As a promising conjugated polymer, binary carbon nitride has attracted extensive attention as a metal-free and visible-light-responsive photocatalyst in the area of photon-involving purification of water and air. Herein, we report sulfur-doped polymeric carbon nitride microrods that are synthesized through thermal polymerization based on trithiocyanuric acid and melamine (TM) supramolecular agg...

Porous ZnGaNO microrods were synthesized by a single crystal internal decomposition route, and exhibited high performance in photoelectrochemical water splitting due to the high specific area and short charge transfer distance of the microstructure.

Cardiac muscle cells are known to adapt to their physical surroundings, optimizing intracellular organization and contractile function for a given culture environment. A previously developed in vitro model system has shown that the inclusion of discrete microscale domains (or microrods) in three dimensions (3D) can alter long-term growth responses of neonatal ventricular myocytes. The aim of th...

Uniform and well-crystallized calcium fluorapatite [Ca5(PO4)3F, FAP] microrods have been successfully synthesized by a facile one-step hydrothermal synthesis method using sodium citrate as the crystal modifier. X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photoluminescence (PL), photoluminescent excitation spectra (PLE) a...

Rheotaxis is a common phenomenon in nature that refers to the directed movement of micro-organisms as a result of shear flow. The ability to mimic natural rheotaxis using synthetic micro/nanomotors adds functionality to enable their applications in biomedicine and chemistry. Here, we present a hybrid strategy that can achieve both positive and negative rheotaxis of synthetic bimetallic micromot...

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In this work, the possibility of using niobium oxide recovered from tailings Penouta Sn-Nb-Ta deposit (located at North Spain) as starting material for growing microstructures is demonstrated. The properties have been studied to understand its crystal structure, quality and purity. Recovered powders are mainly TT-Nb2O5. These used grow Nb22O54 microrods by an evaporation method in argon atmosph...

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