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 …

Superwettability is a centuries-old concept that has been rediscovered in past decades,
largely owing to new understanding of the mechanisms of special wetting phenomena in …

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

Fujishima and Honda (1972) demonstrated the potential of titanium dioxide (TiO2)
semiconductor materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in a photo-electrochemical …

Nowadays, with the rapid depletion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum oil), the
development of renewable energies based on sufficient energy sources with sustainable …

TiO2 photocatalysis is widely used in a variety of applications and products in the
environmental and energy fields, including self-cleaning surfaces, air and water purification …

Semiconductor photocatalysis has received much attention as a potential solution to the
worldwide energy shortage and for counteracting environmental degradation. This article …

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 remarkable achievement by Fujishima and Honda (1972) in the photo-electrochemical
water splitting results in the extensive use of TiO 2 nanomaterials for environmental …

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 …