Atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters as efficient catalysts: a bridge between structure and properties

Y Du, H Sheng, D Astruc, M Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

Global optimization of atomic structures with gradient-enhanced Gaussian process regression

S Kaappa, EG Del Río, KW Jacobsen - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Determination of atomic structures is a key challenge in the fields of computational physics
and materials science, as a large variety of mechanical, chemical, electronic, and optical …

Solar-powered photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis over atomically precise metal nanoclusters

QL Mo, BJ Liu, FX Xiao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) have garnered enduring interest in account of
peculiar atomic stacking mode, discrete energy band structure, and abundant active sites …

Induced Complementary Resistive Switching in Forming-Free TiOx/TiO2/TiOx Memristors

S Srivastava, JP Thomas, X Guan… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The undesirable sneak current path is one of the key challenges in high-density memory
integration for the emerging cross-bar memristor arrays. This work demonstrates a new …

Optimizing the thickness of Ta2O5 interfacial barrier layer to limit the oxidization of Ta ohmic interface and ZrO2 switching layer for multilevel data storage

M Ismail, H Abbas, C Mahata, C Choi, S Kim - Journal of Materials Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The multilevel storage capability of nonvolatile resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is
greatly desired to accomplish high functioning memory density. In this study, Ta 2 O 5 thin …

Surface interaction between cubic phase NaNbO3 nanoflowers and Ru nanoparticles for enhancing visible-light driven photosensitized photocatalysis

W Chen, Y Hu, M Ba - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Ru nanoparticles supported on perovskite NaNbO 3 with cubic crystal structure and
nanoflower-like morphology was prepared by a convenient solvothermal method combined …

Constructing gold-sensitized ZnIn2S4 microarchitectures for efficient visible light-driven photochemical oxidation and sensing of micropollutants

S Mandal, S Adhikari, P Shengyan, M Hui… - Applied Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Au-decorated ZnIn 2 S 4 plasmonic micro-architectures were synthesized through the
hydrothermal method, followed by a citrate reduction process that eventually facilitates the …

Programmable, electroforming-free TiO x/TaO x heterojunction-based non-volatile memory devices

S Srivastava, JP Thomas, KT Leung - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Electroforming-free resistive switching in memristors is essential to reliably achieving the
performance of high switching speed, high endurance, good signal retention, and low power …

Insight into high temperature performance of magnetron sputtered Si-Ta-C-(N) coatings with an ion-implanted interlayer

AV Bondarev, MN Antonyuk… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Challenges related to the application of wear resistant coatings at high temperatures require
the development of novel materials with an exceptional combination of mechanical …

DNA-templated silver and silver-based bimetallic clusters with remarkable and sequence-related catalytic activity toward 4-nitrophenol reduction

W Zhou, Y Fang, J Ren, S Dong - Chemical Communications, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we report the excellent catalytic activity of DNA-AgNCs toward 4-nitrophenol
reduction and a strategy for improving their catalytic performance by forming bimetallic …