Recent advancements in the use of novel piezoelectric materials for piezocatalytic and piezo-photocatalytic applications

H Zheng, Y Wang, J Liu, K Yan, K Zhu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezocatalysis has gradually attracted the interest of researchers owing to their excellent
ability to improve the separation and migration of photoelectrons and holes. The alternating …

Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

EC Regan, D Wang, EY Paik, Y Zeng, L Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are 2D semiconductors with tightly
bound excitons and correspondingly strong light–matter interactions. Owing to the weak van …

Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer

C Wang, XW Zhang, X Liu, Y He, X Xu, Y Ran, T Cao… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 moiré superlattices [J. Cai, Signatures of …

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

A Ciarrocchi, F Tagarelli, A Avsar, A Kis - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of
materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach …

Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures

Y Jiang, S Chen, W Zheng, B Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
generally possess a type-II band alignment that facilitates the formation of interlayer excitons …

Piezoelectric nanogenerators derived self‐powered sensors for multifunctional applications and artificial intelligence

X Cao, Y Xiong, J Sun, X Zhu, Q Sun… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoTs) era, there is a growing requirement for
systems with many sensor nodes in a variety of fields of applications. The demands for …

Intralayer charge-transfer moiré excitons in van der Waals superlattices

MH Naik, EC Regan, Z Zhang, YH Chan, Z Li, D Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have proved to be an ideal
platform on which to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism and …

Recent advance and prospectives of electrocatalysts based on transition metal selenides for efficient water splitting

X Peng, Y Yan, X Jin, C Huang, W Jin, B Gao, PK Chu - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrochemical water splitting comprising the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and
oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays critical role in energy conversion technology that …

Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

EC Regan, D Wang, C Jin, MI Bakti Utama, B Gao… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices can be used to engineer strongly correlated electronic states in two-
dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, as recently demonstrated in the correlated …

Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics

Y Chen, W Du, Q Zhang, O Ávalos-Ovando… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoscopic chiroptics studies the spin-dependent asymmetric light–matter interactions at
the nanoscale, where the asymmetry can stem from the intrinsic properties of materials …