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Gold nanoparticles strongly absorb both visible light and ultraviolet light to drive an oxidation reaction for a synthetic dye, as well as phenol degradation and selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol under UV light.

The conversion of light into electrical signals is at the heart of a plenty of technologies related with everyday life, such as optical communication, remote sensing, security, and many other fields. [1] The continuous extension of application areas requires progressive development of portable photodetectors with high performance in terms of speed, efficiency, or active wavelength range. [2] Recent years have witnessed the burgeoning interests in exploiting the optical and electronic properties of layered materials due to their weak interlayer van der Waals (vdW) interaction and dangling-bond-free surfaces for high-quality integration. [3] Compared with traditional materials, such as GaAs, Si, and Ge, the quantum behavior of electrons in 2D materials can be distinctive different from their bulk parental materials, which shows strong layer-dependence and composed properties in vdW heterostructure, and revolutionizes the way of manipulation, conversion of nonequilibrium carriers under strong light-matter interaction. Over the past few years, 2D materials such like graphene, [4] black phosphorus, [5] h-BN, [6] and MoS 2 [7] and their heterostructures have been widely implemented in a variety of photonic and electronic systems, showing appealing novel properties for single photon source, exciton/plasmon/phonon polaritons, artificial diode for transparent electronic and photovoltaic devices, and open up novel feasibility for realizing optoelectronic devices across a very wide range of electromagnetic spectrum. Up to now, significant efforts have been devoted to develop photodetectors capable of working toward longer wavelength in the 2D quantum materials family, based on a number of distinct characteristics of graphene and related materials. [8] However, the detecting wavelength of these detectors is mainly limited within visible to short-wavelength infrared due to their unmatched dark current, carrier mobility, and bandgap properties. For example, the detectable wavelength of WS 2 is shorter than 647 nm [9] and the black phosphorus can work at wavelength shorter than 7.7 µm. [10,11] For longer wavelength photodetection, liquid helium cooling or even dilute cooling is required in order to inhibit noise from intrinsically large dark current or the thermally induced transition among closely lying energylevels. [12] In compared with other electromagnetic radiation Recent years have witnessed rapid progresses made in the photoelectric performance of two-dimensional materials represented by graphene, black phosphorus, and transition metal dichalcogenides. Despite significant efforts, a photodetection technique capable for longer wavelength, higher working temperature as well as fast responsivity, is still facing huge challenges due to a lack of best among bandgap, dark current, and absorption ability. Exploring topological materials with nontrivial band transport leads to peculiar properties of quantized phenomena such as chiral anomaly, and magnetic-optical effect, which enables a novel feasibility for an advanced optoele...

Emergent topological Dirac semimetals afford fresh pathways for optoelectronics, although device implementation has been elusive to date. Specifically, palladium ditelluride (PdTe2) combines the capabilities provided by its peculiar band structure, with topologically protected electronic states, with advantages related to the occurrence of high-mobility charge carriers and ambient stability. Here, we demonstrate large photogalvanic effects with high anisotropy at terahertz frequency in PdTe2-based devices. A responsivity of 10 A/W and a noise-equivalent power lower than 2 pW/Hz0.5 are achieved at room temperature, validating the suitability of PdTe2-based devices for applications in photosensing, polarization-sensitive detection, and large-area fast imaging. Our findings open opportunities for exploring uncooled and sensitive photoelectronic devices based on topological semimetals, especially in the highly pursuit terahertz band.