BACKGROUND Membranes are thin physical barriers that allow for transport of certain
species while limiting others. Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are crystalline …

Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is a powerful technology for producing high-quality solid
thin films and coatings. Although widely used in modern industries, it is continuously being …

Highly conductive concrete/mortar has been long pursued to realize structural health
monitoring in the development of smart-cement-based facilities. However, it remains …

The rapid development of next‐generation portable electronic devices urgently requires
dual‐functional materials that possess both efficient heat dissipation and outstanding …

Chirality is one of the most intriguing concepts of chemistry, involving living systems and,
more recently, materials science. In particular, the bottom-up synthesis of molecular …

Electrocatalytic water splitting for the production of hydrogen proves to be effective and
available. In general, the thermal radiation synthesis usually involves a slow heating and …

Fabricating highly crystalline macroscopic films with extraordinary electrical and thermal
conductivities from graphene sheets is essential for applications in electronics …

Grain boundaries (GBs) are a kind of lattice imperfection widely existing in two-dimensional
materials, playing a critical role in materials' properties and device performance. Related key …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide et al.
offer significant new prospects for electronics, optics, and biosensing applications due to …

Defect-free graphene is impermeable to gases and liquids but highly permeable to thermal
protons. Atomic-scale defects such as vacancies, grain boundaries, and Stone–Wales …