Nano Energy
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Shuai Zhang,Shuo Meng,Ke Zhang,Zhuang Wang,Xiaoyun Xu,Chuanwei Zhi,Shuo Shi,Jinlian Hu
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is one of the key research directions for future human-computer interaction (HCI), biomedicine, and environmental protection. Bio-based materials are an essential branch of many degradable materials. Keratin has attracted much attention due to its advantages of easy access, biodegradability, and good biocompatibility . A highly sensitive single-electrode TENG (S-TENG) based on CaCl 2 /PVA/keratin and Ecoflex with micro-domes is designed. The excellent stability (18,000 cycles) and stretchability (200%) of the sensor are confirmed by research. Moreover, the presence of CaCl 2 and keratin can significantly increase the S-TENG's output voltage, and the reason is also explored by the density functional theory (DFT) method. Through simulation, it is found that the decrease of the HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital)-LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) gap and the increase of the electrostatic potential are the root causes of the voltage increase. Relying on the excellent characteristics of the S-TENG, finger curvatures, gestures, and object shapes are recognized. Among them, the accuracy of object shape recognition by machine learning algorithm reached 98.1%. This study provides a new method for improving the output efficiency and prolonging the service life of S-TENG and confirms the feasibility of the electron cloud trap model to explain biomass triboelectric materials by keratin and CaCl 2 .
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PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
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2023
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Xi-Ya Liu,Hui-Mei Sun,Yi-Hong Luo,Mao-Ye Li,Hai-Bing Liu,Su Liu
In insects, glutathione S -transferases (GSTs) play a pivotal role in the detoxification of a wide range of pesticides. The cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne , is an economically important pest insect of stored products. Recently, pyrethroid insecticides have been used to control this pest. However, little is known concerning the responses and functions of GSTs in L. serricorne under pyrethroid exposure. In this study, transcriptome sequencing was performed on L. serricorne , and a total of 14 GSTs were identified by retrieving the unigene dataset. Of these, 13 predicted GSTs fell into six cytosolic classes, namely, delta, epsilon, omega, sigma, theta, and zeta, and one was assigned to an “unclassified” group. The GST genes were differentially expressed in various larval tissues and at different developmental stages. Exposure to the pyrethroid insecticide lambda-cyhalothrin (LCT) caused oxidative stress in L. serricorne larvae and led to significantly elevated expression levels of six genes, among which LsGSTe1 was the most upregulated. Recombinant LsGSTE1 protein displayed LCT-metabolizing activity. Furthermore, LsGSTE1 protects cells against oxidative stress. Moreover, knockdown of LsGSTe1 by RNA interference dramatically increased the susceptibility of L. serricorne larvae to LCT treatment. The results from this study provide sequence resources and expression data for GST genes in L. serricorne . Our findings indicate that LsGSTE1 plays a dual role in LCT detoxification by metabolizing the pesticide and by preventing LCT-induced oxidative stress. Thus, the LsGSTe1 gene could be used as a potential target for sustainable management of the cigarette beetle.
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Lin Wu,Jie Feng,Zhijuan Zou,Kunpeng Song,Chunmei Zeng
It’s still a challenge to design reasonably efficient catalyst based on non-noble metal for water decomposition. Herein, we prepared a self-supported S-NiFe/NFF catalyst by sulfurated NiFe-based metal–organic framework on the NiFe foam (NFF) through a simple solvothermal method. Benefiting from the direct contact with the conductive NiFe foam matrix, the electronic environment of the active site regulated by heteroatomic oxygen and sulfur, and the positive synergistic effect between nickel and iron, the catalyst S-NiFe/NFF shows outstanding electrocatalytic activity for oxygen evolution (OER) and hydrogen evolution (HER) reactions with a low overpotential of 174 mV and 150 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 in alkaline electrolyte, respectively; and the S-NiFe/NFF‖S-NiFe/NFF cell only needs 1.50 V battery voltage to reach the current density of 10 mA cm −2 . This work reports a highly efficient water decomposition catalyst, which indicates that non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts have great potential applications in the water electrolysis field, and provides a basis for rational design and synthesis of MOF-derived catalysts with unique structures.
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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
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2023
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Chenchen Xiong,Yulin Wang,Yang Zhou,Xingyu Liu,JinHui Tang,Pan Feng
An ordered structure and high mechanical property of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel has been always pursued in the field of cementitious materials. In this paper, compacted and layer-by-layer stacking C-S-H plates were fabricated based on Layer-by-Layer (LBL) method and H-cell penetration (HCP) method through cation exchange membrane templating. This new way changed the randomly packing structure of traditional C-S-H, and synthesized a high-orderly C-S-H platelets with denser structure. Based on molecular dynamics simulations, it can be attributed to the strong adsorption and nucleation sites contributed by sulfonic acid groups on the cation exchange membrane. Besides, AFM indentation experiments indicate this C-S-H owns significantly higher elastic modulus than traditional C-S-H, while the mechanical properties can be further increased by the addition of PVA and the regulation of reaction time. This new type C-S-H may pave the way to the preparation of high-performance concrete in the future.
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JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
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2019
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Amin Khan,Haojie Yu,Li Wang,Pavel A. Zhizhko,Dmitry N. Zarubin,Dmitry A. Lemenovskiy,Fazal Haq,Muhammad Usman,Ahsan Nazir,Kaleem-ur-Rehman Naveed
Herein, poly(2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl ferrocene carboxylate- co -(methacrylohydroxyhexane azobenzene)s) (P(FHEMA- co -MAZOHE)s) were prepared by random copolymerization and were characterized by proton nuclear magnetic resonance ( 1 H NMR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) to confirm the structures and molecular weights respectively. Thermal variations were analyzed by thermogravimetric (TG), differential thermogravimetric (DTG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) techniques. Finally, redox and photo stimuli-responsive properties were confirmed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–vis) respectively. The results revealed that (P(FHEMA- co -MAZOHE)s) can be useful as information storage materials.
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JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
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2019
·Vol. 17
·期 1
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IF 5.345
Gasmalla Hind Baballa,Lu Xiaoquan,Shinger Mahgoub Ibrahim,Ni Lubin,Chishti Aadil Nabi,Diao Guowang
Background Iron oxide nanocomposites have received a great attention for their application in various fields like physics, medicine, biology, and material science etc., due to their unique properties, such as magnetism, electrical properties, small size, biocompatibility and low toxicity. Methods Fe 3 O 4 /Ag 3 PO 4 @WO 3 nanocomposites with different weight percent of Ag 3 PO 4 were successfully prepared through fabricated Ag 3 PO 4 /Fe 3 O 4 with WO 3 via in situ fabrication method, electrospinning involved precursor solution preparation and spinning to enhance photocatalyst performance under simulated sunlight for the degradation of methylene blue (MB) and antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ). Results The photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) under simulated light irradiation indicated that the nanocomposite with 0.25 mg of Ag 3 PO 4 has the best activity. An additional advantage of these photocatalysts is magnetic recoverability, using external magnetic field and photocatalytic stability of the nanocomposites was evaluated for three cycles. In addition, using different scavengers, holes (h + ) and superoxide radical (O
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radicals and hydroxide radical ( · OH) were identified the main oxidative species in the degradation reaction of methylene blue. Conclusions The results reveal that Fe 3 O 4 /Ag 3 PO 4 @WO 3 -0.25 nanocomposites have photocatalytic and antibacterial activity against S. aureus. The photocatalyst and mechanism based on the enhancement of electron transfer processes between Ag 3 PO 4 and WO 3 nanoparticles.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2019
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IF 5.155
Maiyong Zhu,Qi Chen,Jingjing Tang,Wenjing Wei,Songjun Li
The combination of carbon and iron oxide has recently attracted increasing research interest in energy conversion and storage . Here, the hybrid nanostructure with N, S-codoped Fe 3 O 4 supported/embedded on/in N-doped porous carbon (NS-Fe 3 O 4 @N-PC) nanococoon was prepared via direct pyrolysis of core@shell β-FeOOH@Polypyrrole (β-FeOOH@PPy) composite. Benefiting from the synergistic effect of high redox activity of NS-Fe 3 O 4 and excellent electrical conductivity as well as good mechanical stability of N-PC, the obtained NS-Fe 3 O 4 @N-PC exhibited an enhanced specific capacitance of 866 F/g at 1 A/g along with excellent rate capability (383 F/g at 10 A/g) and improved cycling stability (78.2% of initial capacitance retained after 5000 cycles test) while applied as electrode materials of supercapacitor . Significantly, the asymmetric supercapacitor devices assembled using NS-Fe 3 O 4 @N-PC as anodes and commercial carbon nanotubes as cathodes can achieve a large stack energy density of 38.9 Wh/Kg at a stack power density of 700.2 W/Kg along with good stability (only 8.4% decay of initial capacitance after 5000 cycles at 4 A/g). The present work may provide a general approach for fabricating other metal oxide@carbon hybrid nanomaterials for various applications.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2019
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IF 2.931
Jun Zhang,Danyang Nan,Shuang Pan,Hui Liu,Huan Yang,Xiaoli Hu
In this work, nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped CDs (N,S-CDs) were prepared via a facile one-pot hydrothermal method from citric acid and N -acetyl-L-cysteine with a high quantum yield (QY) of 49%. As-fabricated N,S-CDs had a size around 2.5 nm and exhibited excitation-independent emission and excellent luminescent properties. The fluorescent sensor based on the N,S-CDs showed a highly sensitive detection of baicalein with a detection limit (LOD) of 0.21 μmol L −1 in the linear range from 0.69 to 70.0 μmol L −1 . The fluorescence of the N,S-CDs could be effectively quenched by baicalein based on static quenching. In addition, the temperature sensor based on the synthesized N,S-CDs showed a good linear relationship between temperature and fluorescence (FL) intensity with a temperature range from 5 °C to 75 °C. Furthermore, the synthesized N,S-CDs were successfully applied to the measurement of baicalein in real samples. In a word, the N,S-CDs had great potential to be worked as fluorescence sensors to monitor the concentration of baicalein and temperature.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2018
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IF 11.698
Tingting Hou,Nengchao Luo,Yi-Tao Cui,Jianmin Lu,Lei Li,Katherine E. MacArthur,Marc Heggen,Ruotian Chen,Fengtao Fan,Wenming Tian,Shengye Jin,Feng Wang
Engineering the electronic properties of heterogeneous catalysts is an important strategy to enhance their activity towards CO 2 reduction. Herein, we prepared partially sulfurized cerium oxide (CeO x -S) nanoclusters with the size less than 2 nm on the surface of ZnIn 2 S 4 layers. Surface electronic properties of CeO x -S nanoclusters are facilely modulated by cerium coordination to sulfur, inducing the emergence of abundant Ce 3+ and oxygen vacancies. For the photoreduction of CO 2 , CeO x -S/ZnIn 2 S 4 hybrid catalysts exhibited a CO productivity of 1.8 mmol g −1 with a rate of 0.18 mmol g −1 h −1 , which was twice as higher as that of ZnIn 2 S 4 catalyst using triethylamine as a sacrificial electron donor. Further mechanistic studies reveal that the photogenerated electrons are trapped by oxygen vacancies on CeO x -S/ZnIn 2 S 4 catalysts and subsequently transfer to CO 2 , benefiting the activation of CO 2 . Moreover, the extremely high selectivity of CO is derived from the weak adsorption of CO on the surface of CeO x -S/ZnIn 2 S 4 catalysts.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2019
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IF 8.355
Shizong Wang,Yong Liu,Jianlong Wang
In this study, the iron and sulfur co-doped graphite carbon nitride (FeO y /S-g-C 3 N 4 ) was easily prepared by one-step pyrolysis using thiourea and ferric chloride hexahydrate as precursors and applied to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the degradation of sulfamethoxazole (SMX). The characterization results showed that iron existed as Fe 2 O 3 and Fe 3 O 4 . Partial nitrogen atoms in the frame of g-C 3 N 4 were substituted by sulfur atoms. FeO y /S-g-C 3 N 4 can effectively activate PMS to produce sulfate radicals, hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygen contributing to the SMX degradation. According to the density functional theory (DFT) calculation, the co-doping of iron and sulfur altered the charge density and its distribution of g-C 3 N 4 surface, which enhanced the PMS activation. The effect of initial concentrations of SMX and PMS, pH, temperature and inorganic ion concentrations on SMX degradation was investigated. 0.8 mM of PMS could degrade up to 10 mg/L of SMX. The initial pH had no obvious effect on the SMX degradation. Higher temperature accelerated the SMX degradation, and the activation energy was calculated to be 43.7 kJ/mol. The effect of inorganic ions was dependent on their initial concentration. Based on the comparison of XPS spectrum before and after reaction, the decreased catalytic activity of FeO y /S-g-C 3 N 4 after five cycle reuse was due to the breakdown of surface functional groups. Seven intermediate products were identified, and the possible degradation pathway was proposed. This study could provide a facile and cost-effective method to synthesize the efficient activator of PMS, and a mechanistic insight into PMS activation by FeO y /S-g-C 3 N 4 for the degradation of emerging pollutants in water and wastewater.
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ACS Nano
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2019
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IF 13.903
Qingping Wu,Xuejun Zhou,Jun Xu,Fahai Cao,Chilin Li
How to simultaneously restrain the loss of active species and facilitate the conversion reaction under high S loading condition is the key to solve the commercialization of Li–S batteries. For this system, the availability of raw materials and simplicity (high efficiency) of synthetic strategies are also important factors. Herein, we propose an interlaced two-dimensional (2D) carbon material as advanced Li–S cathode host characterized by corrugated monolithic morphology and Co/N dopants as dual lithiophilic–sulfiphilic sites. This 2D structure is derived from a cheap biomass precursor, adenine, with bonding interaction with a MgCl2 hydrate template via a facile ionothermal method. It allows a homogeneous spatial distribution of S/Li2S deposits and strong adsorbability and enhanced conversion kinetics for polysulfides. Benefiting from the synergistic effects of corrugated 2D conductive matrix and embedded heteroatom/nanodot catalyst, the resultant sulfur cathode releases a high specific capacity of 1290.4 mA h g–1 at 0.2 C, small capacity fading rate of 0.029% per cycle over 600 cycles at 2 C, superior rate performance up to 20 C, and considerable areal capacity retention of 6.0 mA h cm–2 even under an ultrahigh sulfur loading up to 9.7 mg cm–2.
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Energy Technology
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2019
·Vol. 7
·期 9
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IF 3.163
Pengyuan Gao,Yun Lu,Shuyi Deng,Xun Cui,Qing Zhang,Yingkui Yang
Homogeneous confinement of metal oxide nanoparticles into the heteroatom-doped carbon matrix is highly desirable but remains challenging to develop high-performance anode materials. Herein, a facile simultaneous polymerization of 2-thiophenemethanol (ThM) and titanium ethoxide (TTEO) is proposed to incorporate ultrafine anatase TiO 2 nanocrystals into the continuous S-doped carbon framework by carbonizing the as-produced TiO 2 /poly(2-thiophenemethanol) composites. This in situ crafting process spatially suppresses the growth of TiO 2 by the polymerization of ThM, thus producing size-adjustable TiO 2 nanocrystals (5–50 nm) by tailoring the ratio of TTEO to ThM. It is found that smaller TiO 2 nanocrystals are generated using the lower TTEO-to-ThM ratio. When used as lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) anode, TiO 2 /S-doped carbon (TSC) shows larger reversible capacity, superior rate capability, and better cycling stability compared to pure TiO 2 . A typical TSC with the smallest TiO 2 nanocrystals (8 nm) shows the reversible capacity as high as 386 mAh g −1 at 50 mA g −1 , and retains 55% of initial capacity at 500 mA g −1 , and 96.8% capacity after 500 cycles at 1000 mA g −1 . The excellent electrochemical performance is attributed to the shortened ion diffusion path of ultrafine TiO 2 and the improved electronic conductivity, structural stability, and surface/interface nature by the S-doped carbon matrix.
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