Sculpting silicon at the micro and nano scales has been game‐changing to mold bulk silicon
properties and expand, in turn, applications of silicon beyond electronics, namely, in …

Atom-thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as fascinating materials
and key structures for electrocatalysis. So far, their edges, dopant heteroatoms and defects …

A new graphene quantum dot (GQD) fabrication method is presented, which employs a
lithographic approach based on self-assembled Au nanoparticles formed by solid-state …

The fabrication of in‐plane 2H‐1T′ MoTe2 homojunctions by the flux‐controlled, phase‐
engineering of few‐layer MoTe2 from Mo nanoislands is reported. The phase of few‐layer …

Discovery of infrared radiation (IR) was an important step in understanding the hidden
secrets of nature, which could be unraveled only after “seeing” this invisible spectrum. This …

In this work, an innovative and simple growth approach of two-step solid state dewetting
(SSD) has been introduced for the fabrication of bimetallic and core-shell nanoparticle (NP) …

Nanoscale thin film coatings and surface treatments are ubiquitous across industry, science,
and engineering; imbuing specific functional or mechanical properties (such as corrosion …

Metal thin films and metal nanostructures find a key role in the actual nanotechnology
revolution. They can be engineered for nanoelectronics, plasmonics, and sensing …

Abstract Formation of Au, Pt, and bimetallic Au–Pt nanostructures by thermal dewetting of
single-layer Au, Pt and bilayer Au–Pt thin films on Si substrates was systematically studied …

The modification and control of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) properties of
metallic nanoparticles (NPs) has become a vigorous research focus in various fields due to …