INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2022
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IF 6.449
Zhi Liu,Xiaohai Huang,Yi Miao,Bing Gao,Yiling Shi,Jianghui Zhao,Soon Huat Tan
Adsorption techniques have been successfully applied in water purification for their simplicity, efficiency, and negligible byproducts. Porous carbon materials are effective dye adsorbents but have relatively low adsorption efficiency, slow adsorption rate, and high production cost, all of which need to be addressed for conducive practical applications. Herein, natural eggplant-based porous carbon materials (EPCMs) have been studied and successfully constructed to perform with high efficiency and fast rate of removal of dyes from wastewater. The hierarchical pore structure and well-developed mesoporous had a total pore volume of 0.6379 cm 3 /g and a maximum specific surface area of 516.0060 m 2 /g, which contributed to the high efficiency of adsorption (100%). The complete adsorption of Rhodamine B (basic and cationic dyes) solution within 25 min demonstrated its fast and high adsorption performance. The EPCMs also showed its efficiency in the absorption of various dyes, including methyl orange (acidic and anionic dye), methylene blue (basic and cationic dyes), and Yuan’qing B (reactive dye). Furthermore, the EPCMs were tested with actual wastewater from a production-based factory and recorded excellent removal effects as well, suggesting its prospective expansion for industrial applications. Therefore, this eggplant biomass-based porous carbon provides a promising approach for fast and highly efficient wastewater purification from dye-based contaminations.
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环境科学
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材料科学
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化学工程
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环境污染治理
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吸附技术
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RSC Advances
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2015
·Vol. 5
·期 50
·39878-39883
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IF 3.84
Cheng Feng,Yunhui Hao,Li Zhang,Ningzhao Shang,Shutao Gao,Zhi Wang,Chun Wang
Formic acid (FA) has tremendous potential as a safe and convenient source of hydrogen for renewable energy storage, but controlled and efficient dehydrogenation of FA by a robust solid catalyst constitutes a major challenge. In this report, a metal nanoparticle functionalized zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) derived N-decorated nanoporous carbon (NPC) support was fabricated and used as an efficient FA decomposition catalyst for the first time. The resultant AgPd@NPC catalyst exhibited 100% H2 selectivity and high catalytic activity (TOF = 936 h−1) toward the dehydrogenation of formic acid at 353 K. The synergetic interaction between the metal nanoparticles and NPC greatly enhances the catalytic performance of the as-prepared catalyst.
研究领域:
催化化学
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能源材料
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纳米材料
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物理化学
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氢能存储
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RSC Advances
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2015
·Vol. 6
·期 3
·2241-2251
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IF 3.84
Xiaohua Sun,Weilong Luo,Linlin Chen,Linjie Zheng,Chao Bao,Panpan Sun,Niu Huang,Yihua Sun,Liang Fang,Lei Wang
Porous Al doped ZnO (AZO) nanosheets have been prepared as an efficient multifunctional water treatment material. Their fundamental properties were characterized by various spectroscopic testing methods. The AZO nanosheets displayed very rapid adsorption rate and high adsorption capacity for methyl orange (MO) dye. The kinetics and equilibrium of adsorption process were found to follow the pseudo-second-order kinetic and Langmuir isotherm models, respectively. Furthermore, the AZO nanosheets exhibited superior photodecolorizative activity compared with the commercial P25 TiO2 nanoparticles. It was found that Al doping increased the zeta potential of AZO nanosheets and then significantly enhanced the adsorption capacity for MO dye and, at the same time, retarded the recombination of photoexcited electron–hole pairs, and prolonged the lifetime of the photo-generated carriers, and then improved the semiconductor photocatalytic activity. In addition, the visible-light-driven dye photosensitized degradation was also an important reason for enhanced photodecolorizative activity. Therefore, AZO nanosheets are a potential multifunctional water treatment material combining highly efficient adsorption and photocatalytic degradation.
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材料科学
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环境化学
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纳米技术
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光催化
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水处理
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2018
·Vol. 45
·期 3
·3710-3714
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IF 3.057
Yue Hu,Zhen Xiao,Huanping Wang,Can Ye,Yuqian Wu,Shiqing Xu
Porous CaSiO 3 ceramics were prepared via a solid-state reaction method using CaCO 3 and SiO 2 as raw materials and active carbon as a pore-forming agent. The results indicated that porous CaSiO 3 ceramics could be obtained under a low sintering temperature of 1320 °C. The addition of active carbon significantly affected the volume density, microstructure, pore size distribution and mechanical strength of porous CaSiO 3 ceramics. With the increase of active carbon content, the volume density decreased, meanwhile the pore size and porosity increased gradually. Besides, the three-point bending tests demonstrated that the mechanical strength was decreased with increasing active carbon content. However, all the porous ceramics still exhibited high mechanical strength. These results implied that the increase of active carbon content not only enlarged the pore size and enhanced the porosity, but also kept a remarkable mechanical strength of porous CaSiO 3 ceramics. Therefore, these rationally designed CaSiO 3 porous ceramics will be a highly potential material in various applications due to its high mechanical strength, low sintering temperature and narrow pore size distribution.
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材料科学
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生物陶瓷
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组织工程
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生物医学材料
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无机非金属材料
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JOURNAL OF THE ENERGY INSTITUTE
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2021
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IF 6.186
Dongjing Liu,Lingtao Yang,Bin Li,Jiang Wu
Rice husk , as an abundant agricultural waste and renewable biomass, is adopted to produce porous silica which is used as a potential carbon-free adsorbent for mercury emission control of coal-fired power plants. The rice husk derived porous silica (RHS) exhibits a good Hg 0 adsorption capability with Hg 0 removal efficiency above 80% in the temperature range of 60–140 °C, which is plausibly due to the big specific surface area and mesoporous structure. The mercury removal performance of RHS can be evidently reinforced by KBr modification. The optimal KBr loading value and reaction temperature are 2 wt% and 140 °C, respectively. Acidic gas components, such as NO and SO 2 , both show slight inhibitive effects on Hg 0 adsorption process probably owing to the competitive adsorption or the elimination of adsorption sites.
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环境科学
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大气污染控制
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材料科学
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吸附技术
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能源工程
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Small
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2019
·Vol. 15
·期 44
·1902819
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IF 10.856
Xiaojun Ruan,Jiangjiang Luo,Rui Wang,Yanbo Yao,Jingjiao Guan,Tao Liu
A nanometer-thick carbon film with a highly ordered pattern structure is very useful in a variety of applications. However, its large-scale, high-throughput, and low-cost fabrication is still a great challenge. Herein, microcontact printing (µCP) and direct laser writing carbonization (DLWc) are combined to develop a novel method that enables ease of fabrication of nanometer-thick and regularly patterned carbon disk arrays (CDAs) and holey carbon films (HCFs) from a pyromellitic dianhydride-oxydianiline-based polyamic acid (PAA) solution. The effect of PAA concentration and pillar lattice structure of the polydimethyl siloxane stamp are systematically studied for their influence on the geometrical parameter, surface morphology, and chemical structure of the finally achieved CDAs and HCFs. Within the PAA concentration being investigated, the averaged thickness of CDAs and HCFs can be tailored in a range from a few tens to a few hundred of nanometers. The µCP+DLWc-enabled electrically conductive CDAs and HCFs possess the characteristics of ease-of-fabrication, nanometer-thickness, highly regular and controlled patterns and structures, and the ability to form on both hard and soft substrates, which imparts usefulness in electronics, photonics, energy storage, catalysis, tissue engineering, as well as physical, chemical, and bio-sensing applications.
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材料科学
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纳米科技
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生物医学工程
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表面化学
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微纳加工
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
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2011
·Vol. 86
·期 2
·345-352
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IF 2.78
Xianfeng Wang,Bin Ding,Jianyong Yu,Jianmao Yang
For the first time, two-dimensional (2D) gelatin nano-nets are fabricated by regulating the solution properties and several process parameters during electrospinning/electro-netting. The spider-web-like nano-nets that comprise interlinked one-dimensional (1D) ultrathin nanowires (10–35 nm) are stacked layer-by-layer and widely distributed in the three-dimensional (3D) porous membranes. The final morphology of the gelatin nano-nets, including nanowire diameter, area density and pore-width of the nano-nets, is highly dependent on the solution concentration, salt concentration, kinds of solvents, applied voltage, ambient temperature and relative humidity (RH). The occurrence of rapid phase separation on the splitting-film and the formation of hydrogen bond among gelatin molecules during electro-netting are proposed as the possible mechanisms for the formation of these spider-web-like nano-nets.
研究领域:
生物材料
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纳米医学
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组织工程
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再生医学
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药物递送
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生物制造
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2016
·Vol. 43
·期 1
·363-367
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IF 2.758
Mingchen Sun,Mengfei Sun,Hongxun Yang,Wanghua Song,Yu Nie,Shengnan Sun
One-dimensional porous Fe 2 O 3 nanotubes with 2 µm length, 220 nm outer diameter and 65 nm wall thickness were firstly synthesized via a low temperature hydrothermal method followed by thermal treatment. As advanced anode for lithium ion batteries , porous Fe 2 O 3 nanotubes exhibit obviously enhanced electrochemical properties in terms of lithium storage capacity (1050.1 mA h g −1 at 100 mA g −1 rate), initial coulombic efficiency (78.4%), cycle performances (90.6% capacity retention at 50th cycle), and rate capability (613.7 mA h g −1 at 1000 mA g −1 rate). This enhancement could be attributed to the one-dimensional nanostructure of porous Fe 2 O 3 nanotubes which could increase contact area between electrolyte and active materials, shorten migration path for Li + ions and electrons, and accommodate the volume variations via additional void space during cycling.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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纳米科技
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能源存储
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无机功能材料
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2017
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IF 3.133
Haibo Wu,Yinsheng Li,Shan Yun,Xuejian Liu,Zhengren Huang,Dongliang Jiang
Porous gelcasted and solid-state-sintered SiC (S-SiC) ceramics with significantly improved connectivity were successfully prepared through the synergistic pore-forming mechanism of direct foaming and particle packing, using fine (D 50 = 0.5 μm) and coarse (D 50 = 5.0 μm) graded SiC powders as the main raw materials. As the proportion of coarse SiC powder increased, the viscosities of aqueous SiC-B 4 C-C slurries sharply decreased, which thus flourished foaming and enlarged bubble-derived-pore diameter in porous S-SiC ceramics, accompanied with the increased amount and size of window. Moreover, abundant particle-packing pores in struts of bubble-derived pores were also formed and even interconnected with each other at 60 wt% of coarse SiC powder. Besides, there was a remarkable increase in porosity from 61.0% to 81.7% and accordingly a significant decline in density from 1.24 g cm −3 to 0.58 g cm −3 as the content of coarse SiC powder increased. The optimized multiple pore microstructures resulted in an amazing nitrogen gas permeability of 1.78×10 −11 m 2 under the condition of an excellent compressive strength of 10.8 ± 2.7 MPa.
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材料科学
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无机非金属材料
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多孔陶瓷
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陶瓷加工
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结构-功能一体化材料
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2019
·Vol. 44
·期 39
·22250-22262
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IF 4.084
Hongri Wan,Xiaofang Hu
Nitrogen/sulfur co-doped disordered porous biocarbon was facilely synthesized and applied as anode materials for lithium/sodium ion batteries. Benefiting from high nitrogen (3.38 wt%) and sulfur (9.75 wt%) doping, NS 1-1 as anode materials showed a high reversible capacity of 1010.4 mA h g −1 at 0.1 A g −1 in lithium ion batteries . In addition, it also exhibited excellent cycling stability, which can maintain at 412 mAh g -1 after 1000 cycles at 5 A g −1 . As anode materials of sodium ion batteries , NS 1-1 can still reach 745.2 mA h g −1 at 100 mAg -1 after 100 cycles. At a high current density (5 A g -1 ), the reversible capacity is 272.5 mA h g −1 after 1000 cycles, which exhibits excellent electrochemical performance and cycle stability. The preeminent electrochemical performance can be attributed to three effects: (1) the high level of sulfur and nitrogen; (2) the synergic effect of dual-doping heteroatoms; (3) the large quantity of edge defects and abundant micropores and mesopores , providing extra Li/Na storage regions. This disordered porous biocarbon co-doped with nitrogen/sulfur exhibits unique features, which is very suitable for anode materials of lithium/sodium ion batteries.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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纳米材料
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功能碳材料
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2017
·Vol. 5
·期 27
·14278-14285
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IF 8.867
Haibo Tang,Xinlong Tian,Junming Luo,Jianhuang Zeng,Yingwei Li,Huiyu Song,Shijun Liao
Transition metal nitrides have recently attracted significant interest as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) owing to their low electrical resistance and good corrosion resistance. In this paper, we describe the preparation of a Nb-based binary nitride material with a porous nanogrid morphology/structure. The catalyst exhibited good catalytic activity and high stability towards oxygen reduction. We also intensively investigated the effect that doping with a second transition metal had on the performance of the catalyst. We found that the ORR activity of NbN could be enhanced significantly by enriching the d electrons of Nb through doping with a second transition metal, and that doping with cobalt resulted in the best improvement. Our optimal catalyst, Nb0.95Co0.05N, had an ORR activity ∼4.6 times that of NbN (current density @ 0.6 V vs. the RHE). XPS results revealed that Co doping increased the proportion of Nb in a low-valence state, which may be one of the most important reasons for the enhanced performance. Another important reason is the high surface area resulting from the porous nanogrid morphology. As transition metal doping is an attractive way to enhance the activity of nitride catalysts, our work may provide an effective pathway to achieve this.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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纳米科技
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催化化学
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能源材料
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CHEMOSPHERE
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2024
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IF 8.1
Meng Wang,Rongkang Yan,Meng Shan,Shasha Liu,Hai Tang
Adsorptive separation membranes are widely utilized for the removal of toxic dyeing pollutants from dyeing wastewater. However, developing novel adsorption membranes with large adsorption capacities and enhanced adsorption performance for dyes in actual wastewater poses a significant challenge. This study focuses on the fabrication of crown ether-containing copolymer porous membrane (CRPM) and investigation of the adsorption performance of dyes from aqueous solutions. The morphology structure and pore size distribution revealed that the membrane was endowed with rich micropores and hierarchical porous structures. Three typical cationic dyes (MB, RhB, CV) and an anionic dye (MO) were selected to evaluate the adsorption behavior. The results of adsorption isotherms and kinetics demonstrated that the adsorption data could be well-fitted using the Freundlich and pseudo-first-order kinetic models, the thermodynamic parameters revealed that the adsorption process of dyes on CRPM is a spontaneous endothermic reaction. The membrane exhibited excellent adsorption performance for cationic dyes, with RhB displaying a higher maximum adsorption capacity than previously reported porous membranes. Notably, dynamic adsorption-desorption filtration demonstrated a rapid removal efficiency, with RhB, MB, and CV achieving removal rates of 99.09%, 98.63%, and 99.14% respectively, after five cycles. The filtration volume of the CRPM membrane was 2.4-fold greater than that of a traditional PVDF membrane when applied to actual dyeing wastewater. DFT theoretical calculations were employed to elucidate the adsorption mechanism. These calculations confirmed the significant roles of electrostatic interactions, H-bonds and π–π interactions in facilitating the high-efficiency adsorption of cationic dyes. These findings highlight the potential of the crown ether-containing copolymer as a promising material for adsorption separation membranes in the treatment of dyeing wastewater.
研究领域:
环境科学
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材料科学
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高分子化学
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分离科学
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物理化学
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