Membranes
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2022
·Vol. 12
·期 11
·1076
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IF 4.562
Liang Wang,Jilei Wei,Chen Zhou,Shengyang Yang
One of the main trends in the development of solar interface evaporation technology is the simple, efficient, and environmentally friendly bio-based evaporation device. However, the development of bio-based evaporators with high water evaporation rates and good pollution removal capability is a significant challenge. Here, we present a carbonized cattail–agarose hydrogel (CCAH) membrane with numerous microchannels resembling bamboo knots, exceptional hydrophilicity, outstanding light absorption capability, and potent adsorption. Under one solar irradiation, its evaporation rate and efficiency reached 1.93 kg m−2h−1and 95.8%, respectively. More importantly, the CCAH membrane produces steam water that is almost totally free of salts (Na+, K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+), heavy metal ions (Pb2+, Cd2+, and Cr2+), and organic dyes (Rhodamine B, methylene blue, and methyl orange). The CCAH membrane is highly promising for the use of saltwater desalination and wastewater recovery to help people in impoverished areas with water scarcity problems.Keywords:solar water evaporation;seawater desalination;wastewater purification;carbonized cattail;hydrogel
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INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2022
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IF 6.449
Yan Sun,Lingling Fan,Xiuling Lin,Changqi Feng,Songlin Peng,Dezhan Ye,Weilin Xu,Jie Xu
Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation has become a prospective approach for freshwater production, desalination, and sewage treatment via efficient photothermal conversion. Nevertheless, the development of high-performance, low-cost and environment-friendly solar evaporator is still a major challenge. In this work, a three-dimensional porous solar evaporator is proposed based on polypyrrole (PPy) decorated cattail fiber (CF) foam. The CF foam exhibits superior water transport capacity owing to the unique grooved structure of the cattail fiber. The as-prepared PPy@CF foam shows low thermal conductivity, good salt resistance, and superior light absorption of ∼97% in a wide wavelength region (300–2500 nm) after the introduction of PPy coating. The PPy@CF foam exhibits a vapor evaporation rate of 1.678 kg m −2 h −1 as well as a photothermal conversion efficiency of 99.6% under one sun illumination. In addition, the PPy@CF foam may be applied for clean water production from seawater and sewage with prominent rejection of ions and dye. The present work demonstrates the excellent potential of the PPy@CF foam as an economical biomass material for high-performance solar evaporators.
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CELLULOSE
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2021
·Vol. 28
·期 14
·9309-9321
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IF 5.044
Zhao Xiaobin,Wang Wenbo,Huang Chenghao,Luo Lei,Deng Zhongmin,Guo Wei,Xu Jie,Meng Zhenghua
Cattail is widely abounding in wetlands and marshes and is usually considered as an abundant and inexpensive biomass lignocellulose resource due to its rapid growth. In this paper, a novel cellulose (named as TOCF) separator for Li-ion batteries (LIBs) is successfully fabricated from cattail fibers by 2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) oxidation and vacuum filtration. The proposed TOCF membrane shows good tensile strength (75 MPa), superior thermal dimensional stability, sufficient porosity (64.8%), outstanding liquid electrolyte uptake (323%) as well as large ionic conductivity (2.83 mS cm −1 ). Moreover, the Li/LiFePO 4 cell assembled using the TOCF separator demonstrates better discharge capacity and cycling stability than the cell with a commercial Celgard separator. Thus, the TOCF separator is a promising and low-cost candidate used in high-performance LIBs.
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能源技术
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
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2022
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IF 14.026
Nan Zhang,Yan Gao,Kangjia Sheng,Wanghui Jing,Xianliang Xu,Tao Bao,Sicen Wang
In this study, ecofriendly and economic carboxy-terminated plant fibers (PFs) were used as adsorbents for the effective in-syringe solid phase extraction (IS-SPE) of fluoroquinolone (FQ) residues from water. Based on the thermal esterification and etherification reaction of cellulose hydroxy with citric acid (CA) and sodium chloroacetate in aqueous solutions, carboxy groups grafted onto cotton, cattail, and corncob fibers were fabricated. Compared with carboxy-terminated corncob and cotton, CA-modified cattail with more carboxy groups showed excellent adsorption capacity for FQs. The modified cattail fibers were reproducible and reusable with relative standard deviations of 3.2%–4.2% within 10 cycles of adsorption-desorption. A good extraction efficiency of 71.3%–80.9% was achieved after optimizing the extraction condition. Based on carboxylated cattail, IS-SPE coupled with ultra-performance liquid chromatography with a photodiode array detector was conducted to analyze FQs in environmental water samples. High sensitivity with limit of detections of 0.08–0.25 μg/L and good accuracy with recoveries of 83.8%–111.7% were obtained. Overall, the simple and environment-friendly modified waste PFs have potential applications in the effective extraction and detection of FQs in natural waters.
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分析化学
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MOLECULES
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2018
·Vol. 24
·期 1
·128
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IF 3.098
Mingliang Gao,Beihua Bao,Yudan Cao,Mingqiu Shan,Fangfang Cheng,Miao Jiang,Peidong Chen,Li Zhang
Carbonized pollen grains of Typha (CPT) were widely used in clinical for antithrombosis, wound and bleeding in China. In order to ensure the role of drugs, it is very important to control the quality of drugs. However, there is a lack of monitoring methods in the process of charcoal preparation. To characterize the process of CPT, we used thermal analysis, scanning electron microscope (SEM), color measurement, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) and HPLC. In this study, 7 min was the optimal processing time and the heating process condition should be controlled under 272.35 ± 7.23 °C. This comprehensive strategy to depict the whole carbonizing process would provide new ideas for researches on quality control of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and processing theory of charcoal medicine.Keywords:pollen grains of Typha;thermal analysis;carbonizing process;Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR)
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中医
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光谱学
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Sustainability
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2021
·Vol. 13
·期 23
·13244
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IF 3.251
Qing Chen,Honghu Zeng,Yanpeng Liang,Litang Qin,Guangsheng Peng,Liangliang Huang,Xiaohong Song
This study aimed to investigate the removal of β-hexachlorocyclohexane (β-HCH) at realistic concentration levels (10 µg/L) in different plant species in constructed wetlands (Acorus calamus,Canna indica,Thalia dealbata, andPontederia cordata) and the structure of the rhizosphere microbial community response of each group during summer and winter. Results showed that all groups of constructed wetlands had very good decontamination efficiency against β-HCH in water (90.86–98.17%). The species that most efficiently purified β-HCH in water wasA. calamusin summer (98.17%) andC. indicain winter (96.64%). Substrate sorption was found to be the major pathway for β-HCH removal from water in the constructed wetlands. The ability of the wetland plants to absorb and purify β-HCH was limited, andC. indicahad the strongest absorptive capacity among the four plant species. The mean β-HCH removal from the matrix of the planted plants increased by 5.8% compared with that of the control treatment (unplanted plants). The average β-HCH content in the plant rhizosphere substrate was 4.15 µg/kg lower than that in the non-rhizosphere substrate. High-throughput sequencing analysis revealed significant differences (P< 0.05) in the Chao1 and ACE indices of microbes in the substrate of four wetlands during summer and winter. At the genus level, the constructed wetlands with vegetation plantations showed higher microbial abundance than the constructed wetlands without vegetation plantations. In winter, the bacterial community structure of each constructed wetland was quite different, but no dominant flora in the bacterial community structure obviously changed. In summer, the bacterial community structure at the same stage was relatively small. The abundance ofActinobacteriaandSphingomonasremarkably increased over time in summer.Keywords:β-HCH;purification effects;vertical-flow constructed wetlands;bacterial community
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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IF 7.7
Run-Ze Cao,Zi-Yi Zhang,Jiao Jiao,Qing-Yan Gai,Ying Liu,Yuan Wang,Dan Qu,Yu-Jie Fu
Sporopollenin is a natural biological macromolecule consisting of highly cross-linked carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, with a highly porous structure and multifunctional groups. In this work, a novel surface molecularly imprinted polymer based on magnetically aminated cattail sporopollenin (MACSp-SMIP) was prepared for the specific and efficient adsorption of resveratrol, with the aim of purifying resveratrol from Polygonum cuspidatum extracts. MACSp-SMIP was found to have a porous structure covered with the multi-layered sponge-like imprinted polymers. MACSp-SMIP had a high adsorption capacity for resveratrol (65.77 mg·g −1 ) and excellent selectivity (imprinting factor 5.64). The adsorption of resveratrol by MACSp-SMIP was a homogeneous diffusion dominated by chemical adsorption with three stages of external diffusion, internal diffusion, and micropore diffusion. MACSp-SMIP was used as an adsorbent in molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction for the purification of resveratrol from P. cuspidatum extracts, achieving a resveratrol recovery of 94.33 % and a purity of 76.67 % in the final products. MACSp-SMIP maintained a satisfactory recovery of resveratrol (88.18 %) after six cycles. Overall, this work developed a promising biological macromolecule-based adsorbent MACSp-SMIP for the specific and efficient adsorption of resveratrol, and also provided an efficient and simple approach for the selective purification of resveratrol from P. cuspidatum extracts for food/nutraceutical applications.
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Water
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2024
·Vol. 16
·期 11
·1513
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IF 3
Jingqi Huang,Zhen Zhao,Jing Liu,Shiyue Li
Jiangsu High-Tech Fluorochemical Industrial Park in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, is the largest fluorochemical industrial park in Asia. The occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in surface water and widespread local plants was investigated in Jiangsu High-Tech Fluorochemical Industrial Park. Thirty-two target PFASs were detected in dissolved-phase, particle-phase and plant samples. The concentrations of total PFASs ranged from 1650 to 8250 ng/L in the dissolved-phase samples, 132 to 6810 ng/g dw in the particle-phase samples and 25.8 to 9460 ng/g dw in different plant tissues. Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA), Perfluorooctanoate acid (PFOA) and 6:2 fluorotelomer carboxylic acid (6:2 FTCA) were predominant PFASs and contributed 80−91% to ΣPFAS in water samples. A total of 67 emerging PFAS were identified in all samples using nontargeted analysis.Typha orientalisshowed better accumulation ability, with an average ΣPFAS concentration of 3450 ng/g dw and the highest root concentration factor (RCF) of 171.Typha orientalis,Eichhornia crassipesandAlternanthera sessilishave potential for use in PFAS phytostabilization.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2021
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IF 6.953
Fengjiao Cui,Huidong Li,Chen Chen,Zhixia Wang,Xinxin Liu,Gang Jiang,Tianjia Cheng,Runying Bai,Lei Song
In this study, cattail was researched as a natural cellulose source to extract cellulose. Dewaxing, alkali and bleaching treatments were carried out for the cattail fibers (CFs). The FTIR, SEM and XRD results indicated that hemicellulose and lignin were successfully removed from the CFs, and the content of cattail cellulose increased from 41.66 ± 1.11% to 89.72 ± 1.07%. Subsequently, cellulose aerogel was prepared by the extracted cattail cellulose. The Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) was uniformly loaded onto the surface of cellulose aerogel by the in situ growth, and ZIF-8 Cattail Cellulose Aerogel (ZCCA) was finally prepared. The SEM, FTIR, XRD and TGA results further confirmed the successful preparation of ZCCA. Additionally, the results of the adsorption experiment showed that ZCCA had excellent adsorption performance for enrofloxacin, and the maximum adsorption capacity of enrofloxacin reached 172.09 mg·g −1 while showing good reusability. The adsorption process followed the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir isotherm model. Thermodynamic studies showed that the adsorption of enrofloxacin was a spontaneous endothermic reaction and that the adsorption mechanism involves the interaction of hydrogen bonds , electrostatic and π-π stacking.
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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
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2025
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IF 7.4
Chang Wang,Min Hu,Yanji Wu,Haiyun Ma,Jianzhong Xu
Biomass-derived cellulose aerogels have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their renewability and sustainability. Here, we introduce a completely biomass typha orientalis fibers (TOFs) based aerogel which possesses excellent flame retardancy and fire warning performance. Both cellulose and lignin were effectively preserved to maximize the utilization of the biomass TOFs during the pretreatment. The TOFs were then crosslinked with the biomass flame retardant ammonium phytate. The resulting TOFs based aerogel possesses a low density (48 mg/cm 3 ) and excellent thermal insulation properties. Meanwhile, robust flame retardancy was also achieved, its UL-94 rating easily reaches V-0 grade, with a limiting oxygen index (LOI) as high as 78 %. In addition, based on the stable phosphorus doping char structure during combustion, the TOFs based aerogel also shows fire warning performance. It can respond quickly upon flame and continue to trigger alarm for up to 1.5 h. Moreover, the resulting TOFs based aerogel demonstrates excellent reusability in fire early warning up to 30 times. The present full biomass-based aerogel not only provide a fire warning capability but also contribute to the suppression of flame spread, thereby enhancing the overall safety.
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材料科学
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高分子科学
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消防安全工程
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可持续化学
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纳米技术
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Water
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2018
·Vol. 10
·期 4
·351
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IF 2.069
Yiran Li,Jian Zhang,Hai Liu
Low-cost and efficient activated carbon (AC) was prepared fromTypha orientalisvia phosphoric acid activation for chloramphenicol (CAP) removal. The adsorption capacity and mechanisms of CAP on AC were investigated. The physicochemical properties of AC were characterized by an N2adsorption/desorption isotherm, elemental analysis, Boehm’s titration and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The effects of experimental parameters were investigated to study the adsorption behaviors of CAP on AC, including contact time, initial concentration, ionic strength, and initial pH. AC had a micro-mesoporous structure with a relatively large surface area (794.8 m2/g). The respective contents of acidic and basic functional groups on AC were 2.078 and 0.995 mmol/g. The adsorption kinetic that was well described by a pseudo-second-order rate model implied a chemical controlling step. The adsorption isotherm was well fitted with the Freundlich isotherm model, and the maximum CAP adsorption capacity was 0.424 mmol/g. The ionic strength and pH had minimal effects on CAP adsorption. The dominant CAP adsorption mechanisms on AC were evaluated and attributed to π-π electron-donor-acceptor (EDA) interaction, hydrophobic interaction, in conjunction with hydrogen-bonding interaction. Additionally, AC exhibited an efficient adsorption performance of CAP in a realistic water environment.Keywords:activated carbon;adsorption;chloramphenicol;mechanism;antibiotic
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CHEMOSPHERE
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2021
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IF 7.086
Huanping Liu,Xiaoyan Tang,Xiaomin Xu,Yunv Dai,Xiaomeng Zhang,Yang Yang
Broad-spectrum insecticides such as neonicotinoids tend to accumulate and detrimentally impact natural ecosystems. Accordingly, we aimed to assess the neonicotinoid phytoremediation abilities of nine wetland plant species commonly used in constructed wetland systems: Acorus calamus , Typha orientalis , Arundo donax , Thalia dealbata , Canna indica , Iris pseudacorus , Cyperus alternifolius , Cyperus papyrus and Juncus effusus. We assessed their removal of six neonicotinoids and explored the mechanisms responsible for the observed removal in a 28-day experiment. The planted systems effectively removed the neonicotinoids, with removal efficiencies of 9.5–99.9%. Compared with the other neonicotinoids, imidacloprid , thiacloprid and acetamiprid were most readily removed in the planted systems. C. alternifolius and C. papyrus exhibited the best removal performance for all six neonicotinoids. Based on our assessment of mass balance, the main removal processes were biodegradation and plant accumulation. Plants can enhance neonicotinoid removal through enhancing biodegradation. The differences in transport and accumulation behaviors may be related to plant species and physicochemical properties of neonicotinoids. Further research is merited on the toxicity of neonicotinoids to plants and microorganisms and the metabolic pathways by which neonicotinoids are broken down in wetland systems.
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生态学
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植物修复
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湿地生态学
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