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Towards Secure Cryptography
A useful guide for beginners in the field and a helpful reference for CV-QKD experimentalists who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of their setup.
Cryptographic Scheme for Safer Information Travel
A combined quantum key distribution and compressing sensing protocol that improves information transmission bandwidth paves the way to real-time information evaluation and communication security.
Exploiting Unique Opportunities to Interact with Infrared Light
New nitride semiconductors to expand the material toolset for infrared sensing devices.
Alternate Material for Infrared Intersubband (ISB) Devices
Harnessing light for practical applications requires small, versatile, and efficient optoelectronic devices.
Artificial Photosynthesis: A Big Leap for Powering the Globe
The burgeoning development and sustained production of advances in the booming field of solar-to-energy conversion have inspired a Special Issue specifically dedicated to “Artificial Photosynthesis: Mimicking Nature for Renewable Energy Production” – guest editors Wee-Jun Ong, Zhiqun Lin and Kazunari Domen.
Introducing a Zinc Oxide-PTFE Nanocomposite Varistor by Cold Sintering
It is shown that polymer such as Teflon can be distributed around each grain of ZnO, and this, in turn, allows for use to form a composite material with an electrical conduction that is blocked at low fields and conducts at high field through the quantum mechanical process known as “tunneling”.
Future Wearable Devices: Responsive, Self-Powered, Flexible
Next-generation electronics should be wearable, versatile, and energy-efficient. A new sensor systems combined with a triboelectric nanogenerator provides an excellent solution.
Graphitic Carbon Nitride Derivatives for Cryopreservation
In Advanced Materials, researchers report for the first time the application of graphitic carbon nitride derivatives for cryopreservation of biological systems.
Solvent is the Key to Making Perovskite Nanosheets
The synthesis of ultrathin 2D nanosheets (NSs) remains a significant challenge for perovskite materials. Now, researchers have demonstrated a facile crystallization method for the synthesis of free-standing 2D phenylethylammonium lead halide NSs.