First-principles spin-polarized calculations have been performed on passivated boron-nitride nanoribbons (BNNRs) with pentagon-heptagon line-defects (PHLDs), also called as Stone-Wales line-defects. Two kinds of PHLDs, ...

A hexanuclear Cu(I) cluster {Cu-3(L)(2)}(2) (1) based on a novel tripodal linker (L) has been synthesized. 1 shows intense emission (lambda(max) 560 nm) with lifetime <tau > = 224 ms and quantum yield = 27.6%. The emission ...

Utilizing the strengths of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dot (N-GQD) as a substrate, herein, we have shown that one can stabilize the catalytically more active planar Au-20 (P-Au-20) compared with the thermodynamically ...

We report the effect of strong spin orbit coupling inducing electronic topological and semiconductor to metal transitions on the thermoelectric material AgBiSe2 at high pressures. The synchrotron X-ray diffraction and the ...