GOLD BULLETIN
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2015
·Vol. 48
·期 3
·153-159
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IF 1.59
Gao Haihong,Xiang Weidong,Ma Xin,Ma Li,Huang Yunyun,Ni Huibin,Shi Xingfei,Chen Guixiang,Liang Xiaojuan
Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) doped monolithic and transparent sodium borosilicate glass has been synthesized by both sol-gel and atmosphere control heat treatment methods. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra in the wavenumber range of 400 to 4000 cm −1 were applied to collect variation information of surface groups of the samples in the sintering process. The microstructure of Au NPs in the glass was characterized by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM). Meanwhile, the linear optical properties of the glass were analyzed by UV-vis spectrometer between the wavelength of 300 and 1000 nm, and a broad absorption band around 600 nm was observed. The third-order nonlinear optical properties of the glass were investigated by using Z-scan technique at the wavelength of 800 nm, pulse duration of 190 fs, and repetition rate of 20 Hz. The glass showed saturable absorption and self-focusing nonlinear refraction, and the optical nonlinear susceptibility χ
(3) was estimated to be 1.7 × 10 −14 esu, with the single-pulse energy of 1 μJ.
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材料科学
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纳米光子学
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光学材料
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非线性光学
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溶胶-凝胶技术
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 6.7
Jinyong Hu,Jiawei Zhang,Xing Liu,Hongyu Zhang,Xiong-Xiong Xue,Yong Zhang
The efficient monitoring of toxic nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) reveals a great practical significance in terms of environmental protection and human health. Tin disulfide (SnS 2 ) has recently presented bright application prospects for the NO 2 detection owing to its unique physiochemical properties. Unfortunately, the pristine SnS 2 -based gas sensor suffers from inferior selectivity to NO 2 since the emerging cross-response over interfering gases (especially to NH 3 ) at room temperature. Herein, a room-temperature-operated gas-sensitive device based on Au nanoparticles decorated SnS 2 nanosheet was proposed for the highly selective detection towards NO 2 by exploiting visible-light modulation. Benefited from the electronic sensitization and chemical sensitization of Au nanoparticles, the Au/SnS 2 gas sensor presented a visibly enhanced response toward 1 ppm NO 2 compared with pristine SnS 2 gas sensor, while its selectivity to NO 2 over NH 3 only increased by 35%. Further, through effectively modulating the adsorption and reaction behavior of gas molecules by introducing visible-light excitation, the Au/SnS 2 gas sensor manifested an excellent selectivity with 130% gain in detecting 1 ppm NO 2 at room temperature, endowed the robust repeatability and reliable long-term stability. This work thus demonstrates that the visible-light modulation can serve as a promising technique for exploiting highly selective gas-sensitive devices operating at room temperature.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Yong Xiang,Dongfang Dai,Wencai Bai,Li Xu,Guoji Liu
Current adsorbents for Au(III) recovery suffer from high costs, low adsorption capacity, recycling difficulty, as well as small-scale applications, making most of them have no commercialization potential. We report a complex adsorbent SA-TRF in this work. The aerogel made of sodium alginate (SA) serves as the carrier, and TRF resin (a resin composed of thiourea, resorcinol and formaldehyde) is used as the functional element. The thin-layered SA aerogel is evenly embedded with functionalized micron adsorbent (TRF) particles. Owing to the multiple functional groups of TRF, SA-TRF exhibited a high adsorption capacity. TRF was capable of making complete contact with Au (III) in the solution owing to the thin-layered SA aerogel. The SA aerogel's macrostructure makes it simple to collect SA-TRF in solution. The repeating unit of TRF's C S and NH functional groups were identified as being responsible for Au(III) binding, with its sulfhydryl functional group performing as the strongest binding site. The conveniently synthesized SA-TRF outperformed most other adsorbents and demonstrated significant adsorption capacity for Au (III) up to 600.2 mg/g in 70 mg/L Au-spiked water (corresponding removal efficiency is 85.7 %), which makes it particularly promising for industrial applications.
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VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY
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2023
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Tian Wang,Hong-Mei Li,Bao-Ying Wen,Rajapandiyan Panneerselvam,Yue-Jiao Zhang,An Wang,Fan-Li Zhang,Shangzhong Jin,Jian-Feng Li
Dioxin is a highly toxic and carcinogenic pollutant created during industrial production and waste incineration . Pollutant monitoring has made extensive use of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as a quick, non-destructive, sensitive, and affordable analytical method. However, the fabrication of a SERS substrate with ultrahigh sensitivity is a challenging task, the detection cost is expensive. Currently, these are the challenges faced by SERS technique for the detection of dioxin pollutants. In this paper, we present Au nanocakes (Au NCs) as an easy-to-build SERS substrate for sensitive SERS detection of dioxins in real samples. Based on three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD) calculations, the enhancement factor of the substrate following aggregation is approximately 10 10 . Using a portable Raman spectrometer, the limit of detection for dioxins such as 1-chloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin (1-CDD), 2,8-dichloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,8-DCDD), and 2,3,7-trichloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7-TrCDD) in clean water reached as low as 5, 5, and 10 ng/mL, respectively. As a real-world application, the same toxic pollutants were detected in sewage water samples. Our findings could lead to the development of novel SERS-based sensors for the rapid detection of dioxins in real-world scenarios. Moreover, a portable Raman spectrometer is used to detect the pollutants, which is easy to use and inexpensive.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Yu-Fei Li,Can-Jun Zou,Xing-Biao Liu,Feng Gan,Ping-Ping Fang
The detection of pharmaceuticals has been a matter of concern among scientists and health researchers in the past few decades. However, it is still difficult to realize the sensitivity and selectivity detection of pharmaceuticals with similar structures. Herein, the pharmaceutical molecules of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (MBI) and 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) with so similar structures can be selectively detected by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) taking advantage of the fingerprint identification on Au/MIL-101(Cr), with sensitive detection limits of 0.5 ng·mL–1 for MBI and 1 ng·mL–1 for MBT. MBI is selectively enriched by Au/MIL-101(Cr) from the mixture solution and detected by SERS below 30 ng·mL–1. MBI can also be selectively detected in the serum samples with a detection limit of 10 ng·mL–1. Density functional theory calculations combined with the SERS experiments explained that the high sensitivity and selectivity are caused by the intrinsic differences in Raman intensity and different adsorption energies from the pharmaceutical molecules adsorbed on Au/MIL-101(Cr), respectively. This study provides an effective way to enrich and detect pharmaceutical molecules with similar structures.
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Catalysts
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2023
·Vol. 13
·期 5
·864
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IF 3.9
Xiya Chen,Hangwei Jiang,Danlan Cui,Kun Lu,Xiao Kong,Junmeng Cai,Shirui Yu,Xingguang Zhang
In organic synthesis, it is important to control the selectivity target product with high purity and reduce the cost of energy and equipment for separation. This study investigated supported gold catalysts on biochar-modified titanate-based nanofibers in order to regulate the catalytic performances by biochar content and surface properties. The catalysts were characterized by SEM, TEM, XRD, XPS, ICP-OES, UV-Vis to confirm their morphology, particle size distribution of Au NPs, crystal structures, oxidation state of Au and other key elements, real Au loading, and optical properties. In the test of selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde, the biochar modification could improve the selectivity toward benzaldehyde. Moreover, the influence of catalyst calcination conditions, reaction time, reaction atmospheres, reaction temperatures and solvent were systematically investigated. These results are useful for peer researchers in rational catalyst design.Keywords:gold catalysts;selectivity regulation;selective oxidation;benzyl alcohol
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Materials
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2023
·Vol. 16
·期 11
·4010
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Su Zhang,Baoyu Huang,Zenghao Jiang,Junfan Qian,Jiawei Cao,Qiuxia Feng,Jianwei Zhang,Xiaogan Li
Au modified TiO2/In2O3hollow nanospheres were synthesized by the hydrolysis method using the carbon nanospheres as a sacrificial template. Compared to pure In2O3, pure TiO2, and TiO2/In2O3based sensors, the Au/TiO2/In2O3nanosphere-based chemiresistive-type sensor exhibited excellent sensing performances to formaldehyde at room temperature under ultraviolet light (UV-LED) activation. The response of the Au/TiO2/In2O3nanocomposite-based sensor to 1 ppm formaldehyde was about 5.6, which is higher than that of In2O3(1.6), TiO2(2.1), and TiO2/In2O3(3.8). The response time and recovery time of the Au/TiO2/In2O3nanocomposite sensor were 18 s and 42 s, respectively. The detectable formaldehyde concentration could go down as low as 60 ppb. In situ diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (DRIFTS) was used to analyze the chemical reactions on the surface of the sensor activated by UV light. The improvement in the sensing properties of the Au/TiO2/In2O3nanocomposites could be attributed to the nanoheterojunctions and electronic/chemical sensitization of the Au nanoparticles.Keywords:Au modified TiO2/In2O3hollow nanospheres;room temperature formaldehyde sensors;UV activation;in situ DRIFTS
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Chemosensors
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2023
·Vol. 11
·期 5
·289
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IF 4.2
Ji Zhang,Fangfang Zhang,Xu Li,Qingji Wang
With increasingly serious environmental problems caused by the improvement in people’s living standards, the number of cars has increased sharply in recent years, which directly leads to the continuous increase in the concentration of NO2in the air. NO2is a common toxic and irritant gas, which is harmful to both the human body and the environment. Therefore, this research focuses on NO2detection and is committed to developing high-performance, low detection limit NO2sensors. In this study, flower-like Au-loaded In2O3was successfully fabricated using the hydrothermal method and the wet impregnation method. The morphological features and chemical compositions of the as-prepared samples were characterized using SEM, TEM, XRD and XPS. A variety of sensors were fabricated and the gas-sensing properties of sensors were investigated. The results indicate that the sensor based on 0.5 mol% Au/In2O3shows a response value of 1624 to 1 ppm NO2at 100 °C, which is 14 times that based on pure In2O3. Meanwhile, the detection limit of the sensor based on 0.5 mol% Au/In2O3for NO2is 10 ppb, and the response value is 10.4. In addition, the sensor based on 0.5 mol% Au/In2O3also has high selectivity to NO2among CO, CO2, H2, CH4, NH3, SO2and H2S. Finally, the sensitization mechanism of Au/In2O3was discussed, and the reasons for improving the performance of the sensor were analyzed. The above results and analysis demonstrate that the gas-sensing attributes of the sensor based on 0.5 mol% Au/In2O3to NO2improved remarkably; at the same time, it has been proved that the composite material has extensive potential in practical applications.Keywords:NO2sensor;flower-like;Au-loaded In2O3;low detection limit;high selectivity
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Foods
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2023
·Vol. 12
·期 4
·842
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Shuying Yang,Ruixi Yang,Jingyi He,Yu Zhang,Yahong Yuan,Tianli Yue,Qinglin Sheng
Ractopamine, as a feed additive, has attracted much attention due to its excessive use, leading to the damage of the human nervous system and physiological function. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to establish a rapid and effective method for the detection of ractopamine in food. Electrochemical sensors served as a promising technique for efficiently sensing food contaminants due to their low cost, sensitive response and simple operation. In this study, an electrochemical sensor for ractopamine detection based on Au nanoparticles functionalized covalent organic frameworks (AuNPs@COFs) was constructed. The AuNPs@COF nanocomposite was synthesized by in situ reduction and was characterized by FTIR spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope and electrochemical methods. The electrochemical sensing performance of AuNPs@COF-modified glassy carbon electrode for ractopamine was investigated using the electrochemical method. The proposed sensor exhibited excellent sensing abilities towards ractopamine and was used for the detection of ractopamine in meat samples. The results showed that this method has high sensitivity and good reliability for the detection of ractopamine. The linear range was 1.2–1600 μmol/L, and the limit of detection (LOD) was 0.12 μmol/L. It is expected that the proposed AuNPs@COF nanocomposites hold great promise for food safety sensing and should be extended for application in other related fields.Keywords:food safety;food additive sensing;ractopamine;electrochemical detection;covalent organic frameworks;nanocomposites;Au nanoparticles
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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2023
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Wang Cai,Xin Dongyuan,Yue Qianwen,Wan Huiyu,Li Qian,Wang Ying,Wu Jingguo
Introduction: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional polypeptide cytokine composed of two glycoprotein chains, which plays an important role in many cellular reactions, pathological processes, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and so on. The detection of IL-6 plays a promising role in the cognition of clinical diseases.Methods: 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) was immobilized on the gold nanoparticles modified platinum carbon (PC) electrode with the linker IL-6 antibody, and finally formed an electrochemical sensor that specifically recognized IL-6. Through the highly specific antigen-antibody reaction, the IL-6 concentration of the samples to be detected. The performance of the sensor was studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV).Results: The experimental results showed that the linear detection range of the sensor for IL-6 was 100 pg/mL–700 pg/mL and the detection limit was 3 pg/mL. In addition, the sensor had the advantages of high specificity, high sensitivity, high stability and reproducibility under the interference environment of bovine serum albumin (BSA), glutathione (GSH), glycine (Gly) and neuron specific enolase (NSE), which provided a prospect for specific antigen detection sensor.Discussion: The prepared electrochemical sensor successfully detected the content of IL-6 in standard and biological samples, showing excellent detection performance. No significant difference was found between the detection results of the sensor and that of ELISA. The sensor showed a very broad prospect in the application and detection of clinical samples.
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2022
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Xingxing Yu,Yan Sun,Jieyu Hu,Junjie Wang,Xiumei Zhuang,Shenghao Zhang,Haiting Ren,Hongxing Qiu,Yueshou Zhang,Yongjun Hu
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a promising method for rapid and sensitive detection of pesticide residues. Herein, a three-dimensional MoS2/Au/Ag nanostructure was developed by employing composite systems containing semiconductors, noble metal nanoparticles, and internal standard. The MoS2 nanoflowers provide abundant anchors for the loading of plasmonic nanoparticles so as to generate intense electromagnetic “hot spots,” and the Au-MBN/Ag nanostructures can increase the accuracy of SERS detection with the calibration ability of the internal standard molecules (4-mercaptobenzonitrile, 4-MBN). Therefore, the MoS2/Au/Ag nanostructures integrate the advantages of high-enhancement SERS substrates and high-accuracy ratiometric Raman detection. Moreover, the nanostructures were fabricated via a facile procedure and showed high sensitivity, accuracy, and reproducibility in SERS detection. The nanostructures also showed good linear fitting between the ratios of Raman intensity and logarithmic concentrations of analytes in ratiometric SERS analysis. In addition, thiabendazole (TBZ) in apple juice was successfully detected by using the as-prepared SERS substrates with a limit of detection down to 0.1 ppm in practical applications. To conclude, the MoS2/Au/Ag nanostructures showed excellent SERS activity in ratiometric analysis and the substrate is expected to have great potential for the quantitative detection of low-concentration pesticide residues.
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Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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2023
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Wei Liu,Weilong Liao,Yang Ning,Xianming Zheng,Yu Ji,Zhao Dai,Zhaohui Meng,Jingwen Zhang,Junfu Wei,Huan Zhang
In this study, a novel and well-constructed composite fiber membrane (Au/mPVB) is provided for removing the low-concentration formaldehyde gas continuously released in indoor environments at room temperature. The Au/mPVB provides a microreactor-like structure for catalytic reaction , in which the fiber has a homogeneous macroporous structure, and Au NPs are uniformly loaded onto the inner wall of the macropores in the amino-modified fiber (mPVB) by template sacrifice. Formaldehyde can be enriched in the mPVB fiber under the adsorption to the amino groups, and the catalytic performance can be improved effectively under the synergistic effect of adsorption and catalysis. In the experimental results of performance tests, 1 wt% Au/mPVB exhibited a high removal efficiency of 97.5% for 0.8 ppm formaldehyde in the indoor environment, which improved the performance by 25% compared to mPVB, and no obvious decrease of catalytic activation occurred after the continuous formaldehyde-releasing experiment without catalyst regeneration.
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