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It is a challenge to synthesize high-quality MAPbX3 single-crystal microwires (MWs) under gentle conditions owing to their sensitivity to humidity and brittleness. We herein propose a facile bilayer flexible polymer confinement method to obtain high-quality MAPbI3 single-crystal microwires in air. The MAPbI3 microwire-based photodetector exhibits a superior responsivity of 77.96 A W−1, an EQE of 1.86 × 104%, and an ultrahigh detectivity of 6.97 × 1013 Jones owing to the efficient carrier transport and excellent crystallinity with few defects. Furthermore, photodetectors based on the MAPbI3 microwire arrays present superior performance with a detectivity of 3.09 × 1013 Jones, which is more than 160% and 7700% higher than that of the photodetectors based on the MAPbI3 microwires and polycrystalline film at 254 μW cm−2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biodegradable, economical, eco-friendly, and readily available plant-based mucilages have advanced the water treatment technology significantly and replaced the toxic sludge-producing synthetic water purifiers such as ferric chloride, alum, polyaluminium chloride, polyacrylamide, and inorganic polymers. The plant-based mucilages are becoming increasingly popular due to lesser chemical residues and disease risks. The main components of plant-based mucilages are the primary sugars such as D -galactose , L -arabinose, and D -xylose that are very efficient for removal of metals and toxic substances from water. The present review focuses on using the most efficient natural mucilages from different plants to remediate different types of wastewaters such as drinking, textile, and industrial. The polymer bridging and charge neutralization were considered primary processes of mucilages for removing water contaminants such as trace elements (Pb, Cr, Cd, As, Fe, Ni, and Mn), total suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand, turbidity, total dissolved solids, suspended materials, and dye decoloration. [Display omitted] • Mucilages are natural biomaterials produced by plants via myxospermy or myxocarpy. • Polysaccharide mucilages mainly consist of arabinose, galactose, rhamnose, and xylose. • Mucilages are promising substitutes for synthetic sludge-producing water refiners. • Mucilages remediate polluted water mainly by adsorption and charge neutralization. • Commercial production and standardization of mucilages to treat water is demanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative research critically explores the intersection of multiple historical, socio-cultural and political discourses in The Forty Rules of Love. For this purpose, the current study has been conducted through the theoretical perspective of postmodern historiographic metafiction with the analytical method of intertextuality. Early on, the novel has been studied with respect to fascination for Rumi and spirituality. However, the current research tends to analyze the novel in the light of postmodernism that encourages the syncretic mixing of innovation and tradition, and past and present into a unified whole, through the lens of intertexuality. The researchable issue is to investigate how the writer blends history into fiction and what sorts of techniques she employs to formulate historiographic metafictional nature of the text by intermingling of various other texts/discourses leading to a unique blend of multi-layered meaning residing in a single text. The study focuses on the contribution of the form of the text towards the production of meaning in terms of plurality and the elicitation of ideological discourses underlying the main schema. Specifically, this study aims to ascertain the outcome of intertextual fusion of historical and postmodern narrative in the novel and its important role in the elicitation of multi-tiered meanings, beliefs and underlying ideologies embedded in the text of the novel. This study finds that, as an amalgam of multiple voices and discourses, The Forty Rules of Love is a critical commentary not just upon a historical faction of Sufi tradition, but also on the ideology of Islam as a peaceful religion, promoting religious tolerance and giving liberty of righteous thoughts and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]