Metal oxides possess exceptional potential as base materials in emerging technologies. In
recent times, significant amount of research works is carried out on these materials to assess …

Conspectus Over the past decade, the impressive development of metal halide perovskites
(MHPs) has made them leading candidates for applications in photovoltaics (PVs), X-ray …

This paper reviews recent studies on the preparation of two-dimensional (2D) metal
nanostructures, particularly nanosheets. As metal often exists in the high-symmetry crystal …

Tin halide perovskites are promising candidates for lead‐free perovskite solar cells (PSCs)
not only due to their low‐toxicity, but also due to their ideal energy bandgap, high charge …

Crystallization is one of the most important physicochemical processes. Crystal structure
determines most of properties of substances in the condensed state; this is why the modern …

Electron transport layer (ETL) is a functional layer of great significance for boosting the
power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). To date, it is still a …

The term mesocrystal has been widely used to describe crystals that form by oriented
assembly, and that exhibit nanoparticle substructures. Using calcite crystals co-precipitated …

Carbon dots (CDs) correspond to carbon‐based materials (CBM) with sizes usually below
10 nm. These nanomaterials exhibit attractive properties such us low toxicity, good stability …

Crystal growth mechanism, kinetics, and microstructure development play fundamental roles
in tailoring materials with controllable sizes and morphologies. Oriented attachment (OA) …

A controlled synthesis of colloidal metal nanocrystals is fundamental in order to optimize the
properties of these crystalline materials for a given application. However, there is no …