Engineering of the silicon/high-permittivity (high-kappa) dielectric interface by grafting an ultrathin organic layer on the silicon surface before HfO2 deposition is explored. Si(111) and Si(100) surfaces are functional...
Three linear asymmetrically functionalized conjugated molecules composed of five or six aromatic rings were synthesized, bearing a terminal phosphonic acid group, with the objective of enabling their grafting onto inorga...
Instability of most prototypical metal organic frameworks (MOFs) in the presence of moisture is always a limitation for industrial scale development. In this work, we examine the dissociation mechanism of microporous pad...
We report on the structural and electronic transport properties of BiCuSeO based compounds, that have recently been reported as promising thermoelectric materials with figure of merit ZT > 0.8 at 923 K, and share the sam...
A series of quinoxaline based metal-free organic sensitizers has been designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The absorption, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties for all sensitizers have...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a layer-by-layer synthesis method capable of depositing conformal thin films with thickness and compositional control on subnanometer length scales. While many materials have been synthes...
Well-defined and nontoxic cross-linked polymeric micelles, containing either permanent or acid degradable cross-linkers, Were employed for efficient intracellular delivery of cisplatin. The self-assembled structures were...