Facing the increasingly serious problem of environmental pollution and energy waste, the thermoelectric generator has been attracting more and more attention owing to its advantages including low cost, no pollution, and good stability. The family of thermoelectric material is constantly extended with enhanced performance. Note that nanostructuring can enhance thermoelectric performance. However, the most recent excellent material with effective thermoelectric transformation reported from bulk materials has definite benefits to the practical application compared to nanomaterials. In this work, a nanostructure integrated macroscale thermoelectric chip, that is an alloyed band gap gradient macroscale chip (1.0 cm × 2.0 cm) composed of CdSSe nanowires, has been proven as an excellent thermoelectric generator for the first time. A high Seebeck coefficient of −152.4 μV/K and the average output voltage of 10.8 mV are obtained after optimizing the electrode patterns and distance between electrodes. More interestingly, upon illumination by white light from a xenon lamp, a photo-thermoelectric output voltage is greatly elevated to 45 mV due to the high concentration of photogenerated carriers. The CdSSe thermoelectric chip also shows good repeatability and high stability with a relative error of <6%. No study on the thermoelectric performance of such an alloyed band gap gradient macroscale chip is mentioned before. The results illustrate a bright avenue to realize a type of light-modulated macroscale thermoelectric chips by nanostructure, allowing such kinds of CdSSe chips to be used to generate electric energy in the near future.

The methylammonium lead triiodide (CH3NH3PbI3)-based perovskite shows a great alluring prospect in areas of solar cells, lasers, photodetectors, and light emitting diodes owing to their excellent optical and electrical advantages. However, it is very sensitive to the surrounding oxygen and moisture, which limits its development seriously. It is urgent to spare no effort to enhance its optical and electrical stability for further application. In this paper, we synthesize the MAPbI3 perovskite film on the glass substrate with/without the ionic liquid (IL) of 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (BMIMBF4) by a simple two-step sequential solution method. The additive of BMIMBF4 can improve the quality of crystal structure. Moreover, the photo-luminescence (PL) intensity of MAPbI3 film with BMIMBF4 is much stronger than the pure MAPbI3 film after a week in the air, which is almost ten-fold of the pure one. Meanwhile, under the illumination of 405-nm continuous wave (CW) laser, the fluorescent duration of the MAPbI3 film with BMIMBF4 is approximately 2.75 min, while the pure MAPbI3 film is only about 6 s. In fact, ionic liquid of BMIMBF4 in the perovskite film plays a role of passivation, which prevents the dissolution of MAPbI3 into CH3NH3 and PbI2 and thus enhances the stability of environment. In addition, the ionic liquid of BMIMBF4 possesses high ionic conductivity, which accelerates the electron transport, so it is beneficial for the perovskite film in the areas of solar cells, photodetectors, and lasers. This interesting experiment provides a promising way to develop the perovskite’s further application.

Online component detection is highly desirable for monitoring industrial raw materials and imported raw materials in customs. Raman spectroscopy is a possible route for in situ monitoring. However, so far, few qualitative estimations for online solid-state materials such as ore are reported due to the low accuracy of the measurements. Herein, a kind of potential online portable shifted-frequency excitation differential Raman spectroscopy (SEDRS) system was built for the first time to quantitatively determine the iron content in hematite samples with merits of no background noise and a high signal-to-noise ratio. The Raman spectra of hematite generally have strong A 1g mode at 230 and 498 cm −1 , and band intensity analysis illustrates a good positive correlation with iron content, which are used for quantitative analysis via principal component analysis and partial least squares regression. In contrast to the quantitative results based on singlefrequency excitation Raman spectra, the average relative error of the differential data treated with SEDRS was only 1.20%. The distribution of particle size for solid-state material is proven to have been the main factor for impacting the accuracy by comparing the peak intensity at 230 cm −1 of powders with different particle sizes. These findings confirm that SEDRS analysis is a high-accuracy reliable tool for analyzing iron content in hematite with uniform particle size, providing a feasible method to remotely detect the iron content of ore online.

The random lasing in quantum dot systems is in anticipation for widespread applications in biomedical therapy and image recognition, especially in random laser devices with high brightness and high monochromaticity. Herein, low-threshold, narrowband emission, and stable random lasing is realized in carbon quantum dot (CQD)/DCM nanowire composite-doped TiN nanoparticles, which are fabricated by the mixture of carbon quantum dots and self-assembly DCM dye molecules. The Förster resonance energy transfer process results in a high luminescence efficiency for the composite of carbon dots and DCM nanowires, allowing significant random lasing actions to emerge in CQD/DCM composite as TiN particles are doped that greatly enhance the emission efficiency through the plasmon resonance and random scattering. Thus, sharp and low-threshold random lasing is finally realized and even strong single-mode lasing occurs under higher pumping energy in the TiN-doped CQD/DCM composite. This work provides a promising way in high monochromaticity random laser applications.