Integrating photocatalytic reduction of CO_2 with selective oxidation of tetrahydroisoquinoline over InP–In_2O_3 Z-scheme p-n junction

The development of a facile strategy to construct stable hierarchal porous heterogeneous photocatalysts remains a great challenge for efficient CO_2 reduction. Additionally, hole-trapping sacrificial agents(e.g., triethanolamine, triethylamine, and methanol) are mostly necessary, which produce useless chemicals, and thus cause costs/environmental concerns. Therefore,utilizing oxidation ability of holes to develop an alternative photooxidation reaction to produce value-added chemicals, especially coupled with CO_2 photoreduction, is highly desirable. Here, an in situ partial phosphating method of In_2O_3 is reported for synthesizing In P–In_2O_3 p-n junction. A highly selective photooxidation of tetrahydroisoquinoline(THIQ) into value-added dihydroisoquinoline(DHIQ) is to replace the hole driven oxidation of typical sacrificial agents. Meanwhile, the photoelectrons of In P–In_2O_3 p-n junction can induce the efficient photoreduction of CO_2 to CO with high selectivity and stability. The evolution rates of DHIQ and CO are 2 and 3.8 times higher than those of the corresponding In_2O_3 n-type precursor, respectively. In situ irradiated X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron spin resonance are utilized to confirm that the direct Z-scheme mechanism of In P–In_2O_3 p-n junction accelerate the efficient separation of photocarriers.     

Regulating silver nanowire size enables efficient photoelectric conversion

The increasing demand for the state-of-the-art transparent conductive electrodes has received great interest in synthesizing silver nanowires(AgNWs) with a uniform diameter that exhibit excellent conductance, transparency, flexibility and mechanical ductility. Herein, we report the controllable synthesis of ultrathin AgNWs with high aspect ratio via a polyol-assisted process.The diameter of AgNWs can be continuously modulated from 20 to 80 nm by simply adjusting the aging time. The selfassembled films fabricated by using AgNWs with a diameter of 20 nm as building blocks enable an excellent performance and show a sheet resistance of ～30 Ω/sq and an optical transmittance of 94%. In addition, such nanowire-based conductive films can keep the excellent flexibility and resistance after bending 10,000 cycles. Similarly, the intelligent dimming films prepared by this AgNW films also have excellent flexibility and stability.     

Improved 3D reconstruction method based on the Scheimpflug principle

Optical Review - This paper proposes a 3D reconstruction scheme for monocular cameras based on an improved line structure cursor positioning method and the Scheimpflug principle to overcome the...     

Self-sustained oscillation of the flow in a double-cavity channel: a time-resolved PIV measurement

Journal of Visualization - This study investigates self-sustained oscillation of the flow in a double-cavity channel with cavity length–width ratio L/H?=?3 using a time-resolved...     

Electric transitions of the charmed-strange mesons in a relativistic quark model

The European Physical Journal C - The original version of this article was revised.     

Novel local smoothness indicators for improving the third‐order WENO scheme

The local smoothness indicators play an important role in the performance of a weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme. Due to having only 2 points available on each substencil, the local smoothness indicators calculated by conventional methods make the third‐order WENO scheme too dissipative. In this paper, we propose a different method to calculate the indicators by using all the 3 points on the global stencil of the third‐order WENO scheme. The numerical results demonstrate that the WENO scheme with the new indicators has less dissipation and better resolution than the conventional third‐order WENO scheme of Jiang and Shu for both smooth and discontinuous solutions.     

M-lump and interactive solutions to a (3 $${+}$$ + 1)-dimensional nonlinear system

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper aims at computing M-lump solutions for the $$(3+1)$$ -dimensional nonlinear evolution equation. These solutions in all directions decline to an identical state...     

Graph-Theoretical Method to the Existence of Stationary Distribution of Stochastic Coupled Systems

In this paper, by linking Fokker–Planck equations with stochastic coupled systems, a new method is provided to investigate the existence of a stationary distribution of stochastic coupled systems. Based on the graph theory and the Lyapunov method, an appropriate Lyapunov function associated with stationary Fokker–Planck equations is constructed. Moreover, a Lyapunov-type theorem and a coefficients-type criterion are obtained to guarantee the existence of a stationary distribution. Furthermore, theoretical results are applied to explore the existence of a stationary distribution of stochastic predator–prey models with dispersal and a sufficient criterion is presented correspondingly. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

Eigenspaces of symmetric graphs are not typically irreducible

We construct rich families of Schrödinger operators on symmetric graphs, both quantum and combinatorial, whose spectral degeneracies are persistently larger than the maximal dimension of an irreducible representation of the symmetry group.