Although progress in nanotechnology is anticipated to stimulate the development of
innovative materials, the areas of nanotechnology and materials science are somehow …

In situ wet cells for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission
electron microscopy (STEM) allow studying structures and processes in a liquid environment …

The discovery of two-dimensional materials became possible due to the mechanical
cleavage technique. Despite its simplicity, the as-cleaved materials demonstrated surprising …

Black phosphorus, or BP, has found a lot of applications in recent years including photonics.
The most recent studies have shown that the material has an excellent optical nonlinearity …

Deformation and fracture mechanisms of ultrathin Si nanowires (NWs), with diameters of
down to∼ 9 nm, under uniaxial tension and bending were investigated by using in situ …

Inorganic nanotubes (NTs) and fullerene-like nanoparticles (NPs) of WS2 were discovered
some 25 years ago and are produced now on a commercial scale for various applications …

It has been recognized that carbon nanomaterials and soot particles are toxic for human
health, but the influence of functionalization on their toxicity as well as the evolution of the …

Commercially available boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) and their purified form (pBNNTs)
were dispersed in aqueous solutions with various dispersants, and their cytotoxicity and …

We have analyzed near-global stratospheric data (and mesospheric data as well for H 2 O)
in terms of absolute abundances, variability, and trends for O 3, H 2 O, HCl, N 2 O, and HNO …

In the research of advanced materials based on nanoscience and nanotechnology, it is often
desirable to measure nanoscale local electrical conductivity at a designated position of a …