FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2024
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Tingting Gao,Da-Wen Sun,You Tian,Ji Ma,Fei Pan
Microwave (MW) heating shows higher efficiency in preparing wheat starch-stearic acid (WS-SA) complexes than the traditional water bath (WB) heating method, while the detailed “time-energy-quality” evaluations and the potential anti-digestion mechanism of the MW-processed WS-SA remain further exploration. In this study, 95 % time cost and 73 % energy consumption were saved when using MW processing WS-SA, and the MW-processed complexes were verified to show significantly higher relative crystallinity, short-range ordered structure degree, thermal stability, complex index, and resistant starch content. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation demonstrated that MW treatment notably facilitated the binding rate of amylose and SA molecules, generating a tight and stable helical structure through hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces. Analyses of solvent-accessible surface area and water status cross-verified that the denser structure could endow the MW-processed complexes with higher resistance to water solvation effects and correspondingly reduce the water mobility for enzymatic hydrolysis reactions, ultimately making the MW-processed complexes more undigestible. This study provides a further understanding of the anti-digestion mechanisms of the MW-processed WS-SA from the molecular level, and it is expected that the current work could attract more concerns to the highly cost-effective MW heating method for processing starchy food.
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MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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Yudi Feng,Qiangsheng Sun,Jia Guo,Changchun Wang
The mismatch of thermal expansion between polymer materials and metals/inorganics causes interface failure and shortens the life cycle of the composites and devices. Traditionally, modulating the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of polymer materials without sacrificing other performance features is challenging. Herein, we report a new strategy for regulating the thermal expansion behaviors of the bismaleimide (BMI) resin, which is one of the most important commercial thermosets. A novel diamine with a disubstituted benzocyclobutene unit was first synthesized and used as the modifier. Through copolymerization and subsequent thermal annealing, we obtained cross-linked BMI resin networks containing thermally contractile submolecular units, dibenzocyclooctadiene (DBCOD). Upon heating, the conformational transition of DBCOD led to an obvious macroscopic volume shrinkage, and consequently, the CTE was reduced dramatically. Record-low CTE values (22 to −19 ppm/K) were achieved for the DBCOD-containing BMI resins. Additionally, the resins also possessed excellent thermal stability (e.g., Tg > 368 °C) and enhanced toughness. By taking advantage of the novel diamine modifier, the ultralow CTE, high heat resistance, and excellent mechanical properties of the BMI resin were well integrated. The enhanced comprehensive performance makes the novel BMI resin a good candidate for many cutting-edge applications.
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2024
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Tingting Wu,Yue Liu,Jing Ye,Yi Chen,Gaole Dai,Xiaohong Zhang,Yu Zhao
Phenothiazine derivatives, as sustainable cathode materials for batteries , show significant promise for large-scale electrical energy storage applications. However, the irreversibility of the sulfur redox active center severely limits their energy density and discharge voltage in rechargeable organic batteries . This study concentrates on identifying the potential side reactions that contribute to the irreversibility of phenothiazine-based materials. We propose a molecular design strategy that synergistically blocks the active site and extends the conjugation, markedly improving the electrochemical reversibility of these materials. Our findings reveal that phenothiazine derivatives can undergo two successive, one-electron redox reactions without interference from chemical bond rearrangement and reactive radicals. The assembled cells, utilizing lithium (Li) and sodium (Na) as anodes, display two distinct discharge plateaus at 3.3/3.9 V vs. Li + /Li and 3.1/3.7 V vs. Na + /Na, respectively, with nearly identical contributions from the nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) redox centers. The phenothiazine derivatives designed via this strategy rank among the few phenothiazine-based organic electrode materials capable of achieving highly reversible, two-electron transfer redox reactions in organic batteries.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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Ling Zhang,Mengfang Li,Xuan Liu,Jiaqi Feng,Yujia Liu,Yazhu Tu,Shuyang Li,Tao Duan
The exploration of effective gaseous iodine adsorbents is an interesting and challenging task in the field of radwaste disposal. In this study, amidoxime groups (AO) were successfully grafted onto polyacrylonitrile to obtain amidoxime grafted polyacrylonitrile (PAN-AO) for capturing gaseous iodine. The results of the combined characterization analysis have confirmed that the introduction of AO greatly improved its thermostability, porosity and available functional groups of PAN. The impacts of reaction time, iodine concentration and reaction heat on the uptake capacity for gaseous iodine were systematically studied. The PAN-AO exhibited higher iodine capture capacity (1534.4 mg/g) than PAN (72.1 mg/g) at 80 °C and 600 min, which was ascribed to the chemical reaction between electron-rich AO groups and electron-deficient iodine molecules. The studies of kinetic fitting and activation energy (E a = 44.11 kJ/mol) further confirmed that chemical adsorption was the major fashion during the whole uptake process of PAN-AO for iodine. Besides, PAN-AO still had an iodine uptake capacity of 704.4 mg/g after five recycling, manifesting the remarkable cycle performance of PAN-AO. In brief, this study offered a new reference for radioactive iodine uptake and the synthesized PAN-AO was able to serve as an efficient iodine capture material.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2024
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Zhaocheng Zhang,Dongyang He,Yangjian Zhou,Edith Bai,Jiao Qu,Ya-nan Zhang
Black phosphorus nanosheets (BPNs)/CdS heterostructure was successfully synthesized via hydrothermal method . The experimental results indicated that BPNs modified the surface of CdS nanoparticles uniformly. Meanwhile, the BPNs/CdS heterostructure exhibited a distinguished high rate of photocatalytic activity for Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) degradation under visible light irradiation ( λ > 420 nm), the kinetic constant of TBBPA degradation reached 0.0261 min −1 was approximately 5.68 and 9.67 times higher than that of CdS and P25, respectively. Moreover, superoxide radical (•O 2 − ) is the main active component in the degradation process of TBBPA (the relative contribution is 91.57%). The photocatalytic mechanism and intermediates of the TBBPA was clarified, and a suitable model and pathway for the degradation of TBBPA were proposed. The results indicated that the toxicities of some intermediates were higher than the parent pollutant. This research provided an efficient approach by a novel photocatalyst for the removal of TBBPA from wastewater, and the appraisal methods for the latent risks from the intermediates were reported in this paper.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2025
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Zihan Zhong,Qingqing Shao,Baoxin Ni,Dazhi Wang,Zixi Xie,Libang Xu,Yakui Mu,Qisen Wang,Tan Wang,Yiwen Feng,Jingwei Hou,Kun Jiang,Anthony K. Cheetham,Tiesheng Wang
Controlling the nanostructure of conducting polymers (CPs) is essential for enhancing their performance in energy storage applications. Existing CPs often suffer from low effective pseudocapacitance due to poor ion permeability. In this study, we introduce a novel approach using hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) to synthesize porous poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). We incorporated 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) into HOF-16 by leveraging the flexible hydrogen-bonding interactions. Following the polymerization of EDOT, the HOF-16 was removed to form a porous interconnected network of PEDOT. Electrochemical evaluations demonstrated that the porous PEDOT exhibited significantly enhanced performance, including high specific capacitance, excellent rate capability, and ∼95% capacitance retention after 10,000 cycles. Compared to PEDOT prepared without HOF, the porous PEDOT showed a 34% increase in specific capacitance and a 10% improvement in 10,000-cycle capacitance retention. This work highlights the potential of HOF-enabled synthesis in creating high performance conducting polymers, offering a new avenue to improve supercapacitor performance, particularly in capacitance and cycling stability.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2024
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Yimeng Tang,Hui Zhu,Pei Chen,Fang Liu,Yi Qin,Peng Sun,Yong Yi,Jian Zhou,Tao Duan,Jiehong Lei
Effective capture of radioactive iodine vapor is a crucial part of the spent fuel reprocessing process. In this study, humic acid (HA), which has excellent recognition capture of iodine vapor, is introduced as the active site construction center, functionalizing and modifying alkali-activated collagen fiber (ACF), to prepare the biomass composite functional materials (HA@ACF). The results demonstrate that HA@ACF exhibits exceptional recognition ability and a strong affinity for iodine vapor, with an adsorption capacity of 2811.8 mg/g (ACF is only 1068.6 mg/g). Simultaneously, under relative humidity of 27 % and strong acid conditions, the iodine vapor capture capacity of HA@ACF only decreased by 17.2 %, indicating that the material exhibits excellent iodine capture performance under complex conditions. The excellent adsorption performance is attributed to the synergistic effect of abundant −NHR, C = O, and phenolic hydroxyl active sites in HA@ACF, which recognize and induce iodine vapor, resulting in the capture of iodine molecules as I 3 - . Meanwhile, DFT calculations reveal the excellent adsorption energy (−0.51 eV) of iodine vapor on the phenolic hydroxyl groups on HA . Therefore, the HA@ACF biomass composite functional material can be an ideal candidate adsorbent for the efficient recognition capture of radioactive iodine vapor in airborne effluent.
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2025
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Xiangyu Wang,Yubing Sun,Qiang Wang,Lijun Tang,Hui Wang,Tiansheng Mu,Yongchao Zhang,Xiaodong Zhu,Jian Gao
Three-dimensional (3D) carbon materials are often used as carriers for anchoring iodine in zinc-iodine batteries (ZIBs). However, the physical stacking of carbon materials during the electrode assembly process, the weaker physical interactions between non-polar carbon materials and iodine species, and the scarcity of catalytic sites for iodine conversion led to a reduced catalytic activity for the iodine redox reaction, which fails to completely inhibit the shuttling of iodine species. Here, 3D ultrafine Cu-anchored CNT-rGO carriers (3D Cu@CNT-rGO) with interconnected structures are prepared using a simple laser-induced reduction strategy. The 3D microporous structure and excellent electrical conductivity of 3D Cu@CNT-rGO make it an ideal host for iodine. Ultrafine Cu nanoparticles introduce as catalysts accelerate the redox kinetics, efficiently catalyze iodine/polyiodide conversion, inhibit polyiodide shuttling, and enhance the electrochemical performance of ZIBs. The fabricated zinc-iodide micro-batteries (ZIMBs) delivers a high specific area capacity of 1.29 mAh cm −2 , a high area energy density (1.55 mWh cm −2 ) and a high area power density (33.58 mW cm −2 ) as well as excellent cyclin stability (80% capacity retention after 4000 cycles). Meanwhile, ZIMBs have excellent mechanical flexibility and have great potential for application in the field of integrated, miniaturized and flexible electronic devices.
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2024
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Yi Zhao,Juan Wang,Rui He,Yuanyuan Ren,Jin Fu,Yunjun Zeng,Kangyi Zhang,Geng Zhong
This study investigated the influence of Konjac Glucomannan (KGM) with varying degrees of polymerization (DKGMx) on the gelatinization and retrogradation characteristics of wheat starch, providing new insights into starch-polysaccharide interactions. This research uniquely focuses on the effects of DKGMx, utilizing multidisciplinary approaches including Rapid Visco Analysis (RVA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), rheological testing, Low-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (LF-NMR), and molecular simulations to assess the effects of DKGMx on gelatinization temperature, viscosity, structural changes post-retrogradation, and molecular interactions. Our findings revealed that higher degrees of polymerization (DP) of DKGMx significantly enhanced starch's pasting viscosity and stability, whereas lower DP reduced viscosity and interfered with retrogradation. High DP DKGMx promoted retrogradation by modifying moisture distribution. Molecular simulations revealed the interplay between low DP DKGMx and starch molecules. These interactions, characterized by increased hydrogen bonds and tighter binding to more starch chains, inhibited starch molecular rearrangement. Specifically, low DP DKGMx established a dense hydrogen bond network with starch, significantly restricting molecular mobility and rearrangement. This study provides new insights into the role of the DP of DKGMx in modulating wheat starch's properties, offering valuable implications for the functional improvement of starch-based foods and advancing starch science.
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APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
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2024
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Guo Yiming,Zhang Lei,Zhao Yong,Huang Mei,Xu Min,Zhang Yong
This research employed the powder-in-tube (PIT) method to facilitate the introduction of the non-metallic element iodine (I) into the preparation of Nb 3 Al superconducting wires. After heating in a tube furnace, a rapid heating, quenching, and transformation (RHQT) treatment was conducted. It was observed that as the quantity of iodine introduced increased, the extent of the Nb/Al reaction also rose, indicating that a certain amount of iodine can be introduced to facilitate the Nb/Al reaction, thereby enabling Nb to react more fully with Al in the subsequent process and generating a Nb 3 Al superconducting phase that is closer to the stoichiometric ratio. Wires with iodine contents of 1.0 wt%, 1.5 wt%, and 2.0 wt% exhibited a diffusion layer at the Nb/Al interface after heating in a tube furnace at 1000 °C for 30 min. The primary component of the diffusion layer was Nb 2 Al. No diffusion layer was observed in the pure sample or in the group with 0.5 wt% I. However, a eutectic phase was present at the edge of Nb and Al. The wires with 1.0 wt% and 1.5 wt% I exhibited higher critical temperatures ( T c ) of 18.236 K and 17.421 K, respectively, than the pure sample. Additionally, they demonstrated superior critical current density ( J c ) properties compared to the pure sample.
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DESALINATION
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2024
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Yidong Xiao,Hedong Chen,Minzhang Li,Qinyu He,Than Zaw Oo,Mono Zaw,Nyein Wink Lwin,Kwun Nam Hui,Min Luo,Danling Tang,Guangguo Ying,Fuming Chen
The solubility feature of redox electrolyte is a key factor to influence the performance of salt removal in redox flow electrode capacitive deionization . Herein, a novel redox flow desalination using ionic liquid (IL) as the eco-friendly solvent is proposed, i.e., 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate. The high salt removal rate of 4.82 μg·min −1 ·cm −2 was obtained at the current density of 11 mA·cm −2 . The low energy consumption of 254.12 kJ·mol −1 was achievable in IL, compared with 466.3 kJ·mol −1 in aqueous solution and 317.86 kJ·mol −1 ethanol. In addition, a long-term test with 11 cycles was conducted, and the real seawater was desalinated to a freshwater standard in batch mode. This work is significant for development of low-energy consumption in redox flow desalination via the usage of novel ionic liquids as solvent.
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Food Bioscience
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2024
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Yushi Wei,Le Deng,Shuling Chen,Xing Hu,Guowen Zhang
The inhibition mechanism of starch digestion by a natural plant active ingredient isoliquiritigenin was studied. The results indicated that isoliquiritigenin effectively decreased the starch hydrolysis through increasing the content of resistant starch, and inhibiting the activities of α-amylase and α-glucosidase. The content of resistant starch increased by 18.85% with the addition of isoliquiritigenin at 8% content. Multispectral analyses showed isoliquiritigenin combined with α-amylase or α-glucosidase to form stable complexes by non-covalent bonds, leading to the enzyme's structure to be loose, which was supported by the results of unstable conformations and an increase in the freedom of amino acid residues of the enzymes in molecular dynamics simulation. Molecular docking demonstrated that isoliquiritigenin bound to the amino acid residues 304–310 nearby the active pocket of α-amylase, and inserted the active site of α-glucosidase competing with the substrate to bind the crucial amino acid residues (Asp215, Asp352 and Glu411), thereby inhibiting α-amylase and α-glucosidase activity. These findings highlight the development potential of isoliquiritigenin as a hypoglycaemic dietary supplement.
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