Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of CuBiSeCl: A Chalcohalide Material with Low Thermal Conductivity.

Mixed anion halide-chalcogenide materials have recently attracted attention for a variety of applications, owing to their desirable optoelectronic properties. We report the synthesis of a previously unreported mixed-metal chalcohalide material, CuBiSeCl (), accessed through a simple, low-temperature solid-state route. The physical structure is characterized through single-crystal X-ray diffraction and reveals significant Cu displacement within the CuSeCl octahedra.

Looking Outside the Square: The Growth, Structure, and Resilient Two-Dimensional Surface Electron Gas of Square SnO Nanotubes.

Nanotechnology has delivered an amazing range of new materials such as nanowires, tubes, ribbons, belts, cages, flowers, and sheets. However, these are usually circular, cylindrical, or hexagonal in nature, while nanostructures with square geometries are comparatively rare. Here, a highly scalable method is reported for producing vertically aligned Sb-doped SnO nanotubes with perfectly-square geometries on Au nanoparticle covered m-plane sapphire using mist chemical vapor deposition.

Band Alignments, Electronic Structure, and Core-Level Spectra of Bulk Molybdenum Dichalcogenides (MoS, MoSe, and MoTe).

A comprehensive study of bulk molybdenum dichalcogenides is presented with the use of soft and hard X-ray photoelectron (SXPS and HAXPES) spectroscopy combined with hybrid density functional theory (DFT). The main core levels of MoS, MoSe, and MoTe are explored. Laboratory-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is used to determine the ionization potential (IP) values of the MoX series as 5.

Computational Prediction and Experimental Realization of Earth-Abundant Transparent Conducting Oxide Ga-Doped ZnSbO.

Transparent conducting oxides have become ubiquitous in modern optoelectronics. However, the number of oxides that are transparent to visible light and have the metallic-like conductivity necessary for applications is limited to a handful of systems that have been known for the past 40 years. In this work, we use hybrid density functional theory and defect chemistry analysis to demonstrate that tri-rutile zinc antimonate, ZnSbO, is an ideal transparent conducting oxide and to identify gallium as the optimal dopant to yield high conductivity and transparency.

Long-Life and pH-Stable SnO-Coated Au Nanoparticles for SHINERS.

Shell-isolated nanoparticles (SHINs) with a 37 nm gold core and an 11 nm tin dioxide (SnO) coating exhibited long-life Raman enhancement for 3 months and a wide pH stability of pH 2-13 in comparison with conventional SiO-coated SHINs. Herein, Au-SnO is demonstrated as a more durable SHIN for use in the technique Shell-Isolated Nanoparticles for Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SHINERS).