June’s Hot Articles!

These papers are HOT as recommended by referees. All are free to read for 4 weeks!

Design of conductive crown ether based columnar liquid crystals: impact of molecular flexibility and geometry
P. Staffeld, M. Kaller, S. J. Beardsworth, K. Tremel, S. Ludwigs, S. Laschat and F. Giesselmann



A sulfur-assisted strategy to decorate MWCNTs with highly dispersed Pt nanoparticles for counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells
Jian Wei Guo, Bo Zhang, Yu Hou, Shuang Yang, Xiao Hua Yang and Hua Gui Yang



Efficient catalytic conversion of ammonia borane to borazine and its use for hexagonal boron nitride (white graphene)
Sung-Kwan Kim, Hyunjin Cho, Myung Jong Kim, Hee-Jun Lee, Jin-hyung Park, Young-Boo Lee, Hwan Chul Kim, Chang Won Yoon, Suk Woo Nam and Sang Ook Kang

These papers are free to access until 16th July!


Naphthodithiophenes as building units for small molecules to polymers; a case study for in-depth understanding of structure–property relationships in organic semiconductors
Itaru Osaka, Shoji Shinamura, Toru Abe and Kazuo Takimiya



Multi-layered mesoporous TiO2 thin films with large pores and highly crystalline frameworks for efficient photoelectrochemical conversion
Dan Feng, Wei Luo, Junyong Zhang, Ming Xu, Renyuan Zhang, Haoyu Wu, Lingying Lv, Abdullah M. Asiri, Sher Bahader Khan, Mohammed M. Rahman, Gengfeng Zheng and Dongyuan Zhao


Magnesium and magnesium-silicide coated silicon nanowire composite anodes for lithium-ion batteries
Alireza Kohandehghan, Peter Kalisvaart, Martin Kupsta, Beniamin Zahiri, Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz, Zhipeng Li, Elmira L. Memarzadeh, Leonid A. Bendersky and David Mitlin

These papers are free to access until 9th July!


Effects of self-assembled monolayer structural order, surface homogeneity and surface energy on pentacene morphology and thin film transistor device performance
Daniel Orrin Hutchins, Tobias Weidner, Joe Baio, Brent Polishak, Orb Acton, Nathan Cernetic, Hong Ma and Alex K.-Y. Jen


Synthesis and characterization of Thermally Rearranged (TR) polymers: influence of ortho-positioned functional groups of polyimide precursors on TR process and gas transport properties
Ruilan Guo, David F. Sanders, Zachary P. Smith, Benny D. Freeman, Donald R. Paul and James E. McGrath


Surface aging at olivine LiFePO4: a direct visual observation of iron dissolution and the protection role of nano-carbon coating
Jiajun Wang, Jinli Yang, Yongji Tang, Ruying Li, Guoxian Liang, Tsun-Kong Sham and Xueliang Sun

These papers are free to access until 1st July!



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