The increasing threat of bacterial infections and the limitations of conventional antibiotics have intensified the search for innovative antimicrobial substances. This study investigates a heterostructure nanomaterial of graphene and MXene designed t...
The SnS/SnS2 heterostructure was fabricated by the chemical vapor deposition method. The crystal structure properties of SnS2 and SnS were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern, Raman spectroscopy, and field emission scanning electron micr...
Van der Waals heterostructure is formed by two-dimensional materials, which applications have become hot topics and received intensive exploration for fabricating without lattice mismatch. With the sustained decrease in dimensions of field effect tra...
Using the tight-binding approach, we study the band gaps of boron nitride (BN)/ graphene nanoribbon (GNR) planar heterostructures, with GNRs embedded in a BN sheet. The width of BN has little effect on the band gap of a heterostructure. The band gap...
The effects of the monovacancies of oxygen (VO) and manganese (VMn) on the structural and electronic properties of the 1T–MnO2/graphene heterostructure are investigated, within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). We found that the...
Due to the attractive optical and electrical properties, van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructures constructed from the different two-dimensional materials have received widespread attention. Here, MoS2/h-BN, MoS2/graphene, WS2/h-BN, and WS2/graphene vdW...
Two-dimensional materials are widely used as a new generation of functional materials for photovoltaic, photocatalyst, and nano-power devices. Strain engineering is a popular method to tune the properties of two-dimensional materials so that performa...
Interface interactions in 2D vertically stacked heterostructures play an important role in optoelectronic applications, and photodetectors based on graphene/InSe heterostructures show promising performance nowadays. However, nonlinear optical propert...
In this study, we explore the charge transfer mechanism between WO3 and Cu2O in heterostructured WO3/Cu2O electrodes and in a WO3||Cu2O tandem photoelectrochemical cell. The physical–chemical characterizations of the individual WO3 and Cu2O ele...
Optoelectronic devices are key building blocks for sustainable energy, imaging applications, and optical communications in modern society. Two-dimensional materials and perovskites have been considered promising candidates in this research area due t...
Metal oxide and metal dichalcogenide heterostructure composites are promising candidates for electrochemical use. In this study, a hybrid heterostructure composite electrode material was made using a straightforward hydrothermal process using transit...
The misfit dislocations and strain fields at a Ge/Si heterostructure interface were investigated experimentally using a combination of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and quantitative electron micrograph analysis methods. The type o...
Electric-field control of magnetism is significant for the next generation of large-capacity and low-power data storage technology. In this regard, the renaissance of a multiferroic compound provides an elegant platform owing to the coexistence and c...
Van der Waals (vdW) epitaxial growth provides an efficient strategy to prepare heterostructures with atomically and electronically sharp interfaces. Herein, PbI2 was in situ thermally deposited onto exfoliated thin−layered CrOCl nanoflakes in h...
The Coulomb excitations of charge density oscillation are calculated for a double-layer heterostructure. Specifically, we consider two-dimensional (2D) layers of silicene and graphene on a substrate. From the obtained surface response function, we ca...
The layered van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, assembled from monolayer graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and other atomic crystals in various combinations, is emerging as a new paradigm with which to attain desired electronic and optical pr...
The use of multilayer semiconductor heterojunction structures has shown promise in infrared detector applications. Several heterostructures with innovative compositional and architectural designs have been displayed on emerging infrared technologies....
The electronic structure and the optical properties of Graphene/MoS2 heterostructure (GM) are studied based on density functional theory. Compared with single-layer graphene, the bandgap will be opened; however, the bandgap will be reduced significan...
Supercapacitor electrode materials play a decisive role in charge storage and significantly affect the cost and capacitive performance of the final device. Engineering of the heterostructure of metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived transition m...
The charge properties and regularities of mutual influence of the electro-physical parameters in a metal (M)/insulator (I)/two-dimensional crystal heterostructure were studied. In one case, the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MoS2 was considere...
The concept of neuromorphic devices, aiming to process large amounts of information in parallel, at low power, high speed, and high efficiency, is to mimic the functions of human brain by emulating biological neural behavior. Optoelectronic neuromorp...
This paper explores ferroelectric–dielectric heterostructures comprising a ferroelectric oxide (Lead Zirconium Titanate
In recent years, 2D materials and their heterostructures have started to offer an ideal platform for high-performance photodetection devices. In this work, a highly responsive, self-powered photodetector based on PtSe2/MoS2 van der Waals heterostruct...
Nanopore structure presents great application potential especially in the area of biosensing. The two-dimensional (2D) vdW heterostructure nanopore shows unique features, while research around its fabrication is very limited. This paper proposes for...
Recent experiments on heterostructures composed of two or more films of cuprate superconductors of different oxygen doping levels have shown a remarkable Tc enhancement (up to 50%) relative to single compound films. We provide a simple explanation of...
The synthesis and characterization of MgO-ZrO2 heterostructures are examined in this work. To promote the creation of nanowires, the Si substrate is first covered with a catalyst layer of various Au thicknesses. Sputtering is used to achieve this dep...
Photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials have great potential applications in the field of new energy, such as fuel cells, solar cells, and other fields. Van der Waals (vdW) heterojunction photodiodes are expected to be one of the promi...
In this work, based on the first principles calculation of density functional theory (DFT), we studied the band structure changes of monolayer ZnO and ZnO/WSe2 before and after vacancy generation, and systematically studied the vacancy formation ener...
A new layered heterostructure composite material system (TC4 as front layer and 2024Al alloy as back layer) was developed and analyzed for its design and performance in terms of an enhanced absorption capability and anti-penetration behavior. The Flo...
Arsenene has received considerable attention because of its unique optoelectronic and nanoelectronic properties. Nevertheless, the research on van der Waals (vdW) heterojunctions based on arsenene has just begun, which hinders the application of arse...
The precise control and understanding of heat flow in heterostructures is pivotal for advancements in thermoelectric energy conversion, thermal barrier coatings, and efficient heat management in electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this study, w...
Heterostructured materials show great potential to enhance the specific capacity, rate performance and cycling lifespan of lithium-ion batteries owing to their unique interfaces, robust architectures, and synergistic effects. Herein, a polypyrrole (P...
The electronic structure and band offsets of blue phosphorus/WSe2 van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure are investigated via performing first-principles calculations. Blue phosphorus/WSe2 vdW heterostructure exhibits modulation of bandgaps by the appli...
Heterostructures have recently been used to generate stable photo-induced currents via photoelectrochemical (PEC) activity. However, the effect of electrolytes on charge-transfer kinetics and the generation of photo-induced currents on heterostructur...
ZnSb is widely recognized as a promising thermoelectric material in its bulk form, and a ZnSb bilayer was recently synthesized from the bulk. In this study, we designed a vertical van der Waals heterostructure consisting of a ZnSb bilayer and an h-BN...
Single-molecule techniques such as electron tunneling and atomic force microscopy have attracted growing interests in protein sequencing. For these methods, it is critical to refine and stabilize the protein sample to a “suitable mode” be...
In this paper, we theoretically investigate nonlinearly tunable Fano resonance by employing a light tunneling heterostructure with one-dimensional defective photonic crystals and a lossy metallic film. We find that the phenomenon of Fano resonance ca...
Designing the electronic structures of the van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures to obtain high-efficiency solar cells showed a fascinating prospect. In this work, we screened the potential of vdW heterostructures for solar cell application by combini...
Artificial heterostructures are typically created by layering distinct materials, thereby giving rise to unique characteristics different from their individual components. Herein, two-dimensional α-MnSe nanosheets with a non-layered structure w...
SnO2 nanowires are locally synthesized by a simple thermal evaporation method and its growth mechanism is confirmed. Here, we present a simple strategy for realizing reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/SnO2 nanowires heterostructure. As expected, the hetero...
Interface engineering can be used to tune the properties of heterostructure materials at an atomic level, yielding exceptional final physical properties. In this work, we synthesized a heterostructure of a p-type semiconductor (NiO) and an n-type sem...
High-rate recombination of photogenerated electron and hole pairs will lead to low photocatalytic activity. Constructing heterostructure is a way to address this problem and thus increase the photoelectrochemical performance of the photocatalysts. In...
Vertically stacked, layered van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures offer the possibility to design materials, within a range of chemistries and structures, to possess tailored properties. Inspired by the naturally occurring mineral merelaniite, this pa...
Much effort has been made for MoS2/CDs heterostructure application in the field of photocatalysts. However, the impacts of functional groups of CDs on the properties of the heterostructure are ambiguous. Here, the impacts of hydroxyl, carbonyl, and c...
Photocatalysis is a green technique that can convert solar energy to chemical energy, especially in H2 production from water splitting. In this study, ZnO and red phosphorus (ZnO/RP) heterostructures were fabricated through a facile calcination metho...
Heterostructures are highly promising photocatalyst candidates for water splitting due to their advanced properties than those of pristine components. The ZnO/Sc2CF2 heterostructure was designed in this work, and its electronic structure was investig...
After the discovery of graphene, a lot of research has been conducted on two-dimensional (2D) materials. In order to increase the performance of 2D materials and expand their applications, two different layered materials are usually combined by van d...
A photodetector based on a hybrid dimensional heterostructure of laterally aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and multilayered MoS2 was prepared using the micro-nano fixed-point transfer technique. Thanks to the high mobility of carbon nanot...
Recently, the light-matter interaction at nanoscale has attracted great interest from physicists, chemists and material scientists, as it gives peculiar optical properties that couldn’t be observed at the bulk scale. The synthesis and characterizatio...
Layered transition metals dichalcogenides such as MoS2 and WS2 have shown a tunable bandgap, making them highly desirable for optoelectronic applications. Here, we report on one-step chemical vapor deposited MoS2, WS2 and MoxW1-xS2 heterostructures i...
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