Zinc vacancy (VZn) is successfully introduced into 3D hierarchical ZnIn2S4 (3D‐ZIS). The photo‐electrochemical experiments demonstrate that the charge separation and carrier transfer are more efficient in the 3D‐ZIS with rich VZn. Of note, for the first time, it is found that VZn can decrease the carrier transport activation energy (CTAE), from 1.14 eV for Bulk‐ZIS (Bulk ZnIn2S4) to 0.93 eV for 3D‐ZIS, which may provide a feasible platform for further understanding the mechanism of photocatalytic CO2 reduction. In situ Fourier transform infrared (FT‐IR) results reveal that the presence of rich VZn ensures CO2 chemical activation, promoting single‐electron reduction of CO2 to CO2−. In addition, in situ FT‐IR and CO2 temperature programmed desorption results show that VZn can promote the formation of surface hydroxyl. To the best of current knowledge, there are no reports on the photoreduction of CO2 simply by virtue of 3D‐ZIS with VZn and few literature reports on the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 concerned with CTAE. Additionally, this work finds that surface hydroxyl may play a crucial role in the process of CO2 photoreduction. The work may provide some novel ways to ameliorate solar energy conversion performance and a better understanding of photoreaction mechanisms.

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In this report, a facile and general strategy was developed to synthesize original bamboo-shaped Te nanotubes (NTs) with well-controlled size and morphology. On the basis of the as-prepared Te NTs, porous Pt nanotubes (NTs) with excellent property and structural stability have been designed and manufactured. Importantly, we avoided the use of surface stabilizing agents, which may affect the catalytic properties during the templated synthesis process. Furthermore, Pt NTs with different morphology were successfully prepared by tuning the experimental parameters. As a result, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study shows that both Te NTs and Pt NTs have uniform size and morphology. Following cyclic voltammogram (CV) testing, the as-prepared porous Pt NTs and macroporous Pt NTs exhibited excellent catalytic activities toward electrochemical methanol oxidation reactions due to their tubiform structure with nanoporous framework. Thus, the as-prepared Pt NTs with specific porous structure hold potential usage as alternative anode catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs).

In the information age, it is important to protect the security and integrity of the information. As a result, the fluorescent ink as an antifake technology and the fingermark as an information carrier have aroused great interest. In this work, highly water-soluble lanthanide (Ln )-doped tetragonal phase (t-) LaVO nanoparticles (NPs) are successfully obtained via a simple, fast, and green microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. The average size of t-LaVO NPs is about 43 nm. The aqueous solutions of Ln -doped t-LaVO exhibit excellent fluorescence properties under ultraviolet light (UV) excitation (t-LaVO :10%Eu is bright red and t-LaVO :0.5%Dy is close to white). Some superb antifake fluorescent patterns are printed using Ln -doped t-LaVO aqueous solution as ink, which indicates the as-prepared Ln -doped t-LaVO NPs as fluorescent ink can meet the various antifake requirements. Notably, the designed convenient antifake fluorescent codes with improved security could be directly scanned and decoded by a smart phone. What's more, the as-prepared NPs can be used for the development of latent fingermark on various substrates and the second-level detail information can be clearly obtained from the magnification of a fingermark. These results indicate that the as-prepared Ln -doped t-LaVO fluorescent NPs have great potential in security application.

Here we synthesized a 2D π-conjugated microporous polymer NGA-CMP. Heated sample NGA-CMP400 is used for the first time as an anode for LIBs and shows high capacity lithium-ion storage with excellent cycle performance at high current density.

A stable nanoscaled single-excitation ratiometric luminescent pH sensor (MPDB-PCN) for highly sensitive real-time detection of toxic mycotoxin (3-NPA) in complicated environments.

A novel cage-based crystalline covalent organic framework, i.e. Cage-COF-TT (TT = triammonia–terephthalaldehyde), was prepared from a prism-like triammonia-containing molecular cage and terephthalaldehyde.

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