Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Wedyan Babatain, Min Sung Kim, Muhammad Mustafa Hussain
Summary: This review discusses the properties, fabrication techniques, and applications of gallium-based liquid metal droplets (LMDs), and explores the challenges and future directions in this field.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Tianming Li, Kai Xiao
Summary: This article introduces the important branch of iontronics - solid-state iontronics, and reviews the working principles of various solid-state iontronic devices. Meanwhile, the prospects of developing multifunctional integrated iontronic devices and molecular iontronic devices are also discussed to meet the growing demands for intelligent products.
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jacqueline A. Labra-Munoz, Arie de Reuver, Friso Koeleman, Martina Huber, Herre S. J. van der Zant
Summary: This study reports the fabrication process of single-electron devices based on horse-spleen ferritin particles, and demonstrates the significance of single-electron charge transport in ferritin through the excellent agreement between experimental data and the Coulomb blockade theory, which provides potential for further characterization and applications in electronic and medical fields.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zhiying Qi, Linjie Mi, Haoran Qian, Weiguo Zheng, Yao Guo, Yang Chai
Summary: This review provides an overview of the development of physical reservoir computing (PRC) and describes typical physical reservoirs constructed with nanomaterials and nanodevices. The physical reservoirs based on multiple nanomaterials overcome the problems of high complexity and low efficiency in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and show strong robustness, effectively dealing with tasks with improved reliability and availability. The challenges and perspectives of nanomaterial and nanodevice-based PRC as a component of next-generation machine learning systems are also discussed.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zhiying Qi, Linjie Mi, Haoran Qian, Weiguo Zheng, Yao Guo, Yang Chai
Summary: Bioinspired computation systems bypass fundamental bottlenecks and cost constraints to achieve artificial intelligence. Physical systems assembled with nanoscale materials and devices can serve as the core component for physically implanted reservoir computing, overcoming the problems of recurrent neural networks with improved reliability and availability. The challenges and perspectives of nanomaterial and nanodevice-based physical reservoir computing as a component of next-generation machine learning systems are discussed.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jianrui Zhang, Wenchao Liu, Jiqing Dai, Kai Xiao
Summary: This article reviews the important role of nanoionics in biological and artificial systems and proposes a new framework to understand the phenomena, mechanism, methodology, and application of ion transport at the nanoscale. Nanoionics is categorized into biological, artificial, and hybrid systems, and the characteristics of each system are discussed. Nanoionics, compared with nanoelectronics, is an emerging research field with various theoretical and practical challenges.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
George Chimowa, Emmanuel Flahaut, Venkateswara Rao Sodisetti, Somnath Bhattacharyya
Summary: Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based transistors can be converted from ambipolar to unipolar, allowing them to carry large currents for applications requiring high current, such as RF and audio amplifiers.
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Mingze Chen, Seung Jun Ki, Xiaogan Liang
Summary: This work shows that Bi2Se3, a semiconductor material, can be used to make memristive devices capable of directly processing analog video signals. The fabricated Bi2Se3 memristors exhibit prominent memristive switching characteristics and can extract spatiotemporal information from analogue signals, providing a potential solution for constructing hardware-based computer vision systems.
ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Physics, Condensed Matter
Josef Weinbub, Robert Kosik
Summary: Quantum electronics has evolved significantly in recent decades, and the importance of computational methods has become increasingly prominent. Researchers use computational methods to predict, analyze, and design physical processes, devices, and systems, advancing the field of quantum electronics.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mikhail Tarasov, Andrey Lomov, Artem Chekushkin, Mikhail Fominsky, Denis Zakharov, Andrey Tatarintsev, Sergey Kraevsky, Anton Shadrin
Summary: This paper develops fabrication technology and studies aluminum films for superconducting quantum nanoelectronics using AFM, SEM, XRD, HRXRR. Two-temperature-step quasiepitaxial growth of Al on (111) Si substrate provides a preferentially (111)-oriented Al polycrystalline film and improves film quality by reducing structural defects and surface imperfections. This technique has the potential to enhance superconducting current density, stray capacitance, relaxation time, and reduce noise.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Minghui Duan, Xiyu Zhu, Xiaohui Shan, Hongzhang Wang, Sen Chen, Jing Liu
Summary: Liquid metal droplets possess outstanding properties and can respond to external factors. The development of liquid metal droplets has made significant breakthroughs in recent years. This article systematically summarizes the fundamental progress of responsive liquid metal droplets, including their characteristics, preparation methods, response behaviors, mechanisms, challenges, and prospects.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Kairi Masuda, Takahiro Shimada, Takayuki Kitamura
Summary: Research has shown that ultrasmall ferroelectric nanoscale logic gates can be generated from mixed dislocations in SrTiO3, allowing for OR, AND, and NOT operations by switching the unique polarization spiral induced by the mixed dislocation.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zhimin Chai, Anthony Childress, Ahmed A. Busnaina
Summary: Nanofabrication based on directed assembly, utilizing external fields to interact with nanoelements and assemble functional structures, is attracting more interest recently due to its low cost and additive manufacturing advantages. The external fields used in directed assembly include electric, fluidic flow, magnetic, and optical fields.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Wei Zhan, Ziwei Liu, Shaokun Jiang, Chunying Zhu, Youguang Ma, Taotao Fu
Summary: In this study, the generation processes of bubbles and droplets in a step-emulsification microfluidic device are compared to show the similarities and differences in the emulsification process. By changing the placement of the microdevice, the effects of buoyancy and gravity on the generation of bubbles and droplets are introduced, and the feedback mechanism of the bubble layer and the effect of droplet accumulation on the emulsification process are clarified.
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yichun Ding, Pingwei Cai, Zhenhai Wen
Summary: Aqueous electrochemical devices, such as batteries and electrolytic cells, have emerged as promising energy storage and conversion systems due to their environmental friendliness, low cost, and high safety characteristics. Challenges include enhancing the potential window and energy density of electrochemical power devices, and minimizing energy consumption in electrolysis. The use of decoupled acid-base asymmetric electrolytes shows potential in improving device performance by converting thermal energy into electricity. This review introduces the concept of electrochemical neutralization energy (ENE) and summarizes recent progress in ENE-assisted electrochemical energy devices.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2021)
