As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

To assess progress in high‐temperature calorimetry over the past eighteen years, this
feature article discusses both technical developments and new areas of application, with …

The study of thermoelectric materials spans condensed matter physics, materials science
and engineering, and solid-state chemistry. The diversity of the participants and the inherent …

Elemental silicon has a large impact on the economy of the modern world and is of
fundamental importance in the technological field, particularly in solar cell industry. The …

The pursuit of two-dimensional (2D) borides, MBenes, has proven to be challenging, not the
least because of the lack of a suitable precursor prone to the deintercalation. Here, we …

Our economy consistently pushes for the development of increasingly complex materials to
meet the demands of high-efficiency energy conversion and high-performance engineering …

Polytypism, or the ability for materials to crystallize with different stacking sequences, often
leads to fundamentally different properties in families of two-dimensional materials. Here, we …

Recent experimental and theoretical work has demonstrated significant potential to tune the
properties of silicon and germanium by adjusting the mesostructure, nanostructure, and/or …

In the past decades, group IV nanowires and nanoparticles have been the subject of
extensive research. Beside tremendous progress in morphological control and integration in …

The optical and electronic properties of semiconducting materials are of great importance to
a vast range of contemporary technologies. Diamond-cubic germanium is a well-known …