Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Two-dimensional devices and integration towards the silicon lines

S Wang, X Liu, M Xu, L Liu, D Yang, P Zhou - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite technical efforts and upgrades, advances in complementary metal–oxide–
semiconductor circuits have become unsustainable in the face of inherent silicon limits. New …

A Review of Scalable Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h‐BN) Synthesis for Present and Future Applications

AE Naclerio, PR Kidambi - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) is a layered inorganic synthetic crystal exhibiting high
temperature stability and high thermal conductivity. As a ceramic material it has been widely …

The performance limits of hexagonal boron nitride as an insulator for scaled CMOS devices based on two-dimensional materials

T Knobloch, YY Illarionov, F Ducry, C Schleich… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) logic circuits at their ultimate scaling
limits place extreme demands on the properties of all materials involved. The requirements …

Boosting the sonodynamic cancer therapy performance of 2D layered double hydroxide nanosheet‐based sonosensitizers via crystalline‐to‐amorphous phase …

T Hu, W Shen, F Meng, S Yang, S Yu, H Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) has been a promising therapeutic modality for cancer because
of its superior advantages compared with other therapeutic strategies. However, the current …

Hexagonal boron nitride for next‐generation photonics and electronics

S Moon, J Kim, J Park, S Im, J Kim, I Hwang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN), an insulating 2D layered material, has recently attracted
tremendous interest motivated by the extraordinary properties it shows across the fields of …

Disorder-tuned conductivity in amorphous monolayer carbon

H Tian, Y Ma, Z Li, M Cheng, S Ning, E Han, M Xu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Correlating atomic configurations—specifically, degree of disorder (DOD)—of an amorphous
solid with properties is a long-standing riddle in materials science and condensed matter …

Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 …

A top-down strategy for amorphization of hydroxyl compounds for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

S Liu, S Geng, L Li, Y Zhang, G Ren, B Huang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Amorphous materials have attracted increasing attention in diverse fields due to their unique
properties, yet their controllable fabrications still remain great challenges. Here, we …

Remote epitaxy

H Kim, CS Chang, S Lee, J Jiang, J Jeong… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Remote epitaxy is an emerging technology for producing single-crystalline, free-standing
thin films and structures. The method uses 2D van der Waals materials as semi-transparent …