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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Virtual Special Issue on Metal Clusters, Nanoparticles, and the Physical Chemistry of Catalysis

11 Mar 2021-Journal of Physical Chemistry C (American Chemical Society (ACS))-Vol. 125, Iss: 9, pp 4927-4929
About: This article is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C.The article was published on 2021-03-11 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the NiCo2S4 nanoflakes increased the surface area of the composite electrode, thereby increasing its specific capacity from 106.34 Cg−1 to 596.69 C g−1.

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  • ...601 nm) between two layers provides ideal accommodation sites for alkaline metal ions and the intercalation sites are displayed according to previous reports.[23-25] Therefore, the K or Li are intercalated/deintercalated into the specified sites...

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TL;DR: In this paper, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) provided the funding for the work of Al-Riyami et al. with the support of KAUST.
Abstract: Funding for this work was provided by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

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TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of LiNO3 on the positive electrode materials of Li-S cells and found that a proper moderate concentration of Li NO3 is required to achieve an optimized cell performance.

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  • ...The layer-like conjugated structure with highly developed porous flaky structure of the pristine GO-S has been described in our previous studies.[28, 32] The...

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  • ...[40-42] In this work, the TEY and TFY modes, which probe the depths of ~5 nm and ~100 nm layer, respectively, were employed to investigate the sulfur electrodes.[28, 41] The depth profile information provided detailed information on the CEI layer....

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  • ...The synthesis of the CTAB-modified S-GO nano-compositions has been reported in our previous work.[1, 28] Electrolytes containing 0....

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  • ...Benefiting from the element-resolved and chemical environmental-sensitive properties of XAS, various sulfur electrode constituents can be investigated individually.[27-31] Combining the spectroscopic investigations and electrochemical characterizations on Li-S cells with electrolyte containing various concentrations of LiNO3 during longterm cycling we are able to provide new insights on how the LiNO3 in the electrolyte can alter the properties of the CEI layer and thus influence the cell performance....

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  • ...After cycling the cell, three peaks, representing SO3, COSO2, and SO4, respectively,[27, 28, 47, 48] have appeared up in the high photon energy region, which correspond to species of high valence state....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the FWM signal generated in the visible spectrum is maximum when the frequency of the tunable pump corresponds to the maximum of the internal electric field intensity around the frequency range of the laser pumps.
Abstract: Frequency conversion is one of the main applications of nonlinear optical processes in which a signal is produced at a different wavelength from the excitation wavelength. In particular, four-wave mixing (FWM) is a third order nonlinear optical process that allows, for instance, the generation of visible frequencies by tuning near-infrared laser pumps. Here, in order to augment the very weak FWM conversion efficiency, we design silicon Mie resonators that exhibit two resonances of the internal electric field intensity around the frequency range of the laser pumps. The linear extinction spectrum of the individual Si resonator is first measured by bright field spectroscopy and compared with numerical simulations to confirm the existence of the two resonances corresponding to electric and magnetic dipole excitations. The FWM signal is then measured for a single Si nanoresonator when the first pump is set to the electric resonance while tuning the frequency of the second pump across the magnetic dipolar resonance. We show that the FWM signal generated in the visible spectrum is maximum when the frequency of the tunable pump corresponds to the maximum of the internal electric field intensity. At this position, the FWM signal is enhanced by more than 2 orders of magnitude compared with the FWM signal generated by the unpatterned silicon film.

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Abstract: Doping gold nanoclusters with palladium has been reported to increase their catalytic activity and stability. PdAu24 nanoclusters, with the Pd dopant atom located at the center of the Au cluster core, were supported on titania and applied in catalytic CO oxidation, showing significantly higher activity than supported monometallic Au25 nanoclusters. After pretreatment, operando DRIFTS spectroscopy detected CO adsorbed on Pd during CO oxidation, indicating migration of the Pd dopant atom from the Au cluster core to the cluster surface. Increasing the number of Pd dopant atoms in the Au structure led to incorporation of Pd mostly in the S-(M-S) n protecting staples, as evidenced by in situ XAFS. A combination of oxidative and reductive thermal pretreatment resulted in the formation of isolated Pd surface sites within the Au surface. The combined analysis of in situ XAFS, operando DRIFTS, and ex situ XPS thus revealed the structural evolution of bimetallic PdAu nanoclusters, yielding a Pd single-site catalyst of 2.7 nm average particle size with improved CO oxidation activity.

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