Defect engineering is the deliberate introduction, removal, or manipulation of structural imperfections in nanomaterials to tailor their properties for specific applications. Unlike the traditional ...

Defect engineering has emerged as a powerful strategy to tailor the activity and stability of electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. By intentionally introducing vacancies, ...

• The underlying migration mechanism of Mg 2+ in cathode materials and roles of defects in Mg 2+ migration in cathode materials were studied. • Applications of defect engineering to Mg 2+ migration in ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials show great promise for photocatalysis, a key technology for sustainable energy solutions like water splitting. However, optimizing their performance requires precise ...

To address these issues, defect engineering that focuses on increasing the number of structural defects in the material and thus increasing the surface area throughout the whole volume has been ...

Photocatalytic materials harness solar radiation to drive chemical transformations, offering pathways to sustainable energy conversion and environmental remediation. Central to this approach is the ...

Atomic-scale defects in crystals can make excellent quantum memories that can be written and read out using lasers, and could form the basis of future quantum communications and computing systems.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The field of drug delivery has long been challenged by the need for precise, targeted methods to transport therapeutic agents within the body. Traditional approaches often ...

David Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues study a technologically useful diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy center. NV ...

研究人员报道了一种可扩展的无氢合成基于多相2H/1T′ WSe2的气体传感器，用于超高灵敏室温NO2检测。该研究超越传统的缺陷工程(defect engineering)，利用 deliberate 相和形貌协同效应克服传统二维(2D)材料传感器中的动力学权衡 研究人员报道了一种可扩展的无氢合成 ...

Chipmakers are plotting out a strategy to scale the transistor to 10nm and beyond. Migrating to these nodes presents a number of challenges, but one issue is starting to gain more attention in the ...

AI plays a role in improving defect capture rate and distinguishing between yield-killing and nuisance defects. New developments in wafer edge inspection are proving essential to bonded wafer yields.