Catalysts
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2026
·Vol. 16
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Lian Yi,Qiulin Chen,Wen Zhang,Rongshu Zhu
The construction of Z-scheme heterojunctions is regarded as one of the most effective modification strategies for photocatalysts. However, how to improve the interfacial charge transfer efficiency to further enhance the photocatalytic activity remains an urgent issue to be addressed. In this study, sulfur vacancy-enriched ZnIn2S4/MoS2Z-scheme heterojunctions (V-ZIS/MS) containing interfacial Mo-S bonds was successfully synthesized using a hydrothermal method. The V-ZIS/2%MS showed the highest hydrogen evolution rate, achieving 19.21 ± 0.78 mmol·g−1·h−1under visible light and 112.89 ± 10.98 mmol·g−1·h−1under full-spectrum illumination, which are 5.07 and 4.41 times higher than ZIS (3.79 ± 0.79 mmol·g−1·h−1) and V-ZIS (4.36 ± 0.98 mmol·g−1·h−1) under visible light, respectively, outperforming most reported ZIS-based photocatalysts. This is because the composite of V-ZIS and MS enhanced its light absorption performance. More importantly, the formation of Mo-S bonds at the V-ZIS/MoS2interface facilitated efficient charge transfer and reduced interfacial resistance, leading to significantly improved photocatalytic activity. Cycling experiments further demonstrate that V-ZIS/2%MS exhibits considerable photocatalytic stability. X-ray diffraction analysis before and after the reaction further confirmed the structural stability of the catalyst. This work provides a certain reference for the preparation of high-performance ZIS-based photocatalysts.
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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2021
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IF 7.963
Yunling Zhang,Kun Gao,Zhi Dang,Weilin Huang,John R. Reinfelder,Yuan Ren
Arsenic–rich schwertmannite may cause arsenic (As) release during phase transition. In this study, microbial sulfidogenesis on As(V)–loaded schwertmannite (As-Sch) and associated As mobility at different SO 4 2− concentrations were investigated under anaerobic conditions by Desulfosporosinus meridiei ( D. meridiei ). For biotic treatments, the more SO 4 2− was added, the more Fe 3+ was reduced to Fe 2+ , and the more As(V) was released during the reductive dissolution of As-Sch. The reduction of As(V) to As(III) by D. meridiei resulted in a higher concentration, toxicity, solubility and mobility of As than the corresponding abiotic treatments. However, compared with the abiotic treatments, a variety of new minerals (such as mackinawite , vivianite , sulfur, As 2 S 3 , and parasymplesite) were generated in the biotic treatments, and the As concentration in aqueous solution was less than 1 μM at the end of the incubation period regardless of the presence of SO 4 2− . The results of continuous extraction of different species of As from secondary minerals showed that the effect of microorganisms decreased As content of amorphous iron oxide-bound phase, while increasing that bound on the surface of iron oxide surface-bound phase, thus increasing As fluidity. Our findings indicated that under anaerobic conditions, D. meridiei sulfidogenesis can trigger significant As mobilization in the early stage and remove As from the aqueous solutions when new minerals are formed at a later stage.
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Science Advances
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2023
·Vol. 9
·期 46
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Luxian Li,Xuemei Li,Wei Deng,Chun Shen,Xinhai Chen,Han Sheng,Xiang Wang,Jianxin Zhou,Jidong Li,Yinlong Zhu,Zhuhua Zhang,Jun Yin,Wanlin Guo
Hydrovoltaic technology has achieved notable breakthroughs in electric output via using the moving boundary of electric double layer, but the output voltage induced by droplets is saturated around 350 volts, and the underlying mechanism remains to be further clarified. Here, we show that falling water droplets can stably spark an unprecedented voltage up to 1200 volts within microseconds that they contact an electrode placed on top of an electret surface, approaching the theoretical upper limit. This sparking potential can be explained and described by a comprehensive model considering the water-electrode contact dynamics from both the macroscale droplet spreading and the microscale electric double layer formation, as well as the presence of a circuit capacitance. It is demonstrated that a droplet-induced electric spark is sufficient to directly ionize gas at atmospheric pressure and split water into hydrogen and oxygen, showing wide application potential in fields of green energy and intelligence.
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2024
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Tian Zhou,Zhangnan Xu,Nianben Zheng,Zhiqiang Sun
Repairing and regenerating the unbalanced electrolytes is critical for the long-term operation of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). In this work, we propose a simple strategy to repair the unbalanced electrolytes for capacity recovery through chemical oxidation with the V(V) electrolyte and develop a method based on image analysis to obtain the electrolytes’ V(IV) ion contents. When the V(V) electrolyte with the same concentration as that of the unbalanced electrolyte is added to the unbalanced electrolyte, V(V) ions gradually oxidize V(III) ions to V(IV) ions, and the color of the electrolyte changes significantly. By extracting the RGB information of the electrolyte image, it is found that the B channel value presents the highest sensitivity to the V(IV) ion content. Thus, the relationship between them is fitted, and the R 2 of the fitted curve reaches 0.9978. Furthermore, the image analysis-based method is applied to predict the V(V) electrolyte volumes needed to repair the unbalanced electrolytes. Results show that the deviation of the B channel values between the recovered and standard V(IV) electrolytes is within 5%, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed repair strategy and image analysis-based method, which show great promise for practical VRFB applications.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Bin Wu,Chaoji Xiong,Zhuo Xu,Kun Liang,Chunhua Wu,Wei Wu,Qian Chen
In order to synthesize green, low-toxicity, and novel antifungal agents. In this study, a rosin-based bisquaternary ammonium salt (Rbs) was synthesized using rosin amine and evaluated for its antifungal activity against F. oxysporum f. sp. niveum, F. graminearum, V. mali, P. capsica and A. solani . The results show that compared to benzalkonium bromide, Rbs has stronger inhibitory activity against five types of fungi, with the best activity against V. mali (EC 50 = 3.071 μg/mL), and has excellent sustained antifungal activity. In vivo tests have shown that Rbs has significant protective and therapeutic effects on apples . Using SEM, TEM, relative membrane permeability and density functional theory calculations, we found that Rbs causes organelle and cell membrane disruption, leading to leakage of cell contents and ultimately cell death. In addition, mouse toxicology showed that the toxicity of Rbs was low. These studies provide theoretical guidance for the development of subsequent fungicides.
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COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
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2025
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Yangming Zou,Jingfan Zhang,Xiaorong Guo,Yujie Kang,Xin Tong,Wei Liu,Xinqi Di,Jun Sun,Hongfei Li,Xiaoyu Gu,Sheng Zhang
Polycarbonate (PC) is a crucial engineering thermoplastic, but its impact strength is highly sensitive to notches, with even minor ones leading to significant reductions in mechanical performance. In this work, a crosslinked polysiloxane (VMQ) was synthesized and incorporated into PC to enhance both its toughness and flame retardancy. The introduction of VMQ greatly improved the notched impact strength and flame retardancy of PC. The addition of 5 wt% VMQ significantly enhanced the notched impact strength from 8.8 to 75.4 kJ/m 2 , representing an improvement of 756.8 %. Furthermore, the elongation at break and tensile toughness increased by 61.2 % and 46.5 %, respectively. Notably, even at −10 °C, the enhanced notched impact strength was almost fully retained. Additionally, the PC/5%VMQ composite achieved a UL-94 V-0 rating, with a limiting oxygen index (LOI) of 28.7 %, a 38.2 % reduction in peak heat release rate (PHRR), and a 13.9 % decrease in total smoke production (TSP). The toughening and flame-retardant mechanisms of VMQ were thoroughly investigated. This work provides an innovative approach to simultaneously improve the flame retardancy and toughness of PC.
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LANGMUIR
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2024
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Siyu Gan,Zhenxing Wang,Chunli Zheng,Zishen Lin,Ai-bin Zhu,Bo Lai
Commercial micron zerovalent iron (mZVI) and sulfur were used to prepare sulfidated micro zerovalent iron (S-mZVI) through ball milling. The corrosion potentials of mZVI and S-mZVI were −0.01 and −0.37 V, respectively, indicating S-mZVI possessed a stronger electron-donating ability. The practical antimony mine wastewater (C0(Sb(V)) = 3.8296 mg/L, pH = 8.29) was treated. If meeting the national discharge standard of 5 μg/L, 2.0 g/L mZVI and 1.6 g/L S-mZVI were required within 120 min. Passing N2 or reducing wastewater pH enhanced the treatment of Sb(V) by S-mZVI, in which the wastewater acidification was more effective. Once the wastewater pH was adjusted to 3.00, only 0.7 g/L S-mZVI and 40 min long time were needed to achieve the emission below 5 μg/L. Even S-mZVI underwent four cycles, and the final concentration of Sb(V) was as low as 4.67 μg/L. As the pHzpc value was 4.09 and the corrosion potential was −0.56 V at pH 3.0, the electron-donating ability of S-mZVI as well as the electrostatic attraction between the surface of S-mZVI and Sb(V) increased. Sulfidation of mZVI and then application under the acid condition significantly improved the treatment efficiency of Sb(V).
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Microbial Cell Factories
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2017
·Vol. 16
·期 1
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Zhang Hui,Li Mengya,Li Jie,Wang Guangli,Liu Yuan
Quizalofop- p -ethyl (QPE) is a post-emergence herbicide that effectively controls grass weeds and is often detected in the environment. However, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of QPE degradation in the environment remains unclear. In this study, a highly effective QPE-degrading bacterial strain J-2 was isolated from acclimated activated sludge and identified as a Pseudomonas sp., containing the QPE breakdown metabolite quizalofop acid (QA) identified by Liquid Chromatography-Ion Trap-Mass Spectrometry (LC-IT-MS n ) analysis. A novel QPE hydrolase esterase-encoding gene qpeH was cloned from strain J-2 and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). The specific activity of recombinant QpeH was 198.9 ± 2.7 U mg −1 for QPE with K
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values of 41.3 ± 3.6 μM and 127.3 ± 4.5 s −1 . The optimal pH and temperature for the recombinant QpeH were 8.0 and 30 °C, respectively and the enzyme was activated by Ca 2+ , Cd 2+ , Li + , Fe 3+ and Co 2+ and inhibited by Ni 2+ , Fe 2+ , Ag + , DEPC, SDS, Tween 80, Triton X, β-mercaptoethanol, PMSF, and pCMB. In addition, the catalytic efficiency of QpeH toward different AOPP herbicides in descending order was as follows: fenoxaprop-P-ethyl > quizalofop-P-tefuryl > QPE > haloxyfop-P-methyl > cyhalofopbutyl > clodinafop-propargyl. On the basis of the phylogenetic analysis and multiple sequence alignment, the identified enzyme QpeH, was clustered with esterase family V, suggesting a new member of this family because of its low similarity of amino acid sequence with esterases reported previously.
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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2021
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Liping Zhang,Yingbo Dong,Junfei Liu,Chenjing Liu,Wei Liu,Hai Lin
Iron-biochar is an efficient adsorbent for contaminants, whereas the role of prepared temperature on removal of antimony (Sb) is unacquainted. In this study, the iron-biochar composites (FBC) were fabricated by co-pyrolysis at 500°C and 800°C and applied to remove antimonite (Sb(III)) and antimonate (Sb(V)) in aqueous. The results showed Fe 3 O 4 was loaded on biochar prepared at 500°C (FBC500), while FeOOH with zero-valent iron (ZVI) was formed on biochar pyrolyzed at 800°C (FBC800). However, FBC500 showed the maximum absorbance for Sb(V) (30.47 mg/g), and FBC800 had optimal removal efficiency for Sb(III) (52.30 mg/g). The sorption of Sb(III) and Sb(V) on FBC was multilayer heterogeneous chemisorption (complexation and ligand exchange). Sb(III) was oxidized to Sb(V) with less toxicity during the corrosion of ZVI on FBC800, leading to the co-precipitation of Sb 2 O 5 . The electrostatic interaction affected the adsorption of Sb(V) on FBC500 and FBC800. The FBC800 showed superior reusability and resistance than FBC500.
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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
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2022
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Shuang-Lin Hu,Ying-Ming Li,Wen-Juan Hu,Jose Hobson,De-Yi Wang
Unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) composites with excellent flame retardancy and high mechanical property is a great challenge to its widely application. In present work, a highly efficient flame retardant (MA-DOPO) containing nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus elements was designed via a nucleophilic substitution reaction of amino and aldehyde groups. For the UPR/MA-DOPO 15 composites, its tensile strength was 28.3 MPa, which was 19.9 % higher than that of neat UPR attributing to the formation of hydrogen bonds with UPR. It should be noted that tensile strength of UPR/MA-DOPO 20 composites reached the highest 39.6 MPa, showing a growth trend with the enhancement of incorporation amount of MA-DOPO. Meanwhile, the UPR/MA-DOPO 15 composites passed the UL-94 V-0 rating with a LOI of 27.0%, and the peak heat release rate (PHRR) and total heat release rate (THR) were reduced by 35.1% and 41.6% in cone calorimeter (CC) test comparing to that of neat UPR respectively. Moreover, the detailed flame-retarding mechanism of MA-DOPO was investigated by the thermogravimetric infrared spectroscopy (TG-IR), Raman spectrum, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (PY-GC/MS), in which the releasement of inert gas in gas-phase and the catalytic carbonation in condensed phase jointly taking effect.
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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
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2023
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Jinzhe Li,Yuxuan Huang,Xinhui Peng,Wenwen Luo,Munkh-Amgalan Gantumur,Zhanmei Jiang,Juncai Hou
The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of physical treatment (ultrasound, U/high pressure homogenization, H/combined treatment, UH or HU) and surfactant (Mogroside V, Mog) on air/water interface adsorption and foaming properties of α-lactalbumin (ALa). Firstly, the binding of Mog and all physical-treated ALa was a static quenching process. Mog had the greatest binding affinity for HU-ALa among all treated samples. U or H treatment could change surface hydrophobicity of ALa/Mog complex. Secondly, at the molar ratio (ALa:Mog) of 1:50, foaming ability (FA) of all ALa samples got the maximum. The sequence of FA in ALa and ALa/Mog complex was listed as follow: HU > U > H > UH. Moreover, foaming stability (FS) of HU-ALa was the highest, followed by H-ALa, U-ALa and UH-ALa. Meanwhile, low concentration Mog increased FS of ALa or UH-ALa, but it reduced FS of H-ALa, U-ALa and HU-ALa. Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) experiment indicated that ALa/Mog complex after U or H treatment was quickly absorbed at air/water interface, compared with the treated ALa, and HU-ALa/Mog had the largest frequency shift. In addition, HU-ALa had the thickest bubble membrane and the highest dissipation shift in all samples, indicating that the absorbed membrane thickness and viscoelasticity of samples was correlated with foam stability. Therefore, U and H treatment synergism with Mog was an effective approach to enhance foam properties of ALa, which indicated that HU-treated ALa/Mog complex could be viewed as the safe and efficient foaming agent applied in food processing.
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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
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2024
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Tong-Yu Bai,Xiang-Xin Xiao,Guan-Qi Zheng,Qin Zhang,Zi-Ni Wang,Li Chen,Bo-Wen Liu,Yu-Zhong Wang
Polycarbonate is a widely used engineering plastic material, but its limited flame retardancy has restricted its application in high-end fields such as aviation and railways. In this study, we propose a novel copolymerization/macromolecular blending strategy to produce a high-performance, fire-safe polycarbonate composite. By copolymerizing with polydimethylsiloxane oligomer and blending with macromolecular polyarylate, the resulting PC-BPDMS 5 /PITR successfully achieved a UL-94 V-0 rating and a high limiting oxygen index value of 34.2%. The peak heat release and total smoke release were significantly reduced by 45.2% and 27.4%, respectively, compared to pure PC. SEM, Raman, and XPS analyses confirmed the condensed-phase dominated flame-retardant mechanism, attributed to the char-forming ability of the polyarylate and polydimethylsiloxane segments. Polydimethylsiloxane segments can decompose to produce small molecules such as methane, and the left structure with silicon, which undergo cross-linking reactions with the substrate during combustion to promote char formation. The polyaromatic ring structure of PITR can also participate in the formation of a dense and stable char layer. The excellent compatibility between the polyarylate and the PC matrix, combined with the superior flexibility of polydimethylsiloxane, allowed the composite to maintain mechanical properties comparable to pure PC. Additionally, the increased molar volume resulted in a low dielectric constant for PC-BPDMS 5 /PITR. This work presents a promising approach for the development of high-performance polycarbonate composites.
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