Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

Solid-state chemists have been consistently successful in envisioning and making new
compounds, often enlisting the tools of theoretical solid-state physics to explain some of the …

Developing the technology for high yielding photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions is
an important challenge. Development and optimization of photocatalytic junctions is a likely …

Whereas standard transmission electron microscopy studies are unable to preserve the
native state of chemically reactive and beam-sensitive battery materials after operation, such …

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

Majorana fermions are the only fermionic particles that are expected to be their own
antiparticles. Although elementary particles of the Majorana type have not been identified …

Metallic materials are usually composed of single phase or multiple phases, which refers to
homogeneous regions with distinct types of the atom arrangement. The recent studies on …

Controlled formation of non-equilibrium crystal structures is one of the most important
challenges in crystal growth. Catalytically grown nanowires are ideal systems for studying …

Nanowires are filamentary crystals with a tailored diameter that can be obtained using a
plethora of different synthesis techniques. In this review, we focus on the vapor phase …

The crystal phase-based heterostructures of noble metal nanomaterials are of great
research interest for various applications, such as plasmonics and catalysis. However, the …