Solar-to-chemical energy conversion via heterogeneous photocatalysis is one of the
sustainable approaches to tackle the growing environmental and energy challenges. Among …

The successful development of artificial photosynthesis requires finding new materials able
to efficiently harvest sunlight and catalyze hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide …

The pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) morphology of plate-like metal nanoparticles makes them
one of the most anisotropic, mechanistically understood, and tunable structures available …

Metamaterials, as artificially structured materials composed of subwavelength arrays of
resonant unit cells, can exhibit exotic properties beyond those accessible to natural …

Structural colors are colors generated by the interaction between incident light and
nanostructures. Structural colors have been studied for decades due to their promising …

The field of plasmonics is capable of enabling interesting applications in different
wavelength ranges, spanning from the ultraviolet up to the infrared. The choice of plasmonic …

Electrical switching of a metal-to-insulator transition would provide a building block for
integrated electro-optically active plasmonics. In this work, we realize plasmonic …

Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Magnesium (Mg) has many unique properties suitable for applications in the fields of energy
conversion and storage. These fields presently rely on noble metals for efficient …

Laser synthesis emerges as a suitable technique to produce ligand-free nanoparticles,
alloys and functionalized nanomaterials for catalysis, imaging, biomedicine, energy and …