CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 16.744
Mingran Zhou,Wenda Dong,Ao Xu,Zhiwen Yin,Zhi-Yi Hu,Xinling Wang,Liang Wu,Lihua Chen,Yu Li,Bao-Lian Su
Lithium-selenium batteries (LSeBs) have attracted increasing attention due to their excellent electronic conductivity and high theoretical specific capacity. However, there are still difficult problems such as low utilization rate and fast capacity decay in the actual application process. Herein, a surface iodine modified three-dimensional (3D) nano hollow carbon fiber (I-NHCF) network is designed and synthesized as Se host (Se@I-NHCF) for highly stable LSeBs. The surface iodine species induce the formation of robust cathode electrolyte interface (CEI), thus preventing the transformation of amorphous selenium to low-activity crystalline selenium and enabling stable electrochemical performance. Moreover, the surface iodine species promote rapid charge transfer, enhancing the chemical reaction kinetics and improving the utilization of the active Se species. As a result, the Se@I-NHCF cathode exhibits superior specific capacity of 581.8 mAh g −1 with a high stability (0.0054% capacity decay per cycle) after 500 cycles at 1C, and an excellent rate performance of 567.6 mAh g −1 at 2C. This work addresses the problem of rapid capacity decay by the formation of uniform and robust CEI to conserve highly reactive amorphous Se species, improve Se utilization, and achieve ultra-stable Li-Se batteries with high energy and long cycle life.
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FUEL
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2023
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IF 7.4
Junfeng Qin,Qinghui Shen,Cuicui Du,Min Hong,Yixin Yang,Xiaohua Zhang,Jinhua Chen
Heteroatom doping and vacancy engineering play vital roles in designing a high-activity electrocatalyst . Herein, we proposed a novel enriched Se vacancies engineering of the promising ruthenium chalcogenide of RuSe 2 induced by low-valence Cu doping for promoting hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysis in alkaline media. The Cu-doped RuSe 2 with enriched Se vacancies supported on graphitized carbon (Cu-RuSe 2 @C) was synthesized by a simple one-step selenization of bimetallic MOF precursor of Ru/Cu-BTC (1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) polyhedra. Compared to the Cu(Ⅱ)-dominant doped RuSe 2 (Cu Ⅱ/Ⅰ -RuSe 2 @C) with deficient Se vacancies, the proposed Cu(Ⅰ)-dominant doped RuSe 2 (Cu Ⅰ/Ⅱ -RuSe 2 @C) with enriched Se vacancies exhibited significantly improved electrocatalytic activity, which was potentially derived from the created electron-deficient Ru δ+ and Se ν− sites induced by low-valence Cu doping. Specifically, Cu Ⅰ/Ⅱ -RuSe 2 @C needed only 40 mV overpotential to drive a HER current density of 10 mA cm −2 , comparable to commercial Pt/C (38 mV) and much lower than those of Cu Ⅱ/Ⅰ -RuSe 2 @C (93 mV) and RuSe 2 @C (362 mV). Furthermore, an alkaline Zn-H 2 O fuel cell with a Cu Ⅰ/Ⅱ -RuSe 2 @C cathode was integrated to demonstrate its potential applications, which delivered a maximum power density of 15.1 mW cm −2 and specific capacitance of 660 mAh g −1 with good stability. Two series-connected alkaline Zn-H 2 O cells acted as a chemical energy converter for simultaneous electricity generation and hydrogen coproduction by driving the coupled water splitting.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2018
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IF 4.946
Ruyu Gong,Chunyue Ai,Baojun Zhang,Xianglei Cheng
The accumulation of organic selenium (Se) in grains is helpful in understanding its bioaccessibility in various Se-enriched rice cultivars after soil selenite treatments. In the present study conducted with two rice cultivars, the organic Se as well as the glutelin-derived Se and the selenomethionine (SeMet) percentage in grains increased with soil Se levels. The available Se that was detected in the forms of SeMet (∼40%) and selenite (∼12%) accounted for more than 50% of the total Se in grains, and no significant differences were observed between the two rice cultivars ( P > 0.05). Simulated gastrointestinal digestion showed that the digested grain SeMet increased with the soil Se treatment levels, whereas there were minimal changes in the percentages of selenite in the grain. Furthermore, approximately half of the available SeMet was derived from the grain glutelin . These results suggest that the non-glutelin-derived Se in rice should be further studied.
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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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Kexin Wang,Wenqi Zhao,Hongxuan Zhao,Jing Xu,Sisi Gao,Shuang-kui Du,Xiaoli Gao
Selenium (Se) fortification is essential for meeting nutritional requirements and preventing Se deficiency-related diseases. This study evaluated the effects of sodium selenite (Na 2 SeO 3 ) and selenomethionine (SeMet) on mung bean sprouts (MBS) by investigating Se accumulation, distribution, and protein physicochemical properties. The findings indicated that the Se accumulation efficiency of SeMet treatment was 3.22 times that of Na 2 SeO 3 treatment. Furthermore, both treatments achieved an organic Se conversion rate exceeding 95%. Distribution analysis revealed that 72.39% to 78.50% of organic Se was incorporated into proteins, while 6.28% to 6.93% was bound to polysaccharides. The order of organic Se accumulation in protein components was albumin > glutelin > globulin > prolamin. Additionally, Se enrichment enhanced Se accumulation in low molecular weight protein (25-33 kDa) and promoted protein synthesis, but decreased the cysteine and methionine content. These changes led to an increase in β-turn, disulfide bonds, and surface hydrophobicity, while reducing the accessibility of sulfhydryl and pigment groups. Consequently, the oil absorption capacity and foaming capacity of the protein were enhanced. The results provide a foundation for the utilization of Se-enriched MBS protein as a functional food ingredient.
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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He Zhou,Jingrui Hou,Limin Zhang,Dezhi Kong,Hui Wang,Longhui Zeng,Zhiwei Ren,Tingting Xu,Ye Wang
Despite the rapid advances in electrocatalysts based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) materials, they are subject to serious aggregation, poor conductivity and the presence of inactive basal planes. Herein, we have successfully demonstrated the in-situ construction of NiSe 2 –MoSe 2 heterostructure arrays on carbon cloth (NiSe 2 –MoSe 2 /CC) by a facile two-step hydrothermal process. The presence of the synergistic effect in the heterostructures effectively optimizes the poor conductivity and hydrophilicity, and thus enables fast electron transfer, leading to enhanced electrochemical reaction. Furthermore, density functional theory calculations reveal that the electrons redistribution at the heterojunction interface and the reduced Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)/the Gibbs free energy change value of rate-determining step for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), thus enhancing the HER/OER catalytic activity. Importantly, the device displays a good performance with a low overpotential of 98 and 310 mV for HER and OER, respectively, and a low cell voltage of 1.59 V for its corresponding electrolyzer (10 mA cm −2 ). This work presents the high-performance water splitting of bifunctional electrocatalysts based on 2D TMDs materials and offers a novel design concept of interface engineering.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2025
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IF 8.2
Wei Zheng,Minyu Li,Hongmei Chen,Fuyin Xie,Zequn Yang,Lijian Leng,Jianping Yang,Wenqi Qu,Hailong Li
The synthesis of structured metal organic framework (MOF)-derived selenide composites is a vibrantly emerging research area serving clean energy purposes. However, there is no way to convert MOFs into structured selenide composites under ambient conditions for unknown reasons. This work gave mechanistic insights into how the redox properties and release rate of selenium precursors influenced the structural inheritance behavior of MOFs during the selenization process, explaining why maintaining the morphology of MOFs during a room-temperature aqueous selenization process is a tricky task. A novel method of selenizing structured ZIF-67 into CoSex hollow cages with its cubic morphology maintained was developed. The target combination between Co and Se was the primary mechanism accounting for ZIF-67 selenization and its morphology inheritance. The selenized ZIF-67 was used in two typical clean energy areas, i.e., coal combustion detoxification and renewable energy storage. The performances of selenized ZIF-67 surpassed those of unstructured cobalt selenides and other benchmark materials used in these two areas. Following the mechanistic insights into the selenization process of ZIF-67, further work may develop more efficient methods to synthesize MOF-derived metal selenide composites under mild conditions, which is critical to extend the variety of MOF-derived materials and serve their cost-effective uses under practical scenarios.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2019
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·3317-3326
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IF 10.733
Menglei Yuan,Sobia Dipazir,Meng Wang,Yu Sun,Denglei Gao,Yiling Bai,Min Zhang,Peilong Lu,Hongyan He,Xiangyang Zhu,Shuwei Li,Zhanjun Liu,Zhaopeng Luo,Guangjin Zhang
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a half reaction of electrochemical water splitting that suffers from a kinetically sluggish four-electron process, and it is regarded as the efficiency-limiting step in water splitting. Herein, heterostructures of CoSe (cobalt selenide) nanoparticles and MoSe2 (molybdenum selenide) nanosheets (CoSe/MoSe2 hybrids) were fabricated through a non-metal-induced growth method. Due to the increase in the effective specific area and the electron transfer ability caused by the formation of the heterogeneous interface, the obtained CoSe/MoSe2 hybrids show superior OER performance (η = 262 mV at 10 mA cm−2) and long-term stability (20 h for continuous testing) as compared to pure CoSe, MoSe2 and physically mixed CoSe and MoSe2. Schematic energy band diagrams derived from ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy results further confirmed the electronic modulation between CoSe and MoSe2 and revealed that the d-band center of CoSe/MoSe2 hybrids moved closer to the Fermi level, giving rise to high charge carrier density and low intermediate adsorption energy as compared to CoSe and MoSe2. This work provides some insight into the design and synthesis of heterostructured nanomaterials from the MOF precursors.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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IF 9.7
Jing Li,Chen Yuan,Huiting Xu,Huibin Liu,Junjie Qi,Zhaohua Jiang,Sai Dong,Rongyu Guo,Zhijie Cui,Wenchao Peng,Jiapeng Liu
Conversion-type aqueous copper-selenium (Cu-Se) batteries have gained considerable attention due to their high theoretical capacity, safety and environmental friendliness. However, the multi-electron intermediate conversion reaction of selenium cathode generally possesses sluggish kinetics, which seriously impedes the further development of Cu-Se batteries. Herein, the porous V 2 C@VSe 2 heterostructure (P-V 2 C@VSe 2 ) with built-in electric field (BIEF) were successfully synthesized by the sacrificial template method and in situ selenization strategy, which were used as the selenium host materials for aqueous Cu-Se batteries to effectively enhance the selenium conversion reaction kinetics. The porous structure of P-V 2 C@VSe 2 not only provides faster access for the transport of polyselenide intermediates during electrochemical reactions, but also exposes more catalytic active sites, which in turn improves the catalytic activity of the material. In addition, the built-in electric field generates at the interface of the P-V 2 C@VSe 2 heterostructure facilitates the acceleration of charge transfer and thus improves the kinetics of the redox reaction of selenium. Benefiting from the synergistic effect of the porous structure and the built-in electric field, the Se/P-V 2 C@VSe 2 cathode possessed a discharge specific capacity of 1182.2 mAh g −1 at a current density of 1 A g −1 , which was much higher than those of Se/P-V 2 C (796.6 mAh g −1 ) and Se (597.0 mAh g −1 ) cathodes. In addition, it also maintained a specific capacity of 1054.6 mAh g −1 after 6000 cycles at 10 A g −1 , demonstrating excellent cycling stability. Meanwhile, a series of characterizations and density functional theory calculations were performed to systematically explore the conversion mechanism of aqueous Cu-Se batteries. This work provides promising insights into the construction of high-performance MXene-based catalytic host materials for aqueous Cu-Se batteries.
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RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 53
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IF 3.289
Chenhao Zhao,Libin Xu,Zhibiao Hu,Sheng'en Qiu,Kaiyu Liu
Porous carbon with a unique 3D structure has been prepared by the immediate carbonization of potassium tartrate. At an optimal carbonization temperature of 700 °C, the carbon mainly composed of micro- and small meso-porous structure has a Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) specific surface area of 816.2 m2 g−1, and the element Se with an amorphous structure is uniformly encapsulated into the porous structure of carbon. The weight ratio of Se in the composite can reach ∼50%. As the Li–Se battery cathode, the composite shows a (2nd) reversible discharge capacity of 550.5 mA h g−1 with an initial coulombic efficiency of 68.2% at 0.24C, and a discharge capacity of 485.3 mA h g−1 can be retained after 80 cycles. Even at a high current density of 1.2C, the cell also delivers a stable discharge capacity of about 452.3 mA h g−1. The good electrochemical performances of the as-prepared composite may be attributed to high specific surface area and small porous size.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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IF 6.2
Yun Xing,Shan Zhao,Jiaying Wu,Xin Tang,Yu Zhang,Zhirong Zou,Ke Huang,Xiaoli Xiong
Designing non-noble metal oxygen evolution catalysts with outstanding catalytic activity is crucial for realizing cost-effective water splitting. In this paper, nitrogen-doped carbon-encapsulated polyhedral yolk-shell nanostructure bimetallic selenide (ZnSe@CoSe 2 /N-C) electrocatalyst was successfully prepared by high-temperature selenization strategy using ZIF-8 @ZIF-67 as the framework. The specially designed nitrogen-doped core-shell structure has the advantages of high specific surface area and rough porous surface, which can expose more active sites and facilitate the transfer of electrons and ions on the electrode surface. The high conductivity of ZnSe, CoSe 2 nanoparticles and the synergistic effect of bimetal increase the electrochemical activity and electron mobility of the composite. ZnSe@CoSe 2 /N-C catalyst exhibits outstanding oxygen evolution reaction performance at 1.0 M KOH, which the overpotential is down to 170 mV at 10 mA cm −2 . Furthermore, ZnSe@CoSe 2 /N-C also shows well durability and long-term stability (>113 h). This experiment might open a new path for fabrication of low-cost non-noble metal selenide electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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IF 9.5
Xiang Shang,Yong Jin,Weining Du,Long Bai,Rong Zhou,Wenhua Zeng,Kunyan Lin
Waterborne polyurethane has drawn extensive attention due to its environmental friendliness and is widely used in many areas. However, it is still a great challenge to synthesize waterborne polyurethanes with flame retardancy and fast room-temperature self-healing ability, along with excellent mechanical performance and emulsion stability due to the mutually contradictory nature of these properties. Herein, waterborne polyurethanes containing organic selenium (SWPU-x) from 0.67 to 3.28 wt % were synthesized, which could simultaneously realize flame retardancy and self-healing ability based on the ability to scavenge active free radicals at high temperature and the dynamic switch of diselenide. All these SWPU-x films self-extinguished within 1 s after the ignition in the vertical combustion tests. The limiting oxygen index of SWPU-4 was improved to 28.5% with excellent UL-94 level (V-0) and self-healing efficiency (91.25%, after being healed in the photoreactor for 30 min at room temperature), together with high mechanical properties (tensile strength was 18.5 MPa and elongation at break was 869.63%), and the total heat release (THR) for SWPU-4 (49.28 MJ/m2) could decrease to 23.80% of the THR for the original waterborne polyurethane WPU (64.67 MJ/m2). This work discovered a new flame-retardant element (organic selenium) and studied its flame-retardant behaviors and self-healing function simultaneously, which would extremely extend the application of waterborne polyurethanes.
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Batteries-Basel
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2023
·Vol. 9
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Deng Li,Huinan Pan,Zhonghai Lin,Xiulian Qiu,Xinyu Zhao,Wei Yang,Wenzhi Zheng,Fengming Ren
Compared with monometallic selenides, heterogeneous bimetallic selenides have rich phase boundaries and superior electrical conductivity. ZnSe/CoSe2composites were prepared by introducing Zn metal and using ZIF-8/67 as the precursor through the synergistic effect between Zn and Co after selenification. The electrocatalytic conversion of polysulfide is accelerated by ZnSe through chemical adsorption and the catalytic effect. The conductive CoSe2surface provides a rapid diffusion path for lithium ions, accelerating the conversion of the polysulfide. On the basis of their individual strengths, ZnSe and CoSe2can jointly promote the smooth adsorptive–diffuse–catalytic conversion process of polysulfide and induce the growth of lithium sulfide around its heterogeneous interface, thus enhancing the electrochemical performance of the lithium–sulfur battery cathode materials. The ZnSe/CoSe2–S electrode, at the optimal Zn-to-Co ratio of 1:1, has a 790.06 mAh g−1initial specific capacity at 0.2 C and excellent cycling stability at 1 C. After 300 cycles, the final capacity is 300.85 mAh g−1, and the capacity retention rate reaches 82.71%.
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