JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2024
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Tingyuan Zhang,Lingxiao Song,Jiahui Yang,Jiajia Wang,Dong Feng,Baojun Ma
Heteroatom doping is a promising strategy for optimizing the photocatalytic activity of semiconductors. However, relying solely on single-element doping often poses challenges in modulating the capabilities of semiconductors. Herein, we adopt a strategy of simultaneously modifying ZnIn 2 S 4 with the double non-metallic elements nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) to form (N, O)-ZnIn 2 S 4 . Interestingly, (N, O)-ZnIn 2 S 4 exhibits significantly higher hydrophilicity and specific surface area compared to pristine ZnIn 2 S 4 . The contact angle decreases from 24° to 21°, while the specific surface area increases from 56 m 2 /g to 75 m 2 /g. The hydrogen production rate of (N, O)-ZnIn 2 S 4 reaches 400 μmol/h/g, which is 2.52 times higher than that of pristine ZnIn 2 S 4 . Photoelectrochemical characterization reveals that (N, O)-ZnIn 2 S 4 has a lower overpotential, higher photocurrent, lower resistance, reduced fluorescence intensity, and shorter fluorescence lifetime. Additionally, co-catalyst loading boosts the hydrogen production activity of ZnCo 2 S 4 /(N, O)-ZnIn 2 S 4 from 548 μmol/h/g to 810 μmol/h/g, compared to ZnCo 2 S 4 /ZnIn 2 S 4 . This study presents a dual non-metallic modification strategy to enhance semiconductor properties, achieving superior performance in photocatalytic hydrogen production.
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Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process Intensification
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2024
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IF 3.8
Zifei Yan,Grace Dai Zhen Lee,Jian Deng,Guangsheng Luo
The synthesis of terminal epoxides, which are vital components in pharmaceuticals and resins, often involves dehydrochlorination of β-chlorohydrins. Although intrinsic kinetics indicate that the dehydrochlorination reaction in the presence of sodium hydroxide could be very rapid, the practical implementation could always be hindered by long reaction time and low conversion rate. Extended contact between the product and the alkaline solution can lead to hydrolysis of the epoxy group, thus necessitating the process intensification to realize higher production efficiency and selectivity. Here, by characterizing thermodynamic equilibrium data and in-situ recording of the reaction that proceeded in a constant interphase reactor, the heterogeneous dehydrochlorination is demonstrated to occur primarily in the organic phase, and the overall reaction rate depends on the equilibrium concentration of sodium alkoxides. This finding, which is fundamentally different from the traditional view that chlorohydrin is first dissolved in the aqueous phase and then reacts with NaOH, leads us to use inert alcohols to assist in the extraction of NaOH. Based on this method, the reaction time can be reduced over 80 % both in batch and continuous reactors. Besides, the method is demonstrated to be effective in the dehydrochlorination of five different long-chain β-chlorohydrins.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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IF 13.273
Qian Yu,Jingshu Wang,Haibo Li,Ruiqing Li,Suyuan Zeng,Rui Li,Qingxia Yao,Hongyan Chen,Konggang Qu,Yao Zheng
In the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and hydrogen evolution reactions (ORR/HER), metal-free carbon-based materials presented great potentials as alternatives to Pt because of their flexible adjustability of electronic and geometric properties. The pursuit of high-performance carbons demand for high-level doping, large surface area and high graphitization, but the improvement of the former two aspects would inevitably impair the third one, which seems a contradictive proposition. Herein, by a facile “mix-and-pyrolyze” method, natural DNA was first developed to synthesize N, P, S-tridoped carbons (NPSC) with porous sheet structures, high graphitization, large surface areas and abundant high-quality dopants simultaneously. Thus, the newly-prepared NPSC displays superior alkaline ORR performance comparable to Pt/C together with excellent acidic activity and better stability. Meanwhile, NPSC is one of most active acidic HER catalysts and the best alkaline HER catalyst among carbon counterparts. Density function theory computation reveled the origins of superior performance are attributed to positively charged C sites neighboring to S for ORR and P sites for HER because of DNA-derived advantaged structural features. The as-fabricated rechargeable zinc–air battery based on current tridoped carbon has closed peak power density and specific capacity but much better charge–discharge stability compared with Pt/C.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2022
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IF 9.231
Yu Lu,Lujia Sun,Cheng Li,Xiaoqin Wang,Wenqing Li,Tong Zhao,Linjuan Huang,Zhongfu Wang
Extensive cross-allergic reactivity exists among food-borne plants. As most allergens are glycoproteins, protein sensitization has been extensively studied. However, little attention has been given to the glycan component of glycoproteins. Here, we qualitatively and quantitatively compared the N -glycans of eight cross-reactive plant glycoproteins derived from peach pollen, soy, pine nut, cashew nut, pistachio, walnut, almond, and hazelnut. Cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants (CCDs) were widely present in the allergic glycoproteins according to the following order: pollen > soybean > pistachios > pine nuts > walnuts > cashews > hazelnuts > almonds. The N -glycan structure presented clear differences between the germplasm and vegetative tissue. Importantly, fucosylation and xylosylation levels correlated positively with extensive cross-reactivity between plants, which suggests that CCDs may be one of the causes of cross-allergy. This result provides the foundation for mechanistic studies on plant-derived CCDs as a source of food cross-allergies.
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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
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2021
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IF 3.247
Yangyang Wang,Qiang Ren,Wenhao Zhan,Kaixuan Zheng,Qi Liao,Zhihui Yang,Yansong Wang,Xinling Ruan
A previous isolated Gordonia sp. (Lff) was used to degrade di-n-octyl phthalate (DOP) contamination in both aqueous solution and soil. The influence of temperature, pH, inoculum size, salt content and initial concentration of DOP on DOP degradation by Lff were analysed. The response of soil bacterial community to DOP and Lff was also analysed by Illumina MiSeq sequence method. Results showed that the optimal temperature, pH, inoculum size and salt content were 35oC, 8.0, 5% and <5%, respectively. Under the optimal condition, more than 91.25% of DOP with different initial concentrations (100–2000 mg/L) could be degraded by Lff. Kinetics analysis indicated that biodegradation of DOP by Lff could be described by first-order kinetics (R2 > 0.917) with the half-life (t1/2) changing irregularly between 0.58 and 0.83 d. In addition, Lff enhanced the removal of DOP in soil and alleviated the toxicity of DOP on soil microorganisms. Furthermore, its influence on soil bacterial community is not obvious. These results suggested that Lff was effective in remediating DOP contamination in different environments.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
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2023
·Vol. 35
·期 6
·065704
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IF 3.5
Xiaomei Yu,Wei Shi,Jiajiao Wei,Tiantian Liu,Yuanyuan Li,Mengyuan He,Zhengyu Wei,Dehai Ping,Panfei Sun,Jin You Zheng,Songjie Li
Developing non-noble-metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions with high activity and stability is the key issue in green hydrogen generation based on electrolytic water splitting. It has been recognized that the stacking of large CoP particles limits the intrinsic activity of as-synthesized CoP catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. In the present study, N-MoxC/CoP-0.5 with excellent electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reaction was prepared using N-MoxC as decoration. A reasonable overpotential of 106 mV (at 10 mA cm−2) and a Tafel slope of 59 mV dec−1 in 1.0 M KOH solution was achieved with N-MoxC/CoP-0.5 electrocatalyst, which exhibits superior activity even after working for 37 h. Uniformly distributed ultrafine nanoclusters of the N-MoxC/CoP-0.5 hybrids could provide sufficient interfaces for enhanced charge transfer. The effective capacity of the hydrogen evolution reaction could be preserved in the complex, and the enlarged electrocatalytic surface area could be expected to offer more active sites for the reaction.
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MINERALS ENGINEERING
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2021
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IF 4.765
Haoran Sun,Wanzhong Yin,Bin Yang,Keqiang Chen,Qiuyue Sheng
The flotation performances of magnesite and quartz were investigated in this work using N-hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (HTAC) as a collector. Micro-flotation tests were performed in a pilot study, and the results demonstrated that HTAC had high selective collection ability to quartz. Further, batch flotation results showed that HTAC could effectively remove quartz from magnesium-bearing carbonate ores. The adsorption behaviors of HTAC onto the surfaces of two minerals were analyzed through zeta-potential measurements and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) detection, which revealed that HTAC was mainly adsorbed on quartz rather than magnesite. Thus, HTAC could be used as a high-selectivity collector to efficiently separate magnesite from quartz.
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LANGMUIR
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2021
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IF 3.882
Aling Chen,Qingfeng Yi,Kuang Sheng,Yuebing Wang,Jiangchuan Chen,Qiaoli Zhang,Kaiwen Xiang,Guanghua Tan
Development of high-efficiency oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts under neutral conditions has made little research progress. In this work, we synthesized a three-dimensional porous N/P codoped carbon nanosheet composites (CNP@PNS) by high-temperature thermal treatment of dicyandiamide, starch, and triphenylphosphine and subsequent porous structure-making treatment using the NaCl molten salt template. In the neutral solution, the electrocatalytic performance of the CNP@PNS-4 catalyst exhibits an onset potential of 0.98 V (vs reversible hydrogen electrode) and a half-wave potential of 0.91 V for ORR, which greatly surpasses commercial Pt/C (40%). Three kinds of neutral metal–air batteries (Zn–air, Al–air, and Fe–air) using the prepared samples as cathodic catalysts were constructed, corresponding to the maximum power density of 120.2, 78.3, and 18.9 mW·cm–2, respectively. Also, they reveal outstanding discharge stability under different current densities. The density functional theory calculation depicts the reduction of the free energy of the determining step and subsequent decline of the overpotential for ORR.
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HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMERS
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2022
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IF 1.73
Shuo Yan,Haibin Yu,Zan Chen
Membranes with both good permeation and selectivity are highly desired for gas separations. In this study, we synthesized a new 6FDA-type polyimide copolymer 6FDA-BDTA-ODA, and then an organic polymer of poly (N-vinylimidazole) was doped into the polyimide to prepare mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). We also studied the effect of poly (N-vinylimidazole) contents on the separation performance of MMMs. The results showed that the ideal selectivity for CO2/CH4 was improved by adding the poly (N-vinylimidazole) filler. The ideal selectivity reached 63.5 with 6 wt% poly (N-vinylimidazole) loading with the permeability of 29.2 Barrer. The highly permeable MMMs showed a considerably enhanced performance for CO2/CH4 that close to the 2008 Robeson upper-bound. The gas separation performance of the prepared MMMs for CO2/CH4 was improved compared to that of the pure polymer membrane, indicating that the copolyimide/poly (N-vinylimidazole) MMMs have promising applications in CO2/CH4 gas separation.
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2020
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IF 3.807
Long Wang,Jingping Sun,Haihan Zhang,Li Xu,Guoji Liu
The N-doped mesoporous carbon materials (CNM) had been synthesized with hard template method. Benzoxazine (BOZ) was adopted as a precursor and SBA-15 as template. The electrochemical performance of carbon materials prepared by different ultrasonic time, different benzoxazine concentration and different carbonization temperature were conducted by a three-electrode system. In order to further explain electrochemical behaviour of the obtained carbon materials, the corresponding characterizations were also done. CNM-800 had a highest specific capacitance value, 428.8 F g −1 (0.25 A/g) in the three-electrode system. After 20,000 cycles of CNM-800 at the current density of 5 A g −1 , CNM-800 still had 98.5% of the original capacitance, which showed that CNM-800 had a good cycling stability. In order to investigate the application value of supercapacitors , a two-electrode system was also adopted, a maximum energy density was 11.2 Wh kg −1 . The prepared carbon material (CNM-800) have the higher specific capacitance than the related literatures. This kind of N-doped mesoporous carbon material would have a potential application value as supercapacitor.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2019
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IF 4.175
Liang Zhang,Xinyue Wang,Tingting Zhang,Chengzhan Liu,Dehua Li,Shuangxi Xing
Taking full advantage of both silver and nitrogen-doped carbon (N-C) with finely designed nanostructure is a great challenge in achieving excellent electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The Janus nanostructure composed of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) and N-C with individual exposed surface meets this purpose quite well. This can be achieved via pyrolyzing the core-shell Ag@polypyrrole (Ag@PPy) with eccentric encapsulated structure, where the AgNPs locate away from the center of the PPy spheres. The as-synthesized Janus nanostructured Ag@N-C demonstrates comparable ORR activity to commercial Pt/C catalyst with an onset and half-wave potential of 0.955 V and 0.821 V vs. RHE, respectively, and a limited current density of 4.976 mA cm −2 at 0.365 V, and it also illustrates better stability and stronger methanol tolerance. The excellent ORR activity is largely attributed to the synergistic effect originating from the interaction between AgNPs and carbonized PPy half-shell, where the former one leads to a higher disordered degree in the carbon layer and the latter results in the positive shift of Ag 3 d binding energy to facilitate the active oxygen adsorption and keeps the AgNPs from aggregation to avoid activity losing.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2024
·Vol. 49
·期 1
·132-140
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IF 2.7
Rumeng Feng,Lu Chen,Liping Huang,Haihong Wu,Yuanyu Ge,Jiani Xu,Min Zeng,Wenyao Li
The synergistic effect between the transition metal sulfide alloy core, the N-doped graphene shell, and the internal interfacial potential serves to regulate the electronic structure and facilitate electron transfer. We used Fe-based Prussian blue analogues as a single precursor to prepare a N-doped graphene-coated metal core–shell structure (FeNi@NG) through hydrothermal and high-temperature solid phase reactions. The S source was then introduced and annealed, yielding a S, N co-doped graphene-encapsulated metal core–shell structure (FeNi–S@NG). Finally, a nitrogen-doped graphene-coated metal core–shell structure with S defects (S–FeNi@NG) was obtained through NaBH4 liquid-phase reduction. The synergistic effect between the transition metal sulfide alloy core and the N-doped graphene shell, in conjunction with the internal interfacial potential regulate the electronic structure and facilitate electron transfer. Numerous sulfur vacancies accelerate electron transfer and enhance OER catalytic performance. The optimized material, S–FeNi@NG, exhibited excellent OER catalytic performance, with an overpotential of 250 mV (at 10 mA cm−2) and a Tafel slope of 90.95 mV dec−1 in an alkaline electrolyte.
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