Improving understanding of wetting behavior and mechanism between negative thermal
expansion materials and filler metals was critical for the application of negative thermal …

Titanium has become a strategic metal due both to its current use in coatings industry and
increasing applications in aerospace and renewable energy. China is the largest titanium …

MXene-like MOenes have shown intriguing properties, such as superconductivity in Ti 2 O
monolayers, direct band gaps, exotic quantum phase transitions, and strong light harvesting …

Plasmon-induced carrier transfer at metal/semiconductor Schottky junctions is a novel
approach for photo energy conversion. Here, we propose a strategy for improving electron …

High temperatures promote kinetic processes that can drive crystal synthesis toward ideal
thermodynamic conditions, thereby realizing samples of superior quality. While accessing …

Defective rock-salt (R) Ti1− xO→ rutile (r) TiO2− x transformation twinning occurred in a thin
film with preferred shape and crystallographic orientation when deposited on silica glass …

The development of low-cost, biocompatible, and durable high-performance substrates is an
urgent issue in the field of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Herein, by reducing …

The question as to why deoxidized SrTiO3− δ becomes metallic and superconducting at
extremely low levels of oxygen vacancy concentration has been a mystery for many …

The observation of superconductivity with a transition temperature (Tc) up to 8.7 K in KTaO3
single crystals annealed with CaH2 at 900–1000° C is reported. The superconductivity is …

The strong metal-support interaction and its chemical nature was examined over a Ir/TiO2
catalyst, constructed by dispersing 2 nm Ir colloids on the {001} facets of anatase TiO2. Air …