CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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IF 13.273
Shenghui Han,Gang Lian,Xu Zhang,Zhaozhen Cao,Qilong Wang,Deliang Cui,Ching-Ping Wong
Developing metal-free room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials with ultralong lifetimes in dry and wet states simultaneously has been widely concerned due to their potential applications, which is also a tough challenge up to now. Herein, a smart construction strategy is proposed to in-situ embed boron nitride dots (BNDs) into an isogenous B 2 O 3 matrix. The BND-based materials exhibit unexpected bluish-green RTP in solid and various wet conditions (water, oxidants, organic solvents, strong acids and bases). The RTP lifetime of them in powder is as long as ~ 1.7 s, lasting over 10 s to naked eye. B 2 O 3 matrix can not only uniformly disperse the BNDs in it, but also provide a rigid environment via forming hydrogen-bonded and covalently bonded interactions between them to strongly stabilize the triplet states excitions on the dots from nonradiative deactivation. More interestingly, RTP quenching of the BND-based powder in various solutions is effectively suppressed because the B 2 O 3 matrix is not collapsed in them. For instance, the RTP lifetime in water is as long as ~ 0.9 s. Based on the distinctive RTP properties in dry and various harsh wet states, the applications of the BND-based RTP materials in multi-level anti-counterfeiting and information encryption are demonstrated.
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光学
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2017
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IF 7.504
Xiaoyu Jiang,Ziqi Zeng,Lifen Xiao,Xinping Ai,Hanxi Yang,Yuliang Cao
Development of intrinsically safe and long lifespan sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) is urgently needed for large-scale energy storage applications. However, most of the currently developed SIBs suffer from insufficient cycle life and potential unsafety. Herein, we construct an all-phosphate sodium-ion battery (AP-SIB) using a Na3V2(PO4)3 cathode, NaTi2(PO4)3 anode, and nonflammable trimethyl phosphate (TMP) electrolyte. The AP-SIB exhibits not only high safety, high rate performance, and ultralong cycle life but also zero-strain characteristics due to the inverse volume change of the phosphate cathode and anode during charge and discharge cycles, offering a safer and cycle-stable Na-ion technology for electric storage applications.
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Nature Communications
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2022
·Vol. 13
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IF 17.694
Yin Xiumei,Xu Wen,Zhu Ge,Ji Yanan,Xiao Qi,Dong Xinyao,He Ming,Cao Baosheng,Zhou Na,Luo Xixian,Guo Lin,Dong Bin
The second near-infrared (NIR II) response photon up-conversion (UC) materials show great application prospects in the fields of biology and optical communication. However, it is still an enormous challenge to obtain efficient NIR II response materials. Herein, we develop a series of Er 3+ doped ternary sulfides phosphors with highly efficient UC emissions under 1532 nm irradiation. β-NaYS 2 :Er 3+ achieves a visible UC efficiency as high as 2.6%, along with high brightness, spectral stability of lights illumination and temperature. Such efficient UC is dominated by excited state absorption, accompanied by the advantage of long lifetimes ( 4 I 9/2 , 9.24 ms; 4 I 13/2 , 30.27 ms) of excited state levels of Er 3+ , instead of the well-recognized energy transfer UC between sensitizer and activator. NaYS 2 :Er 3+ phosphors are further developed for high-performance underwater communication and narrowband NIR photodetectors. Our findings suggest a novel approach for developing NIR II response UC materials, and simulate new applications, eg., simultaneous NIR and visible optical communication.
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生物医学工程
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Yongzhi Liang,Liqiong Lin,Haiyi Liang,Zheng Zhong
The longevity of flexible electronics substantially influences their viability for practical use. At present, the service life of pliable devices utilizing conductive gels is frequently compromised due to factors inclusive but not limited to solvent loss. Taking cues from the steadfast structure of human tissues, we hereby delineate a solvent-assisted strategy to fabricate ionogels, predicated on a supramolecular network of hydrogen bonds. Upon subjecting these ionogels to realistic operational environments, it has been empirically ascertained that they maintain a steadfast mechanical and electrical consistency for a minimum duration of 22 months. In terms of dynamic stretchability, they effortlessly endure one million stretch cycles, even when faced with a notch. The induction of a supramolecular structure within the ionogel not only confers exceptional mechanical attributes but also simultaneously enhances conductivity, a feat paralleled by few recent explorations. Furthermore, these ionogels boast of superior anti-freezing and adhesive characteristics, including a toughness extending up to 17.96 MJ/m 3 at an ultra-low temperature of −50 °C, and an adhesive capacity permitting movement and bearing of items weighing over 10,000 times its own weight, the lap-shear strength can reach 30.2 kPa. Intriguingly, these gels demonstrate thermoplastic behavior, which facilitates their easy reshaping into diverse forms. Such compelling attributes amplify the potential of supramolecular ionogels, positioning them as formidable contenders for flexible electronics in stringent and challenging scenarios.
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材料科学
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柔性电子学
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RSC Advances
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2021
·Vol. 11
·期 55
·34955-34962
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IF 3.361
Yue Wu,Cheng Wang,Zewen Yang,Depeng Song,Takeo Ohsaka,Futoshi Matsumoto,Xiaolin Sun,Jianfei Wu
In modern society, flexible rechargeable batteries have become a burgeoning apodictic choice for wearable devices. Conventional lithium–sulfur batteries lack sufficient flexibility because their electrode materials are too rigid to bend. Along with the inherent high theoretical capacity of sulfur, lithium–sulfur batteries have some issues, such as dissolution and shuttle effect of polysulfides, which restricts their efficiency and practicability. Here, a flexible and “dead-weight”-free lithium–sulfur battery substrate with a three-dimensional structure was prepared by a simple strategy. With the cooperative assistance of carbon nanotubes and graphene attached to cotton fibers, the lithium–sulfur battery with 2.0 mg cm−2 sulfur provided a high initial discharge capacity of 1098.7 mA h g−1 at 1C, and the decay rate after 300 cycles was only 0.046% per cycle. The initial discharge capacity at 2C was 872.4 mA h g−1 and the capacity was maintained 734.4 mA h g−1 after 200 cycles with only a 0.079% per cycle decay rate.
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ENERGY & FUELS
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2022
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IF 4.654
Zishuai Zhang,Funian Mo,Wei Ling,Mangwei Cui,Jun Wei,Miao Yu,Yan Huang
Aqueous nickel-ion batteries (NiIBs) featuring small ionic radius and high theoretical volumetric capacity hold great potential in novel aqueous battery systems. However, the further development of aqueous NiIBs is plagued, owing to the strong electrostatic repulsion between Ni2+ ions and the host electrode materials, leading to the limited capacity, poor cycling performance, and inferior rate capability. Herein, the novel K2V6O16·1.64H2O (KVO) nanobelts are synthesized and utilized as cathodes for aqueous NiIBs. The KVO cathode delivers a highly reversible specific capacity of ∼140.0 mA h g–1 after the initial activation process, and ∼70.8 mA h g–1 is achieved with the Coulombic efficiency close to 100% at 0.2 A g–1 after 1000 cycles. ∼40.5 mA h g–1 is still achieved at 1.0 A g–1 after 8000 cycles. Moreover, this battery possesses a remarkable rate capability with ∼137.4 mA h g–1 being regained when the current density is switched from 1.8 to 0.2 A g–1, which is ∼97% of that at 0.2 A g–1. The capacity, lifetime, and rate capability achieved all far exceed those of the reported aqueous NiIBs, arising from the layered structure and fast kinetics of the KVO cathode. This work paves the way toward the design of aqueous NiIBs with high electrochemical performances.
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电化学
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Advanced Energy Materials
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2020
·Vol. 10
·期 25
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IF 25.245
Yongchao Tang,Xuejin Li,Haiming Lv,Dong Xie,Wenlong Wang,Chunyi Zhi,Hongfei Li
In aqueous alkaline Zn batteries (AZBs), the Co 3+ /Co 4+ redox pair offers a higher voltage plateau than its Co 2+ /Co 3+ counterpart. However, related studies are scarce, due to two challenges: the Co 3+ /Co 4+ redox pair is more difficult to activate than Co 2+ /Co 3+ ; once activated, the Co 3+ /Co 4+ redox pair is unstable, owing to the rapid reduction of surplus Co 3+ to Co 2+ . Herein, CoSe 2− x is employed as a cathode material in AZBs. Electrochemical analysis recognizes the principal contributions of the Co 3+ /Co 4+ redox pair to the capacity and voltage plateau. Mechanistic studies reveal that CoSe 2− x initially undergoes a phase transformation to derived Co x O y Se z , which has not been observed in other Zn//cobalt oxide batteries. The Se doping effect is conducive to sustaining abundant and stable Co 3+ species in Co x O y Se z . As a result, the battery achieves a 10 000-cycle ultralong lifespan with 0.02% cycle −1 capacity decay, a 1.9-V voltage plateau, and an immense areal specific capacity compared to its low-valence oxide counterparts. When used in a quasi-solid-state electrolyte, as-assembled AZB delivers 4200 cycles and excellent tailorability, a promising result for wearable applications. The presented effective strategy for obtaining long-cyclability cathodes via a phase transformation-induced heteroatom doping effect may promote high-valence metal species mediation toward highly stable electrodes.
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ACS Nano
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2022
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IF 18.027
Yang-feng Cui,Zhen-bang Zhuang,Zi-long Xie,Ren-fei Cao,Qi Hao,Ning Zhang,Wan-qiang Liu,Yun-hai Zhu,Gang Huang
Alkaline Zn–MnO2 batteries feature high security, low cost, and environmental friendliness while suffering from severe electrochemical irreversibility for both the Zn anode and MnO2 cathode. Although neutral electrolytes are supposed to improve the reversibility of the Zn anode, the MnO2 cathode indeed experiences a capacity degradation caused by the Jahn–Teller effect of the Mn3+ ion, thus shortening the lifespan of the neutral Zn–MnO2 batteries. Theoretically, the MnO2 cathode undergoes a highly reversible two-electron redox reaction of the MnO2/Mn2+ couple in strongly acidic electrolytes. However, acidic electrolytes would inevitably accelerate the corrosion of the Zn anode, making long-lived acidic Zn–MnO2 batteries impossible. Herein, to overcome the challenges faced by Zn–MnO2 batteries, we propose a hybrid Zn–MnO2 battery (HZMB) by coupling the neutral Zn anode with the acidic MnO2 cathode, wherein the neutral anode and acidic cathode are separated by a proton-shuttle-shielding and hydrophobic-ion-conducting membrane. Benefiting from the optimized reaction conditions for both the MnO2 cathode and Zn anode as well as the well-designed membrane, the HZMB exhibits a high working voltage of 2.05 V and a long lifespan of 2275 h (2000 cycles), breaking through the limitations of Zn–MnO2 batteries in terms of voltage and cycle life.
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Materials Today Chemistry
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2021
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IF 8.301
M. Khaqan Sarwar,Z. Xu,K. Yao,X. Liu,Y. Wang,J. Yang,J. Huang
The development of sodium-ion batteries with a high-power density and long life has attracted considerable interest because of their low cost and potential applications. In this work, we constructed N-doped graphene supported pseudocapacitive material consisting of Ni 3 S 4 grains (50 nm) coated by 3–4 layers of MoS 2 (MoS 2 @Ni 3 S 4 /NG) by facile one-step pyrolysis of nickel phthalocyanine. When the electrode was used as an anode for sodium-ion batteries, a pseudocapacitance-dominated storage mechanism was established, and the extrinsic pseudocapacitance could be further enhanced with the structural evolution of MoS 2 @Ni 3 S 4 during the sodiation/desodiation process, contributing to fast kinetics of Na + storage. The results of impedance analysis indicated that the MoS 2 layers play a vital role in reducing the charge-transfer resistance because the MoS 2 with wider interlayer spacing enables Na + to intercalate with a lower energy barrier compared with intercalating into Ni 3 S 4 directly. As a result, the electrode exhibits a superior cycle life over 1000 cycles, and an excellent rate capacity of 564 mAh g −1 can be achieved at 0.5 A g −1 .
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Frontiers in Pharmacology
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2022
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IF 5.988
Xiao Man,Chen Bocen,Niu Kun,Long Ziyu,Yang Fan,Xie Yiqiang
Background: Alpiniae Oxyphylla Fructus (AOF) is Traditional Chinese medicine and a dietary supplements for centuries, which posseses cardiotonic, neuroprotective, antioxidant, warming the kidney and nourish the spleen, these biological fuction is related to potential anti-aging properties. However, little is known about their effects on aging. This work aimed to investigate the effects of extracts of AOF on longevity and stress resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and the mechanisms that underlie its effects.Methods: Wild-type (WT) strand of C.elegans (N2)worms were cultured in growth medium with or without AOF. First, we examined the effects of AOF on lifespan, reproduction and healthspan assay, stress resistance and oxidative analysis, lipofuscin levels. Second, The levels of ROS and MDA, the antioxidant enzyme activities were examined to explore the underlying mechanism of AOF. Finally, the expression of the longevity-related genes were investigated to further understand the AOF’s underlying mechanism.Results: The lifespan of C. elegans was prolonged by 23.44% after treatment with high-dose AOF (100 ug/ml). AOF alleviated aging-related declines in C. elegans health and enhanced resistance to heat shock. Furthermore, AOF decreased reactive oxygen species and malondialdehyde, increased the activities of superoxide dismutase and catalase, and reduced accumulation of fat. AOF upregulated the expression of sod-3, gst-4, daf-16, and skn-1 but downregulated the expression of daf-2 and age-1 and accelerated the translocation of DAF-16 into the nucleus. The extended lifespan induced by AOF was reversed in daf-16(mu86) and skn-1(zu135) mutants, indicating that this gene is involved in AOF-regulated longevity.Conclusion: Our findings demonstrated that AOF extends lifespan and healthspan and enhances stress via boosting the activity of the antioxidant enzyme and controlling the expression of genes associated with insulin/IGF signaling and SKN-1 pathways. As a result, this work suggested AOF as a possible candidate to reduce the signs of aging by activating and inhibiting target genes.
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老年学
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分子生物学
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中医药学
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遗传学
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2021
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IF 6.901
Hong Li,Feng Shao,Xinzhu Wen,Yusen Ding,Chao Zhou,Yafei Zhang,Hao Wei,Nantao Hu
Developing scalable and facile techniques to design and construct unique structures of cathodes with high performance is challenging for the practical Li-S batteries. In this work, highly effective and scalable cathodes based on curved graphene/MXene bi-nanosheets-constituted fibers is demonstrated for long-lifetime Li-S batteries. Wet-spinning is introduced to design and fabricate sulfur cathodes based on graphene/MXene hybrid fibers, in which sulfur is uniformly distributed and intimately enveloped between graphene and MXene nanosheets. The high chemical affinity towards polysulfides enabled by MXene is demonstrated by experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The assembled cells show high sulfur utilization (the discharge capacity of 1483.1 mAh g −1 at 0.1 C), high rate performance (733.3 mAh g −1 at 2 C) and excellent long cycle stability (0.043% per cycle decay at 1 C over 1000 cycles). Moreover, a reversible areal capacity of 5 mAh cm −2 is achieved under a high sulfur loading of 5.6 mg cm −2 , revealing its great potential for practical applications. This study gives a valuable guidance to design advanced sulfur cathodes for high-performance Li-S batteries.
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ChemElectroChem
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2017
·Vol. 5
·期 3
·540-545
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IF 4.136
Dongdong Wang,Guanghui Zhang,Zhongqiang Shan,Tianyong Zhang,Jianhua Tian
Graphical Quick recharge : Hierarchically structured TiO 2 /micron carbon fibers composites composed of well-defined nanowires are fabricated through a straightforward impregnation−calcination process. Owing to its unique features, the material delivers an excellent cycling stability with 92 % capacity retention after 5000 cycles at a high current density of 2000 mA g −1 , highlighting its great potential for ultralong, fast, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Long-life lithium-ion batteries require materials with well-designed and controlled structures on nanometer and micrometer scales. Therefore, the hierarchically structured TiO 2 /micron carbon fibers composites (TiO 2 /MCFs) composed of well-defined nanowires are fabricated through a straightforward impregnation-calcination process. The unique features, including hierarchically mesoporous micro-/nanostructures, large specific surface area, and high electrical conductivity endow the TiO 2 /MCFs with convenient lithium-ion and electron diffusion channels and effective stress−strain relief during repeated electrochemical reaction process. As anticipated, TiO 2 /MCFs deliver an excellent cycling stability with 92 % capacity retention after 5000 cycles at high current density of 2000 mA g −1 , highlighting the great potential for long-life and fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.
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