Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X Xia, J Hu, R Fu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

Review of broadband metamaterial absorbers: from principles, design strategies, and tunable properties to functional applications

BX Wang, C Xu, G Duan, W Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterial absorbers have been widely studied and continuously concerned owing to
their excellent resonance features of ultra‐thin thickness, light‐weight, and high absorbance …

Photoacoustic imaging: contrast agents and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, R Zhu, J Song, H Yang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐developing imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

Pickering emulsions: Versatility of colloidal particles and recent applications

H Jiang, Y Sheng, T Ngai - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The versatility of colloidal particles endows the particle stabilized or Pickering emulsions
with unique features and can potentially enable the fabrication of a wide variety of derived …

Assembly: A Key Enabler for the Construction of Superior Silicon‐Based Anodes

M Jiang, J Chen, Y Zhang, N Song, W Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon (Si) is regarded as the most promising anode material for high‐energy lithium‐ion
batteries (LIBs) due to its high theoretical capacity, and low working potential. However, the …

Photothermal materials: A key platform enabling highly efficient water evaporation driven by solar energy

X Wu, GY Chen, G Owens, D Chu, H Xu - Materials Today Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversion and utilization of solar energy is one of the most important strategies being
proposed to mitigate the foreshadowed global energy crisis and environmental issues …

The design and synthesis of hollow micro‐/nanostructures: present and future trends

L Yu, XY Yu, XW Lou - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hollow micro‐/nanostructures have attracted tremendous interest owing to their intriguing
structure‐induced physicochemical properties and great potential for widespread …

Ru colloidosome catalysts for the hydrogen oxidation reaction in alkaline media

X Yang, B Ouyang, P Shen, Y Sun, Y Yang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing efficient hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) electrocatalysts in alkaline media is
of great significance for anion exchange membrane fuel cells. Herein, we report the …

Plasmonic nanostructures for photothermal conversion

J Chen, Z Ye, F Yang, Y Yin - Small Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The nonradiative conversion of light to heat by plasmonic nanostructures, the so‐called
plasmonic photothermal effect, has attracted enormous attention due to their widespread …

Hybrid nanostructures of metal/two-dimensional nanomaterials for plasmon-enhanced applications

X Li, J Zhu, B Wei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hybrid nanostructures composed of graphene or other two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials
and plasmonic metal components have been extensively studied. The unusual properties of …