Liquid lenses are the simplest and cheapest optical lenses, and various studies have been conducted to develop tunable-focus liquid lenses. In this study, a simple and easily implemented method for achieving tunable-focus liquid lenses was proposed a...
Background/Objectives: Local delivery of gene therapy products through the airways shows great promise for the treatment of a number of serious lung diseases, but its effectiveness is hampered by the mucus layer protecting the lung epithelium in the...
The fundamental mechanism underlying negative-ion catalysis involves bond-strength breaking in the transition state (TS). Doubly-charged atomic/molecular anions are proposed as novel dynamic tunable catalysts, as demonstrated in water oxidation into...
An optical vortex is a typical structured light field characterized by a helical wavefront and a central phase singularity. With its expanding applications in modern information technology, the demand for generating vortex beams with diverse topologi...
Solution-processable nonvolatile memory devices, consisted of graphene oxide (GO) embedded into an insulating polymer polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), were manufactured. By varying the GO content in PMMA nanocomposite films, the memristic conductance...
Polymeric micelles have gained increasing interest as efficient drug delivery systems for cancer treatment and diagnosis. The aim of the present study was to construct and to evaluate novel polymeric nanosized drug carriers with tunable surface charg...
We introduce herein the induced-charge electrokinetic phenomenon to nanometer fluidic systems; the design of the nanofluidic ion diode for field-effect ionic current control of the nanometer dimension is developed by enhancing internal ion concentrat...
Wastewater contamination by toxic heavy metal ions poses a huge threat to ecosystem integrity and human health. Herein, we designed a polyelectrolyte (T-PEI) with a tunable positive charge property to construct a layer-by-layer (LBL) nanofiltration m...
Selective recovery of gold from cyanide leach liquors is hindered by the co-dissolution of iron minerals that generate ferrocyanide complexes which strongly compete with [Au(CN)2]− at ion-exchange sorbents. Here, we investigate mixed-bed interp...
In the dynamic fields of information science and electronic technology, there is a notable trend towards leveraging carbon materials, favored for their ease of synthesis, biocompatibility, and abundance. This trend is particularly evident in the deve...
Oppositely charged polymer–surfactant complexes are frequently explored as a function of phase space defined by the charge ratio Z, (where Z = [
The development of polymers derived from renewable resources is a critical research priority, motivated by the urgent need to reduce dependence on petroleum-based plastics [...]
In this submission, we discuss the growth of charge-controllable GaAs quantum dots embedded in an n-i-p diode structure, from the perspective of a molecular beam epitaxy grower. The QDs show no blinking and narrow linewidths. We show that the paramet...
All-inorganic perovskite materials (CsPbX3) have attracted increasing attention due to their excellent photoelectric properties and stable physical and chemical properties. The dynamics of charge carriers affect the photoelectric conversion efficienc...
Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the promising approaches to solving environmental problems and energy crises. However, the sluggish 4e− transfer kinetics in water oxidation half-reaction restricts the 2e− reduction efficiency in...
Monodispersed polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA)/acrylic acid (AA) microgels with a tuneable negative charge and macroporous internal structure have been produced using a Lego-inspired droplet microfluidic device. The surface charge of microgels...
A thiourea hexamethylene diisocyanate covalent organic framework (TH COF) was synthesized by adjusting the surface charge and surface area. The surface charge value of TH COF, −3.8 ± 0.5 mV, can be changed to −29.1 ± 0.4 mV...
Nonlinear piezoelectric materials are raised as a great replacement for devices that require low power consumption, high sensitivity, and accurate transduction, fitting with the demanding requirements of new technologies such as the Fifth-Generation...
Memristors, since their inception, have demonstrated remarkable characteristics, notably the exceptional reconfigurability of their memory. This study delves into electroforming-free
Ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) is the spontaneous emission from living systems mainly attributed to oxidation reactions, in which reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play a major role. Given the capability of the next-generation electron-multiplying...
The three-dimensional volumetric application of conductive poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly (4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) to multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) has not been widely reported. In this study, the applicability of the 3D PEDOT...
Polyampholytes are a class of polymers made up of positively and negatively charged monomer subunits. Polyampholytes offer a unique tunable set of properties driven by the interactions between the charged monomer subunits. Some tunable properties of...
A high-efficiency low-power chip-based liquid crystal (LC) driver has been successfully designed and implemented for adaptive electro-optic eyewear including tunable vision correction devices (eyeglass, contact lens, intraocular lens, occluder, and p...
The remarkable dual nature of faceted-charge patchy metal fluoride nanocrystals arises from the spontaneous selective coordination of anionic and cationic ligands on the different facets of the nanocrystals. In previous studies, the identification an...
Metals are commonly used in plasmonic devices because of their strong plasmonic property. However, such properties are not easily tuned. For applications such as spatial light modulators and beam steering, tunable plasmonic properties are essential,...
We demonstrate a simple but efficient way to optimize and improve the properties of laser-wakefield-accelerated electron beams (e beams) based on a controllable shock-induced density down-ramp injection that is achieved with an inserted tunable shock...
The ability to broaden the bandwidth of nanodevices holds significant promise for applications in modern science and technology. In this work, we demonstrate a tunable approach to the bandwidth modulation of nanoresonators by applying a direct curren...
The use of colloidal nanocrystals as part of artificial photosynthetic systems has recently gained significant attention, owing to their strong light absorption and highly reproducible, tunable electronic and optical properties. The complete photocat...
Naphthalenediimide (NDI)-based donor–acceptor systems are promising building blocks for organic electronics owing to their tunable redox properties and potential for ambipolar charge transport. In this work, a novel NDI derivative bearing termi...
For tailored functionalization of cellulose based papers, the interaction between paper fibers and functional additives must be understood. Planar cellulose surfaces represent a suitable model system for studying the binding of additives. In this wor...
Electrokinetic phenomena offer promising tools for the manipulation of micro- and nanoparticles in liquid media. However, most existing techniques rely on complex configurations and are often limited to particle separation based on large size differe...
Polydiacetylene vesicles of various compositions were assembled using a two-part mixture of 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid (PCDA) and ethylenedioxy-bis-ethylamine (EDEA)-labeled PCDA in order to control surface charge and stability within a desired pH r...
In this paper, a tunable patch array based on high-order is proposed at the frequency of 300 GHz, achieving active controllable beam steering, focusing and generation of orbital angular momentum vortex beams. It has been demonstrated that the patch a...
Fluorescent imaging is widely used in the diagnosis and tracking of the distribution, interaction, and transformation processes at molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. To be detectable, delivery systems should exhibit a strong and bright fluoresce...
Maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) nanoparticles have attracted considerable interest for electronic applications due to their tunable electrical properties. Doping strategies offer an effective way to optimize their resistive behavior for use in electronic d...
Advancing neuromorphic computing technology requires the development of versatile synaptic devices. In this study, we fabricated a high-performance Al/LiNbO3/Pt memristive synapse and emulated various synaptic functions using its primary key operatin...
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have unique features, including intrinsic porosity, crystallinity, and tunability, making them desirable materials for diverse applications ranging from environmental remediation to energy harvesting. Among these ap...
Quantum dots (QDs) are zero-dimensional (0D) nanomaterials with charge confinement in all directions that significantly impact various applications. Metal-free organic quantum dots have fascinating properties such as size-dependent bandgap tunability...
Twisted graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (TG/hBN) bilayers, with their tunable moiré potential and atomically clean interfaces, offer an ideal platform for high-performance single-electron transistors (SET). Combining quantum transport simulat...
Particle engineering of nanosized drug delivery systems (DDS) can be used as a strategic tool to influence their pharmacokinetics after intravenous (i.v.) application by the targeted adaptation of their particle properties according to the needs at t...
Piezoelectric semiconductor combines the unique properties of semiconducting characteristics and piezoelectric effect together, providing a universal methodology to modulate piezoelectric semiconductor device’s performance by simply introducing...
As a promising platform for versatile electromagnetic (EM) manipulations, metasurfaces have drawn wide interest in recent years due to their unique EM properties and small footprints. However, although great efforts have been made to achieve multifun...
In the past decade, perovskite materials have attracted great scientific and technological interest due to their interesting opto-electronic properties. Nanostructuring of the perovskites, due to their reduced dimensions are advantageous in offering...
We present an analysis of the electronic and plasmonic behavior of periodic planar distributions of sufficiently wide graphene nanoribbons, for which a thorough ab initio investigation is practically unfeasible. Our approach is based on a semi-analyt...
Nanoparticles are recognized as highly attractive tunable materials for designing field-effect biosensors with enhanced performance. In this work, we present a theoretical model for electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor capacitors (EISCAP) decorated wi...
High-performance positively-charged nanofiltration (NF) membranes have a profound significance for water softening. In this work, a novel monomer, tris(3-aminopropyl)amine (TAEA), with one tertiary amine group and three primary amine groups, was blen...
Two-dimensional (2D) metal halide perovskites have attracted considerable interest for their markedly improved environmental stability and versatile compositional tunability compared to their three-dimensional (3D) counterparts. Nevertheless, the ani...
The present review article highlights a specific class of responsive polymer-based hydrogels which are formed through association of oppositely charged polyion segments. The underpinning temporary three-dimensional network is constituted of hydrophil...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with binary compounds, such as transition-metal chalcogenides, have emerged as complementary materials due to their tunable band gap and modulated electrical properties via the layer number. Ternary 2D materials are pro...
The quest for novel materials with extraordinary electronic and plasmonic properties is an ongoing pursuit in the field of materials science. The dataset provides the results of a computational study that used ab initio and semi-analytical computatio...
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