Materialia
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2022
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Jianfeng Yang,Qingling Zhao,Zehao Zang,Shuquan Zhang,Ziwu Wang,Lanlan Li,Xiaofei Yu,Xiaojing Yang,Zunming Lu,Xinghua Zhang
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents with high relaxivity is of great importance for clinical diagnosis. Here we propose an effective method to enhance the relaxivity of MRI contrast agents. Ultra-small gadolinium oxide nanoparticles (Gd 2 O 3 NPs) with different surface ligands were prepared by coprecipitation method, and the polyacrylic acid (PAA) modulated Gd 2 O 3 NPs (PAA-Gd 2 O 3 ) have the high r 1 relaxivity of 53.34 mM –1 s –1 , which is mainly induced by the strong affinity between PAA and water molecules. In addition, PAA modulated Gd 2 O 3 NPs were successfully loaded on Au@MSNs (Au nanorod coated with mesoporous silica , Gd 2 O 3 /Au@MSNs) with enhanced affinity between Gd 3+ and water molecules, as well as increased motional time of Gd 3+ . Therefore, the r 1 relaxivity of Gd 2 O 3 /Au@MSNs can be up to 64.53 mM –1 s –1 , which is 17 times of the commercial agent Gd-DTPA. The Gd 2 O 3 /Au@MSNs NPs also have a low r 2 /r 1 of 1.04 and good computed tomography (CT) imaging performance, as well as good biocomatibility, which have great potential applications in multimodal bioimaging.
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2020
·Vol. 145
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IF 3.978
Wene Liu,Lili Tian,Jie Du,Jiangmin Wu,Yongmei Liu,Guofan Wu,Xiaoquan Lu
Developing a rapid, low-cost, and multimode detection method for heavy metal ions remains a compelling goal for many applications, including food safety, environmental and biological analysis. This study investigated the influence of Hg2+ on the peroxidase-like activity of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) decorated on carbon dots (CDs) from lysine (denoted as GNP@CDs). A new type of Hg2+-triggered peroxidase-like activity of GNP@CDs was discovered, which could catalyze the oxidation of the colorless 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) into blue TMB. Based on the regulation of the catalytically triggered activity, a sensitive colorimetric method for the detection of Hg2+ was developed, with a linear range of 7–150 nM, providing a limit of detection as low as 3.7 nM. The sensor is simple and rapid, and was successfully applied to the detection of Hg2+ enrichment in chlorella, suggesting a promising application in biological analysis.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2025
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Sitong Feng,Lingchu Huang,Qi Lu,Tong Wang,Rui Han,Xiaoyong Sun,Xishuang Liang,Fengmin Liu,Fangmeng Liu,Geyu Lu
The fuel cell type gas sensor has attracted wide attention due to its advantages of operating at room temperature, low power consumption and good stability. In this study, a new sensitive electrode material Au-Ni/CF was developed for the detection of NO 2 . Through XRD , SEM and TEM characterization, it has been demonstrated that the electrode material exhibits improved crystallinity after being sintered at high temperatures. This leads to a reduction in charge transfer impedance. Additionally, XPS testing and TEM characterization have confirmed that high temperature sintering results in the reduction of more metal elements, leading to an increase in the electrochemical surface area and effectively improving sensor sensitivity. Furthermore, adjusting the mass ratio of gold to nickel can alter the surface lattice arrangement and electronic structure of the electrode material, subsequently impacting its resistance and catalytic ability towards NO 2 , ultimately enhancing sensor sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor using Au 5 Ni 2 /CF as the electrode material for detecting 0.05–10 ppm NO 2 was found to be 47.88 nA/ppm with response and recovery times of 35 s and 25 s respectively when exposed to 2 ppm NO 2 . Furthermore, it exhibited good selectivity and stability, indicating promising potential for application in room temperature atmospheric environment monitoring.
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2015
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Jianxiu Li,Hongmin Ma,Dan Wu,Xiaojian Li,Yongbei Zhao,Yong Zhang,Bin Du,Qin Wei
A high sensitive label-free electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunosensor was fabricated for the detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA) based on potassium niobate-Au nanoparticles@bismuth sulfide (KNbO 3 –Au NPs@Bi 2 S 3 ) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The prepared Bi 2 S 3 nanosheets exhibited strong and stable cathodic ECL activity. The synthesized KNbO 3 –Au NPs was firstly used to fabricate ECL modified electrodes and Bi 2 S 3 nanosheets worked as luminophores for the first time in ECL sensors. Au NPs were used to combine with Bi 2 S 3 and anti-PSA via the Au–S covalent bond and Au–NH 2 covalent bond without the usage of crosslinking agents respectively, further enhancing the sensitivity and stability of immunosensor. Under the optimum experimental conditions, the ECL signal of KNbO 3 –Au NPs@Bi 2 S 3 linearly decreased with the increase of PSA concentration in the range of 0.005–5 ng/mL with a detection limit of 3 pg/mL. The preparated label-free ECL immunosensor exhibited high sensitivity and selectivity, good repeatability and long-term stability. The applicability of the proposed ECL immunosensor was also evaluated by detecting PSA in real samples.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2022
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Qing Yu,Shiyi Wang,Mengru Wang,Xiaoling Mou,Ronghe Lin,Yunjie Ding
Acetylene coupling with ethylene dichloride, which uses both coal and oil resources, is attractive for sustainable PVC manufacturing. Herein, highly active and stable carbon nitride-based catalysts were developed by a novel pre-oxidation-pyrolysis process, affording unprecedented dehydrochlorination activity with good durability. The best-performing system was further modified with different precious metals (Au, Pt, and Ru) to promote the hydrochlorination chemistry between the in-situ formed hydrogen chloride and acetylene co-feed. The presence of metal centers intensifies the hydrochlorination activity but weakens the dehydrochlorination ability due to competitive adsorption between the two reactants at the metal sites. Superior coupling performance was achieved over C 3 N 4 /AC and single-atom Au/C 3 N 4 /AC catalysts in cascade reactors. Our results strongly suggest that dehydrochlorination is an essential step in the coupling reaction, and the activation of acetylene and ethylene dichloride molecules requires different active sites that should be engineered in future work.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
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2024
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Jie Zheng,Zihui Qin,Shiping Wu,Jinxian Zhao,Jun Ren
A series of ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies were prepared with hydrothermal synthesis method by adjusting the NaOH/Zn 2+ molar ratio. The Au/ZnO catalysts were further synthesized and investigated in the oxidative esterification of ethylene glycol (EG) in methanol to methyl glycolate (MG). As compared with prismatic Au/ZnO(2.0) and fusiform-shaped Au/ZnO(8.0), the flaky-shaped Au/ZnO(3.5) catalyst shows a significantly decreased Au particle size of 3.4 nm as well as superior catalytic performance with the EG conversion of 94.5 % and the selectivity of 91.8 % towards MG. The characterization results imply that the reaction undergoes three successive steps including glycol oxidation (the rate-determining step), nucleophilic addition of glycolaldehyde with methanol and oxidative dehydrogenation of hemiacetal. The small Au nanoparticles and abundant defective surface oxygen species (O V ) promote the generation of activated oxygen species (O δ- ), which facilitate the cleavage of C-H bonds in alkoxide intermediate methylene (–CH 2 ) as well as hemiacetal aldehyde groups (–CHO) and thereby boost the formation of MG. Moreover, base sites adsorbed the alcohol to facilitate the O-H bond cleavage and acid sites adsorbed hemiacetal or intermediate alkoxide to drive the reaction. The strong interaction at the Au-ZnO interface affords the superior catalytic performance of Au/ZnO(3.5) in the oxidative esterification of EG in methanol to MG.
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ACS Omega
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2025
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Yu Wang,Yumeng Liu,Lidong Cao,Zunqiang Xiao,Yi Lu,Xin Zhang
Identification of biological antioxidants is of vital importance because of the essential role of antioxidants in keeping the balance of various diseases. Here, we designed a simple, rapid, and low-cost nanozyme sensing array for colorimetric identification of multiple antioxidants based on Au nanoparticles (Au NPs) synthesized via a facile and green aqueous phase method. In the presence of H2O2, Au NPs possessed peroxidase-like catalytic activity and could effectively catalyze the color-less 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to blue oxidized product with comparable enzyme kinetics parameters. The function of the colorimetric sensing array was based on the inhibitory effect of diverse antioxidants on the chromogenic system to varying degrees under different pH conditions, resulting in various “turn-off” colorimetric signal responses. Based on the developed sensing array, four kinds of antioxidants with various concentrations and different proportions of the mixtures were successfully discriminated from each other with the aid of principal component analysis. Moreover, the sensing array showed good performance in differentiating antioxidants in human serum samples, which broaden the analytical application of Au NPs. Compared with the existing sensing array, the single Au NP-based sensing array significantly simplified the sensing element and detection process, opening a new avenue for biological molecule identification in real complex samples.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2024
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Xinyue Wang,Chen Chen,Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse,Xuguang Qiao,Yufeng Sun,Zhixiang Xu
Herein, a novel surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) aptasensor was developed for amantadine (AMD) detection, based on magnetite nanoparticles coated with polyethylenimine, silver nanoclusters and aptamers (Fe 3 O 4 @PEI@AgNC-apt) as the capture probe and complementary DNA-modified gold nanorods (AuNRs@4-MPBA@Ag-c-DNA containing 4-mercaptophenylboric acid molecules) as the reporter probe. In the presence of AMD, the AMD and the reporter probe competed for the aptamer on the surface of the capture probe, resulting in the reporter probe detaching from the capture probe leading to a decrease in intensity of the SERS signal at 1067 cm −1 for 4-MPBA. Under optimal conditions, a good linear relationship was established between the SERS intensity at 1067 cm −1 and the logarithm of the AMD concentration over the range 10 −6 -10 2 mg L −1 , with a LOD of 0.50 × 10 −6 mg L −1 . The AMD levels in spiked samples were evaluated using the SERS aptasensor, with good recoveries ranging from 90.57% to 113.49% being obtained.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
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2024
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IF 9
Ping Bai,Junyu Lang,Yinshu Wang,Haojie Tong,Zelin Wang,Bingbing Zhang,Yiguo Su,Zhanli Chai
Exploration of effective and renewable photocatalysts is essential for solar to hydrogen conversion technologies. However, the application of some photocatalysts with great potential, such as ZnCdS, are seriously limited by the sluggish charge transfer/separation and unavoidable light corrosion. In this work, Au/ZnCdS/NiCo-LDH ternary heterojunction was constructed by introducing Au nanoparticle mediator in core-shell ZnCdS/NiCo-LDH, which exhibits an enhanced H 2 production rate of 4.89 mmol g −1 h −1 under visible light irradiation and unexpected recyclability with 6.2 % rate reduction after 15 consecutive cycles. The enhanced photocatalytic performance is attributed to the dual pathways (Z-scheme and localized surface plasmon resonance) enabled in Au/ZnCdS/NiCo-LDH, which improves the separation of photo-generated carriers, accelerates the electron transport, and provides active sites for photocatalytic oxidation. This work provides a promising technology to jointly improve photocatalytic activity and stability by modulating the interfacial carrier dynamics of photocatalysts.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2025
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IF 5.6
Yi-Lin Zhao,Lu-Hui Li,Li-Na Zhu,Xin Wang
Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) is a crucial oxidative stress biomarker associated with various diseases, especially tumor progression and inflammatory disorders. Accurate monitoring of H₂O₂ is essential for understanding the microenvironmental dynamics involved in disease development. However, traditional metal oxide-based electrochemical sensors often suffer from low catalytic efficiency and nanoparticle aggregation. Herein, we report a high-performance, binder-free H₂O₂ sensor based on a rationally engineered Au–CoMn₂O₄/Ni foam heterostructure. This integrated architecture leverages the conductive 3D Ni foam and an interface-mediated interaction-enhanced charge transfer interface to significantly enhance sensing performance. The resulting sensor exhibits two sensitivities, 3100.04 μA·mM⁻¹·cm⁻² (2–666 μM) and 821.41 μA·mM⁻¹·cm⁻² (1.066–22.166 mM), an ultralow detection limit of 0.036 μM, and a practical linear detection range spanning 2 μM–22.166 mM (R² = 0.99). It also demonstrates excellent selectivity, long-term stability (<3% signal decay over 30 days), and reproducibility (RSD ≈ 2.5%). Notably, the sensor enables real-time electrochemical monitoring of H₂O₂ released by A549 lung cancer cells under phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) stimulation, highlighting its potential as a platform for advanced electrochemical sensing. Importantly, the sensing mechanism can be well interpreted via interfacial structure analysis and electrochemical validation, without requiring theoretical simulations.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Mingze Jiao,Jia Chen,Lulu Yang,Qinyuan Hong,Yiqi Feng,Wenjun Huang,Bing Pei,Qianxuan Zhang,Qingyan Fu,Zan Qu,Naiqiang Yan,Haomiao Xu
Accurate detection of trace atmospheric mercury is critical for toxicological assessment and environmental protection. However, achieving parts per billion-level sensitivity with high selectivity between gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0) and oxidized mercury (Hg2+) remains a significant challenge. Here, we present a novel dual-channel enrichment trap system that selectively captures Hg0 by using a layered Au-MXene (Ti3C2Tx) composite as the sorption trap. This composite demonstrates exceptional selectivity for Hg0, with a selectivity ratio of up to 76.7 over Hg2+, and achieves 99.7% ± 0.3% (n = 3) sorption efficiency for ppb-level Hg0 within 30 min at room temperature. Complete desorption is achieved in just 90 s at 300 °C, demonstrating a response time of 45 s for Hg0 detection through the dual-electrothermal Hg0 channel. The Au–Ti3C2Tx preconcentration cartridge exhibits excellent moisture resistance, high-temperature stability, and long-term durability. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the built-in electric field at the Au–Ti3C2Tx interface accelerates electron transfer, reducing preconcentration and regeneration times. This technology integrates seamlessly with the cold vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometer (CVAAS) method to form a mercury dual-channel continuous emission measurement system (Hg DCEMS), ensuring highly selective and precise trace Hg0 detection. This advancement provides a device for accurately measuring the Hg0 concentration, enabling better mercury pollution control.
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Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
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2024
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Hongyan Yin,Can Zhang,Quanzhen Zhang,Pu Wang,Jianguo Tang,Sui Mao
Metallic nanoparticles can generate photoexcited hot carriers on the femtosecond scale under light excitation, which holds immense significance for applications such as optical communication and ultrafast imaging. In this study, a tunnelling junction structure with ZrO2 as the dielectric layer is designed and fabricated to achieve efficient hot hole collection between Au nanoparticles and P-type Si. Through characterizations of photoconductive atomic force microscopy, the electrical transition from an ohmic contact to a tunneling junction is confirmed, and the transfer pathway of Au hot holes to P-type Si upon 520 nm excitation is clearly observed. The impact of the tunneling structure on device performance is investigated through the fabrication of Si/ZrO2/Au/TiO2 photodiodes. The performance tests show that hot hole collection by the tunneling effect significantly enhances a range of parameters, e.g., external quantum efficiency by 250%. Noticeably, the external quantum efficiency attributed to photogenerated hot carriers under 520 nm excitation is estimated to exceed 2.5%. Moreover, the transient photoresponse of the photodiodes is examined with a typical rising time of less than 20 ns.
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