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An appetite for adventure

Meet Nellie Bly the journalist who became famous for travelling around the world in 72 days and beat the fictional record set by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s classic novel Around the World in 80 Days.




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Scholars, historians on a mission to illuminate Srikakulam’s forgotten heritage

While Buddhist structures in Dantapuri near Amadalavalasa have suffered damage, the Salihundam structure near Gara remains largely in good shape, thanks to initiatives taken by the Archaeological Survey of India and Tourism department




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Why you should ditch touristy holiday destinations for Sibu — Malaysia’s quaint city on Borneo Island

Nearly 60 kilometres from the South China Sea, this city in Borneo offers a variety of traditional cuisines




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Ricky Kej’s anthem for Bengaluru airport captures the emotions of departures and homecomings

Ricky Kej’s BLR Airport Anthem, featuring fellow Grammy-winner Lonnie Park, tells stories of travel and connection




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Here’s why private flights are taking off in India like never before

Once the domain of politicians and Bollywood celebrities, private flights are catching the fancy of India’s ultra rich who prize their exclusivity and speed. How much will it cost you to hop aboard?



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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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In the forests of the night | On the tiger’s trail in Ranthambhore National Park

The national park is home to 80-odd Royal Bengal tigers. Our quest to see the big cat includes sighting baby langurs, chitals and a retreating leopard




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Three arrested for assaulting trader in Puducherry




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AIADMK flays Speaker for flouting parliamentary conventions and rules




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Recent cases against Puducherry officials “validate” our charges against AINRC-BJP govt, says former CM Narayanasamy

Three senior officials belonging to Puducherry Civil Services cadre have been arrested in temple land scams in the recent months




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Scholars discuss transformative role of literature at conference held in Pondicherry University




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L-G hails contribution of defence forces in maintaining peace in the country




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Traffic arrangements in place for shopping ahead of Deepavali festival




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Vijay failed to offer any new political thought process, says former Puducherry CM




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CPM calls for disbursal of pay arrears




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Reopening of ration shops only a rhetoric, says former CM




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Govt. provides ₹2 crore to credit societies to compensate for farm loan waiver




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L-G, Home Minister felicitate SSP for performance in international event




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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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NAAC peer team to visit Govt. Institute for PG Studies and Research




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Admission panel publishes provisional allotment list for professional courses




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French entertainment company presents gravity-defying acrobatics performance in Puducherry




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Take action against colleges withholding stipend for intern doctors: AIADMK’




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Private university in Tindivanam launches swipe card for students




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12 arrested for running illegal lottery businesses in Puducherry




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231 more fishermen eligible to get compensation for livelihood loss in Yanam




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Man held for threatening women in jewellery store




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Special camp for summary revision of electoral rolls held

The district comprises 25 of the 30 Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory, which includes the exclaves of Mahe and Yanam.




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Congress demands CBI probe into temple land forgery case in Karaikal

After the Kamatchiamman Temple land grabbing case in Puducherry region, the incident of Sri Parvatheeswarar Swamy Devasthanam land forgery case has emerged in Karaikal region, says MP and PCC chief V. Vaithilingam.




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Traders protest seeking action against anti-social element for threatening Independent MLA in Puducherry

Traders submit a memorandum to the Lieutenant Governor, Chief Minister and Director General of Police seeking stern action against Ramu, a resident of Thilaspet




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Special camps for voter roll revision in Villupuram




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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another 23 songs, mostly hits from their large catalog of music. Originally live […]




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Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December

F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years ago. For about ten of those years, Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it. He wouldn’t be the first: Werner Herzog cast Klaus Kinski as the blood-sucking aristocrat at the center of his own version in 1979, and, though […]




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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy

Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by an unfortunate oscillation between two opposing evils: tyranny and anarchy, each of which contains the seed of the other. The best course for steering clear of either one, Russell maintained, is liberalism. “The doctrine of liberalism […]




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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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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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Melt-preparation of organic–inorganic Mn-based halide transparent ceramic scintillators for high-resolution X-ray imaging

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17411-17418
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03459G, Paper
Zhi-Zhong Zhang, Zi-Lin He, Qing-Peng Peng, Jing-Hua Chen, Bang Lan, Dai-Bin Kuang
A large size TBP2MnBr4 transparent ceramic is prepared by the melt processing method, which shows a high transmittance of >80% in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 800 nm, for realizing a high-resolution (16 lp mm−1) X-ray imaging.
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Near fully depleted Pt/Sb2Se3/ZnO hybrid junctions for high-performance polarized detection and encrypted communication

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17490-17499
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03472D, Paper
Zhipeng Sun, Fazhen Zhang, Mengdan Chen, Tao He, Yun Wei, Caixia Kan, Mingming Jiang, Peng Wan
Based on near fully depleted hybrid junctions, a Pt/Sb2Se3/ZnO polarized photodetector shows an overall photodetecting performance, which can be further applied in near-infrared polarization encrypted communication.
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Superior energy storage performance and transparency in (K0.5Na0.5)(Nb0.97Ta0.03)O3-based ceramics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17439-17447
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03682D, Paper
Wenjing Bi, Ying Li, Juan Du, Jingwen Sun, Zhe Wang, Wenna Chao, Jigong Hao, Peng Fu, Peng Li, Wei Li
Strongly relaxed ferroelectric KNN-based ceramics with nano-domains are developed, and synergistic enhancement with a large Wrec and good transparency is realized.
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Design of lithium disilicate glass-ceramic based highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter for dynamic laser illumination

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17533-17543
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03186E, Paper
Yusai Xu, Qianxiong Wen, Xidong Wang, Cong Zhao, Enrou Mei, Meilin Fu, Tengfei Tian, Xiaojuan Liang, Wenxia Gao, Weidong Xiang
In this study, a novel lithium disilicate glass-ceramic was developed as a glass matrix for a highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter, enabling efficient dynamic laser illumination.
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Cuprous-based layered single-crystalline scintillators for X-ray detection and imaging

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17587-17594
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03080J, Paper
Yuke Zhao, Danping Chen, Haitao Tang, Hailin Liu, Yong Liu, Yangyang Dang, Qianqian Lin
A new metal halide single crystal (C6H10N2)2Cu2I3(PO2)3 was demonstrated. The optical and X-ray properties of (C6H10N2)2Cu2I3(PO2)3 were fully characterized and evaluated, which demonstrated great potential for X-ray detection and imaging.
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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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Application of a NADH-modified ZnO electron transport layer in high performance organic solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17429-17438
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03144J, Paper
Hongye Li, Song Yang, Huangzhong Yu
A novel ZnO:NADH composite electron transport layer is constructed, and the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) with PM6:L8-BO as the active layer has improved from 17.43% to 18.21%.
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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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One-pot and large-scale production of uniform ytterbium-doped perovskite nanocrystals with controllable optical properties

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17647-17657
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03364G, Paper
Jing Chu, Linxuan Zhang, Quanjie Lv, Yijun Han, Kang Sun, Ke Tao
Monodispersed Yb3+:CsPbCl3 nanocrystals with tunable optical properties were synthesized via a scalable one-pot method. The mechanism of size evolution based on digestive ripening was proposed.
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Unidirectional heat and fluid transfer performances of a thermal diode with fishbone-microstructure wicks

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17386-17394
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03236E, Communication
Ping Li, Jiale Huang, Haifeng Qiu, Liangming Deng, Jiawei Liao, Tuo Jin, Yongfeng Zheng, Jianhua Xiang
A thermal diode is fabricated with remarkable unidirectional heat transfer performance. It shows long-distance heat transmission and working adaptiveness, providing a valuable insight for designing thermal management devices to meet extreme demands.
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