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Enhanced electron–phonon interactions in mono- and few-layer NbSe2 result in a significantly increased transition temperature of charge density waves compared with values in the bulk.
The incorporation of carbon nanotubes in a silica matrix produces oxygen dopant states that can emit single photons at room temperature and at wavelengths relevant for applications in telecommunications.
DNA nanotube scaffolds allow artificial myosin filaments to be engineered that can be used to probe the mechanical coordination of myosin motor ensembles.
Molecular dynamics simulations of water molecules inside carbon nanotubes show a strong coupling between the flow of water and the phonon modes of nanotubes that enhance diffusion.
Charged domain walls can be created and manipulated at the nanoscale so that their polarization charge can be used to dope ferroelectric thin films at selected locations in a reversible way.
The polymeric shell surrounding gold nanoparticles may degrade when injected into rats, suggesting that even highly stable colloidal nanoparticles are susceptible to physicochemical changes in vivo.
Uniaxial strain as small as 0.3% in FeGe thin films can induce large anisotropic deformation of magnetic skyrmions and their crystal lattice hosted in the material.
An array of nanoscale polar domains with varying conductance and that are electrically insulated by domain walls can be induced by the interplay of strain and defects in oxide thin films.
Single-molecule diodes with rectification ratios over 200 at low voltages can be obtained with symmetric molecules by creating an environmental asymmetry using electric double-layers.
An indium arsenide quantum well with a ferromagnetic spin injector and a spin Hall detector is used to electrically measure the conductance oscillations due to spin precession in a transistor channel.
The high material quality achieved in black phosphorus thin films combined with the choice of an appropriate substrate enables the electrostatic formation of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas that exhibits quantum oscillations in its magnetoresistance.
Circularly polarized emission with no applied magnetic field can be obeserved in a two-dimensional semiconductor due to the interaction of excitons with a two-dimensional electron gas.
Topological superconductivity, a state that can support the formation of Majorana zero modes, can be induced in the edge state of a InAs/GaSb nanowire.
DNA-based T-motifs that can self-assemble into ring structures can be designed to self-replicate through toehold-mediated strand displacement reactions.