Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Solar fuel synthesis is intriguing because solar energy is abundant and this method
compensates for its intermittency. However, most photocatalysts can only absorb UV‐to …

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown immense potential in photocatalysis because of their
distinct photochemical properties associated with tunable photoresponses and strong light …

Photo-thermal catalysis has recently emerged as an alternative route to drive chemical
reactions using light as an energy source. Through the synergistic combination of photo-and …

Imitating the natural photosynthesis to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels represents a viable
strategy for solar-to-chemical energy conversion, where utilizing low-energy photons …

Asymmetric transformations and synthesis have garnered considerable interest in recent
decades due to the extensive need for chiral organic compounds in biomedical …

Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation reaction can harvest the solar energy to convert the
abundant but inert N2 into NH3. Here, utilizing metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes …

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is a physical phenomenon exhibited by
nanoparticles of metals including coinage metals, alkali metals, aluminum, and some …

Precisely controlling the architecture and spatial arrangement of plasmonic heterostructures
offers unique opportunities to tailor the catalytic property, whereas the lack of a wet …