Vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films with ordered two phases, grown epitaxially on
substrates, have attracted tremendous interest in the past decade. These unique …

Achieving self‐assembling/self‐organizing systems is the holy grail of nanotechnology.
Spontaneous organization is not unique to the physical sciences since nature has been …

Vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) oxide thin films have recently stimulated a
significant amount of research interest owing to their novel architecture, vertical interfacial …

Self-assembled oxide-based vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films have
aroused tremendous research interest in the past decade. The interest arises from the range …

Very recently, vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films have served as an intriguing
platform to obtain significant insights of the fundamental physics and achieve novel …

Microstructure evolution in complex nonlinear systems is of great interest from both scientific
and engineering viewpoints. Here, we consider an important case of such an evolution, a …

Complex oxides provide an ideal playground for exploring the interplay among the
fundamental degrees of freedom: structural (lattice), electronic (orbital and charge), and …

The identification of low thermal-conductivity materials that are stable up to high
temperatures has been a longstanding challenge for high-temperature thermal management …

Self-assembled epitaxial oxide composite films represent a new material form in which very
high-quality mesoscopic structures can be created. The main focus has been on coupled …

Epitaxial vertically aligned nanocomposites (VANs) and their related architectures have
shown many intriguing features that are not available from conventional two-dimensional …