Semiconductors are the basis of many vital technologies such as electronics, computing,
communications, optoelectronics, and sensing. Modern semiconductor technology can trace …

Polymorphic 2D materials allow structural and electronic phase engineering, which can be
used to realize energy-efficient, cost-effective, and scalable device applications. The phase …

Phase has emerged as an important structural parameter—in addition to composition,
morphology, architecture, facet, size and dimensionality—that determines the properties and …

As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Electrides are materials in which electrons serve as anions. Here, the concept of inorganic
electrides is extended in several respects: from ionic crystals to intermetallic compounds in …

Hydrogen fuel is considered as one of the most clean renewable resources, warranting it a
primary alternative to fossil fuels for future energy supplies. Electrocatalytic water splitting is …

Since graphene became available by a scotch tape technique, a vast class of two-
dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered materials has been researched intensively …

Two-dimensional (2D) layered metal chalcogenides (MXs) have significant potential for use
in flexible transistors, optoelectronics, sensing and memory devices beyond the state-of-the …

The different polymorphic phases of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted
enormous interest in the last decade. The metastable metallic and small band gap phases of …

Crystal phase control in layered transition metal dichalcogenides is central for exploiting
their different electronic properties. Access to metastable crystal phases is limited as their …