Abstract 2D materials show wide‐ranging physical properties with their electronic bandgaps
varying from zero to several electronvolts, offering a rich platform to explore novel electronic …

Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Achieving perfect absorption in few-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials plays a crucial role
in applications such as optoelectronics and sensing. However, the underlying mechanisms …

Scaling the production of synthetic Two-dimensional (2D) materials to industrial quantities
has faced significant challenges due to synthesis bottlenecks whereby few have been …

Solar-driven seawater desalination has attracted much attention for alleviating global
freshwater shortage, but the practical application is often limited by complicated fabrication …

Charge-coupled devices are widely used imaging technologies. However, their speed is
limited due to the complex readout process, which involves sequential charge transfer …

Thermal energy harvesting technologies based on composite phase change materials
(PCMs) are capable of harvesting tremendous amounts of thermal energy via isothermal …

Nanocarbons with different dimensions (eg, 0D fullerenes and carbon nanodots, 1D carbon
nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, 2D graphene and graphene oxides, and 3D …

Infrared photodetectors have been widely applied in various fields, including thermal
imaging, biomedical imaging, and communication. Van der Waals (vdW) integration based …

Metasurfaces, with extremely exotic capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves,
have derived a plethora of advanced metadevices with intriguing functionalities …