SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2022
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Linzhi Zuo,Yang Li,Long Cheng,Tao Yu,Yiting Che,Shitan Yan,Kiushkin Vladimir Yurievich,Ting Bian,Daifen Chen
Interfacial solar steam generation (ISSG) technology is considered to be one of the most promising approaches to alleviating the global shortage of clean water due to its high solar thermal conversion efficiency. However, achieving stable evaporation in high salinity solutions and preventing the occurrence of salt deposition phenomena remains a challenge. Here, an efficient and stable photothermal membrane-based evaporator has been developed, which consists of polydopamine (PDA) modified leaf-like zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-L) implanted in sodium alginate (SA) membrane supported on a melamine sponge (S-ZIF-L/PDA sponge), providing more advantages for boosting the photothermal conversion performance and preventing salt deposition. This S-ZIF-L/PDA sponge displays an excellent light absorption (>95 %), and remarkable evaporation rate of 1.66 kg·m −2 ·h −1 with a solar-thermal efficiency of 91.06 % under 1.0 sun (1 kW·m −2 ) illumination. Benefiting from the super hydrophilic feature of the melamine sponge and the rejection properties of the SA membrane structure, the obtained sponge effectively prevents salt and contaminants from depositing on the surface. Particularly, the S-ZIF-L/PDA sponge achieves an evaporation efficiency of 86.17 % in 20 wt% NaCl solution, along with excellent resistance to salt deposition and marvelous stability in cycling tests. The salt ion concentration of the obtained fresh water is much lower than the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water standard, and the organic removal rate exceeds 99 %. This work provides a competitive solution for high-salinity desalination and wastewater treatment.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2022
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IF 9.136
Meng Wang,Yingbo Chen,Wenxuan Su,Ke Zhao,Xianshe Feng
Chromium-containing wastewater is one of the major pollutants affecting water safety. The adsorption-reduction property of nano zero-valent iron particles (nZVI) is an effective way to counter chromium pollution. However, nZVI is affected by surface passivation as well as agglomeration in the process of use. To overcome this limitation and to strengthen its performance in the treatment of chromium-containing wastewater, we proposed a new approach by sodium alginate (SA) encapsulated nZVI loaded in the pores of aminated spherical magnesium hydroxide (MH-NH 2 ). The prepared ternary composite (nZVI@SA/MH-NH 2 ) exhibited better stability, dispersibility, larger specific surface area, and more active sites. We found that nZVI@SA/MH-NH 2 –1 could remove 97.92% of Cr(VI) from the solution within 5 min at pH = 3 without oxygen. Adsorption capacity of nZVI@SA/MH-NH 2 –1 could reach 134.00 mg/g. Moreover, the acidic environment could achieve the slow release of OH − at the expense of MH-NH 2 carriers to increase the pH of the solution, enabling the generated Cr(III) to form Cr(OH) 3 and precipitate out of the solution. nZVI@SA/MH-NH 2 could achieve the removal of total chromium from the solution in one step. This strategy contributed to the cheap and efficient separation of Cr(VI) together with Cr(III) from the wastewater.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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2023
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IF 3.8
Gaoyan Shao,Jianjie Chen,Yuming Tu,Feng Liu,Zhiyong Zhou,Shichao Tian,Zhongqi Ren
The discharge of the antibiotic wastewater has increased dramatically in our country with the development of medical science and wide application of antibiotic, resulting in serious harm to human body and ecological environment. In this work, ciprofloxacin (CIP) was selected as one of typical antibiotics and heterogeneous Fenton-like catalysts were prepared for the treatment of ciprofloxacin wastewater. The sodium alginate (SA) gel microspheres catalysts were prepared by polymerization method using double metal ions of Fe 3+ and Mn 2+ as cross-linking agents. Preparation conditions such as metal ions concentration, mass fraction of SA, polymerization temperature and dual-metal ions as crosslinking agent were optimized. Moreover, the effects of operating conditions such as initial concentration of CIP, pH value and catalyst dosage on CIP removal were studied. The kinetic equation showed that the effect of the initial concentration of CIP on the degradation rate was in line with second-order kinetics, and the effects of catalyst dosage and pH value on the degradation rate of CIP were in line with first-order kinetics. The SA gel microspheres catalysts prepared by dual-metal ions exhibited a high CIP removal and showed a good reusability after six recycles. The SA gel microspheres catalysts with an easy recovery performance provided an economical and efficient method for the removal of antibiotics in the future.
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FOOD HYDROCOLLOIDS
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2023
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Shuifang Mao,Yanming Ren,Changqing Wei,Shiguo Chen,Xingqian Ye,Tian Jinhu
Antibacterial food packaging with slow and sustained release of antibacterial agents exerts a crucial role in ensuring food quality and safety. Herein, metal-phenolic networks based on epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and iron (Fe), as well as thyme essential oil nano-emulsion (TEON) were successfully incorporated into sodium alginate (SA) matrix to prepare SA-based films through solution casting method. The effects of EGCG/Fe and different concentrations of TEON on the morphology, structure, physical properties, and functional characteristics of SA-based films were systematically analyzed. Results showed that the addition of EGCG/Fe and TEON significantly enhanced the mechanical intensity, flexibility, thermal stability, UV shielding, water vapor barrier performance, and oxygen barrier ability of the SA-based films. In addition, the introduction of TEON made the SA-based films slow-release of thyme essential oil, which obviously enhanced the antioxidant and dynamic antimicrobial properties of the films. Ultimately, the SA-based film revealed an outstanding preservation effect on pork by significantly reducing the increase rate of pH value and total plate count of pork. This developed SA-based films loaded with EGCG/Fe and TEON were expected to become a potential antibacterial material with slow-release properties for food packaging applications.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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Hui Wang,Jueying Yang,Wei Tian,Kelin Peng,Yun Xue,Haosen Zhao,Xilan Ma,Rui Shi,Yu Chen
Recently, injectable dual-crosslinked (DC) hydrogel scaffolds have attracted many attentions as a class of excellent bone regeneration biomaterials with in-situ tunable functions. However, the design of injectable DC hydrogels with cell behavior-compatible network structure and mechanical property remains a bottleneck. Herein, based on the in-situ gelling method, we constructed an injectable CMCS/PEG+SA/CaCl 2 (CPSC) chemical/physical DC hydrogel scaffold with tunable softness/hardness mechanical properties and good biocompatibility. The formation mechanism and properties of the CPSC hydrogel scaffold were investigated by FTIR , XRD, rheometry, and mechanical testing. It is found that proper softness/hardness mechanical properties can be obtained by adjusting the secondary network structure of the hydrogel. The CPSC hydrogel scaffold prepared under optimal conditions can effectively promote cell infiltration , nutrient transport, and the osteogenic differentiation of rat bone mesenchymal stem cells (rBMSCs). The in vivo experiments show that the rBMSCs-loaded injectable CPSC hydrogels with appropriate mechanical properties can effectively promote bone reconstruction . This study has provided important guidance for the construction of injectable DC hydrogels with adjustable softness/hardness to promote osteogenesis for bone defect repair.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
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2023
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IF 3.5
Hongju Liu,Jiezhao Zhan,Ruibin Lin,Ying Yin,Li Ren
Acne is a common chronic skin inflammatory disease closely related to Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes), which affects the life quality of patients worldwide, especially adolescents and young adults. However, the physical barrier of the skin makes drugs difficult to infiltrate effectively into infected site, causing acne hard to cure and easy to recur. Herein, we developed an antibacterial skin dressing with strong infiltration of antibacterial agents which can co-delivery small-molecular antimicrobial agents through stratum corneum deeply into dermis, achieving high antimicrobial efficacy. The antibacterial dressings were constructed with carboxymethyl chitosan/sodium alginate (CMCS/SA) hydrogel loading with HHC36 (an antimicrobial peptide) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) conjugates (Ag-H2/CMCS/SA hydrogel). The released Ag-H2 from Ag-H2/CMCS/SA hydrogel can early infiltrate into dermis, co-delivery HHC36 and AgNPs due to the infiltration and targeting of HHC36, presenting the superior antibacterial effect compared to HHC36 or AgNPs alone and killing 100% C. acnes and 100% Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) at a very low concentration of Ag-H2 (15 μg/mL Ag with 7.1 μg/mL HHC36). Meanwhile, Ag-H2/CMCS/SA hydrogel was biocompatible due to the natural polysaccharides carboxymethyl chitosan and sodium alginate. The HaCaT cells spread well in Ag-H2/CMCS/SA hydrogel extracts. These results indicate that the co-delivery small-molecular antimicrobial agents is a promising strategy and Ag-H2/CMCS/SA hydrogel has a great potential in the therapy of acne.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 7.392
Jinqiang Sun,Jing Zhang,Mengge Shang,Minna Zhang,Xinfu Zhao,Sijia Liu,Xiaochan Liu,Shuo Liu,Xibin Yi
Hierarchical porous carbon shows great potential in the field of energy storage due to high porosity, large surface area, and excellent electrical conductivity. Here, we successfully fabricated carbon aerogel derived from sodium alginate/melamine composite (SAM) by directional freeze-drying combined with simple carbonization and activation process. The optimal SAM-700-4 possesses a high nitrogen (5.67 at.%) and oxygen (8.98 at.%) contents along with high specific surface area of 2577.62 m 2 /g and unique directional channel structure. Due to their synergistic effect, the SAM-700-4 electrode exhibits a high specific capacitance of 441.80 F/g at a current density of 0.5 A/g. Interestingly, the all-solid-state symmetric supercapacitor based on SAM-700-4//SAM-700-4 in PVA/SA/KOH gel electrolyte has a large energy density of 20.87 Wh/kg at a power density of 4000 W/kg and exhibits excellent cycling stability. It is believed that this N, O co-doped directional hierarchical porous carbon aerogel may show promising prospects as advanced energy storage materials.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2022
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IF 8.025
Mengmeng Xie,Yanbo Zeng,Hang Wu,Shige Wang,Jiulong Zhao
Massive bleeding is a great threat to the life safety of patients, which is a challenging clinical problem. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a kind of multifunctional dressing material with hemostatic ability and antibacterial performance to promote wound healing and repair. To resolve this issue, in this study, a carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS)/sodium alginate (SA)/oxidized dextran (ODE) (CSO) multifunctional hydrogel was developed. The hydrogel could rapidly gel through Schiff base reaction and amide reaction and firmly adhere to the skin at the wound, to realize the fast hemostasis. Importantly, it was verified that the hydrogel could prevent the Staphylococcus aureus -caused wound infection, owing to the antibacterial effect of CMCS and ODE. In addition, the CSO hydrogel had good water retention capacity and was able to mimic the three-dimensional structure of the natural extracellular matrix, thereby promoting wound repair in mice. In vitro whole-blood clotting assay demonstrated that red blood cells could be adhered to the surface of hydrogel, showing good hemostasis in rat liver injury and tail amputation models. Together with the biocompatible feature, CSO hydrogel holds a great application prospect in hemostasis and wound healing.
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JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
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2022
·Vol. 103
·期 7
·3592-3601
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IF 4.125
Wen Meng,Xu Zhang,Yang Zhang,Xianglu Zhang,Wending Zhu,Handa Huang,Xiaozhao Han,Yahua Liu,Chao Xu
BACKGROUND The use of slow release fertilizers (SRFs) is an effective approach for reducing agriculture cost, environmental and ecological issues simultaneously. The present study provides a series of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/sodium alginate (SA) polymer membranes as eco-friendly and biodegradable coatings for SRFs. Moreover, polymer-coated urea (PCU) granules were fabricated through coating the urea granules with the resulting membranes. Our first interest was to fabricate three membranes (PS1, PS2, PS3) of different PVA/SA weight ratios (9:1, 8:2, 7:3) using glutaraldehyde as a crosslinking agent, and crosslink the PS3 membrane with a CaCl 2 solution further to obtain the PC3 membrane. The chemical properties and morphologies of the membranes were characterized. Second, the nitrogen release behavior of the PCU granules was measured and calculated, respectively. RESULTS Crosslinking with glutaraldehyde made the PS1, PS2, PS3 membranes uniform and compact, whereas crosslinking with a CaCl 2 solution formed an ‘egg box’ structure inside the PC3 membrane. PS3 membrane with the minimum PVA/SA weight ratio had the highest hydrophily (water uptake: 106.25%, water contact angle: 55.1 o ), whereas PC3 membrane had the lowest hydrophily (water uptake: 21.57%, water contact angle: 67.3 o ). The biodegradation ratios of the membranes were in the range 44–60% in 90 days, indicating that they had excellent biodegradability. The measured fractional release on the day 30 of the PCU granules ranged from 89.33% to 97.07%. The calculated nitrogen release behavior agreed well with the measured values. CONCLUSION The resulting eco-friendly and biodegradable PVA/SA membranes are alternative coatings for SRFs. © 2022 Society of Chemical Industry.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2022
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IF 5.518
Qu Zeng,Sihui Wan,Shujuan Yang,Xinyu Zhao,Furui He,Yamei Zhang,Xinyu Cao,Qiyan Wen,Yuhong Feng,Gaobo Yu,Lisha Pan,Jiacheng Li
Bionic hydrogel sensors have been known as promising alternatives to biomimetic skins. Here, a bionic hydrogel sensor based on sodium alginate (Alg), polyacrylamide (PAAM) and Fe 3+ have been fabricated by a simple one-pot method, shows super stretchability, excellent adhesion and conductivity. The Fe 3+ /Alg-PAAM hydrogel was endowed with a dynamic coordination dual-network structure based on controllable Fe 3+ penetration and free radical polymerization dual effect, which was equipped with the synergistic properties of high storage modulus (2200 KPa), super stretchability (1800%) and strong adhesion to various substrates (glass adhesion with 61.8 KPa). Moreover, due to abundant free ions, the Fe 3+ /Alg-PAAM hydrogel displays good conductive behavior, and further shows excellent sensing behavior and strain sensitivity as a skin sensor to monitor human movement. This work enriches the design and preparation strategies of flexible hydrogels to promote the application of Alg-based materials for the wearable electronic devices and intelligent monitoring systems.
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RSC Advances
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2022
·Vol. 12
·期 28
·18115-18126
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IF 4.036
Xiaoya Tao,Hang Shi,Ailing Cao,Luyun Cai
In this research, ovalbumin (OVA) and sodium alginate (SA) were used as the materials to prepare an OVA–SA composite carrier, which protected and encapsulated the hydrophobic kaempferol (KAE) and the hydrophilic tannic acid (TA) (OVA–SA, OVA–TA–SA, OVA–KAE–SA, and OVA–TA–KAE–SA). Results showed that the observation of small diffraction peaks in carriers proved the successful encapsulation of KAE/TA. The protein conformation of the composite nanoparticles changed. OVA–TA–SA composite nanoparticles had the highest α-helix content and the fewest random coils, so the protein structure of it had the strongest stability. OVA–TA–KAE–SA composite nanoparticles had the strongest system stability and thermal stability, which might be due to the synergistic effect of the two polyphenols, suggesting the encapsulation of KAE/TA increased the system stability and the thermal stability of OVA–SA composite nanoparticles. Additionally, the composite nanoparticles were endowed with antioxidant ability and antibacterial ability (against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli) in the order OVA–TA–SA > OVA–TA–KAE–SA > OVA–KAE–SA based on the difference in antibacterial diameter (D, mm) and square (S, mm2), indicating that polyphenols enhanced the antibacterial and antioxidant ability of OVA–SA composite nanoparticles, and the enhancement effect of TA was stronger than that of KAE. These results provide a theoretical basis for the application of OVA–SA composite nanoparticles in the delivery of bioactive compounds.
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MINERALS ENGINEERING
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2022
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IF 5.479
Long Wang,Weijian Lyu,Fuping Li,Jiaxin Liu,Hao Zhang
The efficient flotation separation of apatite and calcite is an intricate problem due to their similar physicochemical properties. The selection and utilization of selective depressant is the key to address this obstacle. In this study, sodium alginate (NaAl) was introduced as a selective inhibitor in the flotation separation of apatite from calcite with sodium oleate (NaOL) as collector. The inhibitory performance of NaAl on these two minerals was investigated via flotation tests. The depressing mechanism of NaAl was studied through zeta potential analysis, adsorption capacity tests, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) measurements and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. Flotation results indicated that NaAl demonstrated strong inhibitory impact on the calcite flotation, whereas it presented little influence on the apatite flotation in the pH range of 9–12. A concentrate with P 2 O 5 grade and recovery of 34.32% and 82.27% respectively was obtained in the bench-scale flotation experiment. Zeta potential analysis demonstrated that NaAl strongly affected the following NaOL adsorption onto the calcite surface, whereas it showed little influence on apatite. Adsorption test showed that NaAl absorbed on both these two mineral surfaces, whilst the adsorption amount on the calcite surface was significantly higher than that on the apatite surface. FTIR and XPS analyses further confirmed that NaAl adsorbed on the apatite surface through weak physical adsorption, while it chemically adhered on calcite in the form of calcium carboxyl which greatly prohibited the subsequent adhesion of NaOL on calcite. As a consequence, the calcite floatability was greatly depressed by NaAl and the selective flotation separation of apatite from calcite was realized.
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