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In this work, segmented silver nanowires (AgNWs) with an average diameter of 60 nm have been successfully synthesized by a typical polyol method without any templates and seeds. The synthesized segmented AgNWs were strongly dependent on the reaction temperature and time. It was found from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction measurements that the connection node of segmented AgNWs was in the form of a twinned crystal. We speculated that these segmented AgNWs were possibly derived from end-to-end self-connection and self-concrescence of two neighbouring Ag nanorods or nanowires at a suitable reaction temperature and time, which is further confirmed by the secondary growth of AgNWs. In addition, segmented AgNWs were blended into hole transporting layers to enhance the performance of polymer solar cells (PSCs) by utilizing their localized surface plasmon resonance and optical scattering effects. As a result, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and short-circuit current density (Jsc) of PSCs with segmented AgNWs increased from 2.81% and 8.99 mA cm-2 to 3.30% and 9.95 mA cm-2, respectively.

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We analyse the dynamics of a weakly open Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) with attractive atomic interactions in a double-well potential under periodic driving. We find that the inclusion of weakly dissipative effects can dramatically modify the quantum tunnelling of the periodically driven BEC, and some new interesting dynamical properties arise, including a pitchfork bifurcation that leads to two stable nonsymmetric states by adjusting the dissipative parameters. The numerical results based on the approximate two-mode model are also analysed.