Environmental pollution and destruction as well as the lack of sufficient clean and natural
energy resources are some of the most serious problems presently faced on a global scale …

In recent years, semiconductor photocatalytic process has shown a great potential as a low-
cost, environmental friendly and sustainable treatment technology to align with the “zero” …

Defect engineering is widely applied in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to achieve
electrical, optical, magnetic, and catalytic regulation. Vacancies, regarded as a type of …

The wettability of solid surfaces is a renewed old topic that has impacted most fields of
science and technology for a long time, from cave painting in the ancient to microfluidic …

The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of
the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact …

Scientific studies on photocatalysis started about two and a half decades ago. Titanium
dioxide (TiO2), which is one of the most basic materials in our daily life, has emerged as an …

Photocatalysis has recently become a common word and various products using
photocatalytic functions have been commercialized. Among many candidates for …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is well-known to be the most practical and prevalent photocatalyst,
1− 17 for it is chemically stable, abundant, nontoxic, and cost-effective. Photogenerated …

The field of surface science provides a unique approach to understanding bulk, surface and
interfacial phenomena occurring during TiO 2 photocatalysis. This review highlights, from a …

Self-cleaning materials have gained considerable attention for both their unique properties
and practical applications in energy and environmental areas. Recent examples of many …