Photothermal materials: A key platform enabling highly efficient water evaporation driven by solar energy

X Wu, GY Chen, G Owens, D Chu, H Xu - Materials Today Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversion and utilization of solar energy is one of the most important strategies being
proposed to mitigate the foreshadowed global energy crisis and environmental issues …

Carbon nanomaterials for electronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and sensing

D Jariwala, VK Sangwan, LJ Lauhon… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last three decades, zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, and two-dimensional carbon
nanomaterials (ie, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, respectively) have attracted …

Fingertip skin–inspired microstructured ferroelectric skins discriminate static/dynamic pressure and temperature stimuli

J Park, M Kim, Y Lee, HS Lee, H Ko - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
In human fingertips, the fingerprint patterns and interlocked epidermal-dermal microridges
play a critical role in amplifying and transferring tactile signals to various mechanoreceptors …

Recent advances in structure separation of single‐wall carbon nanotubes and their application in optics, electronics, and optoelectronics

X Wei, S Li, W Wang, X Zhang, W Zhou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Structural control of single‐wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with uniform properties is
critical not only for their property modulation and functional design but also for applications …

Broadband MoS2 Field‐Effect Phototransistors: Ultrasensitive Visible‐Light Photoresponse and Negative Infrared Photoresponse

JY Wu, YT Chun, S Li, T Zhang, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Inverse photoresponse is discovered from phototransistors based on molybdenum disulfide
(MoS2). The devices are capable of detecting photons with energy below the bandgap of …

Carbon nanotube thin films: fabrication, properties, and applications

L Hu, DS Hecht, G Gruner - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale materials, defined as having at least one dimension less than 100 nm, have
received steadily growing interest due to their unique properties and application potential …

A review of the terahertz conductivity of bulk and nano-materials

J Lloyd-Hughes, TI Jeon - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz …, 2012 - Springer
We review pioneering and recent studies of the conductivity of solid state systems at
terahertz frequencies. A variety of theoretical formalisms that describe the terahertz …

Planar carbon nanotube–graphene hybrid films for high-performance broadband photodetectors

Y Liu, F Wang, X Wang, X Wang, E Flahaut… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Graphene has emerged as a promising material for photonic applications fuelled by its
superior electronic and optical properties. However, the photoresponsivity is limited by the …

A black body absorber from vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes

K Mizuno, J Ishii, H Kishida… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Among all known materials, we found that a forest of vertically aligned single-walled carbon
nanotubes behaves most similarly to a black body, a theoretical material that absorbs all …

Carbon-nanotube photonics and optoelectronics

P Avouris, M Freitag, V Perebeinos - Nature photonics, 2008 - nature.com
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are nearly ideal one-dimensional (1D) systems, with diameters of
only 1–3 nm and lengths that can be on the scale of centimetres. Depending on the …