With the aggravation of environmental pollution and the energy crisis, it is particularly
important to develop and design environment-friendly and efficient spontaneous enhanced …

Traditional gas sensors are facing the challenge of low power consumption for future
application in smart phones and wireless sensor platforms. To solve this problem, self …

The human visual attention mechanism enables them to rapidly perceive important
information and objects in a complex external scene; this effectively solves the problems of …

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have drawn much interest over the last decade owing
to their absence of dangling bonds and their intriguing low‐dimensional properties. The …

The development and design of clean and efficient water splitting photocatalysts is important
for the current situation of energy shortage and environmental pollution. A new type of …

In this paper, a novel GaP/GaSe van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) is constructed, and
using first-principles calculations, the geometric, electronic, transport, and optical properties …

The imitation of synaptic plasticity in artificial neuromorphic devices has been widely
realized based on memristors, transistors and ion devices. This development of artificial …

The emerging two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors hold a promising prospect for
sustaining Moore's law benefitting from the excellent device electrostatics with narrowed …

Interlayer excitons, or bound electron–hole pairs whose constituent quasiparticles are
located in distinct stacked semiconducting layers, are being intensively studied in …

In recent years, superlattices and layered materials have been highlighted as potential
candidates for thermoelectric applications, this thanks to their low thermal conductivity …