A HSO-TiCT ion-gel is fabricated to prevent the restacking of TiCT for high-rate micro-supercapacitors. The ion-gel pillared by an electrolyte possesses an enlarged interlayer spacing facilitating ion transport. Furthermore, a bilayer structure is designed with dry TiCT for fast electron conduction. The bilayer TiCT film shows improved capacitance from 49% to 73% of the initial capacitance at a high scan rate of 200 mV s, along with excellent cycle stability. This study opens up a concise and efficient way for high-performance micro-supercapacitors.
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July 2017
Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
Planarizable push-pull fluorescent probes, also referred to as flipper probes, have been introduced as conceptually innovative mechanophores that report on forces in their local environment in lipid bilayer membranes. The best flipper probes respond to a change from liquid disordered to solid ordered membranes with a red shift in excitation of 50-90 nm. A simultaneous increase in fluorescence lifetime and negligible background fluorescence from the aqueous phase qualifies these fluorescent probes for meaningful imaging in live cells.
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May 2015
Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 333 031, Rajasthan, India. Electronic address:
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July 2012
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India.
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