Our colleagues Antonio Supina and Marko Kralj, in the scope of bilateral collaboration with researchers from Leoben, published a paper in high-ranking npj 2D Materials and Applications. The study demonstrates universal approach to synthesize high-quality networks of nanoribbons from arbitrary 2D materials.

Our scientist Julio Car and Nikša Krstulović developed a method for reconstruction of the size distribution and the concentration of silver colloidal nanoparticles from UV-Vis spectra using fitting function based on Beer-Lambert law, Mie scattering theory in dipole approximation and log-normal size distribution of nanoparticles

Our scientists from the PLASAR group developed a method for synthesis of two-component Ag-doped ZnO nanoparticles. The nanoparticles were analyzed in detail with the help of colleagues from the Vinča Institute. It was shown that Ag ions are incorporated into the crystal lattice of ZnO nanoparticles mostly on their surface, which is very suitable for photocatalysis.

Members of SIMAT group, with PhD student Valentino Jadriško as the leading author, published a paper in the journal FlatChem, where they present results of MBE synthesis of MoS₂/graphene heterostructures, subsequent sample transfer on SiO₂/Si wafer as the first step to utilize UHV grown 2D materials and related heterostructures in optoelectronic applications.

Our colleague Ivor Krešić has theoretically developed a method for removing scattering in inhomogeneous time-multiplexed fiber loop photonic lattices. Colleagues from the University of Rostock implemented this method in an experimental system of synthetic disordered photonic lattice created using laser pulses propagating inside optical fibers.

Our colleague Dino Novko, in collaboration with scientists from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, has published a paper in Nano Letters, in which they explore novel femtosecond many-body electron-phonon features in photo-excited graphene.

Our colleague Ivor Krešić has published a paper in the Physical Review Letters, in which nonconformal geometric deformations of two-dimensional space are related to the non-Hermitian dielectric response of optically isotropic materials. Theoretical insights were used for the design of a broadband “invisibility cloak”, which prevents the detection of a desired object by both continuous and pulsed radiation.

Members of our SIMAT group, with PhD student Borna Radatović as the leading author, published a paper in the prestigious journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, where they have successfully linked large-scale growth of borophene and its transfer to arbitrary substrates. The quality of the transferred borophene, which is key for future applications, was confirmed in a combined experimental and theoretical approach.