Interfacial materials are essential to the performance and stability of polymer solar cells (PSCs). Herein, solution-processed zirconium(IV) isopropoxide (Zr[OCH(CH3)2]4, ZrIPO) has been employed as an efficient cathode buffer layer between the Al ca...
A high emission current with relatively low operating voltage is critical for field emission cathodes in vacuum electronic devices (VEDs). This paper studied the field emission performance of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) cold cathodes prepared...
The cathode buffer layer (CBL) plays a crucial role in organic solar cells (OSCs), and it has been challenging to obtain high-quality CBL by using simple and reliable processes. In this paper, the bilayer structure consisting of ZnO nanoparticles (NP...
Recently, MoO3, which is typically used as an anode buffer layer in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVCs), has also been used as a cathode buffer layer (CBL). Here, we check its efficiency as a CBL using a planar heterojunction based on the CuPc/C60 cou...
In this work, we studied inverted organic solar cells based on bulk heterojunction using poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):[6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM) as an active layer and a novel cathode buffer bilayer consisting of tin di...
High performance flexible inverted organic solar cells (OSCs) employing the low temperature cathode buffer bilayer combining the aqueous solution-processed ZnO and polyethylenimine ethoxylated (PEIE) are investigated based on Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,...
Indium tin oxide (ITO) is a transparent conductive material which is extensively used in organic solar cells (OSCs) as electrodes. In inverted OSCs, ITO is usually employed as a cathode, which should be modified by cathode buffer layers (CBLs) to ach...
Electrochromic devices (ECDs) are a promising material for smart windows that are capable of transmittance variation. However, ECDs are still too expensive to achieve a wide market reach. Reducing fabrication cost remains a challenge. In this study,...
In this paper, an AlGaN/GaN Schottky barrier diode (SBD) with the T-anode located deep into the bottom buffer layer in combination with field plates (TAI-BBF FPs SBD) is proposed. The electrical characteristics of the proposed structure and the conve...
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are attractive for energy storage, mainly because introducing solid-state electrolytes significantly improves the battery performance in terms of safety, energy density, process compatibility, etc., compared with liq...
Field emission (FE) necessitates cathode materials with low work function and high thermal and electrical conductivity and stability. To meet these requirements, we developed FE cathodes based on high-quality wrinkled multilayer graphene (MLG) prepar...
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) present a viable platform for sustainable hydrogen generation from organic waste, but their scalability is limited by cathode performance, cost, and durability. This study evaluates three hybrid carbon nanotube (CN...
Introducing a cathode modification layer is an effective method to obtaining highly efficient organic solar cells (OSCs) and improving their stability. Herein, we innovatively introduced a double cathode modification layer (SnO2/ZnO) into a non-fulle...
The development of safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly energy storage systems has spurred growing interest in aqueous ZIBs. However, the poor cycling stability of cathode materials—mainly due to manganese dissolution and structur...
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) based on sulphide electrolytes are promising next-generation energy storage systems because they are expected to have improved safety, increased volumetric energy density, and a wide operating temperature range. Howe...
Electron and hole transporting layers play a major role in high-performance and stable organic-based optoelectronic devices. This paper demonstrates detailed device engineering of multi-junction organic photovoltaics built on two different metal oxid...
Nickel–manganese–cobalt oxides, with LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2 (NMC) as the most prominent compound, are state-of-the-art cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. The growing market for electro mobility has led to a...
Considerable fluctuations in the cathodic protection potential under the impact of stray currents lead to the occurrence of local corrosion on steel structures operated in soils and seawater. The potential fluctuations induced by both alternating and...
Lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) has been widely used as a leading cathode material for lithium-ion batteries in consumer electronics. However, unstable cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) and undesired phase transitions during fast Li+ diffusivity always...
An effective deposition of a cinchonine layer on a platinum metal surface can be easily achieved through the cathodic reduction of a cinchonine hydrochloride methanolic solution at a controlled potential of −220 mV vs. the silver standard elect...
Novel high-energy, binder-free, and solvent-free carbon–silicon layered composite anodes were manufactured using an industrially scalable Virtual Cathode Deposition (VCD) technique. The deposition process transforms commercial graphite target m...
In this paper, we tested the combined use of a biochar-based material at the cathode and of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain in a single chamber, air cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed with a mix of shredded vegetable and phosphate buffer solution...
COVID-19 antibody detection is dependent on highly specialized, time-consuming techniques, such as PCR separation, DNA amplification, and other methods such as spectrophotometric absorption. For these reasons, specialized technical training is necess...
A technology for the formation and bonding with a substrate of hybrid carbon nanostructures from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) by laser radiation is proposed. Molecular dynamics modeling by the real-time time...
The use of a doped Ceria buffer layer and Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) techniques for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) fabrication can limit the former, the formation of electrical insulating lanthanum, and strontium zirconates at the cathode/electr...
Epitaxial layers of water-soluble Sr3Al2O6 were fabricated as sacrificial layers on SrTiO3 (100) single-crystal substrates using the Pulsed Laser Deposition technique. This approach envisages the possibility of developing a new generation of micro-So...
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have emerged as a promising candidate for large-scale energy storage due to their inherent safety, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, manganese dioxide (MnO2)-based cathodes, which are widely studied...
This study presents a multiphysics simulation approach to optimize graphite-buffered bilayer anodes for enhanced energy density in lithium-ion batteries, assessing the electrochemical impact of diverse inner-layer materials, including silicon, hard c...
Tribocorrosion, as the interaction between mechanical wear and electrochemical corrosion, has been found to be the main problem causing the failure and limiting the lifetime of metal-on-metal artificial hip joints. Better understanding of the triboco...
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides have also attracted immense interest because they exhibit appealing electronic, optical and mechanical properties. In this work, we prepared gold nanoparticle-decorated molybdenum...
The commercialization of lithium manganese oxide (LMO) is seriously hindered by several drawbacks, such as low initial Coulombic efficiency, the degradation of the voltage and capacity during cycling, and the poor rating performance. Developing a sim...
This work presents a proof of concept of a novel, simple, and sensitive method of detection of dopamine, a neurotransmitter within the human brain. We propose a simple electrochemical method for the detection of dopamine using a dopamine-specific apt...
The authors investigated the effect of an applied high voltage (1 kV) across the thickness of a soda-lime glass substrate of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells. Two types of CIGS cells were tested, differing only in the deposition process of t...
The increasing demand for portable and wearable electronics has promoted the development of safe and flexible yarn–based batteries with outstanding electrochemical properties. However, achieving superior energy storage performance with a high a...
It is essential to design electrode structures which simultaneously ensure mechanical strength and facilitate rapid sodium-ion transport to enable practical and large-scale sodium-ion battery (SIB) applications. In this study, we report a novel anode...
One of the main issues with micron-sized intracortical neural interfaces (INIs) is their long-term reliability, with one major factor stemming from the material failure caused by the heterogeneous integration of multiple materials used to realize the...
MXenes, a rapidly emerging family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, have attracted considerable attention in recent years for their potential in next-generation energy storage technologies. In solid-state batteries (SSBs), th...