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Exfoliated 2D Layered and Nonlayered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenides Nanosheets as Promising Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

Michael Graetzel, Dan Ren, Hong Zhang, Yelin Hu, Yunfei Jiao, Bing Wu, Chen Shen, Fei Liang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials catalysts provide an atomic-scale view on a fascinating arena for understanding the mechanism of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2 ECR). Here, we successfully exfoliated both layered and nonlayered ultra-thin met ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Multiple Surface Site Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of a Supported Molecular Catalyst

Pierrick Berruyer, Moreno Lelli, David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Zhuoran Wang

The structural characterization of supported molecular catalysts is challenging due to the low density of active sites and the presence of several organic/organometallic surface groups resulting from the often complex surface chemistry associated with supp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Peter Varga has passed on October 27, 2018. His pioneering discoveries of chemical resolution at the atomic scale on surface alloys, atomic resolution of ultrathin alkali halides, nucleation of bcc iron in ultrathin films, and the microscopic structure of ...

2020

Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe5 and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure

Oleg Yazyev, Helmuth Berger, Shengnan Zhang, Ana Akrap

Over the past decades, investigations of the anomalous low-energy electronic properties of ZrTe5 have reached a wide array of conclusions. An open question is the growth method's impact on the stoichiometry of ZrTe5 samples, especially given the very small ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Atomic-scale defects in the two-dimensional ferromagnet CrI3 from first principles

Michele Pizzochero

The family of atomically thin magnets holds great promise for a number of prospective applications in magneto-optoelectronics, with CrI3 arguably being its most prototypical member. However, the formation of defects in this system remains unexplored to dat ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Pure Spin Current and Magnon Chemical Potential in a Nonequilibrium Magnetic Insulator

Kyongmo An, Li Shi

Nonequilibrium phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide range of systems, including cold atomic gases and solid-state materials. While these phenomena are challenging to describe both theoretically and experimentally, they are essential for the fun ...

American Physical Society2020

Distributed Logless Atomic Durability with Persistent Memory

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta

Datacenter operators have started deploying Persistent Memory (PM), leveraging its combination of fast access and persistence for significant performance gains. A key challenge for PM-aware software is to maintain high performance while achieving atomic du ...

2019

Open-Shell Nonbenzenoid Nanographenes Containing Two Pairs of Pentagonal and Heptagonal Rings

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Daniele Passerone

Nonbenzenoid carbocyclic rings are postulated to serve as important structural elements toward tuning the chemical and electronic properties of extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, or namely nanographenes), necessitating a rational and atomical ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Doping and phase segregation in Mn2+- and Co2+-doped lead halide perovskites from Cs-133 and H-1 NMR relaxation enhancement

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Arthur César Pinon, Daniel Prochowicz, Albert Hofstetter, Gabriele Stevanato

Lead halide perovskites belong to a broad class of compounds with appealing optoelectronic and photovoltaic properties. Doping with transition metal ions such as Mn2+ and Co2+ has recently been reported to substantially enhance luminescence and stability o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Brief Announcement: Persistent Multi-Word Compare-and-Swap

Matej Pavlovic

This brief announcement presents a fundamental concurrent primitive for persistent memory - a persistent atomic multi-word compare-and-swap (PMCAS). We present a novel algorithm carefully crafted to ensure that atomic updates to a multitude of words modifi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Efficient Logging in Non-Volatile Memory by Exploiting Coherency Protocols

James Richard Larus, Nachshon Cohen

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as PCM, ReRAM and STT-RAM allow processors to directly write values to persistent storage at speeds that are significantly faster than previous durable media such as hard drives or SSDs. Many applications of NVM ...

ACM2017

Atomic boxes: coordinated exception handling with transactional memory

Vincent Gramoli, Pascal Felber

In concurrent programs raising an exception in one thread does not prevent others from operating on an inconsistent shared state. Instead, exceptions should ideally be handled in coordination by all the threads that are affected by their cause. In this pap ...

2011

Stress-modulated composition in the vicinity of dislocations in nearly lattice matched AlxIn1-x N/GaN heterostructures: A possible explanation of defect insensitivity

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Marco Cantoni, Eric Feltin, Pierre Stadelmann, Anas Mouti, Jean-Luc Rouvière

Evidence of composition fluctuations around threading dislocations at scales ranging from atomic distances to tens of nanometers is provided by z-contrast imaging, strain measurement, and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy in AlxIn1-x N/GaN heterostructu ...

2011

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Luminescence of Individual Nanostructures

Theresa Lutz

A detailed investigation and characterization of the local properties of individual nanoscopic structures is of great importance for the understanding of novel physical phenomena at the nanoscale as well as for the assessment of their possible use in futur ...

EPFL2011

O-2 oxidation reaction at the Si(100)-SiO2 interface: A first-principles investigation

Alfredo Pasquarello, Angelo Bongiorno

We investigated the oxidation reaction of the O-2 molecule at the Si(100)-SiO2 interface by using a constrained ab initio molecular dynamics approach. To represent the Si(100)-SiO2 interface, we adopted several model interfaces whose structural properties ...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer2005