Defects usually play an important role in tailoring various properties of two-dimensional
materials. Defects in two-dimensional monolayer molybdenum disulphide may be responsible …

Carbon materials have attracted extensive attention as the host materials of sulfur for lithium–sulfur
battery, especially those with 3D architectural structure. Here, a novel 3D graphene …

Artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with promising machine learning (ML) techniques well
known from computer science is broadly affecting many aspects of various fields including …

High-entropy alloys are a class of materials that contain five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions 1 , 2 . Their unconventional compositions and chemical structures hold …

Using density-functional calculations, we examine the electronic structure of magnetite in the
spinel crystal structure in order to gain insight into the nature of the Verwey transition. The …

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have been recognized as promising substitutes for current
energy‐storage technologies owing to their exceptional advantage in energy density. The main …

Most mechanisms used for strengthening crystalline materials, eg introducing crystalline
interfaces, lead to the reduction of ductility. An additive manufacturing process – selective laser …

We examine the propagation of electromagnetic waves in periodic dielectric structures by
solving the vector Maxwell equations with the plane-wave method. Contrary to experimental …

Damage tolerance can be an elusive characteristic of structural materials requiring both high
strength and ductility, properties that are often mutually exclusive. High-entropy alloys are …

There have been continuous efforts to seek novel functional two-dimensional semiconductors
with high performance for future applications in nanoelectronics and optoelectronics. In …