Piezoelectric materials for catalytic/photocatalytic removal of pollutants: Recent advances and outlook

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Piezoelectric materials for catalytic/photocatalytic removal of pollutants: Recent advances and outlook

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Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions

Spin polarization detection via chirality-induced tunnelling currents in indium selenide

C-ald-grown Metal Oxide Shell Enables Distance-independent Triplet Energy Transfer From Quantum Dots to Molecular Dyes

Lagnet: Better Electron Density Prediction for Lcao-based Data and Drug-like Substances

Plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions for investigation of atomic-scale fluctuations in self-assembled monolayers

Optimal regimes for algorithm-assisted human decision-making

Assessing the Charge Carrier Dynamics at Hybrid Interfaces of Organic Photoanodes for Solar Fuels

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

Automated all-functionals infrared and Raman spectra

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Data-Intensive Exploration of the Photoelectrochemical Responses of Main-Group Metal Sulfides

Synergistic Integration of a Ru(bda)-Based Catalyst in a Covalent Organic Framework for Enhanced Photocatalytic Water Oxidation

Photogeneration of Hydrogen: Insights from a Pt(II)-Complex Incorporated into a Covalent Organic Framework

Shortwave Infrared-Sensitive, Narrowband Organic Upconversion Devices with a Gain

The Mn(VII)-H2O2 oxidation process: Abatement of electron-deficient N-containing organic compounds

Polarization-enhanced GaN Schottky barrier diodes: Ultra-thin InGaN for high breakdown voltage and low Ron