JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2025
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IF 9
Shibo Yu,Jiesong Tan,Yiqing Zeng,Jianzhong Zheng,Guangyu Zhou,Xiangsen Xu,Yutang Kang,Shipeng Wan,Zhaoxiang Zhong,Weihong Xing
Multifunctional air-purifying materials have attracted much attention in dealing with indoor air pollution including particulate matter (PM) and hazardous gaseous pollutants (e.g., HCHO), while its development faces long-term challenges of high efficiency and low resistance. Herein, we fabricated a novel hierarchical porous structure TiO 2 –SiO 2 (TS) fiber membrane using a handy electrospinning method. The hierarchical porous structure, comprising micropores and mesopores within fibers and fiber stacking-induced macropores, endows the TS fiber membrane with an astonishing specific surface area of 351.4 m 2 g −1 and a high gas permeability of 1079.4 m 3 m −2 ·h −1 ·kPa −1 . The interconnected pore structure offers additional potential pathways for clean air, which contributes to enhancing PM capture and lower filtration resistance. Consequently, the TS fiber membrane showed a gratifying filtration efficiency of 99.89 % for PM 0.3 and 99.98 % for PM 2.5 at a velocity of 5.33 cm s −1 with an air resistance as low as 69.3 Pa. It is noteworthy that the interconnected microporous-mesoporous structure in fiber also facilitates the adsorption and enrichment of HCHO molecules, thereby increasing the local concentration and thus markedly enhancing the catalytic efficiency. As a result, the membrane demonstrated a photocatalytic removal efficiency of 98.46 % for HCHO under UV light at a high gas velocity of 600 L g −1 ·h −1 . Interestingly, we found that the membrane can maintain good long-term cyclic stability by simply replenishing adsorbed water on the surface. This work would provide new insight for developing advanced multifunctional air purification membranes.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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Molecular Catalysis
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2023
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IF 4.6
Jia Li,Jianfeng Zheng,Xingmin Liu,Zhanggen Huang
Metal additives can greatly improve the catalytic oxidation of photocatalysts for degrading volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including formaldehyde. Different type metal, including Pd, Cu and Na, were doped in TiO 2 (B) nanosheets with oxygen vacancy, and the degradation rate of HCHO were evaluated using the above catalysts. A series of theoretical and experimental studies on these modified TiO 2 (B) photocatalysts were carried out. The presence of O v leads to the appearance of impurity levels under the conduction band of TiO 2 (B), which could enhance the absorption in the visible spectral range by reducing the band gap and inhibiting the recombination of photo-induced charges. TiO 2 (B) with oxygen vacancies and doped with Na is used as a photocatalyst for degrading HCHO, and the removal rate up to 80% within 50 min. It is quite important to match the bandgap structure of photocatalysts and redox potential of O 2 /•O 2 − . Doping of excessive metals is detrimental to the separation and transfer of photogenerated charges. The intermediates and mechanism of photocatalytic oxidation of HCHO were investigated by in situ DRIFTS.
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材料科学
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LANGMUIR
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2025
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IF 3.9
Yuqing Li,Can Liu,Xiaocong Tang,Bohao Liu,Wei Zhao,Yong Zhang
Metal nanoparticle surface modification is a simple and efficient method to realize highly sensitive detection for chemiresistive gas sensors. Although a few theoretical explanations for the complicated matching relationship in the sensing system constructed from the modified metal, semiconductor material, and target gas have been proposed, there are no corresponding specific evaluation parameters based on the metal sensitization mechanism, which are crucial for the guidance of high-performance sensing materials design. Herein, taking MnO2-based chemiresistive gas sensors as examples, the improvement effect of the metal nanoparticles modification on the gas-sensing properties of MnO2-based chemiresistive sensors toward HCHO and NH3 is investigated. Combined with the first-principle calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), a novel resonant coupling model based on the impurity energy levels, originating from charge transfer between target gas and metal, is first proposed to reveal the sensitization mechanism that the coupling strength between metal and target gas determines the carrier concentration of MOS. Coupling strength is closely positive correlated with the response, which provides an effective parameter to semiquantitatively describe the sensitization effect of metal nanoparticles on target gas. Our work establishes a model that clarifies the matching correlation in the sensing system and excavates new road to further comprehend the metal sensitization mechanism, which will provide an effective theoretical guide for the design of high-performance gas-sensing materials.
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材料科学
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化学传感器
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ACS Catalysis
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2017
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IF 10.614
Shaopeng Rong,Pengyi Zhang,Yajie Yang,Lin Zhu,Jinlong Wang,Fang Liu
Formaldehyde (HCHO) causes increasing concerns, because of its ubiquitous presence in the indoor environment and its irritating and carcinogenic nature, with regard to humans. The fast abatement of HCHO is of significant practical interest at room temperature. In this paper, we fabricate a three-dimensional manganese dioxide framework (3D-MnO2), which has interconnected network structures, low mass density (∼7.3 mg cm–3), and high absorption capacity for organic liquids. In particular, the 3D-MnO2 showed excellent activity and stability for HCHO oxidation at room temperature, achieving 45% of 100 ppm of HCHO mineralized into CO2 under high gas hourly space velocity (GHSV = 180 L gcat–1 h–1). The excellent performance of 3D-MnO2 catalysts in decomposing HCHO can be ascribed to their quick reversibility and high water content for replenishing the consumed surface hydroxyl groups during HCHO decomposition, and fully exposed active reaction sites. It is valuable to know that inexpensive metal oxides such as MnO2 can transform ppm-level HCHO into harmless CO2 in a timeframe as brief as a subsecond at room temperature.
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环境科学
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催化
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空气污染控制
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Nano Research
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2020
·Vol. 14
·期 5
·1471-1478
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IF 8.183
Shao Weiwei,Li Xiaodong,Zu Xiaolong,Liang Liang,Pan Yang,Zhu Junfa,Wang Chengming,Sun Yongfu,Xie Yi
Photooxidation provides a promising strategy for removing the dominant indoor pollutant of HCHO, while the underlying photooxidation mechanism is still unclear, especially the exact role of H 2 O molecules. Herein, we utilize in-situ spectral techniques to unveil the H 2 O-mediated HCHO photooxidation mechanism. As an example, the synthetic defective Bi 2 WO 6 ultrathin sheets realize high-rate HCHO photooxidation with the assistance of H 2 O at room temperature. In-situ electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy demonstrates the existence of •OH radicals, possibly stemmed from H 2 O oxidation by the photoexcited holes. Synchrotron-radiation vacuum ultraviolet photoionization mass spectroscopy and H 2 18 O isotope-labeling experiment directly evidence the formed •OH radicals as the source of oxygen atoms, trigger HCHO photooxidation to produce CO 2 , while in-situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy discloses the HCOO* radical is the main photooxidation intermediate. Density-functional-theory calculations further reveal the •OH formation process is the rate-limiting step, strongly verifying the critical role of H 2 O in promoting HCHO photooxidation. This work first clearly uncovers the H 2 O-mediated HCHO photooxidation mechanism, holding promise for high-efficiency indoor HCHO removal at ambient conditions.
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化学
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2020
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IF 16.683
Wenjing Yuan,Shuping Zhang,Yaoyao Wu,Xiaomin Huang,Fenghui Tian,Shengwei Liu,Chuanhao Li
In this study, we construct the surface Lewis pairs, involving electron-rich nitrogen (Lewis base) sites and electron-deficient carbon (Lewis acid) sites, on carbon-based catalysts to enhance the catalytic activity towards the room-temperature decomposition of formaldehyde (HCHO). Density functional theory (DFT) calculation results show that the Lewis pairs, especially pyrrolic nitrogen species, contributed to the efficient HCHO adsorption ability. After the adsorbed HCHO molecules are oxidized into CO 2 and H 2 O, and the Lewis acid-base catalytic sites finally get re-exposed, further initiating the next round of HCHO adsorption-decomposition process. Experimental measurements found that the typical sample exhibits an excellent catalytic HCHO oxidation activity, with the maximum HCHO removal efficiency of about 98.0 %, and the catalytic activity remains relatively unchanged after five cycles of reuse. This study may also open a new strategy to construct novel Lewis pairs for the removal of HCHO from other heteroatom-doped (e.g., B, S, F) porous carbon-based materials.
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Science Advances
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2024
·Vol. 10
·期 36
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IF 11.7
Mengjun Wang,Jun Jia,Zhaodong Meng,Jing Xia,Xinyan Hu,Fei Xue,Huiping Peng,Xiangmin Meng,Jun Yi,Xiaolan Chen,Jun Li,Yuzheng Guo,Yong Xu,Xiaoqing Huang
Photothermal catalysis effectively increases catalytic activity by using the photothermal effect of metal nanomaterials; however, the combination of strong light absorption and high catalytic performance remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate hexagonal ~5-nanometer-thick palladium antimony (chemical formula as Pd8Sb3) nanosheets (NSs) that exhibit strong light absorption within full spectral and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects in the visible region. Such LSPR features lead to strong photothermal effects, and Pd8Sb3 NSs aqueous dispersion enables enhanced photothermal methane (CH4) conversion to formaldehyde (HCHO) under full-spectrum light irradiation at 1.7 watts per square centimeter, leading to selectivity of ~98.7%, productivity of ~665 millimoles per gram of catalyst, ~700 times higher than that of Pd NSs. Mechanism investigations suggest that different radicals were generated on Pd8Sb3 (·OH) and Pd NSs (·O2−), where Pd8Sb3 NSs displays stronger adsorption strength to CH4 and facilitates CH4 oxidation to HCHO. Besides, the strong light absorption ability of Pd8Sb3 NSs enables photothermal therapy for breast cancer.
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CRYSTENGCOMM
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2012
·Vol. 14
·期 10
·3380-3386
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IF 3.842
Lixian Han,Jie Liu,Zhengjun Wang,Kun Zhang,Hui Luo,Bo Xu,Xing Zou,Xiao Zheng,Bin Ye,Xibin Yu
Monodisperse ZnSn(OH)6 (ZHS) microcrystallites (MCs) with two morphologies have been prepared through a facile preparation method without complicated steps, or advanced experimental conditions or equipments. The morphology and compositional characteristics of the 3D hierarchitectures (HAs) of ZHS MCs were investigated by various techniques such as XRD, FESEM, TEM, UV-vis spectra, BET, XPS and EPR. In the reaction system the morphology evolution from cube to sphere was controlled by adding a different concentration of NH4OH. Meanwhile, the formation mechanisms of the two ZHS MCs were studied via a series of time-dependent experiments. Interesting, ZHS MCs were self-assembled from irregular-shaped nanoparticles (5–10 nm). The XPS and EPR tests demonstrated oxygen vacancy defects existed in the ZHS MCs. The gas sensors based on ZHS presented a good sensor performance towards HCHO. However, the gas sensors based on of ZHS spherical MCs exhibited a higher response, shorter recovery time and good reproducibility towards HCHO than those of ZHS cubic MCs. More importantly, the best gas sensing properties were found coming from the ∼600 nm spherical ZHS MCs owing to more oxygen vacancy defects, lower band gap energy, and larger active surface area.
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化学
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Nanoscale Research Letters
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2019
·Vol. 14
·期 1
·1-11
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IF 3.159
Zhou Shiqiang,Chen Mingpeng,Lu Qingjie,Zhang Yumin,Zhang Jin,Li Bo,Wei Haitang,Hu Jicu,Wang Huapeng,Liu Qingju
Formaldehyde (HCHO) is the main source of indoor air pollutant. HCHO sensors are therefore of paramount importance for timely detection in daily life. However, existing sensors do not meet the stringent performance targets, while deactivation due to sensing detection at room temperature, for example, at extremely low concentration of formaldehyde (especially lower than 0.08 ppm), is a widely unsolved problem. Herein, we present the Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) sensitized dispersed In 2 O 3 nanograin via a low-fabrication-cost hydrothermal strategy, where the Ag NPs reduces the apparent activation energy for HCHO transporting into and out of the In 2 O 3 nanoparticles, while low concentrations detection at low working temperature is realized. The pristine In 2 O 3 exhibits a sluggish response (R a /R g = 4.14 to 10 ppm) with incomplete recovery to HCHO gas. After Ag functionalization, the 5%Ag-In 2 O 3 sensor shows a dramatically enhanced response (135) with a short response time (102 s) and recovery time (157 s) to 1 ppm HCHO gas at 30 °C, which benefits from the Ag NPs that electronically and chemically sensitize the crystal In 2 O 3 nanograin, greatly enhancing the selectivity and sensitivity.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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传感器技术
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 4.9
Ruilong Ma,Fan Wu,Jiaxin Yue,Wenlong Zhao,Jia Yan,Hao Cui,Peter Feng,Xiaoyan Peng
The leakage of HCHO gas has direct and irreversible damage on both human health and the environment. However, the current commercial electronic nose (E-nose) has low accuracy in predicting the concentration of HCHO. In this work, a sensor array consisting of 6 gas sensors was fabricated and combined with advanced deep learning algorithms to achieve accurate prediction of HCHO concentration. High-performance SnO 2 sensing material with high specific surface area was synthesized by applying the Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) sacrificial template, and the response of the SnO 2 gas sensor was as high as 15.098, which is much higher than that of commonly used commercial sensors. In addition, the sensing performance of the SnO 2 sensor, including response, selectivity and repeatability etc., were investigated. Afterward, a Formaldehyde Prediction Network (FPNet) model was proposed for processing the HCHO gas dataset and cosine annealing was added to gradually reduce the learning rate during training to help the model converge to the optimal solution. Furthermore, the residual structures with different number of layers were compared, and the 3-layer residual structure expressed the most accurate results of concentration prediction of the HCHO gas, with an MSE of 9.003, MAPE of 0.015, and R 2 of 0.998. This study provides a new idea from sensor preparation to pattern recognition algorithm research, effectively solving the problems of the low response of commercial sensors to HCHO and the low accuracy of pattern recognition algorithms for E-nose datasets.
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传感技术
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深度学习
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环境科学
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材料科学
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Surfaces and Interfaces
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2025
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IF 6.3
Dan Chen,Ming Zhai,Jing Zhang,Liqi Miao,Kan Li,Zhong Wang,Xiaozhi Wang
Gold-based catalysts are renowned for their exceptional low-temperature oxidation activity and have found widespread application in the thermos catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO). In this study, an in-situ hydrothermal synthesis method was employed to prepare Au 0.5 Ni x /ATP catalysts. By altering the doping amount of Ni during the synthesis process, the impact of Ni doping on the catalytic reactivity was investigated. Compared to pure gold-based catalysts, the dispersion and sintering resistance of the Au 0.5 Ni x /ATP catalysts were enhanced. The OH - ions present in the alkaline solution provided by TPAOH disrupted the morphology of ATP, leading to a flocculent appearance for the Au 0.5 /ATP catalyst. With varying doping levels of Ni, the rod-like structure of ATP gradually recovered due to the strong interaction between Ni 2+ and OH-. On the Au 0.5 Ni x /ATP catalysts, NiO, being a p-type semiconductor, was prone to electron loss, with the lost electrons being captured by Au 3+ to form Au 0 and stronger Au and Ni interactions. When Ni species were introduced onto the Au/ATP surface, the synergistic effect between Au and Ni resulted in higher catalytic activity, favoring the catalytic oxidation of HCHO. The catalytic efficiency peaked when the Ni doping level reached 20 wt%.
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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
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2018
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IF 3.141
Ying Huo,Xuyu Wang,Zebao Rui,Xiaoqing Yang,Hongbing Ji
Insight into the relationship between catalytic trends and physicochemical properties of composite nanoparticles is essential for their rational design. Herein, a series of 3d-M (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) metal hydroxide-promoted PtM(OH)x/Al2O3 catalysts are developed and well characterized for establishing the catalytic HCHO oxidation reactivity trend as a function of more fundamental properties, such as hydroxyl concentration and adsorption strength. The reactivity of PtM(OH)x/Al2O3 exhibits an increasing trend of Mn < Fe < Co < Ni, which is governed by their OH–M2+δ bond strength (Ni < Co < Fe < Mn) and surface hydroxyl concentration (Mn < Fe < Co < Ni). Both PtCo(OH)x/Al2O3 and PtNi(OH)x/Al2O3 exhibit a (>)95% HCHO conversion and (>)100 h performance stability at 30 °C with a low 0.2 wt % Pt loading amount. The identification of these catalytic trends provides foundations for composite active sites design for HCHO oxidation and other hydroxyl-involved reactions.
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催化化学
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材料科学
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