The importance of catalysts today as workhorses in most modern industrial fields cannot be
downplayed. As a result, rational design and engineering of targeted catalysts have …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

Photogenerated charge separation is pivotal for effecting efficient photocatalytic reactions.
Understanding this process with spatiotemporal resolution is vital for devising highly efficient …

Plasmonic semiconductors with high free carrier concentration is a class of attractive
materials that exhibit metal-like localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) for light …

Novel ultrafast x-ray sources based on high harmonic generation and at x-ray free electron
lasers are opening up new opportunities to resolve complex ultrafast processes in …

Comprehensive Summary Constituting the artificial carbon cycle, for example, through
recycling CO2 and converting CH4 to value‐added fuels and chemicals with solar energy …

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) nanomaterials are critical to producing clean oxygenation or
value-added chemical production by utilizing sustainable solar energy, but are always …

Laser-driven compact particle accelerators can provide ultrashort pulses of broadband X-
rays, well suited for undertaking X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements on a …

The rational design of cutting-edge materials for an efficient solar energy conversion
process is a challenging task, which demands a fundamental understanding of the …

X-ray generation under interaction of relativistic laser pulses with krypton clusters has been
studied. It is shown that the optimal focusing points for generating characteristic and hard …