Scientists have trapped electrons in defects on sheets of hexagonal boron nitride and used their interaction with light to probe their quantum states.
20 February 2019
For the first time, researchers have directly imaged ‘edge conduction’ in monolayer tungsten ditelluride, a 2D topological insulator.
18 February 2019
A ruthenium-based catalyst shows markedly better performance than commercial platinum catalysts at splitting water for hydrogen production.
16 February 2019
Researchers have uncovered the mechanisms that lead to improved performance when alkali metal is added to traditional perovskites.
15 February 2019
new type of electric field effect can control light emission from perovskite devices
13 February 2019Cordelia Sealy
A nanomechanical device equipped in SEM was creatively designed to achieve quantitative in-situ tensile test of individual SnO2 NWs.
11 February 2019Jiashen Meng
A new electron microscopy technique has revealed how atomic species attached to layers of the 2D material MXene can affect its properties.
7 February 2019
Increasing the pressure on a superconducting bismuth material can cause its transition temperature to increase after initially dropping.
4 February 2019