As a wide‐bandgap semiconductor material, titanium dioxide (TiO2), which possesses three
crystal polymorphs (ie, rutile, anatase, and brookite), has gained tremendous attention as a …

A variety of colloidal chemical approaches has been developed in the last few decades for
the controlled synthesis of nanostructured materials in either water or organic solvents …

Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Finding an ideal model for disclosing the role of oxygen vacancies in photocatalysis remains
a huge challenge. Herein, O-vacancies confined in atomically thin sheets is proposed as an …

Luminescent materials, also called phosphors, are defined as solids that can absorb and
convert certain types of energy into radiation of light.(1) Among all kinds of phosphors, rare …

While halide perovskites (HPs) have achieved enormous success in the field of
optoelectronic applications, much attention has been recently drawn to the unique …

The syntheses of strongly anisotropic nanocrystals with one dimension much smaller than
the two others, such as nanoplatelets, are still greatly underdeveloped. Here, we …

Titanium dioxide or titania (TiO 2) is one of the most abundant compounds on our planet and
a very appealing material for a variety of applications. Unique physical and chemical …

The ability to engineer surface properties of nanocrystals (NCs) is important for various
applications, as many of the physical and chemical properties of nanoscale materials are …