The increasing usage of antihelminthic drug mebendazole (MEB) in humans and livestock poses serious threat and is considered a significant environmental pollutant. Hence, monitoring the MEB residues in environmental s...
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The clock transitions recommended by BIPM are never realized by a femtosecond comb laser. In this report, we recommend two comb-laser-based stepwise transitions resolved simultaneously from rubidium and cesium atom. &...
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The precise detection of antibiotics is very critical. Here, silver selenide (Ag2Se) nanorods are hydrothermally synthesized and ultrasonically treated with rGO surface modified with octadecylamine (rGO-ODA). The opti...
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Cancer immunotherapy harnesses the immune system to combat tumors and has emerged as a major cancer treatment modality. The PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint modulates interactions between tumor cells and T cells and has b...
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SiC sputtered and e-beam evaporated layers have been deposited on 4H-SiC substrates. Recrystallization has been tried by high temperature annealing with two plateaus at 1400°C and 1700°C. The crystallinity w...
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Climate change, caused by the increasing energy demand from fossil fuels due to population growth and economic expansion, triggers the need for clean, renewable, and sustainable energy sources. The solar energy contri...
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Climate change, caused by the increasing energy demand from fossil fuels due to population growth and economic expansion, triggers the need for clean, renewable, and sustainable energy sources. The solar energy contributes to approximately 99.9% of the Earth's energy. Therefore, photovoltaic technology is considered a possible substitute for fossil fuels owing to its abundance, but the current silicon and thin film photovoltaic (PV) technologies generate greenhouse gas emissions (GHE) during manufacturing and use scarce and polluting materials. Bio-sensitized solar cells (BSSCs) offer a promising solution using simple, lower energy-demand manufacturing processes and abundant, non-toxic materials. BSSCs are derived from dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) technology by replacing the synthetic dye with biological molecules, such as photosystem I (PSI), into a thin film device. We report a BSSC using PSI as a sensitizer, TiO2 as a wide-bandgap semiconductor, Co-bipyridine compound as a redox mediator in the electrolyte, and PEDOT-CNT composite as the counter electrode. This study investigates how microfractures on the TiO2 thin film induced during thermal sintering affect the photoelectrochemical performance of the BSSCs. Electrochemical characterization of the PSI-BSSCs was performed under a solar simulator using linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), open-circuit voltage decay (OCVD), chronoamperometry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). SEM micrographs reveal fissures in the photoanode surface induced by the fast heating and cooling during thermal treatments. Surprisingly, the microfractures improved the performance of the solar cells and will be discussed regarding the accessibility of PSI and the mediator to penetrate the nanostructured electrode and enhance the photocurrents generated. The BSSCs improvement due to the microfractures is ascribed to the enabled diffusion of the PSI sensitizer through the nanoporous TiO2, given the significantly larger size o
An atomic array coupled to a photonic crystal waveguide forms a strongly coupled quantum interface, exhibiting various intriguing collective features of quantum dynamics. Here we consider a homogeneous atomic array an...
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Finite-time quantum heat engines are of practical relevance as they can generate finite-power, distinguishing them from ideal quasistatic engines typically used for theoretical purposes. However, these engines encount...
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We investigated the physiochemical properties of single-layer graphene (SLG) with controlled structural defects that were used in sliding electrical contact. Conductive atomic force microscopy (cAFM) probes applied wi...
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Non-Hermitian quantum systems showcase many distinct and intriguing features with no Hermitian counterparts. One of them is the exceptional point which marks the PT (parity and time) symmetry phase transition, where a...
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