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Photocatalytic water splitting for clean hydrogen production has been a very attractive research field for decades. However, the insightful understanding of the actual active sites and their impact on catalytic performance is still ambiguous. Herein, a Pr‐doped TiO2‐supported Cu single atom (SA) photocatalyst is successfully synthesized (noted as Cu/Pr‐TiO2). It is found that Pr dopants passivate...
To change the binary structure of nanotube and nanotube array in vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays, this work deposits regularly arranged amorphous alumina sheets on the classical array growth catalyst (10 nm‐thick alumina and 2 nm‐thick iron) and obtains an array similar to the Medusa head. Subsequent experiments revealed that these alumina sheets show both unstable and stable qualities during...
Defect engineering is promising to tailor the physical properties of 2D semiconductors for function‐oriented electronics and optoelectronics. Compared with the extensively studied 2D binary materials, the origin of defects and their influence on physical properties of 2D ternary semiconductors are not clarified. Here, the effect of defects on the electronic structure and optical properties of few‐layer...
Understanding the growth behavior and morphology evolution of defects in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides is significant for the performance tuning of nanoelectronic devices. Here, the low‐voltage aberration‐corrected transmission electron microscopy with an in situ heating holder and a fast frame rate camera to investigate the sulfur vacancy lines in monolayer MoS2 is applied. Vacancy concentration‐dependent...
Exploring highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts for large‐scale water electrolysis in the full potential of hydrogen (pH) range is highly desirable, but it remains a significant challenge. Herein, a simple pathway is proposed to synthesize a hybrid electrocatalyst by decorating small metallic platinum (Pt) nanosheets on a large nickel telluride nanosheet (termed as Pt...
Single‐atom (SA) catalysts (SACs) have demonstrated outstanding catalytic performances toward plenty of relevant electrochemical reactions. Nevertheless, controlling the coordination microenvironment of catalytically active SAs to further enhance their catalytic oerformences has remained elusive up to now. Herein, a systematic investigation of 20 transition metal atoms that are coordinated with 20...
A general method for the direct synthesis of highly homogeneous and dense polymerized carbon nitride (PCN) nanosheet films on F: SnO2 (FTO) is developed. Detailed photoelectrochemical (PEC) water‐splitting studies reveal that the as‐synthesized PCN films exhibit outstanding performance as photoanode for PEC water‐splitting. The optimal PCN photoanode exhibits excellent photocurrent density of 650 µA...
Superhydrophobic coating has a great application prospect in self‐cleaning and oil‐water separation but remains challenging for large‐scale preparation of robust and weather‐resistant superhydrophobic coatings via facile approaches. Herein, this work reports a scalable fabrication of weather‐resistant superhydrophobic coating with multiscale rough coral reef‐like structures by spraying the suspension...
The large‐scale synthesis of high‐quality boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) has attracted considerable interests due to their applications in nanocomposites, thermal management, and so on. Despite decades of development, efficient preparation of high‐quality BNNTs, which relies on the effective design of precursors and catalysts and deep insights into the catalytic mechanisms, is still urgently needed...
Vertical graphene (VG) arrays show exposed sharp edges, ultra‐low electrical resistance, large surface‐to‐volume ratio, and low light reflectivity, thus having great potential in emerging applications, including field emission, sensing, energy storage devices, and stray light shields. Although plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is regarded as an effective approach for the synthesis...
The further applications of liquid metals (LMs) are limited by their common shortcoming of silver‐white physical appearance, which deviates from the impose stringent requirements for color and aesthetics. Herein, a concept is proposed for constructing fluorescent core–shell structures based on the components and properties of LMs, and metal halides. The metal halides endow LMs with polychromatic and...
It is well‐known that tissue engineering scaffolds that feature highly interconnected and size‐adjustable micropores are oftentimes desired to promote cellular viability, motility, and functions. Unfortunately, the ability of precise control over the microporous structures within bioinks in a cytocompatible manner for applications in 3D bioprinting is generally lacking, until a method of micropore‐forming...
Grain boundaries (GBs) play a central role in the fracture of polycrystals. However, the complexity of GBs and the difficulty in monitoring the atomic structure evolution during fracture greatly limit the understanding of the GB mechanics. Here, in situ aberration‐corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and density functional theory calculations are combined to investigate the fracture...
Synthesis of high‐quality single‐walled carbon nanotubes arrays with pure semiconducting type is crucial for the fabrication of integrated circuits in nanoscale. However, the naturally grown carbon nanotubes usually have diverse structures and properties. Here the bicomponent catalyst using Au and ZrO2 is designed and prepared. The Au nanoparticle serves as the catalysts for carbon feedstock cracking...
Great efforts have been devoted to searching for efficient catalytic systems to produce ultra‐high density single‐walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays, which lay the foundation for future electronic devices. However, one major obstacle for realizing high‐density surface‐aligned SWNT arrays is the poor stability of metal nanoparticles in chemical vapor deposition catalytic processes. Recently, Trojan...
Despite the boom in the water‐triggered electric power generation technologies, few attempts have been made with a broader horizonyielding the electricity from sweat, which is of great value for low‐power‐consumption wearable electronics. Here, an electromechanical coupling and humidity‐actuated two‐in‐one humidity actuator‐driven piezoelectric generator (HAPG) are reported, that can yield continuous...
Organic–inorganic hybrid MAPbI3 microwires show unique optoelectronic properties for high performances of photodetectors (PDs). However, the defects‐assisted nonradiative recombination is harmful for carrier transport, which limits the performances improvement of MAPbI3 microwires PDs. Traditional organic passivation agents effectively combine the surface defects of microwires and also reduce the...
Homogeneous graphene dispersions with tunable concentrations are fundamental prerequisites for the preparation of graphene‐based materials. Here, a strategy for effectively dispersing graphene using graphene oxide (GO) to produce homogeneous, tunable, and ultrahigh concentration graphene dispersions (>150 mg mL−1) is proposed. The structure of GO with abundant edge‐bound hydrophilic carboxyl groups...
The miniaturization of gold nanorods exhibits a bright prospect for intravital photoacoustic imaging (PAI) and the hollow structure possesses a better plasmonic property. Herein, miniature hollow gold nanorods (M‐AuHNRs) (≈46 nm in length) possessing strong plasmonic absorbance in the second near‐infrared (NIR‐II) window (1000–1350 nm) are developed, which are considered as the most suitable range...
Currently, designing solid catalysts at high temperature is the main strategy to realize single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with specific chirality, meaning it is very hard and challenging to create new catalysts or faces to fit new chirality. However, low temperatures make most catalysts solid, and developing solid catalysts at low temperature is desired to realize chirality control of SWNTs...
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