With the increasingly serious environmental problems, photocatalysis has recently attracted a great deal of attention, with particular focus on water and air purification and disinfection. Herein, we show an electroreduction strategy to improve significantly the solar absorption and donor density of BiOI nanosheet photocatalyst by introducing oxygen vacancies. These oxygen-deficient BiOI nanosh...

The photoelectrochemical (PEC) responses of electron-irradiated 66-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)/TiO2 electrodes were evaluated in a PEC cell. By coating PCBM on TiO2 nanoparticle film, the light absorption of PCBM/TiO2 electrode has expanded to the visible light region and improved the PEC responses compared to bare TiO2 electrode. The PEC responses were further improved by irrad...

The enhanced photocatalytic performance of doped graphene (GR)/semiconductor nanocomposites have recently been widely observed, but an understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind it is still out of reach. As a model system to study the dopant effects, we investigate the electronic structures and optical properties of doped GR/Ag3PO4 nanocomposites using the first-principles calculations, ...

Poly (ether) urethane close/open cell (PEUCC/PEUOC) has been prepared by using in situ polymerization approach. The third-order optical nonlinearities of dissolved samples in DMF were characterized by Z-scan technique at the measurement wavelength of 532 nm. The synthesized samples were also examined by optical microscopy and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. The nonlinear refractive (NLR) indice...

The pressure dependence of the optical absorption spectrum in (NMe4)2TCNQ3 and Cs2TCNQ3 has been measured at room temperature in the spectral range from mid-infrared to visible. At the ambient pressure the optical energy gap is observed at around 0.5 and 0.3 eV in (NMe4)2TCNQ3 and Cs2TCNQ3, respectively. The energy gap in (NMe4)2TCNQ3 decreases by 0.05 eV with increasing pressure up to 2 GPa, f...

The visible absorption spectra of Radiachromic FWT-60 radiochromic film have been investigated to analyse the dosimetry characteristics of the film. The film is radiation sensitive to high absorbed doses. The visible absorption spectra of this film when exposed to photon radiation show a peak at 605 nm which is stable over the dose range of 0 Gy to 20 kGy. The radiation sensitive absorption spe...

UV-visible absorption and AFM studies suggest that carboxyphenylethynyl zinc porphyrins aggregate on nanocrystalline TiO2 surfaces in an H-type fashion.

Introduction: Observations of Mars North Pole surface temperatures by Viking/IRTM lead to the discovery of the main permanent cap component: water ice. The lack of H2O ice absorption features in the visible wavelengths makes water ice properties diagnosis ambiguous when using visible data, as has been previously notified by some authors [1, 2, 3]. An increase in visible albedo can be due to a d...

Transition metal doping into the TiO2 lattice can expand the response of these metal oxide nano particles to the visible region. In view of this, Mo ion is doped into the TiO2 lattice in order to understand the mechanism of its photo response. The prepared photocatalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction, UV–Visible absorption spectroscopy, UV–Visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, SEM...

We report the use of random Au nanoislands to enhance the absorption of CdS photodetectors at wavelengths beyond its intrinsic absorption properties from visible to NIR spectrum enabling a high performance visible-NIR photodetector. The temperature dependent annealing method was employed to form random sized Au nanoparticles on CdS films. The hot electron induced NIR photo-detection shows high ...