The piezo-phototronic effect (a coupling effect of piezoelectric, photoexcitation and
semiconducting properties, coined in 2010) has been demonstrated to be an ingenious and …

Dielectric materials with high thermal conductivity (TC) can enable disruptive performance
enhancement in the areas of electronics packaging, thermal management, energy storage …

In this review, we systematically analyze the enhanced performances of Schottky-structured
nanowire sensors by the piezotronic effect. Compared with traditional Ohmic-contact …

Piezoelectric nanomaterials (PNs) are attractive for applications including sensing,
actuating, energy harvesting, among others in nano-electro-mechanical-systems (NEMS) …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have shown their potential in isolation of cancer-related
biomolecules such as extracellular vesicles (EVs), RNAs, and DNAs for early diagnosis and …

Diamond is the hardest superhard material with excellent optoelectronic, thermomechanical,
and electronic properties. Here, we have investigated the possibility of a new synthesis …

In molecular simulations, it is essential to properly calculate the electrostatic interactions of
particles in the physical system of interest. Here we consider a method called the non-Ewald …

In this critical review, we call attention to a widespread problem related to the vast
disagreement in elastic moduli values reported by different authors for nanostructures made …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a wide bandgap prototypical n-type semiconductor due to the presence
of intrinsic oxygen vacancies (VO). The VO can readily transfer to the most energetically …

Aluminum alloys are among the top candidate materials for in-space manufacturing (ISM)
due to their lightweight and relatively low melting temperature. A fundamental problem in …