Wei Li

1 month ago | pubs.rsc.org | Wei Li |Haoshen Zhou |Ping He

A highly stable LiNO3/N-methylacetamide deep eutectic electrolyte for rechargeable Li-O2 batteries A deep eutectic electrolyte (DEE) based on LiNO₃-N-methylacetamide (NMA) was developed for Li-O₂ batteries. The strong hydrogen bonding interactions within the electrolyte enable a high LiNO₃ concentration of 3.2 M, which not only enhances the compatibility with the lithium anode but also serves as an efficient oxidation mediator.

1 month ago | nature.com | Yujie Wen |Lei Nie |Meng Wang |Wei Li |Weiping Ding |Junchao Chen

AbstractSingle-atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted significant interest due to their exceptional and tunable performance, enabled by diverse coordination environments achieved through innovative synthetic strategies. However, various local structures of active sites pose significant challenges for precise characterization, a prerequisite for developing structure-activity relationships.

1 month ago | nature.com | Wei Li

Solanum is a diverse genus that includes crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), eggplant (Solanum melongena) and African eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum), a crop that is indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. Benoit et al. constructed a pan-genome of the Solanum genus from chromosome-scale genome assemblies for 22 species, capturing the rich phenotypic and genomic diversity, and investigated paralog evolutionary dynamics.

1 month ago | pubs.rsc.org | Zhaoju Yu |Yaohao Zhang |Chuanmu Tian |Tianshu Jiang |Wei Li

Single-source-precursor synthesis of porous Ni2Si/SiOC composites as oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst In this study, a novel carbon-rich Ni2Si/SiOC ceramic composite was successfully synthesized by polymer-derived ceramic approach, which is found to be catalytically active in the field of oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

1 month ago | nature.com | Huang Fang |Qiong Gao |Jiping Huang |Hua Tong |Zhihong Nie |Hajime Tanaka | +1 more

Abstract“Colloidal molecules” represent artificial colloidal clusters replicating the geometries of molecules and exhibiting flexibility and fluctuations similar to macromolecules and proteins. Their dynamic and anisotropic characters make them unique and indispensable building blocks for creating hierarchically organized superstructures. Despite the progress in synthesizing and assembling colloidal molecules, unveiling their dynamic characters is challenging in experiments.