Refined design of sustainable sorbent demands to tackle the strong dependence for additional mesoporous support and low utilization in hot coal gas desulfurization. Unlike the well-established preparation of loading sorbents supported on zeolites, a vacuum-assisted self-assemble strategy tapping into the ordered channels of walnut wood is proposed to facilely fabricate three-dimensional (3D) (a%Ce–Mn) y Al 2−y O x desulfurizers with anisotropy which provides a desirable macroporosity for rapid diffusion of H 2 S. Benefiting from the inherent straight channle in micron scale, the obtained (8%Ce–Mn) 1.5 Al 0.5 O x presents the highest breakthrough sulfur capacity (289.79 mg g −1 ) and effective utilization (88.42%) at 700 °C. The favorable rapid diffusion of gases in micro/macropores improves greatly the H 2 O-resistance and anti-interference ability of 3D (8%Ce–Mn) 1.5 Al 0.5 O x for high steam and concentration of reducing gas. The fast mass transport in sulfidation reaction at 700 °C is described perfectly by the improved deactivation kinetics model. This study opens a novel design of the ideal 3D desulfurizers with micron porosity inherited from hierarchical architecture of walnut wood for industrialization utilization in the near future.
Sui Mao,Jiliang Liu,Yuyong Pan,Jihoon Lee,Zhao Yao,Puran Pandey,Sundar Kunwar,Zhijun Zhu,Wenfei Shen,Laurence A. Belfiore,Jianguo Tang
Hybrid metal-oxide (MO)/metal nanostructures (MNSs) have been appealing in widespread optoelectronic devices due to their strong and tunable plasmonic activity encompassing selective scattering and absorption of wavelength depending upon the surface morphology and surrounding dielectric environment. In this paper, the various MO/Au NSs hybrid thin-films are fabricated via the solid-state-dewetting growth of Au NSs and sol-gel deposition of MO top-layers including ZrO x , CeO x , YO x and AlO x . Over 450% enhancements in maximum absorption are observed along with the peak redshift of 168 nm for the series of MO/Au NS films. The overall plasmonic properties undergo three regimes by the systematical control of film morphology: (I) Rapid enhancement, (II) Slow enhancement and (III) Decay. The optical evolution is correspondingly investigated with the assistant of finite-different time-domain (FDTD) calculation. This work may give an aid to the photo-electronic applications, such as photovoltaics , sensing and surface enhanced Raman scattering , based on hybrid MNSs especially on control of their plasmonic properties.