A recent discovery in rice has revealed an elegant trick of nature:crops can teach their later generations to survive the cold through inherited memories written in chemical marks on the DNA letters,representing the f...A recent discovery in rice has revealed an elegant trick of nature:crops can teach their later generations to survive the cold through inherited memories written in chemical marks on the DNA letters,representing the first clear demonstration of what scientists call the“inheritance of acquired characteristics”-a phenomenon that biologists have debated for over two centuries.展开更多
Molecular interaction in two-dimensional(2D)van der Waals(vdW)interfaces has drawn tremendous attention for extraordinary materials characteristics.Sofar sensing characteristics of molecular interaction has been explo...Molecular interaction in two-dimensional(2D)van der Waals(vdW)interfaces has drawn tremendous attention for extraordinary materials characteristics.Sofar sensing characteristics of molecular interaction has been exploited extensively to reach the detection limit to a few parts-per-billion(ppb)of molecules and far less attention is given to the evolution of persistent current state due to the molecular exposure.Our study focuses on molecular memory operation of MoS_(2)-graphene heterostructure based field effect transistor.Metastable resistance state of the device due to the external perturbation of molecules is tuned to get a nearly relaxation free current state at much lower molecular concentration of 10 ppb tofacilitate non-volatile memory features for molecular memory operation.An ultrafast switching operation in milli-second order is achieved at room temperature for the fastest recovery obtained sofar in any molecular sensor.The process is co-controlled both by molecular as well as external charge density.展开更多
This paper reports a procedure of soft x-ray lithography for the fabrication of an organic crossbar structure. Electron beam lithography is employed to fabricate the mask for soft x-ray lithography, with direct writin...This paper reports a procedure of soft x-ray lithography for the fabrication of an organic crossbar structure. Electron beam lithography is employed to fabricate the mask for soft x-ray lithography, with direct writing technology to the lithograph positive resist and polymethyl methacrylate on the polyimide film. Then Au is electroplated on the polyimide film. Hard contact mode exposure is used in x-ray lithography to transfer the graph from the mask to the wafer. The 256-bits organic memory is achieved with the critical dimension of 250 nm.展开更多
This paper summarizes our recent progress on the preparations and applications of electropolymerized thin films of redox-active ruthenium complexes.Thin films of vinyl-functionalized diruthenium or ruthenium-amine con...This paper summarizes our recent progress on the preparations and applications of electropolymerized thin films of redox-active ruthenium complexes.Thin films of vinyl-functionalized diruthenium or ruthenium-amine conjugated complexes are prepared by reductive electropolymerization.The resulting films are useful for multistate near-infrared electrochromism,ion sensing,and mimicking flip-flop and flip-flap-flop logic gates.The oxidative electropolymerization of diruthenium complexes with two distal triarylamine units affords electropolymers with an alternating diruthenium and tetraphenylbenzidine structural unit.The applications of the resulting films in multistate near-infrared electrochromism and resistive memory are discussed.展开更多
文摘A recent discovery in rice has revealed an elegant trick of nature:crops can teach their later generations to survive the cold through inherited memories written in chemical marks on the DNA letters,representing the first clear demonstration of what scientists call the“inheritance of acquired characteristics”-a phenomenon that biologists have debated for over two centuries.
基金A.M.would like to acknowledge Department of Science and Technology(DST),India for the research grant(DST1682).
文摘Molecular interaction in two-dimensional(2D)van der Waals(vdW)interfaces has drawn tremendous attention for extraordinary materials characteristics.Sofar sensing characteristics of molecular interaction has been exploited extensively to reach the detection limit to a few parts-per-billion(ppb)of molecules and far less attention is given to the evolution of persistent current state due to the molecular exposure.Our study focuses on molecular memory operation of MoS_(2)-graphene heterostructure based field effect transistor.Metastable resistance state of the device due to the external perturbation of molecules is tuned to get a nearly relaxation free current state at much lower molecular concentration of 10 ppb tofacilitate non-volatile memory features for molecular memory operation.An ultrafast switching operation in milli-second order is achieved at room temperature for the fastest recovery obtained sofar in any molecular sensor.The process is co-controlled both by molecular as well as external charge density.
基金Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2006CB806204)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60825403,90607022,60676001 and 60676008)Synchrotron Radiation Fund of Innovation Project of Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 20070156S)
文摘This paper reports a procedure of soft x-ray lithography for the fabrication of an organic crossbar structure. Electron beam lithography is employed to fabricate the mask for soft x-ray lithography, with direct writing technology to the lithograph positive resist and polymethyl methacrylate on the polyimide film. Then Au is electroplated on the polyimide film. Hard contact mode exposure is used in x-ray lithography to transfer the graph from the mask to the wafer. The 256-bits organic memory is achieved with the critical dimension of 250 nm.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21271176,21472196,21521062,and 21501183)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB 12010400)for funding support
文摘This paper summarizes our recent progress on the preparations and applications of electropolymerized thin films of redox-active ruthenium complexes.Thin films of vinyl-functionalized diruthenium or ruthenium-amine conjugated complexes are prepared by reductive electropolymerization.The resulting films are useful for multistate near-infrared electrochromism,ion sensing,and mimicking flip-flop and flip-flap-flop logic gates.The oxidative electropolymerization of diruthenium complexes with two distal triarylamine units affords electropolymers with an alternating diruthenium and tetraphenylbenzidine structural unit.The applications of the resulting films in multistate near-infrared electrochromism and resistive memory are discussed.
