Tao Ma

ORCID: 0000-0003-0754-4580
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Research Areas
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Inorganic Chemistry and Materials
  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

Shenzhen University
2021-2025

University of Science and Technology of China
2017-2025

Chaohu University
2024-2025

Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013-2024

Shanxi Datong University
2024

Institute of Modern Physics
2020-2024

Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale
2017-2024

Southeast University
2023-2024

Yunnan University
2024

University of Michigan
2020-2024

Selective and efficient catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added fuels feedstocks provides an ideal avenue to high-density renewable energy storage. An impediment enabling deep CO2 reduction oxygenates hydrocarbons (e.g., C2+ compounds) is the difficulty coupling carbon-carbon bonds efficiently. Copper in +1 oxidation state has been thought be active for catalyzing formation, whereas it prone being reduced Cu0 at cathodic potentials. Here we report that catalysts with...

10.1021/jacs.0c01699 article EN Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020-03-16

A sustainable bulk structural material is fabricated with great dimensional stability and mechanical properties.

10.1126/sciadv.aaz1114 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2020-05-01

The incorporation of defects, such as vacancies, into functional materials could substantially tailor their intrinsic properties. Progress in vacancy chemistry has enabled advances many technological applications, but creating new type vacancies existing material system remains a big challenge. We show here that ionized nitrogen plasma can break bonds iron-carbon-nitrogen-nickel units nickel-iron Prussian blue analogues, forming unconventional carbon-nitrogen vacancies. study oxygen...

10.1038/s41467-019-10698-9 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2019-06-26

Bioinspired polymeric woods with excellent overall performance can be fabricated by a self-assembly and curing process of resins.

10.1126/sciadv.aat7223 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2018-08-03

Ultrathick electrode design is a promising strategy to enhance the specific energy of Li-ion batteries (LIBs) without changing underlying materials chemistry. However, low conductivity caused by ultralong transport pathway in traditional random microstructured heavily deteriorates rate performance ultrathick electrodes. Herein, inspired vertical microchannels natural wood as highway for water transport, microstructures are successfully duplicated into bulk LiCoO2 (LCO) cathode via sol-gel...

10.1002/adma.201706745 article EN Advanced Materials 2018-03-30

Abstract A considerable challenge in the conversion of carbon dioxide into useful fuels comes from activation CO 2 to .− or other intermediates, which often requires precious‐metal catalysts, high overpotentials, and/or electrolyte additives (e.g., ionic liquids). We report a microwave heating strategy for synthesizing transition‐metal chalcogenide nanostructure that efficiently catalyzes electroreduction monoxide (CO). found cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanoneedle arrays exhibit an unprecedented...

10.1002/anie.201912348 article EN Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019-12-30

Electrolyte engineering via fluorinated additives is promising to improve cycling stability and safety of high-energy Li-metal batteries. Here, an electrolyte reported in a porous lithium fluoride (LiF) strategy enable efficient carbonate for stable safe Unlike traditionally engineered electrolytes, the prepared LiF nanobox exhibits nonflammability high electrochemical performance owing strong interactions between solvent molecules numerous exposed active (111) crystal planes. Via cryogenic...

10.1002/adma.202102134 article EN Advanced Materials 2021-09-03

Facilitating charge separation and transport of semiconductors is pivotal to improving their solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency. To this end, manipulating the dynamics via element doping has attracted much attentions. Here, we doped phosphorus (P) into two-dimensional (2D) single-crystalline quaternary sulfide (SCQS) nanobelts, enabling significantly enhanced photocatalytic H2 production. By carefully studying carrier after P doping, found that introduction leads a narrowed band gap,...

10.1021/jacs.2c07313 article EN Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022-11-04

Hydrogen production from water electrolysis in neutral-pH electrolytes can not only avoid the corrosion and safety issues expand catalyst option but also potentially integrate with artificial photosynthesis bioelectrocatalysis. However, heterogeneous catalysts that efficiently negotiate sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) neutral solutions are considerably lacking. Herein, we report a template-assisted strategy for synthesis of 13 kinds tube-like nanostructured perovskite oxides (TNPOs)...

10.1021/jacs.2c02989 article EN Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022-07-18

Solid electrolytes (SEs) are central components that enable high-performance, all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs). Amorphous SEs hold great potential for ASSLBs because their grain-boundary-free characteristics facilitate intact solid-solid contact and uniform Li-ion conduction high-performance cathodes. However, amorphous oxide with limited ionic conductivities glassy sulfide narrow electrochemical windows cannot sustain high-nickel Herein, we report a class of Li-Ta-Cl-based...

10.1021/jacs.3c10602 article EN Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023-12-11

Graphene-based fibers (GBFs) are attractive for next-generation wearable electronics due to their potentially high mechanical strength, superior flexibility, and excellent electrical thermal conductivity. Many efforts have been devoted improving these properties of GBFs in the past few years. However, fabricating with strength conductivity simultaneously remains as a great challenge. Herein, inspired by nacre-like multilevel structural design, an interface-reinforced method is developed...

10.1002/adma.201706435 article EN Advanced Materials 2018-02-27

Nitrogen doping of graphene oxide was demonstrated for the first time at a temperature as low 5 °C in ammonia solution with aid ultrasonication. Controlling ultrasonication and bath permitted tuning N level. The resulting doped showed high activity towards oxygen reduction reaction.

10.1039/c6cc08776k article EN Chemical Communications 2016-12-05

Separators, necessary components to isolate cathodes and anodes in Li/Na-ion batteries, are consumed large amounts per year; thus, their sustainability is a concerning issue for renewable energy storage systems. However, the eco-efficient environmentally friendly fabrication of separators with high mechanical strength, excellent thermal stability, good electrolyte wettability still challenging. Herein, we reported new type batteries through self-assembly eco-friendly chitin nanofibers...

10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01875 article EN Nano Letters 2017-07-11

Currently, developing high voltage (beyond 2 V) rechargeable Mg-ion batteries still remains a great challenge owing to the limit of corrosive electrolyte and low compatibility anode material. Here we report facile one step solid state alloying route synthesize nanoclustered Mg3Bi2 alloy as high-performance build up V battery using noncorrosive electrolyte. The fabricated delivers reversible specific capacity (360 mAh g–1) with excellent stability (90.7% retention over 200 cycles) Coulombic...

10.1021/acsnano.8b01847 article EN ACS Nano 2018-04-27

The doping of Pd with a small amount Te can selectively convert CO<sub>2</sub> to CO low overpotential.

10.1039/c7sc03018e article EN cc-by Chemical Science 2017-11-06

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) offers an important pathway for renewable energy storage and fuels production. It still remains a challenge in designing highly selective, energy-efficient, robust, cost-effective electrocatalysts to facilitate this kinetically slow process. Metal-free carbon-based materials have features of low cost, good electrical conductivity, renewability, diverse structure, tunability surface chemistry. In particular, functionalization carbon materials, example by...

10.1088/1361-6528/aa8f6f article EN Nanotechnology 2017-09-27

Abstract Although the Turing structures, or stationary reaction‐diffusion patterns, have received increasing attention in biology and chemistry, making such unusual patterns on inorganic solids is fundamentally challenging. We report a simple cation exchange approach to produce Turing‐type Ag 2 Se CoSe nanobelts relied diffusion‐driven instability. The resultant Se‐CoSe material highly effective catalyze oxygen evolution reaction (OER) alkaline electrolytes with an 84.5 % anodic energy...

10.1002/anie.202017016 article EN Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021-01-15

Solution-processable all-inorganic CsPbI3-xBrx perovskite holds great potential for pure red light-emitting diodes. However, the widely existing defects in this mixed halide markedly limit efficiency and stability of present diode devices. We here identify that intragrain Ruddlesden-Popper planar are primary forms such thin film owing to lattice strain caused by inhomogeneous halogen ion distribution. To eliminate these defects, we develop a stepwise metastable phase crystallization strategy...

10.1126/sciadv.abq2321 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2022-11-11
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