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A.J. Raghavan, former ISRO scientist, passes away




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Meenachil river basin project in for revival




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‘Sea ranching’ launched off Thiruvananthapuram as follow-up to artificial reef project

Minister of State for Fisheries George Kurian launches project; 10 lakh pompano, cobia fingerlings to be deposited in 10 selected locations




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KFON to depend on Supplyco database to provide Internet connection to BPL families




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Waqf Board can initiate criminal proceedings in post-2013 Waqf land encroachment cases

A Single Judge of the Kerala High Court quashed the proceedings against two people in an alleged pre-2013 land encroachment case on Tuesday by noting that such acts were made punishable only through an amendment to the Waqf Act in 2013, the accused were in possession of the property even before the introduction of the amendment, and no penal acts could be given retrospective operation




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Africa's elephant population declines by 70 per cent over past 50 years: study




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Coast Guard Chief S Paramesh calls on India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, discusses maritime security




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Alix Didier Fils-Aime sworn in as new Haiti PM, as gunfire hits US flight




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Germany to hold snap elections on February 23 as coalition crumbles under economic strain




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Indian Embassy in Kathmandu calls on diaspora to sign-up for Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention of January




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Government efficiency 'czar' Musk to cut a lot of waste in US govt: Mark Mobius




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Modi honoured Marathi by giving it classical language status, Amit Shah




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Principal Secretary to PM highlights mitigating risks associated with glacial lakes to ensure safer future




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Former Kerala Minister M.T. Padma passes away




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Rahul Gandhi's video promoting Wayanad as tourist destination goes viral




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[LINK] Mark Boulton on “A Richer Canvas”

I won’t lie to you: I might’ve pounded the table emphatically a few times while reading Mark Boulton’s latest entry:

We can now design effective adaptive layouts that respond to their environment. If these layouts are based on a system that defines its ratios from the content, then there is connectedness on two levels: connectedness to the device, and connectedness to the content.

Mark’s thinking about flexible, content-driven grids has me damned excited about his upcoming talk at AEA Boston, and you know I’ll be flinging fistfuls of lucre at my laptop screen whenever his new book’s available to preorder.

The web really feels fun again.




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Non-classical electrostriction in calcium-doped cerium oxide ceramics

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,9173-9183
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07512E, Paper
Ahsanul Kabir, Victor Buratto Tinti, Simone Santucci, Maxim Varenik, Samuel Griffiths, Sebastian Molin, Igor Lubomirsky, Vincenzo Esposito
Oxygen-defective metal oxides, e.g., acceptor-doped CeO2, demonstrate exceptionally large electrostrictive responses compared to state-of-the-art electromechanically active ceramic materials.
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Non-equilibrium defect chemistry in oxygen-rich zinc oxide nano-tetrapods synthesized using atmospheric pressure microplasma

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,9212-9231
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06821H, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Dilli babu Padmanaban, Paul Maguire, Davide Mariotti
We demonstrate the synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoscale tetrapods (nTPs) using an atmospheric pressure microplasma with a metal wire as a sacrificial electrode.
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Rejuvenating manganese-based rechargeable batteries: fundamentals, status and promise

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,8617-8639
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00466C, Review Article
Weizhai Bao, Hao Shen, Yangyang Zhang, Chengfei Qian, Dingyu Cui, Jingjie Xia, He Liu, Cong Guo, Feng Yu, Jingfa Li, Kaiwen Sun
Energy storage devices with advanced rechargeable batteries are highly demanded by our modern society.
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Porous carbon nitride rods as an efficient photoanode for water splitting and benzylamine oxidation

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00237G, Paper
Sanjit Mondal, Gabriel Mark, Ayelet Tashakory, Michael Volokh, Menny Shalom
A polymeric carbon nitride layer with controlled directionality, morphology, and nitrogen defects serves as a photoanode to allow photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting and benzylamine oxidation.
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Mussel-mimetic thermal conductive films with solid–solid phase change and shape-adaptive performance

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00031E, Paper
Donglei Li, Canxia Ding, Sicong Shen, Jun Wang, Limin Wu, Bo You, Guibao Tao
Inspired by mussel structure, a novel thermally conductive phase change film is made using hot pressing, layer-by-layer stacking, cutting, and splicing. It has high thermal conductivity, low thermal resistance, high latent heat, and electrical insulation, suitable as a thermal interface material.
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Identifying lithium difluoro(oxalate)borate as a multifunctional electrolyte additive to enable high-voltage Li4Ti5O12 lithium-ion batteries

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00750F, Paper
Ou Ka, Fang Cheng, Lang Wen, Xiaoqu Wang, Ting Wang, Xinyu Zeng, Wen Lu, Liming Dai
Lithium difluoro(oxalate)borate (LiDFOB) is identified as a multifunctional electrolyte additive, stabilizing the electrolyte and protecting the electrodes, to enable the LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4//Li4Ti5O12 battery with an excellent performance at 3.50 V.
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Retraction: Nickel nanoparticles immobilized on three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene as a superb catalyst for the generation of hydrogen from the hydrolysis of ammonia borane

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,9247-9247
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA90071E, Retraction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Mojtaba Mahyari, Ahmad Shaabani
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Design of Interfacial Dual Schottky Junctions to Modulate Charge Transfer for Enhanced Piezo-assisted Photocatalytic Degradation RhB Performances

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00619D, Paper
Xiaoqi Jiang, Shengdong Sun, Yuqiao Wang, Lebing Zhao, Fangzhi Huang, Shikuo Li
Regulating charge transfer is a great challenge to improving the efficiency of piezoelectric photocatalytic reactions. Herein, sandwich-like Bi2WO6@Ag/MXene nanoflower spheres (BWO@Ag/MXene) with piezoelectric/plasma dual characteristics were synthesized by a facile...
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Synthesis of a pyridine-based covalent organic framework as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00892H, Paper
Shixi Zhong, He Zhao, Yingming Ji, Xiuhua Li, Ting Shu, Zhiming Cui, Shijun Liao
Covalent organic framework (COF) materials with redox activity have emerged as promising electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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Enhanced catalytic activity and stability of SOFC electrodes through plasma-driven surface modification

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06111F, Paper
Open Access
Hyunduck Shin, Jongsu Seo, SungHyun Jeon, Seung Jin Jeong, Jinwook Kim, Siwon Lee, Jeong Jin Lee, WooChul Jung
Plasma-induced surface amorphization prevents Sr phase separation, boosting the catalytic activity and stability of SOFC cathode. This finding expands the application of amorphous features to practical electrodes, previously limited to model studies.
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Bi-intercalated vanadium pentoxide synthesized via hydrogen peroxide-induced phase transition for highly stable cathode in aqueous zinc ion batteries

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07984H, Paper
Jian-an Chen, Xuejun Hou, Xueli Wang, Chunxia Wang, Jiawei Wen, Yongjie Bu, Guoyong Huang, Tiantian Cao, Shengming Xu
Operating principle of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs).
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Structure–property–performance relationship of vanadium- and manganese-based metal–organic frameworks and their derivatives for energy storage and conversion applications

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00736K, Review Article
Reza Abazari, Soheila Sanati, Ashok Kumar Nanjundan, Qiyou Wang, Deepak P. Dubal, Min Liu
The current review discusses on vanadium- and manganese-based metal–organic frameworks and their derivatives for energy storage and conversion applications along with the potential future advancements in these fields.
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Co–Co2C catalysts supported on carbon-coated ordered mesoporous silica with promoted CO insertion and C–C coupling for higher alcohol synthesis from syngas

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01179A, Paper
Zhuoshi Li, Siqi Fan, Zhuang Zeng, Shaoxia Guo, Xiaofeng Pei, Shouying Huang, Yong Wang, Yue Wang, Xinbin Ma
Co–Co2C catalysts supported on carbon-coated ordered mesoporous silica showed superior performance for HAS than catalysts with uncoated and amorphous supports.
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Renewable Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Waste Cooking Oil over Hierarchical Imidazole Supported Zeolite

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00416G, Paper
Bipul Sarkar, Bhanu Joshi, Omvir Singh, Ankit Agrawal, Neha Dhiman, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Navin Gopinathan , Anjan Ray
Unlike coal, oil, or natural gas, waste cooking oil (WCO) acts as a renewable source of carbon. It can be converted into energy, fuels, and fine chemicals, instead of being...
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Boosting reaction kinetics of polycrystalline phase Fe7S8/FeS2 heterostructures encapsulated in hollow carbon nanofiber for superior fast sodium storage

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01241K, Paper
Hui Cai, Fei Wang, Huiyan Feng, Zhendong Liu, Chengzhi Zhang, Anbang Lu, Xi Zhao, Qiuhong Lu, Quanbing Liu, Jun Tan
Metal sulfides have been regarded as highly competitive anode materials for fast sodium storage due to the excellent redox reversibility and comparatively great electron properties. Nevertheless, metal sulfides suffer from...
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Tuning the ion conductivity of Zr-based metal organic framework ionogels by linker functionalization

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06986A, Paper
Open Access
Antonija Ferbezar, Roman Zettl, Katharina Hogrefe, Harald Fitzek, Bernhard Gadermaier, Martin Wilkening, Ilie Hanzu
Solid-state ion conductors have improved significantly in the past decade. Envisioned applications range from metal anode batteries and fuel cells to sensors and medical technologies. The choice of solid electrolytes...
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Multifunctional buried interface modification for efficient and stable SnO2-based perovskite solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00108G, Paper
Rui Wu, Junhua Meng, Yiming Shi, Zhengchang Xia, Chunxia Yan, Lisheng Zhang, Wenkang Liu, Jinliang Zhao, JinXiang Deng, Xing Wang Zhang
Buried interface modification with multiple roles is key to boost the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, a multifunctional passivator, N-(2-hydroxyethyl) ethylene diamine triacetic acid trisodium salt (HEDTA-3Na), is...
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An electrically conducting 3D coronene-based metal–organic framework

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07120K, Communication
Open Access
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Marina I. Schönherr, Patricia I. Scheurle, Laura Frey, Marta Martínez-Abadía, Markus Döblinger, Andre Mähringer, Dominik Fehn, Lena Gerhards, Irina Santourian, Alfred Schirmacher, Tatjana Quast, Gunther Wittstock, Thomas Bein, Karsten Meyer, Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, Dana D. Medina
A novel electrically conducting cubic mesoporous metal–organic framework (MOF), consisting of hexahydroxy-cata-hexabenzocoronene (c-HBC) and FeIII ions is presented.
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Efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution based on Z-scheme 2D OV-LaVO4/Mo-doped SV-ZnIn2S4 heterojunctions

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00754A, Paper
Wei Guan, Lin Zhang, Peng Wang, Ying Wang, Haoyu Wang, Xingchen Dong, Liyan Yu, Zhixing Gan, Lifeng Dong, Lina Sui
The purposeful design and construction of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterojunctions offers a promising avenue for achieving efficient photocatalytic activity. However, the challenge of enabling efficient charge migration at the interface...
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Melatonin treatment as an anti-aging therapy for UV-related degradation of perovskite solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01332H, Paper
Fei Liu, Agnes Valencia, Yuhua Zhu, Xiangyang Zhang, Weilu Li, Walid A. Daoud
With the ability to absorb UV light and scavenge radicals, the melatonin modified perovskite exhibits enhanced anti-aging and resistance to UV-related degradation.
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Closed pore structure engineering from ultra-micropores with the assistance of polypropylene for boosted sodium ion storage

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01375A, Paper
Xue Li, Ning Sun, Shaohong Zhang, Razium Ali Soomro, Bin Xu
Closed pore architectures with exceptional Na-storage performance have been successfully fabricated from ultra-micropores with the assistance of polypropylene.
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Lightweight, elastic and conductive pure PEDOT:PSS foam for dual-mode sensing

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01631A, Paper
Haibin Li, Rubai Luo, Jingbo Hu, Shisheng Zhou, Xing Zhou, Bin Du
Pure PEDOT:PSS foam with a multi-scale porous structure and dual-mode sensing characteristics.
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Enhancing CO2 gasification-reforming of municipal solid waste with Ni/CeO2 and Ni/ZrO2 catalysts

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00665H, Paper
Shiyu Zhang, Yibing Peng, Mengna Wu, Qinghai Li, Yanguo Zhang, Hui Zhou
CO2 gasification-reforming facilitates CO2 utilization and yields CO-rich syngas for municipal waste management. Catalysts are essential for enhancing syngas production via catalytic tar reforming.
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Cubic-to-hexagonal Structural Phase Transition in Metal Halide Compounds: A DFT Study

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06604E, Paper
Iván Ornelas-Cruz, Ramiro M. dos Santos, José E. González, Matheus Paes Lima, Juarez L. F. Da Silva
Phase transitions into photo-inactive structural phases have impacted the use of metal halide perovskites as photovoltaic materials. However, the chemical composition has been found to mitigate this issue. This study...
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Enhanced Hydrogen Production by Assisted Biomass Gasification Using Lithium Manganate as Bifunctional Material

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00224E, Paper
Open Access
Carlos Hernández-Fontes, Nan Wang, Nayeli Gómez-Garduño, Heriberto Pfeiffer
The rising energy demand, among other economic and technological factors, increases the greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is crucial to develop technologies to produce clean energy, such as hydrogen (H2)...
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Harvesting solar energy with a Ni-MOF-based evaporator for efficient solar thermal storage and steam generation

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00203B, Paper
You Xu, Zhengyun Wang, Xianbao Wang, Zhenzhen Guo, Muhammad Sultan Irshad, Naila Arshad, Jiang Gong, Hongfang Liu, Guangfang Li
A hybrid solar evaporator comprising a Ni-based metal–organic framework material and a phase change material composite was fabricated for high performance solar-thermal energy storage and continuous solar vapor generation.
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Fluorophore branching boosted photo-induced energy transfer in UiO-66 for ultrasensitive and instant hydrazine sensing

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01549E, Paper
Ying Luo, Da Lei, Maohua Li, Yuansheng Ge, Jiguang Li, Baiyi Zu, Jun Yao, Xincun Dou
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have made great progress in the field of fluorescent sensing; however, whether the electronic structure and recognized sites can be adjusted by external functionalization still remains challenging.
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S-doped TiN supported N, P, S-tridoped TiO2 with hetero-phase junctions for fuel cell startup/shutdown durability

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA01475H, Paper
Mitsuharu Chisaka, Jubair A. Shamim, Wei-Lun Hsu, Hirofumi Daiguji
A platinum group metal-free S-doped TiN-supported N, P, S-tridoped TiO2 catalyst with anatase/rutile TiO2 hetero-phase junctions is revealed to display a high durability against fuel cell startup/shutdown cycles not to lose its anion dopants.
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Efficient first principles based modeling via machine learning: from simple representations to high entropy materials

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00982G, Paper
Kangming Li, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, Michael Greenwood, Jason Hattrick-Simpers
Generalization performance of machine learning models: (upper panel) generalization from small ordered to large disordered structures (SQS); (lower panel) generalization from low-order to high-order systems.
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Highly selective and high-performance sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone)-based hybrid membrane enabled by complexed UiO-66-NH2 and sulfonated graphitic carbon nitride for vanadium flow battery

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00988F, Paper
Caiyuan Zhao, Haixia Wang, Lang Li, Liping Liu, Xinrui Cui, Haifeng Shi
A series of sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) hybrid membranes (SPEEK/NF) with a constant 1 wt% complexed nanofillers (NF) comprising of UiO-66-NH2 and sulfonated graphitic carbon nitride (s-g-C3N4) are prepared...
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Jack Stoll finds a new home one day after being released by the Eagles

The Eagles former tight end was quickly picked up off waivers this week, now heading to play for the Dolphins.




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Dak Prescott underwent season-ending surgery Wednesday

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott underwent successful surgery in New York on Wednesday, Clarence Hill of alldlls.com reports.




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Kirk Cousins has right shoulder, right elbow injuries

Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins has worked hard to fully overcome the Achilles injury that ended his 2023 season prematurely.




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DK Metcalf has full participation in Wednesday's practice

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said before practice DK Metcalf would have a limited practice Wednesday, and the receiver said he didn't know if he would return to game action this week.