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The use of diamondoids as structure-directing agents allows the synthesis of metal–organic chalcogenide nanowires with an inorganic core having a three-atom cross-section and band-like conductivity.
Mesoporous metal–organic frameworks containing unsaturated Cr(III) sites are able to thermodynamically and selectively capture nitrogen from mixtures with oxygen and methane.
Garnet-type electrolytes are attractive for lithium metal batteries due to their high ionic conductivity. A strategy to decrease interfacial impedance between a lithium metal anode and garnet electrolyte is found promising for all-solid-state batteries.
Laser-excited muon pump–probe spin spectroscopy and analysis of avoided level crossing resonances are used to probe the time evolution of the chemical reactivity of individual carbon atoms in TIPS-pentacene after light excitation.
Small molecular additives incorporated into films of conjugate polymers are shown to fill the voids present in the polymer network. As a result, the stability of organic transistors based on these materials is significantly improved.
Acoustically opaque glass can regain its transparency through coherently driven fields. Combining experiments and theory, the phononic saturation process is presented as analogous to the spectral hole burning process.
The control of biophysical cues during the culture of human pluripotent stem cells on biomaterial substrates can be used to replicate the in vivo amniogenic environment and direct in vitro generation of early human amniotic tissue.
Topologically protected bound states in parity–time-symmetric non-Hermitian photonic lattices are theoretically predicted and experimentally demonstrated.
Capacitive energy storage is an attractive alternative to batteries, but electrochemical capacitors are limited by their low energy density. Oxygen vacancies are now shown to enhance the electrochemical properties of MoO3−x.
A solution process for the diffusion of dopants in organic semiconducting films over a limited depth has been developed. The method is applied to single polymers and donor–acceptor mixtures, and for the realization of single-layer solar cells.
A theoretically proposed photonic crystal design with valley-dependent spin-split bulk bands allows for the independent control of valley and topology in a single system.
Electrochemical storage devices in the liquid state are promising but they suffer from low redox species density. An approach based on biredox ionic liquids now demonstrates bulk-like redox density compatible with supercapacitor applications.
In situ atomic-scale imaging of deformation in silver nanocrystals reveals that it is possible to achieve deformability and high strength, attributed to a coupling mechanism between crystal slip and surface diffusional creep.
Spin-current-induced magnetization reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized thulium iron garnet film is reported. The spin current is driven by the current flowing through a Pt overlayer.
Polar terminations are crucial to control the properties of surfaces, but they are intrinsically unstable. Entropic configurational contributions are now demonstrated to have a predominant role in the stability of CeO2(100) surface termination.
The 3D structure of a diffracting volume can be reconstructed from a set of 2D coherent Bragg diffraction patterns. The overdetermination afforded by ptychography allows the deconvolution of the third dimension, without having to rotate the sample.