Researchers led by Shengxi Huang at Rice University investigated the behavior of polarons, a type of quasiparticle, in the nanomaterial tellurene. They found that as tellurene’s thickness decreases to ...

Using state-of-the-art density functional theory (DFT) simulations, they showed that when a single layer of the semiconductor ...

The following text will discuss the different theoretical and mathematical principles working behind geometry processing. It will also discuss how they are applied to different purposes while ...

On-surface synthesis has received great attention as a method to create atomically-precise one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) polymers with intriguing properties. In particular, graphene ...

Flat materials that can morph into three-dimensional shapes have potential applications in architecture, medicine, robotics, space travel, and much more. But programming these shape changes requires ...

Controlled synthesis of metastable materials is a major focus in materials chemistry, with metastable thin films often synthesized through rapid condensation of vapor precursors. However, achieving ...