A method for the degradation of pyrrolidine in water is described. The method relaies on the photocatalytic degradation of pyrrolidine to CO2 and NH3 by UV irradiation and using titanium dixide semiconductor as a photocatalyst. Compared with direct photolysis, the semiconductor catalytic photolysis gave consistently higher degradation yields for pyrrolidine in water. T...

Binary III-N nitride semiconductors with wurtzite crystal structure such as GaN and AlN have been long used in many practical applications ranging from optoelectronic to telecommunication. The structurally related ZnGeN2 or ZnSnN2 derived the parent binary compounds by cation mutation (elemental substitution) recently attracted attention, but ternary materials are mostly limited II-IV-N2 compos...

Semiconductor materials provide a compelling platform for quantum technologies (QT), and the properties of vast amount can be found in databases containing information from both experimental theoretical explorations. However, searching these to find promising candidate technology applications is major challenge. Therefore, we have developed framework automated discovery semiconductor host platf...

As a fascinating nanocarbon photocatalytic material, nanodiamonds (NDs) have attracted more and attention recently due to their high chemical stability, carrier mobility, narrowing band gap, easy surface modification, mass production. This review summarizes the latest progress related elaborated construction of NDs NDs-based nanocomposite, including microstructure regulation pristine NDs, eleme...

We present a framework for the rational analysis of elemental causal induction – learning about the existence of a relationship between a single cause and effect – based upon causal graphical models. This framework makes precise the intuitive distinction between causal structure and causal strength: the difference between asking whether or not a causal relationship exists, and asking how strong...

The properties of metal–semiconductor junctions are often unpredictable because non-ideal interfacial structures, such as defects or chemical reactions introduced at junctions. Black phosphorus (BP), an elemental two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting crystal, possesses a puckered atomic structure with high reactivity, and the establishment realistic atomic-scale picture BP’s interface toward meta...

Abstract Zn 3 N 2 (ZN) and ZnSnN (ZTN) are a promising class of nitride semiconductors for photovoltaic light-emitting-diode applications due to their particular electrical optical properties, elemental abundance non-toxicity. So far, most the experimental results show degenerate carrier concentration. However, we find that low-temperature growth these films in chamber with ultra-high backgroun...