow electron transport process in hydrogen evolution catalysed by amorphous molybdenum sulphides on glassy carbon. A new chemical synthesis leads to an amorphous molybdenum sulfide catalyst with a higher electronic conductivity.

The synthesis of a series of discrete lanthanide-capped polyoxovanadate cages is presented along with magnetic and electrochemical measurements which reveal a redox active dodecavanadate cluster with potential as a new functional building unit in polyoxovanadate chemistry.

The electronically conducting polymers (ECPs), such as polypyrrole (PPy), polythiophene (PT) and polyaniline (PANI) are known to possess unusually high electrical conductivity in the doped state. Due to this, these materials have been of great interests for chemists as well as physicists since their electrical properties were reported (Diaz et al., 1979). The ECP films behave like a redox polym...

We report the synthesis, electron paramagnetic resonance and electrochemical properties of a novel stable radical of the TTM series. Its strong electron acceptor ability has been tested with (-)-epicatechin, a natural polyphenolic antioxidant.