APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2016
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IF 8.328
Yanyang Shang,Xi Chen,Wenwen Liu,Pengfei Tan,Haoyun Chen,Laidi Wu,Cheng Ma,Xiang Xiong,Jun Pan
A facile microemulsion-assisted co-precipitation method was carried out to synthesize nano-sized Ag 2 CrO 4 highly dispersed on the surface of porous g-C 3 N 4 as high-efficiency visible-light-driven composite photocatalysts for the first time. The structure and morphology of the composites were systematically characterized by various techniques. Compared with Ag 2 CrO 4 and g-C 3 N 4 , g-C 3 N 4 /Ag 2 CrO 4 composites showed a dramatically increased photocatalytic activity in degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) and methylene blue (MB). The optimum mass ratio of the Ag 2 CrO 4 to g-C 3 N 4 was about 30 wt%, the degradation rate of which were 6.1 (7.9) and 9.7 (15.2) times higher than pure Ag 2 CrO 4 and g-C 3 N 4 in RhB (MB) degradation, respectively. The excellent photocatalytic activity and stability mainly benefited from the synergistic effect including smaller Ag 2 CrO 4 particle size, high specific surface area of the composites and matched band potentials which not only promoted the separation of photon-generated charge carriers, but also inhibited the photocorrosion of Ag 2 CrO 4 . Further study revealed that the photocatalytic mechanism followed a Z-scheme which provided an efficient transfer pathway for charge carriers meanwhile endowed the composites with strong oxidation and reduction ability. Hence the porous g-C 3 N 4 /Ag 2 CrO 4 composites are potential in environmental purification.
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材料科学
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
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2024
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IF 3.2
Congtian Liu,Xiaoya Zhu,Ling Wang,Chujun Feng,Jian Rong,Zhongyu Li,Song Xu
Tetracycline antibiotics as one of the most widely used antibiotics at present, are difficult to degrade in the environment, which poses a serious threat to the ecosystem and human health. In this work, NiTiO 3 /g-C 3 N 4 composites were successfully constructed by calcination method using nickel acetate tetrahydrate as nickel source and tetrabutyl titanate as titanium source. The photocatalytic degradation efficiency of the 5 wt% NiTiO 3 /g-C 3 N 4 composite of TC can reach 88.2 % within 150 min, which was 1.4 and 2.2 times higher than that of pure g-C 3 N 4 (63 %) and NiTiO 3 (40 %), respectively. The 5 wt% NiTiO 3 /g-C 3 N 4 composite can still maintain good stability after four cycles. The experimental results showed that the construction of Z-scheme heterojunction can effectively improve the photocatalytic activity of the catalysts and maintain good redox properties at the same time. Furthermore, a possible mechanism of photocatalytic degradation of NiTiO 3 /g-C 3 N 4 heterojunction has been suggested.
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Catalysts
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2024
·Vol. 14
·期 6
·335
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IF 3.8
Peng Jiang,Yang Yu,Kun Wang,Wenrui Liu
Excessive emissions of carbon dioxide have led to the greenhouse effect and global warming. Reducing carbon dioxide into high-value-added chemicals through solar energy is a promising approach. Herein, a g-C3N4/TiO2heterojunction photocatalyst with efficient electron transfer is designed for photocatalytic CO2reduction. The CH4(18.32 µmol·h−1·g−1) and CO (25.35 µmol·h−1·g−1) evolution rates of g-C3N4/TiO2are higher than those of g-C3N4and TiO2. The enhanced photocatalytic CO2reduction performance is attributed to the efficient charge carrier transfer in the g-C3N4/TiO2heterojunction. The electron transfer route was verified by in situ irradiated X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The photocatalytic CO2reduction mechanism on g-C3N4/TiO2was investigated by in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS). This work provides a strategy for designing a polymer/metallic oxide heterojunction with efficient electron transfer for enhanced photocatalytic CO2reduction.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2024
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IF 5.5
Wenyu Bai,Chenglong Li,Feng Pan,Yu Luo,Tongtong Gao,Di Yu,Xiaorui Wang,Han Sun,Shuang Wang
The choice of electrode materials affects the electrochemical performance of supercapacitors, and the selection of suitable electrode materials is necessary to enable the industrialization of supercapacitors. The conductive polymer polypyrrole is well known to researchers for its excellent electrochemical properties, but pure polypyrrole does not fulfill its advantages. The disadvantage is that the microstructure of the polypyrrole molecules, which is favorable for energy storage when supercapacitors are being charged and discharged, is greatly damaged by the contraction/expansion of the polypyrrole molecular chains, which directly affects the electrochemical performance of the supercapacitors assembled subsequently. So firstly, we modified PPy by using the functional group nature of 3-amino-4-methylene-phenylboronic acid (g-PPy) to give it more active sites. Secondly, MXene acts as the backbone of g-PPy, which limits the expansion and contraction of the volume supercapacitors and improves cycle stability when charging and discharging. In contrast, the compounded MXene/g-PPy has good specific capacitance and stability after several thousand cycles, due to the nature of the functional group of 3-amino-4-methylenebenzeneboronic acid, a large number of g-PPy active sites, the good hydrophilicity of the MXene surface for interaction with sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate and the hydrogen bonding between MXene and g-PPy, Even after 10000 charge/discharge cycles, its stability is significantly improved with a capacity retention rate of 98.6 %. In addition, the corresponding symmetrical supercapacitors were tested to exhibit significant cycling stability at a low temperature. This study, therefore, provides a method for the preparation of MXene based electrodes with high cycling stability by modifying the electrodes.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能量存储
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CATALYSIS LETTERS
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2020
·Vol. 151
·期 7
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IF 2.482
Wei Congcong,Zhang Wei,Wang Xinpeng,Li Aihong,Guo Jianping,Liu Bo
Abstract Here, g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 photocatalysts with mesoporous structure and intimate interfacial connection were synthesized via the facile pyrolysis of g-C 3 N 4 /MIL-125 composites. The photocatalytic H 2 evolution reaction was performed to examine the photocatalytic activity of obtained photocatalysts. Under the UV–vis light irradiation, the average H 2 evolution rate of g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 sample with optimal g-C 3 N 4 loading content (4.12wt%) was most increased by up to 0.606 mmol·g −1 ·h −1 , a value which transcended that of as-prepared g-C 3 N 4 (0.138 mmol·g −1 ·h −1 ) and mesoporous TiO 2 (0.244 mmol·g −1 ·h −1 ) by a factor of 4.41 and 2.48, respectively. The improvement in photocatalytic activity of g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 composites was explained by the synergistic effect between large specific surface area, decreased energy band gap and intimate interface contact. This study demonstrated a new approach for the preparation of binary mesoporous heterojunction photocatalysts. Graphical Abstract
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光催化
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2020
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IF 5.977
Na Ji,Hui-Qing Shi,Xiu-Yu Fang,Zhi-Yong Wu
Both human telomere and proto-oncogene c-MYC can form G-quadruplex (G4) with various conformations. Porphyrin derivative (TMPyP4) could stabilize G4, and thus is considered as a potential drug for anticancer therapeutics . In this paper, the translocation behaviors of three typical G4s (telomere basket, telomere hybrid-1 and c-MYC Pu22 parallel) and their interaction with TMPyP4 were investigated with a single protein nanopore sensing interface with the same main electrolyte of 0.5 M tetramethylammonium chloride. As observed by the statistics of the dwell time of the current pulses, in the presence of K + , the parallel G4 is more stable than the hybrid-1 G4, while the basket G4 in the presence of Na + exhibited shortest duration. The dwell time of all of the G4s increased as the result of interaction with TMPyP4, indicating an obvious stabilizing effect. This study demonstrated that the single nanopore sensing interface not only reveal the stability of various G4 conformations at a single-molecule level, but also provide the interaction information of a ligand, which could be useful in the drug design.
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分子生物学
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生物物理学
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药物设计
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2020
·Vol. 9
·期 2
·1207-1212
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IF 11.301
Chenglu Zhu,Tian Wei,Yang Wei,Liang Wang,Min Lu,Yupeng Yuan,Lisha Yin,Ling Huang
Construction of alternating donor–acceptor (D–A) units in g-C3N4 is an effective strategy to achieve more effective charge carrier separation towards improved photocatalytic performance. However, the charge carrier kinetics, especially the vague intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) details and structure–performance relationship remain unknown. Herein, a series of D–A structured g-C3N4 photocatalysts with improved performance were synthesized by introducing 2-aminobenzothiazole (ABT) into the g-C3N4 framework. Remarkably, up to 3.83-fold improvement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution was realized at 0.8 wt% ABT incorporation. It shall be due to the broadened visible light absorption range (λ ≤ 700 nm) and accelerated charge carrier separation which originated from the ultrafast ICT (τ1 = 112.20 fs) between the benzothiazole group and heptazine ring. The boosted performance is highly associated with the purposely introduced D–A structure, which may shed light on designing of analogues with better photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance.
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材料科学
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物理化学
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TALANTA
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2018
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IF 4.244
Xiaomin Tang,Xiaotong Li,Dik-Lung Ma,Lihua Lu,Baohan Qu
The detection and monitoring of acetamiprid has drawn extensive attentions, due to their potential threat to human health. Herein, a simple, sensitive and label-free fluorescent assay based on triplex-to-G-qadruplex (TTGQ) molecular switch, was developed for the assay of acetamiprid in aqueous solution. In this detection, the proposed TTGQ molecule contained the acetamiprid aptamer sequence at its loop part and the triple-helix structure at its stem part. One single-stranded DNA grafted by two split G-rich DNA sequences at its two ends, participated in the assembly of the triplex part in TTGQ. In the presence of acetamiprid, TTGQ was dissociated, and the split G-rich DNA was released out to result in the fluorescent signal enhancement of a G-quadruplex's probe. By virtue of this TTGQ molecular switch, the proposed assay can sense acetamiprid at the concentration as low as 2.38 nM with excellent selectivity . Furthermore, the detection of acetamiprid in three kinds of foods extract demonstrated the high application potential of the detection platform in the field of food safety. Compared with the other reported strategies for acetamiprid assay, this triplex-to-G-qadruplex-based fluorescent molecular switch was just composed of two DNA probes without the labeling procedure, presenting a really simple and low-cost fluorescent detection for acetamiprid assay.
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生物化学
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食品安全
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分析化学
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2018
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IF 3.779
Zhi Zhu,Xu Tang,Wenqian Fan,Zhi Liu,Pengwei Huo,Tianshuai Wang,Yongsheng Yan,Chunxiang Li
A new Co-doped and Fe 3 O 4 quantum dots (QDs) decorated g-C 3 N 4 (CN) photocatalyst applied in the tetracycline degradation under visible light irradiation, is designed and synthesized. The Fe 3 O 4 -QDs@Co CN enhanced photocatalytic activity and cycling ability in comparison with individual CN significantly. It revealed a synergistic effect between the formation of Fe 3 O 4 -QDs and Co-doping. Results of characterization insight into the reason that Co-doped can regulate the band gap of CN, which has been proved by XPS and density functional theory (DFT). Moreover, the oxidation-reduction centre of Fe 3 O 4 -QDs with quantum effect can significantly boost the absorption of visible light and utilization electrons. Therefore, this work provides a broadening window for photo harvesting, charge using and separation during photocatalytic reactions.
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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
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2018
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IF 2.891
Zhi Zhu,Wenqian Fan,Zhi Liu,Hongjun Dong,Yongsheng Yan,Pengwei Huo
A novel intercalation structure g-C 3 N 4 photocatalyst is successfully fabricated by eutectic technique and calcination method, it shows a better degradation efficiency to tetracycline under the visible light. Moreover, the as-prepared photocatalysts are characterized by a series of means, such as PL, FL spectra, EIS, ESR etc. The improved photocatalytic performance could be attributed to the intercalation effect and conductivity of attapulgite (ATP), which enhanced the optical absorption and separation efficiency of photogenerated electron-holes (decay lifetime is 4.3 ns). Moreover, radical trapping experiments and ESR measurement indicated the superoxide radical and photogenerated holes are the major activity species on removing tetracycline in g-C 3 N 4 @ATP. The degradation mechanism and the degradation intermediate products are proposed to better understand the reaction process. Additionally, the work provides a new insight for constructing other high performance, low-cost and intercalation structure photocatalyst for wastewater treatment.
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E-POLYMERS
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2016
·Vol. 16
·期 2
·99-109
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IF 0.812
Xiu-Juan Wu,Ji-De Wang,Li-Qin Cao
Novel chitosan/diatomite (CS/DM) membranes were prepared by phase inversion technique to remove anionic azo dyes from wastewater. The fabricated composite membranes exhibited the combined advantages of inorganic substances, diatomites, and polysaccharides. These composite membranes were characterized through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis. The mechanical properties of the membranes were also evaluated. Adsorption experiments were conducted under varied initial dye concentration, solution pH values, contact time, and adsorbent dosage. The results indicate that pH 3 is the optimal pH value for Orange G adsorption. The CS/DM membranes exhibit the highest adsorption capacity of 588 mg g -1 and removal rate of 94% under an initial dye concentration of 200 mg l -1 , contact time of 6 h, and membrane dosage of 8 mg. Langmuir, Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson adsorption models were applied to describe the equilibrium isotherms at different dye concentrations. The equilibrium data was found to be fitted well to the Redlich-Peterson isotherm. Pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetics models were used to describe the adsorption of membranes. The adsorption data were well explained by pseudo-second-order models, and also followed by the Elovich model. In addition, these membranes display high adsorption capacity and mechanical performance even after reused for seven times.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 8.1
Jing Liu,Huiyu Dong,Carmen Sans,Xiangjuan Yuan
In this study, a series of boron (B) and oxygen (O) dual doped g-C 3 N 4 (BOCNx) composites with different boric acid dopant dosages were successfully synthesized through one-step thermal condensation method. Amongst, BOCN50 exhibited the best catalytic ozonation activity, achieving 97 % of iopamidol (IPM) degradation within 15 min and the highest k value (0.3166 min −1 ), which was 8 times higher than that of ozonation alone. Multiple characteristic techniques were used to explore the surface properties of BOCNx catalysts and it was found that B and O primarily coordinated in g-C 3 N 4 as the forms of C-O, C = O and B-N bonds. Further investigation in the structure–activity relationship of BOCNx catalyst indicated that the increasing contents of oxygen-containing functional groups and B-N bonds were linearly correlated with the IPM degradation rate. The results of scavenger experiments and ESR analysis demonstrated that the main reactive oxygen species involved were hydroxyl radicals, superoxide radicals, and singlet oxygen ( • OH, • O 2 − and 1 O 2 ). Additionally, up to 12 intermediate products of IPM during the reaction were detected, and the corresponding degradation pathways were elucidated. Finally, the structure of BOCN and the active sites for O 3 adsorption were determined by density functional theory (DFT) calculation, thus providing theoretical support for studying the mechanism of catalytic ozonation degradation.
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化学工程
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