Photo-Electrochemical Glycerol Conversion over a Mie Scattering Effect Enhanced Porous BiVO Photoanode.

The photo-electrochemical (PEC) oxidation of glycerol (GLY) to high-value-added dihydroxyacetone (DHA) can be achieved over a BiVO photoanode, while the PEC performance of most BiVO photoanodes is impeded due to the upper limits of the photocurrent density. Here, an enhanced Mie scattering effect of the well-documented porous BiVO photoanode is obtained with less effort by a simple annealing process, which significantly reduces the reflectivity to near zero. The great light absorbability increases the basic photocurrent density by 1.

BN crystal, basic structure of boron nitride nanotubes.

boron nitride (BN) crystal, assigned to an orthorhombic space group (No. 31, 2), is reported here. This new BN crystal exhibits a 'linear' morphology for high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and a (non-hexagonal) 'diagonal' electron-diffraction pattern, which have been experimentally demonstrated in this article.