ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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2022
·Vol. 30
·期 11
·29190-29205
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IF 5.19
Qin Wenli,Chen Zefei,Liu Xueya,Zhang Xinyi,Ai Manqing,Zhang Pingping,Ye Ying,Ma Zengling
Bismuth phosphate (BiPO 4 ), a very attractive candidate for organics electrodegradation, harbors tremendous potential on removing contaminants from water. Here, four carbon microtube electrodes were prepared from corncob, each coated with BiPO 4 by a different method to study the electrodegradation of methylene blue (MB). A thorough insight into the composite features of four electrodes was characterized. Better reversibility and electrocatalytic activity of the fourth electrode (BCC4) prepared by digital signal generator was presented with a current density of 5.71 mA cm −2 at a potential of 1.6 V vs Ag/AgCl. The electrochemical impedances and actual lifetime of BCC4 were 125 Ω and 833 h, respectively. The effectiveness of each kind of BiPO 4 /carbon electrode was preliminarily evaluated by analyzing the actual conversion rate of the MB concentration, which confirms MB electrodegradation by the BiPO 4 /carbon electrode was mainly dominated by the hydroxyl radical oxidation. The mass transfer rate was increased by carbon microtube; thereby, electrocatalysis of BiPO 4 /carbon electrode increased as revealed by an increase in the MB degradation rate. The rate constants k obtained for the degradation of MB by BiPO 4 /carbon electrode at 20 ℃ was 0.0046 mM −1 s −1 , which was 11 times than that of BiPO 4 . The diffusion layer was decreased by carbon microtube, resulting in MB electrodegradation rate increased. The BiPO 4 coated on the surface of the carbon microtube electrodes strengthened their electrocatalytic performance, which shed new light on effective selection of suitable carbon electrode for degradation of organics. Therefore, BiPO 4 /carbon electrode could be potentially applied in the electrodegradation of organic pollutants. Graphical Abstract
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2022
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Caixia Fu,Miao Yan,Zhuoyue Wang,Ji Li,Xiaolei Zhang,Wei Song,Zhiliang Xu,Kalpana Bhatt,Zhongming Wang,Shunni Zhu
The huge application of synthetic dyes caused a severe impact in the environment. In the present study, a physico-chemical strategy of heterogeneous-Fenton catalyzed by the natural ferrous ore has been established for toxic chemical degradation , of which the complex and high-expense repetitive pH adjustment procedures were escaping. And this natural heterogeneous catalyst also could be recycled and sustainable for toxic substances treatment involved in synergetic adsorption and oxidation. The siderite , served as an adsorbent and catalyst for the degradation of methylene blue (MB). Siderite exhibited a better adsorption capacity with a saturated adsorption capacity of ∼11.08 mg/g. Batch adsorption experiments have verified that adsorption rate and adsorption equilibrium followed pseudo-second-order rate model and Langmuir isotherm equation, respectively. The combination with H 2 O 2 , showed significant enhancement of MB degradation without any pH adjustment. The effect of siderite dosage, H 2 O 2 dosage, MB concentration, initial pH, and reaction temperature on MB degradation was investigated, which also has indicated the excellent catalytic performance of siderite. About 99.71% of MB was degraded in 480 min with initial pH of 7.0, reaction temperature of 25 °C, siderite, and H 2 O 2 dosage of 2.5 g/L and 122.38 mM, respectively. It was found that siderite could be reused and remained high degradation efficiency on MB after 5 times reutilization, which also could demonstrate the sustainable and effective process to degrade organic pollution. The generation of reactive species including ·OH and O2·- have been confirmed based on scavenger test and electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis, which was dominated by heterogeneous reaction. The possible degradation mechanisms of MB have been predicted based on spectrum scanning and GC-MS analysis. Moreover, acute toxicity assessment with marine photobacterium Vibrio fisheri was conducted to investigate the toxicity change in the adsorption/oxidation coupled process. This sustainable heterogeneous-Fenton technology has been verified as a promising and applicable process for toxic organic chemicals removal due to effective mineralization and detoxification assisted with the natural ore mineral through the simple operation and mild condtions.
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Micromachines
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2022
·Vol. 13
·期 1
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Kai Guo,Zirui Song,Gaoxing Wang,Chengchun Tang
Microbial activity has gained attention because of its impact on the environment and the quality of people’s lives. Most of today’s methods, which include genome sequencing and electrochemistry, are costly and difficult to manage. Our group proposed a method using the redox potential change to detect microbial activity, which is rooted in the concept that metabolic activity can change the redox potential of a microbial community. The redox potential change was captured by a biosensor consisting of porous boron nitride, ATP-DNA aptamer, and methylene blue as the fluorophore. This assembly can switch on or off when there is a redox potential change, and this change leads to a fluorescence change that can be examined using a multipurpose microplate reader. The results show that this biosensor can detect microbial community changes when its composition is changed or toxic metals are ingested.Keywords:redox potential;aptamer;dysbiosis;boron nitride;fluorescence
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Environmental Science-Water Research & Technology
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2022
·Vol. 8
·期 3
·671-685
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IF 5.819
Juan Cui,Jianghui Liu,Xunfeng Xia,Xu Chai,Huahua Guo,Jianfeng Gao,Shengwang Gao
A porous carbon quantum dots (CQDs)–SrTiO3/graphene material (CSG) was synthesized using a novel sol–gel carbonized propagation method (SCPM). In this method, the prepared gel was first immersed in an organic solvent with low-temperature self-propagating properties, and after being ignited, the product is obtained through carbonized propagation processes. Various characterization studies showed that CQDs, SrTiO3 and graphene can be combined through the SCPM, and CQDs and SrTiO3 form a heterojunction on the surface of the material, which is conducive to the recovery of the photocatalyst and improvement of the photocatalytic performance. The existence of a reducing atmosphere resulted in the occurrence of the doping process of CQDs. Photocatalytic degradation experiments showed that, with the increase of ethanol consumption, the catalytic performance tends to be stable. CSG-5, which consumes 80 mL of ethanol, has the best effect on MB degradation. When the dosage is 1.5 g L−1 and the concentration of MB is 5 mg L−1, the degradation rate is 94%. h+ and ˙O2− played a major role in the degradation system of CSG-5. UPLC-MS/MS results showed that 8 kinds of intermediates were produced during the degradation process. The special structure and preparation method of CSG-5 might help to prepare better photocatalysts.
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Inorganics
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 5
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Sander Dekyvere,Mohamed Elhousseini Hilal,Somboon Chaemchuen,Serge Zhuiykov,Francis Verpoort
MOF-derived carbon-based materials have attracted widespread attention due to their relatively large surface area, morphology, and their stability in water. Considering these advantages, these materials present themselves as excellent adsorbents. In this work, a novel method was designed for the fabrication of a nano zero-valent-iron (nZVI) carbon composite. The utilization of zinc oxide nanorods (ZnONRs) in the role of sacrificial consumable nuclei for the synthesis of MIL-53 sacrificial zinc oxide nanorods (MIL-53-SNR) and the subsequent pyrolysis at 700 °C in the inert atmosphere led to a graphitic-supported nZVI material (Fe-C-SNR). Fe-C-SNR was compared with a commercial zinc oxide bulk (MIL-53-SB) and with a pristine MIL-53. By virtue of the ZnONRs, Fe-C-SNR exhibited a greatly improved mesoporous structure. Consequently, the pyrolyzed materials were applied as adsorbents for methylene blue. Fe-C-SNR’s performance increased to more than double of the pyrolyzed MIL-53 (Fe-C), with a remarkably fast adsorption time (10 min) for a concentration of 10 mg L−1with only 200 mg L−1adsorbent required. This functional composite also displayed exceptional recyclability; after ten complete cycles, Fe-C-SNR was still capable of completely adsorbing the methylene blue. The utilization of ZnONRs proves itself advantageous and could further be extended to other MOFs for a wide range of applications.Keywords:mesoporous material;zero-valent-iron nanoparticles;methylene blue adsorption;metal–organic framework
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
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2022
·Vol. 139
·期 24
·52332
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IF 3.057
Xibin Wu,Zhimei Wei,Jie Yang,Gang Zhang,Shengru Long,Xiaojun Wang
The purification of dye wastewater plays a critical role in water pollution treatment. Adsorption is a cheap and effective separation technology but is limited by the reuse of adsorption materials. Ultrafiltration membranes have a relatively high flux but their pores are too large to reject small dye molecules. In this study, negatively charged oxidized poly (arylene sulfide sulfone) (O-PASS) membrane, NMP pretreatment oxidized O-PASS (N-O-PASS) membrane, and O-PASS@UiO-66-NH 2 /O-PASS composite membranes were fabricated to retain cationic methylene blue (MB) from wastewater by combining ultrafiltration and adsorption techniques. The increased porosity of the N-O-PASS membrane provides more available adsorption sites for an equilibrium MB adsorption amount of 22.5 (mg g −1 ) and 100% rejection in the first 10 min during ultrafiltration with a pure water flux of 162.32 (L m −2 h −1 bar −1 ). Due to the enhanced hydrophilicity and separating property by deposited UiO-66-NH 2 particles and PASS resin, O-PASS@UiO-66-NH 2 /O-PASS composite membrane shows a flux of 170.32 (L m −2 h −1 bar −1 ) and a 100% MB rejection in 60 min with great reusability. The O-PASS@UiO-66-NH 2 /O-PASS composite membrane is a new promising membrane for the removal of dyes from wastewater. Meanwhile, the superior solvent resistance endows it great adaptability in wide applications, especially in harsh conditions.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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2022
·Vol. 23
·期 3
·1668
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Yansong Ji,Xiaoning Zhang,Zhenyu Chen,Yuting Xiao,Shiwei Li,Jie Gu,Hongmei Hu,Guotao Cheng
The recycling and reuse of biomass waste for the preparation of carbon-based adsorbents is a sustainable development strategy that has a positive environmental impact. It is well known that a large amount of silk sericin (SS) is dissolved in the wastewater from the silk industry. Utilizing the SS instead of discharging it into the environment without further treatment would reduce environmental and ecological problems. However, effective enrichment of the SS from the aqueous solution is a challenge. Here, with the help of carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS), which can form a gel structure under low voltage, an SS/CMCS hydrogel with SS as the major component was prepared via electrodeposition at a 3 V direct-current (DC) voltage for five minutes. Following a carbonization process, an SS-based adsorbent with good performance for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from an aqueous solution was prepared. Our results reveal that the SS/CMCS hydrogel maintains a porous architecture before and after carbonization. Such structure provides abundant adsorption sites facilitating the adsorption of MB molecules, with a maximum adsorptive capacity of 231.79 mg/g. In addition, it suggests that the adsorption is an exothermic process, has a good fit with theLangmuirmodel, and follows the intra-particle diffusion model. The presented work provides an economical and feasible path for the treatment of wastewater from dyeing and printing.Keywords:silk sericin;hydrogel;carbonization;adsorption;methylene blue
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Water
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2022
·Vol. 14
·期 12
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Shanli Wang,Lu Zhang,Mingyan Zhang,Licong Xu,Qian Hu,Tao Yang,Kaili Tu,Minghua Wu,Deyou Yu
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) featuring porous structures and large specific surface areas have shown great potential in removing organic pollutants from wastewater via adsorption processes. Although the particle size of MOFs determines the adsorption performance (something known as the size-dependent effect), engineering it into desirable dimensions for enhancing the adsorption performance is a great challenge. Here, we develop a practical and facile approach to regulate the particle size of copper benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate (Cu-BTC) adsorbents with high tunability by screening the functional modulator of various surfactants adding in hydrothermal synthesis procedure. The effect of surfactant type and concentration on the particle size of Cu-BTC was systematically investigated. The results show that the nonionic surfactant polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) demonstrated the greatest ability to control the particle size of Cu-BTC among other counterparts (e.g., N, N, N-trimethyl-1-dodecanaminium bromide (DTAB), polyethylene glycol (PEG1000), sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) and hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)). By increasing the PVP concentration to 0.14 mmol L−1, the average particle size of Cu-BTC could be correspondingly reduced by more than ten times, reaching to a comparative smaller value of 2.4 μm as compared with the reported counterparts. In addition, the PVP allowed a large increase of the surface area of Cu-BTC according to porosity analysis, resulting in a great enhancement of methylene blue (MB) adsorption. The PVP-modulated Cu-BTC showed fast adsorption kinetics for MB removal accompanied with a maximum adsorption capacity of 169.2 mg g−1, which was considerably competitive with most of the analogs reported. Therefore, our study may inspire concepts for engineering the particle size of Cu-BTCs with improved properties for more practical applications.Keywords:Cu-BTC;particle size;adsorption;surfactant;modulator
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
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2021
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Jingwei Gong,Yanzhu Guo,Jie Lu,Yi Cheng,Haisong Wang
Carbon quantum dots/titanium dioxide (CQDs/TiO 2 ) nanocomposites were synthesized with TEMPO oxidized cellulose as carbon source via a facile method. In this eco-friendly system, the photocatalytic activity of CQDs/TiO 2 were evaluated through photo-degradation of methylene blue (MB) under visible light. The results show that CQDs/TiO 2 composites possess high photocatalytic degradation efficiency up to 92%. The enhanced degradation efficiency of MB was probably attributed to that the photoelectrical properties of CQDs can lead to effective separation of photo-generated electrons-holes pairs. Moreover, the TEMPO oxidized cellulose has abundant amino groups, which can significantly improve the photophysical properties of CQDs.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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Chengli Zhang,Xun You,Yuliang Li,Yuanyuan Zuo,Wei Wang,DanDan Li,ShengWei Huang,Hangzhi Hu,Feng Yuan,Fuqiang Shao,Minggang Yin
In this work, an aptamer was used as an identifying molecule and a novel amplification strategy based on Ce-MOF and m-PdNFs-G4-MBs for the sensitive detection of dopamine (DA) is demonstrated. Notably, a novel dopamine aptamer with higher affinity and specificity was chosen, and the PdNF was functionalized with MB via embeddedness and surface decoration for enhancing the intensity of electrochemical signal. The synthesized m-PdNFs-G4-MBs nanocomposite not only acts as the electrochemical indicator but also to label single-stranded DNA (S2) to acquire signaling probes (m-PdNFs-S2-G4-MBs) as a nanocarrier . Besides, an -NH 2 modified single-strand DNA (S1) is designed, and form an S1-AP double-strand by annealing reaction with aptamer (AP), then the S1-AP is fixed on the Ce-MOF surface, decorated on electrode. In the presence of DA, DA bind to the AP and S1 regain single-stranded structure. And then, the single-stranded S1 recognizes m-PdNFs-S2-G4-MBs and captures them, ultimately producing an enhanced electrical signal. Due to the extraordinary conductive performance of Ce-MOF and the signal amplification of m-PdNFs-S2-G4-MBs, the new detection platform achieves a minimum detection limit to 6 pmol/L for DA and with a good specificity. Prominently, the results obtained from our platform for serum DA detection are highly consistent with the UPLC-MS method. These results suggest that this new platform has the potential to provide a convenient and efficient tool for the diagnosis of multiple neurological disorders in the future. This work also provides a good strategy for the construction of other biomolecule sensors.
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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
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2021
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Min Xiaobo,Li Xinyu,Zhao Jie,Hu Xiaoxian,Yang Weichun
Aiming at exploring an effective photocatalytic adsorbent for organic dye removal, a series of heterostructured TiO2@HKUST-1 photocatalysts, by incorporating HKUST-1 with different TiO2 nanoparticles loading, were prepared by single-step hydrothermal method. The morphology and surface characteristics of the as-prepared TiO2@HKUST-1were analyzed using SEM, HRTEM, XRD, FTIR, UV–vis DRS, and Photoluminescence techniques. The adsorption-photocatalytic degradation of the model dye methylene blue (MB) on the catalysts was investigated. It was indicated that the introduction of a certain amount of TiO2 on the surface of HKUST-1 could improve the transfer and separation of the photogenerated charge carriers, resulting in the enhanced photocatalytic activity. The optimal 0.02TiO2@HKUST-1 exhibited the highest MB removal rate with about 4.4 and 19.3 times as high MB removal efficiency as that of HKUST-1 and TiO2, respectively. Heterostructured TiO2@HKUST-1 materials for the removal of MB involved the integrated adsorption and visible light photocatalysis. Meanwhile, the composite exhibited good reusability in the process of cyclic experiments. Therefore, this work provides a potential MOF-based photocatalytic adsorbent for organic dye removal.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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Guolin Zheng,Yifan Cui,Yu Zhou,Zhe Jiang,Qiang Wang,Man Zhou,Ping Wang,Yuanyuan Yu
Enzymes as biocatalysts have attracted extensive attention. In addition to immobilizing or encapsulating various enzymes for combating the easy loss of enzymatic activity, strengthening the enzymatic activity upon light irradiation is a challenge. To the best of our knowledge, the work of spatiotemporally modulating the catalytic activity of artificial-natural bienzymes with a near-infrared light irradiation has not been reported. Inspired by immobilized enzymes and nanozymes, herein a platinum nanozyme was synthesized; subsequently, the platinum nanozyme was grafted on the body of laccase, thus successfully obtaining the artificial-natural bienzyme. The three-dimensional structure of the artificial-natural bienzyme was greatly different from that of the immobilized enzyme or the encapsulated enzyme. The platinum nanozyme possessed excellent laccase-like activity, which was 3.7 times higher than that of laccase. Meanwhile, the coordination between the platinum nanozyme and laccase was proved. Besides, the cascaded catalysis of artificial-natural bienzyme was verified with hydrogen peroxide as a mediator. The enzymatic activities of artificial-natural bienzyme with and without near-infrared light irradiation were, respectively, 46.2 and 29.5% higher than that of free laccase. Moreover, the reversible catalytic activity of the coupled enzyme could be manipulated with and without a near-infrared light at 808 nm. As a result, the degradation rates of methylene blue catalyzed by the coupled enzyme and the platinum nanozyme were higher than that of laccase. Furthermore, accelerating polymerization of the dopamine was also demonstrated. Briefly, this facile strategy may provide a universal approach to control the catalytic activity of other natural enzymes.
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