Yi Cui

Energy storage: The future enabled by nanomaterials

Thinking small to store more From mobile devices to the power grid, the needs for high-energy density or high-power density energy storage materials continue to grow. Materials ...

High-efficiency oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide catalysed by oxidized carbon materials

Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries

Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene

Graphene's success has shown that it is possible to create stable, single and few-atom-thick layers of van der Waals materials, and also that these materials can exhibit fascina...

Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices

Nanowires and nanotubes carry charge and excitons efficiently, and are therefore potentially ideal building blocks for nanoscale electronics and optoelectronics. Carbon nanotube...

Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks

Miniaturization in electronics through improvements in established “top-down” fabrication techniques is approaching the point where fundamental issues are expected to limit the ...

Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials

Materials for lithium-ion battery safety

We summarize the origins of lithium-ion battery safety issues and discuss recent progress in materials design to improve safety.