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    Observation of dichotomic field-tunable electronic structure in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene

    Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides a fascinating platform for engineering flat bands and inducing correlated phenomena. By designing the stacking architecture of graphene layers, twisted multilayer graph...

    Hongyun Zhang, Qian Li, Youngju Park, Yu** Jia, Wanying Chen in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Ionic liquid gating induced self-intercalation of transition metal chalcogenides

    Ionic liquids provide versatile pathways for controlling the structures and properties of quantum materials. Previous studies have reported electrostatic gating of nanometer-thick flakes leading to emergent su...

    Fei Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhijie Wang, Haoxiong Zhang, ** Wu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Pseudospin-selective Floquet band engineering in black phosphorus

    Time-periodic light field has emerged as a control knob for manipulating quantum states in solid-state materials13, cold atoms4 and photonic systems5 through hybridization with photon-dressed Floquet states6 in ...

    Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan, Hui Zhou, Qixuan Gao, Haoyuan Zhong in Nature (2023)

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    In vitro and in vivo low-dose exposure of simulated cooking oil fumes to assess adverse biological effects

    Cooking oil fumes (COFs) represent a major indoor environmental pollutant and exhibit potent mutagenic or carcinogenic health effects caused by containing various heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) and long-c...

    Shuangde Li, Li Wang, Shanyue Guan, Shuyun Zhou, Yunfa Chen in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Ultrafast photothermoelectric effect in Dirac semimetallic Cd3As2 revealed by terahertz emission

    The thermoelectric effects of topological semimetals have attracted tremendous research interest because many topological semimetals are excellent thermoelectric materials and thermoelectricity serves as one o...

    Wei Lu, Zipu Fan, Yunkun Yang, Junchao Ma, Jiawei Lai in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Robust charge-density wave strengthened by electron correlations in monolayer 1T-TaSe2 and 1T-NbSe2

    Combination of low-dimensionality and electron correlation is vital for exotic quantum phenomena such as the Mott-insulating phase and high-temperature superconductivity. Transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) ...

    Yuki Nakata, Katsuaki Sugawara, Ashish Chainani, Hirofumi Oka in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Autoencoder based blind source separation for photoacoustic resolution enhancement

    Photoacoustics is a promising technique for in-depth imaging of biological tissues. However, the lateral resolution of photoacoustic imaging is limited by size of the optical excitation spot, and therefore by ...

    Matan Benyamin, Hadar Genish, Ran Califa, Lauren Wolbromsky in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Interlayer quantum transport in Dirac semimetal BaGa2

    The quantum limit is quite easy to achieve once the band crossing exists exactly at the Fermi level (EF) in topological semimetals. In multilayered Dirac fermion systems, the density of Dirac fermions on the zero...

    Sheng Xu, Changhua Bao, Peng-Jie Guo, Yi-Yan Wang, Qiao-He Yu in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe2

    Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally proposed in high energy physics. Alt...

    Mingzhe Yan, Huaqing Huang, Kenan Zhang, Eryin Wang, Wei Yao in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Electric-field control of tri-state phase transformation with a selective dual-ion switch

    Materials are described here that can change their crystalline phase in response to the electrically controlled insertion or extraction of oxygen and hydrogen ions, giving rise to three distinct phases with di...

    Nianpeng Lu, Pengfei Zhang, Qinghua Zhang, Ruimin Qiao, Qing He, Hao-Bo Li in Nature (2017)

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    Direct observation of spin-layer locking by local Rashba effect in monolayer semiconducting PtSe2 film

    The generally accepted view that spin polarization in non-magnetic solids is induced by the asymmetry of the global crystal space group has limited the search for spintronics materials mainly to non-centrosymm...

    Wei Yao, Eryin Wang, Huaqing Huang, Ke Deng, Mingzhe Yan in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

    Transition metal dichalcogenide MoTe2 is an important candidate for realizing the newly predicted type-II Weyl fermions, for which the breaking of the inversion symmetry is a prerequisite. Here we present direct ...

    Kenan Zhang, Changhua Bao, Qiangqiang Gu, **ao Ren, Haoxiong Zhang in Nature Communications (2016)