CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
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2025
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Zhiqiang Zheng,Tian Qiu,Zhanghua Fu,Chuang Chen,Huancai Li,Cheng Hu
Graphical The heteroepitaxial Li deposition occurs on single-crystalline Ni(110) substrates, exhibiting the same {110}<001> texture with the substrate and a planar morphology. Using the {110}-textured epitaxial layer as the Li anode, the Li||LiPeO 4 full cell presents improved cycle life, compared with the {111}-textured Li anode and untextured Li anode. Lithium (Li) metal is recognized as a highly promising anode material for next-generation high-energy-density batteries. Nonetheless, dendrite growth and low coulombic efficiency (CE) significantly impede the practical application of Li metal anodes. The deposition morphology and chemical stability of Li are intricately linked to its crystallographic orientation. This study presents a substrate engineering approach that employs single-crystalline nickel (Ni) to facilitate epitaxial Li deposition due to their excellent lattice matching. The findings reveal that the Ni(110) substrate exhibits a more pronounced heteroepitaxial effect than Ni(111). A robust {110}-textured Li deposition was prepared on Ni(110) with a uniform planar morphology due to the lower Li self-diffusion barrier on the Li(110) plane. The {110}-textured Li epitaxial deposition improves the cycling stability in Ni-Li cells and full cells. Notably, the Li||LiFePO 4 full cell utilizing the {110}-textured Li anode exhibits a high capacity retention of 109.6 mAh cm −2 over 350 cycles at 1 C under a low negative-to-positive capacity ratio of 1.26. This investigation highlights the crucial role of substrate-induced heteroepitaxy in improving Li plating/stripping dynamics and provides insights for the development of stable Li metal anodes by crystallographic orientation modification.
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LANGMUIR
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2025
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Wen-Long Ren,Yi-kai Wang,Mingxing Zhang,Chengchen Zhang,Qian Huang,Yuyang Zeng,Zhi-Wen Lin,Kaige Guo,Dehao Xiong,Chen-Guang Zhu
The development of efficient catalysts to regulate the thermal decomposition and combustion behavior of ammonium perchlorate (AP) is essential for improving the energy output of solid propellants. In this study, a LaFe0.5Co0.5O3/Ni–Fe Prussian Blue Analogue (PBA) composite was designed to synergistically enhance the decomposition kinetics and combustion performance of AP. The composite integrates perovskite-type oxides with a conductive PBA framework, forming a bifunctional electronic–geometric catalytic interface. Systematic characterization revealed that the optimized Ni–Fe PBA effectively balanced oxygen vacancy generation, Fe2+/Fe3+ redox cycling, and a multistage pore structure. This led to a 106.9 °C reduction in AP’s thermal decomposition temperature and a 56.2% decrease in activation energy. Combustion tests demonstrated a 48.1% increase in burning rate, a 35.0% increase in flame area, and a 45.8% increase in luminescence intensity, which may be attributed to improved charge transfer and gas diffusion facilitated by interfacial synergy between the two components. This work offers a strategy for designing high-performance catalysts via interfacial engineering, with promising potential for broad applications in fuel energy modulation.
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COMPOSITES COMMUNICATIONS
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2025
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Guodong Han,Fangyuan Qi,Song Zhao,Yuxiang Jia,Junxiang Zhou,Yudeng Wang,Sai Sui,Bo Feng,Jun Wang,Jiafu Wang,Shaobo Qu
The microstructure design of new carbon nanomaterials always achieves unimaginable characteristics and performance. In this work, the influence of surface roughness ( Ra ) of porous carbon derived from Metal-Organic-Frameworks (MOFs) with different shapes on impedance matching and effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) has been given special attention. The rod shaped, spherical and sheet-like porous carbon materials are obtained at 700 °C from Ni-BTC, Ni-DOBDC and Ni-BPDC. The Ni-DOBDC-700 spherical porous carbon with a relatively large Ra (290 nm) exhibits excellent absorption performance. The minmium reflection loss ( RL min ) is -20.8 dB at 14 GHz and the EAB can reach at 6.7 GHz (11.1-17.8 GHz) when the thickness is 2.2 mm, which covers the Ku band. The spherical porous carbon, the Ni alloys and NiO particles serves the conduction channel, the sources of magnetic loss and interface polarization, respectively. The radar cross section (RCS) value of Ni-DOBDC-700 is less than -10 dB m 2 within the range of -60° to 60° and the maximum scattering intensity is only -16.5 dB m 2 at the thickness of 2 mm. The results provide a new design strategy for fabricating high performance MAMs with different morophology of MOFs derived carbon materials.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2025
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Sain Bux Jamali,Tauqeer Haidar Qamar,Sibt ul Hassan,Nouman Ahmed,Ijaz Ahmad,Pengkun Xia,Shakeel Ahmad,Shengxiang Huang,Lianwen Deng
The escalating demand for effective electromagnetic interference shielding, particularly in the challenging low-frequency microwave range such as S-band, underscores the need for advanced high-performance electromagnetic absorbing materials. Herein, three-dimensional (3D) nickel/nitrogen-doped porous carbon foam decorated with carbon spheres (3D Ni/NPCF@CS) was synthesized for S-band microwave absorption. This unique design capitalizes on the synergistic interplay between the highly conductive and porous 3D carbon skeleton, the magnetic properties of encapsulated Ni nanoparticles, and the enhanced interfacial polarization provided by the conductive polypyrrole coating. This engineered hierarchical architecture created abundant heterogeneous interfaces and microwave loss pathways. Detailed electromagnetic analysis revealed that the optimized Ni/NPCF@CS composite material exhibited exceptional reflection loss (RL) performance of −57.8 dB at 3.44 GHz. The dominant absorption mechanisms, including dielectric loss from dipole polarization, conductive loss, and magnetic loss from Ni nanoparticles, were thoroughly investigated and discussed. This study provides valuable insights into the development of 3D-foam-based microwave-absorbing materials, particularly for their practical implementation in the S-band.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2024
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Xiao-Juan Li,Hai-Tao Wan,Ming-Yu Qi,Chang-Long Tan,Zi-Rong Tang
Photocatalytic selective organic transformations coupled with hydrogen (H 2 ) generation under anaerobic conditions is a promising alternative to tackle the challenges of global energy scarcity and green synthesis. In this work, we report the synthesis and application of Ni doped Mn 0.25 Cd 0.75 S (MCS-Ni) composites for efficient selective dehydrocoupling of amines into imines and H 2 . The optimal MCS-Ni composite displays markedly enhanced activities for imines and H 2 generation, which are 7.9 and 11.5 times as high as those of pristine MCS, respectively. The Ni doping modulates the electronic structure of MCS, which improves the light-harvesting abilities and inhibits the recombination of photo-generated electron-hole pairs, thereby remarkably improving the photocatalytic performance of the MCS-Ni composite. Furthermore, the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) technique reveals that carbon centered radicals are the critical intermediates in the amine oxidation reaction. This work is promising to provide inspiration towards the rational construction of metal doped semiconductor composite photocatalysts with effective utilization of photo-generated electrons and holes for the coproduction of clean H 2 fuel and high-value added chemicals in a collaborative photoredox reaction.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2025
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Linghong Xue,Jiale Dang,Xu Li,Fangmeng Liu,Ziyu Qin,Qingji Wang
Cardiovascular disease, as the world's highest mortality disease category, is prone to acute myocardial infarction and stroke, posing a serious threat to human health. In recent years, breath analysis technology, with its significant advantages of being non-invasive, easy to operate, cost-effective, and portable, has emerged as a research hotspot and frontier in the field of early warning and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases by detecting the concentration of CO, a hallmark gas of cardiovascular diseases. Among various detection methods, metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) sensors have demonstrated significant development potential in breath analysis applications due to their comprehensive advantages, including high sensitivity, rapid response characteristics, excellent environmental adaptability, and cost-effectiveness, gradually establishing themselves as the most promising technical solution in this field. In this study, we successfully developed a high-performance CO sensor based on nickel-doped zinc oxide (Ni-ZnO) nanosheets using the aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (AACVD) technique. By optimizing the nickel doping ratio and the nanosheet structure, the sensor achieved a detection limit as low as 5 ppb for CO, while its response to 100 ppm of CO was more than 20 times higher than 100 ppm of other gases, demonstrating excellent selectivity. Therefore, CO sensors based on Ni-doped ZnO provide important technical support for the prevention and early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.
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ACS Omega
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2026
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Yutong Feng,Hui Sun,Xinyu Liu,Huiping Wu,Gaoyuan Chen,Afang Gao,Shijie Wang,Jiahui Zhou,Bin Yu
Flexible electrochemical sensors based on noninvasive materials can continuously monitor blood glucose levels in sweat, making them ideal for personal diabetes management intelligent devices. It is necessary to construct sweat glucose electrochemical sensors that have the ability to both adjust to human skin and reliably monitor. We first synthesized nickel/cobalt metal–organic framework material (Ni/Co-MOF) nanosheets via a solvent-thermal approach. Then, an oil-based polyurethane (OPU)/polypropylene spun-bonded nonwoven fabric (PPSF) was obtained by coating the surface of PPSF. Silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) paste and conductive carbon (C) paste were printed layer-by-layer on the surface of the OPU/PPSF by screen printing, followed by the immobilization of Ni–Co/MOF nanosheets on the working area using a Nafion solution to form a Ni/Co-MOF@OPU/PPSF flexible glucose sensor for continuous monitoring of glucose in sweat. This Ni/Co-MOF@OPU/PPSF flexible glucose sensor retained the high electrocatalytic activity of Ni/Co-MOF for glucose oxidation and exhibited high sensitivity (159.9 μA/mM·cm2), low limit of detection (LOD) (2 μM), and a wide linearly glucose-monitoring range (10 μM–1 mM). Compared to other nonenzymatic sensors, our Ni/Co-MOF@OPU/PPSF flexible glucose sensor has better immunity than other substances present in sweat. Meanwhile, the Ni/Co-MOF@PPSF flexible glucose sensor not only monitors the glucose in sweat at different body temperatures but also maintains good mechanical flexibility and stable electrochemical properties under bending conditions. It is suggested that our flexible glucose sensor can be used for continuous monitoring of glucose in human sweat. Overall, our glucose sensor can be used for the continuous monitoring of glucose in human sweat.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2026
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Ruoning Liu,Xinggen Yuan,Wenming Lu,Yunfei He,Shaoyun Shan,Jing Xu,Tianding Hu
Developing advanced photothermal effect photocatalysts to maximize solar utilization receives increasing attentions in photocatalytic H 2 production. Herein, a Ni-doped Zn 0.7 Cd 0.3 S (Ni-ZCS-20) integrating photothermal material and photocatalyst was constructed via simple one-step hydrothermal method. Successful incorporation of Ni into Zn 0.7 Cd 0.3 S was confirmed by various characterization techniques including XRD, XPS, SEM and TEM. Under photothermal-assisted condition, the Ni-ZCS-20 offered a superfast H 2 generation rate, reaching as high as 183 mmol/g·h, which exhibited enormous advantages over existing photocatalysts. Detailed mechanism explorations verified that such a high H 2 generation rate of Ni-ZCS-20 could be attributed to the lowed H 2 generation overpotential, broadened light absorption region, and promoted photogenerated carrier separation originating from the Ni doping. In addition, the doped Ni partly substituted the Zn in Ni-ZCS-20, providing an extra channel for photogenerated electrons and efficiently hindering the recombination of electron-hole pairs. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrated that Ni incorporation into ZCS effectively tailored its electronic structure, enhanced surface electron-supply capability, and optimized hydrogen adsorption, thereby leading to superior catalytic performance of Ni-ZCS toward HER. This finding provides valuable guidance for constructing photothermal effect materials to exploit full spectrum solar in photocatalytic H 2 evolution.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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2026
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Liming Shi,Yuheng Liao,Zeng Hong,Jiancheng Ruan,Shaodong Zhou,Chen Wu,Chao Qian
N,N-Dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine (DMAPA) is an important aliphatic diamine widely used in fine chemical manufacturing. Its industrial production traditionally relies on Raney nickel catalysts, which suffer from pyrophoric hazards and limited selectivity due to imine condensation side reactions. To address these challenges, we report an Al2O3-supported Ni-Cu alloy catalyst as an efficient alternative for the selective hydrogenation of N,N-dimethylaminopropionitrile (DMAPN). The optimized Ni30Cu5/Al2O3catalyst achieves complete DMAPN conversion and over 90% DMAPA selectivity under industrially relevant conditions (120 °C, 2.5 MPa H2). X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy analyses confirm the formation of substitutional Ni-Cu alloy nanoparticles, where Cu incorporation induces both geometric isolation of Ni ensembles and electronic modulation of surface active sites, thereby suppressing condensation-derived by-products. In addition, an NH3/ethanol-assisted process further improves selectivity while reducing autogenous operating pressure. Overall, this work demonstrates a safe and highly selective catalytic system for primary diamine synthesis, providing a practical alternative to conventional Raney Ni-based processes.
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2022
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Chao Miao,Kaixuan Shang,Lixing Liang,Shumei Chen,Jing Ouyang
In this work, a Ni-based catalyst supported on a core–shell structure catalytic carrier material (Ni/ZSM-5@MCM-41) based on kaolinite tailings is reported, which exhibits excellent CO2 methanation performance at atmospheric pressure. At 400 °C, CO2 conversion and CH4 selectivity reach 80 and 97% with the space velocity of 12,000 mL gcat–1 h–1, respectively, and it can maintain good stability during the 80 h stability test. Compared with traditional Ni/ZSM-5 and Ni/MCM-41 catalysts, Ni/ZSM-5@MCM-41 has more substantial confinement effects on the active components, and the active components are more evenly dispersed on surface of the carrier. In addition, it is confirmed by the in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy technique that CO2 methanation over the Ni/ZSM-5@MCM-41 catalyst follows the path of formate and CO as intermediates.
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2022
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Jiandan Chen,Guangxian Liu,Qi Xiao,Chenwei Wang,Zhenzeng Zhou,Chunchuan Gu,Zheng-Zhi Yin,Hongying Liu
Glucose concentration in the body is a very important index for health evaluation. Nonenzymatic glucose biosensors attract persistent interest and research. The acupuncture technique has been developed for treating the disease for thousands of years. Here, a stainless-steel acupuncture needle (AN) was first used to sense glucose after functionalizing with bimetal of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and nickel nanoparticles (NiNPs). AuNPs were electrodeposited as particle clusters, and the NiNPs could be further electrodeposited around AuNPs to form a nano-pinecone shape with a size of about 600 nm. Au/AN exhibited the best electroconductivity compared to the weakest Ni/AN and medium Ni/Au/AN interfaces. Three nanotechnically processed interfaces showed obvious electrochemical response behavior for glucose compared with the bare AN. Surprisingly, the matrix of AuNPs could drastically boost the electrochemical response of NiNPs for glucose, which might be due to the abundance of active sites in the bimetallic hierarchy. The Ni/Au/AN electrode possessed an additive signal compared with Au/AN and Ni/AN. Under the optimized conditions, the prepared nonenzymatic biosensor exhibited two linear relationships in the wide concentration range of 0.5 μM to 1.5 mM and 1.5–5 mM with sensitivities of 766.02 and 368.77 (μA/mM/cm2), and the limit of detection was 0.14 μM. Moreover, the Ni/Au/AN showed superior performance over reported electrodes with great selectivity, stability, and reproducibility. The apparent Km of 0.161 mM was lower than that of glucose oxidase, implying that the Ni/Au-modified AN exhibited a strong affinity for glucose. The fabricated biosensor can be successfully used for the detection of glucose concentration in human serum, which provided a leading direction and potential for clinical point-of-care monitoring.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2022
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Guangya Hou,Zhongwei Shen,Yiping Tang,Qiang Chen,Huazhen Cao,Huibin Zhang,Guoqu Zheng,Jianli Zhang
Direct methanol fuel cells and direct urea fuel cells are significant for mitigating the energy crisis and protecting the environment. However, as the common critical anodes for the electrooxidation of methanol and urea, most Ni-based catalysts are severely poisoned by the CO group, resulting in a decrease in current densities and stability of fuel cells. Herein, efficient bacterial cellulose (BC)-derived carbon aerogel loaded with Ni-based catalyst and WC nanoparticles co-catalyst was developed for the electrooxidation of methanol and urea. As a result, the catalytic electrode exhibits high electrocatalytic activity for methanol electrooxidation (105.7 mA cm −2 at 0.8 V) and urea electrooxidation (90.4 mA cm −2 at 0.8 V). The synergistic effect between Ni and WC can significantly weaken the surface adsorption of CO on the electrode to obtain excellent and durable electrochemical performance. For methanol oxidation reaction and urea oxidation reaction, the retentions of the peak current density after 2000 cycles in the original electrolytes are 48.94% and 74.79%, respectively. Moreover, applying the new electrolyte, the peak current density can return to 88.42% and 84.4% of the original value.
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