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Explore corals at Havelock island with CGH Earth’s latest property, Tilar Siro

We check into an eco resort set on one of the largest islands in the Andaman chain, famed for its white sand beaches, spectacular sunsets and vibrant marine life. We check into the eco friendly resort to explore Havelock island




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On the 2024 travel itinerary: sexual wellness

One of this year’s emerging trends is travelling to boost your intimate life. At a time when sex is not a priority on millennial and Gen Z calendars, it’s a happy intervention




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India’s first Voco Hotel in Jim Corbett offers many surprises beyond the tiger trail

The romance of the mountain rains, fragrance of the forest and petrichor, a symphony by sung by the birds and a taste of Kumaoni cuisine and cocktail, that’s how India’s first Voco Hotel in Jim Corbett invites you to live in the moment




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Intra-layout buses: A novel way to boost public transport in Bengaluru

The city’s HSR Layout has pioneered a unique feeder bus service with nearly 5,000 people using it every day. Can it be replicated elsewhere in the city?




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A visit to Seychelles’ Silhouette Island, home to the rarest bat in the world

How Seychelles’ Silhouette Island, home to the Aldabra giant tortoise and sheath-tailed bat, is showcasing its flora and fauna




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Scholars discuss transformative role of literature at conference held in Pondicherry University




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Lt. Governor urges industry associations to set up SC/ST cell to assist socially marginalised sections to start ventures




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Puducherry Liberation Day celebrations should be held at Kizhoor: Ramadass

The Chief Minister should hoist the national flag at Kizhoor memorial instead of organising the celebrations on Beach Road, the former Puducherry MP urged.




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Electricity Department to disconnect power supply to 22 plastic-manufacturing units




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Train services to and from Kanniyakumari cancelled due to rake shortage




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New high-level bridge near Villianur open to traffic




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Protest held against Speaker’s decision to remove legislator from Assembly panel




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Revision of electoral roll begins, special camp dates announced




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Residents demand bus shelters in Karaikal near Neravy

The area, frequented by over 500 passengers daily, including students attending a prominent private school nearby, lacks adequate bus shelters to protect commuters from rain and sun.




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L-G, Home Minister felicitate SSP for performance in international event




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Puducherry has submitted project report to Centre seeking nod for availing ₹4,750 crore loan from Asian Development Bank: CM




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Project to develop Thengaithittu harbour launched




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Admission panel publishes provisional allotment list for professional courses




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Hindu Munnani workers stage protest over encroachment of govt. land by a religious group




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Puducherry in the top tier of travel guide’s must-see places

Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan received the accolade from Annie Greenberg, Executive Creative Director, Lonely Planet at a recent ceremony at the World Travel Mart, London.




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231 more fishermen eligible to get compensation for livelihood loss in Yanam




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Man held for threatening women in jewellery store




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Special camp for summary revision of electoral rolls held

The district comprises 25 of the 30 Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory, which includes the exclaves of Mahe and Yanam.




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Traders protest seeking action against anti-social element for threatening Independent MLA in Puducherry

Traders submit a memorandum to the Lieutenant Governor, Chief Minister and Director General of Police seeking stern action against Ramu, a resident of Thilaspet




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How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the society they once knew. […]




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Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

When the names of French poet Paul Éluard and German artist Max Ernst arise, one subject always follows: that of their years-long ménage à trois — or rather, “marriage à trois,” as a New York Times article by Annette Grant once put it. It started in 1921, Grant writes, when the Surrealist movement’s co-founder André Breton put […]




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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another 23 songs, mostly hits from their large catalog of music. Originally live […]




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Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More

The term gaslight has gained so much traction in popular discourse so recently that you’d swear it was coined around 2010. In fact, that particular usage goes at least as far back as 1938, when British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton wrote a stage thriller about a husband who surreptitiously rearranges things in the house so […]




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Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance

Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his 1986 album So, Gabriel told NME: “The catalyst […]




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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy

Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by an unfortunate oscillation between two opposing evils: tyranny and anarchy, each of which contains the seed of the other. The best course for steering clear of either one, Russell maintained, is liberalism. “The doctrine of liberalism […]




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How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More

For 142 years now, Sagrada Família has been growing toward the sky. Or at least that’s what it seems to be doing, as its ongoing construction realizes ever more fully a host of forms that look and feel not quite of this earth. It makes a kind of sense to learn that, in designing the […]




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High-Performance Photodetector based on ZnO/CsPbBr3 Quantum-dot-level-contact Hybrid Sandwich Structure

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03359K, Paper
Song Wang, Shuhua Yang, Zenglong Xu, Huiyan Xu, Guanbin Duan, Degang Zhao, Xiutong Wang, Bingqiang Cao
Perovskite quantum dot photodetectors have attracted intensive research interest due to their outstanding optical and electronic properties. However, the nonradiative recombination of photo-generated electron-hole pairs on the surface of CsPbBr3...
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Lightweight flexible self-powered photo-supercapacitors with good stability through photoelectrochemical deposition of tellurium on PPy–V2O5 films as a new visible light active dual photoelectrode

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03090G, Paper
Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Hossein Mohammadzadeh Aydisheh, Byeong-Kyu Lee, Ali Naderi
Lightweight flexible solid-state photosupercapacitors (FSSPC) with two identical Te@PPy–V2O5 photoelectrodes showed good performance and maintained functionality under different bending angles. They also demonstrated stability from −10 °C to 50 °C.
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Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells in a high boiling point solvent by introducing a highly mixed tolerant guest acceptor

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17403-17410
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03192J, Paper
Open Access
Xiangyu Shen, Xiaoning Wang, Jianxiao Wang, Rulin Wang, Yonghai Li, Fuzhen Bi, Xichang Bao
Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells were fabricated based on a highly mixed tolerant acceptor in a high boiling point solvent.
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An advanced self-powered visible-light photodetector based on the asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 junction

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17395-17402
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03510K, Paper
Zairan Liu, Gang Cao, Zhaozhi Guan, Yan Tian, Jidong Liu, Jun Chen, Shaozhi Deng, Fei Liu
An asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 self-powered photodetector exhibits greatly enhanced visible-light photosensitive performances with the help of an interfacial built-in field.
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Low-pressure hydrogen sensing mechanism based on the field emission of defect-controlled ZnO nanorods

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17419-17428
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01951B, Paper
Mingliang Dong, Weijin Qian, Youqing Tu, Guitao Chen, Weijun Huang, Haijun Luo, Changkun Dong
The work function of ZnO is reduced with H adsorbed on oxygen defects, leading to the hydrogen sensing effect.
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Melt-preparation of organic–inorganic Mn-based halide transparent ceramic scintillators for high-resolution X-ray imaging

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17411-17418
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03459G, Paper
Zhi-Zhong Zhang, Zi-Lin He, Qing-Peng Peng, Jing-Hua Chen, Bang Lan, Dai-Bin Kuang
A large size TBP2MnBr4 transparent ceramic is prepared by the melt processing method, which shows a high transmittance of >80% in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 800 nm, for realizing a high-resolution (16 lp mm−1) X-ray imaging.
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Observation and enhancement through alkali metal doping of p-type conductivity in the layered oxyselenides Sr2ZnO2Cu2Se2 and Ba2Zn1−xO2−xCu2Se2

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17574-17586
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02458C, Paper
Open Access
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Zahida Malik, Sarah Broadley, Sebastian J. C. Herkelrath, Daniel W. Newbrook, Liam Kemp, George Rutt, Zoltán A. Gál, Jack N. Blandy, Joke Hadermann, Daniel W. Davies, Robert D. Smyth, David O. Scanlon, Ruomeng Huang, Simon J. Clarke, Geoffrey Hyett
The optoelectronic properties of two layered copper oxyselenide compounds, with nominal composition Sr2ZnO2Cu2Se2 and Ba2ZnO2Cu2Se2, have been investigated to determine their suitability as p-type conductors.
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Spinel CoFe2O4: a room temperature magnetic semiconductor with optical transparency

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17658-17667
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01607F, Paper
Imran Khan, Jisang Hong
Finding a suitable ferromagnetic transparent semiconducting material is of utmost importance for the development of advanced devices with unique functionalities.
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Synergistic modulation of BiOI by atomic-level vacancies and dominant facets for efficient photocatalytic degradation of bisphenol A

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17676-17686
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02536A, Paper
Qicheng He, Zhihao Zhang, Quanxi Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang
BiOI-2 exhibits excellent photocatalytic degradation performance through the synergistic regulation of defects and facets.
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Application of a NADH-modified ZnO electron transport layer in high performance organic solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17429-17438
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03144J, Paper
Hongye Li, Song Yang, Huangzhong Yu
A novel ZnO:NADH composite electron transport layer is constructed, and the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) with PM6:L8-BO as the active layer has improved from 17.43% to 18.21%.
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High depolarization temperature and large piezoelectricity in BiScO3–PbTiO3–Bi(Zn1/2Ti1/2)O3 piezoelectric energy harvesting ceramics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17595-17602
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03339F, Paper
Huizhong Wang, Xiaole Yu, Mupeng Zheng, Mankang Zhu, Yudong Hou
Achieving high values of both Td and HT-d33 in the BS–PT–BZT piezoelectric energy harvesting ceramics via the linear expansion of MPB and lattice tetragonality c/a modulation.
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In situ formation of a Co-MOF/Ti–Fe2O3 photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17603-17610
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01728E, Paper
Kaikai Ba, Hongda Li, Kai Zhang, Yanhong Lin, Wanchun Zhu, Tengfeng Xie
The cocatalyst Co-MOF significantly enhances charge separation and transfer in the Ti–Fe2O3 photoanode, achieving a photocurrent density of 3.9 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE.
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Additive-induced intermolecular interaction enhancement enables highly efficient organic solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17668-17675
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03277B, Paper
Chen Chen, Dingqin Hu, Peihao Huang, Chun Hong Mak, Heng Liu, Hongliang Lei, Xue Jiang, Yulu Li, Fengyi Yu, Kaihuai Tu, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Xinhui Lu, Haiyan Chen, Zeyun Xiao
We developed a pyridine-based solvent additive targeting the acceptor moiety. This additive fine-tunes the aggregation, crystallinity, and stacking of the active layer through stronger non-covalent interactions with the acceptor.
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Online and offline learning using fading memory functions in HfSiOx-based ferroelectric tunnel junctions

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17362-17376
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03397C, Communication
Jungwoo Lee, Chaewon Youn, Jungang Heo, Sungjun Kim
We demonstrate online and offline learning as well as associative learning such as in Pavlov's dog experiments using the non-volatile and volatile properties of HfSiOx-based FTJs.
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Correction: Charge transfer properties of novel linear carbon chain-based dyes

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17704-17704
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC90100B, Correction
Open Access
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Giuseppe Consiglio, Adam Gorczyński, Salvatore Petralia, Giuseppe Forte
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Shear-Structured Piezoelectric Accelerometers based on KNN Lead-Free Ceramics for Vibration Monitoring

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04292A, Communication
Yi Ding, Yu Wang, Wenbin Liu, Yongqi Pan, Ping Yang, Dechao Meng, Ting Zheng, Jiagang Wu
The process of promoting the transition of piezoelectric devices to lead-free requires consideration from multiple dimensions, including materials, devices and processes. In the key field of vibration monitoring, there has...
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Enhanced electrical properties of lead-free sodium potassium niobate piezoelectric ceramics prepared via cold sintering assisted sintering

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04031G, Paper
Yao Huang, Xinyue Song, Renbing Sun, Hai Jiang, Peng Du, Laihui Luo
The CSAS method can increase the density of the ceramics and reduce the volatilization of the A-site elements, thus changing the phase structure of the ceramics and making them high piezoelectric properties.
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Temperature and locomotion dual self-sensing soft robot based on liquid crystal polymer foams

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03668A, Paper
Shuyun Zhuo, Jie Jiang, Yaru Ma, Yiming Chen, Yue Zhao
Stimuli-triggered actuation and capability of sensing are two important prerequisites for self-sensing soft robots. Currently, liquid crystal polymer (LCP) based soft robots face difficulties in balancing the actuation and sensing...
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Hybrid nano-microstructured and bioinspired conductive hydrogels with tunable multifunctionality

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04064C, Paper
Manting Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yaoyi Guo, Xiaoyong Zhou, Jie-Xin Wang, Yuan Le
A conductive hydrogel with enhanced mechanical properties and excellent multifunctionality is fabricated by facile direct in situ polymerization. This hydrogel can serve as a wearable strain sensor precisely detecting relative resistance changes.
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