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Electron quantization in arbitrarily shaped gold islands on MgO thin films

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe5 and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure

Interplay of anomalous strain relaxation and minimization of polarization changes at nitride semiconductor heterointerfaces

Insights into the Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation by Flower-Like Bi2WO6 under Solar or Visible Light, Through in Situ Monitoring and Determination of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Crystalline and correlated phases in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Duality in the Mechanism of Hexagonal ZnO/CuxO Nanowires Inducing Sulfamethazine Degradation under Solar or Visible Light

Insights into the Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation by Flower-Like Bi2WO6 under Solar or Visible Light, Through in Situ Monitoring and Determination of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)

Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Crystalline and correlated phases in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Duality in the Mechanism of Hexagonal ZnO/CuxO Nanowires Inducing Sulfamethazine Degradation under Solar or Visible Light

Interplay of anomalous strain relaxation and minimization of polarization changes at nitride semiconductor heterointerfaces

Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe5 and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure