Ethanol catalytic deposition of MoS2 on tapered fiber

Deposition of two-dimensional（2D） MoS2 materials on the tapered fiber allows various photonic applications including saturable absorbers and four-wave mixing.Ethanol catalytic deposition（ECD） of MoS2 on the optical tapered fiber was proposed and demonstrated in this work.Different from the conventional optical driven deposition using water or organic solvent,the ECD method utilized the high volatility of the ethanol solvent,which significantly increased the movement speed of the MoS2 nanosheets and thus boosted the deposition rate and reduced the minimum power threshold to drive the deposition.We believe the ECD method should be able to be applied to other similar 2D materials such as other types of transition metal chalcogenides.

In-situ-reduced synthesis of cyano group modified g-C_(3)N_(4)/CaCO_(3) composite with highly enhanced photocatalytic activity for nicotine elimination

Graphite carbon nitride has many excellent properties as a two-dimensional semiconductor material so that it has a wide application prospect in the field of photocatalysis.However,the traditional problems such as high recombination rate of photogenerated carriers limit its application.In this work,we introduce nitrogen deficiency into g-C_(3)N_(4)to solve this problem a simple and safe in-situ reduction method.g-C_(3)N_(4)/CaCO_(3)was obtained by a simple and safe one-step calcination method with industrial-grade micron particles CaCO_(3).Cyano group modification was in-situ reduced during the thermal polymerization process,which would change the internal electronic structure of g-C_(3)N_(4).The successful combination of g-C_(3)N_(4)and CaCO_(3)and the introduction of cyanide have been proved by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectrometer.The formation of the cyano group,an electron-absorbing group,promotes the effective separation of photogenic electron hole pairs and inhibits the recombination of photogenic carriers.These advantages result in the generation of more·O_(2)-and1O_(2)in the catalytic system,which increases the photocatalytic efficiency of nicotine degradation by ten times.Furthermore,the degradation process of nicotine has been studied in this work to provide a basis for the degradation of nicotine organic pollutants in the air.