This article describes the recent research progress in the field of crystalline metal-chalcogenide superlatticescontaining tetrahedron-shaped nanoclusters as building units. With the development of new synthetic strategies and structuralconcepts, new clusters that are members of three series of tetrahedral clusters (i.e., supertetrahedral clusters, pentasupertetrahedralclusters, and...

The bulk modulus is one of the important parameters for designing advanced high-performance and thermoelectric materials. The current work is the first attempt to develop a generalized model for forecasting bulk moduli of various types of crystalline materials, based on ensemble predictive learning using a unique set of attributes. The attributes used are a combination of experimentally measure...

Collective modes of doped two-dimensional crystalline materials, namely graphene, MoS2 and phosphorene, both monolayer and bilayer structures, are explored using the density functional theory simulations together with the random phase approximation. The many-body dielectric functions of the materials are calculated using an ab initio based model involving material-realistic physical properties....

Crystalline porous materials (CPMs) have attracted considerable research attention in recent years for their wide applications many fields, such as the energy storage and conversion, gas separation storage, water purification, catalysis, optoelectronics, sensors, drug delivery, etc. The of CPMs derive from superiorities tunable structures, abundant functionalities, excellent chemical stability,...

The sophisticated control of surface wettability for target-specific applications has attracted widespread interest for use in a plethora of applications. Despite the recent advances in modification of non-porous materials, surface wettability control of porous materials, particularly single crystalline, remains undeveloped. Here we contribute a general method to impart amphiphobicity on single...

D anny de Vito would be happy to hear that for twin formation the paradigm 'smaller is stronger' still prevails. Twinning is a deformation process in crystals defined as the collective shearing of one portion of the crystal with respect to the rest. However, compared with plasticity based on dislocation glide, twinning has been scarcely studied in the deformation of metals. This is because twin...

There are numerous studies on the growth of planar films on sp(2)-bonded two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. However, it has been challenging to grow single-crystalline films on 2D materials due to the extremely low surface energy. Recently, buffer-assisted growth of crystalline films on 2D layered materials has been introduced, but the crystalline quality is not comparable with the films g...