Bunches of needle-shaped silicon carbide (SiC) nanowires were grown from commercially available SiC powders in thermal evaporation process and using iron as catalyst. Their structure and chemical composition were studied by Raman spectroscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The powder of these nanowires may be easily dispersed, and was used to form samples of field electron emitters. The needle shape of individual nanowires is well-suited to field electron emission. Stable emission with current density of 30.8 mA/cm2 was observed at fields as low as 9.6 V/μm, and current density of up to 83 mA/cm2 was recorded.
Variable angle tow (VAT) placement techniques provide the designer with the ability to tailor the point-wise stiffness properties of composite laminates according to structural design requirements. Whilst VAT laminates exhibit-
The enhanced photocurrent responses and dramatic antiphotocorrosion performance of CdS hybrid were obtained by formation of triple heterojunction (TH), i.e., n-CdS/n-TiO 2 /p-BDD:n-TiO 2 cube tubes were vertically grown on p-type boron-doped diamond (BDD) film. Then n-CdS nanoparticles (NPs) were randomly assembled onto the surface of TiO 2 and BDD, forming a film of CdS NPs. This triple heterojunction CdS hybrid reveals 36.5% improvement of initial photocurrent and 78% reduction of photocorrosion rate in contrast with that of the coupled CdS/TiO 2 hybrid, which has only single heterojunctions (SH). The mechanisms of TH on charge separation and transport during the photocatalytic reaction have been emphasized. Except for the CdS/TiO 2 (n−n) heterojunction, another two p−n heterojunctions, i.e., p-BDD/n-CdS and p-BDD/n-TiO 2 exist in the TH. The conduction band (CB) position of TiO 2 is lower than the corresponding band positions of CdS and BDD, so TiO 2 can act as an acceptor for the photogenerated electrons. Also, the valence band (VB) position of BDD is higher than those of CdS and TiO 2 , so BDD can act as a sink for the photogenerated holes. Under simulated solarlight, the photogenerated electrons on the conduction band (CB) of CdS flow to the CB of TiO 2 , whereas the photogenerated holes on valence band (VB) CdS and TiO 2 inject to the VB of BDD. It promotes charge separation and leaves not enough holes on CdS to cause photoanodic corrosion, leading to the enhancement of photocurrent responses and the remarkable inhibited photocorrosion.
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