Facile electrochemical synthesis of hexagonal Cu2O nanotube arrays and their application

Large-scale and highly oriented single-crystalline hexagonal Cu(2)O nanotube arrays have been successfully synthesized using a two-step solution approach, which involves the electrodeposition of oriented Cu(2)O nanorods and a subsequent dissolution technique along the c axis to form a tubular structure. Herein, NH(4)Cl was found to be an effectual additive, and it can successfully realize the dissolution process of Cu(2)O from nanorods to nanotubes. The dissolution mechanism of Cu(2)O from nanorods to nanotubes was illustrated in detail. These prepared Cu(2)O nanotube arrays were characterized by SEM, EDS, XRD, XPS, and TEM. The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of Cu(2)O nanotube arrays was also measured, and it shows there is a greater fraction of copper or oxygen vacancies in these prepared Cu(2)O nanotubes. Finally, the applications of Cu(2)O nanotube arrays for gas sensors were investigated in this paper.     

Quasi-classical trajectory study of the Ne + H2(+) → NeH(+) + H reaction based on global potential energy surface

Using the multireference configuration interaction method with a Davidson correction and a large orbital basis set (aug-cc-pVQZ), we obtain an energy grid that includes 32 038 points for the construction of a new analytical potential energy surface (APES) for the Ne + H(2)(+) → NeH(+) + H reaction. The APES is represented as a many-body expansion containing 142 parameters, which are fitted from 31?000 ab initio energies using an adaptive nonlinear least-squares algorithm. The geometric characteristics of the reported APES and the one presented here are also compared. On the basis of the APES we obtained, reaction cross sections are computed by means of quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) calculations and compared with the experimental and theoretical data in the literature.     

Effect of Si-H bond on the gas-phase chemistry of trimethylsilane in the hot wire chemical vapor deposition process

The effect of the Si-H bond on the gas-phase reaction chemistry of trimethylsilane in the hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) process has been studied by examining its decomposition on a hot tungsten filament and the secondary gas-phase reactions in a reactor using a soft laser ionization source coupled with mass spectrometry. Trimethylsilane decomposes on the hot filament via Si-H and Si-CH(3) bond cleavages. A short-chain mechanism is found to dominate in the secondary reactions in the reactor. It has been shown that the hydrogen abstractions of both Si-H and C-H occur simultaneously, with the abstraction of Si-H being favored. Tetramethylsilane and hexamethyldisilane are the two major products formed from the radical recombination reactions in the termination steps. Three methyl-substituted disilacyclobutane molecules, i.e., 1,3-dimethyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane, 1,1,3-trimethyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane, and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane are also produced in reactor from the cycloaddition reactions of methyl-substituted silene species. Compared to tetramethylsilane and hexamethyldisilane, a common feature with trimethylsilane is that the short-chain mechanism still dominates. However, a more active involvement of the reactive silene intermediates has been found with trimethylsilane.     

Emission enhancement of conjugated polymers through self-assembly of unimolecular micelles to multi-micelle aggregates

By using a cosolvent self-assembly approach, the emission of multi-micelle aggregates from star copolymer unimolecular micelles is enhanced greatly through restriction of concentration self-quenching and intermolecular aggregation of a conjugated polymer core, due to the existence of a PEG shell of HCP-star-PEG unimolecular micelles.     

Au-impregnated polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/polythiophene (PTH) core-shell nanofibers with high-performance semiconducting properties

FETs based on Au-impregnated polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/polythiophene (PTH) core-shell nanofibers have been fabricated and exhibit high mobility (～2.0 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1)).     

Visible light photoactivity from a bonding assembly of titanium oxide nanocrystals

TiO(2) nanocrystals are assembled together by interfacial Ti-Ti electronic bonding. Such nanocrystal assemblies have a narrower band gap, greatly enhanced visible light absorption, and solar photocatalysis compared with individual nanocrystals.     

Three-dimensional WO3 nanostructures on carbon paper: photoelectrochemical property and visible light driven photocatalysis

Three-dimensional (3D) WO(3) nanostructures were grown on carbon paper by a catalyst-free high temperature reactive vapor deposition process, which exhibit a good photoelectrochemical property and visible light driven photocatalytic performance.     

Electrochemical preparation and magnetic properties of submicron Co x Pb1−x dendrites

Magnetic dendrites of Co _x Pb_1−x were fabricated through potentiostatic electrochemical deposition on Cu substrates in boric acid solution at room temperature. The as-deposited dendrites were determined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electrodeposition (ED), and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). SEM results indicate that the Co _x Pb_1−x dendrites are highly symmetrical in structures. The diameters of the branches are about 50 ~ 200 nm, and the backbones are continuous with lengths up to about 10 μm. XRD patterns show that the as-deposited dendrites are solid solutions. The annealing treatment can result in the recrystallization of these metastable alloys into two separate phases. TEM, ED, and EDS results also reveal that the backbones and the branches of the dendrites are composed of different amounts of cobalt. Magnetic measurements confirm that the as-deposited Co _x Pb_1−x dendrites have a softly ferromagnetic behavior, and a small coercive force (about 80 Oe). Also the saturation magnetizations of the Co _x Pb_1−x dendrites decrease rapidly with the temperature increasing.