Structural coloring is production of color by surfaces that have microstructure fine enough to interfere with visible light; this phenomenon provides a novel paradigm for color printing. Plasmonic color is an emergent property of the interaction between light and metallic surfaces. This phenomenon can surpass the diffraction limit and achieve near unlimited lifetime. We categorize plasmonic col...

In this paper, a visible light excitable ESIPT probe was developed, which was found to be a very promising colorimetric and fluorescent sensor for rapid and selective detection of hydrogen sulfide in aqueous solution. The sensing mechanism and the application of this probe for hydrogen sulfide detection in biological serum and in simulated wastewater samples were investigated.

We employ transient absorption spectroscopy to record the absorption spectrum of photogenerated charge carriers in Cu2O. We have found that CO2 reduction in Cu2O is limited by fast electron-hole recombination. The deposition of RuOx nanoparticles on Cu2O results in a twofold increased yield of long-lived electrons, indicating partially reduced electron-hole recombination losses. This observatio...

A general concept for parallel near-field photochemical and radiation-induced chemical processes for the fabrication of nanopatterns of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) is explored with three different processes: 1) a near-field photochemical process by photochemical bleaching of a monomolecular layer of dye molecules chemically bound to an APTES SAM, 2...

A novel 2D material germanane (GeH), which was synthesized by an ion-exchange approach, was firstly found to exhibit photocatalytic performance in the hydrogen evolution of water splitting and decomposition of organic contaminants under illumination of visible light (λ ≥ 420 nm).

The title compound, 4,13-bis[(1E,3E)-4-(9-anthracenyl)buta-1,3-dienyl][2.2]paracyclophane (2), prepared in 35% overall yield from [2.2]paracyclophane, absorbs light at lambda(max) = 400 nm with a tail down to 480 nm. By irradiation into this band, 2 generates a single photoproduct, 4, whose absorption maximum is situated at 306 nm. The starting material is recovered by irradiation at 306 nm or ...

We investigate the performance of several nonstandard plasma display panel cell geometry designs involving two-dimensional variations of the standard coplanar-electrode design. A cell design with a modified shape of sustain electrodes is found to have ;20% larger visible light generation efficiency without substantial increase of the operating voltages. Similar performance improvement is achiev...

A photocatalyst consisting of nanostructured Pd photochemically deposited on 20 nm TiO2 displays a reaction half-life for rhodamine b decolourisation of 0.5 minute compared to the 9.4 minutes for unmodified P25 under identical reaction conditions. We associate this increased decolourisation rate to the increase in solar light harvesting which we have measured at 8% due to a significant red shif...

Pharmacognostical parameters for the leaves of Tridax procumbens L were studied with the aim of drawing the pharmacopoeial standards for this species. Macroscopical and microscopical characters, physico-chemical constants, extractive values, fluorescence analysis of dry powder and its reaction after treatment with chemical reagents under visible light and UV light at 254 nm and 366 nm were stud...

TiO(2) doping with N-rich melamine produced a stable, active and visible light sensitized nanocatalyst that showed a remarkable efficiency towards the photobleaching of a model compound - methylene blue (MB) in aqueous solution. The photobleaching followed a mixed reaction order kinetics with the distinctive induction and acceleration periods.