Nanomaterials are an interesting class of materials that include a wide variety of samples
with at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm. Nanomaterials are cornerstones of …

Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

Metal oxides possess exceptional potential as base materials in emerging technologies. In
recent times, significant amount of research works is carried out on these materials to assess …

As a new type of one-dimensional semiconductor nanometer material, silicon nanowires
(SiNWs) possess good application prospects in the field of biomedical sensing. SiNWs have …

Binder and conductive additive-free Si nanowires (NWs) grown directly on the current
collector have shown great potential as next generation Li-ion battery anodes. However, low …

Owing to their two-dimensional confinements, silicon nanowires display remarkable optical,
magnetic, and electronic properties. Of special interest has been the development of …

The development of non-equilibrium group IV nanoscale alloys is critical to achieving new
functionalities, such as the formation of a direct bandgap in a conventional indirect bandgap …

Black Silicon nanostructures are fabricated by Inductively Coupled Plasma Reactive Ion
Etching (ICP-RIE) in a gas mixture of SF 6 and O 2 at non-cryogenic temperatures. The …

Combination of mismatched materials in semiconductor nanowire heterostructures offers a
freedom of bandstructure engineering that is impossible in standard planar epitaxy …

Among two-dimensional lattices, both kagome and Lieb lattices have been extensively
studied, showing unique physics related to their exotic flat and Dirac bands. Interestingly, we …