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This paper reports the field emission (FE) current stability of a diamond nanowire (DNW) array. Assembled with a silicon anode with a 1.03 μm gap, the FE properties, as well as the current stability of the DNW cathode, were systematically evaluated in a vacuum test system under different vacuum degrees, current densities, and atmospheres. Experiments demonstrate that lower pressure and current density can improve FE properties and current stability. In addition, compared to air and compressed air, DNWs exhibit higher FE properties and current stability in N. DNWs achieve a remarkably low turn-on field of 1.65 V/μm and a high current density of 265.38 mA/cm. Notably, they demonstrate merely 0.70% current fluctuation under test conditions of 1.2 × 10 Pa and 0.1 mA/cm. Additionally, based on the Fowler-Nordheim theory, the change in work function after gas adsorption was analyzed, and the noise generation mechanism was derived from the noise power spectrum. The current exponent is determined as 1.94, while the frequency exponent ranges from 0.92 to 1.32, confirming that the dominant noise mechanism in DNWs arises from surface work function fluctuations due to the adsorption and desorption of residual gas.
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Chem Biodivers
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Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India.
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September 2025
Center for 2D Quantum Heterostructures, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea.
Ultrathin amorphous materials are promising counterparts to 2D crystalline materials, yet their properties and functionalities remain poorly understood. Amorphous boron nitride (aBN) has attracted attention for its ultralow dielectric constant and superior manufacturability compared with hexagonal boron nitride. Here, we demonstrate wafer-scale growth of ultrathin aBN films with exceptional thickness and composition uniformity using capacitively coupled plasma-chemical vapor deposition (CCP-CVD) at 400 °C.
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September 2025
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India.
The denitrogenation of tetrazoles is typically performed using transition-metal catalysts at high temperatures due to the inherent stability of the tetrazole group. In this work, we present, for the first time, an electrochemical method for denitrogenating tetrazoles at room temperature. This method employs a sacrificial zinc anode and a platinum cathode in a solvent mixture of acetonitrile and water under a constant current in an undivided cell.
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September 2025
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, P. R. China.
The development of high-performance, cost-effective non-noble metal catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to advancing sustainable hydrogen production via water electrolysis. Herein, we report a facile and mild strategy for synthesizing amorphous bimetallic organic framework materials (NiFe-MOFs) using pyridine-modified threonine (l-PyThr) as an organic ligand. The optimized NiFe-PyThr-4:1 catalyst exhibits remarkable OER activity, requiring low overpotentials of only 162 and 222 mV to achieve current densities of 10 and 100 mA cm, respectively, along with a small Tafel slope of 34.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Am Thorac Soc
September 2025
University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Rationale: Inflammation is central to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pathogenesis but incompletely represented in COPD prognostic models. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a readily available inflammatory biomarker.
Objectives: To explore the associations of NLR with smoking status, clinical features of COPD, and future adverse outcomes.