Recyclable nanoparticles convert solar energy and water into clean water steam with high efficiency.
Hot Electrons Racing through Gold Nanoantennas
Hot electron injection within hybrid metal–transition metal dichalcogenides systems is analyzed and offers new physical insights into enhancement of optoelectronic activity with nanoantennas.
Highlights of the MRS Fall Meeting 2016, Boston
Society is at a crossroads with many topics such as sustainability, energy, medicine, and healthcare. Material science offers many solutions to these problems.
Towards High Performance and High Resolution – Patterning of Organohalide Lead Perovskite Pixels
High-resolution photolithographic patterning of organohalide lead perovskites is made possible using hydrofluoroethers.
Improved Drug Delivery with Layered, Coated Drug Cores
A recent review highlights and discusses the layer-by-layer encapsulation of solid drug particles.
A Burning Question: Anthropogenic Methane!
What are we going to do with the rapidly increasing concentrations of CH4 and associated combustion product CO2 building up in our atmosphere?
The Effect of Doping on the Photocatalytic Activity of Graphene Quantum Dots
A new strategy to produce heteroatoms-doped GQDs as photocatalysts with control over heteroatom types, constitution and content.
Transparent Furniture that Glows in the Dark
Researchers reveal “Quantum-Dot Wood”, transparent wood impregnated with luminescent semiconductor nanoparticles.
Smart Liquid Windows
Glass-glass fluidic devices for large-area integration with adaptive façades and smart windows
Fertile electronic flatlands: carrier multiplication in graphene
The remarkable electronic properties of graphene open up new carrier relaxation channels that can result in a significant multiplication of optically excited carriers.