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Electrodeposition of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide/cotton yarn with tunable electrochemical performance for flexible textile supercapacitors

Graphene/cotton fibers show significant promise in wearable energy storage due to their low cost, porous structure, and exceptional integration ability into wearable systems. However, the eco-unfriendly reductants and standalone electric double-layer capac ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Jupyter widgets and extensions for education and research in computational physics and chemistry

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Kristjan Eimre, Dou Du

Interactive notebooks are a precious tool for creating graphical user interfaces and teaching materials. Python and Jupyter are becoming increasingly popular in this context, with Jupyter widgets at the core of the interactive functionalities. However, whi ...

2024

Cotton yarns decorated with hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide for flexible supercapacitors

Xing Wang, Dou Du, Lin Li

Cotton fibers, a natural cellulose, have played a critical role in the development of wearable energy storage, owning to their wearability, integrability, eco-benignity, and cost effectiveness. Graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material, possesses excelle ...

Elsevier2023

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Dou Du

In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

Boosting Li-Ion Diffusion Kinetics of Na(2)Ti(6-x)Mo(x)O(13 )via Coherent Dimensional Engineering and Lattice Tailoring: An Alternative High-Rate Anode

Dou Du

Featured with an exposed active facet, favorable ion diffusion pathway, and tailorable interfacial properties, low-dimensional structures are extensively explored as alternative electroactive materials with game-changing redox properties. Through a stepwis ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Exploiting the capacity merits of Si anodes in the energy-dense prototypes via a homogeneous prelithiation therapy

Dou Du

The practical exploitation of the high-capacity Si anodes suffers from the insufficient cation utilization degree in the energy-dense batteries, which originates from unstable interfacial dynamics, lithiation-induced mechanical stress, and irreversible Li ...

Elsevier2022

Metal-organic framework-based hydrogel with structurally dynamic properties as a stimuli-responsive localized drug delivery system for cancer therapy

Dou Du, Xiaoxiao He, Can Zhang

Metal-organic framework (MOF) is an exciting class of porous biomaterials that have been considered as a carrier to store and deliver therapeutic drugs. However, similar to other nanomaterials, the application of MOF in clinical settings is still limited b ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Phase Engineering and Alkali Cation Stabilization for 1T Molybdenum Dichalcogenides Monolayers

Dou Du

The technological barriers of the dimensional engineering and interfacial instability seriously hinder the scalable production of metallic (1T) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) monolayers. In this article, a facile and fast electron injection strateg ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Affinity-Engineered Flexible Scaffold toward Energy-Dense, Highly Reversible Na Metal Batteries

Dou Du

The practical deployment of metallic anodes in the energy-dense batteries is impeded by the thermodynamically unstable interphase in contact with the aprotic electrolyte, structural collapse of the substrates as well as their insufficient affinity toward t ...

WILEY2022

Riveting the atomically distributed lithiophilic centers in the CNT-reinforced interfacial layer: an ultrathin, light-weight deposition substrate toward superior Li utilization

Dou Du

The dynamically unstable interfacial properties and the low Li-utilization degree hinder the practical use of metallic lithium anodes in energy-dense battery construction with limited cation sources (lean electrolyte in the anode-free/anode-less model). He ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Lanthanide-Bisphosphonate Coordination Chemistry: Biocompatible Fluorescent Labeling Strategy for Hydrogel

Dou Du

Fluorescent hydrogel demonstrates great potential in biomedical field as chemo/biosensor and bioimaging agent Herein, a labeling strategy based on coordination bond between lanthanide and bisphosphonate (BP) is reported to form fluorescent hydrogel. Specif ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

AiiDAlab - an ecosystem for developing, executing, and sharing scientific workflows

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Berend Smit, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Casper Welzel Andersen, Carl Simon Adorf, Dou Du

Cloud platforms allow users to execute tasks directly from their web browser and are a key enabling technology not only for commerce but also for computational science. Research software is often developed by scientists with limited experience in (and time ...

ELSEVIER2021

SnSb binary alloy induced heterogeneous nucleation within the confined nanospace: Toward dendrite-free, flexible and energy/power dense sodium metal batteries

Dou Du, Yujie Liu

Rechargeable sodium (Na) metal batteries (SMBs) provide an alternative energy-dense, low-cost energy storage system beyond prevailing Li-ion technologies. However, their practical deployment requires the performance evaluation of Na anodes on the device le ...

ELSEVIER2021