Wastewaters often contain toxic organic pollutants with a possible adverse effect on human
health and aquatic life upon exposure. Persistent organic pollutants such as dyes and …

Solar-powered water evaporation—the extraction of vapour from liquid water using solar
energy—provides the basis for the development of eco-friendly and cost-effective freshwater …

Developing highly efficient multifunctional electrocatalysts is crucial for future sustainable
energy pursuits, but remains a great challenge. Herein, a facile synthetic strategy is used to …

Light harvesting, separation of charge carriers, and surface reactions are three fundamental
steps that are essential for an efficient photocatalyst. Here we show that these steps in the …

The technological evolution has been progressing for centuries and will possibly increase at
a higher rate in the 21st century. Currently, in this age of nanotechnology, the discovery of …

TiO2, as a benchmark in the field of ultraviolet photocatalysis, is one of the most widely used
semiconductor photocatalysts. However, its inherent drawbacks, including wide bandgap …

In the past decade, several different classes of two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond
graphene such as layered polymorphs of group V elements (phophorene, arsenene) …

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is a promising approach for solar-driven
hydrogen production with zero emissions, and it has been intensively studied over the past …

Light-to-thermal conversion materials (LTCMs) have been of great interest to researchers
due to their impressive energy conversion capacity and wide range of applications in …

As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …