ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2020
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IF 8.758
Jian Shu,Yangming Lu,Erlong Wang,Xiangpeng Li,Shi-Yang Tang,Sizepeng Zhao,Xiangbo Zhou,Lining Sun,Weihua Li,Shiwu Zhang
Gallium-based room-temperature liquid metals have enormous potential for realizing various applications in electronic devices, heat flow management, and soft actuators. Filling narrow spaces with a liquid metal is of great importance in rapid prototyping and circuit printing. However, it is relatively difficult to stretch or spread liquid metals into desired patterns because of their large surface tension. Here, we propose a method to fabricate a particle-based porous material which can enable the rapid and spontaneous diffusion of liquid metals within the material under a capillary force. Remarkably, such a method can allow liquid metal to diffuse along complex structures and even overcome the effect of gravity despite their large densities. We further demonstrate that the developed method can be utilized for prototyping complex three-dimensional (3D) structures via direct casting and connecting individual parts or by 3D printing. As such, we believe that the presented technique holds great promise for the development of additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and soft electronics using liquid metals.
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电子工程
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2021
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IF 8.198
Mao-Cheng Liu,Bin-Mei Zhang,Yu-Shan Zhang,Yu-Xia Hu
Ti3C2 has been considered as a potential material for lithium-ion storage because of its abundant surface terminals, excellent metal-like conductivity, and modifiable layered structure. However, the Li+ diffusion rate in interlayer is limited by the small interlayer spacing determined by the van der Waals forces. Herein, the dehydration condensation reaction between amino-functionalized Ti3C2 (Ti3C2-NH2) and maleic acid (MA) molecules was utilized to enlarge the interlayer spacing of Ti3C2. The MA molecules were successfully welded into interlayers of Ti3C2 by HN–C═O bonds (namely, chemical welding) and MA chemical welded Ti3C2 (MA-Ti3C2) with self-adaption layered structure were obtained. The MA molecules can contribute double effects to the layered structure of Ti3C2, and they act as chains to remit the volume change during Li+ insertion and serve as pillars to enhance the structure stability during Li+ extraction. The MA-Ti3C2 exhibits an interlayer spacing of 1.28 nm, a fast Li+ diffusion rate (1.4 × 10–8 to 5.8 × 10–7 cm2 s–1), and improved Li+ storage performance. The MA-Ti3C2//AC lithium-ion capacitor (LIC) demonstrates an excellent energy density of 102.5 Wh kg–1 at 200 W kg–1 and cycle stability with 76.3% at 1.0 A g–1 after 1000 cycles. This novel chemical welding delivers an effective perspective for modifying the layered structure, enhancing the structure stability, and achieving fast Li+ diffusion and high-rate capability of two-dimension materials.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 10.652
Qiang Liu,Bingsi Liu,Qinze Liu,Qiuyue Zhang,Rongnian Xu,Xuanyue Wu,Hong Xia
Refined design of sustainable sorbent demands to tackle the strong dependence for additional mesoporous support and low utilization in hot coal gas desulfurization. Unlike the well-established preparation of loading sorbents supported on zeolites, a vacuum-assisted self-assemble strategy tapping into the ordered channels of walnut wood is proposed to facilely fabricate three-dimensional (3D) (a%Ce–Mn) y Al 2−y O x desulfurizers with anisotropy which provides a desirable macroporosity for rapid diffusion of H 2 S. Benefiting from the inherent straight channle in micron scale, the obtained (8%Ce–Mn) 1.5 Al 0.5 O x presents the highest breakthrough sulfur capacity (289.79 mg g −1 ) and effective utilization (88.42%) at 700 °C. The favorable rapid diffusion of gases in micro/macropores improves greatly the H 2 O-resistance and anti-interference ability of 3D (8%Ce–Mn) 1.5 Al 0.5 O x for high steam and concentration of reducing gas. The fast mass transport in sulfidation reaction at 700 °C is described perfectly by the improved deactivation kinetics model. This study opens a novel design of the ideal 3D desulfurizers with micron porosity inherited from hierarchical architecture of walnut wood for industrialization utilization in the near future.
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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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2020
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IF 3.408
Junbo Liu,Huilong Liu,Na Lin,Yingxi Xie,Shigen Bai,Zhiran Lin,Longsheng Lu,Yong Tang
This study demonstrated a facile method to fabricate super-hydrophilic 3D porous graphene with high capillary force and ultra-fast spreading characteristic by direct laser writing on KMnO 4 -coated polyimide (PI) films. Highly oxidized laser-induced graphene (OLIG) was obtained with dominated sp 2 carbon referring from Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. In addition, abundant oxygen functional groups and a 3D porous scaffold structure with foam-like flakes were produced based on the results of X-ray photoelectron pattern and scanning electron microscopy. OLIG showed ultra-fast spreading properties that water drops can spread completely within dozens of milliseconds. The morphology and chemical composition also render the new material with good capillary effect. The capillary rate-of-rise test with IR camera demonstrated that the wetted height of OLIG strip can reach around 16 mm within 5 min.
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化学工程
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2020
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IF 8.758
Rui Yang,Fan Zhang,Xin Lei,Yongping Zheng,Guohua Zhao,Yongbing Tang,Chun-Sing Lee
Magnesium-ion batteries (MIBs) have received increasing attention for next-generation energy storage recently because of the natural abundance, high capacity, and dendrite-free deposition of Mg. However, their applications are hindered by irreversible Mg anode plating in conventional electrolytes and the lack of cathode materials, demonstrating high working voltage, satisfactory Mg2+ diffusivity, and long cycling life. In this work, we first developed a novel magnesium-ion based dual-ion battery (Mg-DIB) by utilizing expanded graphite as the cathode and Ti-doped niobium pentoxide nanoflakes (Ti–Nb2O5 NFs) as the anode. The Ti–Nb2O5 NFs showed hierarchical structures of microspheres with diameters of 4–5 μm assembled by nanoflakes. For the first time, the Mg-ion storage mechanism in Ti–Nb2O5 NFs was investigated. Benefiting from the hierarchical structure design and pseudocapacitive intercalation behavior of Mg ions, the Ti–Nb2O5 NF anode exhibited fast Mg-ion diffusion. Consequently, the Mg-DIB exhibited a high discharge capacity of 93 mA h g–1 at 1 C (1 C corresponding to 100 mA g–1), along with good long-term cycling performance with a capacity retention of 79% at 3 C after 500 cycles. The Mg-DIB also demonstrated a capacity retention of 77% at 5C, indicating its good rate performance. Moreover, the Mg-DIB exhibited a high discharge medium voltage of ∼1.83 V, thus enabling a high energy density of 174 W h kg–1 at 183 W kg–1 and 122 W h kg–1 at a high power density of 845 W kg–1, among the best of the reported magnesium-ion full batteries. Our work provides a new strategy to improve the performance of MIBs and other rechargeable batteries.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Huawen Huang,Christian Atangana Etogo,Chen Chen,Ran Bi,Lei Zhang
Recently, potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) have been deemed to be a potential next-generation energy storage system for large-scale application because of the similar metal-ion storage mechanism as lithium-ion batteries and rich potassium resources. However, the large-sized potassium ion will cause sluggish reaction kinetics of K+ during charge/discharge processes, hindering the development of high-performance PIBs. In this work, copper sulfide embedded in three-dimensional ordered macroporous carbon framework (3DOM Cu9S5@C) was prepared through a sulfidation and subsequent ion exchange strategy with 3D ordered macropore Zn-based metal–organic frameworks as a precursor for an advanced PIBs anode. In particular, the interconnected 3D ordered macroporous structure can provide rapid transport channels for the large potassium ions and create a sufficient contact area for solid electrode materials and the liquid electrolyte, which is conducive to improve the ionic diffusion kinetics of batteries. Consequently, when the prepared 3DOM Cu9S5@C composite was used as a PIBs anode material, it shows a remarkable potassium storage rate capacity of 170 mA h g–1 at 2.0 A g–1 and an excellent cycling stability of 316 mA h g–1 at 100 mA g–1 after 200 cycles.
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能源存储与转换
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