Zinc (Zn) metal is the mostly studied anode materials for aqueous Zn ion batteries (ZIBs)
mainly because of its excellent energy-storage nature and resource superiority. However …

This Review is focused on the recent progresses in the synthetic approaches to the precise
control of structure, size, shape, composition and multi-functionality of metal and metal alloy …

The use of fractal concepts in understanding various growth phenomena, such as molecular
beam epitaxy (MBE) or fluid flow in porous media, is increasingly important these days. This …

THE timescale of the response of solvent molecules to electronic rearrangement of solute
molecules has a critical influence on the rates of chemical reactions in liquids1–10. In …

Growth of thin films from atoms deposited from the gas phase is intrinsically a
nonequilibrium phenomenon governed by a competition between kinetics and …

Thin films are often grown away from thermodynamic equilibrium and their morphology
becomes determined by kinetics. The final structure of the epitaxial film is decided in the very …

We have studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) the atomic-scale realm of
molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) nanoclusters, which are of interest as a model system in …

Lithium and magnesium exhibit rather different properties as battery anode materials with
respect to the phenomenon of dendrite formation which can lead to short-circuits in batteries …

Recent studies dealing with the structural, electronic, chemical and catalytic properties of
well-defined bimetallic surfaces are reviewed. LEED and STM show that two metals …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …