Sustainable development of hydrogen energy is a prime concern to address the rising
energy demand and the global energy problem since the hydrogen economy is reliable for …

Boronate affinity materials, as unique sorbents, have emerged as important media for the
selective separation and molecular recognition of cis-diol-containing compounds. With the …

Two types of carbon dots (C dots) exhibiting respective excitation-independent blue
emission and excitation-dependent full-color emissions have been synthesized via a mild …

Laser ablation in liquid (LAL) has received considerable attention over the last decade, and
is gradually becoming an irreplaceable technique to synthesize nanocrystals and fabricate …

Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

The size of C-nanodots can be electrochemically tuned by changing the applied potential
during their preparation. The higher the applied potential, the smaller the resulting C …

This article provides a comprehensive review of current research activities that concentrate
on one‐dimensional (1D) nanostructures—wires, rods, belts, and tubes—whose lateral …

Adding optical functionality to a silicon microelectronic chip is one of the most challenging
problems of materials research. Silicon is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor and so is an …

The striking photoluminescence properties of porous silicon have attracted considerable
research interest since their discovery in 1990. Luminescence is due to excitonic …

The syntheses of colloidal silicon nanocrystals (Si-NCs) with dimensions in the 3–4 nm size
regime as well as effective methodologies for their functionalization with alkyl, amine …