Silicon nanocrystals and silicon‐polymer hybrids: synthesis, surface engineering, and applications

M Dasog, J Kehrle, B Rieger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Silicon nanocrystals (Si‐NCs) are emerging as an attractive class of quantum dots
owing to the natural abundance of silicon in the Earth's crust, their low toxicity compared to …

Laser-processed nanosilicon: A multifunctional nanomaterial for energy and healthcare

AV Kabashin, A Singh, MT Swihart, IN Zavestovskaya… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This review describes promising laser-based approaches to produce silicon nanostructures,
including laser ablation of solid Si targets in residual gases and liquids and laser pyrolysis of …

Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots

F Meinardi, S Ehrenberg, L Dhamo, F Carulli… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Building-integrated photovoltaics is gaining consensus as a renewable energy technology
for producing electricity at the point of use. Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) could …

Recent updates on functionalized silicon quantum-dot-based nanoagents for biomedical applications

D Yang, Z Cui, Z Wen, Z Piao, H He, X Wei… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanomaterials are one of the most representative inorganic nanomedicines in
therapeutic biomedicine. Silicon quantum dots (Si QDs) have aroused wide attention in the …

Introductory lecture: origins and applications of efficient visible photoluminescence from silicon-based nanostructures

L Canham - Faraday Discussions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …

Luminescent transparent wood

Y Li, S Yu, JGC Veinot, J Linnros… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - diva-portal.org
Functional light conversion layers containing active fluorescent materials are necessary
components in many devices. The most straightforward example would be the common …

Silicon nanocrystals: unfading silicon materials for optoelectronics

Z Ni, S Zhou, S Zhao, W Peng, D Yang, X Pi - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
As the most fundamental material for microelectronics, silicon (Si) has bourgeoned in the
past more than half a century. However, given the indirect bandgap of Si, the use of Si in …

[HTML][HTML] Transparent plywood as a load-bearing and luminescent biocomposite

Q Fu, M Yan, E Jungstedt, X Yang, Y Li… - Composites Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Transparent wood (TW) structures in research studies were either thin and highly anisotropic
or thick and isotropic but weak. Here, transparent plywood (TPW) laminates are investigated …

Finding the next superhard material through ensemble learning

Z Zhang, A Mansouri Tehrani, AO Oliynyk… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An ensemble machine‐learning method is demonstrated to be capable of finding superhard
materials by directly predicting the load‐dependent Vickers hardness based only on the …

Bright silicon nanocrystals from a liquid precursor: Quasi-direct recombination with high quantum yield

TA Pringle, KI Hunter, A Brumberg, KJ Anderson… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) with bright bandgap photoluminescence (PL) are of current
interest for a range of potential applications, from solar windows to biomedical contrast …