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Kashmir’s book village attracts tourists and bibliophiles 

Discover the quaint book village of Aragam in Srinagar, home to over 10,000 books attracting tourists and book lovers alike




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Mithun Chakraborty to be conferred with Dadsaheb Phalke Lifetime Award for 2022

An alumnus of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Chakraborty gained significant popularity in the 1980s with his role in ‘Disco Dancer’




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India has more philanthropists than China with over ₹100 crore annual donations

Shiv Nadar leads philanthropy list with record ₹2,153 crore donation




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Make Ranji Trophy attractive

It will be beneficial for nurturing domestic talent



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The true face of ‘philanthropic aid’

A recent spike in aid has been spurred by Western assistance to Ukraine, serving the interests of West’s arms manufacturers




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Pharma’s bitter pill

Healthcare companies list a multitude of reasons explaining difficulties in reducing the cost of drugs or treatments for patients




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Smartphones and quicker deliveries to drive India’s e-commerce

However, in terms of e-commerce penetration, India lags behind global peers




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Nemour’s moment of triumph

We all love a good riveting triumph, and Kaylia Nemour delivers



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Elder Pharma, Kose form JV




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Why tourism in Himachal is not reaching its zenith: The loopholes

Rather than starting with an all flowery accolade to the beauty of Himachal, let’s see why it never reaches the potential it has. While numbers and statistics of tourism in Himachal show a soaring growth trajectory, the ground reality is abysmal. It is not just the infrastructure or the facilities. It is the overall take […]




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Gennova Biopharmaceuticals launches a paediatric pack of pegaspargase, to treat rare blood cancer

The drug, marketed as Hamsyl – Junior will now be available in a 1500 IU pack, and is priced at ₹Rs 20,970, a company official told businessline




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IISR’s innovative formulations help address soil pH issues and boost crop yields

The formulations, based on granular lime and gypsum, address soil pH issues and deliver beneficial microorganisms




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BE’s 14-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine: Phase III trials prove ‘safety’

Pneubevax14   14 was found to be safe and induced robust and functional serotype specific immune responses to all 14 serotypes




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IIT Madras partners with SilTerra Malaysia for silicon photonic processor chips

These chips will be utilised for quantum computing and high-speed secured communication systems




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Chief Hydrographer Pathania urges investment in satellites for geospatial awareness

The 14th edition of the Indo-Pacific Geo Intelligence Forum highlighted the critical role of geospatial technology in addressing security challenges in the region.




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Indian astrophysicist Prahlad Chandra Agrawal honoured with COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024

Prahlad Chandra Agrawal is the first Indian recipient of this award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of space research, particularly those in a leadership role.




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AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

Hinton, often referred to as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” alongside Hopfield, an American scientist working at Princeton, have utilised principles from physics to create algorithms and neural networks that underpin today’s AI technologies




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With 11% increase over 2 decades, carbon dioxide accumulates faster in atmosphere

WMO study says 2023 figure is 151 per cent % of pre-industrial period




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Stock to buy today: J.B. Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals (₹1,961.80): BUY

J.B. Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals share price can rise to ₹2,100




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F&O Strategy: Short Torrent Pharma

Derivatives traders can either go short on futures contract or buy a put option, depending on the risk appetite




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First International Calligraphy Festival of Kerala under way in Kochi is a hit with enthusiasts and fine arts students

Exhibition serves as an introduction to the potential of the art form which is gaining popularity among young artists in State




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Cell Phones and Cancer Risk

A fact sheet that outlines the available evidence regarding use of cellular/mobile telephones and cancer risk.




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Cabinet approves Phase 3 of Namma Metro

44.65 km of new line will be added to the network by 2028 at a cost of ₹ 15,611 crore




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Experience diverse themes in photography in an exhibition in Andhra University

A two-day exhibition by students of Diploma in Photography of Andhra University in Visakhapatnam unfolds diverse themes and creative vision



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On full throttle: Rider Anand Dharesan recalls his GS Trophy 2024 memories, his love for riding and more

Anand qualified for the international tournament on his first try competing in a riding event




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Puducherry District Court upholds eviction proceedings against Cercle de Pondicherry




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How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the society they once knew. […]




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Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining

The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site features a picture of the book’s careworn cover along with two spreads from the […]




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High-Performance Photodetector based on ZnO/CsPbBr3 Quantum-dot-level-contact Hybrid Sandwich Structure

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03359K, Paper
Song Wang, Shuhua Yang, Zenglong Xu, Huiyan Xu, Guanbin Duan, Degang Zhao, Xiutong Wang, Bingqiang Cao
Perovskite quantum dot photodetectors have attracted intensive research interest due to their outstanding optical and electronic properties. However, the nonradiative recombination of photo-generated electron-hole pairs on the surface of CsPbBr3...
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Investigation of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene and 3,4-dimethoxythiophene as linkage units for multi-dimensional dimeric acceptors

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03646H, Paper
Shaohui Yuan, Baofa Lan, Xinyi Ji, Jiaying Wang, Wenkai Zhao, Guankui Long, Xiangjian Wan, Bin Kan, Yongsheng Chen
Despite the versatile processibility of three-dimensional CH8 series acceptors in efficient organic solar cells (OSCs), understanding the relationship between linkage units and performance continues to present significant challenges. To address...
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Lightweight flexible self-powered photo-supercapacitors with good stability through photoelectrochemical deposition of tellurium on PPy–V2O5 films as a new visible light active dual photoelectrode

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03090G, Paper
Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Hossein Mohammadzadeh Aydisheh, Byeong-Kyu Lee, Ali Naderi
Lightweight flexible solid-state photosupercapacitors (FSSPC) with two identical Te@PPy–V2O5 photoelectrodes showed good performance and maintained functionality under different bending angles. They also demonstrated stability from −10 °C to 50 °C.
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An efficient and stable deep-blue oxygen-bridged triphenylborane-based fluorophore with hybridized local and charge-transfer states

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17475-17481
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03114H, Paper
Jichen Lv, Jie Li, Shengnan Wang, Haoran Shen, Lifen Xia, Yuchao Liu, Shanfeng Xue, Dongge Ma, Shian Ying, Shouke Yan
A multifunctional deep-blue HLCT fluorophore with remarkable performance was developed by incorporating a boron/oxygen-based multi-resonance skeleton.
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Enhanced magnetic properties and spin–phonon coupling in Ni-substituted α-Cu2V2O7: the role of bond length, bond angles, and distorted polyhedral structures

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17519-17532
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02838D, Paper
A. Das, A. Banerjee, A. Tayal, S. Bandyopadhyay
Ni-Doped Cu2V2O7 exhibits enhanced magnetic hysteresis, zero-field exchange bias, and strong spin–phonon coupling, making it a promising candidate for spintronics applications.
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An advanced self-powered visible-light photodetector based on the asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 junction

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17395-17402
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03510K, Paper
Zairan Liu, Gang Cao, Zhaozhi Guan, Yan Tian, Jidong Liu, Jun Chen, Shaozhi Deng, Fei Liu
An asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 self-powered photodetector exhibits greatly enhanced visible-light photosensitive performances with the help of an interfacial built-in field.
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(C2H10N2)[Zn2(HPO4)2Cl2]: substitution-activated new short-wave ultraviolet phosphate with pivotal dual-property enhancement

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17482-17489
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03504F, Paper
Zhi Fang, Yu-Ming Pan, Pei Han, Bing-Ping Yang, Mei-Hong Duan
A substitution-oriented rational approach to a short-wave ultraviolet phosphate, (C2H10N2)[Zn2(HPO4)2Cl2], results in significant dual-property enhancement.
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Synergistic in situ growth of a MOF on the surface of Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets with different tannic acid (TA) ratios for the photocatalytic degradation of pollutants

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17620-17634
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02771J, Paper
Huanggen Yang, Pei Zhang, Qi Zheng, Asif Hayat, Hisham S. M. Abd-Rabboh, Saleem Raza, Duofu Li, Yan Sui
The integration of a two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide (MXene) with metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) presents a promising avenue for addressing the limitations of MXene materials in various applications.
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An aluminum-based hybrid film photoresist for advanced lithography by molecular layer deposition

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17544-17553
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02794A, Paper
Xingkun Wang, Taoli Guo, Yiyang Shan, Ou Zhang, Hong Dong, Jincheng Liu, Feng Luo
Al-based dry photoresists synthesized by molecular layer deposition (MLD) have good resolution and excellent etch resistance, so their application in photolithography is very promising.
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Visible light mediated efficient photoswitching of dimethyldihydropyrenes in thin films for all-photonic logic gate applications and dynamic encryption/decryption capabilities

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17511-17518
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03321C, Paper
Sariful Molla, Subhajit Bandyopadhyay
Dimethyldihydropyrene (DHP) photoswitches exhibit visible light-induced ring-opening photoisomerization, reversed by UV/visible light or heat in thin films.
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Fabrication of effect pigments with full visible photonic crystal colors via the shear-induced assembly of multinary colloidal nanoparticles

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17695-17703
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02761B, Paper
Qilin Guo, Huateng Li, Xiuli Wang, Changchun Wang
An efficient shear-induced co-assembly strategy is provided for creating full-spectrum tunable structural color materials and complex photonic nanostructures by handily manipulating varied relative ratios of multinary colloidal nanoparticles.
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Modulation of photophysical properties in o-carborane derivatives and their application in white organic light-emitting diode devices

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17554-17562
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03085K, Paper
Jina Lee, Yeonju Jeong, Sunhee Lee, Yi Sak Lee, Bubae Park, Taekyung Kim, Won-Sik Han
Two derivatives of o-carborane, CAPCb and CAMCb, were synthesized and utilized in the fabrication of white OLED devices that exhibit cool white emission and specific CIE coordinates.
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In situ construction of surface oxygen vacancies on N/TiO2 for promoting visible light photocatalytic H2 evolution

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17500-17510
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03098B, Paper
Yuandong Shen, Nan Yang, Ke Wang, Bin Xiao, Yijun He, Zhishi Qiu, Tong Zhou, Weijie Zhan, Rui Hu, Genlin Zhang, Jin Zhang, Zhongqi Zhu, Feng Liu, Hao Cui, Qingju Liu
A simple method of mixed sintering of thiourea and NH2-MIL-125(Ti) is adopted to obtain N-doped TiO2 with abundant surface OV, which significantly improves the photocatalytic performance of TiO2 under visible light.
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Synergistic modulation of BiOI by atomic-level vacancies and dominant facets for efficient photocatalytic degradation of bisphenol A

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17676-17686
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02536A, Paper
Qicheng He, Zhihao Zhang, Quanxi Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang
BiOI-2 exhibits excellent photocatalytic degradation performance through the synergistic regulation of defects and facets.
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In situ formation of a Co-MOF/Ti–Fe2O3 photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17603-17610
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01728E, Paper
Kaikai Ba, Hongda Li, Kai Zhang, Yanhong Lin, Wanchun Zhu, Tengfeng Xie
The cocatalyst Co-MOF significantly enhances charge separation and transfer in the Ti–Fe2O3 photoanode, achieving a photocurrent density of 3.9 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE.
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Enhanced photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride by hollow nanofiber Ag@ZnGa2O4/ZnO with synergistic effects of LSPR and S-scheme interface engineering

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17448-17457
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02853H, Paper
Zhiyuan Chen, Wenhui Chen, Peipei Han, Jizhou Yang, Zhi Wan, Peng Hu, Feng Teng, Haibo Fan
Compared with traditional photocatalytic materials, hollow nanofibers can show greatly improved photocatalytic efficiency due to their large specific surface area and more surface-active sites.
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Highly sensitive OFET based room temperature operated gas sensors using a thieno[3,2-b]thiophene extended phthalocyanine semiconductor

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03208J, Paper
Recep Isci, Ozgur Yavuz, Sheida Faraji, Dilara Gunturkun, Mehmet Eroglu, Leszek A. Majewski, Ismail Yilmaz, Turan Ozturk
A novel thienothiophene (TT) and phthalocyanine (Pc) based conjugated material was designed, synthesized, fabricated for an organic field effect transistor (OFET) and utilized as an OFET based gas sensor for hazardous gases such as NO2 and SO2.
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Strain and U driven phase transitions in monolayer intrinsic ferrovalley NbIn2As2Se2

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03637A, Paper
Jiajun Zhu, Heyun Zhao, Wanbiao Hu
Strain and U value driven topological phase transitions in monolayer NbIn2As2Se2.
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Facile Synthesis of Silicon Quantum Dots with Photoluminescence in the Near-Ultraviolet to Violet Region via Wet Oxidation

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02095B, Paper
Yizhou He, Qianxi Hao, Chi Zhang, Qi Wang, Wenxin Zeng, Jiamin Yu, Xue Yang, Shaorong Li, Xiaowei Guo, Serguei Lazarouk
To emit blue photoluminescence (PL), the size of silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) must be reduced to below 1.7 nm, which leads to a considerable increase in synthesis difficulty and cost....
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Study on the time-resolved detection performance of β-Ga2O3-based SBUV photodetectors: surface chemical analysis and the impacts of non-VO factors

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03701D, Paper
Zeming Li, Rensheng Shen, Wancheng Li, Teng Jiao, Yuchun Chang, Hongwei Liang, Xiaochuan Xia, Baolin Zhang
The sub-intense component in the XPS O 1s spectra of β-Ga2O3 is not associated with oxygen vacancies, the intrinsic indirect bandgap and the surface traps contribute to the extension of the response and recovery times of β-Ga2O3-based PDs.
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Construction of oxygen-rich vacancy Bi3O4Br: Yb3+, Er3+ nanosheet for enhanced Photoreversible color switching and upconversion luminescence

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03981E, Paper
Xueting Zhao, Junhao Ma, Jindan Zha, Kuisui Huang, Chenghui Chai, Zhaoyi Yin, Zhiguo Song, Jianbei Qiu, Yongjin Li
Traditional inorganic photoreversible color-switching materials (PCSMs) usually exhibit slow color switching and single color switching characteristics, which severely restrict their use in information storage, anti-counterfeiting, and other applications. Herein, we...
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Influence of a diketopyrrolopyrrole spacer on the ultrafast nonlinear optical properties and excited state dynamics of dimeric zinc porphyrin molecules

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03281K, Paper
Rahul Murali, Chinmoy Biswas, Sudhanshu Kumar Nayak, Hanping Wu, Xiaobin Peng, Vipin Kumar, Prabhakar Chetti, Venugopal Rao Soma, Sai Santosh Kumar Raavi
This work highlights the significance of adding a DPP unit to the zinc-porphyrin core with ethynylene bridges to enhance third-order NLO properties under femtosecond laser excitation.
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