Yi Cui

TL;DR: Novel nanodome solar cells, which have periodic nanoscale modulation for all layers from the bottom substrate, through the active absorber to the top transparent contact, are demonstrated, which opens up exciting opportunities for a variety of photovoltaic devices to further improve performance, reduce materials usage, and relieve elemental abundance limitations.

TL;DR: Recent progress and well-developed strategies in research designed to accomplish flexible and stretchable lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors are reviewed.

TL;DR: Ge nanowire electrodes fabricated by using vapor-liquid-solid growth on metallic current collector substrates were found to have good performance during cycling with Li and are promising candidates for the development of high-energy-density lithium batteries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the challenges and future research directions towards fast charging at the level of battery materials from mass transport, charge transfer and thermal management perspectives, and highlight advanced characterization techniques to understand the failure mechanisms of batteries during fast charging, which in turn would inform more rational battery designs.

TL;DR: The continuously tuned electronic structure of lithiated MoS2 is correlated with the corresponding enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction activity, and thus the electronic structure–catalytic activity relationship is constructed.