Controlling nanostructural morphologies has been the subject of intensive research as nanostructures can display significantly different bioactivities depending on their physicochemical parameters. Toroidal proteins perf...
Titanium dioxide is a very important semiconductor with a high potential for applications in photocatalysis, solar cells, photochromism, sensoring, and various other areas of nanotechnology. Increasing attention has rece...
During the past few decades, thousands of organic semiconductors have been designed and synthesized for organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). However, most of them exhibit non-ideal performance. After carefully reviewin...
Etch resistance of two commonly used lithography resists is increased significantly by sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS). Exposing films to trimethyl-aluminum and water with long dosage times infiltrates the bulk o...
In this communication, we report on our recent finding that photoluminescent carbon nitride dots (CNDs) can be prepared by a simple heat-treatment-based strategy for the first time. It suggests the CNDs thus obtained exh...
Thermal evaporation made trigonal-phase Al(2)O(3) nanowires are coated with amorphous TiO(2) using atomic layer deposition and subsequent annealing results in crystallization of the coating and creation of abundant oxyge...
Wrinkled ceramic nanopatterns were fabricated via a molding and replication process. Wrinkled PDMS stamps generated in a lithography-free way were used as masters for structure replication onto pre-ceramic polymer films....
An understanding of the structure-function relationships of conjugated polymers is an invaluable resource for the successful design of new materials for use in organic electronics. To this end, we report the synthesis, c...
The coexistence of metallic (m-) and semiconducting (s-) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in grown samples remains an obstacle in the application of SWNTs in nano-electronics. We report herein a rational approach t...
A series of conjugated polymers containing thienylenevinylene moieties as the electron donor for polymer solar cells were synthesized through Yamamoto and Stille coupling. The structure and device properties of the homop...
A facile approach to the development of multifunctional freestanding films consisting of polyelectrolytes (PEs) and polyelectrolyte complexes (nPECs) with highly embedded metal nanoparticles (NPs) was demonstrated. The c...
Borate esters with different lengths of ethyleneoxy units were investigated as electrolyte solvents for lithium salts such as lithium triflate, perchlorate, bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide, bis (pentafluoroethanesulf...
Well-crystallized anatase nanowhiskers were successfully grown from a Ti substrate via an anodization process followed by hydrothermal treatment. Progressive morphological and crystallographic evolution of anodic nanotub...
Antimicrobial thin film photocatalysts consisting of N-doped titania have been prepared by sol-gel methods and further enhanced using silver nanoparticles formed in situ on the surface of the films. The films have been c...
Mechanical cleavage by Scotch tape was the first method to produce graphene and is still widely used in laboratories. However, a critical problem of this method is the extremely low yield. We have tailored ball milling c...
Cobalt oxide nanowire array films have been prepared on large-area metallic substrates via a topochemical conversion route and have been demonstrated as advanced anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries...