Advanced Optical Materials
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2018
·Vol. 6
·期 10
·1701389
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IF 7.43
Zhongyuan Guan,Aiwei Tang,Peiwen Lv,Zhenyang Liu,Xu Li,Zhan'ao Tan,Tasawar Hayat,Ahmed Alsaedi,Chunhe Yang,Feng Teng
A series of multinary Cu-In-Zn-Se-S nanocrystals (NCs) are synthesized via a phosphine-free and one-pot approach, in which the Se powder and 1-dodecanethiol (DDT) are used as chalcogenide sources, respectively. The X-ray photoelectron spectra are used to confirm the presence of lattice sulfur in the as-obtained products. The emission color and the relative photoluminescence quantum yields of the Cu-In-Zn-Se-S NCs can be tuned by varying the Cu contents, the amount of Se powder, as well as the DDT dosage. In addition, the formation process of the multinary Cu-In-Zn-Se-S NCs is different from that of quaternary Cu-In-Zn-S NCs, which is dominated by the doping of Cu ions into the In-deficient In-Zn-Se-S NCs but not the partial interdiffusion of Zn 2+ into the Cu-based NCs. This plausible deduction is based on the comparison of optical properties of the products synthesized using the hot-injection and one-pot methods. Furthermore, the performance of the solution-processed quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) using the Cu-In-Zn-Se-S NCs as emission layers is examined, and the QLEDs exhibit a high luminance over 1500 cd m −2 and a high peak current efficiency of ≈0.4 cd A −1 at 1000 cd m −2 .
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材料科学
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纳米技术
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光电子学
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Solar RRL
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2024
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IF 6
Chenxi Zhao,Bowen Liu,Fuyan Chen,Jiaxin Gao,Xinan Shi,Daocheng Pan
Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 (CIGSSe) solar cell is one of the most promising thin-film solar cells with a record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 23.6%. Conventional CIGSSe thin-film solar cells are usually fabricated on Mo-coated soda-lime glass substrate, thereby, the sunlight on the rear side cannot be utilized by the monofacial CIGSSe solar cells owing to the opacity of the Mo electrode. CIGSSe solar cells fabricated on transparent conductive oxide (TCO) electrode enable to fabricate bifacial solar cells, which can generate power on both sides of solar cells, so that bifacial solar cells have a high potential application in building-integrated photovoltaics. However, the PCEs of CIGSSe solar cells fabricated on TCO substrates are significantly lower than those of ones on Mo substrates. In this article, bifacial CIGSSe solar cells on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate are fabricated by using an ionic liquid-assisted solution approach and utilizing a MoO 3 thin film as an interface layer between FTO and CIGSSe absorber layer, yielding a front-side PCE of 9.73% and a back-side PCE of 1.77%.
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材料科学
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光伏技术
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可再生能源
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Nature Communications
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2024
·Vol. 15
·期 1
·1-14
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IF 14.7
Zhang Minghao,Sun Chenxi,Chen Guanhong,Kang Yuanhong,Lv Zeheng,Yang Jin,Li Siyang,Lin Pengxiang,Tang Rong,Wen Zhipeng,Li Cheng Chao,Zhao Jinbao,Yang Yang
Rechargeable aqueous zinc-metal batteries, considered as the possible post-lithium-ion battery technology for large-scale energy storage, face severe challenges such as dendrite growth and hydrogen evolution side reaction (HER) on Zn negative electrode. Herein, a three-dimensional Cu-In alloy interface is developed through a facile potential co-replacement route to realize uniform Zn nucleation and HER anticatalytic effect simultaneously. Both theoretical calculations and experimental results demonstrate that this bifunctional Cu-In alloy interface inherits the merits of low Zn-nucleation overpotential and high HER overpotential from individual copper and indium constituents, respectively. Moreover, the dynamical self-reconstruction during cycling leads to an HER-anticatalytic and zincophilic gradient hierarchical structure, enabling highly reversible Zn chemistry with dendrite-free Zn (002) deposition and inhibited HER. Moreover, the improved interface stability featured by negligible pH fluctuations in the diffusion layer and suppressed by-product formation is evidenced by in-situ scanning probe technology, Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical gas chromatography. Consequently, the lifespan of the CuIn@Zn symmetric cell is extended to more than one year with a voltage hysteresis of 6 mV. Importantly, the CuIn@Zn negative electrode is also successfully coupled with high-loading iodine positive electrode to fabricate Ah-level (1.1 Ah) laminated pouch cell, which exhibits a capacity retention of 67.9% after 1700 cycles.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
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2023
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IF 5.8
Yong-Qiang Xu,Liu-Yuan Zang,Hai-Yu Gao,Jin Peng,Dong-Yun Zheng,Chao Liu,Xiao-Jun Liu,Dong-Bing Cheng,Chun-Nan Zhu
Gd 3+ -doped quantum dots (QDs) have been widely used as small-sized bifunctional contrast agents for fluorescence/magnetic resonance (FL/MR) dual-modality imaging. However, Gd 3+ doping will always compromise the FL of host QDs. Therefore, balancing the Gd 3+ doping and the optical properties of QDs is crucial for constructing high-performance bifunctional nanoprobes . Additionally, most paramagnetic QDs are synthesized in the organic phase and need to be transferred to the aqueous phase for bioimaging. Herein, ingeniously designed shell-doped Cu-In-S/ZnS:Gd 3+ QDs have been prepared in the aqueous phase. It has been demonstrated that isolating paramagnetic Gd 3+ from fluorescent Cu-In-S core via doping Gd 3+ into ZnS shell not only avoided the decrease of FL quantum yield (QY), but also ensured the water accessibility of paramagnetic Gd 3+ ions, by which the FL QY and r 1 relaxivity of Cu-In-S/ZnS:Gd 3+ QDs achieved as much as 15.6% and 15.33 mM -1 ·s -1 , respectively. These high-performance QDs with excellent stability, low biotoxicity, and good tumor permeability were successfully applied for in vivo tumor FL/MR dual-modality imaging, and have shown significant potential in the precision detection and diagnosis of diseases.
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纳米技术
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生物医学工程
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医学成像
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 27
·8537-8544
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IF 7.393
Zhongyuan Guan,Haihang Ye,Peiwen Lv,Lijin Wang,Jing Zhang,Bin Zou,Aiwei Tang
Multinary Cu-based chalcogenide nanocrystals (NCs) are excellent candidates for optoelectronic applications, but their growth mechanism and its impacts on the NCs’ optical properties remain controversial. Herein, we employed a simple colloidal chemistry method for the growth of multinary Cu-based NCs including ternary Cu–In–S NCs, quaternary Cu–In–Se–S NCs, and five-component Cu–In–Zn–Se–S NCs, to explore their growth mechanism and investigate their optical properties. It is found that the ternary Cu–In–S NCs contain a large number of copper vacancies, which affect the major acceptor level for the exciton recombination. With the high reaction activity of Se, the quaternary Cu–In–Se–S NCs form at low reaction temperature and have a red-shift of the photoluminescence (PL) maximum due to the recombination from the conduction band to the acceptor level. The formation process of five-component Cu–In–Zn–Se–S NCs highly depends on the Zn amount, which shows a competitive relationship between the NCs’ growth and diffusion of Zn, leading to the red- and blue-shift of PL maximum, respectively. Our study provides a clear map for the growth of multinary Cu-based NCs and shows their impacts on optical properties.
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Nature Communications
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2022
·Vol. 13
·期 1
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IF 17.694
Mu Shijia,Lu Honglei,Wu Qianbao,Li Lei,Zhao Ruijuan,Long Chang,Cui Chunhua
Cu δ+ sites on the surface of oxide-derived copper (OD-Cu) are of vital importance in electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR). However, the underlying reason for the dynamically existing Cu δ+ species, although thermodynamically unstable under reductive CO 2 RR conditions, remains uncovered. Here, by using electron paramagnetic resonance, we identify the highly oxidative hydroxyl radicals (OH • ) formed at room temperature in HCO 3 - solutions. In combination with in situ Raman spectroscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and isotope-labelling, we demonstrate a dynamic reduction/reoxidation behavior at the surface of OD-Cu and reveal that the fast oxygen exchange between HCO 3 - and H 2 O provides oxygen sources for the formation of OH • radicals. In addition, their continuous generations can cause spontaneous oxidation of Cu electrodes and produce surface CuO x species. Significantly, this work suggests that there is a “seesaw-effect” between the cathodic reduction and the OH • -induced reoxidation, determining the chemical state and content of Cu δ+ species in CO 2 RR. This insight is supposed to thrust an understanding of the crucial role of electrolytes in CO 2 RR.
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RSC Advances
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2023
·Vol. 13
·期 49
·34524-34533
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IF 3.9
Suo Zhao,Qiao Wang,Jin Liu,Xianglong Hao,Xiao Liu,Wenfei Shen,Zhonglin Du,Yao Wang,Mikhail Artemyev,Jianguo Tang
In this study, ZnS capped Cu–In–S (ZCIS) quantum dots doped with Mn ions are synthesized by a thermal injection method, with luminescence covering almost the entire visible area. The large Stokes shift effectively inhibits the self-absorption effect under luminescence, and the quantum yield of ZCIS quantum dots increased from 38% to 50% after ZnS capping and further to 69% after doping with Mn. First, red-, yellow-, and blue-emitting quantum dots were synthesized and then, polychromatic ensembles were obtained by mixing the trichromatic quantum dots in a different ratio. Using the home-built inkjet printer, multilayered and multicolor mixed patterns were obtained for information pattern storage and multilayer pattern recognition and reading.
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纳米材料
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量子点
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信息存储技术
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光子学
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
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2026
·Vol. 37
·期 14
·1093
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IF 3.2
Ren Peifeng,Gao Xingchen,Fan Wenhao,Zhang Qiang,Chen Shaoping,Fan Jianfeng
Elemental doping plays a crucial role in optimizing carrier concentration and suppressing lattice thermal conductivity in thermoelectric materials. In this study, Cu atoms were doped in both n- and p-type Mg 3 Sb 2 -based thermoelectric compounds. The results indicate that the incorporation of Cu effectively improves the electrical transport properties of Mg 3 Sb 2 -based thermoelectric compounds while simultaneously suppressing their thermal transport, ultimately achieving enhanced thermoelectric properties: (a) For p-type Mg 3 Sb 2 , a small quantity of Cu atoms provides electrons in the lattice interstitial and thus compensates holes, leading to a decreased carrier concentration and electrical conductivity. However, with increasing Cu content, Cu atoms preferentially occupy Mg2 sites, thereby increasing hole concentration, and thus improving electrical conductivity. Further increasing Cu content, an MgCuSb secondary phase forms, which is unfavorable for overall p-type thermoelectric performance of the Mg 3 Sb 2 -based matrix due to the n-type transport of the MgCuSb compound. (b) For n-type Mg 3 Sb 2 , no such secondary phase was observed despite the same Cu-doping content, which involves a distinct doping mechanism from the p-type one. Consequently, the zT values of p-type Mg 3 Sb 2 materials are improved by 17%–33% over the whole temperature range. And regarding the n-type Mg 3 Sb 2 materials, the highest peak zT value of ~1.4 and average zT avg of ~1.04 are achieved. Therefore, the doping of the Cu element proves to be an effective way in optimizing thermoelectric properties of both p-type and n-type Mg 3 Sb 2 -based materials.
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CATALYSIS COMMUNICATIONS
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2024
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Yu Sun,Jinxing Mi,Liang Li,Shuxiu Yu,Shixiong Yuan,Guimin Wang,Jianjun Chen,Junhua Li
The unique ability of Cu + to enhance C-C coupling makes it important in the field of CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) over Cu-based catalyst, while Cu + is very prone to deactivation. Hereby, we propose a simple and feasible stabilization strategy to stabilize Cu + species through reducing Cu-Mg-Al hydrotalcite by adding ascorbic acid, which owns stable product selectivity in a span of 6 h at −0.95 V vs.RHE. Characterization results show that the excellent stability is promoted by the heterostructure of Cu 2 O and hydrotalcite with retained Cu + species, which derives from Cu 2 O and slow down the rapid reduction of Cu + to Cu 0 .
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Coatings
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2024
·Vol. 14
·期 2
·164
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Wanlei Dai,Zhaoyi Jiang,Yali Sun,Juhua Wang,Zeran Gao,Haoyu Xu,Xinzhan Wang,Chao Gao,Qiang Ma,Yinglong Wang,Wei Yu
In this study, a feasible strategy is proposed for directly depositing high-quality Cu(In,Ga)Se2(CIGS) films using Na-doped targets in a selenium-free atmosphere to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of CIGS solar cells. Introducing a small amount of sodium dopant effectively promoted the textured growth of CIGS crystals in the prepared films, resulting in larger grain sizes and a smoother interface. The higher MoSe2content at the CIGS/Mo interface increased the carrier lifetime in the films. In addition, sodium doping increased the proportion of Se atoms on the film surface and reduced the concentration of defects caused by the direct sputtering of the films in the selenium-free atmosphere. Therefore, the separation and transportation of photo-generated carriers in the devices were effectively enhanced. Using the optimized parameters, a record-high PCE of 17.26% was achieved for the 7.5% Na-doped devices, which represents an improvement of nearly 63%.Keywords:Cu(In,Ga)Se2;sodium-doped targets;magnetron sputtering;solar cells
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2015
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IF 2.999
Xin Wang,Zhurong Liang,Xueqing Xu,Nan Wang,Jun Fang,Junxia Wang,Gang Xu
Highly Cu-rich copper indium sulfide (CuInS 2 , CIS) quantum dots were synthesized utilizing copper chloride (CuCl) and indium acetate (In(Ac) 3 ) as metal cation precursors, combined with n-dodecanethiol (DDT) as a coordinating sulfur source and solvent. With excess of In(Ac) 3 , i.e. with Cu/In ratios of 1/4, together with Zn 2+ ions post-treatment, a relatively high photoluminescence quantum yield (QY) of ∼73% with long average lifetime of ∼359 ns has been obtained, which is proposed to be attributed to the Cu-rich defect states in the CIS nanocrystals (NCs) nuclei. Meanwhile, the formation of In-rich CIS–ZnS alloy, i.e. Zn–Cu–In–S (ZCIS) with high density of Cu vacancies, combined with the surface passivation of ZnS overlay resulted in a high QY. Finally, the formation mechanism of the ZCIS/ZnS with Cu-rich nuclei has been proposed.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2016
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Yong Cui,Zhe Zhang,Xu Du,Wei Liu,Shi Liu,Yulin Deng,Xiaogu Huang,Gang Wang
Hybrid solution process is a powerful liquid deposited strategy merging the advantage of molecular precursor solution and nanocrystals ink. A novel hybrid solution approach is presented to fabricate Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se) 2 (CIGSSe) absorber layer using fully dissolved CIGS precursor solution and the CIGS nanocrystals. Such attractive strategy could significantly improve the single deposited thickness and enhance the quality of as-prepared CIGS film compared with the pure CIGS molecular precursor solution and the CIGS nanocrystals ink. Photovoltaic absorber layers based on CIGSSe chalcopyrite structure show the high-quality microstructural performance and are incorporated into solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 10.19%. The high performance of resulted optoelectronic devices represents a chance to extend the hybrid solution process to other inorganic semiconductor thin film solar cells.
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