ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2021
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Hang Ren,Qianqian Zhang,Zhao Meng,Rui Ling,Weidong Qin,Zhenglong Wu
Gold triangular nanoplates (AuTNPs) and gold nanorods (AuNRs) have been widely used in colorimetric sensing due to their shape-dependent localized surface plasmon resonance properties. Herein, we report new colorimetric detection strategies based on a low-cost RGB colorimetry system equipped with an industrial-grade color sensor and provide two demonstrations for the potential applications. The first is the online detection of cadmium ions (Cd2+) through the Cd2+-promoted etching of glutathione-stabilized AuTNPs that was initialized by H2O2 and iodide. For the first time, the etching time corresponding to the inflection point of the first derivative of the Red channel transmission curve was used for calibration. The method was finally applied in the detection of Cd2+ in fortified rice samples. In the second demonstration, the RGB values continuously acquired using the instrument were converted to HSV (hue, saturation, and value) space, which was successfully employed in pH detection via etching of AuNRs. Importantly, the overaged AuNRs with poor homogeneity could be discerned by the method at the beginning of analysis, which is helpful in achieving reliable measurements. Our results suggest that integration of the low-cost portable instrument and the new strategies has the promising potential for sensitive, accurate, precise, and good-linearity detection.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 10.652
Dong Li,Yuexiao Pan,Xunan Wei,Jun Lin
Red phosphors based on Mn 4+ doped fluorides emitting narrow red light under the excitation of blue GaN chips, which can help to improve the luminescence efficiency and color rendering index (CRI) of white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs). In this paper, we carried out a room-temperature synthesis method to obtain a new phosphor of CsNaGe x Sn 1-x F 6 :Mn 4+ (CNGSFM) which contains double-central ions Ge 4+ and Sn 4+ . By controlling the different ratios of the central ions Ge 4+ /Sn 4+ , the contraction and expansion of the matrix lattice CNGSF can be freely changed, which provides a new direction for exploring the trimming method of the lattice effect on the luminescence performance of phosphors. Mn 4+ in CNGSFM shows weak stability and its luminescence quenches fastly in humid environments , so that we explored a facile strategy to improve its humidity resistance. Furthermore, the quenched luminescence of the CNGSFM can be restored through surface modification. Therefore, our results not only establish the tunable mechanism between luminescence performance and microstructure, but also provide a feasible strategy to improve the humidity resistance of Mn 4+ doped double-composite fluoride phosphors.
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COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
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2020
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IF 7.635
Lingxin He,Xia Zhou,Wei Cai,Yuling Xiao,Fukai Chu,Xiaowei Mu,Xianling Fu,Yuan Hu,Lei Song
Similar to graphene, few-layer black phosphorus possesses many excellent properties such as good thermal stability , mechanical properties and unique characteristic dimension effects, which is considered as promising nanoadditives . But the low yield and inferior interfacial adhesion with polymer matrix are unavoidable obstruction to fabricate high performance nanocomposites . Herein, we report a facile and environmentally friendly approach to simultaneously exfoliate and modify black phosphorus (BP) by electrochemical cathodic exfoliation, where BP crystal acted as the cathode and ethylene imine polymer (PEI) acted as electrolyte and modifier. The positively charged PEI would uniformly anchor on the surface of the newly peeled-off BP nanosheets through electrostatic attraction effect, resulting in preventing the agglomeration of BP nanosheets and improve the compatibility between BP and waterborne polyurethane (WPU) matrix. Significantly, with the addition of 2.0 wt% PEI modified BP in WPU matrix, the fire safety of WPU composites was enhanced. The peak heat-release rate, total heat release, total smoke production and total CO yield are decreased by 34.3%, 21.2%, 22.3% and 50.2% compared to pure WPU, respectively. Also, the tensile strength of WPU composites was increased by 71% (from 21.9 to 31.0 MPa) at the cost of the breaking elongation slightly decreased by 5.6%. This work provides the possibility for the scalable preparation and a real application of BP in polymer nanocomposites.
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FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
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2021
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Maoqiao Xiang,Jie Zheng,Shaofu Li,Chaoquan Hu,Jingyi Cui,Yingchun Zhang,Qiang Qi,Fen Yue
Lithium-based ceramic tritium breeders would attack the blanket structural materials and produce brittle corrosion layers, causing potential safety hazard. Herein, coated breeders were proposed as advanced tritium breeders to address the issue. Carbon (C), titanium nitride (TiN) and titanium carbide (TiC) were investigated as inert protective shells because they show excellent stability and chemical compatibility with Li 2 TiO 3 and Li 4 SiO 4 . Moreover, for the first time, the C and TiN coated Li 2 TiO 3 and Li 4 SiO 4 pebbles were successfully fabricated by fluidized bed chemical vapor deposition (FBCVD) process, which would significantly decrease the brittle corrosion layers and increase the safety. The deposition behavior and interface reactions were systemically investigated.
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ChemNanoMat
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2021
·Vol. 7
·期 3
·277-283
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IF 3.154
Jie Wang,Hongqin Ma,Jia Li,Xinyue Luo,Luqi Yu
Graphical Cu(I) decorated 2D black phosphorus nanosheets were synthesized by a ball-milling method . In the process of ball-milling, the bulk black phosphorus was exfoliated into nanosheets under the action of shearing force. Due to the reducibility of black phosphorus, it can react with CuCl 2 to form Cu(I)/BNPSs-n. As the active component of the adsorbent, Cu(I) species can interact with benzothiophene or dibenzothiophene in fuel to achieve the purpose of adsorption desulfurization. In this study, Cu(І) decorated two-dimensional black phosphorus nanosheets (BPNSs) adsorbents were prepared by a ball-milling method, and their adsorption-desorption performances were tested by batch adsorption experiments. The results showed that Cu(ІI) can be completely reduced to Cu(І) without adding any additional reducing agents during the ball-milling process, owing to the ability of black phosphorus to provide electrons to Cu(ІI). Moreover, the produced Cu(І) species were firmly anchored on BPNSs surface through chemical bonds formed between Cu and P atoms, effectively preventing them from aggregating. As the active sites on BPNSs surface, Cu(I) species can adsorb dibenzothiophene or benzothiophene from fuel by forming π-complexation bonds with them. The maximum adsorption capacity of the adsorbent for dibenzothiophene and benzothiophene were 13.16 and 18.02 mg S/g, respectively. Besides, the adsorption desulfurization activity can be recovered well by adopting simple thermal treatment.
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Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters
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2020
·Vol. 15
·期 4
·2000563
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IF 2.291
Xinhua Li,Qingshuang Ma,Ji Dong,Tansir Ahamad,Zongqing Ma
The Nb 3 (Al 1− x Sn x ) superconductor with enhanced critical current density ( J c ) is prepared by the process of mechanical alloying (MA) and subsequent low-temperature sintering and the enhancement mechanism of J c in Nb 3 (Al 1− x Sn x ) is discussed. The analysis of the flux pinning force implies that there is an additional pinning mechanism apart from grain boundary pinning in Nb 3 (Al 1− x Sn x ). The existence of dispersed Nb 2 Al nanoparticles (<30 nm) in Nb 3 (Al 1− x Sn x ) is confirmed by microstructure observation. These nanosized Nb 2 Al particles can serve as flux pinning centers, which leads to the increase of the flux pinning force as well as the enhancement of Nb 3 (Al 1− x Sn x )'s J c performance.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2021
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IF 6.707
Min Yang,Li Liu,Hanxiao Yan,Wen Zhang,Die Su,Jiaxing Wen,Wen Liu,Yiting Yuan,Junfang Liu,Xianyou Wang
The key to the development of wearable electronic equipment lies in the design of flexible batteries, in which the electrodes with outstanding mechanical behavior are quite important. Herein, porous nitrogen-doped Sn/C fibers (P-Sn/C-N Fs) film has been successfully synthesized via simple electrospinning and subsequent calcination process in which folic acid and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) play the role of introducing nitrogen and forming pores, respectively. The introduction of nitrogen improves the electronic conductivity of the material, and the presence of porous structure increases the specific surface area. More importantly, when the P-Sn/C-N Fs film is used directly as a free-standing electrode for lithium ion batteries, it exhibits outstanding electrochemical performance. The P-Sn/C-N Fs film exhibits a discharge capacity of 712.1 mAh g −1 at 500 mA g −1 after 500 cycles. Even at the high current density of 5 A g −1 , it displays a high discharge capacity of 429.1 mAh g −1 after 1000 cycles. These findings indicate that the P-Sn/C-N Fs film has the potential to be applied as free-standing anode materials for lithium ion batteries.
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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
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2021
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IF 7.491
Youwen Tian,Wei Luo,Yedan Wang,Yun Yu,Wanzhen Huang,Haodong Tang,Yifan Zheng,Zongjian Liu
Although the traditional Stoˇber process-based methods are widely used for encapsulation of metal nanoparticles in SiO 2 , these time-consuming methods are not effective for coating metal microparticles with a uniform SiO 2 layer of desired thickness. Herein, an ultrasound-assisted, interface-confined sol–gel method is proposed for fast encapsulation of metal microparticles in SiO 2 , and the encapsulation of Sn microparticles is chosen as an example to illustrate its feasibility. The proposed method involves covering metal microparticles with liquid films that contain water, alcohol, surfactant (Span-80) and catalyst (NH 4 F) and then ultrasonically dispersing these particles into cyclohexane, where tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) is added. To ensure the hydrolysis-condensation reactions of TEOS occurring at the particle-cyclohexane interface so that the formed SiO 2 is coated on the particles, the microparticles should be well dispersed into cyclohexane with the liquid films being not broken away from their surfaces. It is found that the assistance of probe sonication and the addition of surfactant are crucial to achievement of a good dispersion of metal microparticles in cyclohexane. And using high-viscosity alcohol (namely glycerol), controlling the volume ratio of water to alcohol and the amount of water, and choosing a suitable ultrasonic power are essential for preventing the formation of free SiO 2 (namely SiO 2 that is not coated on the particles), which is a result that the liquid films escape from the particle surfaces under ultrasonic cavitation. Our results have also revealed that the thickness of SiO 2 layer can be adjusted by changing the reaction time or the total amount of water. In particular, the thickness of SiO 2 layer can be easily raised by simply repeating the encapsulation procedure. Compared with the traditional Stoˇber process-based methods, the proposed method is time-saving (reaction time: about 30 min vs. more than 12 h) and extremely effective for coating microparticles with a continuous, uniform SiO 2 layer of desired thickness.
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ADVANCED MATERIALS
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2021
·Vol. 33
·期 11
·2004711
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IF 30.849
Yuxuan Liu,Renzong Hu,Dechao Zhang,Jiangwen Liu,Fang Liu,Jie Cui,Zuopeng Lin,Jinsong Wu,Min Zhu
To achieve high ionic conductivity for solid electrolyte, an artificial Li-rich interface layer of about 60 nm thick has been constructed in polymer-based poly(ethylene oxide)-lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide composite solid electrolyte (briefly noted as PEO m ) by adding Li-based alloys. As revealed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy, an artificial interface layer of amorphous feature is created around the Li-based alloy particles with the gradient distribution of Li across it. Electrochemical analysis and theoretical modeling demonstrate that the interface layer provides fast ion transport path and plays a key role in achieving high and stable ionic conductivity for PEO m -Li 21 Si 5 composite solid electrolyte. The PEO m -5%Li 21 Si 5 composite electrolyte exhibits an ionic conductivity of 3.9 × 10 –5 S cm −1 at 30 ° C and 5.6 × 10 −4 S cm −1 at 45 ° C. The LiFePO 4 | PEO m -5%Li 21 Si 5 | Li all-solid-state batteries could maintain a stable capacity of 129.2 mA h g −1 at 0.2 C and 30 ° C after 100 cycles, and 111.3 mA h g −1 after 200 cycles at 0.5 C and 45 ° C, demonstrating excellent cycling stability and high-rate capability.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Yuechao Zhao,Xiangyun Zhao,Dongxing Kou,Wenhui Zhou,Zhengji Zhou,Shengjie Yuan,Yafang Qi,Zhi Zheng,Sixin Wu
Although the traditional Cu-poor architecture addresses many limitations for Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells, its further development still encounters a bottleneck in terms of efficiency, primarily arising from the inferior charge transport within the quasineutral region and enlarged recombination at back contact. On the contrary, the electrical benign kesterite compound with higher Cu content may compensate for these shortages, but it will degrade device performance more pronouncedly at front contact because of the Fermi level pinning and more electric shunts. Based on the electric disparities on their independent side, in this work, we propose a new status of Cu component by exploring a large grain/fine grain/large grain trilayer architecture with higher Cu content near back contact and lower Cu content near front contact. The benefits of this bottom Cu-higher strategy are that it imposes a concentration gradient to drive carrier diffusion toward front contact and decreases the valence band edge offset in the rear of the device to aid in hole extraction. Also, it maintains the Cu-poor architecture at the near surface to facilitate hole quasi-Fermi level splitting. In return, the local Cu component engineering-mediated electric advances contribute to the highest efficiency of 12.54% for kesterite solar cells using amine–thiol solution systems so far.
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Materials
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2020
·Vol. 13
·期 23
·5356
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IF 3.057
Weihua Chen,Jiancheng Tang,Xinghao Lin,Yunlong Ai,Nan Ye
In the present study, high-purity ternary-phase nitride (Ti2AlN) powders were synthesized through microwave sintering using TiH2, Al, and TiN powders as raw materials. X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were adopted to characterize the as-prepared powders. It was found that the Ti2AlN powder prepared by the microwave sintering of the 1TiH2/1.15Al/1TiN mixture at 1250 °C for 30 min manifested great purity (96.68%) with uniform grain size distribution. The formation mechanism of Ti2AlN occurred in four stages. The solid-phase reaction of Ti/Al and Ti/TiN took place below the melting point of aluminum and formed Ti2Al and TiN0.5phases, which were the main intermediates in Ti2AlN formation. Therefore, the present work puts forward a favorable method for the preparation of high-purity Ti2AlN powders.Keywords:MAX-phase Ti2AlN;microwave;synthesis;high-purity powder
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2020
·Vol. 9
·期 1
·413-422
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IF 11.301
Xiaohuan Chang,Junjie Fu,Dongxing Kou,Wenhui Zhou,Zhengji Zhou,Shengjie Yuan,Yafang Qi,Zhi Zheng,Sixin Wu
The introduction of alkali metal (AM) post-deposition treatment (PDT) has led to the consecutive breakthrough of world record efficiencies for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 photovoltaics. However, for the derivative Cu2SnZn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) solar cells, the corresponding verdict seems partially unjustified due to the difference in defect chemical environment and phase structure, and the most effective incorporation means of AMs is still a mystery. In this work, for the first time, we developed a dual AM synergistic incorporation strategy combining light and heavy AMs by post-depositing CsF after NaF-PDT to improve the efficiency of CZTSSe solar cells. The relevant microscopic-electrical advantages with regard to the different roles of NaF and CsF PDT are discussed in more detail. It was found that the Na atoms are randomly dispersed both in the grain interior (GI) and grain boundaries (GBs), significantly increasing the acceptor concentration and passivating the deep level defects to enhance the Voc. In contrast, the Cs atoms are mainly segregated at the GBs, primarily increasing the potential of the GBs and improving the FF. The prominent electric benefits of Cs at the GBs and Na in the GI finally increase the device efficiency from 10.12% to 12.16%. Our findings solve the difficulty in obtaining the available Voc and FF for future high efficiency research and should serve as a basis for the in-depth understanding of AM-PDT in kesterite photovoltaics.
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