ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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Yuwen Wang,Lingdong Kong,Jie Tan,Beibei Liu,Yixuan An,Lianghai Xia,Yu Lu,Qing Li,Lin Wang
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) plays a crucial role as an oxidizing agent within the tropospheric environment, making a substantial contribution to sulfate formation in hydrated aerosols and cloud and fog droplets. Field observations show that high levels of H2O2 are often observed in heavy haze events and polluted air. However, the source of H2O2 remains unclear. Here, using the droplets formed in situ by the deliquescence of hygroscopic compounds under a high relative humidity (RH), the formation of H2O2 by the photochemistry of imidazole-2-carbaldehyde (2-IC) under ultraviolet irradiation was explored. The results indicate that 2-IC produces IM–C•–OH and IM–C•═O radicals via H transfer itself to its excited triplet state and generates H2O2 and organic peroxides in the presence of O2, which has an evident oxidizing effect on SO2, suggesting the potential involvement of this pathway in the formation of atmospheric sulfate. H2O2 formation is limited in acidic droplets or droplets containing ammonium ions, and no H2O2 is detected in droplets containing nitrate, whereas droplets containing citric acid have an obvious promotion effect on H2O2 formation. These findings provide valuable insights into the behaviors of atmospheric photosensitizers, the source of H2O2, and the formation of sulfate in atmospheric droplets.
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PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS
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2024
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Qiang Liu,Hao Li,Ling Kong,Yiming Du,Yunsheng Da,Zhouping Sun,Yong Dong,Yanyan Liu,Xingyou Tian,Hua Wang
Waterborne epoxy (EP) is considered a promising environmentally friendly anticorrosive technology with extensive potential applications. However, its limited anticorrosive ability poses significant challenges in practical usage. In this study, we use dopamine (DA) polymerization to load 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (MBI) onto the surface of g-C 3 N 4 (CN) nanosheets, resulting in the synthesis of MBI-PDA@g-C 3 N 4 (MBI-PDA@CN) nanosheet composites. The MBI-PDA@CN composite exhibits favorable hydrophilicity and high loading capacity of 35.8 %, enabling the formation of compact bonding layer at the interface with the EP. Simultaneously, the MBI-PDA@CN nanosheets exhibit a fully lamellar structure, thereby effectively impeding the infiltration of corrosive agents. Electrochemical tests show that the coating resistance ( R p ) of MBI-PDA@CN/EP coating (8.5 × 10 7 Ω cm 2 ) exhibited a significantly higher magnitude compared to that of the EP (2.6 × 10 6 Ω cm 2 ) after being immersed in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution for 30 days. It is worth mentioning that the MBI-PDA@CN nanosheets possess the capability to gradually release MBI-PDA molecules in acidic environments. Given that MBI and PDA function as outstanding metal corrosion inhibitors, they substantially augment the corrosion resistance of the coating in acidic conditions. This study presents an intriguing approach to fabricating robust corrosion-resistant composite coatings.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
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2024
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Qianqian Xing,Xiaoliang Jia,Shiyu Jia,Yongqin Qi,Yuqi Wang,Yingxiong Wang,Xianglin Hou
The traditional synthesis methods of cyclopropyl methyl ketone (CPMK) have some disadvantages such as low yield, slow reaction rate and unclear catalytic mechanism. To solve these problems, a new strategy is developed to synthesize CPMK from 5‑chloro-2-pentanone (CPE) using 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec‑7-ene (DBU). Experiment results show that the yield of CPMK reached a maximum of 96.5 % in DBU at 40 °C for 30min. The mechanism study shows that the hydrogen bond between DBU and CPE is the key to drive the deprotonation and cyclization of CPE. The hydrogen bond is formed between the N atom on C = N of DBU and the α-H on the methylene group associated with the carbonyl group on CPE. The catalyst DBU is converted into [DBUH] + Cl − , which can be reclaimed and recycled completely. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation confirmed the existence of molecular hydrogen bonds and proved that the hydrogen bond driving force is the key to the reaction. The hydrogen bond driven mechanism provides a new idea for the basic research of cyclization reaction.
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Food Frontiers
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2024
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Ziyi Han,Leyu Wang,Panjie Sun,Mengxin Huang,Fei Yu,Junsheng Liu,Yuanyuan Wu,Puming He,Youying Tu,Bo Li
Hyperglycemia and diabetes are common metabolic disorders. It is considered a safe and effective strategy to screen active ingredients from food and herbs for controlling blood sugar levels. Quinic acid (QA) is a natural polyphenolic acid with various health-promoting properties. In this study, QA was found to exhibit a potent inhibitory effect on α-glucosidase activity, with a half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC 50 ) of 5.46 mM. This inhibitory property surpassed that of three common organic acids including gallic acid, malic acid, and citric acid. A combination of 25% acarbose (0.5 mM) and 75% QA (5 mM) (v/v) exhibited synergistic inhibition of α-glucosidase activity. Enzyme kinetics, fluorescence spectra, and molecular docking analyses indicated that QA acted as an uncompetitive inhibitor of α-glucosidase, with hydrogen bonds playing a key role in the intermolecular interactions. Moreover, QA was found to effectively inhibit three major nonenzymatic glycation products including advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs), fructosamine, and α-dicarbonyl in a dose-dependent manner, outperforming the positive control aminoguanidine (AG) within the tested concentration range. Utilizing a Caco-2 cell model, QA demonstrated the ability to inhibit the transmembrane absorption of glucose. This study highlighted QA as a promising food functional factor that had been overlooked in the past, offering potential benefits in improving hyperglycemia, diabetes, and associated complications through the inhibition of α-glucosidase, nonenzymatic glycosylation, and glucose uptake.
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Energy Storage Materials
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2024
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Zhilin Zheng,Xiaoqiao Li,Yong Wang,Yunlong Zhang,Yufeng Jiang,Yu-Shi He,Chao Niu,Haiying Che,Linsen Li,Zi-Feng Ma
Air stability is a crucial factor in the practical application of a battery material, as it profoundly affects the material's preparation, storage, and electrode fabrication processes. Sodium iron sulfate cathodes, despite their attractive attributes in cost and electrochemical performance, are widely believed to be unstable upon air exposure because of the sulfate group. Here we report remarkable air-stability of the Na 2 Fe(SO 4 ) 2 -based (NFS) cathodes (minimal decay in 20 % RH air for 60 days, 91.9 % capacity retention after 3500 cycles in half cells) and their outstanding cycle performance in practically relevant pouch-type full cells (∼100 Wh kg -1 specific energy, >1000 cycle-life). Although the NFS cathodes do react with moisture H 2 O to produce Na 2 Fe(SO 4 ) 2 ⋅4H 2 O but the hydration is spatially confined at the NFS particles’ surface and not propagating into their bulk. Further, the structural changes are reversible when the surface-hydrated NFS particles are heated in the typical electrode vacuum-drying process, avoiding extra treatment and additional cost. This work reveals the promising properties of the NFS cathode materials towards high-performance and sustainable Na-ion batteries.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
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2024
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Meng Ye,Hongying Hou,Xianxi Liu,Zhaowei Sun,Xiaohua Yu,Ju Rong
With the development of the consumer society, low cost and high performance supercapacitors are being pursued. To realize the practical supercapacitors, developing the cheap and highly capacitive electrode is the most essential. However, it is a harsh challenge to achieve this target based on single-component electrode. Herein, a series of inexpensive ternary-metal-sulfides, 2MnS/Cu 2 S/ x ZnS/C ( x = 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3) are synthesized by hydrothermal reaction and the subsequent calcination with expired manganese/copper gluconates as the raw materials for the electrode in the pseudocapacitors. Furthermore, the effect of ZnS's content on the electrochemical properties of the ternary composites is also investigated. Specially, the optimal 2MnS/Cu 2 S/xZnS/C( x = 1) can output a specific capacitance of 1608 F/g at 1 A/g in the three-electrode system, while the 2MnS/Cu 2 S/xZnS/C||AC( x = 1) asymmetric supercapacitor can deliver a specific capacitance of 194 F/g at 1 A/g with the desirable energy density (800 W/kg) and power density (70.9 Wh/kg), higher than those of other samples. Especially, even after 2000 cycles at 5.0 A/g, the 2MnS/Cu 2 S/xZnS/C||AC( x = 1) asymmetric supercapacitor also delivers the reversible specific capacitance of 103 F/g with high capacitance retention of 97.0 %, indicating high cycling stability. The outstanding performances of the optimal 2MnS/Cu 2 S/xZnS/C( x = 1) may be attributed to the bridge-effect of ZnS component, which makes up for the low conductivity of MnS component and the low capacitance of Cu 2 S component, thus achieving the best synergistic effect of ternary metal sulfide 2MnS/Cu 2 S/xZnS/C( x = 1) .
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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2024
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Sujing Wang,Na Zheng,Qirui An,Xiaoqian Li,Yining Ji,Yunyang Li,Changcheng Chen,Zhifei Xiu
The flame retardant tri (1, 3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP) is widely present in environmental media and organisms. People have paid much attention to the growth and developmental toxicity of TDCIPP, but there is little information about its cardiotoxicity and potential mechanisms. In this study, marine medaka ( Oryzias melastigma ) embryos were exposed to TDCIPP solutions (0, 0.05, 0.5, 5, and 50 μg/L) for 21 days to investigate the adverse effects of TDCIPP on cardiac development. The results showed that TDCIPP exposure altered the heart rate at different stages of embryonic development. In addition, 50 μg/L TDCIPP resulted in increased sinus venosus (SV)–bulbus arteriosus (BA) distance, pericardial cysts, and cardiac linearization in newly hatched fish. During embryonic development, the expression level of key genes regulating cardiac development is disturbed. The early stage of cardiac development is the sensitive window period for the toxic effects of TDCIPP. Oxidative stress was observed in newly hatched juveniles, but no significant lipid peroxidation damage was observed. In addition, vitellogenin (VTG) levels in juvenile fish were significantly reduced. Our results show that TDCIPP exposure induces cardiotoxicity in marine medaka embryos, which is induced in the early stages and promotes heart defects by amplifying inflammatory responses at a later stage.
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Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials
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2024
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Congzhi Hu,Yuye Li,Tingting Du,Youyong Pang,Yongping Liu,Botian Liu,Ling Li,Huidan Lu,Bin Huang
In this paper, a new supramolecular Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst, designated as Ag/Ag 3 PO 4 /Perylene diimide organic molecules after secondary acid-base self-assembly (PDI-2), was synthesized through precipitation and photoreduction techniques. Ag/Ag 3 PO 4 /60 %PDI-2 (APP-6) exhibited the best photocatalytic activity due to the synergistic effect of Z-scheme heterojunction and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect of Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs). Under visible light (λ > 420 nm), the degradation efficiency of APP-6 for Rhodamine B (RhB) and Bisphenol A (BPA) was 99.7 % and 90.7 %, respectively. Additionally, PDI-2 was transformed into smaller nanoclusters, which increased the specific surface area of the photocatalyst, and reduced the charge transport distance. Moreover, APP-6 exhibited the smallest electrochemical impedance, the largest photocurrent, the smallest fluorescence lifetime. Free radical trapping experiments showed that •O 2 − was the main reactive group and a possible photocatalytic mechanism was proposed by combining the Ultraviolet–visible diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer (UV–vis DRS) and the Mott-Schottky plots.
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ChemistrySelect
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2024
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Mingyan Chen,Wentao Wang,Xinkai Feng,Dehua Zhang,Yao Zhang,Yucheng Liu
Graphical This work describes the application of a highly efficient catalyst (NH 2 -UiO-66-Mo) to the catalytic oxidation desulfurization process. NH 2 -UiO-66-Mo can greatly improve the efficiency of oxidative desulfurization The optimum operating conditions of NH 2 -UiO-66-Mo are investigated through experiments, which prove the excellent performance of the catalyst, and the reaction mechanism is further studied through a series of characterizations. A highly efficient oxidative desulfurization composite catalyst NH 2 -Uio-66-Mo has been prepared and applied in the catalytic oxidative desulfurization. It was elucidated that Mo 6+ could increase the oxygen vacancies and active sites on the catalyst and increase the pore size of UiO-66. Meanwhile, the removal rate of dibenzothiophene (DBT) reached 99.2 % after 60 min under optimal conditions and remained above 90 % after 5 cycles, showing the composite catalyst's remarkable catalytic performance and satisfactory reusability NH 2 -UiO-66-Mo. In addition, kinetic studies revealed that the desulfurization process can present a pseudo-first-order kinetic process. The apparent activation energy was 10.6 kJ/mol. Finally, in combination with oxides, possible oxidation pathways were identified.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
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2024
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Huifang Guo,Jia Liu,Yunlong Shi,Xiaohong Xie
In this study, bio-based pyrrolidone (2-Pyr) and low-toxicity tetraethylammonium chloride (TEAC) were selected to prepare inexpensive, low-viscosity deep eutectic solvents (DESs), which is in line with the concept of green and sustainable chemistry and is suitable for industrial production. The highest absorption capacity of TEAC:2-Pyr (1:4) was determined to be 1.03 g SO2 /g DES at 20 °C. Eight absorption–desorption cycling tests were performed, and it was found that the absorption performance of DESs for SO 2 slightly varied. It was also proved that DESs have a certain degree of water resistance and high SO 2 selectivity. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and computational chemical analysis showed that the DESs composed of TEAC:2-Pyr formed intermolecular hydrogen bonds, the O atoms in Cl − and 2-Pyr played a role in the absorption of SO 2 , and hydrogen bonds were broken by the addition of SO 2 .
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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Shuang Qi,Tingwei Zhang,Chaofeng Zhang,Bo Jiang,Caoxing Huang,Qiang Yong,Yongcan Jin
As the most important phenolic biopolymer in nature, lignin shows promising application potentialities in various bioactivities in vivo and in vitro, mainly including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hypolipidemic, and antidiabetic control. In this work, several carbon-based solid acids were synthesized to catalyze the fragmentation of organosolv lignin (OL). The generated lignin fragments, with controllable molecular weight and functional groups, were further evaluated for their application in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The results suggested that the urea-doped catalyst (SUPC) showed a more excellent catalytic performance in producing diethyl ether insoluble lignin (DEIL) and diethyl ether soluble lignin (DESL). In addition, the lignin fragments have a good therapeutic effect on the cell model of T2DM. Compared with the insulin resistance model, DEIL obtained by catalytic depolymerization of OL with SUPC could improve the glucose consumption of insulin-resistant cells. Moreover, low-concentration samples (50 μg/mL) can promote glucose consumption (19.7 mM) more than the traditional drug rosiglitazone (17.5 mM). This work demonstrates the prospect of depolymerized lignin for the prevention and treatment of T2DM and provides a new application field for lignin degradation products.
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Wensi Li,Zhichao Tang,Xiang Zhu,Beijuan Wang,Xiuqin Zhang,Ze Ji,Suhang Cheng
In this work, an electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensor integrating T7 RNA polymerase amplification and CRISPR/Cas13a-mediated signal enhancement was developed for the ultrasensitive detection of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), a key biomarker associated with chronic inflammatory diseases such as COPD. A peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probe was designed to respond specifically to MMP-2 cleavage, enabling the release of DNA templates for subsequent T7 RNA polymerase-driven transcription amplification. The generated RNA triggers the collateral cleavage activity of CRISPR/Cas13a, resulting in a significant amplification of the ECL signal. The biosensor’s surface was constructed using a AuNPs/Ti 3 C 2 Tx/Ru(II)-PEI nanocomposite, which enhanced signal transduction and stability. Under optimized conditions, the proposed biosensor achieved a detection limit as low as 62.05 fM, demonstrating superior sensitivity compared to conventional methods, as summarized in Table 1 . The platform also exhibited excellent specificity and anti-interference capability, ensuring reliable detection of MMP-2 in complex biological samples. This study provides a simple yet highly efficient strategy for enzymatic biomarker detection, offering great potential for clinical applications in early disease diagnosis and monitoring.
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