Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of
life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are …

The design and use of materials in the nanoscale size range for addressing medical and
health-related issues continues to receive increasing interest. Research in nanomedicine …

The understandings and applications of self-assembly have evolved significantly since the
adsorption of n-alkyldisulfides on gold surfaces was first reported. The desire to produce …

We tracked over time the conductance switching of single and bundled phenylene ethynylene
oligomers isolated in matrices of alkanethiolate monolayers. The persistence times for …

Molecular wire candidates inserted into “nonconducting” n-dodecanethiol self-assembled
monolayers on Au{111} were probed by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and microwave …

Wearable technologies for personalized monitoring require sensors that track biomarkers
often present at low levels. Cortisol—a key stress biomarker—is present in sweat at low …

… with tunable band gaps founded on the theoretical work of Castleman, Khanna, and co-workers,
the synthetic methods of Sen and co-workers, and the analytical work of Weiss and co-…

Graphene has attracted great interest for its superior physical, chemical, mechanical, and
electrical properties that enable a wide range of applications from electronics to …

Visibly transparent photovoltaic devices can open photovoltaic applications in many areas,
such as building-integrated photovoltaics or integrated photovoltaic chargers for portable …

Detection of analytes by means of field-effect transistors bearing ligand-specific receptors is
fundamentally limited by the shielding created by the electrical double layer (the “Debye …