Materials Today Communications
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2023
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IF 3.8
Hongyu Chen,Yunfei Wang,Jianing Wang,Yajuan Wang,Wenyan Liu
In recent years, CuInS 2 quantum dots have shown great potential for various applications due to their wide excitation wavelength range, symmetric emission wavelength range, long fluorescence lifetime and optical stability. However, the high cost of indium (In) limits its commercialization. In this study, we partially substituted the expensive In element with more affordable and abundant aluminum (Al) to reduce the cost of CuInS 2 quantum dots. CuInS 2 , CuAlInS, CuInS 2 /ZnS and CuAlInS/ZnS core/shell quantum dots were synthesized using one-pot method. Due to the incorporation of Al, their photoluminescence (PL) spectra exhibit a blue shift of about 5 nm. A time-resolved PL measurement indicated that the PL lifetime of the quantum dots was a characteristic feature of three dominating transitions from the conduction band to surface defect level, from the conduction band to an acceptor level, and from the donor level to an acceptor level. The temperature-dependent PL proves that after the introduction of Al, the FWHM of quantum dots does not show significant broadening with increasing temperature. Finally, CuInS 2 /ZnS and CuAlInS/ZnS quantum dot phosphor LEDs are produced. The brightness of the CuAlInS/ZnS quantum dot phosphor LED is slightly higher than that of CuInS 2 /ZnS quantum dot phosphor LEDs. The red-emitting CuAlInS/ZnS quantum dot phosphor LED with easy fabrication and no need for encapsulation can compensate for the lack of red light in warm white LED applications in future research.
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材料科学
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半导体物理
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光电
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Journal of Flow Chemistry
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2018
·Vol. 8
·期 3
·129-138
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IF 1.658
Li Xin,Liu Zhuang,Qi Hao,Fang Zheng,Huang Siyu,Miao Shanshan,Guo Kai
To reduce the cost and improve the efficiency for rifampicin preparation, a continuous flow synthesis of rifampicin starting from rifamycin S and tert -butylamine was studied in a microreactor. Two reaction steps and one purification step were coupled in a microreactor, and rifampicin was obtained with 67% overall yield. This method used 25% less 1-amino-4-methyl piperazine and got 16% higher overall yield without changing solvent and purification process between steps. This method has a good potential for further industrial application.
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制药工程
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有机化学
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WATER RESEARCH
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2022
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IF 13.4
Xuewei Li,Xu Zhao,Juanjuan Zhang,Jingwei Hao,Qiwu Zhang
Recovery of phosphorus from wastewater through struvite crystallization is one of the most attractive methods. However, the cost of chemical consumption makes this technology is unattractive to some extent. In this work, highly active serpentine was prepared by one-step mechanical activation and then used to recover phosphate as struvite from the black water containing 132.8 mg/L phosphorus and 3144 mg/L ammonia nitrogen. The results indicated that the prepared active serpentine can release magnesium ions and hydroxide ions simultaneously into an aqueous solution and is an ideal raw material for struvite crystallization. The factors for phosphorus recovery in this process mainly include mechanical activation intensity, serpentine dosage, and contact time. For the actual black water, a high recovery rate of phosphorus (>98%) is achieved by using active serpentine as the magnesium and alkali source for struvite precipitation. The recovery product was identified as struvite with a median particle size of 32.96 μm. It was confirmed that the mechanical activation damaged the crystal structure of the raw serpentine, improving the activity of Mg 2+ and OH − . The undissolved Si-containing particles act as crystal seeds, accelerating the struvite crystallization process. Furthermore, a pilot-scale test was conducted with a rural public toilet in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province. The results showed that an acceptable phosphorus recovery (98%) could be achieved using active serpentine. Additionally, it was demonstrated that the serpentine process to recover phosphate as struvite reduced the cost by 54.4% in compared with an ordinary chemical process. The active serpentine is a promising dual source of magnesium and alkali for the phosphorus recovery by the struvite method. It has a potential prospect for the large-scale application in phosphorus recovery and struvite fertilizer production.
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环境科学
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废水处理
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资源回收
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PREPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
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2022
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IF 3.141
Yi Zhang,Jing Bai,Chenqi Wu,Yue Wang,Xin Ju,Xin Qi,Liangzhi Li,Lilian Ji,Jiaolong Fu
ε-Poly-l-lysine (ε-PL) is used as a natural food preservative which consists of l-lysine units connected. However, due to the expensive culture medium, the production cost of ε-PL remains high. In this study, cheap raw materials cassava starch (CS) and fish meal (FM) were employed by S. albulus FQC-24 for ε-PL production. In the single factor experiment, the maximum ε-PL production reached 0.97 g/L at 60 g/L CS and 15 g/L FM. The results of screening experiments by Plackett–Burman design showed that three main components affecting ε-PL production were CS, FM, and (NH4)2SO4. And the standardized effects of CS, FM, and (NH4)2SO4 were 0.13, −0.22, and −0.2, respectively. The optimum fermentation medium developed by response surface methodology for ε-PL production contained (g/L) CS, 67.56; FM, 14.70 and (NH4)2SO4, 5.41. Under the optimum conditions, the ε-PL production was achieved 1.30 g/L, with 34.02% higher than that before optimization. Moreover, ε-PL productions of batch and fed-batch fermentation in a 7-L fermentor were improved to 2.13 and 17.17 g/L respectively, which increased by 0.64 and 12.2 times compared with the shake flask culture. The results indicated that FM and CS are promising substrates for the efficient production of ε-PL.
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生物技术
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微生物学
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食品科学
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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IF 9
Hongru Qu,Yimin Zhang,Hong Liu,Nannan Xue,Yiping Wang
In traditional methods for preparing vanadium electrolytes, challenges include lengthy processes, high costs, and difficulties in deeply separating vanadium and impurities. This study introduces an innovative approach utilizing an H 2 O 2 -NaClO efficient selective oxidative stripping system within the D2EHPA extraction process. This method was optimized at a pH of 12, with a phase ratio (O/A) of 6:1, a reaction temperature of 45 °C, and a reaction time of 8 min. The concentration of H 2 O 2 was set at 1.5 %, with a volume ratio between H 2 O 2 and NaClO of 95 % to 5 %. Under these conditions, the vanadium stripping rate in a single stage reached 95.13 %. The low concentration (1.5 %) of H 2 O 2 increased the single-stage stripping rate of vanadium by nearly 50 %, reducing H 2 O 2 usage by at least 25 %, while NaClO enhanced the stability of H 2 O 2 . The prepared electrolyte contained impurity ion concentrations of less than 10 ppm, meeting Chinese national first-class standard of Electrolyte for vanadium flow battery. The electrolyte demonstrated excellent electrochemical and charge–discharge performance, with Coulombic efficiency, voltage efficiency, and energy efficiency reaching 85.45 %, 89.58 %, and 76.55 %, respectively, achieving 95 % of the standard electrolyte’s performance. This method significantly shortens the process and reduces costs by 25.29 % compared to the traditional V 2 O 5 dissolution method. This study offers a novel approach to producing high-purity electrolytes through a shorter, cost-effective process.
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化学工程
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材料科学
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ACS Nano
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2019
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IF 13.903
Minqi Sheng,Binbin Jiang,Bin Wu,Fan Liao,Xing Fan,Haiping Lin,Youyong Li,Yeshayahu Lifshitz,Shuit-Tong Lee,Mingwang Shao
Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen is an important issue for the industrial production of green and sustainable energy. The best electrocatalyst currently available for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is platinum. We herein show that iridium can be manipulated to achieve a record high HER activity surpassing platinum in every aspect: a lower overpotential at any given current density, a higher current density, and mass activity for all bias potentials applied and a catalyst cost reduction of 50% for the same hydrogen generation rate. The superior HER activity was achieved by a binary Ir/Si nanowire catalyst design in which (as density functional theory calculations show) two distinct strategies act in synergy: (i) decreasing the size of the iridium nanoparticles to ∼2.2 nm and (ii) dividing the H2-generation process to three steps occurring on two different catalysts: H adsorption on iridium, H diffusion to silicon, and H2 desorption from silicon.
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材料科学
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能源化学
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催化化学
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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
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2021
·Vol. 168
·期 12
·123504
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IF 4.316
Yuan Du,Liu Hao,Wang Zixuan,Wang Xi,Miao Guirong,Wu Xu
β-PbO2 is an important high oxygen overpotential anode coating material. Further study on nanoscale β-PbO2 with higher performance and lower cost is a critical issue in order to develop the electrochemical ozone generator. Herein, an improved β-PbO2 nanoparticles synthesizing strategy based on the traditional Pb(OAc)4 hydrolysis method is proposed in this work, which is more scalable for industrial-scale production compared with existed nano β-PbO2 synthesizing methods. The possible mechanism of synthesizing β-PbO2 nanoparticles via Pb(OAc)4 hydrolysis was discussed for the first time. Based on the proposed mechanism, the size and morphology of the β-PbO2 nanoparticles were effectively controlled, and alternative raw material that can significantly reduce costs was developed. SEM, TEM, XRD, and XPS results indicate that pure phase β-PbO2 nanoparticles range from 10–30 nm were obtained. In addition, the use of alternative raw materials reduces the cost by 90%–95% compared to the traditional Pb(OAc)4 hydrolysis method. The β-PbO2 nanoparticles showed good ozone generation performances. The energy consumption per unit ozone of the β-PbO2 nanoparticles is reduced by 51.9% at the optimized operation condition than the reference PbO2 particles used for comparison.
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材料科学
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环境工程
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Energy Storage Materials
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2017
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IF 0
Hao Zhong,Liu Zhang Ouyang,Jian Shan Ye,Jiang Wen Liu,Hui Wang,Xiang Dong Yao,Min Zhu
The hydrolysis of NaBH 4 offers significant advantages for hydrogen storage in fuel cells, whereby suffers from the irreversibility . Thus, a simple and low cost method for NaBH 4 regeneration from its hydrolysis byproduct is crucial. Herein, we describe a single step method for NaBH 4 regeneration, which combines both hydrogen production and storage in the one step. In the process, a mixture of magnesium silicide and dihydrate sodium metaborate is reacted via ball milling under ambient conditions without the requirements of additional hydrogen sources . The hydrogen only comes from the splitting of H 2 O in the NaBO 2 ·2H 2 O that is a direct byproduct of NaBH 4 hydrolysis. The purified product demonstrates the same physicochemical properties as commercial NaBH 4 . Yields for NaBH 4 regeneration approaching 80% are achieved using this method. Mechanism study indicates that the high yield is likely to be beneficial from the formation of the Mg-O-Si-H conjugated structure. NaBH 4 regeneration using this process demonstrates a 30-fold reduction in cost over a previous study that used MgH 2 as the reduction agent.
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化学
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材料科学
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能源存储
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ACS Nano
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2019
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IF 13.903
Fei Cao,Dejian Yu,Wenbo Ma,Xiaobao Xu,Bo Cai,Yang Michael Yang,Sinan Liu,Lunhua He,Yubin Ke,Si Lan,Kwang-Leong Choy,Haibo Zeng
Halide perovskite (HP) nanocrystals (NCs) have recently shown great potential for X-ray detection and imaging. However, the practical application still has a long way to go with many technical requirements waiting to be fulfilled, including structure optimization, stability enhancement, and cost reduction. A design principle in this beginning stage is urgently needed but still lacking. Herein, with an “emitter-in-matrix” principle refined from commercial scintillators, CsPbBr3@Cs4PbBr6 with emissive CsPbBr3 NCs embedded inside a solid-state Cs4PbBr6 host is subjected to X-ray sensing and imaging. The Cs4PbBr6 matrix not only enhances the attenuation of X-rays but also dramatically improves the stability of CsPbBr3 NCs. A favorable optical design with the Cs4PbBr6 matrix being transparent to the emission from CsPbBr3 NCs enables efficient light output. As a result, stable and sensitive scintillation response to X-ray signals is demonstrated with superior linearity and ultrahigh time resolution. In order to show the huge potential for practical applications, X-ray imaging using a large-area film (360 mm × 240 mm) by the blade-coating technique is carried out to obtain a high-quality image of interior structures invisible to the human eye. In addition to the above advantages in optics, CsPbBr3@Cs4PbBr6 also enjoys facile solution synthesis with large scalability, excellent repeatability, and low cost.
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材料科学
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放射学
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光学
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纳米技术
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Yongyang Zhu,Liming Zeng,Daifeng Wu,Renheng Tang,Qing Zhou
The lack of cost-effective regeneration techniques for LiBH 4 limits its large-scale applications for supplying hydrogen via hydrolysis. Now, we report a facile method to regenerate LiBH 4 by ball milling its real hydrolytic byproduct (LiBO 2 · x H 2 O) with cheap Al based reducing agents, instead of traditional Mg. Effective strategies are developed to promote the formation of LiBH 4 by introducing Li 2 O to enable the dense Al 2 O 3 to convert into LiAlO 2 on Al surface and break up passivation layers, and by partially replacing Al with Al-RE alloy to improve grinding and contacting efficiency of raw materials and facilitate the conversion from initial H + in LiBO 2 ·2H 2 O to final H ¯ in LiBH 4 . A yield of 10.4 % can be obtained for a relatively short ball milling time (10 h) for the Al-Al 2 Ce-Li 2 O-LiBO 2 ·2H 2 O system. Another advantage of this method is that the utilization of H + source in LiBO 2 ·2H 2 O improves energy efficiency and reduces the cost. This work broadens the species of reducing agents for borohydride regeneration and enriches its regeneration methods.
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材料科学
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化学工程
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氢气储存
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Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr
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2021
·Vol. 16
·期 1
·193-203
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IF 4.102
Miaojia Song,Jianping Lu,Yu Zhang,Yongming Sun,Zhenhong Yuan,Zhongming Wang
Furfural (FF) is an important bio-based platform compound derived from lignocellulose. It can be converted into many industrially valuable chemicals, a typical one being methyl-2-furoate (MF). At present, MF production depends largely on vigorous one-step chemical catalysis (oxidative esterification), in which expensive catalysts (precious metals) and a high temperature (60–120 °C) are required. To reduce the costs of this procedure, a mild, green, and cheap chemoenzymatic process is proposed where FF is initially chemically oxidized to furoic acid (FA), and then FA is enzymatically esterified to MF. Neither step requires an expensive catalyst, and both occur at low temperatures (30–50 °C). For the chemical oxidation process, the optimized FA yield of 83.7% was obtained at 40 °C with an FF/BTIC (1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl) imidazolium chloride) molar ratio of 0.18, 10 mL N -methyl pyrrolidone, and 0.1 MPa oxygen pressure. For the enzymatic esterification, the optimized MF yield reached 80.6% at 50 °C with 50 mg•mL −1 enzyme loading and an alcohol/acid ratio of 7:1. Kinetic studies demonstrated the oxidation to be a sixth-order reaction, and the esterification to be an endothermic reaction. For both oxidation and esterification reactions, the relationship between the rate constant and temperature agreed well with the Arrhenius equation. For esterification, the relationship between the equilibrium constant and the temperature also agreed with the Van't Hoff equation. A 67.5% MF yield was obtained when sequential oxidation and esterification were initiated from FF. The development of chemoenzymatic processes for MF production from FF is effective and has potential value in decreasing the production cost of MF. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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化学工程
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生物技术
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绿色化学
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GREEN CHEMISTRY
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2021
·Vol. 23
·期 7
·2738-2746
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IF 10.182
Feiyun Li,Feiyang Qin,Yuxia Pang,Hongming Lou,Cheng Cai,Weifeng Liu,Yong Qian,Xueqing Qiu
In order to reduce the enzyme cost of lignocellulosic enzymatic hydrolysis, upper critical solution temperature (UCST) additives are used to recover and reuse cellulase by regulating the temperature. A sulfobetaine polymer, PSPE, showed a sensitive UCST response in buffer, and its UCST-performance was optimised by adjusting the molecular weight of the polymer. PSPE-3 (Mw = 355.1 kDa) was added to the cellulase buffer at 50 °C, and PSPE-3 and cellulase were co-precipitated by cooling to the room temperature of 25 °C. PSPE-3 and cellulase co-precipitated mainly through hydrophobic interactions via cooling. Compared with octadecyl sulfobetaine (SB3–18), PSPE-3 had a more sensitive UCST response and stronger cellulase recovery ability. Adding only 40% PSPE-3 (accounting for the mass fraction of cellulase) can save more than 50% cellulase in the enzymatic hydrolysis system of eucalyptus chips pre-treated with dilute acid (Eu-DA). However, for the Eu-DA system, adding 100% SB3–18 can only save about 30% of cellulase. In this work, efficient recycling of cellulase was achieved at room temperature by adding UCST-type PSPE. The process is green without consuming acid and alkali, and this work provides a new idea for reducing the production cost of cellulosic ethanol.
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生物化学
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可再生资源与环境工程
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