ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2023
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Mingbo Sun,Teng Hou,Jing Zhou,Lele Zhou,Zhao Zhang,Xianglong Li,Bin Yang
Loading nanoparticles is a valuable way to construct functional fiber materials, yet the lack of homogeneity and easy agglomeration hinder its functional effect. Hyper-branched polyester (HBPE) has been identified as the ideal delivery vehicle for nanoparticles. Its application in nanofibers can be a promising approach to enhancing the loading efficiency. In this study, adjustable core-sheath structured polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/HBPE nanofibers were fabricated owing to the phase separation of two components during centrifugal spinning, and zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) were further introduced into the sheath. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and so forth were utilized to characterize the morphology of the obtained nanofibers. Results indicated that the thickness of sheath in PAN/HBPE nanofibers could expand from 33.33 to 57.14% as the mass ratio of PAN/HBPE decreased from 8:2 to 5:5. Additionally, the ZnO NPs were encapsulated and dispersed by HBPE and successfully delivered to the sheath layer of the nanofibers. Therefore, the Zn content on the surface of PAN/HBPE/ZnO NP nanofibers can reach 17.86 wt % with only 6 wt % ZnO NPs doped, representing a 90% increase compared with HBPE-free nanofibers. Besides, the PAN/HBPE/ZnO NP nanofibers exhibited excellent air permeability and qualified biocompatibility, as well as outstanding functional release. The antibacterial rates against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus reached 96.62 ± 0.34 and 99.55 ± 0.78%, respectively. This facile processing strategy subtly combines the advantages of material and structure, providing insights to better achieve efficient loading of nanoparticles on nanofibers, enabling more researchers to customize functional materials.
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Environmental Science-Nano
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2023
·Vol. 10
·期 7
·1897-1906
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Yang Yang,Junmin Peng,Huilin Tao,Zhou Yang,Yidong Hou,Wei Lin,Jinshui Zhang
The development of efficient catalysts is of great significance in the photocatalytic ozonation process for organic wastewater treatment. However, the effect of exposed facets and surface defects of the catalyst on the photocatalytic ozonation performance is less covered. Herein, ZnO nanocomposites with different preferentially exposed crystal facets (ZnO-rod and ZnO-disk) were synthesized and used for photocatalytic ozonation of phenol. The characterization and density functional theory calculation results demonstrated that the exposed {0001} facets and oxygen vacancies promoted the separation and transfer of photogenerated charges as well as improved the adsorption and activation of ozone molecules on the catalyst surface. Consequently, the TOC removal rate in the UV-O3/ZnO-disk process (62.4%) was much higher than those in the UV-O3/ZnO-rod process (41.3%) and the UV-O3 process (15%). Moreover, the experimental results of the identification and quenching of active species illustrated that ˙OH was more likely to be produced in the UV-O3/ZnO-disk process, while 1O2 was more likely to be formed over ZnO-rod. A large amount of ˙OH with a stronger oxidation capability than 1O2 contributed to the superiority of ZnO-disk over ZnO-rod in organic pollutant removal. This work demonstrates that the engineering of crystal facets and surface defects provides an effective strategy for constructing efficient catalysts for the photocatalytic ozonation process.
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JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
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2023
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Wenzhuo Xue,Zilong Xiong,Yupeng Chen,Feihu Tan,Hongyu Yu
High frequency performance and the content of glass are the direct factors affecting the performance of LTCC . In order to reduce the content of glass and improve the performance, we conducted a systematic study on the composition regulation of B 2 O 3 -La 2 O 3 -ZnO (BLZ) glass. Glass with low softening point is helpful for LTCC to achieve compact structure. DSC shows that the softening point of BLZ glass can be reduced from 580 ℃ to 537 ℃ by adjusting the composition. XRD analysis indicate that the glass and Al 2 O 3 formed ZnAl 2 O 4 interfacial phases. Combined with the thermal shrinkage curve, it can be proved that the softening of glass and the formation of interfacial phases are the reasons for the shrinkage and densification of LTCC. The lowest coefficient of thermal expansion of 2.878 ppm/℃ was obtained, and the minimum loss of LTCC is 0.00277 at 15 Ghz. These properties are making LTCC more suitable for high-frequency applications.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Huafang Zhang,Qinghong Pan,Wanying Cai,Xiaowei Shi,Da-Peng Yang,Hetong Lin,Enhui Qiu
Antibiotic monitoring remains vital to ensure human health and safety in the environment and foods. As the most popular detection method, photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor can achieve rapid and accurate detection of antibiotics with the advantages of high sensitivity, easy-to-preparation process, as well as high selectivity. Herein, an extremely-efficient visible-light responsible ZnO/C nanocomposite was prepared and combined with acetylene black (as an enhanced conductive matrix), and the electron migration efficiency was greatly accelerated. Meanwhile, a molecularly imprinted polymer obtained by electrical agglomeration was conjugated as a specific recognizing site for target. Furthermore, the as-prepared rMIP-PEC sensor showed a low detection limit (8.75 pmol L −1 , S/N = 3) in a wide linear detection range of 0.01–1000 nmol L −1 for oxytetracycline (OTC), with excellent selectivity and long-term stability. Our work shed light on applying C-doped ZnO semiconductor and molecularly imprinted polymer as photoelectric active sensing materials for rapid and accurate analysis of antibiotics in foods and environment.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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Xiaofang Chen,Yimin Chen,Lingyu Zhang,Zhihua Liu,Enhui Qiu,Qiaoling Liu,Michelle D. Regulacio,Chang Lin,Da-Peng Yang
Owing to the numerous potential applications of ZnO nanomaterials , the development of ZnO-based nanocomposites has become of great scientific interest in various fields. In this paper, we are reporting the fabrication of a series of ZnO/C nanocomposites through a simple “one-pot” calcination method under three different temperatures, 500 ℃, 600 ℃, and 700 ℃, with samples labeled as ZnO/C-500, -600, and -700, respectively. All samples exhibited adsorption capabilities and photon-activated catalytic and antibacterial properties, with the ZnO/C-700 sample showing superior performance among the three. The carbonaceous material in ZnO/C is key to expanding the optical absorption range and improving the charge separation efficiency of ZnO. The remarkable adsorption property of the ZnO/C-700 sample was demonstrated using Congo red dye, and is credited to its good hydrophilicity . It was also found to exhibit the most notable photocatalysis effect due to its high charge transfer efficiency. The hydrophilic ZnO/C-700 sample was also examined for antibacterial effects both in vitro (against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus ) and in vivo (against MSRA-infected rat wound model), and it was observed to exhibit synergistic killing performance under visible-light irradiation. A possible cleaning mechanism is proposed on the basis of our experimental results. Overall, this work presents a facile way of synthesizing ZnO/C nanocomposites with outstanding adsorption, photocatalysis, and antibacterial properties for the efficient treatment of organic and bacterial contaminants in wastewater.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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Wenfu Lin,Yan Huang,Zhenru Li,Jiongshen Pan,Tiansheng Huang,Lili Liang,Yanzhen Tan,Jie Li,Li-Peng Sun,Bai-Ou Guan
Humidity plays an important role in many fields, and the realization of high sensitivity and fast response simultaneously for humidity detection is a great challenge in practical application. In this work, we demonstrated a high-performance relative humidity (RH) sensor made by supporting zeolitic imidazolate framework-90 (ZIF-90)-derived porous zinc oxide (ZnO) onto an optical microfiber Sagnac interferometer (OMSI). The ZIF-90-modified OMSI (ZIF-90-OMSI) sensor was in situ heated at different temperatures to obtain porous ZnO, and their humidity-sensing properties were investigated ranging from 25 to 80% RH. The experimental results showed that the porous ZnO fiber sensor prepared at 500 °C (Z500-OMSI) exhibited best humidity-sensing performance with a high sensitivity of 96.2 pm/% RH (25–45% RH) and 521 pm/% RH (50–80% RH) and ultrafast response/recovery time (62.37/206.67 ms) at 22.3% RH. These performances were attributed to the complete transformation of ZIF-90 to ZnO at 500 °C. The obtained Z500 not only retained the high porosity and specific surface area of ZIF-90 but also exhibited the exceptional hydrophilicity of ZnO. In addition, the signals of the proposed Z500-OMSI sensor changed with different breathing patterns, indicating the possibility for human respiration monitoring. This work provided a reliable candidate for an effective RH monitoring system with potential application in medical diagnoses, industrial production, environmental detection, and human health monitoring.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2023
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Wenhui Chen,Tianxin Kang,Fenqi Du,Peipei Han,Meiling Gao,Peng Hu,Feng Teng,Haibo Fan
One-dimensional shaped ZnGa 2 O 4 , ZnO and ZnGa 2 O 4 /ZnO nanofibers were successfully prepared by electrostatic spinning technique and the photocatalytic degradation performance of tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl) were studied. It was found that the S-scheme heterojunction formed in the ZnGa 2 O 4 /ZnO could greatly reduce the recombination of the photogenerated carriers and therefore improve the photocatalytic performance. By optimizing the ratio of the ZnGa 2 O 4 and ZnO, the largest degradation rate could reach 0.0573 min −1 , which was 20 times of the self-degradation rate of TC-HCl. It was verified that the h + played the key role in the reactive groups for the high performance decomposition of TC-HCl by capture experiments. This work provides a new method for the highly efficient photocatalytic degradation of TC-HCl.
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Processes
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2023
·Vol. 11
·期 3
·864
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IF 3.5
Sai Zhang,Yahui Wang,Qinglin Sheng,Tianli Yue
Ochratoxin A(OTA) is positively correlated with an increased risk of developing cancer in nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic patients. Therefore, it is of great significance for the highly sensitive, highly selective, and timely detection of OTA. We described here an electrochemical aptasensor for OTA analysis, which took advantage of the favorable properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) functionalized zinc oxide (ZnO) composites and the intercalative binding between methylene blue (MB) and nucleic acid. There were two label-free aptamers: one to capture OTA and another serving as complementary DNA (cDNA), enabling connection to the ZnO-Au composite’s immobilized electrode. Once OTA was present, the aptamer could capture OTA and detach from the electrode interface, thus, preventing MB from accessing electrode surface for efficient electron transfer; a decreased peak current was monitored by differential pulse voltammetry. The aptasensor presented nice analytical performance for OTA detection in the range of 0.1–30,000 pg·mL−1, with a detection limit of 0.05 pg·mL−1. Moreover, the developed biosensor could be applied to actual sample (wine and beer) analysis.Keywords:food safety;electrochemical aptasensor;intercalative binding;zinc oxide-gold composites;Ochratoxin A
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PARTICULATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Haifeng Liao,Haitao Yan,Yukun Wei,Xianbin Hou,Jinhong Du,Zibin Yin,Yongjian Wang,Leyang Dai
To improve the lipophilicity of ZnO nanopowder in lubricating oil and analyze the surface modification mechanism, stearic acid, oleic acid, and HTAB-SL were selected as surface modifiers. ZnO nanopowders were prepared and modified in a single step by dielectric barrier discharge plasma assisted ball milling for 10 h. The ZnO nanopowder was characterized and analyzed by SEM, FTIR, TG-DSC, x-ray diffractometer, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, lipophilicity determination, COF test, etc. The results showed that the size of ZnO nanopowder was 40–100 nm. The results also revealed that the lipophilic groups –CH2 and –CH3 of modifier were successfully modified by ZnO nanopowder. Meanwhile, hydroxyl groups –OH of ZnO nanopowder chemically adsorbed with hydrophilic carboxyl groups –COO– of modifier. The lipophilicity of modified ZnO nanopowder was significantly increased. The COF of oil sample with modified ZnO nanopowder was smaller than that of oil sample with unmodified ZnO nanopowder. The modification mechanism was attributed to the coupling action of plasma, modifier, and mechanical forces of ball milling. The research demonstrated that modified ZnO nanopowder is more suitable as lubricating additive.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
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2023
·Vol. 34
·期 18
·185401
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Li Runfa,Xin Chen,Cao Hongliang,Yan Wei,Zhang Yuanfang,Cheng Siyu,Jiang Wenrui,Zhang Qi,E Yi,Jiang Meng,Muhammad Abdullah,Liyi Tan
To enhance the performance of transition metal chalcogenide composite electrode material, a key point is a composite design and preparation based on the synergistic effect between the oxide and selenide materials. With a facile 'one step template-annealing' step, Ni3Se4, Ni0.6Zn0.4O and ZnO are simultaneously synthesized, by 500 °C annealing. With the increase of annealing temperature from 350 °C to 600 °C, nickel selenides change from NiSe2 to Ni3Se4 to NiSe. The charge storage capacity increases first and then decreases with the increase of annealing temperature, and the 500 °C annealing obtained three compound composite Ni3Se4/Ni0.6Zn0.4O/ZnO (NNZ-500) nanoparticle material displayed a high specific capacitance of 1089.2 F g−1 at 1 A g−1, and excellent cycle stability of 99.8% capacitance retention after 2000 cycles at 5 A g−1. Moreover, an asymmetric supercapacitor was assembled with NNZ-500 as the positive electrode material and activated carbon as the negative electrode material. This kind of asymmetric supercapacitor demonstrated a high energy density of 53.4 Wh kg−1 at 819.0 W kg−1, and cycle stability with 98.6% capacitance retention after 2000 cycles. This material preparation approach provides great potential for the future development of high performance transition metal composite electrode materials in energy storage applications.
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RSC Advances
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2019
·Vol. 9
·期 32
·18406-18414
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IF 3.049
Haichuan Ma,Fan Zhang,Qiaoyu Li,Guobing Chen,Sheng Hu,Haiming Cheng
In this study, nano-ZnO loaded amidoxime-functionalized wool fibers (wool-AO@ZnO) were synthesized by radiation-induced copolymerization and in situ co-precipitation as a novel adsorbent with good antibiofouling properties for uranium recovery. The prepared adsorbent was characterized by SEM-EDS and FT-IR spectroscopy. Batch adsorption experiments showed that the prepared wool-AO@ZnO have a good uranium adsorption property at pH 6.0–9.0. Meanwhile, wool-AO@ZnO displayed a good inhibition of aerobic bacteria such as S. aureus and E. coli; of anaerobic bacteria; of sulfate reducing bacteria; of fungus C. albicans and of mildew Aspergillus niger. After four cyclic cultivations with microorganisms, the inhibition rate of wool-AO@ZnO to E. coli and S. aureus still remains at 77.8% and 84.9%, respectively; and a good adsorption capacity for uranium(VI) was maintained. The prepared wool-AO@ZnO could be a promising antibiofouling adsorbent for the recovery of uranium(VI) from seawater.
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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2019
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IF 7.723
Ying-Chu Chen,Zhi-Jie Wu,Yu-Kuei Hsu
Multiple heterojunction made of CuO nanocrystals building on ZnO scaffold buffered by an In 2 O 3 interlayer is fabricated through simple wet chemistry. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy reveal this CuO/In 2 O 3 /ZnO heterojunction forming multi-core-shell nanostructure. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is performed to analyze the chemical compositions. Such system is further employed in sunlight-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting, wherein Mott-Schottky analysis demonstrates its flat-band potential negatively shifted. This originates from the lower electron affinity of CuO compared to that of ZnO, favoring photocurrent generation at early onset potential. More importantly, the entire gamut of visible-light is harnessed by CuO, as manifested in the photocurrent action spectrum. Last but not least, the charge-separation is promoted at the In 2 O 3 interface, as reflected in the impedance measurement. The synergistic effect endows the CuO/In 2 O 3 /ZnO photoelectrode with the highest photocurrent of 1.22 mA⋅cm −2 (at ∼1.6 V vs. RHE) that outperforms those of the CuO/ZnO and ZnO photoanodes, respectively.
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