Search Results - "Lam, Chi Hang"
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Harvesting the Vibration Energy of BiFeO3 Nanosheets for Hydrogen Evolution
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (19-08-2019)“…In this study, mechanical vibration is used for hydrogen generation and decomposition of dye molecules, with the help of BiFeO3 (BFO) square nanosheets. A high…”
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Spatial Heterogeneities in Structural Temperature Cause Kovacs' Expansion Gap Paradox in Aging of Glasses
Published in Physical review letters (06-03-2020)“…Volume and enthalpy relaxation of glasses after a sudden temperature change has been extensively studied since Kovacs' seminal work. One observes an asymmetric…”
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Accelerated pyro-catalytic hydrogen production enabled by plasmonic local heating of Au on pyroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles
Published in Nature communications (17-10-2022)“…The greatest challenge that limits the application of pyro-catalytic materials is the lack of highly frequent thermal cycling due to the enormous heat capacity…”
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Glass Transition Dynamics and Surface Layer Mobility in Unentangled Polystyrene Films
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (25-06-2010)“…Most polymers solidify into a glassy amorphous state, accompanied by a rapid increase in the viscosity when cooled below the glass transition temperature (Tg)…”
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Direct Evidence of Void-Induced Structural Relaxations in Colloidal Glass Formers
Published in Physical review letters (18-12-2020)“…Particle dynamics in supercooled liquids are often dominated by stringlike motions in which lines of particles perform activated hops cooperatively. The…”
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Viscosity and Surface-Promoted Slippage of Thin Polymer Films Supported by a Solid Substrate
Published in Macromolecules (28-07-2015)“…Thermally activated flow dynamics of polystyrene films supported by silicon is studied for a wide range of film thickness (h 0) and molecular weights (M w). At…”
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The Surface Mobility of Glasses
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-02-2014)“…Surface diffusion on frozen polymer glasses is influenced by the surface dynamics of the glass itself. [Also see Report by Chai et al. ] The diffusion of atoms…”
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Glass Transition Dynamics and Surface Mobility of Entangled Polystyrene Films at Equilibrium
Published in Macromolecules (25-10-2011)“…There has been continuing effort to understand the cause for the thickness dependence observed in the glass transition dynamics of polymer films. In a previous…”
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Surface Dynamics of Noisy Viscoelastic Films by Adiabatic Approximation
Published in Langmuir (10-07-2012)“…Surface dynamics is sometimes used to determine the rheological properties of soft materials. In typical data analyses, surface capillary waves are included…”
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Formation mechanism of bound states in graphene point contacts
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (22-01-2014)“…Electronic localization in narrow graphene constrictions is theoretically studied, and it is found that long-lived (~1 ns) quasibound states (QBSs) can exist…”
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Ferromagnetic behavior of native point defects and vacancy-clusters in ZnO studied by first principle calculation
Published in Materials research express (01-07-2020)“…The origin of room temperature ferromagnetism in undoped ZnO is still a question of debate. Experimental and theoretical findings are inconclusive as to the…”
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Mode-Matching Approach to Current Blocking Effect in Graphene Nanoribbons
Published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (01-10-2013)“…Zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) p--n junctions display parity-dependent transport on the number of zigzag chains. We revisit this phenomenon using the…”
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Detector-induced backaction on the counting statistics of a double quantum dot
Published in Scientific reports (23-10-2013)“…Full counting statistics of electron transport is of fundamental importance for a deeper understanding of the underlying physical processes in quantum…”
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Cooling a nanomechanical resonator by a triple quantum dot
Published in Europhysics letters (01-08-2011)“…We propose an approach for achieving ground-state cooling of a nanomechanical resonator (NAMR) capacitively coupled to a triple quantum dot (TQD). This TQD is…”
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Direct TEM observations of growth mechanisms of two-dimensional MoS2 flakes
Published in Nature communications (14-07-2016)“…A microscopic understanding of the growth mechanism of two-dimensional materials is of particular importance for controllable synthesis of functional…”
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Negative differential resistance effect of blue phosphorene-graphene heterostructure device
Published in Journal of physics communications (01-03-2020)“…We report on the electrical transport properties of new graphene/blue phosphorene heterostructure devices by density functional theory (DFT) within the…”
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Analytical expressions for the first passage time distribution and hit distribution in two and three dimensions
Published in American journal of physics (01-04-2024)“…The distribution of the time elapsed before a random variable reaches a threshold value for the first time, called the first passage time (FPT) distribution,…”
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Fragile Glasses Associated with a Dramatic Drop of Entropy under Supercooling
Published in Physical review letters (31-12-2020)“…We perform kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a distinguishable-particle lattice model of structural glasses with random particle interactions. By varying the…”
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On the origin of oxygen isotope exchange induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanate
Published in The European physical journal. B, Condensed matter physics (01-07-2012)“…The quantum paraelectric strontium titanate can be made ferroelectric through replacing oxygen atoms with their heavy isotopes. Although suppressed quantum…”
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Competing roughening mechanisms in strained heteroepitaxy: a fast kinetic Monte Carlo study
Published in Physical review letters (18-11-2002)“…We study the morphological evolution of strained heteroepitaxial films using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations in two dimensions. A novel Green's function…”
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