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.     

Measurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like Kr Ions

The KLL dielectronic recombination processes of highly charged He-like to C-like Kr ions have been studied experimentally. The measurement was performed on the newly developed Shanghai electron beam ion trap （Shanghai-EBIT） facility. Characteristic x-rays from both dielectronic recombination and radiative recombination are detected as the electron beam energy is scanned through the resonances. The KLL resonant strengths obtained are 5.41×10^-19, 4.33×10^-19, 3.59×10^-19, 2.05×10^-19 and 0.98×10^-19 cm^2 eV for He-like to C-like Kr ions, respectively.     

Detecting pipe changes via acoustic matched field processing

Detecting pipe irregularities such as intrusions can be challenging. However, subtle changes can be identified in the complex acoustic fields measured over a range of frequencies and over a time interval given an “array” of receivers. In particular, for two receivers one can coherently process the signals via matched field processing (MFP) to infer whether or not there have been changes such as new intrusions relative to undisturbed fields measured earlier. There is no acoustic modelling of the fields required, only the simple linear processor is applied, and only test data (five scenarios) are used in this demonstration. A key advantage to using MFP plus two (or more) microphones is that absolute sound levels need not be carefully measured.     

Abnormal blueshift of UV emission in single-crystalline ZnO nanowires

Single-crystalline ZnO nanowires (NWs) were synthesized by a facile vapor transport method. The good orientation and high crystal quality were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) measurements. Excitation-power-dependence photoluminescence spectra of ZnO NWs show that the UV emission displayed an evident blueshift with increasing excitation power and the corresponding energy shift might be as large as 10 meV. This anomalous phenomenon correlates to the band bending level caused by the surface built-in electric field due to the existence of substantial oxygen vacancies. By increasing the excitation power, the enhanced neutralization effect near the surface will reduce the built-in electric field and lead to a reduction of band bending which triggers the blueshift of the UV emission.     

On the Singular Values of Generalized Toeplitz Matrices

For a bounded function defined on , let be the set of singular values of the (n + 1) x (n + 1) matrix whose (j, k)-entries are equal to

BGP reflection functors in root categories

We define the BGP-reflection functors in the derived categories and the root categories. By Ringel's Hall algebra approach, the BGP-reflection functor is applicable to obtain the classical Weyl group action on the Lie algebra.     

Strangeness production via parton cascade

We study pre-equilibrium strangeness production at RHIC energies in a new parton cascade. Starting with the turbulent glue HIJING initial conditions we investigate the interplay between mini-jet and soft beam jet gluons for strangeness production prior to hadronization, and show the importance of soft beam jet gluons in the strangeness production.     

Exact Boundary Synchronization by Groups for a Kind of System of Wave Equations Coupled with Velocities*

This paper deals with the exact boundary controllability and the exact boundary synchronization for a 1-D system of wave equations coupled with velocities. These problems can not be solved directly by the usual HUM method for wave equations, however, by transforming the system into a first order hyperbolic system, the HUM method for 1-D first order hyperbolic systems, established by Li-Lu(2022) and Lu-Li(2022), can be applied to get the corresponding results.     

Remark on the Unital Quantale Q[e]

In this paper, we investigate some properties of the unital quantale Q[e], in terms of the quantic quotients of Q[e] we study the extensions of quantic nuclei of Q to Q[e] and prove that for any non-trivial quantale Q\textbf{Q}, Q[e] is not simple. Also, we give some applications for the unital quantale Q[e].