The water-based renewable chemical energy cycle has attracted interest due to its role in
replacing existing non-renewable resources and alleviating environmental issues. Utilizing …

Despite several years of research into graphene electronics, sufficient on/off current ratio I
on/I off in graphene transistors with conventional device structures has been impossible to …

Noble metal nanoparticles stabilized by organic ligands are important for applications in
assembly, site-specific bioconjugate labelling and sensing, drug delivery and medical …

The basic components of modern electronics are primarily fabricated by using
semiconductor material in which the movement of charges can be electrically modulated …

Platinum nanocubes and nanopolyhedra with tunable size from 5 to 9 nm were synthesized
by controlling the reducing rate of metal precursor ions in a one-pot polyol synthesis. A two …

Solar water splitting provides a mechanism to convert and store solar energy in the form of
stable chemical bonds. Water-splitting systems often include semiconductor photoanodes …

Alloy nanoparticles with atomic monodispersity is of importance for some fundamental
research (eg, the investigation of active sites). However, the controlled preparation of alloy …

In this Letter, we present a new class of near-infrared photodetectors comprising Au
nanorods–ZnO nanowire hybrid systems. Fabricated hybrid FET devices showed a large …

The use of thiol-terminated ligands has recently been reported to enhance 10-fold the power
conversion efficiency (PCE) of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) photovoltaic (PV) devices. We …

Ligand exchange is central in the processing of inorganic nanocrystals (NCs) and requires
understanding of surface chemistry. Studying sterically stabilized HfO2 and ZrO2 NCs using …