Nanocrystals (NCs) discussed in this Review are tiny crystals of metals, semiconductors, and magnetic material consisting of hundreds to a few thousand atoms each. Their size ranges from 2-3 to about 20 nm. What is special about this size regime that placed NCs among the hottest research topics of the last decades? The quantum mechanical coupling * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dvtalapin@uchicago.edu. † The University of Chicago. ‡ Argonne National Lab. Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 389–458 389

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Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

Recent Advances in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

Review of the proton exchange membranes for fuel cell applications

Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) are a promising cost-effective alternative to silicon-based solar cells, and possess light-weight, low-cost, and flexibility advantages. Significant progress has been achieved in the development of novel photovoltaic materials and device structures in the last decade. Nowadays small molecular semiconductors for OPVs have attracted considerable attention, due to their advantages over their polymer counterparts, including well-defined molecular structure, definite molecular weight, and high purity without batch to batch variations. The highest power conversion efficiencies of OPVs based on small molecular donor/fullerene acceptors or polymeric donor/fullerene acceptors are up to 6.7% and 8.3%, respectively, and meanwhile nonfullerene acceptors have also exhibited some promising results. In this review we summarize the developments in small molecular donors, acceptors (fullerene derivatives and nonfullerene molecules), and donor–acceptor dyad systems for high-performance multilayer, bulk heterojunction, and single-component OPVs. We focus on correlations of molecular chemical structures with properties, such as absorption, energy levels, charge mobilities, and photovoltaic performances. This structure–property relationship analysis may guide rational structural design and evaluation of photovoltaic materials (253 references).

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

Recent development of polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells.

This study focused on the synthesis of stable nanofluids and their direct application to the CO2 absorption process. A sol-gel process was used as the synthesis method of nanoparticles in nanofluid. The particle size and stability were determined by SEM image and zeta potential of the nanofluid. Three types of nanofluids containing approximately 30 nm, 70 nm, and 120 nm particles were synthesized and all nanofluids had a stable zeta potential of approximately − 45 mV. Addition of nanoparticles increased the average absorption rate of 76% during the first 1 minute and total absorption amount of 24% in water. The capacity coefficient of CO2 absorption in the nanofluid is 4 times higher than water without nanoparticles, because the small bubble sizes in the nanofluid have large mass transfer areas and high solubility.

Synthesis of Silica Nanofluid and Application to CO2 Absorption

Thermal decomposition properties of plastic waste−waste lube oil compounds were investigated under nonisothermal conditions. Polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) were selected as representative household plastic wastes. A plastic waste mixture (PWM) and waste lube oil (WLO) were mixed with mixing ratios of 33, 50, and 67 (w/w) % on a PWM weight basis, and thermogravimetric (TG) experiments were performed from 25 to 600 °C. The Flynn-Wall method and the Ozawa-Flynn-Wall method were used for analyses of thermodynamic parameters. In this study, activation energies of PWM/WLO compounds ranged from 73.4 to 229.6 kJ/mol between 0.2 and 0.8 of normalized mass conversions, and the 50% PWM/WLO compound had lower activation energies and enthalpies among the PWM/WLO samples at each mass conversion. At the point of maximum differential mass conversion, the analyzed activation energies, enthalpies, entropies, and Gibbs free energies indicated that mixing PWM and...

Investigation of thermodynamic parameters in the thermal decomposition of plastic waste-waste lube oil compounds.

Oxygen-carrier selection and thermal analysis of the chemical-looping process for hydrogen production

Adsorption equilibria of single components for pure methane, ethane, ethylene, hydrogen, and nitrogen onto activated carbon adsorbent (Calgon Co.) were measured. The results were obtained with a static volumetric method at 293.15 K, 303.15 K, and 313.15 K and at pressures up to 2 MPa. Experimental data were correlated by the Langmuir−Freundlich equation. Isosteric enthalpies of adsorption were calculated and shown according to surface loading.

Sung Hyun Kim

Papers

Synthesis of Silica Nanofluid and Application to CO2 Absorption

Investigation of thermodynamic parameters in the thermal decomposition of plastic waste-waste lube oil compounds.

Oxygen-carrier selection and thermal analysis of the chemical-looping process for hydrogen production

Adsorption equilibria of methane, ethane, ethylene, nitrogen, and hydrogen onto activated carbon

Solution processed WO3 layer for the replacement of PEDOT:PSS layer in organic photovoltaic cells