Ying Dai

TL;DR: In this paper, density functional calculations were carried out to examine the vacancy-induced spin polarization in diamond, silicon, and germanium nanoparticles and the magnetic coupling between the vacancy induced defect states in those nanoparticles.

TL;DR: This work proposes a new mechanism, valley-contrasting sublattice polarization (VCSP), to polarize valleys by reducing the crystalline symmetry that connects the valleys, which can be successfully realized in concrete LaOBiS2 polytypes with Peierls-like structure distortion.

TL;DR: In this paper, a one-step facile solvothermal method was used to synthesize a Ti3+:TiO2/TiF3 hybrid, which exhibited excellent visible-light photocatalytic reactivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal stability of a van der Waals GeI/MoTe2 heterosheet was examined via molecular-dynamics simulations, and it was shown that the GeI monolayer perfectly preserves the bulked honeycomb structure of MoTe2.

TL;DR: The factors affecting the size and morphologies of AgCl nanocubes, which include the applied voltage, the concentration of NaCl, and that of Na2SO4 added to enhance the conductivity of the NaCl solution as well as the physical ways of solution mixing and the placement of the Ag sheet anode with respect to the Pt cathode, indicate the presence of the interface reaction layer formed by the kinetic diffusion of Ag(+) and Cl(-) ions.