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Publications

  1. Transforming science labs into automated factories of discovery

  2. Hybrid magnonics with localized spoof surface-plasmon polaritons

  3. Fast Catalysis at Low Overpotential: Designing Efficient Dicationic Re(bpy2+)(CO)3I Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

  4. Trust Not Verify? The Critical Need for Data Curation Standards in Materials Informatics

  5. Covalent Functionalization of Silicon with Plasma-Grown “Fuzzy” Graphene: Robust Aqueous Photoelectrodes for CO2 Reduction by Molecular Catalysts

  6. Magnon-photon coupling in an opto-electro-magnonic oscillator

  7. Understanding the Electronic Transport of Al–Si and Al–Ge Nanojunctions by Exploiting Temperature-Dependent Bias Spectroscopy

  8. Nanoscale Reconfigurable Si Transistors: From Wires to Sheets and Unto Multi‐Wire Channels

  9. Coordination of copper within a crystalline carbon nitride and its catalytic reduction of CO2

  10. Combinatorial split-ring and spiral metaresonator for efficient magnon-photon coupling

  11. Monolayer-like Exciton Recombination Dynamics of Multilayer MoSe2 Observed by Pump–Probe Microscopy

  12. Epitaxially Grown Silicon Nanowires with a Gold Molecular Adhesion Layer for Core/Shell Structures with Compact Mie and Plasmon Resonances

  13. Omega-Gate Silicon Nanowire Geometric Diodes with Reconfigurable Self-Switching Operation and THz Rectification

  14. Optical Nonlinearity in Silicon Nanowires Enabled by Bound States in the Continuum

  15. Identifying a ‘Raoult’s Law’ Relationship to Modulate the Stoichiometry of Hybrid Perovskite Films by Amino-Deliquescence/Efflorescence in Mixed Amine Vapors

  16. Multi-Electron Transfer at H-Terminated p-Si Electrolyte Interfaces: Large Photovoltages under Inversion Conditions

  17. Influence of Geometry on Quasi-Ballistic Behavior in Silicon Nanowire Geometric Diodes

  18. In Situ Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry (ATR-IR-SEC) for the Characterization of Molecular Redox Processes on Surface-Proximal Doped Silicon ATR Crystal Working Electrodes

  19. Water splitting with silicon p–i–n superlattices suspended in solution

  20. Research Briefings | Designer Silicon Nanowires Produce Hydrogen from Water and Light

  21. Synthesis and Surface Attachment of Molecular Re(I) Complexes Supported by Functionalized Bipyridyl Ligands

  22. Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO and Methanol over a Silicon Photocathode Functionalized with a Cobalt Phthalocyanine Molecular Catalyst

  23. Reconfigurable Complementary and Combinational Logic Based on Monolithic and Single-Crystalline Al-Si Heterostructures

  24. Monolithic and Single-Crystalline Aluminum–Silicon Heterostructures

  25. Unveiling the complex configurational landscape of the intralayer cavities in a crystalline carbon nitride

  26. Influence of Surface and Structural Variations in Donor–Acceptor–Donor Sensitizers on Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting

  27. Lithographically Patterning Hybrid Perovskite Single Crystals by Surface-Engineered Amino-Deliquescence/Efflorescence

  28. Amino-deliquescence and Amino-efflorescence of Methylammonium Lead Iodide

  29. Electrostatic Tip Effects in Scanning Probe Microscopy of Nanostructures

  30. Enabling Aqueous NiO Photocathodes by Passivating Surface Sites that Facilitate Proton-Coupled Charge Transfer
  31. Organic Chromophores Designed for Hole Injection into Wide-Band-Gap Metal Oxides for Solar Fuel Applications
  32. Remote nongenetic optical modulation of neuronal activity using fuzzy graphene
  33. Abrupt degenerately-doped silicon nanowire tunnel junctions
  34. Ratcheting Quasi-ballistic Electrons in Silicon Geometric Diodes at Room Temperature
  35. Semi-transparent, Flexible, and Electrically Conductive Silicon Mesh by Capillarity-driven Welding of Vapor-liquid-solid-grown Nanowires over Large Areas
  36. Cation Effects in p-Type Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
  37. Geometric Nanophotonics: Light Management in Single Nanowires through Morphology
  38. Observation of Phonon Propagation in Germanium Nanowires Using Femtosecond Pump–Probe Microscopy
  39. Optical Bound States in the Continuum with Nanowire Geometric Superlattices
  40. Solvent-Engineered Stress in Nanoscale Materials
  41. Tuning Electroluminescence from a Plasmonic Cavity-Coupled Silicon Light Source
  42. Interplay of Surface Recombination and Diode Geometry for the Performance of Axial p-i-n Nanowire Solar Cells
  43. Mie-Coupled Bound Guided States in Nanowire Geometric Superlattices
  44. Self-Catalyzed Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Lead Halide Nanowires and Conversion to Hybrid Perovskites
  45. Enhancement of Light Absorption in Silicon Nanowire Photovoltaic Devices with Dielectric and Metallic Grating Structures
  46. Mapping Free Carriers in Multijunction Silicon Nanowires Using Infrared Near-Field Optical Microscopy
  47. Nature Nanotechnology News and Views -- Optoelectronics: Letting Photons out of the Gate
  48. Encoding Highly Non-Equilibrium Boron Concentrations and Abrupt Morphology in P-Type/N-Type Silicon Nanowire Superlattices
  49. Interfacial Electron Transfer Yields in Dye-Sensitized NiO Photocathodes Correlated to Excited-State Dipole Orientation of Ruthenium Chromophores
  50. Probing Intrawire, Interwire, and Diameter-Dependent Variations in Silicon Nanowire Surface Trap Density with Pump–Probe Microscopy
  51. Material Informatics Driven Design and Experimental Validation of Lead Titanate as an Aqueous Solar Photocathode
  52. Designing Morphology in Epitaxial Silicon Nanowires: The Role of Gold, Surface Chemistry, and Phosphorus Doping
  53. All-in-one Derivatized Tandem p+n-Silicon-SnO2/TiO2 Water Splitting Photoelectrochemical Cell
  54. Barrierless Switching between a Liquid and Superheated Solid Catalyst during Nanowire Growth
  55. Capillarity-Driven Welding of Semiconductor Nanowires for Crystalline and Electrically Ohmic Junctions
  56. Passivation of Nickel Vacancy Defects in Nickel Oxide Solar Cells by Targeted Atomic Deposition of Boron
  57. Chemically Engraving Semiconductor Nanowires: Using Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Morphology to Encode Functionality from the Bottom Up
  58. Site-Selective Passivation of Defects in NiO Solar Photocathodes by Targeted Atomic Deposition
  59. Understanding the Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism of Si Nanowire Growth and Doping to Synthetically Encode Precise Nanoscale Morphology

  60. Designing Plasmon-Enhanced Thermochromic Films Using a Vanadium Dioxide Nanoparticle Elastomeric Composite
  61. Imaging Spatial Variations in the Dissipation and Transport of Thermal Energy within Individual Silicon Nanowires Using Ultrafast Microscopy
  62. Compositionally-Tunable Mechanochemical Synthesis of ZnxCo3-xO4 Nanoparticles for Mesoporous p-Type Photocathodes
  63. Doubling Absorption in Nanowire Solar Cells with Dielectric Shell Optical Antennas
  64. Encoding Abrupt and Uniform Dopant Profiles in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Nanowires by Suppressing the Reservoir Effect of the Liquid Catalyst
  65. Sensitized Zinc Cobalt Oxide Spinel P-type Photoelectrodes
  66. Reversible Strain-Induced Electron-Hole Recombination in Silicon Nanowires Observed with Femtosecond Pump-Probe Microscopy
  67. Waveguide Scattering Microscopy for Dark-Field Imaging and Spectroscopy of Photonic Nanostructures
  68. Hierarchically-Structured NiO Nanoplatelets as Mesoscale p-Type Photocathodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
  69. Imaging Charge Separation and Carrier Recombination in Nanowire p-i-n Junctions Using Ultrafast Microscopy
  70. Identifying Crystallization and Incorporation Limited Regimes During Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Si Nanowires
  71. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Individual Silicon Nanowires: Characterization of Diameter-Dependent Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination with Pump-Probe Microscopy
  72. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of Silicon Nanowire Ensembles: The Impact of Geometrical Heterogeneity on Charge Carrier Lifetime
  73. Synthetically Encoding 10-nm Morphology in Silicon Nanowires
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