CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2022
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IF 5.532
Shuai Hu,Maohui Yuan,Hanchang Huang,Changqing Song,Kai Han,Wenda Cui,Zining Yang,Hongyan Wang
Flame aerosol synthesis (FAS) is an excellent strategy for continuous, fast, and mass production of small-size upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), which have high potential applications in fields like biological imaging, colour display and optical temperature sensing. However, flame-made UCNPs have received less attention, and relevant studies are limited. Herein, for the first time, we successfully fabricated cerium (Ce)-doped homogeneous ultrasmall Y 2 O 3 :Yb 3+ /Ho 3+ UCNPs using a liquid-fed FAS method. Ce was doped to improve the upconversion luminescence (UCL) of the Y 2 O 3 :Yb 3+ /Ho 3+ UCNPs. The overall UCL intensity was enhanced ∼77.9-fold for an optimal concentration of 20 mol% Ce-doped UCNPs, compared with the UCNPs without Ce doping with a relatively homogeneous ultrasmall size of 8–10 nm. Further studies confirmed that both trivalent (Ce 3+ ) and tetravalent (Ce 4+ ) simultaneously exist in the Y 2 O 3 hosts and are critical in enhancing the UCL properties. In addition, the fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) method was used to evaluate the thermal properties of the fabricated UCNPs. Ce doping significantly improved the thermal sensitivity of Y 2 O 3 :Yb 3+ /Ho 3+ UCNPs. An excellent relative sensitivity ( S R ) of 0.622% K −1 at 598 K was obtained for flame-made UCNPs doped with 20 mol% Ce.
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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
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2022
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IF 5.876
Chao Miao,Shumei Chen,Lixing Liang,Kaixuan Shang,Jing Ouyang
In this paper, we used kaolinite tailings as raw materials to design and prepare ZSM-5 zeolite with “flower ball” morphology. Through the functional design of the material, Cr–Ce/ZSM-5 catalysts were prepared for CO 2 -assisted ethane oxidative dehydrogenation reaction (CO 2 -ODH). The folds and grooves on the surface of the “flower ball” ZSM-5 carrier act as a good anchor site for the loading of the active components, thus better anchoring Cr and Ce metal oxides , and leading to a strong interaction between the active component and the carrier. The 5%Cr–10%Ce/ZSM-5 catalyst exhibited the best catalytic performance, the conversion rate of C 2 H 6 and the selectivity of C 2 H 4 can always maintain the initial 64% and 80% within 30 h stability test at 800 °C. The existence of abundant Cr 6+ species in catalyst strengthens the binding ability of the catalyst and active oxygen species and promotes the formation-gasification process of carbon deposits on surface of the catalyst.
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
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2022
·Vol. 106
·期 3
·1778-1788
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IF 4.186
Xiao Ma,Zhifeng Huang,Hailong Yuan,Yujuan Zhou,Meijuan Li,Fei Chen,Qiang Shen
Rare-earth-doped transparent glass shows great potential in white light-emitting diodes (wLEDs) application due to its excellent optical and luminous properties. Currently reported commercial wLEDs have a drawback in red emission missing, which leads to a relatively low color rendering index (CRI) and a relatively high correlated color temperature (CCT). In this work, Ce@Eu Sr–Si–O glass is fabricated using a high-temperature quenching method. The white light is available when the ratio of Ce 3+ /Eu 3+ equals 1, and the emitting color can be adjusted from blue to red by controlling the ratio of Ce 3+ /Eu 3+ . To further optimize the white light, Eu 3+ ions can be reduced to Eu 2+ according to the reaction of 6Eu 3+ + 2N 3− → 6Eu 2+ + N 2 ↑ by introducing Si 3 N 4 . As a result, the standard white light emission can be achieved in the Ce@Eu silicate glass contributed by the blue light from Ce 3+ , red light from Eu 3+ , and yellow–green light from Eu 2+ (two elements, three emission). This glass shows excellent luminous properties, such as a color coordinate is (0.3651, 0.3269) in CIE 1931 color coordinate diagram, a CRI is over 70, a high quantum yield of 36.02%, and a CCT of 4117 K.
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
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2023
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IF 8.9
Jing Feng,Chengliang Zhou,Qian Yang,Zhi Dang,Lijuan Zhang
Inhibition of tailings oxidation could availably control the generation of acid mine wastewater from its source. Organosilanes serving as a high-efficiency inhibitor of the oxidation of pyrite, bring some problems including safety hazards caused by large amounts of organic solvents, difficult high-temperature curing, poor long-term properties, and so on. In our work, the PropS-SH/Ce (dbp) 3 (PS/Ce (dbp) 3 ) passivator with excellent passivation performance and self-healing properties was prepared by choosing 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (PropS-SH) and dibutyl phosphate (Ce (dbp) 3 ) as the main passivating agent and the repair agent, respectively. We reduced the ratio of ethanol to water by adjusting the pH of the organosilane condensation and also achieved room-temperature curing by extending the curing time. Electrochemical and chemical leaching experiments results showed that the most appropriate addition of Ce (dbp) 3 was 0.2 wt% for enhancing the passivation performance of the passivated coating. In a 6-month chemical leaching experiment, the PS/Ce (dbp) 3 -0.2 passivation coating cured at room temperature showed a better passivation effect and maintained 90.55% and 78.54% of total Fe and SO 4 2− passivation efficiencies. The passivation and self-healing mechanisms were investigated by FT-IR, XPS , 29 Si NMR, and other characterization methods, which were as follows: silane formed a cross-linked mesh structure by Si–O–Si bonding, in which Ce (dbp) 3 was physically filled. And the Si–OH on the surface of the passivation film formed Fe–O–Si bonds with the hydroxyl groups on the surface of the pyrite, thus attaching to the surface of the pyrite and isolating the oxidation medium. When the passivation coating was locally damaged, the oxidation reaction caused a change in pH, which accelerated the dissolution of Ce (dbp) 3 in the passivation layer. Ce 3+ underwent a valence change and formed a CeO 2 precipitate, while dbp − could form a complex with Fe 2+ on the pyrite surface, both of which worked together to repair the broken passivation coating and prevent the oxidation reaction.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2022
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IF 14.224
Sikpaam Issaka Alhassan,Haiying Wang,Yingjie He,Lvji Yan,Yuxin Jiang,Bichao Wu,Ting Wang,Haiying Gang,Lei Huang,Linfeng Jin,Yongsheng Chen
Bauxite is a widely available Al-O-rich mineral with great potential for abating fluoride. However, low adsorption capacity, a narrow workable pH range, and a lack of clarity on the best removal mechanism hinder its application. In this work, a highly efficient bauxite nanocomposite (Bx-Ce-La@500) was synthesized via doping and pyrolysis , and its fluoride adsorption in industrial wastewater was examined. Doping Ce/La synergistically improved the fluoride adsorption affinity of the composite (from pH PZC 8.0 ~ 10.0) and enhanced the •OH. The materials were characterized by SEM-EDS, BET, XRD, and TGA while XPS, FTIR, and DFT were used to investigate the mechanism of fluoride sorption . Results show that Bx-Ce-La@ 500 has a positive zeta potential of 26.3–23.1 mV from pH 1~ 10. The Langmuir model was the best fit with a maximum adsorption capacity of 88.13 mg/g and removal efficiency up to 100% in 50 ppm F − solution. The high F − removal was attributed to the enhanced surface affinity and the formation of adequate •OH on the material. Except for carbonate and phosphate ions, other ions exhibited negligible effects and the selective removal of F − in real wastewater was high. The main mechanism of adsorption was the ligand/ion exchange and electrostatic attraction.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2022
·Vol. 51
·期 21
·8240-8248
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IF 4.569
Jianfeng Fan,Xiaoqiang Du
Atomic doping and surface engineering are regarded as a promising method for improving their electrochemistry performance toward the water oxidation reaction and urea oxidation reaction (UOR) for layered double hydroxides (LDHs) containing low cost transition metals. However, the mechanism of how foreign ion doping and interface construction enhance catalytic activity remains unclear. In this work, NiFe LDH is reported as an example where Ce (Ce-NiFe LDH) is doped or the interface is constructed with Ce(OH)3(Ce(OH)3@NiFe LDH), and water oxidation and urea oxidation reaction are used as probe reactions. The Ce(OH)3@NiFe LDH material shows superior electrocatalytic performance for the water oxidation reaction (at an overpotential of 220 mV@10 mA cm−2) and urea oxidation reaction (at a potential of 1.40 V@10 mA cm−2), which is one of the best electrocatalytic performances reported so far. After a long time of stability testing, it was found that the catalytic current had significant attenuation, and further characterization showed that the surface of the electrode would be oxidized to oxyhydroxide, which is the true active species. The experimental results demonstrate that foreign Ce and Fe atom doping and interface construction improve the exposure of active centres, enhance the electron transfer rate and reduce the impedance of the NiFe LDH material. It is worth noting that this work provides new ideas for designing efficient, stable and environmentally friendly catalysts for water splitting and urea oxidation by means of doping and interface construction.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 41
·15656-15663
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IF 8.067
Guangchun Song,Qi Zhang,Shuang Liang,Ying Yao,Menglin Feng,Zainabu Majid,Xiaoyun He,Kunlun Huang,Jin-Cheng Li,Nan Cheng
The rapid, efficient, and low-cost detection of heavy metal ions using sensors has attracted widespread interest from researchers due to the health risks posed by heavy metal pollution. In recent years, single atom nanozymes with uniformly dispersed active centers and precisely designed coordination structures have been developed and used for the rational construction of various sensors. However, there is a lack of technology available to detect heavy metal ions using the catalytic activity of nanozymes. In this study, we investigated the oxidase-like (OXD-like) catalytic activity of the single atom Ce-N-C (SACe-N-C) prepared in our previous studies. Notably, we found that both Fe3+ and Cr6+ could significantly enhance the electron conversion rates of Ce3+ and Ce4+ within the SACe-N-C nanozyme, which contributed to the OXD-like activity of the nanozyme. Therefore, we constructed a time-resolved sensor to detect Fe3+ and Cr6+ using the oxidative activity of the SACe-N-C nanozyme. The LOD for Fe3+ was 34.72 ng mL−1 in the linear range of 0.25–1.5 μg mL−1, and the recoveries were in the range of 88.66–113.24%. The LOD for Cr6+ was 93.65 ng mL−1 in the linear range of 0.5–5 μg mL−1, and the recoveries were in the range of 85.49–111.22%. The sensor could rapidly detect Fe3+ and Cr6+ at 30 s and 60 s, respectively. This study provides a promising time-resolved strategy for the rapid detection of Fe3+ and Cr6+ in food using the OXD-like catalytic properties of the SACe-N-C nanozyme.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2022
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IF 7.139
Luyan Shi,Ke Zhu,Yuting Yang,Yi Liu,Shoulei Xu,Tayirjan Taylor Isimjan,Xiulin Yang
Designing a cost-effective and high-performance catalyst for NaBH 4 hydrolysis is a significant step in developing a sustainable hydrogen source . Herein, we prepared a cost-effective Ru-clusters decorated cobalt-cerium oxides coating ZIF-67 (Ru/Co 6 Ce 1 @ZIF-67) catalyst via a facile reduction method, displaying high performance and exceptional reusability in alkaline NaBH 4 solution. The optimized catalyst exhibits a high hydrogen generation rate (HGR, 5726.1 mL min −1 g −1 ), turnover frequency (TOF, 413.9 mol H2 min −1 mol R u − 1 ), and low activation energy (E a , 53.0 kJ mol −1 ), surpassing most of the recently reported catalysts. Furthermore, the catalytic performance does not change considerably after five cycles, indicating the catalyst's multi-cycle reusability. Studies imply the uniquely synergistic effect of Ru, Co/Ce oxides, abundant oxygen vacancies , as well as the porous nanocube structure, enabling the catalysts to possess high metal dispersion, outstanding catalytic performance and exceptional reusability. This work will open light on using an oxygen vacancies-rich strategy to design a high-activity catalyst for promoting NaBH 4 hydrolysis.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2022
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IF 9.136
Weihua Qin,Mingye Ren,Yuwei Lu,Shaoxia Yang
The two-stage fixed-bed reactor significantly enhanced the phenol degradation efficiency in the heterogeneous Fenton-like reaction. The Cu/Bi-Ce/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, prepared by impregnation-precipitation method, exhibited favorable phenol removal, and the phenol degradation efficiency was ∼32.6 % higher in the two-stage fixed-bed reactor than that in the one-stage fixed-bed reactor under optimal parameters. Moreover, the Cu/Bi-Ce/Al 2 O 3 catalyst had excellent stability in the Fenton-like reaction due to the bismuth doping in the catalyst inhibiting the dissolution of copper ion. The Cu/Bi-Ce/Al 2 O 3 catalyst also displayed efficient purification ability for phenolic municipal sewage in the two-stage fixed-bed reactor. The redox cycles of Cu 2+ /Cu + and Ce 4+ /Ce 3+ were evidenced coexist to enhance the catalyst activity. The quenching experiments demonstrated that the generated singlet oxygen and superoxide anion free radicals dominated the degradation of phenol in the heterogeneous Fenton-like reaction over the Cu/Bi-Ce/Al 2 O 3 catalyst. This study may provide a novel heterogeneous Fenton-like/H 2 O 2 system for degrading organic pollutants in the fixed-bed reactor.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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IF 13.273
Kaibang Xiao,Fawen Liang,Jinzhi Liang,Weicheng Xu,Zhang Liu,Biru Chen,Xueding Jiang,Xiaolian Wu,Jianan Xu,Jingzi Beiyuan,Hailong Wang
Bimetallic Fe- and Ce-embedded N-enriched porous biochar (Fe-Ce@N-BC) was synthesized to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for metronidazole (MNZ) removal. 97.5% decay of MNZ was achieved within 60 min in Fe-Ce@N-BC/PMS system. The kinetic reaction rate constant of the Fe-Ce@N-BC/PMS system (0.0566 min −1 ) was 10.5 times higher than that of the BC/PMS system (0.0054 min −1 ). The highly dispersed Fe-Ce oxide nanocrystals serve as PMS activation centers, while the addition of nitrogen source increases the surface area and porosity of biochar, as well as enhances the PMS activation performance. It is noteworthy that graphitic N and C O groups in biochar facilitates the PMS activation via a nonradical pathway and the Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ and Ce 3+ /Ce 4+ participate in the radical pathway. The presence of anion ions of SO 4 2− can promote the MNZ degradation process, while HCO 3 – and Cl − ions suppress the MNZ removal. The MNZ removal using Fe-Ce@N-BC in salty media behavior similarly with that in DDI water, while the decreased removal efficiency in real effluent could be mitigated by prolonging the reaction time. Finally, the degradation intermediate products of MNZ were identified and the pathway was proposed according to LC-MS analysis. The relatively low cytotoxicity of the Fe@Ce/N-BC evaluated by animal cell (A375) and toxicity evolution of MNZ intermediate products strongly suggest huge potential of utilization of the catalyst for aquatic environmental remediation.
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Scientific Reports
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2021
·Vol. 11
·期 1
·1-13
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IF 4.38
Tang Xi,Zhang Yifei,Li Weiqi,Geng Jinju,Ren Hongqiang,Xu Ke
Humic acid (HA) is the main component of organic matter in effluent from wastewater treatment. The effective removal of HA is significant. In this study, a novel catalyst was prepared using a transition metal oxide as the active component and Al 2 O 3 as a granular carrier. The mechanism of catalytic ozonation of HA under neutral pH conditions and its efficiency were investigated. Under the chosen conditions (an ozone concentration of 2.2 mg/L, 50 mg/L HA solution, catalyst dosage of 5 g/L and initial pH of 6.49), the Cu/Ce–Al 2 O 3 bimetallic catalyst led to 54.79% TOC removal rate after 30 min; the removal rate by ozone alone was only 20.49%. The characteristics of organic compounds determined by FT-IR and GC–MS showed that organic compounds were degraded significantly by the catalytic treatment. The addition of catalysts could effectively degrade toxic intermediates and reduce the acute toxicity produced by ozonation. Humic acid substances were largely removed and transformed into biodegradable intermediates. This study proposes a new and efficient ozonation catalyst for practical applications in advanced wastewater treatment.
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JOURNAL OF THE ENERGY INSTITUTE
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2021
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Wenbin Li,Jida Wang,Zhen Wang,Jie Chen,Xiaoan Nie,Zhangshuai Ding,Dechao Wang,Zhifeng Zheng,Yunwu Zheng,Jianchun Jiang
Pt–Sn–Ce/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalysts were synthesized by the impregnation method and used to produce aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs)-rich bio-oil via catalytic fast pyrolysis of cellulose . The upgraded products were on-line analyzed by pyrolysis-comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC × GC/MS). It was found that Pt–Sn–Ce/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalysts were effective for improving the relative content of AHs in bio-oil. Especially, Pt–Sn–Ce/γ-Al 2 O 3 contributed the highest AHs content (85.82%), which was 3 times than that of γ-Al 2 O 3 , and increased 85.44% compared with non-catalytic. In addition, Pt–Sn–Ce/γ-Al 2 O 3 and Pt–Sn/γ-Al 2 O 3 can generate the highest monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MAHs) with the relative content of 60.24% and 51.92%, respectively. Pt–Sn–Ce/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalyst can be reused five times with stable catalytic activity to produce AHs-rich bio-oil.
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