This article concerns the detailed investigations on the silver dendrite‐assisted growth of single‐crystalline silicon nanowires, and their possible self‐assembling nanoelectrochemistry growth mechanism. The growth of silicon nanowires was carried out through an electroless metal deposition process in a conventional autoclave containing aqueous HF and AgNO3 solution near room temperature. In order to explore the mechanism and prove the centrality of silver dendrites in the growth of silicon nanowires, other etching solution systems with different metal species were also investigated in this work. The morphology of etched silicon substrates strongly depends upon the composition of the etching solution, especially the metal species. Our experimental results prove that the simultaneous formation of silver dendrites is a guarantee of the preservation of free‐standing nanoscale electrolytic cells on the silicon substrate, and also assists in the final formation of silicon nanowire arrays on the substrate surface.
Phonon density of states calculation shows that a new TiO 2 polymorph with tridymite structure is mechanically stable.Enthalpies of 9 TiO 2 polymorphs under different pressure are presented to study the relative stability of the TiO 2 polymorphs. Band structures for the TiO 2 polymorphs are calculated by density functional theory with generalized gradient approximation and the band energies at high symmetry k-points are corrected using the GW method to accurately determine the band gap. The differences between direct band gap energies and indirect band gap energies are very small for rutile, columbite and baddeleyite TiO 2 , indicating a quasi-direct band gap character. The band gap energies of baddeleyite (quasi-direct) and brookite (direct) TiO 2 are close to that of anatase (indirect) TiO 2 . The band gap of the newly predicted tridymite-structured TiO 2 is wider than the other 8 polymorphs. For optical response calculations, two-particle effects have been included by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for Coulomb correlated electron-hole pairs. TiO 2 with cotunnite, pyrite, and fluorite structures have optical transitions in the visible light region.
Mn-based
aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are promising candidate
for large-scale rechargeable energy storage because of easy fabrication,
low cost, and high safety. Nevertheless, the commercial application
of Mn-based cathode is hindered by the challenging issues of low rate
capability and poor cyclability. Herein, a manganese–vanadium
hybrid, K–V2C@MnO2 cathode, featured
with MnO2 nanosheets uniformly formed on a V2CTX MXene surface, is elaborately designed and synthesized
by metal–cation intercalation and following in situ growth strategy. Benefiting from the hybrid structure with high
conductivity, abundant active sites, and the synergistic reaction
of Mn2+ electrodeposition and inhibited structural damage
of MnO2, K–V2C@MnO2 shows
excellent electrochemical performance for aqueous ZIBs. Specifically,
it presents the high specific capacity of 408.1 mAh g–1 at 0.3 A g–1 and maintains the specific capacity
of 119.2 mAh g–1 at a high current density of 10
A g–1 in a long-term cycle of up to 10000 cycles.
It is superior to almost all reported Mn-based cathodes for ZIBs in
the aqueous electrolyte. The superior electrochemical performance
suggests that the Mn-based cathode materials designed in this work
can be a rational approach to be applied for high-performance ZIBs
cathodes.
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