Beyond Perovskite Solar Cells: Tellurium Iodide as a Promising Light‐Absorbing Material for Solution‐Processed Photovoltaic Application

Searching new light‐absorbing materials to replace toxic lead halide in solar cells is very important and highly desirable. In this research, we firstly demonstrated that tellurium iodide (TeI₄) could be used as a light‐absorbing material in solar cells due to its suitable optical band gap and the active lone‐pair electron orbital in Te⁴⁺. The best power conversion efficiency (PCE=3.56%) was achieved with a concentration of 0.9 M TeI₄ in DMF:DMSO (4 : 1, v,v) without any heat treatment or antisolvent dripping. Our study indicates the promising potential of TeI₄ for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications.     

Novel phosphorescent neutral iridium(III) complex with the steric hindrance for highly efficient red organic light-emitting diodes

A novel and highly efficient thiophenquinolone-based red iridium(III) complex bearing a bulky fluorophenyl moiety is designed and synthesized. The complex shows intensive red phosphorescence (596 nm with shoulder at 642 nm), high photoluminescence efficiency (0.62) and broad full width at half maximum (81 nm). The bulky fluorophenyl moiety introduced into the complex could improve the efficiency of electroluminescence with the maximum current efficiency, power efficiency and the external quantum efficiency up to 29.0 cd/A, 30.4 lm/W and 17.6% due to the effective steric hindrance in solid states.     

On Harary index of graphs

The Harary index is defined as the sum of reciprocals of distances between all pairs of vertices of a connected graph. For a connected graph G=(V,E) and two nonadjacent vertices v_i and v_j in V(G) of G, recall that G+v_iv_j is the supergraph formed from G by adding an edge between vertices v_i and v_j. Denote the Harary index of G and G+v_iv_j by H(G) and H(G+v_iv_j), respectively. We obtain lower and upper bounds on H(G+v_iv_j)−H(G), and characterize the equality cases in those bounds. Finally, in this paper, we present some lower and upper bounds on the Harary index of graphs with different parameters, such as clique number and chromatic number, and characterize the extremal graphs at which the lower or upper bounds on the Harary index are attained.     

Enhancing fluorescence intensity of Ellagic acid in Borax-HCl-CTAB micelles

Ellagic acid (C(14)H(6)O(8)), a naturally occurring phytochemical, found mainly in berries and some nuts, has anticarcinogenic and antioxidant properties. It is found that fluorescence of Ellagic acid (EA) is greatly enhanced by micelle of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) surfactant. Based on this effect, a sensitive proposed fluorimetric method was applied for the determination of Ellagic acid in aqueous solution. In the Borax-HCl buffer, the fluorescence intensity of Ellagic acid in the presence of CTAB is proportional to the concentration of Ellagic acid in range from 8.0×10(-10) to 4.0×10(-5) mol L(-1); and the detection limits are 3.2×10(-10) mol L(-1) and 5.9×10(-10) mol L(-1) excited at 266 nm and 388 nm, respectively. The actual samples of pomegranate rinds are simply manipulated and satisfactorily determined. The interaction mechanism studies argue that the negative EA-Borax complex is formed and solubilized in the cationic surfactant CTAB micelle in this system. The fluorescence intensity of EA enhances because the CTAB micelle provides a hydrophobic microenvironment for EA-Borax complex, which can prevent collision with water molecules and decrease the energy loss of EA-Borax complex.     

On graphs with largest possible game domination number

Let $\gamma \left(G\right)$ and ${\gamma }_g\left(G\right)$ be the domination number and the game domination number of a graph $G$, respectively. In this paper ${\gamma }_g$-maximal graphs are introduced as the graphs $G$ for which ${\gamma }_g\left(G\right)=2\gamma \left(G\right)?1$ holds. Large families of ${\gamma }_g$-maximal graphs are constructed among the graphs in which their sets of support vertices are minimum dominating sets. ${\gamma }_g$-maximal graphs are also characterized among the starlike trees, that is, trees which have exactly one vertex of degree at least $3$.     

循环伏安法用于化学振荡的研究

迄今为止,Belousov-Zhabotinskii(B-Z)振荡反应中Br~-浓度~CBr~-的变化主要用Br~-选择电极跟踪监测,取得了一定的成果。但是有一些研究表明,由于受到体系中KBrO_3等物种的干扰,Br~-选择电极的信号在定性和定量上都不一定是Br~-行为的真实反映。Noyes     

A modal theory and recursion RTCM algorithm for gratings of deep grooves and arbitrary profile

A modal theory for gratings of deep grooves and arbitrary shape is developed. The theory is implemented with an algorithm of recursion reflection-transmission coefficient matrix (RTCM). Several cases of plane wave with arbitrary polarization and arbitrary angle of incidence diffracted from gratings of deep grooves and arbitrary profile are calculated. It is found that this method is more accurate, more stable and faster than others.     

The Resonance Peak Theory of Reflection Guidedmode Resonance Filters

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