Hans-Gerd Boyen

TL;DR: A short review of the current status of preparing films of cubic Boron Nitride, a material exhibiting similar attractive properties as diamond, can be found in this paper, where a procedure allowing to obtain thick (>1μm), stress relieved, superhard (48 GPa) samples, which are mechanically stable under ambient conditions.

TL;DR: The model suggests that, due to a higher affinity of ethanol for the hydrophobic surface, when compared to water, a phase separation occurs when a mixture of both liquids is in contact with the H-terminated diamond surface.

TL;DR: Using different electrochemical techniques as well as in situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), this article investigated the electrocatalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide and methanol on palladium and on platinum nanoislands, which were deposited onto 4,4′-dithiodipyridine self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au(111) single crystal electrodes.

TL;DR: In this article, the electronic structure of liquid tungsten has been studied by time-resolved photo electron spectroscopy on laser pulse molten surface layers and the valence band spectra reveal distinct changes of the electronic structures across the solid-liquid phase transition.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of ion irradiation-induced defects on the temperature dependence of the resistivity of epitaxial, thin (25nm), and ultrathin (7nm) gold films was investigated.