Van der Waals materials have attracted considerable attention due to their exotic electronic properties that can be altered by manipulating the twist angle of bilayers or the stacking sequence of trilayers.
The mechanisms of van der Waals (vdW) epitaxial growth of monolayer two-dimensional (2D) crystals from amorphous precursors were revealed by in situ pulsed laser heating within a TEM and first-principles calculations.
Researchers discovered that Li infiltration in solid oxide electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries is associated with local electronic structure at grain boundaries (GBs) rather than exclusively at Li-electrolyte interfaces as in Li-ion batt
Scientists demonstrated switching between topological and magnetic ground states by controlling the concentration of magnetic defects in a crystal.
The effect of aluminum zero mode waveguides ZMWs (Al-ZMWs) on the photophysical properties of quantum dots (QDs) was investigated.
2D materials have attracted tremendous interest as functional materials due to their diverse and tunable edge properties.
Demonstrated that structural order parameters and local concentration-driven phase transitions can be described on atomic level from scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data.
Precision synthesis approach discovered that epitaxial strain can deliberately position transition metals at a certain crystallographic position in a composite ferroelectric.
Slight imperfections in state-of-the-art electronics demand novel corrections in the search for a rare nuclear decay.
Electrides are an unusual family of materials that feature loosely bonded electrons that occupy special interstitial sites and serve as anions.