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Electrolyte gated oxide pseudodiode for inhibitory synapse applications
(2018)Recently, synaptic electronics are attracting increasing attention in neuromorphic engineering. Here, inhibitory synapses are proposed based on nanogranular phosphorous silicate glass gated indium tin oxide transistors ... -
Polymersomes-based high-performance reverse osmosis membrane for desalination
(2018)Polymersomes-based reverse osmosis (RO) membrane (PBM) for desalination was reported for the first time. An amphiphilic tri-block copolymer, PMOXA6-PDMS35-PMOXA6 (ABA), was self-assembled to form polymersomes with spherical ... -
Ultrathin 2D photocatalysts : electronic-structure tailoring, hybridization, and applications
(2017)As a sustainable technology, semiconductor photocatalysis has attracted considerable interest in the past several decades owing to the potential to relieve or resolve energy and environmental‐pollution issues. By virtue ... -
Morphology engineering in monolayer MoS2‐WS2 lateral heterostructures
(2018)In recent years, heterostructures formed in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted significant attention due to their unique physical properties beyond the individual components. Atomically thin TMD ... -
Ultrathin two-dimensional materials for photo- and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
(2018)Sustainable hydrogen production via photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, and synergetic photoelectrocatalytic processes has been regarded as an effective strategy to address both energy and environmental crises. Due to their ... -
The application of silica and glass fibers in effective thermoinsulation of winter apparels
(2018)We studied the influence of silica and glass fibers on the properties of polyester non-woven padding, fixing interesting changes in thermoinsulation, thickness and stiffness of obtained composites. It was found that the ... -
Novel moisture management test of polyethylene terephthalate and nylon fabric under stretching and surface patterning
(2016)This report presents a novel technique to assess the moisture management test on uniformly stretched compression fabrics using a clamping device, which represents behavior close to the actual behavior when worn, the effects ... -
Probing the toxicity mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on bacteria
(2017)Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have emerged recently as superior adsorbent materials for the removal of recalcitrant pollutants. The potential of combining the sorption capability of CNTs with bacterial degradation for pollutant ... -
Synergistic effect of porosity and gradient doping in efficient solar water oxidation of catalyst-free gradient Mo:BIVO4
(2018)In this paper, the synergistic effect of porosity and gradient of Mo doping in BiVO4 photoanodes for improving charge separation and solar water oxidation performance is reported. A simple solution-based, three-step ... -
Impact of carbon impurities on the initial leakage current of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors
(2018)We have systematically studied the origin of high gate-leakage currents in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). Devices that initially had a low gate-leakage current (good devices) are compared with ones ... -
Mechanically robust transparent anti-icing coatings : roles of dispersion status of titanate nanotubes
(2018)Ice accretion on automobiles, aerospace components, precision instruments, and photovoltaic devices detrimentally affect their performance and increase the maintenance cost. Despite significant efforts devoted to the ... -
Synthesis and characterization of apatite wasteforms using simulated radioactive liquid waste
(2019)Single-phase apatite-type materials containing simulated radioactive liquid waste (Cs, Sr, REE) were synthesized by conventional solid-state reaction at the relatively low temperature of 700 °C. The products consisted of ... -
Enhanced charge transport and increased active sites on α-Fe2O3 (110) nanorod surface containing oxygen vacancies for improved solar water oxidation performance
(2018)The effect of oxygen vacancies (VO) on α-Fe2O3 (110) facet on the performance of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is researched by both experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The experimental ... -
Surface-based nanoplasmonic sensors for biointerfacial science applications
(2019)The design and application of surface-based nanoplasmonic sensors has spurred broad interest from the chemical science community, touching upon diverse topics such as plasmonics, nanoscience, surface chemistry, measurement ... -
In situ formation of a 3D core-shell and triple-conducting oxygen reduction reaction electrode for proton-conducting SOFCs
(2018)BaZrxCeyY1-x-yO3-δ are recognized proton-conducting electrolyte materials for proton-conducting solid oxide fuel cells (H+-SOFCs) below 650 °C. Here Co cations are incorporated into the BaZr0.4Ce0.4Y0.2O3-δ (BZCY) scaffold ... -
Raman signatures of broken inversion symmetry and in‐plane anisotropy in type‐II Weyl semimetal candidate TaIrTe4
(2018)The layered ternary compound TaIrTe4 is an important candidate to host the recently predicted type‐II Weyl fermions. However, a direct and definitive proof of the absence of inversion symmetry in this material, a prerequisite ... -
Enhancing moisture tolerance in efficient hybrid 3D/2D perovskite photovoltaics
(2018)Surface imperfections in perovskite films upon crystallization may trigger trap-assisted non-radiative recombination which is a dominant recombination mechanism that potentially restricts the performance of solar devices. ... -
Perovskite templating via a bathophenanthroline additive for efficient light-emitting devices
(2018)Identified as emerging light absorbers due to their plethora of unique optoelectronic properties, perovskites have also been touted as a promising candidate for light emission. However, despite the effortless transition ... -
A programmable lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticle system for localized, sustained antibiotic delivery to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial biofilms
(2018)Bacteria enmeshed in an extracellular matrix, biofilms, exhibit enhanced antibiotic tolerance. Coupled with the rapid emergence of multidrug-resistant strains, the current cohorts of antibiotics are becoming ineffective. ... -
Elucidating the effect of additives on the alkyl chain packing of a double tail cationic surfactant
(2018)Hypothesis: Some low molecular weight additives can strongly influence the phase behavior of aqueous surfactant systems, and this offers an important handle to control the properties of surfactant solutions and thus to ...
