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• On the road to non-toxic and stable perovskite solar cells
  

  The promising halide perovskite materials for solar energy conversion show high efficiencies, but this comes at a cost: The best perovskite materials incorporate toxic lead which poses a hazard to the environment. To replace lead by less toxic elements is not easy since lead-free perovskites show lo more

• Efficient catalyst for water splitting
  

  Chemists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an efficient water splitting catalyst as part of a collaborative international research effort. The catalyst comprises a double-helix semiconductor structure encased in carbon nitride. It is perfect for producing hydrogen economical more

• Nanostructures made of previously impossible material
  

  When you bake a cake, you can combine the ingredients in almost any proportions, and they will still always be able to mix together. This is a little more complicated in materials chemistry. Often, the aim is to change the physical properties of a material by adding a certain proportion of an additi more

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The Tin Hedgehog Experiment

Here’s the start of a new series of collaborations with MEL Science, looking at a number of fun chemistry experiments and the explanations behind them. Today’s initial offering looks at how zinc pellets can be transformed into tin hedgehogs with some simple chemistry. more

The Metals in UK Coins

In the wake of the recent announcement of a new £1 coin to be introduced in 2017, today’s post looks at some of the metals present in the coins of the United Kingdom. All of these coins are produced using alloys, or mixtures of metals; the main metals used include copper, nickel, zinc and iron. The more

Group 4 Elements

This latest infographic focuses on the Group 4 (Group 14 in IUPAC nomenclature) elements. One extra fact to add for the curious: although tin has the greatest number of stable isotopes, Xenon trumps it comprehensively if unstable isotopes are also included in the count, with well over 30 possible is more

Publications Tin

• Capacity fading mechanism of tin phosphide anodes in sodium-ion batteries

  Tin phosphide (Sn4P3) is here investigated as an anode material in half-cell, symmetrical, and full-cell sodium-ion batteries. Results from the half-cells using two different electrolyte salts of that sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (NaFSI) or sodium hexafluorophosphate (NaPF6) show that NaFSI provi more

• Structural investigations of SnS1-xSex solid solution synthesized from chalcogeno-carboxylate complexes of organo-tin by the colloidal and solvent-less route

  Tin chalcogenides are important semiconducting materials due to their non-toxicity, cost effectiveness and layered structure. In this study, a facile synthetic route has been used for the synthesis of a bis(selenobenzoato)dibutyltin(IV) complex, and used along with the bis(thiobenzoato)dibutyltin(IV more

• Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1119: High-Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with High Active Nitrogen Fluxes

  Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1119: High-Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with High Active Nitrogen Fluxes Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071119 Authors: Tin S. Cheng Alex Summerfield Christopher J. Mellor Andrei N. Khlobystov Laurence Eaves C. Thomas Foxon more