California NanoSystems Institute

Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel

Nanomaterials are engineered structures with at least one dimension of 100 nanometers or less. These materials are increasingly being used for commercial purposes such as filler...

Processable aqueous dispersions of graphene nanosheets

Honeycomb Carbon: A Review of Graphene

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVReviewNEXTHoneycomb Carbon: A Review of GrapheneMatthew J. Allen†, Vincent C. Tung‡, and Richard B. Kaner*†‡View Author Information Department o...

Interface engineering of highly efficient perovskite solar cells

A layered approach improves solar cells Perovskite films received a boost in photovoltaic efficiency through controlled formation of charge-generating films and improved current...

Design and Mechanisms of Asymmetric Supercapacitors

Ongoing technological advances in diverse fields including portable electronics, transportation, and green energy are often hindered by the insufficient capability of energy-sto...

Reassessment of Exosome Composition

All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks

All-optical deep learning Deep learning uses multilayered artificial neural networks to learn digitally from large datasets. It then performs advanced identification and classif...

A Chemical Route to Graphene for Device Applications

Oxidation of graphite produces graphite oxide, which is dispersible in water as individual platelets. After deposition onto Si/SiO2 substrates, chemical reduction produces graph...

Approaching the Schottky–Mott limit in van der Waals metal–semiconductor junctions

Processable stabilizer-free polyaniline nanofiber aqueous colloids

Aqueous polyaniline colloids can be readily prepared by purifying polyaniline nanofibers and controlling the pH and self-stabilized via electrostatic repulsions without the need...