David Salinas‐Torres、Ramiro Ruíz-Rosas、Emilia Morallón 等 4 位作者2019-05-29Frontiers in Materials
The increasing worldwide energy consumption has contributed to both the vast growth of greenhouse emissions from carbon-containing fuels-based sources (coal, petroleum, etc.) and the depletion of the aforementioned sources. Given this scenario, the development of inexpensive and high-performing energy storage devices,…
Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced battery technologies researchAdvancements in Battery Materials
Rong Zeng、Zongcai Li、Longbin Li 等 8 位作者2019-05-29ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) is a promising electrode material for supercapacitors, attributing to attractive physical properties, outstanding electrical properties, and ultrahigh exposed surface area. However, MoS 2 bulk suffers from low capacity due to the overlaying of the layers and the poor elect…
Conducting polymers and applicationsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationMXene and MAX Phase Materials
Nuno Gama、Artur Ferreira、Ana Barros‐Timmons2019-05-29Materials & Design
Even though the production of 3D printed foams has already been widely studied, the main focus of the reports has been on their mechanical properties or their cushion behavior. In the present work a preliminary approach is made concerning the potential application of 3D printed PU foams for thermal applications with e…
Natural Fiber Reinforced CompositesPolymer Foaming and CompositesPolymer composites and self-healing
Victoria Y. Chang、Chiara Fedele、Arri Priimägi 等 5 位作者2019-05-29Advanced Optical Materials
Abstract Photoreversible optically switchable azo dye molecules in polymer‐based materials can be harnessed to control a wide range of physical, chemical, and mechanical material properties in response to light, that can be exploited for optical control over the bio‐interface. As a stimulus for reversibly influencing…
Photochromic and Fluorescence ChemistryPhotoreceptor and optogenetics researchSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Xiao Zhou、Normand Mousseau、Jun Song2019-05-29Physical Review Letters
We perform comprehensive first-principles calculations and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to explicitly elucidate the distinct roles of grain boundaries (GBs) in affecting hydrogen (H) diffusion in fcc nickel (Ni). We demonstrate the transition between slow and fast H diffusion along the GB with an abrupt change in H…
Fusion materials and technologiesNuclear Materials and PropertiesHydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
Luca Guerrini、Ramón A. Álvarez‐Puebla2019-05-29Cancers
As medicine continues to advance our understanding of and knowledge about the complex and multifactorial nature of cancer, new major technological challenges have emerged in the design of analytical methods capable of characterizing and assessing the dynamic heterogeneity of cancer for diagnosis, prognosis and monitor…
Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical ResearchAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
Tian Ma、Qiuping Huang、Hongchuan He 等 6 位作者2019-05-29Optics Express
A novel electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) all-dielectric metamaterial is proposed, fabricated, and characterized. The unit cell of the proposed metamaterial comprises of two asymmetric split ring resonators (a-SRRs) positioned with a mirror symmetry. The asymmetric nature of a-SRRs results from the length…
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchMetamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsTerahertz technology and applications
Shuaiwei Wang、Yubing Si、Baocheng Yang 等 5 位作者2019-05-29The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Auxetic materials possess special applications due to their unique negative Poisson's ratios (NPRs). As a classic 2D carbon material, the NPR of graphene is still deliberated. Introducing the NPR in graphene would increase its extraordinary properties, and the NPR together with other properties would bring more signif…
MXene and MAX Phase MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsAdvancements in Battery Materials
Yubing Hu、Ting Han、Neng Yan 等 8 位作者2019-05-29Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract Acid‐base homeostasis is crucial for normal physiology, metabolism, and functions of living organisms. Thus, the development of effective techniques to monitor it either in vitro or in vivo is in great demand. Herein, a series of multifunctional oxazine‐containing polyheterocycles with aggregation‐induced emi…
Molecular Sensors and Ion DetectionLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsPolydiacetylene-based materials and applications
Halimah Harfah、Yusuf Wicaksono、Muhammad Aziz Majidi 等 4 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
We undertook an ab-initio study of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sandwiched between Ni(111) layers to examine the interface of this material structure. We considered Ni(111)/hBN/Ni(111) with a slab with three Ni atomic layers to determine the exact atom arrangement at the interface. The density functional theory calcu…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Yusuke Sugita、Yasuyuki Kato、Yukitoshi Motome2019-05-29arXiv
A bond-directional anisotropic exchange interaction, called the Kitaev interaction, is a promising route to realize quantum spin liquids. The Kitaev interactions were found in Mott insulators with the strong spin-orbit coupling, in the presence of quantum interference between indirect electron transfers. Here we theor…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
M. J. Cyster、J. S. Smith、J. A. Vaitkus 等 6 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Many nanoelectronic devices rely on thin dielectric barriers through which electrons tunnel. For instance, aluminium oxide barriers are used as Josephson junctions in superconducting electronics. The reproducibility and drift of circuit parameters in these junctions are affected by the uniformity, morphology, and comp…
Materials ScienceSuperconductivityMesoscale and Nanoscale Physicsquant-ph
William Mayer、Matthieu C. Dartiailh、Joseph Yuan 等 6 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field breaks these symmetries and can lead to a finite supercu…
SuperconductivityMaterials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Jie Gu、Biswanath Chakraborty、Mandeep Khatoniar 等 4 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Half-light half-matter quasiparticles termed exciton-polaritons arise through the strong coupling of excitons and cavity photons. They have been used to demonstrate a wide array of fundamental phenomena and potential applications ranging from Bose-Einstein like condensation to analog Hamiltonian simulators and chip-sc…
Applied PhysicsMaterials Science
Fatemeh Adivehvand、Zahra Faraei、Tohid Farajollahpour 等 4 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Using Green's function of semi-infinite Weyl semimetals we find that the collective charge excitations of Fermi arcs in undoped Weyl semi-metals are linearly dispersing gapless plasmon modes. The gaplessness comes from proper consideration of the deep penetration of surface states at the end of Fermi arcs into the int…
Strongly Correlated ElectronsMaterials Science
Huanhuan Song、Jinshan Yao、Yuanfeng Ding 等 8 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Exploring new topological materials with large topological nontrivial bandgaps and simple composition is attractive for both theoretical investigation and experimental realization. Recently alpha tin (α-Sn) has been predicted to be such a candidate and it can be tuned to be either a topological insulator or a Dirac se…
Applied PhysicsMaterials Science
Simone Assali、Marco Albani、Roberto Bergamaschini 等 9 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Strain engineering in Sn-rich group IV semiconductors is a key enabling factor to exploit the direct band gap at mid-infrared wavelengths. Here, we investigate the effect of strain on the growth of GeSn alloys in a Ge/GeSn core/shell nanowire geometry. Incorporation of Sn content in the 10-20 at.% range is achieved wi…
Applied PhysicsMaterials Science
N. V. Leppenen、E. L. Ivchenko、L. E. Golub2019-05-29arXiv
We have studied theoretically the Weyl semimetals the point symmetry group of which has reflection planes and which contain equivalent valleys with opposite chiralities. These include the most frequently studied compounds, namely the transition metals monopnictides TaAs, NbAs, TaP, NbP, and also Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$ alloy…
quant-phMaterials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Shinsaku Funada、Tomoe Nishimura、Yoichi Shiota 等 7 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
Recent advances in antiferromagnetic spin dynamics using rare-earth (RE) and transition-metal (TM) ferrimagnets have attracted much interest for spintronic devices with a high speed and density. In this study, the spin wave properties in the magnetostatic backward volume mode and surface mode in RE-TM ferrimagnetic $G…
Materials Science
Hongyi Sun、Bowen Xia、Zhongjia Chen 等 10 位作者2019-05-29arXiv
As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle calculations, we establish a topological phase diagram and map on it with different two-d…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics