Conversion of solar energy into useful chemical fuels using a semiconductor photocatalyst through CO2 fixation or water splitting has drawn significant attention in recent years due to a growing inter
Oxygen electrocatalyst is at the heart of many energy storage and conversion technologies including fuel cells, metal-air batteries and water electrolysis.[1] The development of highly efficient and c
The combination of the unique spectroscopic properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with DNA nanotechnology enables novel approaches in fields like bioanalytics or nanooptics [1].
Hierarchical self-assembly has been widely explored by nature for constructing well-organized architectures such as DNA and proteins with the desired functions. During the past few decades, inspired b
Supramolecular organic electronics rests on the use of bottom-up chemical self-assembly processes in order to design conducting components at the 5–100 nm scale. Challenges in this field are both the
Pressure is an essential physical method in exploring new structure and new properties of condensed materials. Compared to covalent bonds, high pressure has more significant influences on noncovalent
Metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) is an increase in the fluorescence of a fluorophore when it is in close to a metallic nanostructure. This increase is due to a coupling of the oscillating dipole of t