Designing efficient and cost-effective materials is pivotal to solving the key scientific and
technological challenges at the interface of energy, environment, and sustainability for …

Defect centers in insulators play a critical role in creating important functionalities in
materials: prototype qubits, single-photon sources, magnetic field probes, and pressure …

Artificial electronic kagome lattices may emerge from electronic potential landscapes using
customized structures with exotic supersymmetries, benefiting from the confinement of …

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-
energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl Fermions. Exotic transport and optical …

Transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) are widely used in photocatalytic fields such as
hydrogen evolution, nitrogen fixation, and pollutant degradation due to their suitable …

Semi-hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes using electrochemical approaches is an
appealing alternative to conventional thermocatalytic strategies, as it efficiently utilizes water …

Defect engineering in the inherently inert basal planes of transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs), involving the introduction of chalcogen vacancies, represents a pivotal approach to …

We report a viable strategy to realize topological flat bands in one-dimensional armchair
graphene antidot lattices. The quantum destructive interference effect leads to largely …

Normally, it is hard to regulate thermal defects precisely in their host lattice due to the
stochastic nature of thermal activation. Here, we demonstrate a thermal annealing way to …

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials are increasingly seen as potential catalysts
due to their unique structures and unmatched properties. However, achieving precise …