ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2025
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Zhongheng Wei,Huini Luo,Danlu Huang,Peixin Wei,Jiayi Zhang,Jihua Wei,Qianli Tang,Longjian Huang,Kai Zhang,Xianjiu Liao
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) is crucial for DNA replication, repair, and telomere maintenance. Its dysregulation is linked to various cancers and diseases. Accurate detection of FEN1 is essential for early diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring. Thus, a novel electrochemiluminescent (ECL) biosensor has been developed for the structure-specific and detection of FEN1. The strategy integrates dumbbell DNA probe-mediated transcription and CRISPR/Cas13a-induced trans-cleavage of RNA G-quadruplexes. In the presence of FEN1, the 5′-flap structure of the probe was selectively cleaved and subsequently ligated by T4 DNA ligase to form a closed circular template. This enabled T7 RNA polymerase to transcribe crRNA-encoded RNA strands, which activated Cas13a to cleave surface-tethered G-quadruplexes/hemin complexes on a Ru(II)/Ti 3 C 2 /AuNPs-modified electrode, thereby restoring the quenched ECL signal. The biosensor exhibited an ultralow detection limit of 4.82 × 10 -9 U μL -1 and a wide dynamic range (1 × 10 -8 to 1 × 10 -5 U μL -1 ), along with excellent specificity and stability. Successful application in human serum validated its reliability for complex biological samples. This work presents a powerful platform for sensitive FEN1 monitoring, holding potential for clinical diagnostics and enzymatic analysis.
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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2024
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Yuting Wang,Mengxiang Wang,Xuya Zhang,Xinru Pan,Yongpeng Cui,Daoqing Liu,Yajun Wang,Wenqing Yao
In addressing the industrial need for a simple, equipment-minimal, and non-toxic method of in-situ hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) production, this paper presents a cost-effective, environmentally friendly photocatalyst. Our design strategy focuses on the dual-element doping of phosphorus and sodium into graphitic carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ), chosen to synergistically enhance photocatalytic performance. This approach yields a notable H 2 O 2 production concentration of 3001.64 μmol·g −1 ·L -1 within 100 min, using isopropanol as a sacrificial agent, which was 61-fold increase compared to bulk g-C 3 N 4 . Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations were performed to elucidate the alterations in the band structure of the catalyst induced by dual-element doping, which consequentially engendered an asymmetric intrinsic electric field. Additionally, oxygen’s transition state affinity due to phosphorus doping was also investigated to reveal the mechanisms of synergistic catalysis. This development contributes to meeting industrial demands for pollutant degradation via Fenton processes and presents a sustainable alternative to traditional H 2 O 2 production methods.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2024
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Chenyang Xiao,Guohui Dong,Tingan Yao,Kai Han,Tingting Dong,Tong Zhou
Clay minerals are considered promising semiconductor carrier materials due to their unique physical and chemical properties. However, the exact mechanism by which clay minerals interact with semiconductor materials remains unknown. To this end, the present study was conducted to explore the formation of Brønsted acidic sites on the surface of mullite by modulating the cation types in mullite. It was hereby demonstrated for the first time that the presence of Brønsted acidic sites on the surface of clay minerals is conducive to the formation of N vacancies and dopant O in carbon nitride composites (CNM-30). The synergistic effect of N vacancy and doped O increases the specific surface area of CNM-30, enhances the electron-hole separation and transport efficiency, and ultimately makes CNM-30 produce more reactive oxygen species. CNM-30 possesses excellent degradation ability for gaseous phase pollutants (such as NO) and high concentration liquid phase pollutants (such as RhB and TC). Overall, this paper presents a new perspective on the design and development of semiconductor materials based on clay minerals.
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
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2025
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Hui Bai,Runwen Xiong,Nan Wang,Mingxia Tian,Jianbo Zhao,Fengqin Tang,Jianhui Jiang
Environmental pollution, particularly from organic dye-laden wastewater, represents an escalating global challenge, necessitating the development of efficient and sustainable remediation strategies. Herein, we report the fabrication of a rare-earth element Yb-doped TiO 2 /g-C 3 N 5 (YTCN) heterostructured photocatalyst through hydrothermal synthesis and calcination, utilizing methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RhB) as representative contaminants. The YTCN composite with an optimized mass ratio of 1:3 exhibited superior photocatalytic degradation efficiencies of 96.57 % for MB and 91.82 % for RhB with a decline rate of 0.02083 and 0.01832 min −1 under 500 W xenon lamp irradiation within 105 min, corresponding to 2.2-fold and 2.1-fold improvements over pristine TiO 2 , respectively. The Construction of YTCN significantly enhances photocatalytic efficiency by enhancing the separation of charge carriers, extending light absorption into the visible region, and improving overall catalytic activity. This performance enhancement is ascribed to the cooperative interactions among Yb, TiO 2 , and CN, which raise charge generation, division, and carriage dynamics of photoinduced electrons (e − ) and holes (h + ). Furthermore, the YTCN composite demonstrated excellent recyclability and structural stability, remained close to 90 % degradation efficiency after five consecutive cycles without notable crystal degradation. These results highlight the potential of YTCN heterostructures as low-cost and robust photocatalysts for advanced wastewater treatment applications.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2025
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Jinghao Zhu,Guiyang Yu,Hang Gao,Ruihong Sun,Ke Gong,Xiang Li,Debao Wang
Solar-driven upcycling of plastic waste to valuable chemicals provides an economic and low-energy technology to solve the accumulation of plastic waste and environmental pollution problems. However, simply relying on the capacity of single semiconductor system is still limited for high-efficient upcycling activity. Here, a low-cost plasmonic metal Bi-modified P-doped g-C 3 N 4 (Bi/PCN) is firstly reported to apply the conversion of waste plastics (including PE, PP, PVC, PEG, and PAM) under natural environment conditions without adding any cocatalysts or sacrificial agents. TAS and theoretical calculation reveal that the synergistic effect of Bi plasmonic excitation and doped P engineering not only improves light absorption ability, but also tunes interfacial Schottky barrier height (SBH) for the excellent charge separation and transport. The superposed amplification effect of Bi plasmonic excitation originates from hot electron injection, SPR scattering effect, and electromagnetic near-field enhancement. Optimized 1.0 %Bi/PCN composite achieves highly efficient upcycling of PE plastic to HCOOH product as liquid hydrogen storage medium with 1.88 % upcycling efficiency, which is the highest upcycling efficiency upon plasmonic photocatalysts as present. In situ EPR and IR spectra disclose plastics proceed multi-oxidative C C cleavage, where •O 2 and •OH radicals trigger plastic molecule and the intermediates of alkyl peroxide, alkyl radical, and alkoxy radical are successively formed. This work provides a preferable strategy for developing high-performance photocatalysts for upcycling of plastics waste through surface plasmon effect.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2024
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IF 8.5
Xiaojun Wen,Yiting Liu,Weilong Zhang,Lijun You,Ning Cai,Jumei Li
In this research, we fabricated an innovative NiO/CN/Ag composite through the straightforward electrostatic assembly of Ag nanoparticles and g-C 3 N 4 sheets onto NiO nanoflowers. This composite enables both surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) detection and photo-degradation of pesticides. The results reveal NiO/CN/Ag can quantitatively detect thiram (TRM) and diquat dibromide (DQDB) in water, with a limit of detection (LOD) of 10 −9 M, and also exhibit outstanding photo-degradation efficiency, exceeding 95 % for TRM and DQDB within 90 min under simulated sunlight. Significantly, after the organic reagent (citric acid) on NiO/CN/Ag was completely removed through simulated solar irradiation, the signal-to-noise ratios of SERS spectra on NiO/CN/Ag were enhanced, achieving LODs of 10 −8 M for TRM and DQDB in different fruit juices and dried flower teas. Additionally, the composite demonstrate impressive recyclability, maintaining robust SERS signals and high degradation rates even after five cycles of “detection-degradation” processes.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2024
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Shi-Wen Lv,Jialu Pan,Xiaoran Wang,Yifan Shao,Yanqing Cong,Lin Che
It is of great significance to establish an effective method for removing Cr(VI) from wastewater. Herein, Fe-doped g-C 3 N 4 (namely Fe-g–C 3 N 4 –2) was synthesized and then employed as photocatalyst to conduct the test of Cr(VI) reduction. Notably, the embedding of Fe ion in g-C 3 N 4 can offer the Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ redox couples, so reducing the interfacial resistance of charge transfer and suppressing the recombination of photogenerated electrons and holes. The impurity energy levels will form in g-C 3 N 4 after the introduction of Fe ion , thereby boosting the light absorption capacity of catalyst. Thus, Fe-g–C 3 N 4 –2 showed good performance in photocatalytic Cr(VI) reduction, and the reduction efficiency of Cr(VI) can reach 39.9% within 40 min. Different with many previous studies, current work unexpectedly found that the addition of p -benzoquinone (BQ) can promote the Cr(VI) reduction, and the reduction efficiency of Cr(VI) over Fe-g–C 3 N 4 –2 was as high as 93.2% in the presence of BQ (1.5 mM). Further analyses showed that BQ can be reduced to hydroquinone (HQ) by photogenerated electrons, and UV light can also directly induce BQ to generate HQ by using H 2 O as the hydrogen donor . The HQ with reducing ability can accelerate the Cr(VI) reduction. In short, current work shared some novel insights into photocatalytic Cr(VI) reduction in the presence of BQ. Future research should consider possible reactions between photogenerated electrons and BQ. For the UV-induced photocatalysis , the suitability of BQ as the scavenger of O 2 •‒ must be given carefully consideration.
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Nanomaterials
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2025
·Vol. 15
·期 18
·1443
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IF 4.3
Shicheng Liu,Na Li,Qulan Zhou
Elucidating the mechanisms of CO2photocatalytic conversion systems is crucial for tackling the challenges of carbon neutrality. In this study, a series of Ag@g-C3N4photocatalysts were constructed with metal particle size modulation as the core strategy to systematically reveal the modulation mechanism of Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) size variation on the selectivity of CO2photoreduction products. Systematic characterizations revealed that increasing Ag size enhanced visible light absorption, promoted charge separation, and improved CH4selectivity. Photocatalytic tests showed Ag3.0%@CN achieved optimal activity and electron utilization. Energy band analyses indicated that Ag modification preserved favorable conduction band positions while increasing donor capacity. Further density-functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that Ag NPs size variations significantly affect the adsorption stability and conversion energy barriers of intermediates such as *COOH, CO and CHO, with small-sized Ag7NPs favoring the CO pathway, while large-sized Ag NPs stabilize the key intermediates and drive the reaction towards the CH4pathway evolution. The experimental and theoretical results corroborate each other and clarify the dominant role of Ag NPs size in regulating the reaction path between CO and CH4. This study provides mechanistic guidance for the selective regulation of the multi-electron reduction pathway, which is of great significance for the construction of efficient and highly selective CO2photocatalytic systems.
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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
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2019
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IF 4.527
Wei Liu,Jiabin Zhou,Jun Yao
In this work, the shuttle-like CeO 2 modified g-C 3 N 4 composite was synthesized and was combined with persulfate (PS) for the efficient photocatalytic degradation of norfloxacin (NOR) under visible light. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and photoluminescence (PL) emission spectra were used to characterize the structural and optical properties of the as-prepared catalysts. Active species trapping experiments demonstrated that additional sulfate radicals (·SO 4 - ) formed upon the addition of PS which could cooperate with superoxide radicals ( O 2 - ), holes (h + ) and hydroxyl radicals ( OH) to decompose NOR. Singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) was also formed during the reaction and acted as an important active species. The degradation products of NOR were also identified and analyzed by using LC-MS technology , and the possible degradation mechanism and pathways were proposed and discussed. This work indicated that the shuttle-like CeO 2 modified g-C 3 N 4 coupled with PS displayed promising applications in the field of pharmaceutical wastewater purification.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2019
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Yihua Tang,Jingjing Chen,Xiao Wang,Xinxin Wang,Yang Zhao,Zhiyong Mao,Dajian Wang
Nitrogen atoms doping was widely recognized as the promising technique to improve the electrochemical performances of various carbonaceous materials application for energy storage devices. Herein, we reported a facial fabrication of highly N-doped graphene-like carbon (NGC) through the carbonization of a mixture containing polypyrrole and g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets , which was employed as sacrificial template and extra nitrogen source simultaneously. The resultant NGC material integrate a range of excellent features including high nitrogen contents (17.54 at%), large specific surface areas (635.73 m 2 g −1 ) and abundant mesopores with high pore volume (1.9483 cm 3 g −1 ). As anode material in Li-ions batteries, the NGC material exhibits an promising initial discharge capacity of 2749 mAh g −1 at a current density of 50 mA g −1 and encouraging cycling stability (1143 mAh g −1 after 200 cycles) as well as excellent rate performance (440 mAh g −1 at 2 A g −1 ). This feasible fabrication presents a new guidance to exploit high performance N-doped carbon materials for the applications in energy storage devices.
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CHEMOSPHERE
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2022
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Yunjin Zhong,Haixiang Chen,Xiufang Chen,Bingying Zhang,Wenxing Chen,Wangyang Lu
As some of the most promising alternatives to traditional non-degradable materials, photodegradable materials have advantages of environmental benignity and rapid degradation under simple conditions. In this work, nontoxic TiO 2 and cost-effective g-C 3 N 4 have been compounded in a weight of 9:1 to form a photocatalytic additive with high activity. A 25 wt% loading of this photocatalytic additive has been incorporated into the polyacrylonitrile (PAN) by centrifugal electrospinning to prepare an abiotic degradable PAN material. Our results showed that the PAN chain could be almost fully degraded within 90 h in an aqueous medium under simulated sunlight in the absence of microorganisms . Product analysis implied that degradation of the PAN chain mainly involved the breaking of –CN and C–C bonds by radicals, followed by oxidation of terminal groups to carboxyl and gradual mineralization to CO 2 and H 2 O. This design strategy may provide new insight for the production and degradation mechanism of photodegradable polymer.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2015
·Vol. 3
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Xinyu Hu,Wei Wei,Xiaoliang Qi,Hao Yu,Liandong Feng,Junjian Li,Shiming Wang,Jianfa Zhang,Wei Dong
Salecan is a novel water-soluble extracellular β-glucan produced by a salt-tolerant strain Agrobacterium sp. ZX09. Salecan is suitable for the fabrication of hydrogels for biomedical applications due to its excellent physicochemical and biological properties. In this paper, a series of pH-sensitive hydrogels were prepared in aqueous solution by the graft copolymerization of Salecan and acrylic acid (AA) using N,N′-methylene diacrylamide as a crosslinker for controlled drug delivery. The structure and thermal stability of the resulting hydrogels were characterized by FT-IR, XRD and TGA. By SEM analysis, freeze-dried hydrogels displayed an interconnected porous structure with tunable pore size in the range of 23.2–90.3 μm. The swelling behavior of the hydrogels was shown to be highly dependent on the environmental pH, salt type and concentration, as well as the contents of Salecan and BAAm. They are almost unswellable at pH 1.2 and swollen extensively at pH 6.86. Meanwhile, the increase in the content of hydrophilic Salecan could enhance the swelling ratio, whereas the presence of more BAAm reduced the swelling capacity but promoted the water retention to some extent. Rheological tests revealed that storage modulus G′ was strongly influenced by the crosslink density of the obtained hydrogel network. Especially, doxorubicin (DOX) as a model anti-cancer drug was very efficiently loaded into the negatively charged hydrogels (up to 69.4 wt%) through electrostatic interactions. More importantly, the release of DOX from this intelligent system exhibited pH-responsive behavior and a sustained release pattern. For SPA2, the cumulative release profile showed a low level of drug release (about 12.3 wt% in 24 h) at pH 7.4, and was significantly accelerated at pH 4.0 (over 40 wt% in 6 h). Cytotoxicity experiments confirmed that all blank hydrogels were non-toxic to A549 cells, while DOX released from the drug-loaded hydrogels remained biologically active and had the capability to kill cancer cells. The preliminary results clearly suggested that the Salecan-g-PAA hydrogels may be promising carriers for controlled drug delivery.
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