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- 2017-06-13 Making Li-metal electrodes rechargeable by controlling the dendrite growth direction
- The long-standing issue of Li-dendrite formation and growth during repeated plating or stripping processes prevents the practical application of Li-metal anodes for high-specific-energy batteries. Her...
- 2017-06-13 Fundamental transport mechanisms, fabrication and potential applications of nanoporous atomically thin membranes
- Graphene and other two-dimensional materials offer a new approach to controlling mass transport at the nanoscale. These materials can sustain nanoscale pores in their rigid lattices and due to their m...
- 2017-06-13 Free-standing supramolecular hydrogel objects by reaction-diffusion
- Self-assembly provides access to a variety of molecular materials, yet spatial control over structure formation remains difficult to achieve. Here we show how reaction–diffusion (RD) can be coupled t...
- 2017-06-13 Origin of the crossover from polarons to Fermi liquids in transition metal oxides
- Transition metal oxides host a wealth of exotic phenomena ranging from charge, orbital and magnetic order to nontrivial topological phases and superconductivity. In order to translate these unique mat...
- 2017-06-13 Carbon nanotube-based three-dimensional monolithic optoelectronic integrated system
- Single material-based monolithic optoelectronic integration with complementary metal oxide semiconductor-compatible signal processing circuits is one of the most pursued approaches in the post-Moore e...
- 2017-06-13 Ultra-bright and highly efficient inorganic based perovskite light-emitting diodes
- Inorganic perovskites such as CsPbX3 (X=Cl, Br, I) have attracted attention due to their excellent thermal stability and high photoluminescence quantum efficiency. However, the electroluminescence qua...
- 2017-06-08 Electric-field control of tri-state phase transformation with a selective dual-ion switch
- Materials can be transformed from one crystalline phase to another by using an electric field to control ion transfer, in a process that can be harnessed in applications such as batteries, smart windo...
- 2017-06-08 Hydrolytically stable fluorinated metal-organic frameworks for energy-efficient dehydration
- Natural gas must be dehydrated before it can be transported and used, but conventional drying agents such as activated alumina or inorganic molecular sieves require an energy-intensive desiccant-regen...
- 2017-06-08 Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit
- Since the discovery of graphene, the family of two-dimensional materials has grown, displaying a broad range of electronic properties. Recent additions include semiconductors with spin–valley couplin...
- 2017-06-08 Horizontally aligned carbon nanotube arrays: growth mechanism, controlled synthesis, characterization, properties and applications
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted worldwide research interest in the past two decades owing to their extraordinary properties and wide applications in numerous fields. Among various types of CNTs...
- 2017-06-08 High-harmonic generation in graphene enhanced by elliptically polarized light excitation
- The electronic properties of graphene can give rise to a range of nonlinear optical responses. One of the most desirable nonlinear optical processes is high-harmonic generation (HHG) originating from ...
- 2017-06-06 Electron crystallography for determining the handedness of a chiral zeolite nanocrystal
- Chiral crystals can be exploited for applications in enantioselective separation and catalysis. However, the study of chirality at the atomic level in a sub-micrometre-sized crystal is difficult due t...
- 2017-06-06 Giant thermal Hall effect in multiferroics
- Multiferroics, in which dielectric and magnetic orders coexist and couple with each other, attract renewed interest for their cross-correlated phenomena offering a fundamental platform for novel funct...
- 2017-06-06 A solid-state single-photon filter
- A strong limitation of linear optical quantum computing is the probabilistic operation of two-quantum-bit gates based on the coalescence of indistinguishable photons. A route to deterministic operatio...
- 2017-06-06 Energy-dependent path of dissipation in nanomechanical resonators
- Energy decay plays a central role in a wide range of phenomena , such as optical emission, nuclear fission, and dissipation in quantum systems. Energy decay is usually described as a system leaking en...
- 2017-06-02 Designing lead-free antiferroelectrics for energy storage
- Dielectric capacitors, although presenting faster charging/discharging rates and better stability compared with supercapacitors or batteries, are limited in applications due to their low energy densit...
- 2017-06-02 Hierarchically structured lithium titanate for ultrafast charging in long-life high capacity batteries
- High-performance Li-ion batteries require materials with well-designed and controlled structures on nanometre and micrometre scales. Electrochemical properties can be enhanced by reducing crystallite ...
- 2017-06-02 Rationally designed mineralization for selective recovery of the rare earth elements
- The increasing demand for rare earth (RE) elements in advanced materials for permanent magnets, rechargeable batteries, catalysts and lamp phosphors necessitates environmentally friendly approaches fo...
- 2017-06-02 Virtual substrate method for nanomaterials characterization
- Characterization techniques available for bulk or thin-film solid-state materials have been extended to substrate-supported nanomaterials, but generally non-quantitatively. This is because the nanomat...
- 2017-06-02 Solid-state ensemble of highly entangled photon sources at rubidium atomic transitions
- Semiconductor InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown by the Stranski–Krastanov method are among the leading candidates for the deterministic generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs. Despite remarkabl...