Christian M. Julien

TL;DR: In this article, the development in nanoscience and nanotechnology offer potential prospects to devise novel-nanostructured electrode materials for next-generation better-performing rechargeable batteries, which are pivotal to these progresses due to their manageable surface area, stunted mass and charge-diffusion span, and volume change acclimatization during charging/discharging.

TL;DR: Vanadium pentoxide thin films were obtained by pulsed-laser deposition onto various substrates as discussed by the authors, and the growth was performed at different oxygen pressures and substrate temperatures, and it was found that the films deposited on glass are amorphous and exhibit a polycrystalline structure upon thermal treatment as evidenced by X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering spectroscopy.

TL;DR: It is shown that the inhomogeneous nature of percolating gold films controls the optical properties even at such long wavelengths as 500 \ensuremath{\mu}m, where the typical grain size is 10 nm, and the effective-medium theory is shown to be invalid close to the percolation threshold.

TL;DR: In this article, LiMn2O4 was grown by pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) onto silicon wafers using sintered targets, which consisted in the mixture of LiN 2O4 and Li2O powders.