Benefiting from the outstanding optical, thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties,
carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold significant potential in the fields of materials, physics …

Laser-assisted automated fibre placement (LATP) is an emerging technology for
manufacturing thermoplastic composite components. However, major challenges are still …

Metallic and dielectric metamaterials (MMs)/metastructures possess exceptional advantages
in enhancing electromagnetic (EM) wave absorption, yet they present inherent limitations …

Perfect absorbers (PAs) are devices that can efficiently absorb electromagnetic waves. Great
attention has been attracted since metamaterial PAs (MPAs) were first proposed in 2008. In …

In this paper, we introduce a new metamaterial structure that perfectly absorbs the
electromagnetic wave in a narrow frequency band in the near infrared frequency region. In …

Photothermal conversion is an environmentally friendly process that harvests energy from
the sun and has been attracting growing research interest in recent years. However …

Solar redox flow batteries (SRFB) have attracted increasing interest for simultaneous
capture and storage of solar energy by integrating a photoelectrochemical cell with a redox …

Thin devices with large areas have strong and omnidirectional absorption over a wide
bandwidth and are in demand for applications such as energy harvesting, structural color …

Some of the least reflective materials are vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs).
However, VACNT films are extremely fragile, restricting the range of applications where they …

The in-plane anisotropy of monolayer InSe plays a critical role in the application of
photodetectors. In this work, through nonequilibrium Green's function density functional …