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Successful ways of fully exploiting the excellent structural and multifunctional performance of graphene and related materials are of great scientific and technological interest. New opportunities are provided by the fabrication of a novel…
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Understanding of recently reported putative close-to-room-temperature superconductivity in C-S-H compounds at 267 GPa demands reproducible synthesis protocol as well as knowledge of its structure and composition. We synthesized C-S-H…
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The ordering of nanoparticles into predetermined configurations is of importance to the design of advanced technologies. In this work, we moderate the surface anchoring against the bulk elasticity of liquid crystals to dynamically shape…
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