We report the observation of a unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) that originates from nonequilibrium orbital momentum induced by an electric current in naturally oxidized Cu/Co bilayer. The orbital-UMR scales with torque efficiency due to Rashba-Edelstein effect upon changing Co thickness and temperature, reflecting their common origin. attribute UMR orbital-dependent electron scattering o...

Gallium-based liquid metal (LM) nanoparticles are among the most promising nanoscale materials for biomedicinal applications because of their outstanding physicochemical properties, including unique flexibility, easy surface modification, excellent photothermal conversion efficiency, and high biocompatibility. Further exploration modification remote-controlling performances LM with functional b...

Porous nanostructured materials are demonstrated to be very promising in catalysis due to their well accessible active sites. Thermally stable metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as hard templates are successfully utilized to afford porous metal oxides and subsequently metal sulfides by a nanocasting method. The resultant metal oxides/sulfides show considerable Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface ...

CuGaS2, (AgInS2)x-(ZnS)2-2x, Ag2ZnGeS4, Ni- or Pb-doped ZnS, (ZnS)0.9-(CuCl)0.1, and ZnGa0.5In1.5S4 showed activities for CO2 reduction to form CO and/or HCOOH in an aqueous solution containing K2SO3 and Na2S as electron donors under visible light irradiation. Among them, CuGaS2 and Ni-doped ZnS photocatalysts showed relatively high activities for CO and HCOOH formation, respectively. CuGaS2 wa...

Recently atomic magnetometers are one of the best tools in biomagnetic measurement such as magnetic field of brain and heart. In this paper, the technology of optically pumped atomic magnetometer based on circularly polarized light absorption pumping is described. We have been investigated a new method for measuring polarization effect in an alkali vapor based on polarized light transmission. I...

Plasmonic nanostructures have been recently investigated as a possible way to improve absorption of light in solar cells. The strong interaction of small metal nanostructures with light allows control over the propagation of light at the nanoscale and thus the design of ultrathin solar cells in which light is trapped in the active layer and efficiently absorbed. In this paper we review some of ...