Hanjie Yang, Yang Wang, Xingli Zou, Rongxu Bai, Zecheng Wu, Sheng Han, Tao Chen, Shen Hu, Hao Zhu, Lin Chen, David W Zhang, Jack C Lee, Xionggang Lu, Peng Zhou, Qingqing Sun, Edward T Yu, Deji Akinwande, Li Ji
{"title":"Wafer-Scale Synthesis of WS<sub>2</sub> Films with In Situ Controllable p-Type Doping by Atomic Layer Deposition.","authors":"Hanjie Yang, Yang Wang, Xingli Zou, Rongxu Bai, Zecheng Wu, Sheng Han, Tao Chen, Shen Hu, Hao Zhu, Lin Chen, David W Zhang, Jack C Lee, Xionggang Lu, Peng Zhou, Qingqing Sun, Edward T Yu, Deji Akinwande, Li Ji","doi":"10.34133/2021/9862483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9862483","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wafer-scale synthesis of p-type TMD films is critical for its commercialization in next-generation electro/optoelectronics. In this work, wafer-scale intrinsic n-type WS<sub>2</sub> films and in situ Nb-doped p-type WS<sub>2</sub> films were synthesized through atomic layer deposition (ALD) on 8-inch <i>α</i>-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/Si wafers, 2-inch sapphire, and 1 cm<sup>2</sup> GaN substrate pieces. The Nb doping concentration was precisely controlled by altering cycle number of Nb precursor and activated by postannealing. WS<sub>2</sub> n-FETs and Nb-doped p-FETs with different Nb concentrations have been fabricated using CMOS-compatible processes. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and Hall measurements confirmed the effective substitutional doping with Nb. The on/off ratio and electron mobility of WS<sub>2</sub> n-FET are as high as 10<sup>5</sup> and 6.85 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. In WS<sub>2</sub> p-FET with 15-cycle Nb doping, the on/off ratio and hole mobility are 10 and 0.016 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. The p-n structure based on n- and p- type WS<sub>2</sub> films was proved with a 10<sup>4</sup> rectifying ratio. The realization of controllable <i>in situ</i> Nb-doped WS<sub>2</sub> films paved a way for fabricating wafer-scale complementary WS<sub>2</sub> FETs.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9862483"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8672204/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39765249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anisotropic MOF-on-MOF Growth of Isostructural Multilayer Metal-Organic Framework Heterostructures.","authors":"Zhida Gu, Wenlei Zhang, Ting Pan, Yu Shen, Peishan Qin, Peng Zhang, Xiaohan Li, Liwei Liu, Linjie Li, Yu Fu, Weina Zhang, Fengwei Huo","doi":"10.34133/2021/9854946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9854946","url":null,"abstract":"Isostructural MOFs with similar crystallographic parameter are easily available for MOF-on-MOF growth and possible to form core–shell structure by isotropic growth. However, due to well-matched cell lattice, selective growth in isostructural MOF heterostructures remains a great challenge for engineering atypical MOF heterostructures. Herein, an anisotropic MOF-on-MOF growth strategy was developed to structure a range of multilayer sandwich-like ZIF-L heterostructures via stacking isostructural ZIF-L-Zn and ZIF-L-Co alternately with three-, five-, seven-, and more layer structures. Moreover, these heterostructures with highly designable feature were fantastic precursors for fabricating derivatives with tunable magnetic and catalytic properties. Such strategy explores a novel way of achieving anisotropic MOF-on-MOF growth between isostructural MOFs and opens up new horizons for regulating the properties by MOF modular assembly in versatile functional nanocomposites.","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9854946"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39702599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Solyanik-Gorgone, Jiachi Ye, Mario Miscuglio, Andrei Afanasev, Alan E Willner, Volker J Sorger
{"title":"Quantifying Information via Shannon Entropy in Spatially Structured Optical Beams.","authors":"Maria Solyanik-Gorgone, Jiachi Ye, Mario Miscuglio, Andrei Afanasev, Alan E Willner, Volker J Sorger","doi":"10.34133/2021/9780760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9780760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While information is ubiquitously generated, shared, and analyzed in a modern-day life, there is still some controversy around the ways to assess the amount and quality of information inside a noisy optical channel. A number of theoretical approaches based on, e.g., conditional Shannon entropy and Fisher information have been developed, along with some experimental validations. Some of these approaches are limited to a certain alphabet, while others tend to fall short when considering optical beams with a nontrivial structure, such as Hermite-Gauss, Laguerre-Gauss, and other modes with a nontrivial structure. Here, we propose a new definition of the classical Shannon information via the Wigner distribution function, while respecting the Heisenberg inequality. Following this definition, we calculate the amount of information in Gaussian, Hermite-Gaussian, and Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes in juxtaposition and experimentally validate it by reconstruction of the Wigner distribution function from the intensity distribution of structured laser beams. We experimentally demonstrate the technique that allows to infer field structure of the laser beams in singular optics to assess the amount of contained information. Given the generality, this approach of defining information via analyzing the beam complexity is applicable to laser modes of any topology that can be described by well-behaved functions. Classical Shannon information, defined in this way, is detached from a particular alphabet, i.e., communication scheme, and scales with the structural complexity of the system. Such a synergy between the Wigner distribution function encompassing the information in both real and reciprocal space and information being a measure of disorder can contribute into future coherent detection algorithms and remote sensing.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9780760"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8605402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39696372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron-Ion Coupling Mechanism to Construct Stable Output Performance Nanogenerator.","authors":"Yan-Yuan Ba, Jing-Fu Bao, Xin-Tian Liu, Xiao-Wen Li, Hai-Tao Deng, Dan-Liang Wen, Xiao-Sheng Zhang","doi":"10.34133/2021/9817062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9817062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have been promoted as an effective technique for ambient energy harvesting, given their large power density and high energy conversion efficiency. However, traditional TENGs based on the combination of triboelectrification effect and electrostatic induction have proven susceptible to environmental influence, which intensively restricts their application range. Herein, a new coupling mechanism based on electrostatic induction and ion conduction is proposed to construct flexible stable output performance TENGs (SOP-TENGs). The calcium chloride doped-cellulose nanofibril (CaCl<sub>2</sub>-CNF) film made of natural carrots was successfully introduced to realize this coupling, resulting from its intrinsic properties as natural nanofibril hydrogel serving as both triboelectric layer and electrode. The coupling of two conductive mechanisms of SOP-TENG was comprehensively investigated through electrical measurements, including the effects of moisture content, relative humidity, and electrode size. In contrast to the conventional hydrogel ionotronic TENGs that require moisture as the carrier for ion transfer and use a hydrogel layer as the electrode, the use of a CaCl<sub>2</sub>-CNF film (i.e., ion-doped natural hydrogel layer) as a friction layer in the proposed SOP-TENG effectively realizes a superstable electrical output under varying moisture contents and relative humidity due to the compound transfer mechanism of ions and electrons. This new working principle based on the coupling of electrostatic induction and ion conduction opens a wider range of applications for the hydrogel ionotronic TENGs, as the superstable electrical output enables them to be more widely applied in various complex environments to supply energy for low-power electronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9817062"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8600372/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39697286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical Strain of Graphite-Based Anode during Lithiation and Delithiation at Various Temperatures.","authors":"Zeyu Xu, Xiuling Shi, Xiaoqiang Zhuang, Zihan Wang, Sheng Sun, Kaikai Li, Tong-Yi Zhang","doi":"10.34133/2021/9842391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9842391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electrochemical lithiation/delithiation of electrodes induces chemical strain cycling that causes fatigue and other harmful influences on lithium-ion batteries. In this work, a homemade in situ measurement device was used to characterize simultaneously chemical strain and nominal state of charge, especially residual chemical strain and residual nominal state of charge, in graphite-based electrodes at various temperatures. The measurements indicate that raising the testing temperature from 20°C to 60°C decreases the chemical strain at the same nominal state of charge during cycling, while residual chemical strain and residual nominal state of charge increase with the increase of temperature. Furthermore, a novel electrochemical-mechanical model is developed to evaluate quantitatively the chemical strain caused by a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) and the partial molar volume of Li in the SEI at different temperatures. The present study will definitely stimulate future investigations on the electro-chemo-mechanics coupling behaviors in lithium-ion batteries.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9842391"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8566194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39645423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenhui Ji, Jingyu Zhu, Wanxia Wu, Nanxiang Wang, Jiqing Wang, Jiansheng Wu, Qiong Wu, Xuewen Wang, Changmin Yu, Gaofeng Wei, Lin Li, Fengwei Huo
{"title":"Wearable Sweat Biosensors Refresh Personalized Health/Medical Diagnostics.","authors":"Wenhui Ji, Jingyu Zhu, Wanxia Wu, Nanxiang Wang, Jiqing Wang, Jiansheng Wu, Qiong Wu, Xuewen Wang, Changmin Yu, Gaofeng Wei, Lin Li, Fengwei Huo","doi":"10.34133/2021/9757126","DOIUrl":"10.34133/2021/9757126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sweat contains a broad range of critical biomarkers including ions, small molecules, and macromolecules that may indirectly or directly reflect the health status of the human body and thereby help track disease progression. Wearable sweat biosensors enable the collection and analysis of sweat <i>in situ</i>, achieving real-time, continuous, and noninvasive monitoring of human biochemical parameters at the molecular level. This review summarizes the physiological/pathological information of sweat and wearable sweat biosensors. First, the production of sweat pertaining to various electrolytes, metabolites, and proteins is described. Then, the compositions of the wearable sweat biosensors are summarized, and the design of each subsystem is introduced in detail. The latest applications of wearable sweat biosensors for outdoor, hospital, and family monitoring are highlighted. Finally, the review provides a summary and an outlook on the future developments and challenges of wearable sweat biosensors with the aim of advancing the field of wearable sweat monitoring technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9757126"},"PeriodicalIF":10.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8557357/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39624969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Learning for Investigation on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals with Gestational Age and Delivery Time in a Longitudinal Cohort.","authors":"Hemi Luan, Hongzhi Zhao, Jiufeng Li, Yanqiu Zhou, Jing Fang, Hongxiu Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Wei Xia, Shunqing Xu, Zongwei Cai","doi":"10.34133/2021/9873135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9873135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are widespread environmental chemicals that are often considered as risk factors with weak activity on the hormone-dependent process of pregnancy. However, the adverse effects of EDCs in the body of pregnant women were underestimated. The interaction between dynamic concentration of EDCs and endogenous hormones (EHs) on gestational age and delivery time remains unclear. To define a temporal interaction between the EDCs and EHs during pregnancy, comprehensive, unbiased, and quantitative analyses of 33 EDCs and 14 EHs were performed for a longitudinal cohort with 2317 pregnant women. We developed a machine learning model with the dynamic concentration information of EDCs and EHs to predict gestational age with high accuracy in the longitudinal cohort of pregnant women. The optimal combination of EHs and EDCs can identify when labor occurs (time to delivery within two and four weeks, AUROC of 0.82). Our results revealed that the bisphenols and phthalates are more potent than partial EHs for gestational age or delivery time. This study represents the use of machine learning methods for quantitative analysis of pregnancy-related EDCs and EHs for understanding the EDCs' mixture effect on pregnancy with potential clinical utilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9873135"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8548981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39605841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lihong Su, Zhou Yang, Xitong Wang, Ziao Zou, Bo Wang, Gary Hodes, Ninghui Chang, Yongyong Suo, Zhibo Ma, Haoxu Wang, Yucheng Liu, Junping Zhang, Shuanhu Wang, Yuefei Li, Fengxia Yang, Jixin Zhu, Fei Gao, Wei Huang, Shengzhong Liu
{"title":"Flexible Diodes/Transistors Based on Tunable p-n-Type Semiconductivity in Graphene/Mn-Co-Ni-O Nanocomposites.","authors":"Lihong Su, Zhou Yang, Xitong Wang, Ziao Zou, Bo Wang, Gary Hodes, Ninghui Chang, Yongyong Suo, Zhibo Ma, Haoxu Wang, Yucheng Liu, Junping Zhang, Shuanhu Wang, Yuefei Li, Fengxia Yang, Jixin Zhu, Fei Gao, Wei Huang, Shengzhong Liu","doi":"10.34133/2021/9802795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9802795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a novel Mn-Co-Ni-O (MCN) nanocomposite in which the p-type semiconductivity of Mn-Co-Ni-O can be manipulated by addition of graphene. With an increase of graphene content, the semiconductivity of the nanocomposite can be tuned from p-type through electrically neutral to n-type. The very low effective mass of electrons in graphene facilitates electron tunneling into the MCN, neutralizing holes in the MCN nanoparticles. XPS analysis shows that the multivalent manganese ions in the MCN nanoparticles are chemically reduced by the graphene electrons to lower-valent states. Unlike traditional semiconductor devices, electrons are excited from the filled graphite band into the empty band at the Dirac points from where they move freely in the graphene and tunnel into the MCN. The new composite film demonstrates inherent flexibility, high mobility, short carrier lifetime, and high carrier concentration. This work is useful not only in manufacturing flexible transistors, FETs, and thermosensitive and thermoelectric devices with unique properties but also in providing a new method for future development of 2D-based semiconductors.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9802795"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8532022/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39592361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhandong Huang, Shengdong Zhao, Yiyuan Zhang, Zheren Cai, Zheng Li, Junfeng Xiao, Meng Su, Qiuquan Guo, Chuanzeng Zhang, Yaozong Pan, Xiaobing Cai, Yanlin Song, Jun Yang
{"title":"Tunable Fluid-Type Metasurface for Wide-Angle and Multifrequency Water-Air Acoustic Transmission.","authors":"Zhandong Huang, Shengdong Zhao, Yiyuan Zhang, Zheren Cai, Zheng Li, Junfeng Xiao, Meng Su, Qiuquan Guo, Chuanzeng Zhang, Yaozong Pan, Xiaobing Cai, Yanlin Song, Jun Yang","doi":"10.34133/2021/9757943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9757943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Efficient acoustic communication across the water-air interface remains a great challenge owing to the extreme acoustic impedance mismatch. Few present acoustic metamaterials can be constructed on the free air-water interface for enhancing the acoustic transmission because of the interface instability. Previous strategies overcoming this difficulty were limited in practical usage, as well as the wide-angle and multifrequency acoustic transmission. Here, we report a simple and practical way to obtain the wide-angle and multifrequency water-air acoustic transmission with a tunable fluid-type acoustic metasurface (FAM). The FAM has a transmission enhancement of acoustic energy over 200 times, with a thickness less than the wavelength in water by three orders of magnitude. The FAM can work at an almost arbitrary water-to-air incident angle, and the operating frequencies can be flexibly adjusted. Multifrequency transmissions can be obtained with multilayer FAMs. In experiments, the FAM is demonstrated to be stable enough for practical applications and has the transmission enhancement of over 20 dB for wide frequencies. The transmission enhancement of music signal across the water-air interface was performed to demonstrate the applications in acoustic communications. The FAM will benefit various applications in hydroacoustics and oceanography.</p>","PeriodicalId":520765,"journal":{"name":"Research (Washington, D.C.)","volume":" ","pages":"9757943"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8501414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39535232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}