CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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Sibo Chen,Zhi Yang,Jiadong Chen,Jihai Liao,Siyuan Yang,Feng Peng,Liang-Xin Ding,Guangxing Yang,Shengsen Zhang,Yueping Fang
Heterogeneous nano-metal structures are widely used in the field of photocatalysis as an efficient cocatalyst, but the structure–activity relationship has not been elucidated clearly. In this work, a classical CuCo@C nanoparticle with a core of bimetallic CuCo and a carbon shell was used as a cocatalyst to explore and reveal the mechanism of interfacial effect for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution . It was found that the bimetallic CuCo had a heterogeneous structure with abundant Cu-Co interfaces. The desirable visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate of CuCo@C/g-C 3 N 4 was much higher than that of Cu@C/g-C 3 N 4 , Co@C/g-C 3 N 4 , and superior to that of the control group loaded with 1 wt% Pt (Pt/g-C 3 N 4 ). According to the experimental characterizations and density functional theory calculations, electrons were enriched at the Cu-Co interface, which can promote the electron-hole pairs separation and accelerate charge transfer of the g-C 3 N 4 host photocatalysts. On the other hand, the surface carbon layer and Cu-Co interface modulated the H adsorption free energy on the CuCo@C, which was favorable for hydrogen evolution. It is conceivable that further investigating and tuning different metal interfaces will facilitate the large-scale application of bimetallic cocatalysts.
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Scientific Reports
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Han Lin,Liu Hui,Cui Penglei,Peng Zhijian,Zhang Suojiang,Yang Jun
Noble metal nanoparticles with hollow interiors and customizable shell compositions have immense potential for catalysis. Herein, we present an unique structure transformation phenomenon for the fabrication of alloy Cu 3 Pt nanoframes with polyhedral morphology. This strategy starts with the preparation of polyhedral Cu-Pt nanoparticles with a core-shell construction upon the anisotropic growth of Pt on multiply twinned Cu seed particles, which are subsequently transformed into alloy Cu 3 Pt nanoframes due to the Kirkendall effect between the Cu core and Pt shell. The as-prepared alloy Cu 3 Pt nanoframes possess the rhombic dodecahedral morphology of their core-shell parents after the structural evolution. In particular, the resulting alloy Cu 3 Pt nanoframes are more effective for oxygen reduction reaction but ineffective for methanol oxidation reaction in comparison with their original Cu-Pt core-shell precursors.
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Nature Communications
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2025
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Lu Yuxuan,Yue Feng,Liu Tianyang,Huang Yu-Cheng,Fu Feng,Jing Yu,Yang Hengquan,Yang Chunming
The synergistic Cu 0 -Cu + sites is regarded as the active species towards NH 3 synthesis from the nitrate electrochemical reduction reaction (NO 3 - RR) process. However, the mechanistic understanding and the roles of Cu 0 and Cu + remain exclusive. The big obstacle is that it is challenging to effectively regulate the interfacial motifs of Cu 0 -Cu + sites. In this paper, we describe the tunable construction of Cu 0 -Cu + interfacial structure by modulating the size-effect of Cu 2 O nanocube electrocatalysts to NO 3 - RR performance. We elucidate the formation mechanism of Cu 0 -Cu + motifs by correlating the macroscopic particle size with the microscopic coordinated structure properties, and identify the synergistic effect of Cu 0 -Cu + motifs on NO 3 - RR. Based on the rational design of Cu 0 -Cu + interfacial electrocatalyst, we develop an efficient paired-electrolysis system to simultaneously achieve the efficient production of NH 3 and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid at an industrially relevant current densities (2 A cm −2 ), while maintaining high Faradaic efficiencies, high yield rates, and long-term operational stability in a 100 cm 2 electrolyzers, indicating promising practical applications.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2024
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Zelong Li,Xue Han,Lan Fu,Guochao Shi,Shiqi Xu,Mingli Wang,Wenzhi Yuan,Wenying Zhou,Jiahao Cui
The combination of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and machine learning algorithm provides an effective means for the identification of pharmacodynamic substances. This paper reported a biomimetic synthesis route of Ag-30/SiO 2 -4/Cu-20/rice leaf (Ag-30/SiO 2 -4/Cu-20/RL) SERS platform with multiple synergistic electromagnetic enhanced performance. The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect was strengthened as the SiO 2 nanolayer generated between Ag and Cu. This SERS platform demonstrated high sensitivity, with a low limit of detection (LOD) of 1 × 10 −10 M for 4-Aminophenylthiophenol (4-ATP) and an enhancement factor (EF) of 3.86 × 10 6 . More importantly, the principal component analysis (PCA) was adopted to analyze the SERS data of three different Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacodynamic substances (Orientin, Atractylenolide III and Prim-o-glucosylcimifugin). The K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Naïve Bayes (NB) achieved classification accuracy of 0.9474 and 0.9649, respectively. The platform provides guidance for the accurate identification of TCM pharmacodynamic substances.
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Journal of Materiomics
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2025
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Caizhen Wu,Xin Zhang,Yingjie Zhang,Wensheng Ma,Degang Zhao,Bingbing Ren,Zhonghua Zhang,Yan Wang
Here, micron-sized high-entropy alloy (HEA) electrocatalysts (FeCoNiMoCr, Cr-HEA; FeCoNiMoCu, Cu-HEA) with dual-phase heterostructures were fabricated by mechanical alloying and subsequently loaded onto nickel foam (NF) to form the working electrode, exhibiting excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance. Specifically, the Cr-HEA/NF exhibits an overpotential of 271 mV at current density of 10 mA/cm 2 and a small Tafel slope of 69.1 mV/dec in 1 mol/L KOH solution, outperforming the performance of Cu-HEA/NF, commercial RuO 2 /NF and bare NF. HEA catalysts achieve outstanding long-term stability, as evidenced by chronopotentiometry (1 mol/L KOH for 48 h @10 mA/cm 2 and 6 mol/L KOH at 85 °C for 100 h @500 mA/cm 2 ) and chronoamperometry (1 mol/L KOH for 100 h @100 mA/cm 2 ). The impressive OER activity and stability of Cr-HEA can be attributed to the highly heterogeneous nested interfaces between amorphous and metastable nanocrystals, as well as the in-situ formation of multiphase structures. Notably, both density functional theory calculations and experimental results demonstrate that the synergistic interactions among the metal active sites in HEA collectively regulate the adsorption and desorption of oxygen-containing intermediates, thereby enhancing the OER catalytic activity. Specifically, the Cr-HEA presents a lower Gibbs free energy change during the transformation from O* to OOH*, resulting in a reduced overpotential.
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Materials Today Communications
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2025
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Yi Zhang,Hao Wang,Man Li,Xinhao Sun,Yan Zhang,Zhifeng Wang,Chunling Qin
This work successfully synthesizes a new type of multi-layered flexible hybrid electrode (Cu/Ni(OH) 2 /np-Ni) composing of bimetallic components, hierarchical porous structure and outstanding glucose electrocatalytic performance. The synthesis strategy includes a facile two-step approach, i.e. the Ni(OH) 2 nanolayer in-situ grows on a nanoporous Ni (np-Ni) network (Ni(OH) 2 /np-Ni) via deionized water immersion and then the metallic Cu dendrites are uniformly deposited on Ni(OH) 2 /np-Ni. Moreover, due to the hierarchical porous structure as well as synergetic effect of Ni(OH) 2 and Cu dual electroactive components, the Cu/Ni(OH) 2 /np-Ni hybrid electrode electrodeposited with 1 min delivers wider linear range of 18 mM and higher sensitivity of 1.629 mA mM −1 cm −2 . The electrode possesses excellent interference immunity, reproducibility as well as long-time stability. In addition, the mechanism of electrochemical sensors for detecting glucose under alkaline conditions is briefly introduced. Accordingly, the flexible Cu/Ni(OH) 2 /np-Ni electrode material shows promise for further development as a contender for wearable glucose sensors.
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Xu Liu,Peide An,Yide Han,Hao Meng,Xia Zhang
Cu-based nanozyme shows good oxidase-like activities due to the changeable states of Cu(II) and Cu(I), which are proven to be effective in the electron transfer in the redox process. Herein, the self-made MOF-818 with more Cu(II) loading was synthesized through a modified two-steps hydrothermal routes, which was then used as a sacrificial precursor to construct copper/zirconium composite oxides nanozymes (CN-MOF-818). The pyrolysis temperature was varied to obtain the best enzyme-like activities of the resulting CN-MOF-818. The laccase-like and catecholase-like activities were evaluated by using the oxidation of the mixture of 4-aminoantipyrine (4-AAP) and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DP), and 3,5-Di- tert -butylcatechol (3,5-DTBC) respectively. The enzyme-like activities were optimized through altering the catalytic conditions, and the corresponding enzyme catalytic kinetics including K m and V max were also determined. The enzyme-like mechanism of the CN-MOF-818 were also discussed based on EPR technique and the in-situ FT-IR analyses. In comparison with the pristine MOF-818 and the other reported Cu-based mimics, the as-prepared CN-MOF-818 exhibits the higher oxidase mimetic activities. These CN-MOF-818 can also be employed to detect the epinephrine with a low detection limit of 1.63 μM.
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2025
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Juan Li,Jinggao Wu,Chang Ming Li
Dual hetero paired single atomic catalyst (DHAC, CoCu@CN) was one-pot synthesized by a facile green method and applied as a nanozyme for the detection of H 2 O 2 . Both experimental results and theoretical calculations discover that the hetero-paired DAC realizes stronger adsorption energy and a bridge adsorption of H 2 O 2 for simultaneous 2-electron transfer, thereby offering much higher electrocatalytic activity and larger catalytic current than that of single Co atom and single Cu catalyst alone toward H 2 O 2 reduction. The CoCu@CN H 2 O 2 sensor demonstrates a wide linear detection range (0.654–7379.454 μM) and low limit of detection (LOD) of H 2 O 2 (0.047 μM), and is used successfully to in-site detect intracellular H 2 O 2 released from living cells, ensuring its practical applications in life science and medical diagnosis. This work not only discloses a scientific insight for the enhancement mechanism of the dual single heteroatomic catalyst, but also demonstrates an avenue to synthesize more efficient dual single heteroatomic catalyst for potential broad applications in energy conversion and/or sensing applications.
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Journal of Energy Chemistry
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2025
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Wenhui Fu,Yuxuan Tian,Chao Sui,Xiaorui Wang,Zhi Wang,Qiushi Chen,Junhao Liu,Xuzhong Gong
Polymer binders possess significant potential in alleviating the volume expansion issues of silicon-based anodes, yet remain challenging due to insufficient interfacial interactions with individual components (Si, C, and Cu) of the anode. Herein, we report the synthesis of a stable three-dimensional network structure of the PAA-PEA (polyacrylic acid-polyether amines) polymer binder through intermolecular physicochemical dual cross-linking. By incorporating polar functional groups, the binder molecules not only form strong C–O–Si, N–Si, O=C–O–C, and O=C–O–Cu covalent bonds but also enhance non-covalent interactions with Si, C, and Cu, thereby improving adhesion between the binder and each interface of the anode. Furthermore, weak hydrogen bonds, acting as “sacrificial bonds”, dissipate energy and disperse accumulated stress, improving the material flexibility. Due to the high mechanical stability of the framework, which combines both rigidity and flexibility and the coupling effect at the three interfaces, the movement and separation of electrode components are effectively restrained, significantly enhancing the cycling stability of silicon-graphite anodes. The PAA-PEA 2000 electrode exhibits a capacity retention of 78% after 500 cycles at a current density of 0.2 A g −1 . This work provides insights into the mechanism of binders and guides the design of polymer binders for high-performance Si-based electrodes.
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Nano Research
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2024
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Li Jing,Jing Chuanyong,Wang Jin
Electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction to CH 4 remains challenging due to multi-electron transfer and intermediates adsorption. Herein, we synthesized electrocatalysts by growing Ni-Cu alloy structure on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (Ni x Cu y -NCNT) for electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) via hydrothermal method followed by pyrolysis. The optimized Ni 1 Cu 1 -NCNT demonstrated a superior CO 2 RR performance, achieving 99.7% \(\text{FE}_{\text{CH}_{4}}\) (FE = Faradaic efficiency) and 11.54 mA • cm −2 current density at −1.2 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), which outperformed single metal counterparts. Its outstanding performance was due to the electrons transferred from Cu to Ni and Ni-Cu alloy shifted the d-band center toward the Fermi level, which was more conducive to the intermediate formation. In situ electrochemical attenuated total reflection (EC-ATR) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed the appearance of *CHO intermediate and the pathway during the CO 2 RR process. The design of the bimetallic electrocatalyst in this study provides a new perspective for the highly selective reduction of CO 2 .
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2024
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Yaqi Qu,Hualiang An,Xinqiang Zhao,Yanji Wang
The development of a sustainable catalytic system for optimizing the use of noble metals (NMs) plays a crucial role in expanding the application of NMs. In this paper, we synthesized a series of core–shell nanoparticles (NPs) with metal Cu as a core and ultrathin NM M (M = Pt, Pd, Rh, Ru, Ir, and Au) as a shell. Cu–M NPs were fabricated via a one-pot method, which involved a two-step process of Cu nucleating first at a low temperature and then NMs nucleating and growing on the Cu core at a high temperature later. For Pd precursor salt with a lower decomposition temperature, introducing trioctylphosphine (TOP) to enable the in situ formation of Pd-TOP complex was pivotal to obtaining Cu–Pd. X-ray diffraction, high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy-mapping characterizations highlight the core–shell NPs with an ultrathin shell. The catalytic performance of the Cu–M NPs was investigated by using selective hydrogenation of nitrobenzene as a probe reaction. Among them, Cu–Rh demonstrated enhanced activity toward nitrobenzene hydrogenation to aniline with a TOF value as high as 2847 h–1. While a part of aniline would undergo excessive hydrogenation to cyclohexylamine over a pure Rh NP catalyst. Valence band spectra measurement and density functional theory calculations both prove that the activity modulation is principally governed by the charge transfer. The introduction of Cu core downshifts the d-band center of the Rh shell, weakens the adsorption of aniline, and thereby terminates the further reduction of aniline. The synthesis of Cu–M NPs can not only reduce the dosage of NMs but also present the potential for activity control by adjusting the properties of the shell metals. These core–shell NPs provide considerable promise for terminating the reaction to the intermediate product in consecutive hydrogenation reactions.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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Ning Liu,Na Lu,Kun Zhao,Pengxiao Liu,ZhuMei Sun,Jing Lu
The conversion of methane (CH 4 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into high-value products under mild conditions is crucial for addressing the greenhouse effect and advancing C1 chemistry. In this study, Cu/ZnO catalysts were prepared through a one-step wet reduction process, and the catalytic conversion of CH 4 and CO 2 into acetic acid molecules (CH 3 COOH) was achieved via photon activation at ambient temperature. The yield of acetic acid was 411.6 μmol/Lg cat −1 h −1 with a selectivity of 89.5 % under optimal conditions (100 mWcm −2 light intensity, 25 ± 2 °C, 2 MPa pressure, and a 1:1 CH 4 :CO 2 volume ratio). Enhanced solubility of CH 4 in aqueous under increased pressure and temperature was observed to improve acetic acid production. Additionally, the catalytic mechanism involved surface chemisorption of CH 4 and CO 2 , facilitated by ZnO and Cu in the catalyst, leading to C-C coupling and subsequent acetic acid formation, driven by photogenerated electron-hole migration. This study provides a foundational understanding for the synthesis of value-added chemicals through CH 4 and CO 2 conversion via C-C coupling in mild environments.
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