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Pulse shape discrimination (PSD)‐capable plastic scintillator is in demand for the detection of high‐energy neutrons in the presence of gamma radiation background. Conventional PSD plastics are based on delayed fluorescent dye via triplet–triplet annihilation of a fluorescent dye additive, which is inefficient to harvest the energy of triplet excitons. In recent years, thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters have gained substantial success in organic light‐emitting diodes due to their efficient utilization of the energy of triplet excitons and thereby achieving theoretical unity internal quantum efficiencies. Herein, a highly efficient TADF dye 9‐(4‐(4,6‐diphenyl‐1,3,5‐triazin‐2‐yl)‐2‐methylphenyl)‐3,6‐dioctyl‐9H‐carbazole is reported for the PSD application. This TADF dye may be loaded up to 30 wt% in polyvinyltoluene matrix and still retains high optical transparency. High scintillation light yield and PSD figures of merit are obtained from the TADF plastic. With the introduction of a secondary dye to further increase the utilization efficiency of the excitation energy, the light yield is increased to 6948 photons MeV−1. The measured alpha/gamma PSD figure of merit is 1.12 at the energy threshold of 100 keVee and neutron/gamma PSD figure of merit is 1.32 at the threshold of 1000 keVee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

5 mm-scale large FAPbI 3 single crystals and corresponding photoconductive properties are shown. The phase transition of FAPbI3 between the α-phase and δ-phase is studied. The carrier mobility is 4.4 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) with a lifetime of 484 ns in the bulk of the single crystal. Finally, photodetectors based on single-crystal FAPbI3 are demonstrated., (© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)

Analysis of mobile forms of phosphorus of a Huangnitu, a typical paddy soil in the Taihu Lake region, Jiangsu was conducted. The soil has been put into a scheme of longterm fertilization treatments for 13 years. Total P content varied in arrange of 0.3-0.5 g.kg-1 under a range of total P fertilizer input of 0-53 kg/(hm2.a). As estimated from the total P pool values by mass balance principle, the soil had been subjected to water loss of P 2-8 kg/(hm2.a), with that under chemical fertilizers only being the biggest. The ratio of soluble P to the total was in a range of 0.2%-0.4%, without significant influence by the different fertilization schemes. While chemical fertilizer plus pig slurry manure applications had remarkably enhanced the resin-P pool by 20-40 mg.kg-1, P mobilization was not observed due to combined application of chemical fertilizers and straw amendments despite of the increase of the SOM. Therefore, P water loss in paddy soils might have active under continuous chemical fertilization alone in agriculture of this region and could not be accounted for by dissolution in water and subsequent runoff migration. For reducing the present prominent non point source pollution of N and P in the region, it is suggested that chemical fertilizers are applied in combination with an appropriate amount of manure or straw return for reducing soil P loss and, in turn, the non-point source pollution loading.