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Recently, the newly emerging lead-halide perovskites have received tremendous attention in the photodetection field because of their intrinsic large light absorption and high well-balanced carrier transport characteristics. Unfortunately, the issue of instability and the existence of toxic lead cations have greatly restricted their practical applic...
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Raman spectroscopy has become an essential technique to characterize and investigate graphene and many other two-dimensional materials. However, there is still a lack of consensus on the Raman signature and phonon dispersion of atomically thin boron nitride (BN), which has many unique properties distinct from graphene. Such a knowledge gap greatly ...
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Photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is a promising strategy for sustainable development compared to the energy-intensive industrial Haber-Bosch approach. Herein, a ternary heterostructure that consists of ruthenium species and carbon nitride (C3N4) was rationally explored for ammonia photosynthesis. Compared to the small ammonia yield from the g-C3N4 ...
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Pulsed laser (ms, 1064 nm) gold nanoparticle (GNP) heating has been used recently to achieve fast (>10 000 000 °C min-1) warming of vitrified droplets using gold nanorods (GNRs) as photon-absorbers. To maximize the viability of biomaterials in vitrified droplets, the droplets must be warmed as uniformly as possible. A potential approach to such war...
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In this work, we achieved the synthesis of purple-emissive carbon dots (p-CDs) by a simple and highly reproducible route using folic acid as the sole precursor. The emission of the p-CDs is located around 390 nm, and is independent of the excitation wavelength with a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 54.6%, thus complementing an emission colo...
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Development of high-efficiency and Earth-abundant bifunctional catalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is desirable to realize an efficient overall water splitting process. In this work, a highly active and durable bifunctional catalyst of coral-like nickel iron phosphide ultrathin nanosheets anc...
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Colorful solar cells have been much sought after because they can generate electricity and concurrently satisfy ornamentation purposes. Owing to their outstanding power conversion efficiency and flexibility in processing, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have the great potential to become both efficient and aesthetically appealing. Here, we specially ...
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Photothermal (PT) microscopy is currently the most efficient approach for the detection and spectroscopy of individual non-fluorescent nano-objects based solely on their absorption. The nano-objects in current PT microscopy are usually non-resonant with the probe laser light, and the PT signal is mainly generated from the interactions of the incide...
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The necessity of Earth-abundant low-cost catalysts with activity similar to noble metals such as platinum is indispensable in order to realize the production of hydrogen through electrolysis of water. Herein, we report a relatively low-cost NiAg0.4 3D porous nanocluster catalyst whose activity matches with that of the state-of-the-art Pt/C in 1 M K...
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Herein, we developed a general two-step gas expansion and exfoliation strategy based on a urea-assisted hydrothermal process combined with sonication exfoliation for the production of nitrogen (N)-doped plus defect-rich transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets (NSs) such as N-MoS2 and N-WS2 NSs. The interlayers of bulk MoS2 (or WS2) were ex...
