The symposium “The Great Transition” brought together leading scientists to address the criticality of materials as key to sustainable technologies.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – August 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Perovskite Perspectives: Chul-Ho Lee and Min Jae Ko Discuss Moisture Stability
Chul-Ho Lee and Min Jae Ko discuss the critical moisture stability problem faced by researchers working on perovskite materials.
Perovskite Perspectives: Yi Hou and Christoph Brabec Talk Hysteresis
Yi Hou and Christoph Brabec take a moment to outline the hysteresis problem faced by researchers working on perovskite materials.
Materials Research at Wuhan University of Technology
Issue 20/2017 of Advanced Materials brings together a collection of review-type articles to highlight materials research at Wuhan University of Technology.
Use Zinc Oxide Flowers to Create Better Photocatalytic Properties
Researchers have studied low-dimensional nanoscale ZnO building blocks, such as 1D nanorods, 1D nanowires and 2D nanosheets. Recently it was found that mixing these materials with 3D hierarchical ZnO microstructures revealed special optical, electrical and catalytic properties.
To PCE Infinity and Beyond: Recent Perovskite Research
Perovskite-based photovoltaics are currently achieving PCEs of just over 22%. Here are some interesting highlights of recent perovskite research.
Novel Divide-and-Conquer-Based Computer Simulations
Computer simulations provide valuable and often critical insight into the structure and properties of materials and molecules.
Transferable Semiconductor Stickers
Scientists at LMU Munich and FSU Jena have developed organic semiconductor nanosheets, which can easily be removed from a growth substrate and placed on other substrates.
Upgrading the Surface Analysis of Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films
Analyzing the crystalinity of thin silicon films has been made easier by using UV Raman spectroscopy. (Image credit: Georgy Shafeev/Shutterstock)