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Room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Materials, April 2018
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Title
Room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor
Published in
Nature Materials, April 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41563-018-0047-z
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Authors

Xun Shi, Hongyi Chen, Feng Hao, Ruiheng Liu, Tuo Wang, Pengfei Qiu, Ulrich Burkhardt, Yuri Grin, Lidong Chen

Abstract

Ductility is common in metals and metal-based alloys, but is rarely observed in inorganic semiconductors and ceramic insulators. In particular, room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductors were not known until now. Here, we report an inorganic α-Ag2S semiconductor that exhibits extraordinary metal-like ductility with high plastic deformation strains at room temperature. Analysis of the chemical bonding reveals systems of planes with relatively weak atomic interactions in the crystal structure. In combination with irregularly distributed silver-silver and sulfur-silver bonds due to the silver diffusion, they suppress the cleavage of the material, and thus result in unprecedented ductility. This work opens up the possibility of searching for ductile inorganic semiconductors/ceramics for flexible electronic devices.

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Unknown 212 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 24%
Researcher 38 18%
Student > Master 28 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 6%
Student > Bachelor 10 5%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 56 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Materials Science 66 31%
Chemistry 29 14%
Engineering 19 9%
Physics and Astronomy 18 8%
Chemical Engineering 6 3%
Other 12 6%
Unknown 62 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2021.
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#929,850
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#911
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#22,969
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#23
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