JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2015
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Sheng Liang,Chu Liang,Yang Xia,Haohui Xu,Hui Huang,Xinyong Tao,Yongping Gan,Wenkui Zhang
Lithium sulfide (Li 2 S) is regarded as a promising cathode material for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries in terms of its high theoretical specific capacity of 1166 mAh g −1 and good compatibility with lithium metal-free anodes. However, Li 2 S suffers from poor cycling stability and rate capability resulted from the serious shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides and its low electronic and ionic conductivity . Here, we present a facile ball milling combined with carbon coating method to synthesize porous carbon-coated Li 2 S (Li 2 S@C) composites with a high Li 2 S content by using polystyrene (PS) as a carbon precursor. The Li 2 S@C composites show a high reversible specific capacity of 676 mAh g −1 (equal to 971 mAh g −1 sulfur) after 3 cycles at the current density of 0.1 A g −1 , superior cycling stability with an average decay rate of 0.18% per cycle over 200 cycles, and improved rate capability of 416 mAh g −1 at the current density of 1.0 A g −1 . The enhanced electrochemical properties of Li 2 S can be attributed to the porosity and core–shell structure of the Li 2 S@C composites, which increased the electronic and ionic conductivity of Li 2 S and alleviated the shuttle effect of intermediate lithium polysulfides in the discharge/charge process.
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EES Catalysis
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2025
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Jie Yang,Lifang Chen,Xuya Zhu,Wenwen Shi,Mengxue Huang,Chang Liu,Ruimin Ding,Lin Gan,Xi Yin
H2O2 -related electrochemical reactions, including two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e-ORR), H2O2 oxidation reaction (HPOR), and H2O2 reduction reaction (HPRR), have received significant attention for the electrosynthesis H2O2 and energy storage. Understanding the complex structure-activity relationships among 2e-ORR/ HPOR/HPRR and their connections is crucial for further developing highly efficient catalysts and working systems. Herein, we unveil these intricacies by employing model Co-N-C catalysts with well-defined active site configuration (Co-N4-pyrrolic and Co-N4- pyridinic ) in a combined experimental and computational approach. We report the higher 2e-ORR/HPOR but lower HPRR activity of CoN4-pyrrolic site than the CoN4-pyridinic site based on their reaction free energy landscapes remodeled considering the chemisorption steps of O2 and H2O2 . The results reveal that the binding free energy of *OOH (ΔG*OOH ) can only be utilized as a reliable descriptor for 2e-ORR/HPOR activity, but not indicative of HPRR activity, regardless of the scaling relationship of the common reaction intermediates ( *OOH or *OH). The HPRR activity of CoN 4 sites strongly depends on the H2O2 adsorption strength and configuration. These findings provide valuable insights into the design of catalysts for H2O2 -related electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems.
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Plasma Processes and Polymers
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2024
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Rongzhao Jia,Shenli Jia,Jiajian Zhang,Yongpeng Mo,Zongqian Shi
A method for in situ fabrication of Al@C nanocomposite energetic additives through pulsed discharge in liquid cyclohexane has been proposed. The obtained Al@C nanocomposites consist of large aluminum nanoparticles (over 100 nm) enveloped by fullerenes and a carbon matrix with smaller aluminum particles (under 100 nm) embedded within. DSC–TGA curves indicate that the heat release of Al@C is higher than that of micron-sized and nano-sized aluminum particles. Al@C nanocomposites effectively reduce the ignition delay for liquid fuels. The energy efficiency of this method is much higher than that of continuous arc ablation, with a yield of up to 2.5 mg/min. This method allows for the simple, convenient, and safe fabrication of energetic additives, presenting a promising prospect for large-scale industrial production.
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Frontiers in Physiology
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2025
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Long Liu,Yangdi Li,Hua Yang,Fan Wang,Qiong Huang
Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are important for insects to discriminate, bind and transport odorants, such as pheromones and host plant volatiles. Herein, the Minus-C OBP (CbuqOBP1) was characterized from Cyrtotrachelus buqueti , one of the most important pests in bamboo plantations. CbuqOBP1 showed significantly higher transcription levels in the adult stage and was most highly expressed in the head of both sexes, the thorax and antenna of the male, indicating that it plays important roles in chemosensory behavior of adults and may also function in other biological processes. Fluorescence competitive binding assays showed that CbuqOBP1 displayed broad binding capabilities and strong affinities to phenol ( K i = 10.49 μM) and benzothiazole ( K i = 11.11 μM) among 8 C. buqueti volatiles. CbuqOBP1 also showed high binding affinity to the main volatile of the host plant Neosinocalamus affinis (linalool, K i = 13.41 μM). The docking results indicated that hydrophobic interactions were the prevailing forces between CbuqOBP1 with these three ligands. Additionally, several amino acid residues were significantly overlapped and contributed to the interactions with the ligands. The combined results suggest that CbuqOBP1 may play dual roles in binding volatile compounds from the host plant and the same species and will be helpful to developing new pest-control strategies.
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2025
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Hangyuan Guo,Hualei Liu,Lingqiao Wei,Songchun Fang,Roman A. Surmenev,Yi-Tao Liu,Jianyong Yu,Bin Ding
Traditional ceramic materials are prone to crushing due to structural collapse at high temperatures. Current efforts are focused on developing flexible and elastic ceramic materials with high thermal stability to address practical needs in the field of high-temperature thermal insulation, but this remains a significant challenge. In this work, elastic and compressible barium aluminosilicate (BAS) nanofibrous sponges are fabricated through gelation electrospinning and calcination processes. The resulting BAS nanofibrous sponges demonstrate excellent elasticity and compressibility across a temperature range of −196 to 1400 °C and can withstand 1000 compression cycles without structural collapse. Furthermore, they exhibit low thermal conductivity (0.0239 W m–1 K–1), low bulk density (4.42 mg cm–3), and high working temperature. In this sense, our study highlights the great potential of BAS nanofibrous sponges as thermal protective materials in extreme operating environments.
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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Huanhuan Cui,Chunyu Hu,Xiulin Qiao,Tiesheng Shi,Chao Chen,Wei Wei,Zu-Li Wang,Zhuoming Ma
An efficient visible-light-induced EDA strategy has been developed for constructing 3-difluoroalkylated quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones through the C–H difluoroalkylation of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones with fluoroalkyl bromides. This transformation could provide a series of 3-difluoroalkylated quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones in moderate to good yields under mild and metal-free conditions. Mechanistic studies revealed that the formation of the EDA complex between fluoroalkyl bromide and TMEDA was essential to initiate this transformation.
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
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2025
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Liu Aohua,Chen Jianhong,Wang Gang,Yu Feng,Peng Banghua
Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are regarded as promising energy storage devices next-generation, but it is limited by their sluggish oxygen reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER). Therefore, it is highly necessary to explore inexpensive and more efficient transition metal based electrocatalyst for facilitating OER and ORR. Consequently, in this paper, transition metal phosphating compounds (Co 2 P 2 O 7 /FeP 2 @C) was synthesized by high-temperature treatment CoFe terephthalic acid chelating with phytic acid (PA). The resulting nanostructures of Co 2 P 2 O 7 /FeP 2 coated with P-doped carbon exhibit outstanding electrocatalytic performance, achieving OER overpotential of 405 mV at 10 mA cm −2 and an initial ORR potential of 0.83 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode. Meanwhile, the ZABs prepared by Co 2 P 2 O 7 /FeP 2 @C exhibited high specific capacity (817.76 mAh g −1 ) and long cycle stability (60 h). Here, the well-designed terephthalic acid unified with PA, not only produced phosphide at elevated temperatures, but also enhanced catalyst porosity caused by abundant hydroxyl groups in PA, potentially increased specific surface area. Additionally, PA introduced P-doped carbon matrix, which effectively modulated the carrier's electronic structure, introduced more defect as active sites and combined with porous structure to enhance the electrocatalytic effect. This work introduced an environmentally friendly method to synthesize transition metal phosphide on porous carbon matrix, and it is anticipated to find extensive applications in electrocatalysis. Graphical abstract
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PLoS Pathogens
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2019
·Vol. 15
·期 5
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Longxing Cao,Bowen Yu,Dandan Kong,Qian Cong,Tao Yu,Zibo Chen,Zhenzheng Hu,Haishuang Chang,Jin Zhong,David Baker,Yongning He
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a member of Hepacivirus and belongs to the family of Flaviviridae . HCV infects millions of people worldwide and may lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV envelope proteins, E1 and E2, play critical roles in viral cell entry and act as major epitopes for neutralizing antibodies. However, unlike other known flaviviruses, it has been challenging to study HCV envelope proteins E1E2 in the past decades as the in vitro expressed E1E2 heterodimers are usually of poor quality, making the structural and functional characterization difficult. Here we express the ectodomains of HCV E1E2 heterodimer with either an Fc-tag or a de novo designed heterodimeric tag and are able to isolate soluble E1E2 heterodimer suitable for functional and structural studies. Then we characterize the E1E2 heterodimer by electron microscopy and model the structure by the coevolution based modeling strategy with Rosetta, revealing the potential interactions between E1 and E2. Moreover, the E1E2 heterodimer is applied to examine the interactions with the known HCV receptors, neutralizing antibodies as well as the inhibition of HCV infection, confirming the functionality of the E1E2 heterodimer and the binding profiles of E1E2 with the cellular receptors. Therefore, the expressed E1E2 heterodimer would be a valuable target for both viral studies and vaccination against HCV.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped virus that infects millions of people worldwide and may lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV has two envelope proteins, E1 and E2, which form heterodimers on viral surface and are critical for HCV cell entry. However, current studies of HCV E1E2 are often limited by the poor quality of the in vitro expressed E1E2 heterodimers. Here we express the ectodomains of HCV E1E2 with different tags, and are able to isolate soluble E1E2 ectodomains suitable for structural and functional studies. Then we generate the 3D reconstruction of E1E2 heterodimer by electron microscopy and also model the E1E2 structure by the coevolution based strategy with Rosetta, showing the potential interactions between E1 and E2. Moreover, the E1E2 heterodimer is applied to examine the interactions with the HCV cellular receptors, neutralizing antibodies as well as the inhibition of HCV infection. These results suggest that the expressed E1E2 heterodimer would be a promising target for both viral studies and vaccination against HCV.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2025
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IF 5.1
Yapeng Li,Qinghong Pan,Huiting Shi,Youyou Du,Ailing Yang,Da-Peng Yang
The quantitative determination of cholesterol in foods, drugs, and biological fluids holds significant importance due to its potential health risks. Herein, a self-powered photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor was developed for cholesterol detection. The photoelectrochemical system was constructed by modifying fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) electrodes with ZnO/C (serving as the photoanode) and iron-modified CuBi 2 O 4 (denoted as CBFO, functioning as the photocathode) through a controlled deposition process. To enhance detection selectivity, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were electrodeposited on the photocathode surface. The optimized sensor exhibited a linear detection range of 1–1000 nmol L −1 and a detection limit of 0.26 nmol L −1 (S/N = 3). Practical application of the sensor for cholesterol detection in milk samples demonstrated satisfactory recovery rates (98.6 %–107 %) with relative standard deviations (RSD) ranging from 2.38 % to 4.25 %. These results underscore the potential of this self-powered PEC sensor as a robust platform for rapid and accurate cholesterol determination in food products, pharmaceuticals, and environmental samples.
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Journal of Energy Storage
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2025
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Jiaxin Ou,Wenqing Xu,Ye Sun,Honghai Zhang,Yuchao He,Zongyi Wen,Yachun Lu,Jianwen Yang,Quanqi Chen
Potassium vanadium phosphate (K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 ) has emerged as one of the most promising cathode candidates for potassium-ion batteries because of exceptionally stable structural framework, yet suffers from intrinsic poor electronic conductivity characteristic of polyanionic compounds. Herein, a strategic Mg 2+ doping approach was adopted to prepare Mg-doped K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C (K 3+x V 3-x Mg x (PO 4 ) 4 /C, x = 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3) composites, where larger Mg 2+ (0.72 Å) substitution for V 3+ (0.64 Å) effectively widens K + diffusion pathways. Optimal doping of Mg 2+ significantly elevates K + diffusion, rate capability, and cyclability beyond undoped K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C. The optimal K 3.2 V 2.8 Mg 0.2 (PO 4 ) 4 /C (Mg0.2-KVP/C) demonstrates comprehensive performance enhancements over pristine K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C, exhibiting 16.5 % higher initial discharge capacity (67.0 vs. 57.5 mAh g −1 ) at 1C with significantly improved cycling stability (85.8 % vs. 65.5 % capacity retention after 150 cycles). Notably, Mg0.2-KVP/C maintains 63.8 % larger capacity at 5C rate (53.4 vs. 32.6 mAh g −1 ) while achieving capacity retention of 75.2 % after 1000 cycles-representing a 50 % improvement in long-term cycle stability compared to the undoped K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C. The significant improvement in electrochemical performance of K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C upon Mg doping suggests that strategic ionic doping is an effective strategy for improving potassium storage performance of K 3 V 3 (PO 4 ) 4 /C and other polyanionic compounds for potassium-ion batteries.
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JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
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2025
·Vol. 23
·期 1
·1-21
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IF 12.6
Zhang Fenglan,Wang Tianyi,Wang Wenqiao,Lv Yaqian,Qu Yingshan,Liu Danping,Sun Xiaoyue,Kong Xiaoying,Wang Changyuan,Shi Jinsheng
As an important component of sunscreen products for sensitive skin, the potential damage mechanism of ZnO nanoparticles on skin surface with barrier structure or function defect caused by Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) has not been elucidated, which poses a serious challenge for reasonable selection of sunscreen products for acne-infected skin. In this work, we demonstrated for the first time that C. acnes induced significant changes in the membrane permeability and intracellular pH of fibroblasts through lipase up-regulation and lipid peroxidation, promoting endocytosis and ionization of ZnO NPs. High amounts of Zn2 + further delayed acne wound healing and aggravated scar hyperplasia by intervening matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and TGF-β1/Smad pathway. MMP9 was confirmed to be the key target of ZnO in delaying acne wound healing by the wound regulatory effects of MMP9 agonist and MMP9 inhibitor. In summary, this work clarified the interaction mechanism between ZnO NPs and acne skins, providing guideline for the application of physical sunscreens for special skins.Graphical abstract
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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Shanxin Li,Zhiqi Zhai,Yijing Sun,Sichen Guo,Ting Peng,Hongying Yu,Xuzhou Jiang
The development of stealth materials with both efficient corrosion resistance and low-frequency microwave absorption is highly necessary. In this work, neural-structured Co@C/MWCNTs nanocomposites were successfully synthesized through a facile co-precipitation method, followed by a subsequent pyrolysis process. By adjusting the pyrolysis temperature, the pore structure, crystallinity, degree of graphitization, and electromagnetic parameters of the material were optimized. This optimization achieved a multi-mechanism synergistic effect in the low-frequency region (C-band), including impedance matching, dielectric loss, conductive loss, and magnetic loss. The results indicated that NCN-700 achieved a minimum reflection loss ( RL min ) of −64.31 dB at 4.88 GHz. Additionally, the neural-structured Co@C/MWCNTs nanocomposites exhibited significant effectiveness in low-frequency radar stealth applications, while also displaying superior corrosion resistance, self-corrosion potential ( E corr = 0.52 V), and self-corrosion current density ( I corr = 2.58 × 10 −6 A/cm 2 ). These findings suggest the promising potential for neural-structured Co@C/MWCNTs nanocomposites in applications related to low-frequency microwave absorption and corrosion protection.
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