Strain can be introduced to materials through various methods, including mechanical stretching, bending, compressing, or by epitaxial growth on substrates with different lattice constants. Advanced ...

Heterogeneous catalysis—in which catalysts and reactants are of different phases, e.g., solid and gas—is important to many ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) A new motorized three-point-bending apparatus has been developed that is capable of automating strain engineering experiments on two-dimensional (2D) materials. The setup can be ...

The quest for efficient and durable oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts is pivotal for the advancement of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology. Despite their widespread ...

The joint team from Nankai University and Peking University has proposed a novel approach using annealing-driven reassembly of micro-bubbles to engineer controllable artificial potential landscapes in ...

A new technical paper titled “Strain engineering in 2D FETs: Physics, status, and prospects” was published by researchers at UC Santa Barbara. “In this work, we explore the physics and evaluate the ...

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