The integration of functional nanomaterials and heterostructures with photonic architectures
has laid the foundation for important photonic and optoelectronic applications. The advent of …

Diamond photonics is an ever-growing field of research driven by the prospects of
harnessing diamond and its colour centres as suitable hardware for solid-state quantum …

Recent advances in the development of atomically thin layers of van der Waals bonded
solids have opened up new possibilities for the exploration of 2D physics as well as for …

The unique ability of carbon atoms to participate in robust covalent bonds with other carbon
atoms in diverse hybridization states (sp, sp 2, sp 3) or with nonmetallic elements enables …

The growing prevalence of counterfeit products worldwide poses serious threats to
economic security and human health. Develo** advanced anti-counterfeiting materials …

Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

The long-dreamed-of capability of monitoring the molecular machinery in living systems has
not been realized yet, mainly due to the technical limitations of current sensing technologies …

Diamond is not only the hardest material in nature, but is also an extreme electronic material
with an ultrawide bandgap, exceptional carrier mobilities, and thermal conductivity. Straining …

Photonic nanostructures provide a means of tailoring the interaction between light and
matter and the past decade has witnessed tremendous experimental and theoretical …

Discoveries in quantum materials, which are characterized by the strongly quantum-
mechanical nature of electrons and atoms, have revealed exotic properties that arise from …