Small Methods
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2024
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Lirong He,Xingang Liu,Cheng Han,Dehui Wang,Qi Wang,Xu Deng,Chuhong Zhang
For polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) based piezoelectric composites, epitaxial growth of ZnO nanorods (ZnO-nr) piezoceramic layer on PVDF is an effective way to improve their piezoelectric performance. However, the crystal nucleus of ZnO featuring polar surfaces that cannot be directly attached to hydrophobic PVDF with low surface energy. Herein, direct ink writing (DIW) 3D printing is employed for the first time to create β-PVDF reservoirs with significantly enhanced surface energy, facilitating the attachment and epitaxial growth of ZnO-nr. The printed β -PVDF reservoirs designed with programmed macro-pores and abundant inner micropores, enable a higher loading of ZnO-nr by more than one magnitude, thereby boosting the electro-mechanical response. The resulting PVDF/ZnO core–shell piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) delivers an output voltage of 33.2 V, as well as an unprecedentedly high relative output voltage of 2.76 V/wt.%, which is 2.63 times that of the state-of-the-art 3D-printed PVDF/piezoceramics PEHs. Furthermore, it can differentiate subtle human motions whereas hybrid PEHs cannot distinct. This work demonstrates that the DIW 3D printing approach offers a simple and convenient design idea for creating high performance PEHs.
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CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
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2024
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Qinghong Pan,Huafang Zhang,Qiaoling Liu,Donghong Huang,Da-Peng Yang,Tianjia Jiang,Shuyang Sun,Xiangrong Chen
ABSTRACT Quantitative determination of tetracycline (TC) in environment and foods is of great importance, as excessive residues might have negative effects on human health and environmental risks. Herein, a self-powered molecularly imprinted photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor based on the ZnO/C photoanode and the Fe-doped CuBi 2 O 4 (CBFO) photocathode is developed for the sensitive detection of TC. The photocathodic current can be amplified by the efficient electron transfer caused by the Fermi energy level gap between the photoanode and photocathode. Furthermore, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) at photocathode can selectivity identify the TC templates and thus improve the specificity. Under the optimal conditions, the sensor has a linear range of 10 ‒2 -1.0 × 10 5 nmol/L, and a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.007 nmol/L (S/N = 3). More crucially, the milk sample detection is carried out using the as-prepared sensor, and the outcome is satisfactory. The research gives us a novel sensing platform for quick and accurate antibiotic (like TC) in environment and food monitoring.
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JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
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2024
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Zhichao Jin,Zhongli Zhu
A series of SiO 2 -B 2 O 3 -ZnO-La 2 O 3 -BaO (SBZLBa) glasses doped with Dy 3+ and Eu 3+ were synthesized using the melt-quenching technique. Their optical characteristics and potential applications in W-LED devices were investigated. The structural effects resulting from doping the glass with Dy 3+ and Eu 3+ ions were elucidated through infrared spectroscopy and an examination of the physical properties. The variations in emission intensity within the fluorescence spectrum validated the sensitizing effect of Dy 3+ on Eu 3+ within the glass matrix. By manipulating the transitions of both Dy 3+ and Eu 3+ , the excitation wavelength was altered, enabling the realization of cool white, neutral white, and warm white luminescence, thus accommodating the diverse requirements for white light emission in lighting applications. After incorporating 1.0 mol% of Dy 2 O 3 and 0.8 mol% of Eu 2 O 3 , respectively, the glass exhibited CIE coordinates of (0.3332, 0.3535), positioning it within the white light spectrum and in close proximity to the ideal white light coordinates of (0.33, 0.33). The SBZLBa-Dy 2 O 3 –0.8Eu 2 O 3 glass exhibited a quantum yield of 5.98 %. It has been demonstrated through acid and alkali resistance tests that this glass possesses excellent chemical stability. Additionally, temperature-dependent emission spectra have revealed that the luminous intensity of the glass maintains over 85 % of its room temperature value at 185 °C, with Eα determined to be 0.2387 eV.
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Nanophotonics
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2024
·Vol. 13
·期 3
·307-318
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Yang Jiao,Yuanyuan Pan,Moru Yang,Zhen Li,Jing Yu,Rong Fu,Baoyuan Man,Chao Zhang,Xiaofei Zhao
Hollow urchin-like substrates have been widely interested in the field of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and photocatalysis. However, most reported studies are simple nanoscale urchin-like substrate with limited light trapping range and complicated preparation process. In this paper, a simple and effective controllable synthesis strategy based on micro-nano hierarchical urchin-like ZnO/Ag hollow spheres was prepared. Compared with the 2D structure and solid spheres, the 3D urchin-like ZnO/Ag hollow sphere has higher laser utilization and more exposed specific surface area due to its special hollow structure, which resulted in excellent SERS and photocatalytic performance, and successfully realize the detection and photodegradation of antibiotics. The limited of detection of metronidazole can reach as low as 10 −9 M, and degradation rate achieve 89 % within 120 min. The experimental and theoretical results confirm that the ZnO/Ag hollow spheres can be used in the development of ZnO heterostructure for the detection and degradation of antibiotics, which open new avenues for the development of novel ZnO-based substrate in SERS sensing and catalytic application to address environmental challenges.
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IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
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2024
·Vol. 24
·期 23
·38813-38821
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Yihao Guo,Jian Zhou,Zhangbin Ji,Hui Chen,Shengyu Wen,Long Li,Yanhong Xia,Khyzer Hayat Shareef,Dongfang Liang,Yongqing Fu
Owing to its wide direct bandgap and high exciton binding energy, zinc oxide (ZnO) is commonly used as a sensitive layer for surface acoustic wave (SAW) based ultraviolet (UV) sensors. However, the signal of such sensors is often adversely affected by environmental conditions such as humidity, owing to the strong affinity between hydrophilic hydroxyl groups of ZnO and water molecules. Herein, an effective mitigation method for humidity interferences of SAW UV sensors was proposed based on a hydrophobic sensing layer using ZnO nanowires (NWs) coated with hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDS)-modified silica nanoparticles. With the effectively hydrophobic modification process and high concentration of −Si(CH
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bonds formed on the hydrophobic sensing layer, a hydrophilic-to-hydrophobic transition was achieved for the coated ZnO NWs, whose water contact angle (WCA) was increased from 5° to 155°. The ZnO NWs-coated SAW devices effectively prevented water molecules from attaching onto the ZnO NWs, and thus achieved a superior antihumidity interference, even at 90% relative humidity. The developed UV sensor showed a UV sensitivity of 6.82 ppm (mW/cm
$^{{2}}) ^{\mathbf {-{1}}}$
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LANGMUIR
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2024
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Lijun Ban,Haitao Li,Xin Huang,Yixuan Xu,Xia Guo,Yin Zhang,Jianghong Zhao,Yongxiang Zhao
Hollow carbon–nitrogen nanoreactors constitute a class of porous materials that have widespread application owing to their large inner cavities, low densities, core–shell interfaces, and enrichment effects. Direct carbonization of precursors is the simplest and most economical method to prepare porous carbon–nitrogen materials; however, this method requires high temperatures, thus yielding nonoxide structures. In this study, CuO–ZnO@CN (CN: carbon–nitrogen layers) is prepared using the two-step heating of zeolitic imidazolium skeleton-8 (ZIF-8) coated with CuO–ZnO precursors. During carbonization, the ZIF-8 nanoparticles are converted into carbon–nitrogen layers at high temperatures. Next, a heating process based on the autocatalytic effect of Cu can be used to etch the hollow structure prepared by the carbon–nitrogen layers. The CuO–ZnO@CN hollow composites fabricated using this method exhibit excellent catalytic properties for the ethynylation of formaldehyde. The proposed strategy can be used to develop techniques for syntheses of readily reducible carbon oxide claddings and their composites.
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JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
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2024
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Jingyi Yu,Hao Sun,Cong Zheng,Weiwei Jiang,Nan Wang,Zhiqiang Li,Sumei Wu,Hualong Tao,Tingting Yao,Hualin Wang,Shimin Liu,Chaoqian Liu,Wanyu Ding,Zhihua Zhang
Pure TiO 2 , Sn/Cl co-doped TiO2 and Sn/Cl co-doped TiO 2 -ZnO were fabricated and compared by a novel one-pot method to improve the photocatalytic performance of pure TiO2, which accomplishes the construction of heterojunctions simultaneously with doping by volatile solid solution. TG-DSC, XRD, FTIR, XPS, SEM, EDS, TEM, SAED, UV–Vis, PL and EIS were characterized to investigate the influence mechanism of Sn/Cl co-doping and ZnO content (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 mol.%) on the thermal effect, crystal structure, morphology, composition, charge transfer behavior and photocatalytic performance of samples. Results indicate that ZnO appears and SnO2 disappears simultaneously with anatase TiO2 as the main phase by increasing ZnO content, and the morphology is changed from irregular sphere to sphere-sheet and sphere-plate correspondingly. The photocatalytic degradation efficiency first increases and then decreases, and achieves the maximum value of 73 % by SCT/Z50 which has sphere-sheet heterostructure containing more hydroxyl radicals, under 15 W weak-UV light irradiations for 3 h using methyl orange (MO) as pollutant. The excellent photocatalytic performance is attributed to the structural and morphological effects of Sn/Cl co-doping and ZnO introduction, which can increase the electron-hole separation efficiency. The optimized composition also has great potential in practical photocatalytic application due to the commercial advantage that ZnO is much cheaper than TiO2.
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Journal of Water Process Engineering
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2025
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Chen Zhao,Yiheng Wang,Nianping Wang,Ruilin Chen,Rui Yin,Xiangxi Li
The in-situ growth of ZnO is often used to modify membrane surface for enhanced hydrophilic and antibacterial properties due to significant modification effect, simple process and low cost. Nonetheless, some polymer membranes (such as PVDF membrane) lack active sites for ZnO growth on their surfaces, resulting in a small number of particles and unstable binding. This study utilized PDA/PEI to modify PVDF membranes for adequate active sites to capture Zn 2+ ions via the chelation action. Thereafter, nano ZnO can be synthesized easily via the alkalization reaction and thermal breakdown of Zn 2+ . Upon improving the modification conditions, ZnO particles were evenly distributed on the PVDF membrane's surface, leading to a reduction in membrane pore size from 0.38 nm to 0.29 nm. The water contact angle of the ZnO/PDA-PEI modified membrane dropped from 130° to 19°, indicating a significant enhancement in hydrophilicity. The modified membrane demonstrated enhanced anti-fouling performance in the oil/water separation experiment, achieving a steady permeance of 298 L·m −2 ·h −1 ·bar −1 , which was sixfold that of the original membrane. In the antibacterial experiment, the modified membrane exhibited significant antibacterial efficacy against both E. coli and S. aureus .
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CATALYSIS TODAY
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2024
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Guiming Xie,Xingyang Bai,Fei Yu,Qingyuan Yang,Zhou-jun Wang
Three AuCu/ZnO bimetallic catalysts , AuCu/ZnO-BTC, AuCu/ZnO-BDC and AuCu/ZnO-MOF-74, were derived from various MOF precursors using facile hydrothermal methods . Among the resultant catalysts, the AuCu/ZnO-BTC catalyst possessed the best methanol synthesis activity, whose space time yield of methanol ( STY MeOH ) reached 359.0 g MeOH kg cat −1 h −1 at 250 °C under 3 MPa. Structural characterization reveals that in comparison with the AuCu/ZnO-BDC and AuCu/ZnO-MOF-74 catalysts, the AuCu/ZnO-BTC catalyst possessed higher specific surface area ( S BET ), tinier metal particle size, more oxygen vacancies , stronger metal-support interactions and larger amount of medium basic sites. In situ DRIFTS result demonstrates that formate (*HCOO) species were readily generated and bridged-methoxy (*b-OCH 3 ) species were selectively formed on the AuCu/ZnO-BTC catalyst, which may be related with its abundant oxygen vacancies and responsible for its superior methanol synthesis activity. The present work derives high-performance AuCu/ZnO bimetallic catalysts from MOF precursors and provides new insight into structure-activity relationships for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol.
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OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING
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2024
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Kai Li,Junyang Fang,Mingzhen Li,Long Sun,Chao Wang,Fan Du,Xiaoying Wang
Loofah-like nanostructures have been applied in many fields because of their high specific surface area, high porosity, and low density. Developing additive manufacturing methods for loofah-like nanostructures remains a challenge. This paper proposed a novel E-Jet nanoprinting method with real-time laser zone irradiation, for one-step fabricating of loofah-like ZnO nanostructures. The combination of laser irradiation and electrohydrodynamic effect had been proved in detail by adding laser irradiation to the traditional E-Jet printing process. Printable ZnO inks were prepared. The numerical model of the jetting under the combination of flow field and electric field; and the model of the interaction between laser and printing structure were established respectively. The laser beam irradiated the printing structure in real-time to rapidly absorb energy, resulting in thermal expansion and thermal decomposition. The shock wave generated by laser irradiation induced the physical fragmentation and redistribution of particles in the printed structure. Printing at different laser powers was investigated; and the loofah-like ZnO nanostructures, down to the scale of ∼90 nm, have been directly printed without post-processing. The characteristic morphology and hydrophilic characteristics of the printed structure were studied. This study provided a new way for green and efficient additive fabrication of loofah-like nanostructures, which was of significance for the development of nanofabrication and nanodevices.
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Nature Communications
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2024
·Vol. 15
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Wang Pu,Zhang Xingyu,Shi Run,Zhao Jiaqi,Waterhouse Geoffrey I. N.,Tang Junwang,Zhang Tierui
The selective oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODHE) is attracting increasing attention as a method for ethylene production. Typically, thermocatalysts operating at high temperatures are needed for C–H activation in ethane. In this study, we describe a low temperature ( < 140 °C) photocatalytic route for ODHE, using O 2 as the oxidant. A photocatalyst containing PdZn intermetallic nanoparticles supported on ZnO is prepared, affording an ethylene production rate of 46.4 mmol g –1 h –1 with 92.6% ethylene selectivity under 365 nm irradiation. When we employ a simulated shale gas feed, the photocatalytic ODHE system achieves nearly 20% ethane conversion while maintaining an ethylene selectivity of about 87%. The robust interface between the PdZn intermetallic nanoparticles and ZnO support plays a crucial role in ethane activation through a photo-assisted Mars-van Krevelen mechanism, followed by a rapid lattice oxygen replenishment to complete the reaction cycle. Our findings demonstrate that photocatalytic ODHE is a promising method for alkane-to-alkene conversions under mild conditions.
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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
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2024
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Xupeng Chen,Jun Yu,Yong Jin,Yunzhao Zhang,Jie He,Xingang Li,Chun Zhang
In this paper, C/ZnO/ZnFe 2 O 4 @ZnIn 2 S 4 ternary heterojunctions were prepared using Zn-Fe bimetal-organic frameworks (Zn-Fe MOFs) as precursors and applied to the photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride (TC). The experimental results show that 30 mg of the composite (FS-2) showed 96 % removal of 20 mg/L TC. The improved photocatalytic performance was attributed to the synergistic effect of the double S-scheme heterojunction and the carbon layer, which greatly facilitated the separation of electron-hole pairs by the reverse motion of electrons and holes driven by the difference of work functions and the built-in electric field at the interface. The carbon layer acts as an electronic bridge can further improve the charge transfer between the interfaces of different photocatalysts, allowing more useful electrons and holes with strong redox capabilities to participate in the surface reactions. Combining the experimental results and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the photocatalytic mechanism of the dual S-scheme system is proposed. This study provides a theoretical basis for the design of novel photocatalytic materials with dual S-scheme heterojunctions and efficient photocatalytic degradation.
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