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View article: Recent development of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides and their applications
Recent development of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides and their applications Open
This article reviews the recent progress in 2D materials beyond graphene and includes mainly transition metal dichalcogenides.
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3D printing of ceramics: A review Open
Along with extensive research on the three-dimensional (3D) printing of polymers and metals, 3D printing of ceramics is now the latest trend to come under the spotlight. The ability to fabricate ceramic components of arbitrarily complex sh…
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A vacuum flash–assisted solution process for high-efficiency large-area perovskite solar cells Open
Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) currently attract enormous research interest because of their high solar-to-electric power conversion efficiency (PCE) and low fabrication costs, but their practical development is hampered by dif…
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Perovskite-perovskite tandem photovoltaics with optimized band gaps Open
Tandem perovskite cells The ready processability of organic-inorganic perovskite materials for solar cells should enable the fabrication of tandem solar cells, in which the top layer is tuned to absorb shorter wavelengths and the lower lay…
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3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting Open
© 2019 The Authors Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), enable the fabrication of arbitrary 3D-structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Research is rapidly progressing in this field, …
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Perovskite Materials for Light‐Emitting Diodes and Lasers Open
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites have cemented their position as an exceptional class of optoelectronic materials thanks to record photovoltaic efficiencies of 22.1%, as well as promising demonstrations of light‐emitting diodes, lasers…
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SLM lattice structures: Properties, performance, applications and challenges Open
Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly Selective Laser Melting (SLM) has enabled development of lattice structures with unique properties. Through control of various parameters lattice structures can produce unique mechanical, electrica…
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An updated roadmap for the integration of metal–organic frameworks with electronic devices and chemical sensors Open
This review highlights the steps needed to bring the properties of MOFs from the chemical lab to the microelectronics fab.
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Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals in the Research Spotlight: Stability and Defect Tolerance Open
This Perspective outlines basic structural and optical properties of lead halide perovskite colloidal nanocrystals, highlighting differences and similarities between them and conventional II-VI and III-V semiconductor quantum dots. A detai…
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Electrical and Electrochemical Properties of Conducting Polymers Open
Conducting polymers (CPs) have received much attention in both fundamental and practical studies because they have electrical and electrochemical properties similar to those of both traditional semiconductors and metals. CPs possess excell…
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A Eu <sup>3+</sup> -Eu <sup>2+</sup> ion redox shuttle imparts operational durability to Pb-I perovskite solar cells Open
A redox road to recovery Device longevity is a key issue for organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells. Encapsulation can limit degradation arising from reactions with oxygen and water, but light, electric-field, and thermal stresses can le…
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Volumetric additive manufacturing via tomographic reconstruction Open
Fabrication goes for a quick spin Most 3D printing techniques involve adding material layer by layer. This sets some limitations on the types of applications for which 3D printing is suitable, such as printing around a preexisting object. …
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PEDOT:PSS for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Modifications, Strategies, and Applications Open
Substantial effort has been devoted to both scientific and technological developments of wearable, flexible, semitransparent, and sensing electronics (e.g., organic/perovskite photovoltaics, organic thin‐film transistors, and medical senso…
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Novel Zirconia Materials in Dentistry Open
Zirconias, the strongest of the dental ceramics, are increasingly being fabricated in monolithic form for a range of clinical applications. Y-TZP (yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal) is the most widely used variant. However,…
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Multifunctional biohybrid magnetite microrobots for imaging-guided therapy Open
A biohybrid microrobot with one-step fabrication provides multiple functions for imaging-guided therapy.
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Resistive switching memories based on metal oxides: mechanisms, reliability and scaling Open
With the explosive growth of digital data in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), fast and scalable memory technologies are being researched for data storage and data-driven computation. Among the emerging memories, resistive switching…
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An investigation into 3D printing of fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites Open
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is a 3D printing technique which allows layer-by-layer build-up of a part by the deposition of thermoplastic material through a nozzle. The technique allows for complex shapes to be made with a degree of de…
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Soft material for soft actuators Open
Inspired by natural muscle, a key challenge in soft robotics is to develop self-contained electrically driven soft actuators with high strain density. Various characteristics of existing technologies, such as the high voltages required to …
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A low cost and high performance polymer donor material for polymer solar cells Open
The application of polymer solar cells requires the realization of high efficiency, high stability, and low cost devices. Here we demonstrate a low-cost polymer donor poly[(thiophene)-alt-(6,7-difluoro-2-(2-hexyldecyloxy)quinoxaline)] (PTQ…
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From Materials to Cell: State-of-the-Art and Prospective Technologies for Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Processing Open
Electrode processing plays an important role in advancing lithium-ion battery technologies and has a significant impact on cell energy density, manufacturing cost, and throughput. Compared to the extensive research on materials development…
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Scaffold Fabrication Technologies and Structure/Function Properties in Bone Tissue Engineering Open
Bone tissue engineering (BTE) is a rapidly growing field aiming to create a biofunctional tissue that can integrate and degrade in vivo to treat diseased or damaged tissue. It has become evident that scaffold fabrication techniques are ver…
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Acoustic metasurface-based perfect absorber with deep subwavelength thickness Open
Conventional acoustic absorbers are used to have a structure with a thickness comparable to the working wavelength, resulting in major obstacles in real applications in low frequency range. We present a metasurface-based perfect absorber c…
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3D‐Printed Microfluidics Open
The advent of soft lithography allowed for an unprecedented expansion in the field of microfluidics. However, the vast majority of PDMS microfluidic devices are still made with extensive manual labor, are tethered to bulky control systems,…
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Organic Lasers: Recent Developments on Materials, Device Geometries, and Fabrication Techniques Open
Organic dyes have been used as gain medium for lasers since the 1960s, long before the advent of today's organic electronic devices. Organic gain materials are highly attractive for lasing due to their chemical tunability and large stimula…
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Freeze Casting: From Low‐Dimensional Building Blocks to Aligned Porous Structures—A Review of Novel Materials, Methods, and Applications Open
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials based on ceramics, metals, polymers, biomacromolecules…
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Polarization-Insensitive Metalenses at Visible Wavelengths Open
In this Letter, we demonstrate highly efficient, polarization-insensitive planar lenses (metalenses) at red, green, and blue wavelengths (λ = 660, 532, and 405 nm). Metalenses with numerical apertures (NA) of 0.85 and 0.6 and corresponding…
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High-<i>k</i>Gate Dielectrics for Emerging Flexible and Stretchable Electronics Open
Recent advances in flexible and stretchable electronics (FSE), a technology diverging from the conventional rigid silicon technology, have stimulated fundamental scientific and technological research efforts. FSE aims at enabling disruptiv…
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Graphene Oxide‐Based Electrode Inks for 3D‐Printed Lithium‐Ion Batteries Open
All-component 3D-printed lithium-ion batteries are fabricated by printing graphene-oxide-based composite inks and solid-state gel polymer electrolyte. An entirely 3D-printed full cell features a high electrode mass loading of 18 mg cm(-2) …
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Properties and Applications of the β Phase Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Open
Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, as one of important polymeric materials with extensively scientific interests and technological applications, shows five crystalline polymorphs with α, β, γ, δ and ε phases obtained by different processing …
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Mixed‐Matrix Membranes Open
Research into extended porous materials such as metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous organic frameworks (POFs), as well as the analogous metal‐organic polyhedra (MOPs) and porous organic cages (POCs), has blossomed over the last deca…