Anisotropy is an important and widely present characteristic of materials that provides
desired direction-dependent properties. In particular, the introduction of anisotropy into …

Asymmetric supercapacitors (ASCs) can substantially broaden their working voltage range,
benefiting from the advantages of both cathode and anode while breaking through the …

Sunlight-driven H2 generation is a central technology to tackle our impending carbon-based
energy collapse. Colloidal photocatalysts consisting of plasmonic and catalytic …

The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to high-value hydrocarbons and oxygenates is an
attractive technique to store intermittent renewable energy. Diverse catalysts are capable of …

Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

In the regime of deep strong light–matter coupling, the coupling strength exceeds the
transition energies of the material,–, fundamentally changing its properties,; for example, the …

Nanoparticle assembly has been proposed as an ideal means to program the hierarchical
organization of a material by using a selection of nanoscale components to build the entire …

Plasmonic nanostructures possessing unique and versatile optoelectronic properties have
been vastly investigated over the past decade. However, the full potential of plasmonic …