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Metal-free efficient photocatalyst for stable visible water splitting——Top ten major scientific progresses in China in 2015
The nano-resolution imaging platform was awarded the first rate prize of Beijing Science and Technology in 2014
Beamline 1W1 of BSRF started to runoperate in the couplingparasitic mode of BEPCII
Synthesis of High Performance Polymer Materials for Field Effect-Transistors
Surfactant molecular aggregates in green solvents
GIXRD has played an important role in the characterization of organic thin-film transistors

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	Wu Yuen's research group of the University of Science and Technology of China, Li Yafei's research group of Nanjing Normal University and Duan Haohong's research group of Oxford University have developed a simple synthesis method. Through the solid-diffusion strategy, the bulk metal is directly converted into a hierarchical structure self-supported structure of single atom catalyst, this method is easy to achieve ...

	Single atom catalysts (SACs) feature the maximum atom economy and superior performance for various catalysis fields, attracting tremendous attention in materials science. However, conventional synthesis of SACs involves high energy consumption at high temperature, complicated procedures, a massive waste of metal species and poor yields, greatly impeding the development of SACs. Herein, Wu’s group presents a facil...

	In this work, a porphyrinic Zirconium MOF, PCN-222, has been selected as the precursor. By varying the metal species incorporated in the porphyrin center of PCN-222, a series of single-atom metals (Fe, Co, Ni) implanted in N-doped carbon (denoted as Fe1-N-C, Co1-N-C and Ni1-N-C) with identical structures, were successfully constructed and used as model electrocatalysts for nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) (Figure...

	Prof. Zhang Jianling’ group from the Institute of Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences propose the hierarchically macroporous, mesoporous and microporous carbon nanosheets (CNs) doped with selenium (Se) for efficient electrochemical CO2RR.

	Professor Liang Hai-Wei (USTC), Lin Yue (USTC) and Chu Sheng-Qi (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS) reported the use of mesoporous sulfur-doped carbons (meso_S-C) with high specific area as supports to achieve a series of high-loading atomically dispersed noble metal catalysts, including Pt, Ir, Rh, Ru and Pd, and the loading of Pt and Ir reached to 10 wt%. The result was published in Science Advances (Sci. Ad...

	Developing efficient noble-metal-free catalysts for the electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions shows promise in fertilizer production and hydrogen storage. However, there is still a grand challenge but blossoming interest to achieve the high-efficiency electrochemical NRR in aqueous media. A team from college of materials science and engineering of Jilin University has designed an Fe-...