In the development of tungsten-based Plasma Facing Materials/Components (PFMs/PFCs), materials scientists have explored many different, innovative preparation and processing routes to meet the requirement of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Tungsten (W) is one of the best candidates for plasma-facing materials in the fusion reactors, owing to its many unique properties. However, some inherent defects such as the embrittlement, high DBTT of tungsten material restrict its application on PFMs and PFCs.

With ever-increasing demands of energy and environmental issues caused by extensive combustion of traditional fossil fuels, the quest for clean and sustainable energy sources as alternatives has attracted extensive research interest. Hydrogen seems to be a promising alternate due to its nontoxicity, ideal combustion efficiency and high gravimetric energy density. Among many accepted ways of hydrogen generation, photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has been widely regarded as an appealing solution.

Due to the environmental pollution and climate change cause by burning of fossil fuels, finding a renewable and clean energy alternative is becoming increasingly important. Hydrogen (H2) has high energy density and zero emission, which makes it one of the most promising energy carriers in future. Among various hydrogen production methods, hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) from electrocatalytic water splitting is considered as an ideal eco-friendly strategy to generate hydrogen in a large scale.

In the past few decades, nanostructured materials has gained more scientific interest owing to their distinctive physical and chemical properties. Lanthanum tungstate (La2(WO4)3) nanoparticles exhibits a monoclinic scheelite-like structure with a space group of C2/c. It has been widely applied in fields such as luminescence, photocatalysis and scintillators due to their unique optical and structural properties.

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Tungsten trioxide (WO3) is a common n-type semiconductor. WO3 has a wide bandgap semiconductor between 2.5–3.6 eV, which makes being widely used in the fields of catalysis, photocatalytic and electro-chromic systems to produce smart windows, chemical sensors for detection of polluting gases such as H2S, NOx, NH3, and monitoring H2 gas concentration to ovoid explosions in embedded system. WO3 has the advantages of structural polymorphism, chemical stability, and good biocompatibility It is Hexagonal tungsten trioxide (h-WO3) possesses an open-tunnel structure and exhibits intercalation chemistry and other favorable properties, which has been used for lithium batteries, optoelectronic device, and ion exchanger.

In photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, hydrogen is produced from water using sunlight and specialized semiconductors called photoelectrochemical materials, which use light energy to directly dissociate water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is the most promising clean energy source with very high gravimetric energy density and environmental friendliness.

Transitional metal oxides (TMO) such as ZnO, CuO, CdO, TiO2, and NiO had been widely applied in the field of gas sensing. Tungsten trioxide (WO3) is one of the n-type semiconducting TMO materials which possess fantastic properties such as wide band gap, thermal stability and surface-active sites. The WO3 nanomaterials also studied for various applications viz photocatalysts, photoelectrode, photochromism. The WO3 with various morphologies such as cauliflower, thin film, nanosheets and nano-spherical particles have been utilized for gas sensing. Nanosized WO3 is very sensitive toward reducing and oxidizing gas such as ethanol and Nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

Nuclear fusion is one of the very few options promising to solve the currently looming energy crisis, and the materials technology plays a critical role in determining the technological realization of the fusion power source. Plasma Facing Materials (PFMs) is one of the key materials in ITER which will work in harsh conditions, including complex thermal, mechanical, and chemical loads as well as strong irradiation.