ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2021
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IF 8.198
Xiaoqing Cao,Jun Zhou,Zhipeng Zhai,Song Li,Guo Yuan,Gaowu Qin
Development of efficient and sustainable monolithic catalysts for NaBH4 hydrolysis remains an important goal for hydrogen cycling. In this work, the structured catalyst Ru/MgO with an on–off feature has been prepared by directly growing a nano-Ru-embedded MgO coating layer on a Mg substrate via an instant high-temperature plasma oxidation process. The porous MgO framework provides an ideal space for the access of reactants and diffusion of mass transport, which facilitates reaction triggering and the expulsion of byproducts to avoid poisoning the catalyst. Importantly, Ru nanoparticles (NPs) are monodisperse with ultrasmall particle size deriving from a concurrent rapid arcing and fast quenching. The hierarchical structured Ru NP catalysts are highly active for hydrolysis of sodium borohydride by achieving a high hydrogen generation rate (HGR) of 101,189 mL min–1 g–1 and exhibit attractive stability. In addition, it is facile to realize the “on–off” functionality based on simple separation that could accurately control the hydrogen generation, suggesting the structured catalyst to be of great potential for practical applications. This simple method opens valuable opportunities for fast synthesis of the high-quality structured catalyst and could be extended to various noble metals on oxides of valve metals with high catalytic performance.
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材料科学
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催化化学
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2019
·Vol. 7
·期 18
·10980-10987
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IF 10.733
Xiaoqing Cao,Jun Zhou,Hongna Wang,Song Li,Wei Wang,Gaowu Qin
Supported Au nanoparticles have been attracting increasing attention due to their unique catalytic performance. However, their thermal and catalytic stability against sintering and aggregation during preparation and reactions remains a serious issue in practical applications, and what is even more difficult is to solve this mutually exclusive problem by a feasible technique. Here, we propose a simple one-step ultra-low temperature interfacial plasma electrolytic oxidation (ULTPEO) process to successfully prepare sub-10 nm and highly stable Au NPs, supported on a porous MgO layer, with high activity and a long lifespan. The obtained Au NPs, with partially exposed free surfaces, are encapsulated into a porous MgO support film. This unique embedded structure restrains their sintering on the support surface during high temperature treatment even up to 600 °C and shows good thermal stability and excellent recyclability in a model reaction of the hydrogenation of 4-nitrophenol. Moreover, the developed technique allows the facile control of the average size of Au NPs down to ∼3 nm with high monodispersity by liquid nitrogen cooling, and hence a further significant improvement in catalytic activity and the lowest catalytic activation energy of ∼14 kJ mol−1 among the reported literature are obtained. This simple technique is also extended to other metal NP catalysts (e.g. Ru and Pd) that support MgO and exhibit excellent catalytic activity for the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride and oxidation of silanes, respectively.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 8.1
Hai Liang,Ying Jiang,Shuxin Wang,Zhishuang Xue,Chunfeng Wang,Wanting Wang,Xiuyuan Zuo,Yan Dai,Xuehua Ruan
The recycling of phosphate from wastewater using regenerable and highly efficient MgO-modified biochar for Mg-P fertilizer application is of great interest. However, the practical application of MgO-modified biochar for the removal and recycling of phosphate is hindered by its short-recycled service-life. Herein, a facile yet scalable method is proposed to fabricate porous MgO nanofiber-functionalized biochar (PMgNF-BC) with enhanced phosphate adsorption and regeneration performances from wastewater using waste biomass and magnesite. The as-prepared PMgNF-BC exhibited the maximum phosphate adsorption capacities of 594.53, 661.57, and 725.43 mg/g at 298.15 K, 308.15 K and 318.15 K, respectively. More importantly, PMgNF-BC demonstrated excellent regeneration performance with the removal efficiency of 84.2 % after eight regeneration cycles. Furthermore, the regenerated PMgNF-BC exhibited the well-preserved fiber shape of MgO on BC, enabling splendid regeneration performance. This work validates PMgNF-BC as a sustainable adsorbent for recycling phosphorus from wastewater, addressing the urgent need for synthesizing biochar with high regeneration performance.
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Small
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2023
·Vol. 19
·期 45
·2303405
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IF 13.3
Mengping Liu,Ganbing Zhang,Ruiqi Ming,Xin Fu,Ruiyi Jiang,Lihong Tian,Xiaobo Chen
Defects on metal oxide have attracted extensive attention in photo-/electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction. Herein, porous MgO nanosheets with abundant oxygen vacancies (V o s) and three-coordinated oxygen atoms (O 3c ) at corners are reported, which reconstruct into defective MgCO 3 ·3H 2 O exposing rich surface unsaturated -OH groups and vacancies to initiate photocatalytic CO 2 reduction to CO and CH 4 . In consecutive 7-cycle tests (each run for 6 h) in pure water, CO 2 conversion keeps stable. The total production of CH 4 and CO attains ≈367 µmol g cata −1 h −1 . The selectivity of CH 4 gradually increases from ≈3.1% (1 st run) to ≈24.5% (4 th run) and then remains unchanged under UV-light irradiation. With triethanolamine (3.3 vol.%) as the sacrificial agent, the total production of CO and CH 4 production rapidly increases to ≈28 000 µmol g cata −1 in 2 h reaction. Photoluminescence spectra reveal that V o s induces the formation of donor bands to promote charge carrier seperation. A series of trace spectra and theoretical analysis indicate Mg-V o sites in the derived MgCO 3 ·3H 2 O are active centers, which play a crucial role in modulating CO 2 adsorption and triggering photoreduction reactions. These intriguing results on defective alkaline earth oxides as potential photocatalysts in CO 2 conversion may spur some exciting and novel findings in this field.
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环境科学
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化学
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
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2023
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IF 3.8
Hai Liang,Xinyu Feng,Xiuyuan Zuo,Zhihan Zhu,Siman Yang,Baowei Zhu,Wanting Wang,Jingjing Zhang,Gang Li
MgO-modified biochar (MgO-BC) has demonstrated enormous potential for practical application of Cd(Ⅱ) removal from wastewater. Exceptionally numerous MgO adsorption sites and enhanced porosity of MgO-BC are both critical for efficiency Cd(Ⅱ) removal. However, the pursuit of high-content of MgO while maintaining unobstructed pore structure remains a challenge due to the blockage of BC pores by the MgO particles. Herein, we demonstrated that Mg(NO 3 ) 2 can synergistically enhance the porosity and MgO active site of biochar attributing to the oxidation of nitrate. The prepared MgO-BC exhibits highly porous framework structure. Remarkably, further adsorption results indicate the MgO-BC has outstanding adsorption capacity of Cd(Ⅱ) in solution. The immobilized contaminant Cd(Ⅱ) onto MgO-BC was predominantly attributable to the chemical and physical interaction, including ion exchange, cation-π interaction, surface complexation and electrostatic interaction. This strategy demonstrates a novel route to develop efficient adsorbents by tailoring structure and metal oxide via nitrate activation.
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MEASUREMENT SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
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2025
·Vol. 36
·期 3
·035110
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IF 3.4
Qianchun Zhang,Chengcheng Wan,Jiumei He,Zhaoru Ban,Shan Tang,Li Jiang,Yanju Chen,Xixi Long
In this study, mesoporous MgO nanoparticles were successfully synthesized using carbon quantum dots as templates and an outstanding cataluminescence sensor system was established based on these nanoparticles. In a particular situation, the constructed sensor demonstrated remarkable linear range was 0.3106–310.6 ppm (R2 = 0.9990) with a low limit of detection of 0.0994 ppm and a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 3. The mesoporous MgO nanoparticle sensor was utilized to analyze the isobutyraldehyde content in real samples. Outstanding recoveries were achieved within range of 83.4%–111%, with the relative standard deviations (n = 7) ranging from 2.0% to 8.2%. Moreover, the 35 d test results showed that the sensor has good stability. Density functional theory and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were used to research the mechanism of the designed cataluminescence sensor. This work presents a universal methodology for constructing isobutyraldehyde gas sensors with high sensitivity and selectivity, and mesoporous MgO nanoparticles sensors that expand the applications available in the industry and environment analysis.
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环境分析化学
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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
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2020
·Vol. 20
·期 2
·810-818
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IF 1.134
Zhao Junfeng,Yan Kou,Wen Xuemin,Xu Huashan
Porous MgO nanostructures were synthesized in large-scale by a simple solution combustion method using citric acid and glucose as the fuel. The resulting porous nanostructure powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), transmission electron
microscopy (TEM), and N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms. The SEM and TEM images demonstrated that the type of fuel used during the combustion synthesis strongly affects the morphology and structure. The use of glucose aggregated the structure with majority particle sizes
in the range 3560 nm and a surface area of 40.55 m2g-1, while the use of citric acid results in a large network structure with smaller particle sizes (30–50 nm) and a larger surface area of 53.88 m2g-1. The two samples synthesized from glucose
and citric acid exhibited excellent adsorption performance for Congo red with the maximum capacity reaching 1500.98 mg g-1 and 1638.08 mg g-1, respectively. These results indicate that the porous MgO synthesized by the solution combustion is a potential candidate for
the removal of pollutant dye in water.
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环境科学
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纳米技术
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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IF 8.6
Hai Liang,Jianjiang Wang,Wanting Wang,Yingli Wang,Xinzhong Deng,Zhishuang Xue,Yang Sun,Gaohong He,Xuehua Ruan
Developing efficient biochar (BC) adsorbent for pollution removal has been a long-term exploration. However, the negative charge surface of pristine BC seriously impedes the transfer of anionic dye through the pore of BC and results in low adsorption capacity. Herein, N-doping enriched porous MgO-modified biochar (MBC) was successfully prepared through a facile nitrate activation method for anionic acid fuchsin (AF) removal. The N-doped group of secondary amine in MBC changes the surface charge of BC and facilitate the AF adsorption onto MgO . The as-prepared MBC exhibited superior adsorption capacity of 328 mg⋅g −1 . The adsorption process was well aligned with the Freundlich and pseudo-second-order kinetics models indicating a hybrid physicochemical adsorption mechanism. Further mechanism investigation indicates that N-doped group, MgO and functional groups in biochar matrix primarily contribute to AF adsorption. The mechanism includes: electrostatic attraction, π-π interaction, hydrogen bonding and pore filling. This research provides an environmentally friendly nitrate activation strategy for BC, which overcomes the inherent defects of BC in negative charge surface and provides a facile way of biomass valorization for pollution removal from the aquatic environment.
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