CRYSTENGCOMM
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2013
·Vol. 15
·期 41
·8330-8336
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IF 3.879
Yamei Li,Shidong Ji,Yanfeng Gao,Hongjie Luo,Shaotang Li,Meng Jiang,Yijie Zhou,Rong Li,Bingbing Wang,Ping Jin
This paper presents a novel vapor–solid growth approach of stem-like 1D vanadium oxide nanostructures in a core-regenerated fashion on VO2@TiO2 core–shell rods under a very low temperature (400 °C). The composition and microstructure of the as-grown nanostructures were analyzed by HRTEM, EDS and XPS, confirming the vapor–solid mechanism. The confinement effect of the shell was analyzed by varying experimental parameters (coating thickness and heating rate), and the shell was found to play a critical role in generating and accumulating vapor with supersaturated concentration for the nanocrystal nucleation. Additionally, PVP was added as a surface modifier to favor the growth, probably by forming carbonaceous/nitrogen gaseous species as carrier media, as deduced by FTIR analysis. By exploring the impact of different heating rates, we found that the mass transfer process was facilitated only using a relatively high heating rate (>1.33 °C s−1). However, such a growth was still limited only within the early stages (~15 min), because the confined vacuum interface will disappear with the progress of the crystallization of the nanoporous anatase shell. A unique 1D rods to 2D nano-flakes evolution can be achieved by increasing the heating rate from 1.3 °C s−1 to over 8 °C s−1. These findings provide a valuable understanding on the thermodynamics and kinetics during an unique VS based nanocrystal growing process, and also showed a new method to obtain hierarchical heterogeneous nanostructures.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2015
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Niu Huang,Lin Chen,Hua Huang,Weiwei Sun,Shouzheng Zhang,Panpan Sun,Xiaohua Sun,Peng Xiang,Yihua Sun,Xingzhong Zhao
TiO 2 pyramids with planar-surface morphology presenting in the phases of anatase and brookite are successfully prepared, the height of which is 300-500 nm and 80-200 nm wide at the bottom. The pyramids exhibit excellent reflectance in the visible-near infrared region. When introducing the pyramids as a scattering layer covering the layer composed of TiO 2 nanoparticles , the energy conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is enhanced from 6.49% to 7.25%. However, the pyramids overlayer falls from the nanoparticles underlayer easily, and the fill factor of the DSSC with the pyramids layer also become much lower. To solve the problem, we substitute TiO 2 microspheres underlayer for NP underlayer. As the tips of pyramids could be inserted into the submicron-sized gaps between the TiO 2 microspheres, the interface connection between layers of photoanode is reinforced. Current-Voltage measurement shows that the fill factor of the DSSC is much improved, and the DSSC has achieved 8.35% energy conversion efficiency. This study shows that the novel bilayer photoanode with improved light utilization and interface connection is an interesting structure for high efficiency DSSCs.
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Analytical Methods
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2013
·Vol. 5
·期 16
·3984-3991
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IF 1.855
Miaomiao Tian,Wei Feng,Juanjuan Ye,Qiong Jia
We reported new magnetic microspheres as the adsorbent of estrogens. They were prepared by coating Fe3O4 particles with a composite made from titanium dioxide and graphene oxide (Fe3O4@TiO2/GO). The beads were loaded into a microfluidic chip and used to adsorb estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and estriol (E3). The estrogens were then eluted from the beads with methanol and submitted to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) determination. Effects of sample volume, sample flow rate, sample pH value, and eluent flow rate were optimized. The limits of detection for estrogens were in the range of 4.3–7.5 ng mL−1, and recoveries ranged from 70.6% to 94.5%. Intra-day and inter-day relative standard deviations were less than 2.5% and 3.2%, respectively. The results indicated that the method was successfully applied to the determination of estrogens in milk and milk powder samples.
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2015
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Zhihong Zhang,Shuai Zhang,Linghao He,Donglai Peng,Fufeng Yan,Minghua Wang,Jihong Zhao,Hongzhong Zhang,Shaoming Fang
A composite made of polyacrylic acid and hollow TiO 2 spheres (TiO 2 @PPAA) was prepared by the plasma polymerization method and subsequently used as an electrode material for detecting lysozyme . The chemical structure, surface morphology , and electrochemical performance of the TiO 2 @PPAA composite were mainly affected by the plasma input power used during plasma polymerization. After optimizing plasma conditions, aptamer strands exhibited high adsorption affinity toward the surface of TiO 2 @PPAA composite via synergistic effects between TiO 2 and PPAA. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy results showed that the developed TiO 2 @PPAA aptasensor presents highly sensitive detection ability toward lysozyme; the limit of detection of the proposed aptasensor is 0.015 ng mL −1 (1.04 pM) within the range of 0.05–100 ng mL −1 in terms of 3 σ value. The film further showed excellent selectivity toward lysozyme in the presence of interfering proteins, such as thrombin, bovine serum albumin , and immunoglobulin E. Thus, this aptasensing strategy might broaden the applications of plasma polymerized nanomaterials in the field of biomedical research and early clinical diagnosis.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2017
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IF 3.034
Fujian Xu,Xiaoming Jiang,Jing Hu,Jinyi Zhang,Zhirong Zou,Xiandeng Hou,Hongjian Yan
Nano g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 composite was synthetized and utilized as a novel photocatalyst for enhanced photochemical vapor generation for sample introduction to atomic fluorescence spectrometry . High reduction efficiency for Se (VI) was obtained to facilitate its ultrasensitive determination by atomic fluorescence spectrometry, with a limit of detection of 0.08 ng mL − 1 . The photocatalytic mechanism of this composite was also discussed and demonstrated its highly efficient photocatalytic capacity and promissing applications in trace selenium (VI) determination and extraction.
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2017
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Hanna He,Qi Zhang,Haiyan Wang,Hehe Zhang,Jiadong Li,Zhiguang Peng,Yougen Tang,Minhua Shao
Inferior electronic conductivity and sluggish sodium ion diffusion are still two big challenges for TiO 2 anode material for Na ion batteries (SIBs). Herein, we synthesize TiO 2 /C composites by the pyrolysis of MIL-125(Ti) precursor and successfully introduce defects to TiO 2 /C composite by a simple magnesium reduction. The as-prepared defect-rich TiO 2-δ /C composite shows mooncake-shaped morphology consisting of TiO 2-δ nanocrystals with an average particle size of 5 nm well dispersed in the carbon matrix. When used as a SIBs anode, the defect-rich TiO 2-δ /C composite exhibits a high reversible capacity of 330.2 mAh g −1 at 50 mA g −1 at the voltage range of 0.001–3.0 V and long-term cycling stability with negligible decay after 5000 cycles. Compared with other four TiO 2 /C samples, the electrochemical performance of defect-rich TiO 2-δ /C is highly improved, which may benefit from the enhanced electronic/ionic conductivities owing to the defect-rich features, high surface area rendering shortened electronic and ionic diffusion path , and the suppress of the TiO 2 crystal aggregation during sodiation and desodiation process by the carbon matrix.
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ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2016
·Vol. 408
·期 14
·3867-3874
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IF 3.125
Chen Lingfan,Shan Yichu,Weng Yejing,Yuan Huiming,Zhang Shen,Fan Runlong,Sui Zhigang,Zhang Xiaodan,Zhang Lihua,Zhang Yukui
The analysis of protein C-termini is of great importance, because it not only provides valuable information about protein function, but also facilitates the elucidation of proteolytic processing. However, even with the recent methods for the global profiling of protein C-termini, the identification of C-termini is still far behind that of N-termini due to the lack of basic residue and low reactive carboxyl group. Therefore, an unbiased and complementary method for C-termini profiling is imperative. In this work, we developed a negative enrichment strategy to achieve the in-depth analysis of C-terminome. Proteins were firstly amidated to block carboxyl groups, followed by lysyl endoproteinase (LysC) digestion to generate C-terminal peptides with α-amines and internal peptides bearing both α- and ε-amines. After the α-amines were blocked by site-selective dimethylation or succinylation, the remaining ε-amines on internal peptides were labeled with phosphate groups. Finally, internal peptides were depleted by TiO 2 , leaving exclusively the fraction of C-terminal peptides for LC-MS/MS analysis. With Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) digests as the sample, the efficiency of amidation, dimethylation/succinylation, phosphate labeling and TiO 2 depletion was proved high. With the combination of dimethyl and succinic blocking strategy, our method enabled the identification of 477 unique C-terminal peptides in E. coli . In comparison with the C-terminal amine-based isotope labeling of substrates (C-TAILS) method, 83 C-termini were identified by both methods, whereas 369 C-termini were unique to C-TAILS and 394 to our dataset. The method proposed is therefore efficient and possibly promotes the comprehensive profiling of C-termini.
Negative isolation of C-terminal peptides with combination of site-selective blocking, phosphate labeling, and TiO 2 adsorption
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RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 28
·23102-23109
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IF 3.289
He Liu,Haitao Zhang,Peng Shen,Guoying Zhao,Suojiang Zhang
Layered inorganic–organic TiO2–ILs hybrids with tunable basal spacing were fabricated through electrostatic interaction between 2D inorganic nanosheets and organic imidazolium-based ILs. Imidazolium cations with various sizes were intercalated into lamellar titanate nanosheets, forming layered structures with slabs turbostratic restacking. The effects of cation sizes on the interfacial properties of hybrids were comprehensively investigated by XRD, SEM, TEM, AFM, FT-IR, Raman and TG techniques. The results confirmed that the ratio of interlayer imidazolium cations declined with increasing carbon chain length. A CO2 absorption experiment was conducted and TiO2–ILs compounds displayed enhanced CO2 absorption capacity with the increase of alkyl chain length, which could be attributed to the synergistic interfacial effects induced by diverse interactions between ILs and inorganic nanosheets. An absorption mechanism was proposed on account of ion-exchangeable characteristic of these layered hybrids and the intercalated H2O molecules were found to play a crucial role in CO2 uptake.
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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
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2017
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S.T. Zhang,Y.R. Ruan,C. Liu,P. Wang,Y.Q. Ma
α-Fe/FeTiO 3 /TiO 2 was synthesized through the reduction of Fe 3 O 4 @TiO 2 at 800 °C, and subsequently nitrided in NH 3 atmosphere at the nitridation temperature T N = 400, 600, 800 and 1000 °C. In the crystal lattice of TiO 2 , with increasing T N , the N element itself exhibits the chemical states of TiO 2-x N x , TiN and interstitial N, and simultaneously it induces the complex variation of the chemical state of the Ti and O elements. The photocatalytic performance of the nitrided samples is not determined only by the chemical states of the N element but by the synergistic effects of chemical states of the N, Ti and O elements.
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
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2017
·Vol. 19
·期 33
·22302-22308
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IF 4.123
Libin Yang,Di Yin,Yu Shen,Ming Yang,Xiuling Li,Xiaoxia Han,Xin Jiang,Bing Zhao
In this study, highly-dispersed TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) with abundant active sites were synthesized by a simple sol-hydrothermal method with the assistance of surfactant polyethylene glycol (PEG) which served as an effective SERS-active substrate for the first time. The observed considerable SERS enhancement of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) probe molecules on TiO2 NPs is attributed to the contribution of the charge transfer mechanism from the substrate to the probe molecule. It is suggested that PEG can act as a protective agent in the reductive calcination of the surfactant-coated nanocrystallite and consequently brings about abundant surface oxygen vacancies for TiO2 NPs, which provide more effective sites for the adsorption of probe molecules and promote the charge transfer effect and its consequent SERS enhancement. Moreover, the prepared TiO2 NPs can serve as an effective substrate for highly sensitive detection of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA). The detection limit of PABA is as low as 1 × 10−8 M, which is the highest sensitivity among the reported determination methods. And, it proves that the prepared TiO2 substrate with abundant active sites is characterized by high stability, which offers a unique long service lifetime for SERS detection without losing its activity.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2017
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IF 4.798
Fengxia Zhang,Ping Zhang,Qiong Wu,Wenjing Xiong,Qi Kang,Dazhong Shen
Herein, we proposed a simple method to measure the inner resistance of a photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor. Three photoanodes, including TiO 2 nanotubes array (TiO 2 NTs), g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs and Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs (BTC = 1,3,5-benzene- tricarboxylic acid), were chosen as the models. It was shown the change in inner resistance of the photoanode is the main factor for the photocurrent response in a PEC sensor. Under light excitation, the inner resistance of the photoanode is reduced remarkably, resulting in the increment in the photocurrent. The influence of the light intensity on the inner resistance is less than that on the photocurrent, due to the synchronous change in photovoltage . With increasing concentration of hole scavengers (e.g., H 2 O 2 , ascorbic acid), the steady inner resistances of the three photoanodes are decreased. In the PEC sensor with Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs, the Mn 3 (BTC) 2 layer is served as a size-exclusion filter to prevent the diffusion of molecules with size larger than the apertures in crystals, which improves the selectivity of the PEC sensor to smaller molecules (e.g., H 2 O 2 ). The catalytic effect of Mn 3 (BTC) 2 to H 2 O 2 enhances the PEC response sensitivity to H 2 O 2 . Under optimized conditions, the reciprocal of the averaged steady effective inner resistance of Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs is in a linear correlation with the logarithmic concentration of H 2 O 2 in the range of 0.003 to 10 μM with a limit of detection of 1 nM. This PEC sensor was applied for H 2 O 2 determination in exhaled breath condensate samples.
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SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
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2016
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Yaru Hou,Junyou Yang,Qinghui Jiang,Weixin Li,Zhiwei Zhou,Xin Li,Shuqin Zhou
By dipping the mesoporous TiO 2 film in Sr 2+ solutions and subsequent annealing, a modification layer of SrTiO 3 has been formed on the surface of the mesoporous TiO 2 film, and the effect of modification on the photovoltaic characteristics of the perovskite solar cells has been studied detailedly. The XPS and TEM results verified the existence and nature of the SrTiO 3 modification layer. Benifiting from the TiO 2 surface modification, the morphology of perovskite film and light absorption of the CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 absorber have been improved effectively, and a faster charge transfer has also been achieved between the CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 perovskite layer and the modified TiO 2 . As a result, an average conversion efficiency of 11.4% has been achieved in the perovskite solar cell based on the modified mesoporous TiO 2 by 10 mM Sr 2+ solution, and it increases approximately by 46% in comparison with the photovoltaic efficiency of 7.8% of the perovskite solar cell based the bare mesoporous TiO 2 layer.
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