Oxygen vacancy (VO) is one of the most common defects in metal oxides (MOs), which
endow the MOs with many unique physiochemical properties. Even though VO engineering …

Photocatalysis, which converts natural solar energy into chemical energy, has emerged as
one of the most appealing technologies in the past decades. However, photocatalytic …

Energy crisis and environmental problems urgently drive the proposal of new strategies to
improve human wellbeing and assist sustainable development. To this end, scientists have …

Controlled creation of intrinsic defects such as oxygen vacancies can effectively modulate
the optical and electronic properties of metal oxide nanomaterials. In the past few years, a …

Developing novel functional materials with promising desired properties in enhancing
energy conversion and lowering the catalytic reaction barriers is essential for the demand to …

Oxygen vacancies play crucial roles in determining the physical properties of metal oxides,
representing important building blocks in many scientific and technological fields due to their …

Widespread application of solar water splitting for energy conversion is largely dependent
on the progress in developing not only efficient but also cheap and scalable …

Tungsten oxide (WO x) can be incorporated into amorphous/crystalline silicon
heterojunction solar cells as hole contact and for interface modification between p-type …

Oxygen vacancies implantation is an efficient way to adjust the physical and chemical
properties of metal oxide nanomaterials to meet the requirements for particular applications …

During the last decade, transition metal oxides have been actively investigated as hole-and
electron-selective materials in organic electronics due to their low-cost processing. In this …