The rapid convergence of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), and advanced materials science is revolutionizing sensing technologies, giving rise to platforms with unprecedented precision, adaptability, and ...

Carbon nanomaterials have emerged as highly versatile interface components in electronic and photoelectrochemical (PEC) devices, where their role extends well beyond electrical conductivity. In this contribution, we show ...

Metal oxide semiconductors, owing to their versatile electronic properties, are essential materials for a wide range of applications, including photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells, photodetectors, and power electronic ...

The local atomic structure of amorphous chalcogenides decisively governs their optical properties. In this contribution, we present a systematic composition–structure–property study of amorphous sulfide thin films prepared ...

The preparation of oxide glasses with high concentration of alkaline and alkaline earth oxides is of both theoretical and practical importance. The obtained materials can subsequently be thermally treated and thus, new ...

Azopolymers are well known for their ability to record holographic gratings due to photoinduced molecular reorientation and mass transport processes occurring under polarized light irradiation. In particular, the azopolymer ...

The multidisciplinary field of electro-mechano-biology (EMB) requires the combined efforts of biologists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers. This is in part due to the great morphological complexity of the ...

Copper–zinc–tin–sulfide (Cu2ZnSnS4, CZTS) kesterites a promising earth-abundant and non-toxic absorber for next-generation thin-film photovoltaics. However, sulfur-based CZTS solar cells remain limited in performance, ...

Chalcogenide glasses and nanostructured thin films are promising materials for infrared photonics, optical data storage, and reconfigurable devices due to their high optical nonlinearity and pronounced photo-induced ...

Ferroelectric/dielectric superlattices constitute ideal systems to investigate the impact of nanoscale domains on dielectric properties at low dimensionality [1, 2]. These superlattices offer great flexibility in terms of ...