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Borophene is the New Graphene
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Electronic Analogue to Mie Scattering in Graphene
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Novel Graphene-Based Composites
Highly Integrated Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Architectures by Noncovalent Exfoliation of Graphite and Assembly with Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles
Wire Supercapacitors – Key Candidate to Future Wearable Electronic Devices
Prof. Guozhen Shen’s group has designed and fabricated metres-long flexible wire-shaped supercapacitors, which can be easily woven into wearable and patterned textiles.
Efficient, Neuron-Inspired Computing
Jeong et al. argue that a change in paradigm away from the CPU+Memory computing approach and towards a materials approach which mimics biological neurons as synapses is needed.
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