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Discovered almost two decades ago, the solution–liquid–solid (SLS) method for semiconductor nanowire synthesis has proven to be an important route to high-quality, single-crystalline anisotropic ...
The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...
Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...