Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

[PDF][PDF] Oxygen vacancies in metal oxides: recent progress towards advanced catalyst design

G Zhuang, Y Chen, Z Zhuang, Y Yu, J Yu - Sci. China Mater, 2020 - researchgate.net
Energy crisis and environmental problems urgently drive the proposal of new strategies to
improve human wellbeing and assist sustainable development. To this end, scientists have …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

A Schottky‐barrier‐free plasmonic semiconductor photocatalyst for nitrogen fixation in a “One‐Stone‐Two‐Birds” manner

H Bai, SH Lam, J Yang, X Cheng, S Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic photocatalysis has received much attention owing to attractive plasmonic
enhancement effects in improving the solar‐to‐chemical conversion efficiency. However, the …

Dark-field microscopy: recent advances in accurate analysis and emerging applications

PF Gao, G Lei, CZ Huang - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-luminous substances such as phosphorescent organisms and chemiluminescent
objects are ideal samples to observe under DFM. In such cases, no exogenous light source …

Construction of a ternary spatial junction in yolk–shell nanoreactor for efficient photo-thermal catalytic hydrogen generation

Y Li, J Xue, Q Shen, S Jia, Q Li, Y Li, X Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highly efficient solar‐to‐hydrogen (H 2) conversion depends crucially on the light-harvesting
capability, cumulative cascade efficiency of photo-induced carriers, and surficial vibrant …

Theory, observation, and ultrafast response of the hybrid anapole regime in light scattering

A Canós Valero, EA Gurvitz… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modern nanophotonics has witnessed the rise of “electric anapoles”(EDAs), destructive
interferences of electric and toroidal electric dipoles, actively exploited to resonantly …

Catalytic metasurfaces empowered by bound states in the continuum

H Hu, T Weber, O Bienek, A Wester, L Hüttenhofer… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic platforms based on ultrathin reactive materials facilitate carrier transport and
extraction but are typically restricted to a narrow set of materials and spectral operating …

TiO2-based photocatalysts for CO2 reduction and solar fuel generation

T Zhang, X Han, NT Nguyen, L Yang, X Zhou - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar-driven CO 2 reduction is an efficient way to convert sustainable solar energy and
massive CO 2 to renewable solar fuels, such as CH 4, HCOOH, HCHO, and CH 3 OH, etc …

MXene-Derived Defect-Rich TiO2@rGO as High-Rate Anodes for Full Na Ion Batteries and Capacitors

Y Fang, Y Zhang, C Miao, K Zhu, Y Chen, F Du, J Yin… - Nano-micro letters, 2020 - Springer
Sodium ion batteries and capacitors have demonstrated their potential applications for next-
generation low-cost energy storage devices. These devices's rate ability is determined by …