ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2015
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IF 4.504
K. Huang,K. Bi,J.C. Xu,C. Liang,S. Lin,W.J. Wang,T.Z. Yang,Y.X. Du,R. Zhang,H.J. Yang,D.Y. Fan,Y.G. Wang,M. Lei
Novel nanocomposites of spherical graphite-carbon encased tungsten carbide (GC-WC) are synthesized by solid state reaction with melamine and WO 3 as precursors under N 2 atmosphere. The diameters of the GC-WC composites range from 50 to 200 nm and the WC nanoparticles inside with an average size of ca. 15 nm distribute uniformly. The characterization results indicate that the GC-WC is composed of few layers of graphite carbon and WC nanoparticles with high crystallization and purity. Moreover, the electrocatalytic performance of GC-WC for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline medium is further investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), rotating disk electrode (RDE) and chronoamperometry test with or without 3 M methanol. The results show that GC-WC has a considerable performance for ORR in the view of activity, stability and methanol tolerance, which may further used as proper supports for noble-metal based ORR catalysts in alkaline fuel cell . The synergetic interaction between the carbide nanoparticles and graphite carbon, which means that the surface graphite carbon layers are activated by WC nanoparticles for ORR and in turn protect inner WC from highly oxidizing environments has also been verified.
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米科技
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电化学
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能源材料
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催化化学
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2010
·Vol. 55
·期 23
·7102-7108
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IF 3.325
Huanshun Yin,Qiang Ma,Yunlei Zhou,Shiyun Ai,Lusheng Zhu
The graphene–chitosan composite film modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was fabricated and used to determine 4-aminophenol (4-AP). In 0.1 M pH 6.3 phosphate buffer solution , the redox peak currents of 4-AP increased significantly and the peak-to-peak separation decreased greatly at graphene–chitosan composite film modified GCE compared with bare GCE and chitosan modified GCE, indicating that graphene possessed electrocatalytic activity towards 4-AP. The experimental conditions were optimized and the kinetic parameters were investigated. The oxidation mechanism was discussed. Under the optimal experimental conditions, the oxidation peak current was proportional to 4-AP concentration in the range from 0.2 to 550 μM with the correlation coefficient of 0.9930. The detection limit was 0.057 μM (S/N = 3). Using the proposed method, 4-AP was successfully determined in water samples and paracetamol tablets with standard addition method, suggesting that this method can be applied to determine 4-AP in environments and pharmaceuticals.
研究领域:
电分析化学
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药物代谢
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环境监测
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生物传感器
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分子诊断
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转化医学
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
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2011
·Vol. 21
·期 20
·7296-7301
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IF 5.101
Jungang Hou,Rui Cao,Zheng Wang,Shuqiang Jiao,Hongmin Zhu
Single-crystalline chromium doped bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3−xCrxO12, x = 0.0–0.5) nanosheets with exposed {110} facets have been synthesized via a facile hydrothermal process. The Bi4Ti3−xCrxO12nanosheets possess well-defined tetragonal shapes with landscape dimension of 100–300 nm and thickness of 10–30 nm. The in-plane surfaces of the nanosheets lies on {001}, and the side surfaces are (110) and (10). Extension of the light absorption from the ultraviolet region to the visible-light region arises from the Cr 2p levels confirmed by XPS spectra. The Bi4Ti2.6Cr0.4O12 nanosheets with high stability showed the highest photocatalytic performance of H2 evolution from water under visible-light irradiation. Furthermore, the heterostructures by using the NiOx nanoparticles tightly coupled on the surface of Bi4Ti2.6Cr0.4O12 nanosheets, exhibited an enhanced photocatalytic activity due to the decrease in the recombination rate of the photoinduced electrons and holes, demonstrating that NiOx/Bi4Ti2.6Cr0.4O12 nanosheet is a promising candidate as a visible light photocatalyst.
研究领域:
材料科学
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光催化
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纳米材料
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能源化学
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半导体物理
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表面科学
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无机化学
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RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 92
·89821-89826
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IF 3.289
Xinyu Wang,Defeng Xing,Nanqi Ren
The biocathode bioelectrochemical system (bioc-BES) was used for p-nitrophenol (PNP) degradation with sodium bicarbonate as the carbon source. The PNP degradation efficiency in bioc-BES with applied voltage of 0.5 V reached 96.1% ± 0.5% within 72 h, which was much higher than that obtained in the biocathode BES without applied voltage (bioc-BES-NAP), open circuit biocathode BES (OC-bioc-BES) or abiotic cathode BES (abioc-BES). With the increase in the PNP concentration from 20 mg L−1 to 60 mg L−1, the PNP concentration of the effluent decreased from 21.66 ± 2.94 mg L−1 to 0.38 ± 0.1 mg L−1 in 48 h. The final reductive product of PNP was p-aminophenol (PAP) in the biocathode chamber. High-throughput 454 pyrosequencing showed that predominant populations in the biocathode biofilm of bioc-BES were affiliated with electrochemically active Delftia and Diaphorobacter, while Aminobacter was the predominant population in the biocathode biofilm of the bioc-BES-NAP and OC-bioc-BES. These results suggested that microbial electrocatalysis and electrochemically active bacteria on the cathodic electrode accelerated PNP degradation in the biocathode BES (bioc-BES). The biocathode BES will be a promising treatment technology for PNP-containing wastewater.
研究领域:
环境微生物学
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环境工程
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生物电化学
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污染物降解
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废水处理
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微生物生态学
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CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
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2020
·Vol. 36
·期 5
·816-820
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IF 1.063
Chu Ning,Xu Shuping,Xu Weiqing
Two different kinds of configurations of 1,4-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]-benzene( trans -bpeb and cis -bpeb) were achieved, and a bpeb dimer was synthesized in dimethyl sulfoxide(DMSO). Compared with the previous work that synthesized the bpeb dimer or polymer in crystal with a template agent needed, the reaction occurred in a solution phase in the present method. A hand-held ultraviolet lamp(365 nm) with the power of 12 W and the Watt density of 0.35 mW/cm 2 can realize the photodimerization of bpeb, instead of the high-power mercury lamp in most previous studies. Unlike other 2+2 cycloaddition in liquid state using catalysts even noble metals, no catalysts were required here, which is cost-saving. Only the trans -pbeb can start the cycloaddition and the formation of the close J-aggregations of trans -pbeb in DMSO is a precondition for explaining the 2+2 photodimerization. The productivity for the 2+2 cycloaddition product was achieved as 55.6%.
研究领域:
有机化学
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光化学
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超分子化学
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材料化学
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合成方法学
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2019
·Vol. 44
·期 31
·16348-16358
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IF 4.084
Dandan Sun,Dechao Chi,Zekang Yang,Zipeng Xing,Junwei Yin,Zhenzi Li,Qi Zhu,Wei Zhou
Mesoporous g-C 3 N 4 /Zn–Ti layered double hydroxide (LDH)-laminated van der Waals heterojunction nanosheets were prepared by a facile one-step in situ hydrothermal method . Due to the strong electrostatic interactions between the positively charged Zn–Ti LDH and negatively charged g-C 3 N 4 nanocrystal , a laminated van der Waals heterostructure was successfully formed between Zn–Ti LDH and g-C 3 N 4 . The mesoporous g-C 3 N 4 /Zn–Ti LDH-laminated van der Waals heterojunction, which had a narrow bandgap of 2.41 eV extended the photoresponse to the visible light region. The obtained heterojunctions showed excellent visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance for the complete removal of ceftriaxone sodium (up to ∼97%) and a high hydrogen production rate (∼161.87 μmol h −1 g −1 ). This was mainly attributed to the formation of the laminated van der Waals heterojunctions, which favoured charge separation and the absorption of visible light, and the mesoporous structure, which provided more surface active sites. This facile strategy for preparing mesoporous g-C 3 N 4 /Zn–Ti LDH-laminated van der Waals heterojunctions offers new insights for the fabrication of high-performance van der Waals heterojunction photocatalytic materials.
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材料科学
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光催化
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纳米材料
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环境化学
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能源化学
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2020
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IF 16.683
Dewang Zeng,Yu Qiu,Min Li,Li Ma,Dongxu Cui,Shuai Zhang,Rui Xiao
Chemical looping redox cycle of oxygen storage materials offers a versatile platform to convert methane to value-added products in a clean and efficient manner. However, the highly dynamic nature of the oxygen diffusion process restrains the selective formation of the target products over a long reaction period. In this work, we show the oxygen storage materials-comprising of iron oxides and zirconium oxide support, with the nickel catalyst controllably deposited—that significantly enhanced the syngas selectivity. Mechanistic study indicated the oxygen releasing rate can be well controlled within a long reaction period by the specific spatial structure, demonstrating a new strategy to tune the oxygen diffusion in chemical looping process. Through the observed spatial effects, this work can be also extended to develop more oxygen storage materials for the other chemical looping applications, e.g. methane reforming, methane oxidative coupling, ethane oxidative dehydrogenation, etc .
研究领域:
催化化学
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能源化学
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材料化学
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化学工程
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多相催化
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Alexandria Engineering Journal
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2024
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IF 6.2
Hong Zhang,Ming Chen,Tiantian Liang,Zanpeng Zhang,Changhui Yang
The use of nanocarbon materials to enhance the toughness of fragile cementitious materials has attracted increasing attention for investigation. This study examines the effects of incorporating graphene oxide (GO) into NaOH-activated slag (AAS) pastes and mortars, focusing on workability, phase composition, mechanical properties, and the local mechanical properties of the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between sand and paste. The experimental results indicate that the addition of GO decreases the flowability of NaOH-AAS pastes, with noticeable aggregation at concentrations above 0.03 wt%. Furthermore, GO enhances the hydration degree of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), leading to an increased amount of C-A-S-H gel without introducing new phases. In terms of macro performance, incorporating 0.03 wt% GO significantly improves the compressive and flexural strengths of NaOH-AAS mortars by 10.6 % and 17.9 %, respectively. Additionally, the presence of GO reduces the ITZ thickness from 30 to 15 micrometres in NaOH-AAS mortars, which likely contributes to the enhanced mechanical performance.
研究领域:
材料科学
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水泥基材料
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纳米复合材料
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建筑材料化学
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界面工程
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Nanoscale
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2021
·Vol. 13
·期 23
·10393-10401
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IF 7.79
Xiaodong Hao,Shuai Zhang,Yang Xu,Liangyu Tang,Kazutoshi Inoue,Mitsuhiro Saito,Shufang Ma,Chunlin Chen,Bingshe Xu,Tadafumi Adschiri,Yuichi Ikuhara
Surfactant plays a remarkable role in determining the growth process (facet exposition) of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) and the formation of self-assembled NC superstructures, the underlying mechanism of which, however, still requires elucidation. In this work, the mechanism of surfactant-mediated morphology evolution and self-assembly of CeO2 nanocrystals is elucidated by exploring the effect that surfactant modification has on the shape, size, exposed facets, and arrangement of the CeO2 NCs. It is directly proved that surfactant molecules determine the morphologies of the CeO2 NCs by preferentially bonding onto Ce-terminated {100} facets, changing from large truncated octahedra (mostly {111} and {100} exposed), to cubes (mostly {100} exposed) and small cuboctahedra (mostly {100} and {111} exposed) by increasing the amount of surfactant. The exposure degree of the {100} facets largely affects the concentration of Ce3+ in the CeO2 NCs, thus the cubic CeO2 NCs exhibit superior oxygen storage capacity and excellent supercapacitor performance due to a high fraction of exposed active {100} facets with great superstructure stability.
研究领域:
材料化学
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纳米科学
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催化化学
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电化学
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无机功能材料
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RSC Advances
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2021
·Vol. 11
·期 16
·9450-9458
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IF 3.361
Rui Zhang,Zheng Wang,Lin Zhu,Weixin Lv,Wei Wang
For the electrochemical reduction of oxygen the development of heteroatom-doped carbon-based transition metal catalysts has become a recognized strategy to replace traditional noble metal catalysts. In this work a catalyst consisting of CoFe nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped carbon-based materials (NC) supported by carbon nanotubes (CNTs), i.e. Fe3Co1@NC/CNTs, was modified via treatment with a phosphate salt to synthesize a P-Fe3Co1@NC/CNTs catalyst. The P-Fe3Co1@NC/CNTs exhibits with 5.29 mA cm−2 an enhanced current density which is comparable to a Pt/C catalyst. In addition, a stability and methanol resistance better than the Pt/C catalyst were observed which is ascribed to the carbon encapsulation and the synergies between the two transition metals. Finally, the reaction mechanism of P-doping was studied and discussed. These results provide possible directions for carbon-based catalysts and doping with heteroatoms for the improvement of catalytic activity. Moreover, the zinc–air battery assembled with P-Fe3Co1@NC/CNTs as the air-cathode exhibited a high-power density of 73 mW cm−2, which is comparable to that of Pt/C (71 mW cm−2) and a specific capacity of 763 mA h g−1. The prepared catalyst could potentially serve to take the place of precious metal catalysts in rechargeable Zn–air batteries.
研究领域:
电催化
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材料化学
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能源化学
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纳米材料
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电化学能源存储
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燃料电池
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金属-空气电池
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Green Energy & Environment
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2021
·Vol. 8
·期 2
·589-600
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IF 8.207
Liuting Zhang,Farai Michael Nyahuma,Haoyu Zhang,Changshan Cheng,Jiaguang Zheng,Fuying Wu,Lixin Chen
Nb 2 O 5 nanoparticles with an average particle size of 10 nm supported on a rhombic dodecahedral metal organic framework (MOF) were successfully synthesized by a facile one-pot hydrothermal reaction and subsequent calcination process. Experimental results demonstrated that the prepared catalyst drastically improved the hydrogen storage behavior of MgH 2 . 7 wt% Nb 2 O 5 @MOF doped MgH 2 started to desorb hydrogen at 181.9 °C and 6.2 wt% hydrogen could be released within 2.6 min and 6.3 min at 275 °C and 250 °C, respectively. The fully dehydrogenated composite also displayed excellent hydrogenation by decreasing the onset absorption temperature to 25 °C and taking up 4.9 wt% and 6.5 wt% hydrogen within 6 min at 175 °C and 150 °C, respectively. Moreover, the corresponding activation energy was calculated to be 75.57 ± 4.16 kJ mol −1 for desorption reaction and 51.38 ± 1.09 kJ mol −1 for absorption reaction. After 20 cycles, 0.5 wt% hydrogen capacity was lost for the MgH 2 +7 wt% Nb 2 O 5 @MOF composite, much lower than 1.5 wt% of the MgH 2 +7 wt% Nb 2 O 5 composite. However, the addition of Nb 2 O 5 @MOF had limited effect on reducing the dehydrogenation enthalpy of MgH 2 . Microstructure analysis revealed that Nb 2 O 5 particles were uniformly distributed on surface of the MgH 2 matrix and synergistically improved the hydrogen storage property of MgH 2 with MOF.
研究领域:
材料科学
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无机化学
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纳米催化
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能源存储
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氢能源
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固态储氢
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC
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2014
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IF 2.745
Teng Zhang,Xiao-Ling Xu,Yi-Ning Jin,Jian Wu,Zhi-Kang Xu
Carbon nanotubes are widely applied in electronics, which offers great potential for enhancing the activity of redox enzyme. In this work, polyimide (PI) was blended with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and then electrospun into nanofibers for the immobilization of horseradish peroxidase (HRP), a redox enzyme. SEM and TEM were used to characterize the surface morphology of the PI/MWCNTs nanofibers and to analyze the protruding parts induced by the blending of MWCNT. The results indicate that, compared to the virgin PI nanofibers, the blending of MWCNTs increases the retention activity of immobilized HRP from 2.38% to 12.50%. Circular dichroism and UV–vis molecular absorption spectrometry were used to explore the interactions between HRP and MWCNTs . It seems that MWCNTs increase the enzyme activity by the facilitation of electron transfer among the catalytic intermediates “HRP I”, “HRP II” and MWCNTs.
研究领域:
生物化学
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纳米生物技术
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酶工程
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生物材料
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分析化学
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