Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a compelling technique for low cost nanoscale device fabrication. The precise and repeatable replication of nanoscale patterns from a single high resolution patterning step makes the NIL technique much more versatile than other expensive techniques such as e-beam or even helium ion beam lithography. Furthermore, the use of mechanical deformation during the NIL p...

graphene-based nanocomposites are newly emerged materials with a wide range of applications such as in supercapacitors electrode. the high conductivity and ability for passing electric current, makes graphene an appropriate new item to be used in cells. electroactive transition metal oxides, owing fast reversible redox pairs, are used to store electrical charge. furthermore, the graphene/nio na...

We report a low-cost, high-throughput benchtop method that enables thin layers of metal to be shaped with nanoscale precision by generating ultrahigh-strain-rate deformations. Laser shock imprinting can create three-dimensional crystalline metallic structures as small as 10 nanometers with ultrasmooth surfaces at ambient conditions. This technique enables the successful fabrications of large-ar...

Z. F. Wang, Qunxiang Li, Q. W. Shi, Xiaoping Wang, J. G. Hou, Huaixiu Zheng, and Jie Chen Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People’s Republic of China Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, AB T6 G 2V4, Canada National Institute of Nanotechnology, Department of Ele...

Regularly sized Ni nanoclusters (NCs) have been grown on a graphene Moire on Rh(J 11) . Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we determine that initial growth of Ni at 150 K leads to preferential nucleation of monodispersed NCs at specific sites of the Moire superstructure. However, a defined long-range ordering of NCs with increasing coverage is not observed. Room temperature Ni depos ition lea...

DNA Nanodevices In their Communication (e202111836), Jun Song, Lele Li et al. report a multivariate-gated nanodevice for spatioselective imaging of pro-metastatic targets in extracellular microenvironments.

Employing ab initio calculations we predict that the magnetic states of hydrogenated diamond-shaped zigzag graphene quantum dots (GQDs), each exhibiting unique electronic structure, can be selectively tuned with gate voltage, through Stark or hybridization electric-field modulation of the spatial distribution and energy of the spin-polarized molecular orbitals, leading to transitions between th...

We investigate the effects of nitrogen impurities on the electronic properties of quantum dots realized in Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon junction. The system is studied using first principle calculations, based on the local spin density approximation (LSDA). Our results indicate that the presence of the impurities drastically changes the configuration of the localized states in the quantum dot. ...

Electrochemical deposition (ECD) is a versatile technique for the preparation of ZnO nanowires (NWs) and nanorods (NRs) with high structural and optical quality. The bandgap of the ZnO NWs can be engineered by doping. Depending on the doping cation and concentration, the bandgap is increased or decreased in a controlled manner. The NW arrays have been grown on various substrates. The epitaxial ...