Inorganic scaling caused by precipitation of sparingly soluble salts at supersaturation is a
common but critical issue, limiting the efficiency of membrane-based desalination and brine …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

The unique plasma-specific features and physical phenomena in the organization of
nanoscale soild-state systems in a broad range of elemental composition, structure, and …

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new frontier in condensed matter
physics: topological materials with an electronic band structure belonging to a different …

Resistive random access memory (ReRAM) has been considered the most promising next-
generation nonvolatile memory. In recent years, the switching behavior has been widely …

The ability to obtain a molecular-level understanding of the chemistry that takes place at
liquid/solid interfaces is key to the development and improvement of many chemical and …

The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Soft and hard materials at interfaces exhibit mismatched behaviors, such as mismatched
chemical or biochemical reactivity, mechanical response, and environmental adaptability …

The ability to control and modulate the composition,,,, doping,,,, crystal structure,, and
morphology, of semiconductor nanowires during the synthesis process has allowed …