Common methods of bacteria disinfection after water treatment include chlorination and ultraviolet irradiation. Although very effective, those methods require continual investment of energy or materials. Previous studies have shown that photocatalysis can enhance water disinfection. This study a...

Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster Wagner) cause extensive damage in agricultural, suburban, and urban environments. Control of these animals has historically relied on the use of anticoagulant rodenticides and zinc phosphide. However, shyness to zinc phosphide baits has reduced its efficacy. T...

Hierarchical nanostructures have attracted widespread interest owing to their unique properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Thus, they are considered promising electrocatalytic materials. In this work, a novel hierarchical porous nanocomposite of cobalt phosphide [email protected] mixed...

The phosphide tellurides Zr2+δPTe2 (0 ≤ δ ≤ 1) can be synthesized from the elements in a solid state reaction or by thermal decomposition of Z. Zr2PTe2 decomposes under release of Te2(g) + P4(g) forming the homogeneity range Zr2+δPTe2. The growth of single crystals of Zr2+δPTe2 succeeded b...

Cubic boron phosphide (BP) is one of the least studied III-V compound semiconductors, in part because it is difficult to prepare in high quality form. In this study, zirconium diboride (ZrB2) was studied as a potential substrate for BP epitaxial layers, because of its advantages of a low lattice...

The ternary compounds LnNi4As2 (Ln: Tb → Yb; Y) and LnNi4P2 (Ln:Er, Yb; Y) have been prepared; they crystallize in the tetragonal ZrFe4Si2-type structure. Their magnetic properties have been studied with a SQUID magnetometer between 2 and 300 K. YNi4As2 shows a temperature-independent Pauli par...

Yb has been shown to form high quality rectifying contacts to p-InP and linear, low resistance contacts to fn-InP. The Yb-rectifying contacts gave a barrier height of 1.03–1.04 eV by C-V, and ideality factor of 1.25 with a 10 Å interfacial oxide and reverse saturation current density of 2–3 ×...

Biosensors based on converting the concentration of analytes in complex samples into single electrochemical signals are attractive candidates as low cost, high-throughput, portable and renewable sensor platforms. Here, we describe a simple but practical analytical device for sensing an anticance...

Production of phenols from alkaline lignin over a tungsten phosphide catalyst in a hot compressed water–ethanol mixed solvent is examined. The small molecular products mainly consist of five phenols, i.e. 2-methoxy-phenol (guaiacol), 2-methoxy-4-methyl-phenol, 2-methoxy-4-ethyl-phenol, 2-methox...

Modifying the nanostructures and chemical compositions provides an opportunity of developing the effective and inexpensive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts. Herein, porous transition metal doped tungsten phosphide (M-WP, M=Mo, Co) catalysts have been developed as enhanced HER e...

Enhancing the electrocatalytic activity of transition metal phosphides (TMPs) for hydrogen evolution has become an attractive way for noble-metal-free electrocatalysts. In this work, a novel composite of network-like tungsten phosphide nanostructures on carbon fibers ([email protected]) was prep...

Controllable and efficient photo-catalyst is of particular importance not only for improving photo-catalytic activity of hydrogen evolution, but also for achieving more excellent performance of semiconductors in practical applications. Here two n-type semiconductors (cobalt phosphide (CoP) and M...

Thin films of gallium-phosphorus-titanium (Ga-P-Ti) alloys were prepared on glass substrates at 573 K by an asymmetric bipolar pulsed direct current sputtering technique using an argon atmosphere and targets made from gallium phosphide (GaP) powder and metallic titanium (Ti), at the surface rati...

Nickel cobalt phosphide nanowires are fabricated on titanium foil through phosphating reaction from their nickel and cobalt hydroxide precursors, which are employed as the counter electrode materials for the dye-sensitized solar cell. Electrochemical investigations demonstrate that the ternary n...

Magnetization measurements confirm the presence of a strong quadrupolar coupling between the Tb3+, responsible for the discontinuous nature of the transition, and show a reduction of TN proportional to H2. This behaviour contrasts with recent renormalization-group predictions for TbP, but can be...

In this work, a new natural performing material Hematite–titaniferous sand (HTS) is used to study the adsorption of Orthophosphates, and to obtain the optimum conditions for maximum removal. The adsorbent used was characterized and inspected employing (XRD) X-ray diffraction, (XRF) X-ray fluore...

Template-free undoped and yttrium-doped tetragonal ZrO2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized using a hydrothermal technique, and their structural, morphological, optical, and electrochemical properties were characterized. The photocatalytic activity for the dye degradation of the Rhodamin...

A new kind of photovoltaic material, copper yttrium selenide (CuYSe2) was synthesized using a self-propagating high-temperature synthesis method. Here the reaction process of the SHS process of CuYSe2 has been illustrated. The crystalline structure and morphology of the CuYSe2 powders were chara...

A new lead(II) three-dimensional coordination polymer, [Pb2(μ3-ANS)2(μ2-Cl)2(H2O)2]n (1) [ANS− = 4-amino-1-naphthalenesulfonate], has been synthesized and characterized. The single-crystal X-ray data of compound 1 shows only one type of PbII ion with coordination number of six, the lead atom h...

Two new lead(II) borate-sulfate mixed-anion compounds, namely, Pb4(BO3)2(SO4) and Pb2[(BO2)(OH)](SO4), have been prepared by using high-temperature melt method or hydrothermal reaction. These compounds exhibit two different types of 3D structures composed of the same anionic units of BO3 triangl...