Defects in liquid crystals can function as nanoscopic molds for assembling molecules

Defects in liquid crystals can function as nanoscopic molds for assembling molecules

A MRSEC innovation comes back home to reveal the atomic structure of new materials

In solution-based synthesis, often doping efficiencies are low and dopants are excluded from the nanocrystals’ central cores. The research team developed a fundamentally different plasma-based process for synthesizing aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals.

Understanding the transport of electrons in films of touching nanocrystals is of central importance for their future use in printed electronic devices such as light emitting diodes, solar cells, or transistors. The research team developed a new theory that describes the transition of the electron conduction in doped nanocrystal films from a semiconducting to a metallic behavior.
Objective: Explore the potential for obtaining very

Objective: Estimate spin-orbit coupling in in a wide variety of organic semiconductors.
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IRG-2 has established the controlled tip-based absorption (writing) and desorption (deleting) of hydrogen on C/Si/Ge/Sn graphene materials at atomic len