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Ammonia is the main precursor for the production of fertilizers, a hydrogen energy carrier and an emerging clean fuel that plays a crucial role in sustaining life on the globe. Herein, hybrid MoSe2@g-C3N4 micro/nanostructures are described that can serve as photoelectrochemical (PEC) catalysts to fix N2 into NH3 in a basic electrolyte at a low potential (−0.3 V vs. RHE) under ambient conditions. In situ functionalization of the hierarchical micro/nanoflowers of MoSe2 with exfoliated g-C3N4 nanosheets dramatically boosts the faradaic efficiency and yield rate up to 28.91% and 7.72 μmol h−1 cm−2 respectively. The high PEC activity can be attributed to the hierarchical architecture, light-harvesting capability, tunable active sites and formation of heterojunctions, as confirmed by various characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Therefore, this work not only develops an effective procedure to obtain hierarchical heterojunction catalysts towards a high-efficiency NRR but also provides a deep understanding of artificial N2 fixation at the MoSe2@g-C3N4 interface.

The synergy between nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) in quaternary heteroatom-doped carbons is rarely probed, although these elements can significantly alter the performance of the oxygen evolution reac...

Herein, we demonstrated poly(diaryloxy)phosphazene (PDPP) which has inherent thermal stability and flame retardancy, is used as a matrix material for the fabrication of novel thermal conductive composites (TCCs) with variety of thermal conductive fillers including aluminum oxide (Al2O3), boron nitride (BN), silicon carbide (SiC) and expended graphite (EG) with different particle size and volume fraction by special processing method. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and limit oxygen index (LOI) results indicated that the TCCs own excellent thermal stability and flame retardancy. SEM analyses of the as-prepared materials showed high orientation degree of flake-like fillers after processing. The thermal conductivity (TC) of the TCCs measurements implied that the EG is the most effective filler to enhance the TC. TC measured in-plane direction reaches a highest value 7.05 Wm−1 K−1 for EG filled samples, which is times higher than PDPP matrix. This work explored a great potential of polyphosphazenes as a matrix material for TCCs.

Polyphosphazenes have grabbed focal attention in materials research due to their structural diversity, intrinsic backbone stability, and capability to form hybrid molecules. Herein, for the first time, we report morphology-controlled cross-linked hybrid nanotubes and microspheres composed of a novel iron-containing poly(ferrocenedimethano)cyclotriphosphazene synthesized via a facile polycondensation between 1,1'-ferrocenedimethanol and hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene. The morphology was tuned by introducing two sets of mixed solvent systems that are tetrahydrofuran:acetonitrile and acetone:toluene mixtures, for the growth of nanotubes and microspheres, respectively. A growth mechanism for nanotubes and microspheres has been proposed. The nanotubes exhibited intrinsic paramagnetic properties (saturation magnetization of 53 emu/g and coercivity of 19.6) and fluorescence emission (2450 au) as compared to microspheres owing to their remarkable cross-linked structure. Both nanotubes and microspheres demonstrated significant potential to absorb negatively charged hazardous methyl orange dye, and their adsorption capacities came out under the range of 880-2235 and 737-2125 mg g

Herein, we reported the organocyclophosphazenes (OCP) microspheres with excitation wavelength tunable fluorescence (EWTF) emission by reacting hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene and 4,4′-methylenedianiline via one-pot facile method. The as-prepared microspheres exhibit blue (λex 280 nm), green (λex 365/420 nm) and red (λex 546 nm) tunable fluorescence emissions in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible region. The microspheres have shown broadband semiconductors like absorptions in UV and visible regions indicate the multiple bandgaps in the microspheres. The role of the crosslinked structure and property demonstrated that stable interactions are conceivable in microspheres than branched polymer, which imparted EWTF property. This study explored the cyclotriphosphazene as a platform for the synthesis of EWTF materials, and their potential utilization in the full spectrum tunable fluorescence and other light related technologies.