Sustainable energy production, environmentally sustainable development, and affordable
healthcare are three major challenges of the current global community. Electrochemistry is …

In the past decade graphene has been one of the most studied materials for several unique
and excellent properties. Due to its two dimensional nature, physical and chemical …

Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

Graphene materials considered to be promising candidates for next-generation lubricants
has been explored and summarized extensively, owing to their atomic-level lamellar …

High efficient solar cell is highly demanded for sustainable development of human society,
leading to the cutting-edge research on various types of solar cells. The physical picture of …

Electronic coupling of graphene atop a bulk semiconductor and the resultant interfacial
energy-band reorganization create a light-sensitive junction only one atom below the front …

We demonstrate tunable Schottky barrier height and record photo-responsivity in a new-
concept device made of a single-layer CVD graphene transferred onto a matrix of nanotips …

Piezoelectric energy harvester has attracted considerable attention as an independent
power source for applications in biocompatible, implantable, and flexible electronic devices …

Transition-metal dichalcogenides exhibit great potential as active materials in optoelectronic
devices because of their characteristic band structure. Here, we demonstrated that the …

The current highest power-conversion efficiencies found for different types of solar cell
devices range from 20% to 46%, depending on the nature of the photovoltaic materials used …