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Materials Science Jul 16, 2020

Graphene-adsorbate van der Waals bonding memory inspires 'smart' graphene sensors

Monolayer graphene, an atomic-layer thick sheet of carbon, has found immense applications in diverse fields including chemical sensors and detecting single molecule adsorption events electronically. Therefore, monitoring ...

Nanomaterials Jul 15, 2020

Researchers using ultraviolet lasers make unprecedented measurement of nanomaterials

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.

Materials Science Jul 8, 2020

Bright early light of LEDs

LED lamps are lighting up the world more and more. Global LED sales in residential lighting have risen from five percent of the market in 2013 to 40 percent in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency, and other ...

Superconductivity Jun 24, 2020

'Ironing' out the differences: Understanding superconductivity in ultrathin FeSe

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) elucidate the underlying cause behind the different critical transition temperatures reported for ultrathin iron selenide (FeSe) superconductors. Their results clarify ...

Biochemistry Jun 15, 2020

Salt solution produces better organic electrochemical transistors

Doping is commonly used to improve performance in semiconducting devices but has not previously been successful for electron transporting or n-type, organic electronic materials. Now, an approach developed by KAUST uses a ...

Materials Science Jun 11, 2020

New findings help design highly efficient metal oxide catalyst for ozone removal

Atmospheric ozone (O3) has become one of the major air pollutants. Catalytic decomposition is one efficient and economical technology in O3 removal, where metal oxides can serve as cost-effective catalysts substituting for ...

Quantum Physics Jun 4, 2020

Observing topological edge states using moiré patterns

NUS physicists have found a new way to create and tune the topological edge states in two-dimensional (2-D) topological insulators (TIs) for potential spintronic device applications.

Quantum Physics May 26, 2020

Researchers discover physical origin of electronic phase separation phenomena in complex oxides

A Chinese joint team has conducted a study and discovered the physical origin of electronic phase separation phenomena in complex oxides.

Materials Science May 20, 2020

2-D molecular crystals modulating electronic properties of organic semiconductors

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are the heart of plastic electronics. Doping has been shown to improve the performance of OFETs effectively. There are two major ways of doping OSCs.

Materials Science May 13, 2020

Organic small molecule hole-transporting layers toward efficient p-i-n perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) show great potential in photoelectric fields due to high power conversion efficiency (PCE), simple processing technology, low fabrication cost, etc.. Recently, the highest certificated PCE ...

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