ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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Zu-Sheng Huang,Xu-Feng Zang,Tao Hua,Lingyun Wang,Herbert Meier,Derong Cao
Five novel metal-free organic dyes DQ1–5 containing a dipentyldithieno[3,2-f:2′,3′-h]quinoxaline (DPQ) unit were synthesized and applied in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), where DPQ was employed as a π-spacer for the first time. Their photophysical, electrochemical, and theoretical calculations and photovoltaic properties were systematically investigated. All the five dyes show broad photoresponse. Especially the absorption edges of DQ3–5 extend to 800 nm on the TiO2 films. The inserted electron-rich unit 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene or electron-withdrawing group benzothiadiazole (BTD) in DPQ-based dyes can greatly influence the optoelectronic properties of the dyes. In addition, the different electron donors also significantly affect the performance of the DSSCs. Under standard global AM 1.5 solar light conditions, the DQ5 sensitized solar cell obtained a power conversion efficiency of 7.12%. The result indicates that the rigid DPQ-based organic dye is a promising candidate for efficient DSSCs.
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NANO
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2026
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Jia Wang,Lin Gao,Chuanyao Dong,Kan Zhang
To enhance the service performance of titanium alloys for demanding high-end equipment applications, an h-BN/SiC-Ti-MAO composite coating was fabricated on Ti6Al4V via one-step micro-arc oxidation (MAO). Optimizing the SiC additive concentration offers an effective way to improve the overall performance of the composite coating in mechanical, tribological, oxidation resistance and anti-corrosion properties. The research results show that the coating prepared with 4 g/L SiC yielded superior multifunctional properties. It possessed a dense microstructure with the lowest porosity (6.45%), high hardness (712 HV) and excellent adhesion. This coating maintained a low friction coefficient of approximately 0.20 from RT to 5 0 0 ∘ C and exhibited the best oxidation resistance at 6 0 0 ∘ C, with a parabolic rate constant ( K P ) of 3 . 3 3 × 1 0 − 4 . Electrochemical tests in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution further confirmed its optimal anti-corrosion, showing the lowest corrosion current density ( 3 . 3 2 5 × 1 0 − 9 A/cm 2 ) . In contrast, insufficient SiC concentration results in limited performance improvement of the composite coating, whereas excessive concentration introduces microstructural defects, ultimately degrading the overall performance. This study demonstrates that optimized h-BN/SiC co-doping represents an effective strategy for developing high-performance MAO protective coatings on titanium alloys.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2026
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Junbo Tian,Peng Zheng,Shuang Deng,Yongjun Ji,Tengfei Zhang,Zhiyi Sun,Wenxing Chen,Yi-Chi Wang,Lin Gu,Dong Su,Guangwen Xu,Ziyi Zhong,Fabing Su
Understanding reconstructed interfacial sites is crucial for enhancing the catalytic conversion efficiency, as these sites can facilitate reactant adsorption, transformation, and desorption. Herein, we report an unconventional interfacial structure of Pt σ + –O–Ti 4+ –H δ + –oxygen vacancy (OV), in which atomic hydrogen binds to Ti 4+ sites via a charge-compensation mechanism involving subsurface OVs. This restructuring induced by hydrogen creates electron-rich Pt centers and interfacial oxygen, resulting in spatial elongation of the Pt–O and O–Ti bonds. This Pt σ + –O site, stabilized by –Ti 4+ –(H–OV), promotes the activation of CO adsorption/interfacially absorbed oxygen and interfacial lattice oxygen, effectively coupling the Langmuir-Hinshelwood and Mars-van Krevelen pathways. These sites facilitate the rapid CO 2 formation and desorption. Consequently, this system achieves complete CO conversion at 120 °C with an ultralow Pt loading of 0.17 wt% (even in the presence of 0.005% SO 2 and 10% vol H 2 O) and a 59-fold increase in turnover frequency compared to the control sample lacking this interfacial structure.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2026
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Xiuquan Chen,Yuhua Zhao,Xiaodong Rang,Simin Hong,Jie Zhang,Xiang Cui,Yajing Liu
Rechargeable hydrogen batteries based on reversible proton insertion are promising for large-scale energy storage; however, most reported cathodes remain limited to capacities below 60 mAh g-1. Here, we report a carboxylated carbon nanotube-vanadium hexacyanoferrate (CC-VHCF) cathode for quasi-solid-state H₂ gas batteries. The comparison with C-VHCF suggests that carboxyl functionalization in the CNT-containing composite is associated with improved proton transport and storage behavior, affording a high capacity of 160.9 mAh g-1 at 1 A g-1 and an energy density of 109.7 Wh kg-1. A full cell comprising this cathode, a hydrogen anode, and a bentonite-phosphoric acid (BP) proton-conducting quasi-solid-state electrolyte achieves 163.7 mAh g-1 at 0.5 A g-1 with an energy density of 128.5 Wh kg⁻¹, based on the mass of the cathode active material, ranking among the highest values reported on a cathode-active-material basis for hydrogen batteries. The device exhibits strong rate capability and long-term cycling stability, retaining ~66% of its capacity after 10000 cycles at 20 A g-1. Notably, it maintains 88.9 mAh g-1 at -40 °C with negligible decay and operates reliably under extreme climatic conditions down to -80 °C, representing one of the best low-temperature performances reported for hydrogen and proton batteries.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL
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2026
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Linlin Wang,Bingjie Liu,Meng Liu,Jikun Li,Jinglei De,Yangchuan Ke
A BiOCl/ZIS heterojunction was constructed by ultrasound-assisted assembly. • Interfacial coupling induced directional redistribution of photocarriers. • 3-BZ efficiently degraded concentrated RhB, CR, and TC under visible light. • 3-BZ achieved efficient photocatalytic H₂O₂ production under visible light. • In situ XPS and DFT supported type-II electron transfer from ZIS to BiOCl. An ultrasound-assisted assembly route was used to construct a BiOCl/Zn₃In₂S₆ (ZIS) heterojunction for visible-light-driven pollutant degradation and H₂O₂ production. After 120 min of irradiation, the optimized composite degraded 99.59% of Rhodamine B (RhB, 600 mg/L), 99.82% of Congo red (CR, 200 mg/L), and 83.50% of Tetracycline (TC, 80 mg/L). In a separate O₂-saturated medium containing 10 vol% isopropanol, the H₂O₂ yield reached 5644 μmol g⁻¹ over the same period. In situ irradiated X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that Bi 4 f, Cl 2p, and O 1 s shifted toward lower binding energies, whereas the ZIS-associated core levels shifted toward higher binding energies. These opposite changes indicate photoelectron enrichment in BiOCl and electron depletion in ZIS. Density functional theory calculations revealed a larger work function for BiOCl (6.72 eV) than for ZIS (5.33 eV), while the differential charge density confirmed interfacial electron redistribution. Together with the density-of-states and experimental band-edge results, these findings support a type-II pathway in which electrons migrate from the ZIS conduction band (CB) to the BiOCl CB, while holes transfer from the BiOCl valence band (VB) to the ZIS VB. The resulting carrier separation favors O₂ reduction toward H₂O₂ formation and promotes oxidative pollutant degradation. Download: Download high-res image (225KB) Download: Download full-size image
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2026
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Kangjia Song,Jie Liu,Feifei Zhang,Chenduo Zhang
A high bio-based content (86.3 wt%) waterborne polyurethane was designed using renewable PLA, HCO, and PDI. • Oxime groups and UPy quadruple hydrogen bonds synergistically enhance mechanical properties and self-healing capability. • h-BN doping increases thermal conductivity by 112% and enables photothermal healing. To address the inherent conflict between the environmental sustainability and material durability of bio-based waterborne polyurethane (BWPU), this research proposes a synergistic strategy that integrates bio-based materials, functional nanofillers, and dual dynamic bonding networks. These networks consist of quadruple hydrogen-bonding arrays from 2-amino-6-methylpyrimidin-4(3H)-one (UPy) units and dynamic covalent oxime bonds. Firstly, a series of oxime-containing BWPUs was synthesized from bio-based polylactic acid polyol (PLA), hydrogenated castor oil (HCO), and 1,5-pentamethylene diisocyanate (PDI), with dimethylglyoxime (DMG) or 1,4-benzoquinone dioxime (BQDO) as chain extenders instead of conventional small-molecule diols, i.e., 1,4-Butanediol (BDO). Subsequently, a dual dynamic crosslinked network was established via end-capping modification with UPy. Finally, the hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was incorporated to enhance thermal conductivity of composite material. The experimental results showed that, compared with the single oxime-based system, the dual dynamic network constructed based on the oxime-urethane and UPy quadruple hydrogen bonds (BWPU-Q-U10) significantly enhances the comprehensive mechanical properties. The toughness of the BWPU-Q-U10 film increases from 1660.3 MJ/m 3 to 2907.4 MJ/m 3 . Furthermore, this material achieves a self-healing efficiency of 97.2% within 24 h at room temperature (25 °C), demonstrating an optimal synergy between mechanical properties and self-healing efficiency. On this basis, the introduction of 10 wt% h-BN, identified as the optimal loading, increases the thermal conductivity of the composite by 112%. Meanwhile, leveraging the photothermal effect of BQDO, this composite achieves a healing efficiency of 86.3% within 5 min under 365 nm UV irradiation. This research presents a durable, bio-based waterborne polyurethane for smart coatings that achieves rapid self-healing while maintaining environmental sustainability. Download: Download high-res image (168KB) Download: Download full-size image
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMISTRY
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2026
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Zhang Jun,Liu Boyu,Luo Laizheng,Liang Pingjuan,Li Jinzhi,Jiang Lingying,Chen Xingyi,Tang Huan,Chen Longxiang,Jin Meng,Wu Weimin,Lu Shi-Yu
The development of cost-effective, highly active and durable Pt-based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) remains a major challenge to advancing proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Hollow nanoarchitecture loaded with metal alloys has been widely used as a nanoreactor to regulate electronic structure of active sites and enhance reactant enrichment. In this study, PtCo alloy nanoparticles are uniformly dispersed on both outer and inner surfaces of hollow TiN spheres and carbon composite support (Pt 3 Co/H-TiN-C). The optimized Pt 3 Co/H-TiN-C nanoreactor delivers a mass activity of 64 mA mg Pt −1 and a specific activity of 0.122 mA cm Pt −2 at 0.90 V vs. RHE in 0.1 M HClO 4 solution. Furthermore, the Pt 3 Co/H-TiN-C nanoreactor enables an effective four-electron transfer pathway with high selectivity and low H 2 O 2 yield (less than 3%) toward ORR process. After accelerated durability tests, the half-wave potential of Pt 3 Co/H-TiN-C shows a decay of only 24 mV after 10,000 cycles, markedly smaller than Pt/C catalyst (74 mV). The enhanced durability and ORR kinetics of Pt 3 Co/H-TiN-C are attributed to the synergistic effect of strain effect in PtCo alloy, strong interactions between PtCo and H-TiN-C, and nanoreactor architecture. These features not only regulate the Pt electronic structure, increasing the Pt 0 content, but also expose more accessible active sites on the outer/inner surfaces to accelerate charge/mass transport. Moreover, alloyed Co atom suppress the dissolution of Pt, endowing an improved durability. This work provides a new strategy for designing efficient and durable Pt-based ORR catalysts for PEMFCs.
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2026
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Ziye Feng,Zijie Peng,Yang Xu,Ming Zhang,Junfang Cheng
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is central to water electrolysis for green hydrogen production, where the development of efficient, stable, and cost-effective catalysts remains a key challenge. Ruthenium (Ru)-based catalysts are highly promising for OER, yet their practical deployment is limited by poor stability and low atomic utilization. Here, we report a fluorination-assisted loading strategy to fabricate an amorphous@crystalline composite catalyst, in which amorphous RuOx active species are anchored onto a fluorine-modified Ruddlesden–Popper (R-P) perovskite support (La1.2Sr0.8Ni0.6Fe0.4O4+δFy) to form the catalyst denoted as RuOx@LSNF-F. Fluorination induces robust metal–support interactions via electronegativity differences, stabilizing Ru4+ to balance the activity and stability while constructing an ordered hydrogen-bond network and optimizing the surface wettability. Electrochemical tests in 1.0 M KOH confirm the exceptional OER performance of RuOx@LSNF-F, which achieves an overpotential of 287 mV at 10 mA cm−2, a Tafel slope of 75 mV dec−1, and a double-layer capacitance of 3.7 mF cm−2 while maintaining stable operation for over 100 h, outperforming its non-fluorinated counterpart, the pristine support, and other benchmark Ru-based catalysts. Mechanistic studies reveal that the exceptional performance arises from the synergistic coupling of the adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM) and lattice oxygen mechanism (LOM), enabled by the fluorination-engineered interface, while a hydrogen bond network is enhanced on the amorphous RuOx layer to accelerate deprotonation and improve the surface wettability. This work presents a strategy for designing high-performance perovskite-based OER catalysts and advances the understanding of their structure–activity relationships.
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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
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2023
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Chenchen Xiong,Yulin Wang,Yang Zhou,Xingyu Liu,JinHui Tang,Pan Feng
An ordered structure and high mechanical property of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel has been always pursued in the field of cementitious materials. In this paper, compacted and layer-by-layer stacking C-S-H plates were fabricated based on Layer-by-Layer (LBL) method and H-cell penetration (HCP) method through cation exchange membrane templating. This new way changed the randomly packing structure of traditional C-S-H, and synthesized a high-orderly C-S-H platelets with denser structure. Based on molecular dynamics simulations, it can be attributed to the strong adsorption and nucleation sites contributed by sulfonic acid groups on the cation exchange membrane. Besides, AFM indentation experiments indicate this C-S-H owns significantly higher elastic modulus than traditional C-S-H, while the mechanical properties can be further increased by the addition of PVA and the regulation of reaction time. This new type C-S-H may pave the way to the preparation of high-performance concrete in the future.
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Catalysis Science & Technology
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2023
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IF 5
Zhengxin Peng,Xiangbowen Du,Nan Lu,Jing Sui,Xiaofan Zhang,Renhong Li,Xiaoqing Yan
The rational design and fabrication of junction-based photocatalysts is of great importance to enhance the photocatalytic efficiency of water splitting. Herein, a new heterophase junction photocatalyst consisting of cubic bixbyite and rhombohedral corundum In2O3 (c-In2O3 and h-In2O3) was readily prepared by directly annealing an InOOH precursor in an inert atmosphere. The resulting c/h-In2O3 heterophase junction photocatalyst showed an optimal hydrogen production rate of 0.73 mmol g−1 h−1 in a 6 h period reaction from alkaline formaldehyde solution in the presence of molecular oxygen under visible light irradiation, which was approximately 5.6 and 3.4 times higher than that of single-component c-In2O3 and h-In2O3, respectively. The superior photocatalytic activity of the c/h-In2O3 heterophase junction was partially attributed to its appropriate band gap and band positions. Spectroscopic characterization and photoelectrochemistry experiments indicated that the heterophase junction photocatalyst could effectively enhance charge separation and transfer abilities between h-In2O3 and c-In2O3. Furthermore, molecular O2 was found to play a key role in mediating the photocatalytic H2 evolution from formaldehyde oxidation as a catalytic electron scavenger, and O2 was not consumed throughout the reaction. Thus, the photocatalytic activity was also greatly enhanced because the adsorption ability of oxygen species was effectively improved after the formation of heterophase junctions.
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DYES AND PIGMENTS
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2022
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IF 5.122
Bing Liu,Jin Fan,Wenzhao Liu,Guannan Zhang,Zhaoyang Wu
The structural color of photonic crystals is usually whitish and has low saturation due to multiple incoherent scattering effects, limiting its application in practical visual observation. Herein, by controlling the calcination time of [email protected] 2 nanoparticles , we obtain hollow SiO 2 with different in situ generated carbon black contents and assemble them into photonic crystal inks (PCIs). PCIs have excellent saturation and high crystallinity due to the in-situ generated carbon black capable of absorbing incoherently scattered light without affecting particle assembly. PCIs are further converted into non-close-packed photonic crystal films with highly saturated structural colors by photopolymerization of resins. This photonic crystal film can be swollen by an ethanol-water mixture, resulting in structural color changes and shifts in reflection peaks. Moreover, the photonic crystal film can dynamically change from a dry opaque state to an ethanol-wetted translucent state. Such solvent-responsive photonic crystal films with highly saturated structural colors are expected to be used in alcohol sensors and color anti-counterfeiting labels.
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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
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2022
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IF 5.141
Teng Du,Miao Cui,Yue Chao,Yuxuan Xiao,Ziqi Ren,Yonglin An,Changgong Meng
Photocatalytic application is obstructed by the self-aggregation and low specific surface area of nano materials. High dispersion of SmVO 4 nanoparticles on HMOR zeolite (HMOR) were prepared by template-free method. Not only the agglomeration of nanomaterials is restrained, but also the combination of low-cost zeolite and semiconductor to prepare high-performance photocatalyst is conducive to the rational utilization of resources. Sm(NO 3 ) 3 ·6H 2 O and NH 4 VO 3 were used as precursors, and mixed with HMOR to prepare SmVO 4 /HMOR by precipitation method.. This method does not use any templates and surfactants, realizing the high dispersion of SmVO 4 nanoparticles on the surface of HMOR with the particle size are 17 ∼ 23 nm. The photocatalytic activity of SmVO 4 /HMOR was tested by degradation of rhodamine B (RhB). Compared with the monomer of SmVO 4 , the degradation rate of 29.81 wt% SmVO 4 /HMOR was increased from 33.12 % to 70.99 % under visible light irradiation for 2.5 h. The rate constant k (0.50 h −1 ) was boosted to 2.9 times as much as SmVO 4 monomer (0.17 h −1 ). When 3.7 wt% H 2 O 2 (30 %) was added into the photocatalytic system, the photocatalytic degradation rate could reach 93.26 % within 30 min. The synergistic effect of SmVO 4 and HMOR is critical on the improvement of the removal efficiency of RhB. SmVO 4 in the form of nanoparticles on the HMOR support has high photocatalytic activity. In addition, HMOR acted as electron acceptor to accelerate the transfer efficiency of photoelectrons, inhibiting the recombination of charges and improve the photocatalytic efficiency.
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