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Effects of hydrothermal etching and conversion on photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and overall water splitting with nanoparticulate and mesoporous TiO2 and SrTiO3/TiO2 composites

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30768-30782
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA03416C, Paper
Open Access
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Lion Schumacher, Jana Timm, Roland Marschall
Hydrothermal treatment of mesoporous photocatalysts in diluted NaOH solution or H2O might be a simple and promising strategy to improve photocatalytic activities in general, as we show for TiO2 and SrTiO3/TiO2 composites.
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Enhanced electrocatalytic overall alkaline water splitting induced by interfacial electron coupling of Mn3O4 nano-cube@CeO2/γ-FeOOH nanosheet hetero-structure

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30783-30797
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA05336B, Paper
Debasish Ghosh, Dimple K. Bora, Asit Baran Panda
Mn3O4@CeO2/γ-FeOOH hetero-structure showed interfacial electron coupling induced superior bifunctional electrocatalytic activity suitable for AEM electrolyser.
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An advanced passive radiative cooling emitter with ultrahigh sub-ambient cooling performance

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30351-30361
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA05869K, Paper
Jiawei Huang, Weifeng Chen, Qiyan Kuang, Ting Xiao, Lihua Jiang, Xinyu Tan, Yizhu Lei
This study develops a state-of-the-art passive radiative cooling emitter with 95.5% reflectance and 97.9% emissivity, achieving an average temperature reduction of 20.1 °C and a cooling power of 121.0 W m−2 under intense sunlight.
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Microphase-separation-induced polyzwitterionic ionogel with tough, highly conductive, self-healing and shape–memory properties for wearable electrical devices

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30618-30628
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA04228J, Paper
Guang Zeng, Wenshuo Gao, Weicheng Qiu, Guanling Li, Shousen Chen, Xin He, Guoxing Sun, Weijia Yang, Yue Xin
A polyzwitterionic ionogel with a phase separation structure was designed to achieve a balance between mechanical robustness and ionic conductivity. This design holds immense potential for applications in wearable sensors.
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Tailoring the electrocatalytic properties of novel microwave synthesized CuNd(2−x)GdxO4 nanoparticles for efficient total water splitting in alkaline media

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30850-30861
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA05919K, Paper
Anto Priyanka E, Sreenivasan Nagappan, J. Judith Vijaya, Angappan Sankaramahalingam, Subrata Kundu
CuNd(2−x)GdxO4 nanoparticles synthesized via microwave method as efficient OER and HER catalysts require low overpotentials exhibiting remarkable stability. Gd doping enhances charge transfer leading to optimized electrocatalysis.
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Room-temperature thermochemical water splitting: efficient mechanocatalytic hydrogen production

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30906-30918
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA04650A, Paper
Open Access
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Takuya Yamamoto, Sho Ashida, Nanami Inubuse, Shintaro Shimizu, Yui Miura, Tomoya Mizutani, Ken-ichi Saitow
We report the accidental discovery and subsequent investigation of room-temperature thermochemical water splitting in a ball mill. High-purity H2 (>99%) was produced using water and/or seawater feedstocks in a compact (∼50 cm) low-power reactor.
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Ir nanoparticles decorated NiFe metal–organic framework as a highly efficient and stable heterostructure electrocatalyst for overall seawater splitting

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA06515H, Communication
Hefeng Wang, Zixiao Li, Zhengwei Cai, Chaoxin Yang, Shengjun Sun, Xiaoyan Wang, Min Zhang, Meng Yue, Dongdong Zheng, Asmaa Farouk, Mohamed S. Hamdy, Xuping Sun, Bo Tang
Ir nanoparticle decorated NiFe metal–organic framework on Ni foam (Ir@NiFe-MOF/NF) acts as a bifunctional catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction and the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline seawater with excellent performance and stability.
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George Kittle is a touchdown machine in 2024!

Yahoo fantasy analyst Andy Behrens explains why fantasy managers should roll with the San Francisco TE in Week 11.




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Ola Electric shares plunge following CEO’s Twitter spat with comedian 

Stand-up comic Kunal Kamra and Ola CEO Bhavish Agarwal’s dispute, centred around customer service issues with Ola’s electric scooters, played out publicly on X over the weekend




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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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Jitters on policy continuity for PSU stocks

Within sectors, it was PSUs that witnessed the highest declines in the day




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‘22,000 firms not registered as NBFCs committing financial frauds’

Sachin Pilot asks Reserve Bank of India to act fast




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Airtel Chief Sunil Mittal's remuneration falls nearly 5% to ₹15.39 crore in FY22

In FY22, Sunil Mittal's salary and allowances were at about ₹10 crore and the performance-linked incentive was ₹4.5 crore




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Quitting the ‘ola-uber game’

Driving for cab aggregators isn’t appealing any longer to drivers




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Chennai | A citizen group ‘plogs’ — jogs and picks up litter enroute

Plog along with this enthusiastic group in Chennai that is intent on mixing jogging and picking up after themselves




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Govt to constitute high-level committee to monitor implementation of crop loan waiver, says Harish Rao

CM announced unconditional crop loan waiver twice unlike other States, he said 




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Stray cattle fitted with reflective collars to curb accidents




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Puducherry has submitted project report to Centre seeking nod for availing ₹4,750 crore loan from Asian Development Bank: CM




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Project to develop Thengaithittu harbour launched




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Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC

Image by José-Manuel Benito, via Wikimedia Commons Some refer to the written Chinese language as ideographic: that is, structured according to a system in which each symbol represents a particular idea or concept, whether abstract or concrete. That’s true of certain Chinese characters, but only a small minority. Most of them are actually logographs, each […]




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In situ preparation of highly luminescent Sb3+/Mn2+ co-doped Cs2KInCl6 lead-free double perovskites in a PVDF matrix and application to white light emitting diodes and anti-counterfeiting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17458-17468
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03527E, Paper
Yongrun Dong, Wen Li, Tao Huang, Shuaigang Ge, Linghang Kong, Chuang Ning, Zequan Li, Wei Gao, Bingsuo Zou
A strategy for in situ preparation of lead-free double perovskite-based polymer composite film with large area and high efficiency white light emission and its applications.
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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 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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Green-emitting CsPbI3 nanorods decorated with CsPb2I5 and Cs4PbI6 nanoclusters

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17611-17619
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03500C, Paper
Paundra Rizky Pratama, Azzah Dyah Pramata, Fuko Shiga, Jonas Karl Christopher N. Agutaya, Yusuke Inomata, Biplab Manna, Agung Purniawan, Yuji Akaishi, Tetsuya Kida
This work presents green-emitting CsPbI3 nanorods decorated Cs4PbI6 and CsPb2I5 nanoclusters with a color-tuning approach via multiple-phase combinations without changing elements. These materials have stable emission and color purity.
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Fast synthesis of nickel phosphide nanosheets for ultra-stable hydrogen evolution in seawater splitting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03004D, Paper
Weiwu Chen, Feng Lin, Chong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang, Zhaojun Qin
The short synthesis time, great catalytic activity, and ultra-long-term stability make Co–Ni5P4-5m a suitable candidate in actual applications of seawater splitting for hydrogen.
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Microfluidic synthesis of monodispersed sharp emitting perovskite CsPbBr3 quantum dots via multidimensional parameterization

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04104F, Paper
Yunhao Ning, Shuo Guan, Chuantong Cheng, Bao Zhang, Bingyu Qin, Beiju Huang
A microfluidic chip is employed for continuous synthesis of CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots, which feature tunable emission across various dimensions and wavelengths, and effects of multidimensional parameters on their properties are investigated.
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Colossal Dielectric Permittivity and Superparaelectricity in phenyl pyrimidine based liquid crystals

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03561E, Paper
YURI PANARIN, Wanhe Jiang, Neelam Yadav, Mudit Sahai, Yumin Tang, Xianbing Zeng, Olga Panarina, Georg H. Mehl, Jagdish K Vij
A set of polar rod-shaped liquid crystalline molecules with large dipole moments (µ > 10.4-14.8 D), their molecular structures based on the ferroelectric nematic prototype DIO, are designed, synthesized, and...
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A novel deep-blue fluorescent emitter employed as an identical exciplex acceptor for solution-processed multi-color OLEDs

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04073B, Paper
Jie Pan, Shiyue Zhang, Zhongxin Zhou, Yongtao Zhao, Shujing Jin, Yanju Luo, Weiguo Zhu, Yu Liu
Currently, exciplex-type thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are emerging as a promising strategy for optimizing organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). However, achieving highly efficient multi-color OLEDs based on exciplexes remains...
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Modification of mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites by aminophylline towards efficient and spectrally stable blue light-emitting diodes with low efficiency roll-off

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04214J, Paper
Xingxing Duan, Bufan Yu, Guangrong Jin, Dengliang Zhang, Jiangshan Chen, Dongge Ma
Aminophylline modification enables mixed-halide blue quasi-2D perovskite LEDs to achieve low efficiency roll-off and excellent spectral stability.
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Role of Br–Cl distribution uniformity on the spectral stability of blue emitting mixed-halide perovskites

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03780D, Paper
Dan Chen, Yu Mao, Xianglan Huang, Jichen Zhao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Jian Wang, Junbiao Peng
Our findings show that the spectral stability of the quasi-2D perovskite system is mainly affected by the uniformity of the Br–Cl distribution, rather than defects.
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Greenish yellow-emitting carbon dot-based films for luminescent solar concentrator applications

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04133J, Paper
Open Access
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Yunxiang Liu, Yoshiki Iso, Tetsuhiko Isobe
The CDs@EVA #3 film in LSC enhances short-circuit current by 1.17 times, primarily through conversion of UV and short visible light into longer wavelengths.
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Highly efficient, ultra-stable multi-interlayer luminescent solar concentrators based on green and red-emitting perovskite nanocrystal composites

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04167D, Paper
Changwen Li, Yuxin Gao, Zhiqiang Ren, Shoujun Xiong, Changwei Li, Jun Wu, Jinhua Li, Xianbao Wang, Jianying Wang
Perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) based LSCs suffer from complex preparation processes, relatively low efficiency, and limited stability. To address this issue, using silica aerogels (AGs) as template materials, green-emitting Zn2+-doped Zn-CsPbBr3@SiO2...
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Avoid sitting for long hours for a healthy heart



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Health cover: Too little, too scarce

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Young Winston (1972) / directed by Richard Attenborough ; written for the screen and produced by Carl Foreman [DVD].

[U.K.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011]




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Women make film : una nueva road movie a lo largo de la historia del cine (2018) / written and directed by Mark Cousins [DVD].

[Spain] : Avalon, [2020]




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Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (1984) / written and directed by Werner Herzog [DVD].

[Germany] : ArtHaus, [2005]




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Wild style (1982) / written, produced and directed by Charlie Ahearn [DVD].

[U.K.] : Second Sight, [2009]




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Wild (2016) / written and directed by Nicolette Krebitz [DVD].

[Germany] : NFP, [2016]




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Western (2017) / written and directed by Valeska Grisebach [DVD].

[U.K.] : New Wave Films, [2017]




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We're all going to the world's fair (2021) / written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun [DVD].

[U.K.] : Lightbulb Film Distribution, [2022]




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Welcome Venice (2021) / written and directed by Andrea Segre [DVD].

[Italy] : Lucky Red, [2022]




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The war at sea : from Hawaii to Malaya (1942) / written and directed by Kajirō Yamamoto [DVD].

Chicago : International Historic Films Inc., [2020]




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Varda by Agnès (2019) / starring, written and directed by Agnès Varda [DVD].

[U.K.] : British Film Institute, [2019]




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A touch of Zen (1971) / written and directed by King Hu [DVD].

[U.K.] : Eureka!, [2016]




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Those who feel the fire burning (2014) / written and directed by Morgan Knibbe [DVD].

[Amsterdam] : Cinema Delicatessen, [2015]




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State funeral (2019) / written, produced and directed by Sergei Loznitsa [DVD].

Netherlands : Atoms & Void, [2019]




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Séraphine (2008) / written and directed by Martin Provost [DVD].

[U.K.] : Metrodome, [2010]




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Sambizanga (1972) / written and directed by Sarah Maldoror [DVD].

[Place of publication unknown] : DVD Lady, [2023]