Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is emerging as essential for 2D material-based technologies.
New optoelectronic applications require high crystal quality hBN with low defect density and …

Abstract 1D van der Waals heterostructures based on carbon nanotube templates are
raising a lot of excitement due to the possibility of creating new optical and electronic …

As one of the well-defined classes of low-dimensional materials, one-dimensional (1D)
materials and related heterostructures have aroused broad interest due to their unique …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great attentions in the field of electronics, sensors,
healthcare, and energy conversion. Such emerging applications have driven the carbon …

Nanomaterials exhibit unique optical phenomena, in particular excitonic quantum processes
occurring at room temperature. The low dimensionality, however, imposes strict …

To date, chemical vapor deposition has been employed to grow large-area polycrystalline
(PC) films of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). However, PC hBN thin films exhibit abundant …

Their outstanding electrical and optical properties make semiconducting single‐walled
carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) highly suitable for charge transport and emissive layers in …

The development of van der Waals heterostructures has introduced unconventional
phenomena that emerge at atomically precise interfaces. For example, interlayer excitons in …

The energy barrier of CO2 chemically adsorbed on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is
relatively big. In order to cut down the energy barriers and facilitate fast adsorption of CO2, it …

When continued device scaling reaches the ultimate limit imposed by atoms, technology
based on atomically precise structures is expected to emerge. Device fabrication will then …