Polarized ferroelectric crystal lithium niobate wafers with different cuts are selected to offer differently charged surfaces. By induction of the mesenchymal stem cells differentiation into osteoblasts on different charged surfaces, the specific osteogenic-associated markers are assessed and the results illustrate that the positively charged wafer surface enhances rBMMSCs osteogenic differentiation.
Self-powered UV photodetectors based on TiO2 nanotree arrays have captured much attention in recent years because of their many advantages. In this work, rutile/anatase TiO2 (R/A-TiO2 ) heterostructured nanotree arrays are fabricated by assembling anatase nanowires as branches on rutile nanorods. External quantum efficiencies as high as 90% are reached at 325 nm. These high quantum efficiencies are related to the higher amount of light harvesting due to the larger surface area, the better separation ability of the photogenerated carriers by the rutile/anatase heterostructure, and the faster electron transport, related to the 1D nanostructure and lattice connection at the interface of the two kinds of TiO2 . Furthermore, a self-powered wireless UV photodetector is shown with excellent wireless detection performance. Such devices will enable significant advances for next-generation photodetection and photosensing applications.
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