Global energy and environmental crises are among the most pressing challenges facing
humankind. To overcome these challenges, recent years have seen an upsurge of interest …

Leaves have developed various functional structures to enhance plant survival, making
them the most typical bionic prototypes. Bionic research inspired by plant leaves has yielded …

Following recent computational discovery of the Cs2InSbCl6 and Cs2InBiCl6 compounds,
density functional theory screening of their fundamental physical properties is warranted to …

High recombination probability of photo-generated carriers restricts the characteristics
improvement of semiconductor photocatalysts. The construction of heterojunction structure …

Enhancement of the electromagnetic properties of metallic nanostructures constitute an
extensive research field related to plasmonics. The latter term is derived from plasmons …

Conductive metal–organic frameworks can provide unique porous structures, large pore
volumes, many catalytically active sites and high crystallinity, and so are becoming …

We conducted a thorough investigation of Cs 2 XCuF 6 (X= Sc, Y) using a first-principles
approach, exploring a wide range of material properties. We began by confirming the …

Recent advances in low‐dimensional materials and nanofabrication technologies have
stimulated many breakthroughs in the field of nanophotonics such as metamaterials and …

ZnO nanorods (NRs) heterojunction arrays have been widely used in photovoltaic cells
owing to the outstanding photoelectrical chracteristics, high stability and low cost. The NRs …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are nanocrystals whose excitons are bound in 3D
space. Owning to their remarkable quantum confinement effect, QDs exhibit a discontinuous …