Semiconductors with multiple anions currently provide a new materials platform from which
improved functionality emerges, posing new challenges and opportunities in material …

Progress in the discovery of new materials has been accelerated by the development of
reliable quantum-mechanical approaches to crystal structure prediction. The properties of a …

Fluorescence bioimaging is a powerful, versatile, method for investigating, both in vivo and
in vitro, the complex structures and functions of living organisms in real time and space, also …

A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …

The energy landscape of carbon is exceedingly complex, hosting diverse and important
metastable phases, including diamond, fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene. Searching for …

Intrinsic direct-gap two-dimensional (2D) materials hold great promise as photocatalysts,
advancing the application of photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production. However …

In the second near‐infrared (NIR‐II) biowindow, multimodal optical imaging‐guided precise
antitumor therapy is a novel strategy for high‐efficiency tumor theranostics, however, the all …

The structure prediction at the atomic level is emerging as a state-of-the-art approach to
accelerate the functionality-driven discovery of materials. By combining the global swarm …

A new family of Si-based pentagonal monolayers is constructed on the basis of the
okayamalite structure by means of first principles calculations. Phonon spectra and ab initio …

The production of hydrogen from photovoltaics (PV) has gained attention due to its potential
as an energy vector. In this context, there are two basic configurations for electrically …