Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2017
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IF 4.536
Qing Zheng,Ximing Huang,Yao Liu,Xiaotong Fang,Jie Zhang,Huibo Shao
Quantification of the amount of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between ferrocenemethanol and 3-mercaptopropanoic acid on gold was performed by cyclic voltammetry as well as by the finite element simulation, displaying a proof-of-concept that the slight changes of cyclic voltammetry features are used potentially for interpreting the weak molecular interactions. Ferrocenemethanol at a bulk concentration level of 0.5 mM adsorbs on the 3-mercaptopropanoic acid surface by hydrogen bonding, with the fractional surface coverage ranging from 0% to 14% of a monolayer in accordance with the surface coverage of 3-mercaptopropanoic acid which was explored by electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance. The intermolecular hydrogen bonding between ferrocenemethanol and the mercaptopropanoic acid was found to exhibit a Langmuir-type adsorption with the average value of K being 0.24 mM–1. The intermolecular hydrogen bonding between FcCH2OH and the artificial self-assembled monolayer (3-mercaptopropanoic acid) is evident, and the study on quantification of intermolecular hydrogen bonding with this artificial model is meaningful for understanding the molecular recognition events involved in the cell membrane.
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生物物理学
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Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
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2019
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IF 2.759
Chaoqun Wu,Yudan Zhou,Haitao Wang,Jianhua Hu,Xiaoliang Wang
We develop a new process for the preparation of synergistic antifouling functional coatings on gold surfaces via a “grafting to” approach. The strategy includes a synthetic step of polymer brushes that consist of poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) and zwitterionic side chains via a typical reversible-addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process, and a subsequent deposition of the polymer brushes onto a gold substrate. The presence of PEG and zwitterion chains on these polymer brush-coated gold surfaces has been proved to have a synergistic effect on the final antifouling property of the coating. PEG chains lower the electrostatic repulsion between zwitterionic polymer chains and increase their graft density on gold surfaces, while zwitterionic polymer effectively improves the antifouling property that is offered by PEG chains alone. Protein adsorption and cell attachment assays tests are conducted to confirm that this copolymer layer on gold surface has a pronounced resistance against proteins such as Bovine serum albumin and Lysozyme. Importantly, the antifouling property can be systematically adjusted by varying the molar ratio of PEG to zwitterionic chains in the final coating copolymer.
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材料科学
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LANGMUIR
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2021
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IF 3.882
Chenyi Cui,Yafei Cao,Baojin Qi,Jinjia Wei,Jia Yuan,Ya Wang
Superhydrophobic surfaces are widely used in industry and daily life, yet their practical application is limited by their complicated preparation process, high cost, and poor repairability. We propose a low-cost, facile process for preparing superhydrophobic surfaces to address this limitation. Through a simple three-step spraying process, the rough structure was first constructed on the aluminum alloy, and upon modification by modifier, the superhydrophobic aluminum alloy surface was successfully prepared. The effect of the process parameters on wettability was experimentally studied. The results showed that this method can obtain superhydrophobic surfaces with a contact angle of 156.2° and contact angle hysteresis of 7.4° by simply adjusting the etching time and modifier concentration. In addition, it was found that the prepared surface can keep the superhydrophobic property unchanged at 180 °C, showing good thermal stability. When immersed in acetic acid and sodium hydroxide solution, the prepared surface can maintain its superhydrophobicity for about 2 days, showing good chemical stability. Besides, the surface has excellent repairability and can compensate for the short-life defects caused by poor friction resistance. This superhydrophobic surface with a simple preparation process, low cost, and excellent repairable characteristics also has excellent self-cleaning, antifogging, and antifrosting applications.
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Advanced Materials Interfaces
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2022
·Vol. 9
·期 26
·2200561
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IF 6.389
Haimang Wang,Yuhe Yang,Weiwei Zhao,Ying Han,Jing Luo,Xin Zhao,Hongyu Zhang
A combination of surface lubrication and antibacterial performance is highly imperative for biomedical implants in clinic. In this study, motivated by mussel-inspired adhesion, articular cartilage superlubrication, and drug-loading capacity of cyclodextrins, a new copolymer of p(DMA-MPC-CD) (namely PDMC) with self-adhesion, lubrication, and drug loading & release properties is developed for fabricating a versatile platform to construct a synergistic bacteriostatic/bactericidal surface. Specifically, the biomimetic coating is prepared via polydopamine mediated layer-by-layer (LBL) self-assembly method on the surface of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V), and characterized by quartz crystal microbalance, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and surface wettability to confirm the modification process. The biocompatibility evaluation using L929 cells shows that the coating, even with pre-loaded bactericide, presents satisfied biocompatibility in vitro. Additionally, the enhanced lubrication and bacterial resistance properties of copolymer-coated Ti6Al4V (Ti6Al4V@PDMC) are attributed to the tenacious hydration shell that is formed surrounding the zwitterionic phosphorylcholine charges. Furthermore, the bactericidal function of the biomimetic coating is successfully achieved by releasing the pre-loaded bactericide in a sustained manner, which effectively kills the adhered bacteria on the surface. In summary, the bioinspired surface functionalization strategy developed here may act as a universal and promising method for achieving enhanced lubrication and synergistic bacteriostatic/bactericidal properties in biomedical implants.
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生物医学工程
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材料科学
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微生物学
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2025
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IF 17.7
Yao Yao,Juping Xu,Minhua Shao
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is unavoidable in many electrochemical synthesis systems, such as CO 2 reduction, N 2 reduction, and H 2 O 2 synthesis. It makes those electrochemical reactions with multiple electron-proton transfers more complex when determining kinetics and mass transfer information. Understanding how HER competes with other electrochemical reduction reactions is crucial for both fundamental studies and system performance improvements. In this study, we employed the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) as a model reaction to investigate HER competition on a polycrystalline-Au surface, using a rotating ring and disk electrode. It’s proved that water molecules serve as the proton source for ORR in alkaline, neutral, and even acidic electrolytes, and a 4-electron process can be achieved when the overpotential is sufficiently high. The competition from H + reduction becomes noticeable at the H + concentration higher than 2 mmol L –1 and intensifies as the H + concentration increases. Based on the electrochemical results, we obtained an equivalent circuit diagram for the ORR system with competition from the H + reduction reaction, showing that these reactions occur in parallel and compete with each other. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements further confirm this argument. Additionally, we discover that the contribution of H + mass transfer to the total H + reduction current is significant and comparable to the kinetic current. We believe this work will deepen our understanding of HER and its competition in electrochemical reduction systems.
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能源化学
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Chemical Science
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2013
·Vol. 5
·期 3
·1082-1090
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IF 8.314
Gang Lu,Peng Zhang,Dongqing Sun,Lei Wang,Kebin Zhou,Zhi-Xiang Wang,Guo-Cong Guo
Clean gold surface is inactive toward H2, however, computations, aided by experiments, reveal that gold surface could serve as a Lewis acid coupling with Lewis bases (e.g. imine and nitrile) to construct effective frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) to activate H2 and subsequently to achieve hydrogenation of small imines and nitriles. The Lewis base-coupled Au FLPs avoid tight adsorption of Lewis bases to gold surface via repulsion between nitrogen lone pair and the filled d-band electrons of the gold surface. This is different from the normal FLPs that use sterically demanding groups or a molecular scaffold to prevent formation of stable Lewis acid–base complexes. The enhanced reactivity of the gold surface toward H2 is due to the synergetic catalytic effects of Lewis acid (Au surface) and the coupled Lewis base (imine or nitrile), which is supported by projected density of states (PDOS) analyses. Among Cu, Ag and Au surfaces, Au surface exhibits such reactivity most significantly, because Au is much more electronegative than Cu and Ag. The study enriches the FLP chemistry by adding a new type (heterogeneous) of FLPs and reveals a new reaction mode for gold surface.
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理论计算化学
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Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
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2023
·Vol. 11
·期 3
·756-768
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IF 7
Kaiyue Zhao,Haocheng Xiong,Yuanhui Xiao,Haisheng Su,Deyin Wu,Xiaoxia Chang,Qi Lu,Bingjun Xu
Weakly binding organic species have been shown to significantly impact the electrocatalytic activities of metal surfaces; however, molecular level mechanisms remain elusive. The ambiguity of whether these weakly binding species are specifically adsorbed is a key challenge as there are few experimental techniques with sufficient sensitivity. The vibrational Stark effect of interfacial species offers a feasible way to achieve this goal with vibrational spectroscopy techniques, such as surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). In this work, we employed a library of bifunctional molecules with an isocyano group designed to anchor on the Au surface and an unbound cyano or isocyano group to investigate the effect of variations in the electric field on the Stark tuning rate of both functional groups. The surface bound isocyano group shows pronounced Stark tuning rates (2.4–4.7 cm−1 (MV cm−1)−1) while the Stark tuning rates of the free functional groups are comparable to or below the spectral resolution (<0.6 cm−1 (MV cm−1)−1). Contributions from variations in the bond force constant, induced by an electric field or a Fermi level shift, and the anharmonicity effect on the observed Stark tuning rates were deconvoluted. A shift in the vibrational peak of a specifically adsorbed functional group is more sensitive to the change in the electrode potential, which could be used to identify surface adsorbates at electrochemical interfaces. Our results suggest that Stark tuning rates above 0.6 cm−1 (MV cm−1)−1 can be considered as strong evidence for specific adsorption on the electrode surface.
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物理化学
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Journal of Coatings Technology and Research
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2019
·Vol. 16
·期 4
·1099-1108
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IF 1.584
Chen Shangda,Wang Hao,Wan Zuteng,Chen Ling,Liu Yangchengyi,Fan Hanghai,Zhong Bowen,Wang Xiufeng
Superhydrophobicity of alloy surfaces is generally determined by the low-energy chemical composition and geometric structure of the surface. The appropriate geometry on alloy surfaces can be easily constructed via chemical etching methods. However, the subsequent low-energy modifications for pre-etched alloys are time-consuming or expensive, thus preventing their further application. Here, we prepared superhydrophobic alloy surfaces based on combining wet chemical etching and room temperature vulcanized (RTV) silicone treatment. Compared to traditional immersion methods, RTV silicone treatment for superhydrophobic 6061 Al alloy surfaces needs only 30 s, which is several thousand times faster than stearic acid or polymethyl triethoxy silane solution treatment. Mechanisms of RTV silicone treatment were investigated. The results show that dip-coating modification is different from these traditional methods. We found that the optimized proportion for RTV silicone rubber is HPDMS, PMTSi, and DBTDL with hexane solvent (HPDMS:PMTSi:DBTDL:hexane = 4:3:1:46, weight ratio), and the water contact angles of treated surfaces of pre-etched 6061 Al alloy, pure Al, and steels are 159° ± 2.7°, 168° ± 1.2°, and 169° ± 1.5°, respectively. Herein, our results demonstrate a facile, low-cost strategy to fabricate superhydrophobic alloy surface that is notable and easy to scale up for industrial applications.
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Friction
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2022
·Vol. 11
·期 4
·513-523
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IF 4.924
Gao Tianyang,Li Jinjin,Wang Weiqi,Luo Jianbin
An extremely low friction state was observed on the gold surface induced by applying a specific negative potential in cationic surfactant solution. The friction force showed a remarkable reduction from 8.3 to 3.5 × 10 −2 nN (reduced by 99.6%) with increasing the period of negative applied potential, and the final friction coefficient could reduce down to 3 × 10 −4 . The extremely low friction state was robust, and it also exhibited an excellent load bearing capacity, which cannot be damaged by a high load. Moreover, the extremely low friction state achieved under negative applied potential could keep stable even after the removal of potential, but failed in a short time, once a specific positive potential was applied. It was demonstrated that there was a stable electro-adsorption of surfactant molecules on the gold surface induced by applying a negative potential, leading to the formation of a bilayer structure on the gold surface. The hydration layers of the bilayer on the gold surface and micelles on the silica probe provided a shear plane with an extremely low shear strength, leading to the extremely low friction state on the gold surface. This study provides a method to achieve extremely low friction state by applied potential.
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界面化学
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Electrocatalysis
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2014
·Vol. 6
·期 2
·211-219
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IF 2.089
Ouyang Lei,Miao Yuqing,Xu Lina,Xiao Mingshu,Liang Xiaocai,Li Weiwei,Yang Yang
Molecular self-assembly is an important aspect of bottom-up approaches for the nanofabrication of functional materials. The self-assembly of smaller-size units like ions has yet to be studied further. The self-adsorption of Bi III without applied potential and electrochemical deposition of Bi/Bi III were studied and compared through cyclic voltammetry. Both of them exhibit two pairs of redox peaks assigned to the (2 × 2)-Bi adlayer and incommensurate ( p × √3)-2 Bi adlayer. The adsorption of two Bi surface phases is related with the Bi salt concentration and adsorption time. Within a certain concentration or time range, the adsorption approaches to be saturated due to the surface limitation of self-adsorbed surface layers. The (2 × 2)-Bi adlayer firstly adsorbs to the active sites of Au where there is strong interaction between Bi and Au. With the increase of time, more Bi adsorbs onto the unoccupied sites of Au with a relatively weak interaction force to form a denser ( p × √3)-2 Bi layer. A new pair of redox peaks appears for the electrodeposition of the Bi/Bi III bulky layer which is easily stripped from the Au surface through a consecutive potential scan. Comparatively speaking, the adsorbed (2 × 2) and ( p × √3)-2 Bi adlayers are stable in the same potential scanning condition due to the strong interaction between the two surface Bi layers and the below Au atoms. Such a controllable self-adsorption of the Bi III ultrathin layer on foreign substrates exhibits a potential for the modification of materials in the size of ions.
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ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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2018
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IF 4.432
Long Meng,Kai Pan,Ye Zhu,Wei Wei,Xiaojie Li,Xiaoya Liu
Herein, a hydrophobized zwitterionic-based copolymer poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate-co-2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate-co-isobornyl acrylate) (P(SBMA-co-DMA-co-ISA), PSDI) containing a chiral structure has been successfully synthesized by free radical polymerization and subsequent sulfonation reactions. Together with tannic acid (TA), PSDI colloidal particles (CPs) were anchored onto the Ti alloy surface by the electrophoretic deposition method. The composition, morphology, and surface properties of the CP-TA composite coatings were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), optical contact angle (OCA), and other methods. The results show that the introduction of TA improves the stability of coatings by participating in the noncovalent interactions including ionic pairing and hydrogen bonding. According to the in vitro bacterial adhesion test, the modified titanium surface containing SBMA and chiral ISA functional units can effectively inhibit Gram-negative bacteria (E. coli) and Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus) adhesion. Furthermore, the excellent cytocompatibility and favorable cell adhesion and growth behavior of zwitterionic-based coatings were realized as a result of the appropriate hydrophobicity provided by the ISA moiety. This work provides a new strategy for preparing zwitterionic-based multifunctional coating. The coating with excellent bacterial and cell selective adhesion properties has great potential in the applications of metal implant materials, such as cardiovascular stents and human hard tissue repair and replacement materials.
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生物医学工程
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2013
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IF 1.977
Can Wang,Huaimin Gu,Meng Lv,Ruoyu He,Juling Zhang
In this paper, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of maleic hydrazide (MH, 6-hydroxy-3(2H)-pyridazinone) were studied by using citrate-reduced gold colloidal nanoparticles. Comparisons between the prominent SERS bands and the precise mode descriptions predicted through density functional theory (DFT) simulations at the B3LYP/6-311++g(d,p) level allowed an in-depth orientation analysis of the adsorbed species on gold surfaces. And main forms of hydrogen bonds in the solid state of MH were also determined to be O H⋯O. Furthermore, the effects of concentration and pH on the SERS spectra of the molecule were discussed. It is found that with the different adsorbate concentration, the SERS spectra of MH show significant changes in their features, indicating different orientations and adsorption sites of the molecule on the gold colloidal surface. The SERS and absorption spectra under different pH conditions show that a basic environment leads to the deprotonation of N2 and the nearly parallel orientation of the MH molecule on the gold surface. Moreover, the enhanced characteristic bands were observed at MH concentrations down to about 1 ppm with the gold colloids, demonstrating a potential of the technique in the analysis of MH residues.
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分析化学
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光谱学
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