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Electric field-assisted patterning of few-layer MoTe2 by scanning probe lithography
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been widely studied as attractive two-dimensional (2D) materials. In particular, specific TMD materials have attracted increasing attention because of their intrigu...
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Open AccessBreakdown of chiral recognition of amino acids in reduced dimensions
The homochirality of amino acids in living organisms is one of the great mysteries in the phenomena of life. To understand the chiral recognition of amino acids, we have used scanning tunnelling microscopy to ...
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Open AccessNanoscale control of phonon excitations in graphene
Phonons, which are collective excitations in a lattice of atoms or molecules, play a major role in determining various physical properties of condensed matter, such as thermal and electrical conductivities. In...
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Erratum: Heterogeneous stacking of nanodot monolayers by dry pick-and-place transfer and its applications in quantum dot light-emitting-diodes
Nature Communications 4: Article number: 2637 (2013); Published: 6 November 2013; Updated: 4 September 2014. The images in Supplementary Figs S1a and S3a, that accompany this Article were incorrectly rendered ...
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Open AccessSurface energy-mediated construction of anisotropic semiconductor wires with selective crystallographic polarity
ZnO is a wide band-gap semiconductor with piezoelectric properties suitable for opto-electronics, sensors and as an electrode material. Controlling the shape and crystallography of any semiconducting nanomater...
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Heterogeneous stacking of nanodot monolayers by dry pick-and-place transfer and its applications in quantum dot light-emitting diodes
Layered assembly structures composed of nanomaterials, such as nanocrystals, have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new functional devices whose optical, electromagnetic and electron...