Pedro J. Rodríguez-Cantó

TL;DR: The ability of morphological manipulation strategies, such as nanotexturing or, at the limit, important surface roughness, to enhance light absorption and the luminescent response of atomically thin indium selenide nanosheets is shown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the design, fabrication, and characterization of gold nanocrosses for chemosensing purposes, which exhibit a localized surface plasmon resonance which is very sensitive to refractive index changes in the surrounding medium.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates that PbS films capped with MPA and EDT exhibit 3.5-fold enhanced photocatalytic performance for the photodecomposition of methyl orange upon sunlight exposure and demonstrates how surface chemistry engineering of solution-processed QD films can open a new approach towards the design of highly efficient and stable visible-light-driven photoc atalysts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that it is possible to control the active wavelength in a broad range (400-1100 nm) by changing the base quantum dot material (CdS, CdSe, PbS, and CdTe) without the necessity of changing fabrication conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, an Au-ZnO nanocomposite film with significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity is successfully prepared by a single-step process, where both ZnO and Au nanoparticles are synthesized in situ during baking of the film spin-coated from a solution of Zn(CH3COO)2 and HAuCl4.