INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2025
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IF 8.3
Renzhi Xiong,Xiao Xiao,Yanjie Song,Keqin Chen,Yanhe Xiao,Baochang Cheng,Shuijin Lei
Photocatalytic technology offers a promising “one-stone-two-birds” solution to simultaneously combat energy scarcity and environmental contamination through hydrogen production and pollutant degradation. However, conventional photocatalysts suffer from severe limitations in bifunctional efficiency due to rapid charge recombination, poor visible-light harvesting, and inadequate redox power. Herein, a novel 1D/2D core-shell Sb 2 S 3 @SnIn 4 S 8 S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst is engineered. The unique architecture, featuring Sb 2 S 3 nanorods wrapped by SnIn 4 S 8 nanosheets, achieves (i) maximized interfacial contact and charge transfer pathways, (ii) exposed active sites through high specific surface area, and (iii) directional spatial separation of photogenerated carriers. Crucially, the S-scheme heterojunction drives efficient charge separation while preserving strong redox capability. The Sb 2 S 3 @SnIn 4 S 8 catalyst realizes breakthrough dual-functionality: an outstanding average H 2 evolution rate of 3566.1 μmol g −1 h −1 and an impressive 90.5% degradation efficiency of tetracycline hydrochloride under 2 h of visible-light illumination. This performance surpasses the individual components by 7.6-fold (vs. Sb 2 S 3 ) and 4.8-fold (vs. SnIn 4 S 8 ) in H 2 production, highlighting the synergy. Moreover, the catalyst demonstrates broad applicability across diverse pollutant systems. This study provides a scalable platform for developing dual-functional photocatalysts toward sustainable energy-water nexus solutions.
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BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2025
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IF 4.7
Ji Ding,Jinsong Song,Shengbo Huang,Chuanhua Zhou,Feng Xue
Enantiomerically pure 2-oxazolidinones are widely used as chiral auxiliaries in organic synthesis, but there is an unmet need for more effective methods to access these compounds. Here we report the identification and semi-rational engineering of the halohydrin dehalogenase Sl HHDH from Sneathiella limimaris for the highly enantioselective ring-opening of phenyl glycidyl ether (PGE) with cyanate to yield ( S )-5-phenoxymethyl-2-oxazolidinone. After single and combinatorial mutagenesis, the best enantioselective triple mutant, F15W/A137T/N179L achieved an enantioselectivity of 97 %, with an E valu e of 154. In addition, it could accept a wider range of PGEs to generate corresponding ( S )-5-phenoxymethyl-2-oxazolidinones, whereby the product ee values increased from less than 5 % in wild-type Sl HHDH to between 81 and 96 % in the triple mutant. Structural analysis of Sl HHDH and mutant F15W/A137T/N179L in complex with the substrate PGE showed that changes of the substrate-binding pocket in the mutant position R- PGE farther from the catalytic residues, which may explain the enhanced enantioselectivity. This mutant has great potential as a biocatalyst for the first synthesis of chiral ( S )-5-phenoxymethyl-2-oxazolidinones.
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JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
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2020
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IF 2.304
Muhammad Usman,Haojie Yu,Li Wang,Jianguo Qian,Xuefeng Li,Amin Khan,Kaleem-ur-Rehman Naveed,Ahsan Nazir,Tarig Elshaarani,Shah Fahad
A series of copolymers of poly(2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl ferrocene carboxylate- co -methacrylic acid)s (P(FHEMA- co -MAA)s) were synthesized as burning rate catalysts (BRCs). Their structures were verified using proton nuclear magnetic resonance ( 1 H NMR) and Fourier transforms infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The electrochemical behavior of P(FHEMA- co -MAA)s was investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV). The CV results indicated that P(FHEMA- co -MAA)s showed redox behavior. Anti-migration test proved that P(FHEMA -co- MAA)s possesses better anti-migration properties than ferrocene (Fc) and 2, 2-bis (ethylferrocenyl) propane (Catocene). The burning rate (BR) catalytic effect of P(FHEMA -co- MAA)s on thermal decomposition of AP was examined through thermogravimetry (TG) and differential thermogravimetry (DTG). P(FHEMA -co- MAA)s were found to have high catalytic effects in accelerating thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate (AP).
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2022
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IF 6.371
Yuezhen Mao,Rongna Chen,Huanhuan You,Yang Liu,Sunrui Luan,Li Hou,Faming Gao
Antimony-based anodes possessing advantages of stable operating voltage and high theoretical capacity can replace graphene as alloy-based electrodes material in LIBs applications. However, the problems of capacity decaying and poor stability of Sb-based materials due to volume expansion and structural crushing during the long-term cycling remain to be solved. Therefore, we propose a strategy of using S and N co-doped carbon nanofibers encapsulated with Sb nanoparticles to overcome the above problems. The proposed material exhibits an excellent lithium storage performance with a high reversible specific capacity of 734 mAh g −1 at 0.1 A g −1 after 50 cycles (474.8 mAh g −1 at 1 A g −1 after 800 cycles, 394.5 mAh g −1 at 2 A g −1 after 2000 cycles). Importantly, a specific capacity of 288.5 mAh g −1 remains after more than 5000 cycles. The superior electrochemical performance of the S and N co-doped electrode is attributed to the proven structure and stability of the carbon matrix alleviating the volume changes of Sb during the process of lithium intercalation and extraction. The alloying/de-alloying reactions of the S@Sb@N-CNFs composite in the first charging/discharging process were systematically investigated by ex-situ XRD . This strategy of S and N co-doped carbon matrix could establish Sb-based materials as potential high-performance anodes for LIBs.
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Microbiology Spectrum
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 4
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IF 9.043
Mohamed Sharaf,Alaa H. Sewid,H. I. Hamouda,Mohamed G. Elharrif,Azza S. El-Demerdash,Afaf Alharthi,Nada Hashim,Anas Abdullah Hamad,Samy Selim,Dalal Hussien M. Alkhalifah,Wael N. Hozzein,Mohnad Abdalla,Taisir Saber
Surface-growing antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus are emerging as a global health challenge due to dilemmas in clinical treatment. Furthermore, their pathogenesis, including increasingly serious antimicrobial resistance and biofilm formation, makes them challenging to treat by conventional therapy. Therefore, the development of novel antivirulence strategies will undoubtedly provide a path forward in combatting these resistant bacterial infections. In this regard, we developed novel biosurfactant-coated nanoparticles to combine the antiadhesive/antibiofilm properties of rhamnolipid (RHL)-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) with each of the p-coumaric acid (p-CoA) and gallic acid (GA) antimicrobial drugs by using the most available polymer common coatings (PVA) to expand the range of effective antibacterial drugs, as well as a mechanism for their synergistic effect via a simple method of preparation. Mechanistically, the average size of bare Fe3O4 NPs was ~15 nm, while RHL-coated Fe3O4@PVA@p-CoA/GA was about ~254 nm, with a drop in zeta potential from −18.7 mV to −34.3 mV, which helped increase stability. Our data show that RHL-Fe3O4@PVA@p-CoA/GA biosurfactant NPs can remarkably interfere with bacterial growth and significantly inhibited biofilm formation to more than 50% via downregulating IcaABCD and CsgBAC operons, which are responsible for slime layer formation and curli fimbriae production in S. aureus and E. coli, respectively. The novelty regarding the activity of RHL-Fe3O4@PVA@p-CoA/GA biosurfactant NPs reveals their potential effect as an alternative multitarget antivirulence candidate to minimize infection severity by inhibiting biofilm development. Therefore, they could be used in antibacterial coatings and wound dressings in the future.IMPORTANCE Antimicrobial resistance poses a great threat and challenge to humanity. Therefore, the search for alternative ways to target and eliminate microbes from plant, animal, and marine microorganisms is one of the world’s concerns today. Furthermore, the extraordinary capacity of S. aureus and E. coli to resist standard antibacterial drugs is the dilemma of all currently used remedies. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) have become widespread, leading to no remedies being able to treat these threatening pathogens. The most widely recognized serotypes that cause severe foodborne illness are E. coli O157:H7, O26:H11, and O78:H10, and they display increasing antimicrobial resistance rates. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an effective therapy that has dual action to inhibit biofilm formation and decrease bacterial growth. In this study, the synthesized RHL-Fe3O4@PVA@p-CoA/GA biosurfactant NPs have interesting properties, making them excellent candidates for targeted drug delivery by inhibiting bacterial growth and downregulating biofilm-associated IcaABCD and CsgBAC gene loci.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 42
·22791-22802
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IF 14.511
Xing-Ye Chen,Muhammad Ishaq,Nafees Ahmad,Rong Tang,Zhuang-Hao Zheng,Ju-Guang Hu,Zheng-Hua Su,Ping Fan,Guang-Xing Liang,Shuo Chen
The existence of various detrimental defects inside the absorber layer is a major obstacle limiting the performance of kesterite Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) thin-film solar cells. Cationic substitution is a viable strategy for overcoming this challenge and has drawn tremendous research attention. In this work, a dual-cation substituted CZTSSe involving Ag and Ti to separately occupy partial Cu and Sn lattice sites is proposed. Under 6% Ag and 1% Ti dual-cation substitution, the champion CZTSSe device delivers a highly interesting efficiency of 12.73%, accompanied by an outstanding VOC of 530 mV. Further investigation demonstrates that Ag introduction can improve the density and crystallinity of CZTSSe thin films while decreasing the concentration of CuZn acceptor defects. Further Ti substitution can effectively eliminate fine grains and reduce the defect density of CuSn and [2CuZn + SnZn] defects, as well as the core level defects. This work explores the synergistic effect of Ag, Ti dual-cation substitution in CZTSSe solar cells for the first time, and the clarified device performance improvement mechanism opens up promising possibilities for the bright development of CZTSSe thin-film photovoltaic technology.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 10.652
Huajing Zhou,Huichang Dong,Jinghao Wang,Yuancai Chen
A novel controllable mesoporous core–shell microsphere (Co/Fe 3 O 4 @PZS) is synthesized by polycondensation, and used as ORR electrocatalyst in the heterogeneous electro-Fenton (hetero-EF) reaction. Characteristic analysis indicated that PZS offered massive reactive sites for anchoring Co ions on the shell. Heteroatom Lewis acidic active sites, related with pyridinic N (4.15%), P = N/P-N (6.46%) and S = O (3.19%) bonds, were formed through the replacement of C = C groups with the N-P-S doped at the shell, which benefited the activating/generating reactive oxygen species (ROS), and capturing/degrading the target pollutant substrates. Moreover, PZS shells prevent the nano-Fe 3 O 4 crystals in the core from direct contact with the solution, which would greatly improve the stability of electrode with almost no leaching of Fe/Co ions after six successive runs. Electrochemical experiments confirmed the accelerating electron transfers among ≡Fe II/III /≡Co II/III by the direct electric activation, as evidenced by the decreasing potential discrepancy (from 0.175 to 0.123 V) and sharply increasing ring current (from 35 to 200μA), markedly improved the ORR toward two-electron process (n = 2.01). ESR and radical scavenging experiments verified that •OH and 1 O 2 served as the main ROS in the Co/Fe 3 O 4 @PZS hetero-EF system. In addition to the two-electron reduction ( O 2 → H 2 O 2 → Â · O H ), O 2 could also be directly electro-activated to 1 O 2 via one-electron reduction ( O 2 → Â · O 2 - / Â · HO 2 - → 1 O 2 ). Additionally, the regenerating/reducing of ≡Fe III /Co III could get the electron directly from the cathode without excess consumption of H 2 O 2 , all these could eventually facilitate BPA degradation with lower energy consumption (1.318 kWh m −3 ). This study provides a reliable and facile route to prepare mesoporous core–shell microsphere, and developed as doped cathode in the field of electro-Fenton electrocatalysis process.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2021
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IF 10.588
Kangfeng Pang,Wei Sun,Feng Ye,Lihui Yang,Mengjie Pu,Cao Yang,Qichun Zhang,Junfeng Niu
N,S-co-doped carbons were synthesized through the calcination of sulfur-modified chitosan for the first time, and utilized as persulfate activators for sulfamethoxazole (SMX) remediation in water. The chitosan and sulfonyl chloride underwent one-step sulfonylation reaction to generate S-modified chitosan. The catalyst NSC-3 showed both excellent adsorption and catalytic oxidation efficiency, corresponding 98.62% removal and 81.34% mineralization rate within 90 min. The rate constant ( k obs ) was up to 0.0578 min −1 , with 75.60-folders higher than that of sulfur-free catalyst NC (7.6580 ×10 −4 min −1 ). The synergy of N and S contributed to the improvement of removal efficiency. The adsorption and oxidation performance were highly depended on the S/N atomic ratio. At the S/N ratio of 0.18, the maximum adsorption and oxidation capability were obtained. The NSC-3/PS system exhibited outstanding adaptability at the wide pH range from 3.07 to 9.28, while the inhibitory effect occurred at strong basic conditions (pH = 11.01). The thiophene sulfur and structural defects were identified as the catalytic sites in activating PS. Both radical and non-radical pathways were responsible for degradation process, where 1 O 2 played a major role, SO 4 ·- exerted a minor contribution, and O 2 ·- acts as the precursor for the production of 1 O 2 . Another source of 1 O 2 was assigned to the activation of PS by structure defects . This work indicates that N,S-co-doped carbon at an optimal S/N atomic ratio effectively catalyzes persulfate, and provides an innovative method to construct bifunctional carbon materials of adsorption and oxidization.
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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
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2019
·Vol. 166
·期 2
·F18
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IF 3.12
Lihong Qian,Dongling Jia,Yuqing Miao
The nanoporous microspheres of Co-Zn-S were synthesized by a solvothermal method. The as-obtained Co-Zn-S microspheres, as a non-noble metal catalyst, exhibited highly electrocatalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline electrolyte. It showed a low overpotential of only 320 mV to afford a current density of 10 mA cm−2 and a Tafel slope of 80.43 mV dec−1. Furthermore, the nanoporous microspheres of Co-Zn-S retained excellent electrocatalytic stability within a period of 36000 s. The catalyst also showed good catalytic performance toward the hydrolysis of ammonia borane to produce around 70 mL of H2 within the time of 30 minutes at room temperature. The nanoporous microspheres of Co-Zn-S exhibits the potential applications for hydrogen/oxygen production by water splitting or ammonia borane hydrolysis.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2019
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IF 8.355
Yanning Qu,Xiaojian Xu,Renliang Huang,Wei Qi,Rongxin Su,Zhimin He
ZnO is widely used as a photocatalyst in industry, however, it is still a challenge to degrade refractory antibiotics in water. In this study, a novel surface-functionalized N,S-doped carbon quantum dot (N,S-CQD) was synthesized and embedded into ZnO for the formation of a new ZnO/N,S-CQDs hybrid nanoflower via one-pot hydrothermal process. The as-prepared ZnO/N,S-CQDs showed significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible and near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation, in which 72.8% of MG was decomposed after 180 min under NIR light. In addition, approximately 92.9% and 85.8% of ciprofloxacin (CIP) were degraded by ZnO/N,S-CQDs under simulated sunlight for 20 min and natural sunlight for 50 min, respectively. Furthermore, the mechanism was investigated and the results show that the surface functionalization, electron transfer, up-converted luminescence properties of N,S-CQDs, together with the highly reactive facets of ZnO nanoflowers, made great contributions to the enhanced photocatalytic activity of ZnO/N,S-CQDs. Additionally, the results of active species trapping experiments indicated that the hydroxide free radicals, holes and superoxide radical anions all played certain roles in the photocatalytic reaction. Finally, ZnO/N,S-CQDs was employed for photodegradation of antibiotics in actual water, the degradation efficiency of antibiotics still remained above 60% after 120 min. We believe that the ZnO/N,S-CQDs nanoflower is a promising photocatalyst for the degradation of refractory antibiotics under sunlight irradiation. The relatively low cost and excellent photocatalytic performance of ZnO/N,S-CQDs is beneficial for industrial applications.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2020
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IF 5.977
Weicheng Li,Jiangyi Wu,Xiaojia Huang
Extraction strategy is designed for the pretreatment of low contents of aromatic N- and S-containing compounds (ANSCs) in environmental waters prior to chromatographic analysis . To enrich studied ANSCs effectively, poly (9-vinylanthracene/4-vinylphenylboronic acid- co -ethylene dimethacrylate/divinylbenzene) polymeric monolithic sorbent were facilely fabricated using the one-step free radical polymerization . Various technologies were employed to investigate the structure and morphology of the resultant monolith. Combining with solid-phase microextraction format, the sorbent exhibited satisfying concentrated performance for ANSCs through multiply interactions under the optimized conditions. After desorption with eluent , the retained analytes were analyzed by HPLC. Results showed that the extraction efficiencies ranged from 51.6 to 93.2%. The linear ranges and limits of detection were 0.01–150 μg/L and 0.63–2.64 ng/L, respectively. Furthermore, the precisions were all below 10%. The introduced approach was productively practiced on three real water samples for simultaneous quantification of studied ANSCs, and the fortified recoveries ranged from 81.5 to 118%. All the results well evidenced that prepared sorbent can enrich ANSCs effectively and the introduced method is reliable alternative for routine analysis of ANSCs in environmental waters.
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2024
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IF 8.1
Youshuang Zhou,JianYun Ding,Zhaoyang Wei,Weiwei Lei,Jun You,Qunchao Zhang,Dean Shi
The catalytic effect of zinc sulfide (ZnS) on the transformation of polysulfides (Li 2 S 8 ) to lithium sulfide (Li 2 S) has been proven by the enhancement in the rate performance of lithium-sulfur (Li–S) batteries incorporating ZnS particles into the cathode. Accordingly, the shuttling effect of polysulfide should also be suppressed. However, the expected phenomenon is not found in the Li–S batteries with ZnS particles being added in the cathodes. In order to find the intrinsic mechanism of this phenomenon, detailed catalytic effects of ZnS particles on different polysulfide molecules are investigated. It is shown that ZnS can only enhance the reaction from Li 2 S 4 to Li 2 S and it has almost no catalytic effect on the reaction from Li 2 S 6 to Li 2 S 4 . This is why the shuttle effect of Li 2 S 6 cannot be effectively prohibited. This mechanism is further verified via combining ZnS particles with S–C@PVA yolk-shell particles containing sulfur (S) and carbon black (C) as the core and PVA as the shell. Although the reaction from Li 2 S 6 to Li 2 S 4 cannot be directly catalysed by ZnS particles, it can still be enhanced when ZnS particles are distributed within the S–C@PVA yolk-shell structure (S–C–ZnS@PVA) because the reaction speed from the Li 2 S 4 to Li 2 S is accelerated. The fast consumption of Li 2 S 4 will result in the enhancement of the reaction from Li 2 S 6 to Li 2 S 4 , which will largely reduce the diffusion of Li 2 S 6 out of the PVA shell. While if ZnS particles are located outside the S–C@PVA yolk-shell structure (S–C@PVA-ZnS), large amount of Li 2 S 6 can still diffuse out of the PVA shell and enter into the electrolyte since the transformation from is Li 2 S 6 to Li 2 S 4 relatively low. Both the rate performance and cycle stability of the batteries with S–C–ZnS@PVA cathodes are higher than those with S–C@PVA-ZnS ones. These results will give a guidance for the preparation of Li–S battery with high performance.
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