With the continuous development of catalytic processes in chemistry, biology, organic
synthesis, energy generation and many other fields, the design of catalysts with novel …

Colloidal lithography based on monolayer colloidal crystals (MCCs) is a facile, inexpensive,
efficient, and flexible nanofabrication approaches towards a wide variety of two …

BiVO4 has been regarded as a promising material for photoelectrochemical water splitting,
but it suffers from a major challenge on charge collection and utilization. In order to meet this …

Rechargeable ion batteries have contributed immensely to shaping the modern world and
been seriously considered for the efficient storage and utilization of intermittent renewable …

We review recent progress in the development of two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystal
(PC) materials for chemical and biological sensing applications. Self-assembly methods …

Applicable surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) active substrates require high
enhancement factor (EF), excellent spatial reproducibility, and low-cost fabrication method …

Low-cost, stabilized and ultrasensitive three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical surface-
enhanced Raman scattering substrates (“sunflower-like” nanoarrays decorated with Ag …

A facile synthetic approach has been developed to prepare uniform and size-tunable spiky
Au@ Ag core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) to tailor the localized surface plasmon resonance …

To ensure the future highly efficient utilization of various sustainable and renewable energy
sources, nanostructured electrodes have become more and more important. This review …

To date, technical development has boosted the efficiencies of energy converting/storing
devices with conventional planar architectures to be close to the corresponding theoretical …