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EPFL2024Controlled Formation of Nanoribbons and Their Heterostructures via Assembly of Mass-Selected Inorganic Ions
Control of nanomaterial dimensions with atomic precision through synthetic methods is essential to understanding and engineering of nanomaterials. For single-layer inorganic materials, size and shape controls have been achieved by self-assembly and surface ...
Weinheim2024Electrochemical-repaired porous graphene membranes for precise ion-ion separation
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The preparation of atom-thick porous lattice hosting & Aring;-scale pores is attractive to achieve a large ion-ion selectivity in combination with a large ion flux. Graphene film is an ideal selective layer for this if high-precision pores can be incorpora ...
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EPFL2024Long live(d) CsPbBr3 superlattices: colloidal atomic layer deposition for structural stability
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Cambridge2024Plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions for investigation of atomic-scale fluctuations in self-assembled monolayers
Molecular junctions represent a fascinating frontier in the realm of nanotechnology and are one of thesmallest optoelectronic devices possible, consisting of individual molecules or a group of moleculesthat serve as the active element sandwiched between co ...
EPFL2024Stencil-Based Selective Surface Functionalization of Silicon Nanowires in 3D Device Architectures for Next-Generation Biochemical Sensors
Yusuf Leblebici, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani, Ece Öztürk
Surface functionalization of 1D materials such as silicon nanowires is a critical preparation technology for biochemical sensing. However, existing nonselective functionalization techniques result in nonlocal binding and contamination, with potential devic ...
Amer Chemical Soc2024Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics
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Living photovoltaics are microbial electrochemical devices that use whole cell–electrode interactions to convert solar energy to electricity. The bottleneck in these technologies is the limited electron transfer between the microbe and the electrode surfac ...
2024Highly dispersed nanomaterials in polymer matrix via aerosol-jet-based multi-material 3D printing
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