Materials Research Express
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2019
·Vol. 6
·期 9
·095704
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IF 1.449
Meng Xia,Shenxin Pan,Yujie Sun,Qiuzhu Luo,Zhengping Fang,Peixin He,Jing Fu,Yuhong Zhang
As a new generation of smart materials, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) is studied for its wettability transition mechanism, which is necessary for the development of the next generation of wettability transition materials. Herein, we minutely report the effects of temperature on the wettability of solid-oil-water and solid-water-air interfaces for the first time. The PNIPAM hydrogel surface (PHS) became less hydrophilic and less lipophobic with the temperature increasing, and the sharply changes in wettability occur range from 28 °C to 32 °C. Furthermore, unlike previous assumptions, our data about resonance Raman spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation suggest that dehydration of isopropyl is more likely to be a cause of drastic changes in wettability. This study suggests a novel foundation to comprehend the wetting behavior of smart PNIPAM gelation surface.
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2021
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IF 5.316
Peiyuan Mao,Yong Wang,Pandeng Xiao,Wen Zhang,Shun Rao,Zhi Wang
Herein, we demonstrate the reasonable design and preparation of yolk-heteroshell Sn@N-doped C@MoS 2 nanospheres as anode materials in sodium-ion battery. Through an effective multi-step strategy, Sn nanoparticles are encapsulated in N-doped C nanocage surrounded by ultra-thin MoS 2 nanosheets to form Sn@N-doped C@MoS 2 nanospheres. In this novel structure, Sn nanoparticles with high theoretical capacity improve the space utilization inside the heteroshell; the N-doped carbon nanocage as the skeleton not only inhibits the mutual accumulation of Sn and MoS 2 , but also improves conductivity; the outer MoS 2 ultra-thin sheets can consolidate C@MoS 2 heteroshell, provide numerous active sites and favor the fast diffusion of Na + /e - . Notably, the combination of carbon nanocage and MoS 2 sheets in the yolk-heteroshell structure can effectually buffer the volume expansion of Sn nanoyolks and reinforce C@MoS 2 heteroshell while reducing the carbon content. Therefore, the yolk-heteroshell structure plays a crucial role in enhanced reversible capacity and cyclic stability of Sn@N-doped C@MoS 2 nanospheres, which activates their sodium storage potential. The yolk-heteroshell Sn@N-doped C@MoS 2 nanospheres exhibit high reversible capacity of 488.4 mAh g −1 at 0.1 A g −1 after 300 cycles and long-cycle stability of 350.6 mAh g −1 at 0.5 A g −1 after 500 cycles. Moreover, their full cell delivers a stable reversible discharge capacity of about 80.1 mAh g −1 after 30 cycles at 0.5 C. This work provides a feasible yolk-heteroshell strategy for Sn-based composite nanomaterials .
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材料科学
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电化学
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RESEARCH ON CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES
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2015
·Vol. 42
·期 3
·2211-2220
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IF 1.221
Liu Shuilin,You Kuiyi,Jian Jian,Luo Qing,Liu Pingle,Ai Qiuhong,Luo He’an
A simple and effective approach for highly selective preparation of nitrocyclohexane from cyclohexane using tert-butyl nitrite as a nitrating agent under atmospheric pressure has been successfully developed in this work. The results indicate that the N -hydroxyphthalimide catalyst gave the best results with 27.3 % of cyclohexane conversion and 88.0 % of selectivity to nitrocyclohexane under optimal reaction conditions. The present reaction provides a novel strategy for the synthesis of nitroalkanes from the nitration of low-carbon alkanes because of the mild reaction condition, simple experimental procedure and high selectivity towards the desired product. This method may be very significant to establish such a synthesis method for aliphatic nitro-compounds from the low-carbon alkanes in organic fields.
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有机化学
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合成化学
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ENERGY & FUELS
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2022
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IF 4.654
Daofan Wang,Han Jia,Qiuxia Wang,Xiaolong Wen,Ziwei Wei,Qiang Wang,Fangning Fan,Shijie Wen,Kaihe Lv,Dexin Liu
The stability of the foam directly impacts the final efficiency of the foam flooding in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In the present work, a series of Janus SiO2-n nanoparticles (JSn NPs) with various modification degrees were successfully prepared and employed to improve the stability of the nonionic surfactant polyethylene glycolmonoisodecylether (PMIE)-stabilized foam. The PMIE–JS3 system with a much low JS3 NP concentration (0.1 wt %) displayed extraordinary foamability and stabilizing foam ability via the foam volume, half-life, relative volume decay, and optical microscope photograph measurements. Then, the dynamic surface tension and dilatational viscoelasticity tests were conducted to explore the mechanism. It was found that the PMIE–JS3 system with great interfacial activity and intensive interfacial film highly facilitated the generation of the foam and improved the foam stability. Moreover, the PMIE–JS3-stabilized foam exhibited outstanding stability, even under the influence of crude oil. The sandpack flooding tests indicated that the PMIE–JS3-stabilized foam could effectively plug the high-permeability channels to modify the water injection profile and consequently greatly enhanced tertiary oil recovery (∼15.3% of the initial oil in place).
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化学工程
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石油工程
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材料科学
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY
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2024
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IF 2.4
Li Jingzhe,Zhang Jiaxin,Ling Yikai,Long Min,Tian Rui,Liang Ti,Nong Guangzai
Pt counter electrodes are essential components of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). However, their high cost and poor stability limit the development of these cells. In the quest for alternative materials to replace Pt, this study utilized sodium lignosulfonate as the primary raw material and successfully prepared N, S co-doped hierarchical porous carbon by adjusting the ratio of thiourea. This carbon was then fabricated into a counter electrode to replace Pt. The results showed that the N, S co-doped hierarchical porous carbon exhibited superior electrochemical performance compared to single-atom doped carbon. When used as the counter electrode in DSSCs, it achieved a power conversion efficiency of 8.62%, which is higher than the 7.98% efficiency of Pt. Furthermore, it demonstrated greater stability than Pt in stability tests. These findings confirm that N, S co-doped hierarchical porous carbon could replace Pt, thereby advancing the scientific understanding of DSSCs and promoting their application and development. Graphical Abstract
研究领域:
材料科学
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能源材料
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太阳能电池
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CARBON
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2022
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IF 11.307
Dangcheng Su,Yuanhua Xiao,Yingliang Liu,Shengang Xu,Shaoming Fang,Shaokui Cao,Xuezhao Wang
2D MXenes (transition metal carbides, Ti 3 C 2 T x ) with large surface area and metallic conductivity are widely used as supporters in catalysts. Unfortunately, the single MXene sheets would deteriorate in the presence of oxygen and water, which is almost the same as the environment of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein, an “armor” was constructed to encapsulate the oxidizable MXene by a confined in-situ oxidative polymerization strategy, employing the electrostatic interaction between the exfoliated MXene sheets (negatively charged) and oxidant (Fe 3+ , positively charged). The ultra-dispersed binary Fe 3 N and Co sits coupled with the large surface area MXene supporter synergy to endow more exposed active sites, meanwhile, the density functional theory (DFT) studies reveal that a moderate binding strength between the intermediates and the binary active sites was effectively modulated to enhance the ORR performance. The synthesized Fe 3 N/Co–N–C@MXene exhibits an impressive half-wave potential (E 1/2 , 0.871V) and a lower Tafel slope of 52.56 mV dec −1 than that of Pt–C-20% (74.89 mV dec −1 ). The Fe 3 N/Co–N–C@MXene based ZAB exhibits a four times higher peak power density (189.16 mW cm −2 ) than the Pt–C-20% based ZABs and superior cycle stability within 320 h. Furthermore, the assembled flexible ZABs shows high flexibility and stability in different bending scenarios.
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材料科学
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电化学
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纳米催化
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能源存储与转换
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功能材料
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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2024
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IF 8.4
Xiaomeng Chu,Haoxi Zhang,Cuizhi Zhang,Runan Shao,Zitong Huang,Hongfu Lv,Shaojie Liu,Lei Liu,Nanwen Li,Song Zhao
Selecting appropriate polymer backbones is crucial for the advancement of anion exchange membranes (AEMs) that exhibit both high ionic conductivity and robust chemical stability. In this study, we synthesized rigid and chemically inert aryl-ether-free polyphenylene-based polymer backbones containing alkaline-resistant N-cyclic cations, i.e. dimethyl piperidinium (DMP) or 6-azonia-spiro[5.5]undecane (ASU), as high-performance AEMs. The procedure encompassed several key steps: superacid-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts polycondensation, bromomethylation, azidation, and Cu(I)-mediated azide-alkyne cycloaddition. The synthesized BP-ASU(DMP)-x copolymers demonstrated excellent film-forming capabilities to afford robust AEMs as compared to polyolefin-based counterparts. Owing to the significant incompatibility between the hydrophobic backbones and the hydrophilic cations, the BP-ASU(DMP)-x membranes exhibited a well-defined microphase-separated morphology, resulting in exceptionally high hydroxide conductivity, up to 157.2 mS cm −1 at 80 °C in water. More importantly, BP-ASU-150 membrane exhibited no chemical degradation and a conductivity retention of >97 % when immersed in 1 M NaOH solution at 80 °C for 4000 h. Compared to the poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) and polyolefin-based counterparts, the achieved outstanding alkaline stability is related to aryl-ether-free polyphenylene and alkali-stable N-cyclic cations, highlighting the importance of polymer backbones for AEM materials. Finally, all the polyphenylene-based AEMs with incorporated N-cyclic cations were assembled in single H 2 /O 2 AEMFCs, with the BP-ASU-150 membrane demonstrating a peak power density (PPD) of 860.4 mW cm −2 at a current density of 1363 mA cm −2 . We concluded that the BP-ASU(DMP) AEMs demonstrated superior performance across various metrics due to exceptional stability and robustness of polyphenylene polymers, highlighting their potential as backbones for high-performance AEM materials.
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材料科学
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能源化学
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BIOMACROMOLECULES
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2024
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IF 5.5
Xiao Sun,Aoting Li,Ning Li,Guonan Ji,Ziyuan Song
Heteropolypeptides bearing two or more functional side chains are promising polymeric materials for various biomedical applications. However, conventional preparation of heteropolypeptides relies on the synthesis and purification of each N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) monomer in a separate manner, which substantially increases the time and cost. Herein, we report the facile preparation of heteropolypeptides with up to 86% yield within several hours, which are obtained from a mixture of crude NCA monomers. The combination of n-hexane precipitation and biphasic segregation effectively removed >90% impurities from crude NCA mixtures, allowing for the successful polymerization process. Various heteropolypeptides with monomodal distribution and narrow dispersity were efficiently prepared, whose compositions were predetermined by the feeding ratios of amino acids. We believe that this work significantly simplifies the preparation of various heteropolypeptides, boosting the downstream studies of these promising materials.
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高分子科学
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材料科学
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生物技术
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化学工程
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2020
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IF 6.182
Hao Zhang,Junyan Wang,Minjie Liu,Di Liu
Cu/Al 2 O 3 catalyst was developed by a double hydrolysis precipitation. Over the Cu/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, a continuous mode of N-methylations of nitroarenes with methanol was successfully achieved under the exogenous base- and H 2 - free condition. Methylation process of nitroarenes could be controlled just by adjusting reaction conditions, affording the desired N-monomethylanilines or N, N-dimethylanilines, respectively. The characterization displayed that the double hydrolysis precipitation method made active metal Cu surface enrichment and high dispersion, meanwhile endow Cu/Al 2 O 3 with more developed pore system, which were responsible for the higher performance of our catalyst relative to Cu/Al 2 O 3 -CP. Compared with the reported batch mode, our procedure possessed the merits of low cost, environment-friendliness, better controllability and wide universality.
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催化化学
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绿色化学工程
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2018
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IF 3.525
Hualin Jiang,Jun Liu,Menglin Li,Lei Tian,Gongsheng Ding,Pinghua Chen,Xubiao Luo
Lattice-doping and surface decoration are prospective routes to improve the visible-light photocatalytic ability of TiO 2 , but the two techniques are difficult to combine into one preparation process because they are usually conducted under different conditions, which limits the efficiency of TiO 2 modification. In this study, TiO 2 was successfully modified by simultaneous lattice-doping and surface decoration, and the visible-light photocatalytic capacity was largely improved. Upon comparing the method reported here with previous ones, the most significant difference is that Fe(II)-phenanthroline was first used as the co-precursor of the introduced elements of C, N, and Fe. These three elements were simultaneously introduced to TiO 2 at high levels by this co-precursor method. The as-synthesized photocatalysts were systemically investigated and analyzed by several characterization methods such as XRD , FT-IR, XPS , Raman spectroscopy , EPR , UV-Vis DRS, photoluminescence spectra, photocurrent , electrochemical impedance spectra, TEM, and HRTEM . The photocatalytic degradation of 4-NP under visible-light irradiation was used to evaluate the photocatalytic activity of the photocatalysts. Based on the experimental data, a probable mechanism for the photocatalytic degradation by the photocatalysts is proposed. This is a novel method of using one source to simultaneously introduce metal and non-metal elements to TiO 2 at high levels, which may provide a new way to prepare highly effective TiO 2 photocatalysts.
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材料科学
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环境化学
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纳米技术
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光催化
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无机合成
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Chemistry-An Asian Journal
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2021
·Vol. 16
·期 15
·2146-2153
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IF 4.568
Liling Lei,Yiwei Zheng,Xichen Zhang,Yutian Su,Xi Zhou,Shishan Wu,Jian Shen
Graphical A new zinc-ion hybrid capacitor assembled by using a Zn@annealed ZIF-8 anode and ZIF-8 derived C cathode provides a capacity of 135.5 mAh g −1 and an energy density of 108.4 Wh kg −1 with a power density of 800 W kg −1 at 1.0 A g −1 . Zn is a promising anode for aqueous energy storage owing to it intrinsic superior properties such as large capacity, abundant reserves, low potential and safety. But, the growth of dendrites during charge and discharge leads to a decrease in reversibility. In addition, further development of zinc-ion hybrid capacitors (ZICs) is seriously challenging because of the lack of an exceptional cathode. Herein, we use ZIF-8 annealed at 500 °C (annealed ZIF-8) as a host material for stable and dendrite-free Zn anodes. Utilization of annealed ZIF-8 results in dendrite-free Zn deposition and stripping as a result of its porous construction, which contains trace Zn. Furthermore, we firstly proposed innovative N,O dual-doped carbon which was designed by the derived ZIF-8 (ZIF-8 derived C) as cathode for high-energy and power-density ZICs. The new ZIC assembled by Zn@annealed ZIF-8 anode and ZIF-8 derived C cathode provides a capacity of 135.5 mAh g −1 and an energy density of 108.4 Wh kg −1 with a power density of 800 W kg −1 at 1.0 A g −1 . In addition, it shows outstanding cycling stability of 91% capacity retention after 6000 cycles at 5.0 A g −1 . Moreover, the solid-state ZICs can drive LEDs and smart watches. This ZIC holds promise for the practical application of supercapacitors.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2019
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IF 7.467
Pengfei Tian,Jianbing Zang,Shiwei Song,Shuyu Zhou,Hongwei Gao,Hanqing Xu,Xueqing Tian,Yanhui Wang
A novel in situ templates etching method is used to prepare three-dimensional (3D) interconnected Fe-N doped hierarchical porous carbon materials. Citric acid serves as a carbon source and etchant. Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles not only provide the iron source by in situ etching but also act as templates to construct the hierarchical porous structure. The prepared optimal sample displays a high specific surface area of 1643.6 m 2 g −1 with an interconnected abundant hierarchical porous structure and homogeneous distribution of Fe and N elements in the carbon. The optimized sample displays excellent catalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance with a positive half-wave potential (0.85 V), efficient four-electron reaction and excellent durability, which are superior to those of Pt/C (20 wt%) catalyst. Meanwhile, due to the unique interconnected hierarchical porous structure, it also exhibits a high specific capacitance of 378.6 F g −1 at 0.5 A g −1 and an excellent rate capability of 276.6 F g −1 at 20 A g −1 as supercapacitors electrode materials in 6 M KOH. This work provides a simple design for the preparation of 3 D interconnected Fe-N doped hierarchical porous carbon electrode materials that display potential applications in ORR catalysts and supercapacitors.
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材料科学
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能源化学
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