ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2019
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IF 8.456
Chenglong Wang,Xuefeng Long,Shenqi Wei,Tong Wang,Feng Li,Lili Gao,Yiping Hu,Shuwen Li,Jun Jin
Earth-abundant hematite is an attractive photoanode for photoelectrochemical water splitting, whereas the intrinsic properties of inferior charge transfer and slow water oxidation kinetics still hinder its application. In response, an integrated photoanode has been constructed with hematite nanorod arrays modified by fluorine anion doping and further decorated with amorphous CoAl-layered double hydroxides (CoAl-LDH). This novel CoAl-LDH/F–Fe2O3 photoanode exhibited an excellent photocurrent density of 2.46 mA cm–2 at 1.23 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE), five times enhanced than that of pristine α-Fe2O3. Systematic investigations reveal that fluorine anion serving as a donor dopant dramatically enhances the density of charge carrier and reduces the resistance of hematite for rapid charge transfer. Furthermore, the cocatalyst of CoAl-LDH could effectively passivate the surface defects of F–Fe2O3 and facilitate the water oxidation kinetics through an alternative pathway of holes trapped by Co species. As a consequence, the charge separation efficiencies of the bulk and surface were improved to 32.6 and 81.8%, respectively, compared with those of α-Fe2O3 (9.7 and 31.7%). Our results demonstrate that the dual modification of the bulk and surface is an attractive maneuver to ameliorate the water oxidation activity of hematite.
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Solar RRL
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2024
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IF 6
Chenxi Zhao,Bowen Liu,Fuyan Chen,Jiaxin Gao,Xinan Shi,Daocheng Pan
Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 (CIGSSe) solar cell is one of the most promising thin-film solar cells with a record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 23.6%. Conventional CIGSSe thin-film solar cells are usually fabricated on Mo-coated soda-lime glass substrate, thereby, the sunlight on the rear side cannot be utilized by the monofacial CIGSSe solar cells owing to the opacity of the Mo electrode. CIGSSe solar cells fabricated on transparent conductive oxide (TCO) electrode enable to fabricate bifacial solar cells, which can generate power on both sides of solar cells, so that bifacial solar cells have a high potential application in building-integrated photovoltaics. However, the PCEs of CIGSSe solar cells fabricated on TCO substrates are significantly lower than those of ones on Mo substrates. In this article, bifacial CIGSSe solar cells on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate are fabricated by using an ionic liquid-assisted solution approach and utilizing a MoO 3 thin film as an interface layer between FTO and CIGSSe absorber layer, yielding a front-side PCE of 9.73% and a back-side PCE of 1.77%.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2020
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IF 6.785
Dexin Du,Jiangnan Shu,Mingquan Guo,Mohammad A. Haghighatbin,Di Yang,Zhiping Bian,Hua Cui
Recently, nanoluminophores with the potential-resolved multicolor electrochemiluminescence (PRMCECL) property have emerged and shown promising applications in sensitive, selective, and accurate bioassays, bioimaging, and multicolor emitting devices. However, only limited PRMCECL nanoluminophores and their applications in ratiometric biosensors eliminating proportional errors have been reported. Herein, a novel PRMCECL nanoluminophore was synthesized by encapsulating CdS quantum dots (CdSQDs) into MOF-5 (CdSQDs@MOF-5). Using K2S2O8 as a coreactant, two electrochemiluminescence (ECL) peaks, ECL-1 centered at 685 nm and ECL-2 centered at 475 nm, were observed at −1.4 and −1.8 V, respectively. Related ECL mechanisms have been proposed. Based on the potential-resolved ECL signals, a label-free differential ECL immunosensor for the determination of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) was established by assembly of poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride), CdSQDs@MOF-5, and cTnI antibody-functionalized silver nanoparticles on the surface of the fluorine-doped tin oxide electrode subsequently. In the presence of cTnI, cTnI was captured by the sensing interface, leading to an increase in ECL-1 and ECL-2 intensity. cTnI could be determined in the range of 0.01–1000 pg/mL with a detection limit of 5.01 fg/mL using the intensity difference between ECL-1 and ECL-2. This work provides a new family member of PRMCECL nanoluminophores. The proposed label-free differential ECL immunosensor provides a new strategy based on potential-resolved ECL signals, which could effectively eliminate the additive error and show better sensitivity, selectivity, and accuracy for the detection of cTnI than the single-signal strategy and ratiometric strategy.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2018
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IF 6.042
Gen Liu,Cheng Ma,Bao-Kang Jin,Zixuan Chen,Jun-Jie Zhu
Single-cell imaging is essential for elucidating the biological mechanism of cell function because it accurately reveals the heterogeneity among cells. The electrochemiluminescence (ECL) microscopy technique has been considered a powerful tool to study cells because of its high throughput and zero cellular background light. However, since cells are immobilized on the electrode surface, the steric hindrance and the insulation from the cells make it difficult to obtain a luminous cell ECL image. To solve this problem, direct ECL imaging of a single cell was investigated and achieved on chitosan and nano-TiO2 modified fluoride-doped tin oxide conductive glass (FTO/TiO2/CS). The permeable chitosan film is not only favorable for cell immobilization but also increases the space between the bottom of cells and the electrode; thus, more ECL reagent can exist below the cells compared with the cells on a bare electrode, which guarantees the high sensitivity of quantitative analysis. The modification of nano-TiO2 strengthens the ECL visual signal in luminol solution and effectively improves the signal-to-noise ratio. The light intensity is correlated with the H2O2 concentration on FTO/TiO2/CS, which can be applied to analyze the H2O2 released from cells at the single-cell level. As far as we know, this is the first work to achieve cell ECL imaging without the steric hindrance effect of the cell, and it expands the applications of a modified electrode in visualization study.
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生物物理
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2017
·Vol. 185
·期 1
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IF 4.58
Liu Xing-Pei,Xie Xing-Li,Wei Yu-Ping,Mao Chang-jie,Chen Jing-Shuai,Niu He-Lin,Song Ji-Ming,Jin Bao-Kang
A film of perovskite-type LaFeO 3 nanoparticles (NPs) was deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conducting glass via dipping-lifting and calcination. Scanning electron microscopy shows that the NPs are evenly distributed on the surface of the glass. The modified glass was further coated with antibody against human interleukin 6 (IL-6) to result in a photoelectrochemical immunosensor for IL-6. The well-established photoelectrochemical immunoassay has a linear current response in the range of 0.1 pg·mL −1 to 0.1 μg·mL −1 and a detection limit as low as 33 fg·mL −1 . Schematic of a novel photoelectochemical immunoassay for the measurement of IL-6 based on perovskite-type LaFeO3 nanoparticles. The immunoassay had a higher sensitivity and may also be applied to other bioanalysis and environment monitoring.
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RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 37
·30769-30775
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IF 3.289
Tao Ye,Yong Xiang,Hong Ji,Congjin Hu,Gang Wu
Reversible electrodeposition-based electrochromic devices are highly promising for extensive applications owing to their facile and low-cost fabrication. Herein, a novel electrodeposition-based electrochromic device with reversible three-state optical transformation, i.e. transparent, mirror, and black, was fabricated by introducing a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode modified with commonly available and inexpensive titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. Typically, the fabricating strategy mainly involved three procedures, namely obtaining a stable dispersion of TiO2 nanoparticles by milling, achieving a surface modification of the FTO electrode with TiO2 nanoparticles by spin-coating and sintering, and assembling the device by sandwiching gel electrolyte between the modified FTO electrode and a flat FTO electrode. By applying different voltages for a short while, this transparent smart device can be immediately switched to black (+2.5 V/20 s) or mirror (−2.5 V/20 s) state by depositing Ag on the surface of the modified or unmodified FTO electrode respectively. There is below 1% transmittance in the black state and over 80% reflectance in the mirror state for the device. By changing the surface structure of the TiO2 modified FTO electrode, the optical properties of the device in different states can be controlled effectively. Moreover, the optical transformation exhibited good stability over 1500 cycles of testing.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2018
·Vol. 185
·期 7
·1-8
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IF 5.705
Dang Xueming,Zhao Huimin,Wang Xiaona,Sailijiang Tangnuer,Chen Shuo,Quan Xie
A novel photoelectrochemical (PEC) aptasensor with graphitic-phase carbon nitride quantum dots (g-C 3 N 4 ; QDs) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was fabricated. The g-C 3 N 4 QDs possess enhanced emission quantum yield (with an emission peak at 450 nm), improved charge separation ability and effective optical absorption, while rGO has excellent electron transfer capability. Altogether, this results in improved PEC performance. The method is making use of an aptamer against sulfadimethoxine (SDM) that was immobilized on electrode through π stacking interaction. Changes of the photocurrent occur because SDM as a photogenerated hole acceptor can further accelerate the separation of photoexcited carriers. Under optimized conditions and at an applied potential of +0.2 V, the aptasensor has a linear response in the 0.5 nM to 80 nM SDM concentration range, with a 0.1 nM detection limit (at S/ N = 3). The method was successfully applied to the analysis of SDM in tap, lake and waste water samples.
Graphitic-phase carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) quantum dots (QDs) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) were used to modify fluorine-doped SnO 2 (FTO) electrodes for use in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) aptasensor. SDM oxidized by the hole on valance band (VB) of g-C 3 N 4 QDs promote the separation of electron in the conductive band (CB), which made the changes of photocurrent signal.
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ADVANCED POWDER TECHNOLOGY
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2018
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IF 2.943
Yi-Yi Liu,Xin-Yu Ye,Qing-Qing An,Bing-Xin Lei,Wei Sun,Zhen-Fan Sun
The bottom-straight and top-bent dual anatase TiO 2 nanowires directly on flurine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass substrate are successfully synthesized for the first time via a two-step solvothermal reaction, which obtains single anatase TiO 2 nanowires with the diameter of 250–450 nm and the length of ∼49 μm in the first growth step, and the slender TiO 2 nanowires with the diameter of 40–80 nm intertwining larger nanowires to form dual nanowires network in the secondary growth step. Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based on dual TiO 2 nanowires exhibits the power conversion efficiency of 5.30%, which is much higher than those of DSSCs based on the pristine single TiO 2 nanwires (2.36%) due to the twining network like dual nanowires structure maintaining excellent electron transport and simultaneously enhancing the specific surface area and light scattering ability. Moreover, by TiO 2 sol treatment, the performance of dual TiO 2 nanowires based DSSC can be further enhanced, reaching an impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.65%.
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MATERIALS LETTERS
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2022
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IF 3.574
Pujia Cheng,Dongping Zheng,Yingjie Zhang,Xinqi Chen,Tianjun Chen,Tiansheng Zhang,Fan Wu
An inorganic–organic hybrid bulk heterojunction (BHJ) consisting of a CuO nanocone array (NCA)/methyl [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyrate (PC 61 BM) was fabricated on a fluorine-doped tin oxide substrate using a hydrothermal method. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the CuO-NCA/PC 61 BM BHJ hybrid structure was well-formed and that the PC 61 BM compactly filled the interspaces between the CuO nanocones. A FTO/CuO-NCA/PC 61 BM/LiF/Ag hybrid BHJ photodiode had a favorable type-II band alignment for charge separation, and this photodiode showed a nearly 10-fold enhanced photocurrent response compared with a FTO/CuO-NCA/LiF/Ag Schottky junction photodiode. Photoelectrochemical impedance spectroscopy and transient absorption spectroscopy demonstrated that the FTO/CuO-NCA/PC 61 BM/LiF/Ag BHJ device had better photogenerated charge transfer properties and a longer carrier lifetime compared with the FTO/CuO-NCA/LiF/Ag device.
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TALANTA
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2021
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IF 6.057
Yimeng Sun,Cong Ma,Man Wu,Chunping Jia,Shilun Feng,Jianlong Zhao,Lijuan Liang
Given increasing concern regarding antibiotic environmental contamination, there is immediate need to monitor antibiotic levels to effectively control pollution. In this study, we used a photoelectrochemical aptasensor based on TiO 2 @MoS 2 spiral nanoarrays to detect chloramphenicol (CAP) in antibiotics. Nanoarrays were directly grown on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive glass with excellent biochemical stability, while aptamer-SH were immobilized by chemical binding on a synthetic TiO 2 @MoS 2 nanoarray. Results show that the photocurrents were reduced in the presence of photoelectrochemistry associated with specific selection of aptamer for CAP. When the measurement of the fabricated nanomaterial chip was carried out using a three-electrode system, we found a highly specific and stable detection of chloramphenicol that ranged between 0.1 pM and 1 μM, with the detection limit of 0.1 pM. In addition, we obtained satisfactory results when real sample were used to validate the potential of photoelectrochemical (PEC) aptasensor for detecting chloramphenicol content in milk. Our results demonstrate that photoelectrochemical aptasensor is conducive to the development of less toxic multifunctional nanomaterials, making the biosensor more robust and environmentally friendly. Therefore, photoelectrochemical aptasensor can be widely applied in the field of environmental monitoring.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2019
·Vol. 8
·期 16
·3616-3622
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IF 5.047
Jialian Ding,Xinru Li,Lin Zhou,Rongjie Yang,Fei Yan,Bin Su
This work reports an enzyme-free glucose sensor based on nickel nanostructures electrodeposited on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode modified with a silica nanochannel membrane (SNM). The SNM consists of a high density of nanochannels vertically oriented to the electrode surface, which can spatially confine the electrodeposition of nickel nanostructures and protect them to make Ni@SNM/FTO electrodes. In alkaline media, nickel could be converted to nickel oxyhydroxide that displayed catalytic activity toward the anodic oxidation of glucose. The electrodes could thus function as enzyme-free sensors for glucose detection. Under optimal conditions, the sensors exhibited an excellent analytical performance, with an analytical sensitivity as high as 62.3 μA mM−1 cm−2, a wide detection range from 10 μM to 12 mM and a low detection limit of 0.44 μM. Furthermore, given nickel nanostructures were embedded inside the nanochannels of the SNM (with a diameter of 2–3 nm), the sensor possessed anti-fouling ability and outstanding current stability, thus allowing the direct detection of glucose in dilute blood samples.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
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2020
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IF 0.593
Chunping Xiao,Lili Ji,Dehui Li,Louqun Wang,Jing Yang
Photoelectrochemical biofuel cells can convert light and chemical energy into electrical energy using a dye-sensitized titania (TiO2) fluorine-doped tin oxide photoanode and a platinum-coated fluorine-doped tin oxide cathode. TiO2 of the photoanode serves both as a support for dyes and as an electron-transporting medium, the structure of which can limit electron trapping and charge transporting and then affect the performance of the photoelectrochemical biofuel cells. TiO2 nanotube array films have been shown to enhance the efficiencies of both charge collection and electron injection, and hence a vertically aligned TiO2 nanotube array is investigated as a conductor for the tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin dye to construct a new two-compartment photoelectrochemical biofuel cell. The photoelectrochemical biofuel cell containing the TiO2 nanotube array photoanode yields a short-circuit (Isc) current of 110 μA and an open-circuit (Voc) potential of 1010 mV. In contrast, the photovoltaic parameters, Isc and Voc of the photoelectrochemical biofuel cell with the mesoporous TiO2 nanocrystal fluorine-doped tin oxide photoanode, are 96.96 μA and 740 mV, respectively. Photovoltaic measurements show that the maximum incident photon-to-collected electron conversion efficiency was 58% at 430 nm through the spectral range (400–800 nm) for the photoelectrochemical biofuel cell with the TiO2 nanotube array fluorine-doped tin oxide photoanode. These results revealed that the TiO2 nanotube array had great potential for the photoelectrochemical biofuel cells.
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