JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
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2023
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Zi-Chen Wang,Xiao-Di Jiang,Yu-Xian Duan,Xu Wang,Zhen-Hua Ge,Jin-Ming Cai,Xiao-Ming Cai,Hong-Lin Tan
Tin selenide exhibits outstanding thermoelectric properties. Among its various forms, multicrystalline SnSe stands out as a more practical choice compared to single-crystal SnSe, owing to its straightforward chemical synthesis process, enhanced processability, and scalability. Herein, we synthesized p-type polycrystalline Sn 1−x Ag X Se bulk materials (x = 0, 0.01, 0.015, 0.02, 0.025, 0.03) using a simple hydrothermal and hot pressing method. Characterization methods such as XRD , Raman and XPS were used to demonstrate the successful doping of Ag + into the SnSe matrix. When the doping concentration reached Sn 0.98 Ag 0.02 Se (x = 0.02), Ag + reached the optimal concentration in the SnSe matrix, causing significant lattice distortion which increased phonon scattering and lowered the thermal conductivity , resulting in Sn 0.98 Ag 0.02 Se achieving ZT max = 1.14. However, when the doping concentration exceeded Sn 0.98 Ag 0.02 Se (x > 0.02), excess silver ions precipitated, partially acting as charge carriers, leading to a significant increase in electrical conductivity , resulting in Sn 0.97 Ag 0.03 Se having an electrical conductivity of 6860 s/m at 773 K. Compared to the pure phase, the electrical conductivity of Sn 0.97 Ag 0.03 Se increased by 259 %, and the ZT value of Sn 0.98 Ag 0.02 Se increased by 178%. This work demonstrates that Ag + is an effective p-type dopant in the SnSe system and indicates that high ZT values in SnSe can be achieved through a simple, low-cost, and environmentally friendly method.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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Zhijie Cui,Zhibo Yan,Jie Yin,Wenpin Wang,Mei-E Yue,Zhongcheng Li
Tailoring surface composition and coordinative environment of catalysts in a nano-meter region often influence their chemical performance. It is reported that CoP exhibits a low dissociation ability of H–OH, originating from the poor desorption of intermediate species. Herein, we provide a feasible method to construct P-Fe 2 O 3 -CoP nanosheets through a gas-phase phosphorization process. P doping induces the formation of interfacial structure between Fe 2 O 3 and CoP and the generation of defective structures. The resulting P-Fe 2 O 3 -CoP nanosheets afford high freshwater/seawater oxidation activity (250/270 mV@10 mA/cm 2 ) in 1 mol/L (M) KOH, which is even lower than commercial RuO 2 . Compared with CoP||CoP, P-Fe 2 O 3 ||P-Fe 2 O 3 , and Co 3 O 4 ||Co 3 O 4 , the assembled P-Fe 2 O 3 -CoP||P-Fe 2 O 3 -CoP exhibits the superior water/seawater electrolysis performance with 1.61/1.65 V@10 mA/cm 2 . The synergistic effect of P doping, defective structure, and heterojunction leads to high water oxidation efficiency and water splitting efficiency.
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CHEMOSPHERE
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2018
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IF 4.427
Jing Xu,Heng Zhang,Tao Luo,Zizheng Liu,Jun Xia,Xiang Zhang
The effects of co-existing nitrogen species in surface water on the phototransformation of organoarsenical p -arsanilic acid ( p -ASA) have been investigated using a xenon lamp as a simulated solar light source. Significant enhancements of p -ASA phototransformation efficiency were observed in the presence of nitrate and nitrite, increasing with the concentration of these species and pH, whereas ammonia showed no obvious effect. The products, including inorganic arsenic species and organic derivatives, have been analyzed in order to reveal the phototransformation pathways. In the nitrate and nitrite systems, only small proportions of inorganic arsenic species were generated, with the majority of p -ASA being converted into other organoarsenical derivatives through hydroxylation, nitration, and nitrosation. Phototransformation of p -ASA in collected natural surface water was also observed. This work has implications for the phototransformation of p -ASA in nitrogen-contaminated surface water.
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2018
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Zhenzhen Liu,Mingjie Chen,Yanzhu Guo,Xing Wang,Li Zhang,Jinghui Zhou,Haiming Li,Qingshan Shi
Cationic amphiphilic cellulose copolymers were prepared through grafting hydrophobic poly (p-dioxanone) (PPDO) chains onto hydrophilic quaternized cellulose derivatives (QC) via ring-opening polymerization (ROP) reaction, which was performed in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (BmimCl) and using 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) or 1,8-diazabicyclo (5.4.0) undec-7-ene (DBU) as catalyst. Their chemical structures and physical properties were confirmed by FT-IR, 1 H-, 13 C-, 2D HSQC-NMR, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and thermal stability (TGA) techniques, while self-assembly behavior was characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and fluorescence techniques. Both of the sizes and critical micelle concentration (CMC) values of micelles were decreased with increasing grafting contents of PPDO in the copolymers, which were in the ranges of 110–246 nm and 64–253 μg/mL, respectively. The ζ-potentials of micelles were cationic andranged from 39.1 mV to 45.4 mV. The highest encapsulation efficiencyof paclitaxel (PTX) into the micelles was 61.8% and 92.0% of loaded PTX was continuously released from micelles in phosphate buffered saline medium for 36 h.
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TETRAHEDRON
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2015
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Biquan Xiong,Kui Zeng,Shanshan Zhang,Yongbo Zhou,Chak-Tong Au,Shuang-Feng Yin
A novel copper-catalyzed method for the direct esterification of P(O)–OH compounds using phenols as efficient esterification reagents is illustrated. It is a simple way to generate a broad spectrum of functionalized O -aryl phosphinates , phosphonates , and phosphates from basic starting materials with moderate to excellent yields.
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Journal of Energy Chemistry
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2016
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Xin Liu,Junzhe Jiang,Yushuai Jia,Ailing Jin,Xiangshu Chen,Fei Zhang,Hongxian Han
Pure phase, regular shape and well crystallized nanorods of p-type semiconductor CaFe 2 O 4 have been fabricated for the first time by a facile molten salt assisted method, as confirmed by XRD , TEM, SEM and HRTEM. UV−vis diffuse reflectance spectra and Mott–Schottky plots show that the band structure of the CaFe 2 O 4 nanorods is narrower than that of the CaFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles synthesized by conventional method. The enhancement of the visible-light absorption is due to narrowness of the band gap in CaFe 2 O 4 nanorods. The appropriate ratio between the molten salt and the CaFe 2 O 4 precursors plays an important role in inhibiting the growth of the crystals along the (201) plane to give the desired nanorod morphology. This work not only demonstrates that highly pure p-type CaFe 2 O 4 semiconductor with tunable band structure and morphology could be obtained using the molten salt strategy, but also affirms that the bandgap of a semiconductor may be tunable by monitoring the growth of a particular crystal plane. Furthermore, the facile eutectic molten salt method developed in this work may be further extended to fabricate some other semiconductor nanomaterials with a diversity of morphologies.
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Journal of Environmental Sciences
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2024
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Weixu Tang,Jianjian Wei,Shuting Wang,Qiang Cheng,Aroob Abid,Jia Gu,Min Zheng,Dehua Ma
This study aims to identify the highly non-specific toxicity by-products during ozonation of three cresols in wastewater. In ozonated effluents, biotoxicity increased along with increasing reaction time, followed by gradual decrease. The peak biotoxicity for ozonated o -cresol ( o -C), m -cresol ( m -C), and p -cresol ( p -C) was estimated to be 17.4, 14.8 and 5.5 times higher than that of untreated wastewater, respectively. A redox-directed approach with high-resolution mass spectrometry and toxicity prediction revealed that monomeric para-benzoquinones ( p -BQs), hydroxylated p -BQs, and dimeric p -BQs in ozonated cresols were the primary contributors to the increased toxicity. Calculations based on density functional theory indicated formation pathways of p -BQs byproducts, e.g., the formation of 2-methyl- p -benzoquinone was likely induced by ozone molecules rather than hydroxyl radicals in ozonated o -C and m -C, and the formation of p -benzoquinone during ozonation of p -C was attributed to the oxidation of methyl group to carboxyl group and subsequent decarboxylation initiated by hydroxyl radicals. Electron paramagnetic resonance and spin density calculation showed that the presence of carbon-centered cresoxyl radicals was responsible for dimeric p -BQs formation. Collectively, these results underscore significant contribution of non-halogenated p -BQs to non-specific toxicity increase in ozonated effluents.
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SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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Caidi Zhang,Wanchuan Shang,Xiaoning Zhang,Xueli Huang,Xueying Wang
Cresol is an important phenolic compound derived primarily from low-temperature coal tar. The presence of m/p-cresol increases the unsaturated bonds in coal tar. This increases the hydrogen consumption in the hydrogenation process. Separation and further purification of m/p-cresol can improve the value of coal tar. The boiling points of m-cresol and p-cresol are similar and therefore difficult to separate. It has become a major problem in the development of crude phenol refining. In this work, a novel complexing agent, hexamethylenetetramine, was used to complex and separate cresols. The effects of crystallization temperature, complexing agent dosage, solvent dosage and crystallization time were investigated. The process was optimized using response the surface methodology. As a result, the purity of m-cresol could reach more than 94.2% and the yield reached more than 30.4%, indicating that the process could effectively separate the mixture of m-cresol and p-cresol.
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ADVANCED MATERIALS
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2025
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Guobin Yu,Xiaoya Liu,Weiyuan Huang,Shixin Wang,Jiqiang Zhan,Lu Ma,Hongpeng Li,Xiaojing Lin,Tongchao Liu,Khalil Amine,Hongsen Li
Rechargeable aluminum-sulfur batteries (Al-S) are emerging as a promising alternative energy storage system beyond lithium-ion batteries due to their high energy density, abundant material resources, and economic efficiency. However, their practical application remains challenged by sluggish conversion kinetics, polysulfide shuttling, and low sulfur cathode utilization. While extensive studies have focused on enhancing polysulfide adsorption through catalytic strategies, the roles of electronic structure in dictating catalytic performance remain underexplored. Here, this work unveils the critical effect of unpaired electronic structure on the catalytic performance of single atom ferromagnetic transition metals through a systematic evaluation of three typical atomically dispersed ferromagnetic single atoms—Fe, Co, and Ni—supported on porous carbon (denoted as PC-SAFAs). Comprehensive characterizations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the PC-SAFe catalysts, exhibiting the highest spin polarization arising from unpaired electrons, demonstrate the strongest interactions with polysulfide, thereby facilitating rapid and reversible polysulfide conversion reactions. Consequently, Al-S batteries incorporating the optimized PC-SAFe cathode achieve an impressive specific capacity of 508.8 mAh g −1 at 1.0 A g −1 after 500 cycles, along with much improved rate capability. This work provides a deeper understanding of the role of electronic structure in catalytic chemistry, and offers new insights for developing high-performance Al-S batteries.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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Lin Wang,Haili Huang,Dongdong Zhang,Hung-Chun Wu,Meiling Li,Huilin Hou,Weiyou Yang,Xuhui Yu,Zonghua Wang
Triethylamine (TEA) is a typically volatile organic compound that poses significant environmental and health risks, due to its high toxicity and volatility. Currently, the exploration of TEA sensors based on semiconductor ZnO is still suffered by their intrinsically low sensitivity, slow response/recovery times, and poor selectivity. Herein, we develop the highly-sensitive TEA sensors based on rationally-designed Co 3 O 4 /ZnO p-n heterojunctions, in which the clustered Co 3 O 4 are incorporated into porous ZnO nanosheets. As a result, at the given operating temperature of 260 °C, the as-constructed sensors exhibit an overall enhanced performance with an excellent response of 140.5 to 100 ppm TEA, swift response/recovery times of 6/60 s and high selectivity, representing their promise toward practical applications in advanced TEA sensors.
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Separations
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2024
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Yifeng Li,Jingyue Chen,Xiwei Tan,Han Lou,Hongbo Gu
Hexavalent chromium, one of the heavy metal pollutants in water, harms the ecological environment and human health. In this work, an aniline-p-phenylenediamine copolymer has been prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization to remove the hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) from wastewater. The results show that when the initial Cr(VI) concentration is 1.5 mg·L−1, the removal percentage (RP%) of Cr(VI) could reach 94.84% after 180 s of treatment. The RP% of Cr(VI) increases with the dosage of copolymers and decreases with an increase in the initial Cr(VI) concentration. Additionally, the RP% of Cr(VI) removal reaches a maximum of 97.70% with a pH value of 1.0. The Cr(VI) removal kinetics of the copolymers follows a pseudo-first-order chemical reaction model. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results demonstrate that the Cr(VI) removal mechanism by the aniline-p-phenylenediamine copolymer is a redox reaction. The positive value of ΔH° and negative value of ΔG° affirm that the Cr(VI) removal process by aniline-p-phenylenediamine copolymer is endothermic, thermodynamically achievable, and spontaneous.
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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
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2023
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Wenbo Ge,Zhun Li,Yajun Yang,Xiwang Liu,Zhaohan Zhu,Lixia Bai,Zhe Qin,Xiao Xu,Jianyong Li,Shihong Li
Pathogenic Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) can cause intestinal diseases in humans and livestock, damage the intestinal barrier, increase systemic inflammation, and seriously threaten human health and the development of animal husbandry. In this study, we designed and synthesized a novel conjugate florfenicol sulfathiazole (FST) based on drug combination principles, and investigated its antibacterial activity in vitro and its protective effect on inflammatory response and intestinal barrier function in E. coli O78-infected mice in vivo . The results showed that FST had superior antibacterial properties and minimal cytotoxicity compared with its prodrugs as florfenicol and sulfathiazole. FST protected mice from lethal E. coli infection, reduced clinical signs of inflammation, reduced weight loss, alleviated intestinal structural damage. FST decreased the expression of inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, and increased the expression of claudin-1, Occludin, and ZO-1 in the jejunum, improved the intestinal barrier function, and promoted the absorption of nutrients. FST also inhibited the expression of TLR4, MyD88, p-p65, and p-p38 in the jejunum. The study may lay the foundation for the development of FST as new drugs for intestinal inflammation and injury in enteric pathogen infection.
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