Hualun Li,Tian Chen,Wei Wang,Guandao Gao,Zhenda Lu
Graphical Developing an effective material to recover lithium from salt-lake brines or used batteries is highly demanded. We report a reduced TiO 2 nanomaterial with numerous lithium vacancies by lithiothermic reaction, exhibiting a high Li-ion adsorption capacity of 26 mg/g from solution. Considering the growing lithium demand and the potential shortage of lithium resource, developing an effective material to recover lithium from salt-lake brines or used batteries is highly needed. Here, we report a reduced TiO 2 nanomaterial (LiTiO 2 ) with numerous lithium vacancies by lithiothermic reaction, which exhibited high adsorption capacity of 26 mg/g from lithium-ion solution.
β-NaYF4:Yb,Er,Gd fluorescent nanorods were successfully coupled to a reduced TiO2(UCNPs@R-TiO2) nanocomposite and applied to visible-light catalytic sterilization under 980 nm near-infrared (NIR) light illumination. The UCNPs (β-NaYF4:Yb,Er,Gd) absorb the NIR light and emit red and green light. The visible light can be absorbed by the R-TiO2(Eg = 2.8 eV) for the photocatalytic reaction. About 98.1% ofEscherichia coliwere effectively killed upon 12 min of NIR light irradiation at a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 40 μg/mL UCNPs@R-TiO2nanocomposite. The bactericidal properties were further evaluated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analysis. We found that the high bactericidal activity was due to the synergistic effect between the UCNPs and R-TiO2. Moreover, the UCNPs show excellent upconversion luminance properties, and the introduction of visible-light-absorbed R-TiO2nanoparticles (2.8 eV) was conducive to the efficient separation and utilization of photogenerated electron-hole pairs.