CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 16.744
Shilan Zhang,Songsong Zhi,Hongju Wang,Jing Guo,Weihao Sun,Lu Zhang,Yi Jiang,Xiaguang Zhang,Kai Jiang,Dapeng Wu
A solid-state laser scanning treatment (SLST) was adopted to synthesize anatase/rutile TiO 2 heterojunction with effective charge carrier separation and high surface adsorption performances for the photodegradation of sulfamethoxazole (SMX). The 1064 nm pulsed fiber laser could in-situ generate rutile zones on the pristine sheet-like anatase crystal enclosed by (0 0 1) facets, which could form the well-defined anatase/rutile interface to promote the formation of dominating active species ( h + and ∙OH) on the anatase zones. X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements, low temperature electron paramagnetic resonance (LT-EPR) as well as the density functional theory (DFT) simulation proved that the oxygen vacancies (V O ) could both introduce defective energy states to promote the light absorption and enhance the SMX adsorption on anatase zones. Based on the delicately designed micro-zones, the photodegradation efficiency of the optimized catalyst could reach 99.3 %, which demonstrated ∼7 times higher performance than that of pristine TiO 2 and exhibited robust stability under environmental conditions. Gaussian and Vienna Ab Initio Package (VASP) programs were used to provide detailed degradation pathways and mechanism for SMX. This SLST could be potentially employed to create function-specified zones on various catalysts for different applicational aims.
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Materials Today Sustainability
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2023
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D. Yang,T. Wu,H. Gao,M. Jia,L. Ji,J. Wang,Q. Zhuang,B. Yu,L. Lu,Y. Zhang,J. Liu
The rational design of a host material with strong adsorption and excellent electrical conductivity function for sulfur cathode to suppress the shuttle effects of soluble lithium polysulfide (LiPS) is crucial to advance the lithium–sulfur (Li–S) battery for future commercial applications. In this work, we designed a three-dimensional (3D) carbon fiber aerogel with graphene-like oxygenated carbon nitrogen (OCN) and TiO 2 (OCNF–TiO 2 ) as a sulfur anchoring material for Li–S battery and explored the regulating effects of TiO 2 on the electrochemical performances. The OCNF–TiO 2 /S cathode presents an initial discharge-specific capacity of 1039 mAh/g (0.1C), a rate capacity of 690 mAh/g at 1C, a cycling performance with a capacitance retention of 72.1%, and the decay of 0.13% per cycle after 200 cycles at 0.5C.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2019
·Vol. 7
·期 24
·14613-14619
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IF 10.733
Qian Wang,Huaiyan Ren,Yingqiang Zhao,Xinyuan Xia,Fang Huang,Guanwei Cui,Bohui Dong,Bo Tang
The phase junction of nano-TiO2 plays an important role in enhancing its photocatalytic activity. However, the achievement of the green, mild and controllable synthesis of phase-junction nano-TiO2 still remains a big challenge for the large-scale preparation and application. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) show many advantages in the green and mild preparation of highly active nanomaterials due to their low cost, high environmental friendliness, easy large-scale preparation, tailored structures and tunable properties. In this study, by sharing two H-bond acceptors with one H-bond donor, we successfully used DES as a solvent, template, inhibitor and crystalline phase control agent simultaneously to controllably synthesize heterophase-junction nano-TiO2 with different phase ratios under green and mild reaction conditions (at 180 °C for 18 h). The H2 production rate of photocatalytic water splitting with this catalyst reached up to 14.51 mmol h−1 g−1, which was 20-fold greater than that of commercial P25 TiO2 and also much higher than those of other TiO2 nanostructures. To the best of our knowledge, this rate is the highest value reported so far for photocatalytic H2 production catalyzed by sole TiO2. This higher activity was mainly attributed to the phase junctions and defects. This study will provide a new way for the green, mild, easily controllable and versatile preparation of phase-junction photocatalysts with high efficiency.
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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2019
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IF 7.723
Jinjin Lin,Tao Sun,Minbo Li,Jinxiang Yang,Jinni Shen,Zizhong Zhang,Ying Wang,Xiaoyan Zhang,Xuxu Wang
Loading noble metal on the surface has been widely used to improve photocatalytic activity of semiconductor photocatalyst. Here, Pt-embedded anatase (A)-rutile (R) TiO 2 junction photocatalyst (A/Pt/R) was found to show much more efficient photocatalytic H 2 evolution activity than the other TiO 2 photocatalysts loading Pt on the outside surface (such as Pt/A/R, Pt/A, Pt/R and Pt/P25), although the as-embedded Pt is unreachable to reactants. The A/Pt/R sample shows a photocatalytic H 2 evolution rate as high as 17.9 mmol⋅g cat −1 ⋅h −1 , which is 27.2 and 2.5 times higher than the common A/R and Pt/A/R samples, respectively. The traditional theory fails to explain the unexpected high photoactivity. The reverse tandem Schottky junction is suggested to be possibly responsible for the high photoactivity of A/Pt/R, which allows the photogenerated electrons to transfer more swimmingly from rutile to anatase than the common A/R phasejunction. This finding provides a new strategy for further promoting photocatalytic activity of Pt/TiO 2 and other heterophase or heterojunction photocatalysts.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2018
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Yang Yu,Yu Zhao,Tian-Dong Zhang,Rui-Xuan Song,Yu-Lei Zhang,Yu-Long Qiao,Wei-Li Li,Wei-Dong Fei
Colossal dielectric properties in donor-acceptor co-doped rutile TiO 2 ceramics have attracted increased interest in recent years. However, dielectric loss (tan δ) of (Nb+Al) co-doped TiO 2 ceramics are quite scattered in the previous studies. Here, we show the dielectric properties of (Nb+Al) co-doped rutile TiO 2 ceramics are sensitive to sintering and ageing technologies, which is related to the coupling behavior of acceptor-donor ions. Both permittivity and dielectric loss of as-sintered (Nb+Al) co-doped TiO 2 ceramics are very large, and increase with the sintering time increasing. After ageing treatment at 900 °C, the dielectric loss of co-doped ceramics reduces from 139 to 0.15 in a wide frequency range. Based on the X-ray diffraction and complex impedance analyses, it can conclude that Nb 5+ -Al 3+ pair formation during ageing treatment reduces the concentration of oxygen vacancy , resulting in the decreases of the conductivity and dielectric loss. The changes in dielectric response of (Nb+Al) co-doped TiO 2 ceramics clearly suggest that ageing process is an effective way for the Nb 5+ and Al 3+ ions to form the Nb 5+ -Al 3+ pairs. We believe that the coupling effect of donor-acceptor ions is a practical and feasible route to reduce the dielectric loss of (Nb+Al) co-doped TiO 2 ceramics for high-energy-density storage applications.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2025
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Guanzheng Wang,Wenjiang He,Zhentao Yuan,Lu Li,Xiao Wang,Wenshen Tang,Zhaolin Zhan
The slow diffusion rate of lithium ions limits commercial TiO 2 from being used at scale in LiBs. This paper presents the strategy used to synthesize a homojunction anatase/rutile-TiO 2 core-shell microsphere enriched with oxygen vacancies. Oxygen vacancies and interfacial shared storage accelerate electron mobility and improve lithium-ion diffusion kinetics. Electrochemical AC impedance measurements show that the Li + diffusion coefficient of A/R-TiO 2 -V o 2 samples with oxygen vacancies is (1.14 × 10 -12 cm 2 /s), which is higher than the diffusion coefficient of A/R-TiO 2 samples without oxygen vacancies (9.28 × 10 -14 cm 2 /s). The study of the effect of oxygen vacancy content on crystal structure and lithium-ion storage capabilities was quantitatively modulated. The specific capacity of an A/R-TiO 2 -V o 2 anode containing a moderate number of oxygen vacancies was 405 mAh/g after 450 cycles at 0.5 C, which is 121% of the theoretical maximum. This high-capacity behavior can be mainly attributed to the synergistic effect of core-shell hollow structures, interfacial shared storage, and oxygen vacancies generating additional active sites located at grain boundaries that are available for lithium storage. This strategy of oxygen defect engineering combined with heterojunctions can be extended to other materials with similar dilemmas.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2024
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Wenqing Xu,Yixi Wang,Hong He,Jun Yang,Yang Yang,Jinzhu Ma,Chaoqun Li,Tingyu Zhu
High–performance catalysts are extremely required for controlling NH 3 emission via selective catalytic oxidation (SCO), and the anchoring structural feature of active sites is a key prerequisite for developing them. This study confirms the importance of hydroxyl groups on vacancy–deficient reducible oxides as active groups. On the one hand, spontaneous atomic dispersion of active metal Ir is promoted by the abundant terminal hydroxyl groups. On the other hand, Ir cations anchor on the TiO 2 surface through exchange with H + in Ti–OH groups, and thus occupy the Brönsted acid sites. The adsorption strength of NH 3 is another key factor affecting the reaction rate–determining step, namely NH 3 dehydrogenation , which occurs at a faster rate in the coordinated L–NH 3 rather than the ionic B–NH 4 + . Meanwhile, the coordinated L–NH 3 significantly avoids the competitive adsorption of water vapor in the NH 3 –SCO reaction by reducing the number of hydrogen bonding. The TOF of preferred 0.8Ir/TiO 2 sample is significantly higher than 0.2Ir/TiO 2 sample, although Ir is almost always atomic dispersed. Finally, NH 3 conversion is 85% in a wet circumstance (5% H 2 O) at 240 °C (GHSV = 85 000 h –1 ), with a N 2 selectivity of up to 65% on 0.8Ir/TiO 2 sample.
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CATALYSIS TODAY
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2015
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Yanjie Wang,Yanjie Zhang,Fuhai Yu,Changzi Jin,Xin Liu,Jingyuan Ma,Yu Wang,Yuying Huang,Junhu Wang
Rutile Sn-Fe-TiO 2 photocatalysts with high visible-light-driven activity were synthesized by an improved soft chemical solution process for investigating the potential correlation between their photocatalytic performance and coordination structure. The prepared photocatalysts were systematically characterized by XRD, BET, Raman, TEM, UV–vis, XPS, XAFS and Mössbauer techniques. Their photocatalytic performances were evaluated by degrading the model pollutant of methylene blue aqueous solution under visible light irradiation ( λ ≥ 400 nm). The results indicated that tin and iron ions could substitute Ti 4+ in the rutile TiO 2 lattice, and specially, iron ions were located at tetrahedrally coordinated titanium sites. Their visible-light-driven photocatalytic activities were found to culminate at a very low level of iron doping (Fe/Ti = ∼0.1 at.%, Sn/Ti = 2.0 at.%), this was 5-fold of P25 and 2-fold of undoped rutile TiO 2 . It was confirmed that besides the high surface area, fine crystallinity, enhanced visible light absorption and optimized oxygen vacancy concentration, the mole ratio of tetrahedrally coordinated iron and titanium was also essential to modify their visible-light-driven photocatalytic properties.
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WATER RESEARCH
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2020
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Kun Li,Jin Qian,Peifang Wang,Chao Wang,Bianhe Lu,Wen Jin,Xixian He,Sijing Tang,Chao Zhang,Pan Gao
Most of the current studies on the toxicology of pristine nanoparticles (NPs) are environmentally irrelevant, because their ‘‘aging’’ process accompanied by the physicochemical transformation is inevitable in the environment. Considering aging phenomenon will gain a better understanding of the toxicity and fate of NPs in the environment. Here, we focused on the physicochemical transformation of anatase-NPs (TiO 2 -A) and rutile-NPs (TiO 2 -R) after 90 days of aging and investigated the responses of freshwater biofilm formation to the stress changes of naturally aged TiO 2 -NPs (aTiO 2 -NPs). We found that after aging, the TiO 2 -NPs underwent sophisticated physicochemical transformations in the original morphology and microstructure owing to organic and crystal salts inclusions, such as energy band changes and the formation of Ti 3+ on the NPs surfaces. These comprehensive transformations increased the stability of NPs in the exposed suspension. However, the physicochemical transformations were crystal-forms-dependent, and aging did not change the crystal structure and crystallinity . Interestingly, compared to pristine NPs, aTiO 2 -NPs showed much lower cytotoxicity and had the weaker ability to promote or inhibit the biofilm formation (p < 0.05) owing to the passivation of photoactivity caused by the comprehensive effect of the inclusions, especially for aTiO 2 -A. Regardless of aging or not of crystal forms, responses of biofilm formation were exposure-concentration-dependent, namely low concentration promotion (0.1 mg/L) and high concentration inhibition (10 mg/L), e.g., role transition of the pioneers (algae or bacteria) in initial colonization, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) secretion and compositions of development stages with polysaccharide (PS)-rich and protein (PRO)-rich stages, and biomass and cell activity at different depths of mature biofilms. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by TiO 2 -NPs showed typical hormesis. The changing trends of the autoinducers (c-di-GMP and quorum sensing signals including AHL and AI-2) were highly consistent with the growth stages of biofilms and were stimulated or suppressed by TiO 2 -NPs. The NPs crystal-dependently changed the microorganism community structures, while the UPGMA clustering of bacteria was based on the growth stages of the biofilms. The toxic mechanisms revealed that photoactivity and nanoscale retention of particles are the main reasons for the differences in the ecological stress capacity of four kinds of TiO 2 -NPs. Aging reduced characteristic differences of two pristine NPs and even reversed their relative stresses levels (p > 0.05). However, the toxicity of high-concentration aTiO 2 -NPs (10 mg/L) remained serious in a water environment. This study provides a better understanding for the water environmental risks evaluation and policy control of nanoparticles, that is, the effect of time aging has to be considered.
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APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
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2023
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Xuan Wang,Hao Ding,Zhuoqun Xu,Jianmeng Zhang,Yanbin Yao
To enhance the anti-aging property of a superhydrophobic self-cleaning coating, rutile nano-TiO 2 was loaded onto the surface of sericite via wet grinding method to prepare sericite-rutile composite particles. Then, the composite was modified with hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDTMS) and sprayed onto the substrates surfaces to prepare sericite-rutile/HDTMS composite coatings with both UV shielding and superhydrophobic self-cleaning properties. The structure, properties, and mechanism of the coating were studied. The research showed that the micro-nanoscale hierarchical structure has been constructed by compositing sericite and rutile, which were the structure foundation of superhydrophobic coatings. The sericite-rutile composite was modified with HDTMS and sprayed onto the substrates forming a superhydrophobic self-cleaning coating. Water contact angles (WCAs) and slide angles (SAs) of the coating were 155.3° and 1.3°, respectively. The sericite-rutile/HDTMS coating exhibited good UV shielding and anti-aging properties. Its UV shielding rate was 93.53%, which was equivalent to that of pure rutile (94.27%). After UV irradiation for 80 h, the surface maintained superhydrophobicity, and the chromaticity of the coating surface did not change. The superhydrophobicity and low adhesion to water of the sericite-rutile/HDTMS coating are due to the micro-nano hierarchical structure of the sericite-rutile composite and the low surface energy of HDTMS. The UV shielding effect of the coating is mainly due to the strong absorption of UV light by the sericite-rutile composite. This work provides a simple and environmentally friendly method for constructing a coating with UV shielding and superhydrophobic self-cleaning properties.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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Danwen Yao,Zhenyu Hu,Liansheng Zheng,Shanming Chen,Wei Lü,Huailiang Xu
The research deals with fabrication of CdS/CdSe-sensitized quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) with laser-engineered black rutile TiO 2 nanoparticles (TiO 2 -NPs) as the photoanode material. Three QDSSC devices with pristine and two types of black rutile TiO 2 -NPs engineered respectively in water and ethanol by intense femtosecond laser propagating in the filamentation regime were prepared in the same architecture. Extremely different power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 1.43 %, 3.68 % and 9.11 %, in which the black TiO 2 -NPs-based devices show respectively a two-fold and six-fold PCE higher than the pristine TiO 2 -NPs, were obtained. The absorption and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analyses revealed that the device with the highest PCE has the highest absorption efficiency in the wide spectral range from UV to mid-infrared and shunt resistance ( R sh ) of 1364.9 Ω, but the smallest series resistance ( R s ) of 190.3 Ω, which are attributed to the surface modification on the structural and optical properties of TiO 2 -NPs by femtosecond laser pulses.
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NanoImpact
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2024
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Nan Zhao,Chang Liu,Chenyang Ji,Xuefeng Jiang,Jinyu Zhao,Liwen Qiang,Hangbiao Jin
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO 2 NPs) have been widely used in agriculture, which increased the risk to soil-plant systems. Studies have demonstrated that TiO 2 NPs can induce phytotoxicity. However, the toxicity mechanisms, particularly under the stress of TiO 2 NPs with different crystalline forms, remain inadequately reported. In this study, we combined transcriptomics and metabolomics to analyze the toxicity mechanisms in rice ( Oryza sativa L.) under the stress of anatase (AT) or rutile (RT) TiO 2 NPs (50 mg/kg, 40 days). The length (decreased by 1.1-fold, p = 0.021) and malondialdehyde concentration (decreased by 1.4-fold, p = 0.0027) of rice shoots was significantly reduced after AT exposure, while no significant changes were observed following RT exposure. Antioxidant enzyme activities were significantly altered both in the AT and RT groups, indicating TiO 2 NPs induced rice oxidative damage (with changes of 1.1 to 1.4-fold, p < 0.05). Additionally, compared to the control, AT exposure altered 3247 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 56 significantly differentially metabolites in rice (collectively involved in pyrimidine metabolism, TCA cycle, fatty acid metabolism, and amino acid metabolism). After RT exposure, 2814 DEGs and 55 significantly differentially metabolites were identified, which were collectively involved in fatty acid metabolism and amino acid metabolism. Our results indicated that AT exposure led to more pronounced changes in biological responses related to oxidative stress and had more negative effects on rice growth compared to RT exposure. These findings provide new insights into the phytotoxic mechanisms of TiO 2 NPs with different crystalline forms. Based on the observed adverse effects, the study emphasizes that any form of TiO 2 NPs should be used with caution in rice ecosystems. This study is the first to demonstrate that AT is more toxic than RT in paddy ecosystems, providing crucial insights into the differential impacts and toxic mechanisms of TiO 2 NPs with different crystalline forms. These findings suggest prioritizing the use of RT when TiO 2 NPs are necessary in agricultural development to minimize toxicity risks.
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