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Spatial disinfection probable associated with somewhat acidic electrolyzed normal water.
Light-activated photoacoustic imaging (PAI) and photothermal therapy (PTT) using the second near-infrared biowindow (NIR-II, 1000-1350 nm) hold great promise for efficient tumor detection and diagnostic imaging-guided photonic nanomedicine. In this work, we report on the construction of titanium nitride (TiN) nanoparticles, with a high photothermal-conversion efficiency and desirable biocompatibility, as an alternative theranostic agent for NIR-II laser-excited photoacoustic (PA) imaging-guided photothermal tumor hyperthermia. Working within the NIR-II biowindow provides a larger maximum permissible exposure (MPE) and desirable penetration depth of the light, which then allows detection of the tumor to the full extent using PA imaging and complete tumor ablation using photothermal ablation, especially in deeper regions. After further surface polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP) modification, the TiN-PVP photothermal nanoagents exhibited a high photothermal conversion efficiency of 22.8% in the NIR-II biowindow, and we further verified their high penetration depth using the NIR-II biowindow and their corresponding therapeutic effect on the viability of tumor cells in vitro. Furthermore, these TiN-PVP nanoparticles were developed as a contrast agent for NIR-II-activated PA imaging both in vitro and in vivo for the first time and realized efficient photothermal ablation of the tumor in vivo within both the NIR-I and NIR-II biowindows. This work not only provides a paradigm for TiN-PVP photothermal nanoagents working in the NIR-II biowindow both in vitro and in vivo, but also proves the feasibility of PAI and PTT cancer theranostics using NIR-II laser excitation.Solar-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen (H2) generation is a promising approach to harvest solar energy for the production of a clean chemical fuel. However, the low photon-to-fuel conversion efficiency and long-term stability of PEC devices are major challenges to be addressed to enable large-scale commercialization. Here we report a simple, fast and cost-effective approach to fabricate high efficiency and stable PEC devices for H2 generation, by fabricating a hybrid photoanode obtained by incorporating small amounts of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into a TiO2 mesoporous film and sensitizing with colloidal heterostructured CdSe/(CdSexS1-x)5/(CdS)2 quantum dots (QDs). The latter were specially designed to accelerate the exciton separation through a band engineering approach. Enarodustat The PEC devices based on the TiO2/QD-MWCNT (T/Q-M) hybrid photoanode with an optimized amount of MWCNTs (0.015 wt%) yield a saturated photocurrent density of 15.90 mA cm-2 (at 1.0 VRHE) under one sun illumination (AM 1.5G, 100 mW cm-2), which is 40% higher than that of the reference device based on TiO2/QD (T/Q) photoanodes. This is attributed to a synergistic effect of the promising optoelectronic properties of the colloidal heterostructured QDs and improved electron transport (reduced charge transfer resistance) within the TiO2-MWCNT hybrid anodes enabled by the directional path of MWCNTs for the photo-injected electrons towards FTO. Furthermore, the PEC device based on the T/Q-M hybrid photoanode is more stable (∼19% loss of its initial photocurrent density) when compared with the T/Q photoanode (∼35% loss) after two hours of continuous one sun illumination. Our results provide fundamental insights and a different approach to improve the efficiency and long-term stability of PEC devices and represent an essential step towards the commercialization of this emerging solar-to-fuel conversion technology.Valleytronics is a particularly interesting field that employs the valley degree of freedom for information manipulation. The fascinating prospects for realizing valleytronic devices have inspired persistent efforts towards exploring material systems with robust valley polarization. Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) obey the well-known valley-dependent selection rule as a result of their inversion asymmetry. However, for inversion-symmetric bilayer tungsten-based TMDs, highly selective valley polarization has been surprisingly observed and is not yet fully understood. Here we systematically study the origin of the anomalously high valley polarization in bilayer WS2 by temperature-dependent polarization-resolved photoluminescence measurements. It is found that acoustic phonons play a critical role in the valley polarization of bilayer WS2. For some WS2 bilayers with relatively small intensity ratios of indirect to direct bandgap emission, acoustic phonons could remarkably assist the intervalley scattering process and smear the valley contrast. On the other hand, in other bilayers, which show obvious indirect band gap emission, the indirect optical transition process depletes the phonon mode at the Λ point dramatically and results in anomalously robust valley polarization in bilayer WS2. These results help recognize the crucial role of electron-phonon coupling in intervalley relaxation in bilayer WS2 and provide new insights into the future design of valleytronic devices based on two-dimensional TMDs.Aggregation-induced quenching (AIQ) of emission is an obstacle for the development of carbon dots (CDots) for solid-state luminescent devices. In this work, we introduce a method to avoid AIQ and to produce highly luminescent CDots through a space-confined vacuum heating synthesis. In the presence of CaCl2, a mixture of citric acid and urea forms an inflated foam under vacuum heating at 120 °C. Upon gradually increasing the heating temperature to 250 °C, blue emissive molecular species are first formed, and are then transformed into uniform-sized green emissive CDots through dehydration and carbonization processes taking place in the confined ultrathin spaces of the foam walls. The green luminescence of these CDots originates from conjugated sp2 domains, and these CDots exhibit a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 72% in ethanol solution. Remarkably, due to the existence of only one type of recombination center in these nanoparticles, AIQ does not take place in CDot-based close-packed films, which show strong emission with a PLQY of 65%.
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