The aim is to develop a ternary nanocomposite of polyaniline/2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid-capped silver nanoparticles/graphene oxide quantum dots as an efficient adsorbent for the removal of the highly toxic hexavalent chromium (Cr(vi)) from polluted water.
We investigated the relaxation of the irreversible magnetization in a series of 200 nm thick YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 /PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 [(YBCO) n /(PrBCO) m ] superlattices, where the thickness m of the nonsuperconducting PrBCO layer (measured in unit cells) was kept to m = 4 (sufficient to decouple the superconducting YBCO layers), whereas the thickness n of the YBCO layer was varied between 2 and 20 unit cells. The analysis of standard zero-field-cooling dc magnetization relaxation data obtained in the low temperature T region with the applied magnetic field H oriented along the c axis reveals the occurrence of a crossover elastic (collective) vortex creep at low T -plastic vortex creep at high T , generated by the T dependent macroscopic currents induced in the sample during measurements. For thin superlattices (n < 20) the creep crossover temperature T cr ∝ n, and T cr decreases linearly with increasing ln(H ) for a fixed n. This crossover represents an alternative to the elastic vortex glass behavior reported for superlattices, as well as to 'quantum vortex creep' at unexpectedly high T inferred for thin films. We also discuss the absence of an increase of the magnetically determined critical current density with decreasing YBCO thickness in our superlattices, which apparently contradicts the collective pinning theories.
The effect of rapid oxidation temperature on the sputtered nickel (Ni) films to act as a hole transport layer (HTL) for perovskite solar cell (PSCs) was investigated. A nano-sputtered Ni film with a thickness about 100 nm was oxidized at a range of different oxidation temperatures between 350 and 650 °C to work as HTL in an inverted p-in configuration. DC Hall measurement in van der Pauw configuration and photoluminescence spectroscopy were used to measure the charge's mobility and extraction of nickel oxide (NiO) films. The behaviour of the carrier concentration measurements of NiO layers at different oxidation temperatures showed that the Ni layer oxidized at 450 °C had the highest carrier concentration among the other samples. The performance measurements of the fabricated PSCs showed that the nickel oxide hole-transporting layer which has been oxidized at the optimum oxidation temperature of 450 °C has the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.05%. Moreover, the characteristic parameters of the optimum cell such as the open-circuit voltage (V OC), short-circuit current density (J SC) and fill factor (FF) were 0.92 V, 19.80 mA/cm 2 and 0.331, respectively.
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