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Electronic self-passivation of single vacancy in black phosphorus

Electronic self-passivation of single vacancy in black phosphorus

May 25, 2022

NUS scientists discovered that a two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting material, known as black phosphorus (BP), exhibits an electronic self-passivation phenomenon by…

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Distinct driving mechanisms for charge order in monolayer vanadium diselenide

Distinct driving mechanisms for charge order in monolayer vanadium diselenide

February 24, 2022

NUS physicists have discovered that monolayer vanadium diselenide (VSe2) has coexisting charge-ordered states with two distinct driving mechanisms. Charge density…

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Water clusters in hydrophobic crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks

Water clusters in hydrophobic crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks

January 19, 2022

NUS chemists have developed hydrophobic porous nanochannels of covalent organic frameworks which can be used to confine and transport water…

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Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries

Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries

December 22, 2021

NUS scientists have developed a general wet-chemistry approach for the scalable and automated synthesis of a library of ultra-high-density single-atom…

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Predicting high temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons

Predicting high temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons

December 06, 2021

NUS researchers have predicted that an exotic state of matter, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, can exist at relatively high…

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Visualising designer quantum states in stable macrocycle quantum corrals

Visualising designer quantum states in stable macrocycle quantum corrals

October 27, 2021

NUS scientists have devised an on-surface synthetic protocol to construct atomically-precise and stable organic quantum corrals (OQCs), which induce a…

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Molecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement

Molecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement

September 20, 2021

NUS researchers have developed a synthetic method to enhance upconversion luminescence in protein-sized lanthanide-doped nanocrystals by surface reconstruction through molecule…

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Controllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide

Controllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide

July 22, 2021

NUS scientists have developed a method for controllable introduction of two different types of sulphur vacancies into zirconium trisulfide (ZrS3…)

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Lanthanide nanoparticles enable continuous-wave NIR STED microscopy

Lanthanide nanoparticles enable continuous-wave NIR STED microscopy

June 21, 2021

NUS researchers have developed a new generation of near infra-red (NIR)-emitting nanoprobes for super-resolution imaging in deep tissues. These nanoprobes…

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On-surface synthesis of graphene molecules and their superlattices

On-surface synthesis of graphene molecules and their superlattices

February 26, 2021

NUS scientists have devised a new method for the synthesis of nanographene molecules with a high product yield for the…

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Persistent luminescent nanocrystals enable high-resolution X-ray imaging

Persistent luminescent nanocrystals enable high-resolution X-ray imaging

February 25, 2021

NUS researchers have developed a technology for high-resolution X-ray imaging of irregularly-shaped objects using lanthanide-doped nanomaterials with ultralong persistent luminescence….

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Visualising atomic structure and magnetism of 2D magnetic insulators

Visualising atomic structure and magnetism of 2D magnetic insulators

February 01, 2021

NUS scientists have demonstrated a general approach for characterising the atomic structure, and electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D)…

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