Zifan Song,Zipeng Zhang,Xueting Zhang,Jingyang Liu,Wanjie Wang,Jianfeng Wang,Xiuxiu Jin
Switchable radiative cooling/heating holds great promise for mitigating the global energy and environmental crisis. Here, we reported a cost-effective, high-strength Janus film through surface optical engineering waste paper with one side decorated by a hydrophobic polymeric cooling coating consisting of micro/nanopore/particle hierarchical structure and the other side coated with hydrophilic MXene nanosheets for heating. The cooling surface demonstrates high solar reflectivity (96.3%) and infrared emissivity (95.5%), resulting in daytime/nighttime sub-ambient radiative cooling of 6°C/8°C with the theoretical cooling power of 100.6 and 138.5 W m −2 , respectively. The heating surface exhibits high solar absorptivity (83.7%) and low infrared emissivity (15.2%), resulting in excellent radiative heating capacity for vehicle charging pile (~6.2°C) and solar heating performance. Impressively, the mechanical strength of Janus film increased greatly by 563% compared with that of pristine waste paper, which is helpful for its practical applications in various scenarios for switchable radiative thermal management through mechanical flipping. Energy-saving simulation results reveal that significant total energy savings of up to 32.4 MJ m −2 can be achieved annually (corresponding to the 12.4% saving ratio), showing the immense importance of reducing carbon footprint and promoting carbon neutrality.
Zhaohui Chen,Jiacong Wu,Juan Han,Yun Wang,Liang Ni
This paper reports an innovative study that aims to address key issues in the efficient recycling of wastepaper cellulose. The research team utilized the temperature-responsive upper critical solution temperature (UCST) polymer P(NAGA-b-DMA) in combination with the LytA label’s affinity for choline analogs. This innovative approach enabled them to successfully develop a novel soluble immobilized enzyme, P(NAGA-b-DMA)-cellulase. This new enzyme has proven highly effective, significantly enhancing the degradation of wastepaper cellulose while demonstrating exceptional stability. Compared with the traditional insoluble immobilized cellulase, the enzyme showed a significant improvement in the pH, temperature stability, recycling ability, and storage stability. A kinetic parameter calculation showed that the enzymatic effectiveness of the soluble immobilized enzyme was much better than that of the traditional insoluble immobilized cellulase. After the immobilization reaction, the Michaelis constant of the immobilized enzyme was only increased by 11.5%. In the actual wastepaper degradation experiment, the immobilized enzyme was effectively used, and it was found that the degradation efficiency of wastepaper cellulose reached 80% of that observed in laboratory conditions. This novel, thermosensitive soluble immobilized cellulase can efficiently catalyze the conversion of wastepaper cellulose into glucose under suitable conditions, so as to further ferment into environmentally friendly biofuel ethanol, which provides a solution to solve the shortage of raw materials and environmental protection problems in the paper products industry.