Definition: Strain engineering is a critical field of materials science and nanotechnology that involves the deliberate application of strain to alter the physical properties of materials. This ...

Predicting how continuous microscopic strains alter local bond lengths and hopping energies has required computationally taxing physics simulations, frustrating attempts to efficiently scan the ...

The ability to continuously control the bandgap in optoelectronic materials, in a low-cost manner, is highly desirable for a wide range of energy and sensing applications, including photovoltaics ...

The quest for efficient and durable oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts is pivotal for the advancement of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology. Despite their widespread ...

Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., the internal angular momentum of particles). These defects are central to ...