ANALYST
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2012
·Vol. 137
·期 19
·4516-4523
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IF 4.23
Xun Yuan,Yi Chen
A new strategy was explored for the visual determination of Cu2+ using copper-catalysed in situ formation of Ag nanoparticles. In this method, only common reagents were used and the pre-synthesis and modification of nanoparticles are avoided. Ag+ can form a milk-white suspension (AgBr) with Br− in an aqueous solution composed of AgNO3, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, ascorbic acid, bovine serum albumin, and NaNO3. The reaction will be stopped by addition of Cu2+, accompanied by a colour change from milk-white to orange or brilliant yellow. Cu+ (the reduction product of Cu2+) consumes the dissolved O2 and prevents the O2 from oxidizing the newly reduced Ag atoms (by ascorbic acid) back to Ag+, facilitating the further aggregation of Ag atoms to become Ag nanoparticles. The visible colour change was shown to be specific towards Cu2+ over most other metal ions. The limit of detection was 0.75 μM Cu2+ by the naked eye and 0.25 μM by spectrometer. Quantitation of Cu2+ was achieved in a linear range from 0.25 to 2.0 μM. This method was validated by measuring real water and serum samples, giving results agreeing well with the data reported and measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The recovery was 95.6–106% for untreated tap water and 96.0–100% for resin-pre-treated water and serum samples.
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
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2025
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Tian Xing,Jiawei Wang,Jiayu Zhang,Hao Liu,Lijie Xu,Wen Zhang,Ruijin Hong,Chunxian Tao,Qi Wang,Hui Lin,Zhaoxia Han,Dawei Zhang
Ag 2 O-Ag/CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 (MAPbBr 3 ) heterojunction composites were synthesized using a strategy that combines one-step spin coating, electron beam evaporation, and laser irradiation. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses confirmed the formation of dense and uniform nanoparticles on the sample surface after laser irradiation, as well as the successful introduction of oxygen vacancies. These nanostructures and oxygen defects contribute to the emergence of a broad plasmonic resonance absorption peak and enhance the local electromagnetic field intensity, thereby promoting stronger nonlinear optical effects. Z -scan results show that the Ag 2 O-Ag/MAPbBr 3 heterojunction composites exhibit strong saturable absorption (SA), in contrast to monolayer Ag 2 O–Ag or MAPbBr 3 , due to efficient interfacial charge transfer that suppresses reverse saturable absorption (RSA) arising from excited-state absorption and multiphoton absorption. The nonlinear optical absorption was effectively tuned by laser irradiation with different pulse widths. The maximum third-order nonlinear absorption coefficient of the heterojunction was measured to be −7.96 × 10 −7 cm/W. In addition, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation results were in good agreement with the experimental data. These results indicate that the as-synthesized Ag 2 O-Ag/MAPbBr 3 heterojunction composites have promising potential for applications in nonlinear optical devices.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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Yingdong Hao,Yingxiao Wang,Pengyu Chen,Lu Chen,Wei Wei,Nannan Sun
Photocatalytic oxidation of methane (CH 4 ) to value-added chemicals offers a sustainable and promising approach for chemical synthesis, however, efficient catalysts for the activation of inert C H bonds remain challenging. Herein, a novel Ag-AgCl biphasic composite was used as co-catalysts to modify ZnO semiconductor (Ag-AgCl/ZnO-z). Structure properties and catalytic performance in photocatalytic oxidation of CH 4 of the sample were systematically investigated, together with comparison with pure ZnO (ZnO-z) and a single Ag modified counterpart (Ag/ZnO-z). It was found that Ag-AgCl/ZnO-z was enriched with heterogeneous interfaces, which facilitated ultrafast carrier transport and their prolonged separation. Interestingly, AgCl acted as a hole acceptor, and the lattice Cl can be directly activated to •Cl, which is then responsible for forming a new •CH 3 formation pathway via a hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) mechanism. Moreover, a Cl-looping process can be established so that the catalyst remained stable during cyclic reactions. Under the optimum conditions, an excellent liquid oxygenates productivity of 12,731 μmol·g −1 ·h −1 was achieved. This work presents a prototype for designing biphasic composite co-catalysts, thereby offering valuable insights into introducing multiple CH 4 activation pathways.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2025
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Zongmian Zhang,Aiping Yang,Feiyan Wang,Qinghong Kong,He Gao
Mercury ions (Hg 2+ ) are extremely toxic, posing severe risks to human health and ecosystems even at trace concentrations. Their prevalence necessitates the development of rapid, selective, and portable methods for on-site Hg 2+ detection in environmental monitoring. Here we report a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor that employs a capillary-immobilized Ag@UiO-66-NH 2 nanocomposite as the substrate for the indirect detection of Hg 2+ . The inner wall of a glass capillary was amino-functionalized and sequentially decorated with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and a zirconium-based metal–organic framework (UiO-66-NH 2 ). After that, Dithizone (DTZ) was immobilized onto the resulting Ag@UiO-66-NH 2 composite to form stable Raman-active complexes. In the presence of Hg 2+ , the strong chelation between DTZ and Hg 2+ induces distinct SERS signal changes, enabling highly sensitive and selective detection of Hg 2+ . A key advantage of this sensor is the ability to directly load microliter-scale samples into a pretreated capillary for on-site analysis using a portable Raman spectrometer. The sensor exhibits a linear response between the DTZ signal intensity and Hg 2+ concentration over a broad range (10 −12 –10 −5 mol·L −1 ), with excellent linearity (R 2 = 0.9900), uniformity, reproducibility, and selectivity against common interfering ions. This method was validated in environmental water samples, demonstrating good agreement with ICP-MS while simplifying sample handling and minimizing pretreatment. These findings underscore the sensor's considerable potential for practical, on-site monitoring of Hg 2+ in both environmental and industrial contexts.
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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2026
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Yufeng Yang,Shijing Zhang,Jiamei Ma,Jiating Shen,Jiajun Huang,Xianglan Xu,Xiuzhong Fang,Junwei Xu,Xiang Wang
Adopting effective methods to identify clearly the active surface sites is crucial to engineer high-performance catalysts. To develop cost-effective and applicable NH 3 -SCR catalysts, the distribution states of Ag on HZSM-5 support have been identified by XRD and XPS extrapolation methods. As quantified, Ag dispersion on HZSM-5 has a threshold of 0.12 mmol Ag/100 m 2 . Above the threshold, bigger Ag 0 particles with better capability to activate O 2 and NO x molecules can be formed, thus achieving Ag/ZSM-5 catalysts with much better reaction performance below 300 °C. In contrast, below the threshold, Ag is mainly present in the form of highly dispersed nano-clusters/micro-crystallites, and partly as Ag + ions, thus being unfavorable to the reaction at low temperature. DFT calculation has testified that the aggregated Ag 0 particles with bigger sizes (>5 nm) have weaker interfacial interaction with the support, thus showing better capability to activate the reactant molecules. The optimal NH 3 -SCR performance is achieved on 8% Ag/ZSM-5 with a mean Ag size of 8.6 nm and a Ag 0 /Ag + ratio of 1.72, on which 100% NO conversion with a wide window from 250 to 400 °C can be achieved with H 2 assistance. In conclusion, both the Ag particle size and Ag 0 /Ag + ratio are the two main factors determining NH 3 -SCR performance on Ag/ZSM-5 catalysts.
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
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2016
·Vol. 18
·期 27
·18219-18226
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IF 4.449
Weiyin Gao,Chenxin Ran,Minqiang Wang,Le Li,Zhongwang Sun,Xi Yao
Although reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-based photocatalyst composites have been intensively developed during the past few years, the influence of reduction extent of rGO on the photocatalytic performance of the rGO-based composite has virtually not been investigated due to some technical limitations, such as the poor water dispersibility of rGO and low reduction selectivity of the hydrothermal method, which make it difficult to control the reduction extent of rGO in these composites. Herein, we used a facile room-temperature method to synthesize Ag/AgX (X = Cl, Br)/rGO photocatalyst composites as a model to study the effect of reduction extent of rGO on the photocatalytic performance of the photocatalyst. It was found that the photocatalytic activities of both Ag/AgCl/PrGO and Ag/AgBr/PrGO systems had an optimized threshold of the reduction extent of photoreduced GO (PrGO). More importantly, due to the different conductive band values of AgCl and AgBr, the optimized thresholds in the two systems were at different PrGO reduction extents, based on which we proposed that the favorable energy band matching between AgX and PrGO in the two systems played a crucial role in obtaining high photocatalysis performance. Besides, the photocatalytic reaction of the Ag/AgBr based system was confirmed to be a pseudo-second-order kinetics reaction rather than pseudo-first-order kinetics reaction. The new insights presented in this work provided useful information on the design and development of a more sophisticated photocatalyst, and can also be applied to many other applications.
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APPLIED ENERGY
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2019
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IF 8.426
Heping Xie,Shuo Zhai,Bin Chen,Tao Liu,Yuan Zhang,Meng Ni,Zongping Shao
Hybrid direct coal fuel cells (HDCFCs) have the potential to convert coal into electrical power in a clean and efficient manner. However, the related coal pretreatment method and the anode activity should both be improved, before the HDCFCs could match the performance of other direct coal fuel cells such as those based on solid oxide. In this study, we pyrolysed bituminous coal at 800 °C followed by modification with acetic acid, in order to remove organic volatiles and reintroduce surface functional groups, respectively. The result was a modified char that was highly pure and with high oxidation activity. Further, the Ni-(Y 2 O 3 ) 0.08 (ZrO 2 ) 0.92 anode was infiltrated with Ag nanoparticles as an effective catalyst to promote the electro-oxidation of carbon. Under optimised conditions, the HDCFC with Ag-infiltrated anode and modified char as fuel demonstrated a maximum power density (403 mW cm −2 at 750 °C) that exceeds previous results for coal-based fuels. The cell also showed stable operation for 14 h, with a fuel conversion of 97.22% and Faradic efficiency of 61.06% using 0.4 g modified char.
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COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2015
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Liang Zhang,Shuai Yuan,Shuo Chen,Dongrui Wang,Bao-Zhong Han,Zhi-Min Dang
Ag nanoparticles@polydopamine (AgNPs@PDA) core–shell particles were prepared by one-step oxidative–reductive reaction, which Ag + was used as oxidant and dopamine as reducing agent. The dopamine was polymerized to PDA surface and shielded the Ag nanoparticles . The AgNPs@PDA particles were used as fillers and introduced into poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) to prepare the AgNPs@PDA/PVDF dielectric composites. AgNPs were introduced aiming to increase the dielectric constant of the composites and PDA was employed to improve the compatibility between fillers and polymer. The morphology and the dielectric properties of the AgNPs@PDA/PVDF composite films were thoroughly investigated. The influencing factors to the dielectric performances of the composites were studied, including the ratio of AgNO 3 and dopamine, pH values of the preparing solution and the fraction of the fillers. The highest dielectric constant of the AgNPs@PDA/PVDF composites was about 53 when the content of fillers was 25 wt.% at 100 Hz. The percolation threshold of the composites was predicted at about 25.5 wt.%.
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Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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2022
·Vol. 96
·期 10
·2182-2188
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Khan Misbah Ullah,Ullah Hayat,Honey Shehla,Manan Abdul,Sarfaraz Maliha,Ullah Shaheed,Ullah Munzer,Gul Zarif
Abstract Efficient bimetallic nanostructures, which show properties related to two sole metals, have empowered inventive applications in nanosciences and nanotechnology. Here, we construct bimetallic Au@Ag nano-urchins with controlled Au tips for Catalysis and SERS application. The proposed nano-urchins were synthesized via electrochemical and simple galvanic replacement reaction route. The construction of Ag nano-flowers via electrochemical deposition use as a shell and Au tips were grown via galvanic reaction route greatly enhanced SERS properties of crystal violet (CV) detection and stability of nanostructures. In a comparison of Ag flower-like structures, the catalysis properties of Au@Ag nano-urchins are extremely efficient in degrading p -nitrophenol. As a result, these bimetallic nano-urchins show great development in SERS substrate and efficient catalysts.
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JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS
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2023
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Chen Chen,Maomei Xie,Yueling Yan,Yongyuan Li,Zhiyao Li,Tong Zhang,Zanyan Gao,Liyi Deng,Haixia Wang
In recent years, Ag nanoparticle (Ag NP)-loaded antibacterial dressings have attracted much attention in high-level medical dressings. However, the high cytotoxicity of Ag NP has always been a problem. In this paper, we examined the improvement of antibacterial activity of berberine hydrochloride (BBR) with Ag NP, the results showed that the combined use of BBR and Ag NP can effectively reduce the dosage of Ag NP while ensuring the inhibition of bacterial growth, thus an intermediate layer dressing containing combined drugs were prepared. At the same time, the top dressing of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solid film and the PVA bottom dressings with three kinds of leakage structures were prepared by 3D printing technology. Three kinds of PVA bottom dressings showed high quality consistency, and the greater the number of leak holes, the higher the porosity value of the dressing, while the swelling ratio value of the bottom layer dressing with three holes was the lowest. Finally, three types of BBR-Ag NP composite antibacterial dressings (3D-BBR-Ag NP) can be obtained by self-assembling of the top dressing, the intermediate layer dressing, and the bottom dressings with three kinds of leakage structures. The cumulative drug release results showed that dressing with more holes had a faster drug release rate compared to the other two ones with fewer leakage holes. Besides, five drug release kinetic models were used to investigate the cumulative BBR release profiles for three types of 3D-BBR-Ag NP. And the three types of composite dressings showed strong antibacterial activity after 6 h of cultivation with staphylococcus aureus. The study showed that the antibacterial activity of the self-assembled dressing prepared by combination of BBR with Ag NP can be improved, and the drug release rate of the hydrogel dressing can be flexibly controlled through 3D printing technology.
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RSC Advances
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2018
·Vol. 8
·期 66
·37729-37734
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IF 2.936
Xiaofeng Lin,Wensheng Lin,Meijia Yang,Jiayao Chen,Dingshan Yu,Wei Hong,Xudong Chen
The chain reaction amplification mechanism (CRAM) has been extensively studied, but it has not been effectively developed at the molecular scale and still needs to consume amounts of monomers to show the macroscopic phenomenon needed for detection. Herein, rationally-designed silica-coated silver nanoparticles with acrylic acid-functionalization were used as a plasmonic nanosensor to realize highly sensitive and fast colorimetric glucose detection with less monomer consumption, which effectively integrated CRAM with the localized surface plasmon resonance effect, developing CRAM at the molecular scale. The glucose detection mechanism of the proposed sensor was based on free-radical polymerization by biocatalytic initiation, which would induce the aggregation of Ag NPs, leading to a decrease in the plasmon resonance intensity. As a result, the detection limit could reach 2.06 × 10−5 M, 10 times lower than that of a commercial glucose assay kit with a limit of 1.1 × 10−4 M. Moreover, FDTD simulation further confirmed that the intensity of the extinction gradually decreased with an increase in the degree of aggregation of Ag NPs. The approach could be used for high selectivity toward glucose detection and would be suitable for other practical applications of the detection of low concentrations of glucose.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2022
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Yan Wang,Shengzhe Zhao,Yi Yang,Raul D. Rodriguez,Anya Lipovka,Yun Lu,Honglan Huang,Jinju Chen
Ag nanoparticle-decorated Bi 2 O 3 -TiO 2 heterogeneous photocatalysts were successfully obtained by combining facile sacrificial templates and photoreduction . The as-synthesized Ag@Bi 2 O 3 -TiO 2 photocatalysts with a narrow band gap of 2.40 eV exhibited considerable photocatalytic activity to degrade rhodamine B (RhB) and tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH), and the removal efficiency reached 100% and 92%, respectively. Ag@Bi 2 O 3 -TiO 2 photocatalysts also exhibited stable recyclability for the degradation of RhB and TCH. Trapping experiments helped determine the major reactive oxidative species for TCH photodegradation . The desirable photodegradation performance is mainly attributed to improved light absorption , enhanced charge separation, and strong redox capacity of Ag@Bi 2 O 3 -TiO 2 nanostructures with S-scheme heterojunction . This work provides a facile avenue to construct heterogeneous tubular nanostructures with intensive photoabsorbance and effective photocatalysis to degrade organic contaminants.
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