This paper reviews the fundamental concepts and the terminology of wetting. In particular, it
focuses on high temperature wetting phenomena of primary interest to materials scientists …

In the past decade there have been many theoretical and experimental efforts to study the
mechanisms of solid state dewetting, that means the spontaneous agglomeration of a thin …

We have grown an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional multi-phase film in situ through
germanium molecular beam epitaxy using a gold (111) surface as a substrate. Its growth is …

One of the foremost challenges in nanofabrication is the establishment of a processing
science that integrates wafer-based materials, techniques, and devices with the …

Since the discovery of graphene, 2D materials have attracted significant attention for their
unique properties. Monoelemental 2D materials (ME2DMs) are of particular interest …

The interactions between the reactants and catalysts surfaces play a significant role in
heterogeneous catalysis, thus to tune the interfacial properties between them has emerged …

Solid state dewetting of ultrathin films is the most straightforward means of fabricating
substrate-supported noble metal nanostructures. This assembly process is, however, quite …

One-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures have been studied in great depth over the
past number of decades as potential building blocks in electronic, thermoelectric …

A substrate-based templated assembly route has been devised which offers large-area, high-
throughput capabilities for the fabrication of periodic arrays of sub-micrometer and …

Nano-droplets on a foreign substrate have received increasing attention because of their
technological possible applications, for instance to catalyse the growth of nanowires. In …