Micro & Nano Letters
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2022
·Vol. 17
·期 11
·259-271
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IF 0.98
Yunting Wang,Qing-an Qiao,Honglan Cai,Juan Jin,Hongwei Gao,Yanbin Xu
g-C 3 N 4 was employed as a modified substance for modification engineering of wurtzite-ZnS photocatalysts to overcome its limited light response and stability. The g-C 3 N 4 /ZnS (CNZS) photocatalyst was synthesized by solvothermal reaction of g-C 3 N 4 , thiourea and zinc acetate. The results show that wurtzite-ZnS spheres were loaded on the surface of g-C 3 N 4 with well uniformed size. The photocatalytic activity of the catalyst was determined by the degradation of MB and Rh.B under visible light. The degradation rates of Rh.B and MB by CNZS were 96% and 97%, much better than that of pure ZnS. The addition of g-C 3 N 4 promoted the visible light response of wurtzite-ZnS and inhibited the recombination of photogenerated electrons with holes. The density functional theory (DFT) results indicated that the components of both valence band and conductive band were changed for the CNZS system. Compared to pure ZnS, the band gap of CNZS was decreased about 0.5 eV, and the work function calculations were in good agreement with the experimental results. As a result, the heterostructure of CNZS made it beneficial to the electron transfer from g-C 3 N 4 (2p of N) to ZnS (3p of S) and absorption edge has been extended to about 600 nm.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2024
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Muhua Chen,Yiping Liu,Ju Liu,Zilin Kan,Chenhui Sun,Yuqing Wang,Bo Fu,Xinbao Zhu
Recently, photocatalytic production of H 2 O 2 by semiconductors emerges as a green and potential method for green and sustainable H 2 O 2 synthesis. In this work, a g-C 3 N 4 /CAU-17 composite with heterojunction structure was fabricated. There is a tight interface contact between g-C 3 N 4 and CAU-17. And the g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets was uniformly wrapped on CAU-17 surface. In the hybrid catalyst, CAU-17 provides a high surface area for g-C 3 N 4 dispersion and the integration of g-C 3 N 4 boosts the visible light response. Results showed that the H 2 O 2 yield is 419.0 μmol . L −1. h −1 over g-C 3 N 4 /CAU-17 sample, which is 1.59 and 7.83 fold enhancements to bare g-C 3 N 4 and CAU-17 counterparts. This work sheds light on the design of CAU-17-based composite photocatalysts and provides insights into H 2 O 2 synthesis.
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Journal of Energy Storage
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2024
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Wenyu Bai,Guangpeng Ma,Xinpu Zhou,Tongtong Gao,Yu Luo,Di Yu,Shuang Wang
Traditional two-dimensional transition metal carbides/nitrides (MXene) have gained much academic concern due to their excellent physicochemical properties, but their susceptibility to self-stacking leads to poor cyclic stability. In this paper, an MXene-based electrode active material was successfully prepared. The generated modified PPy (g-PPy) increases the active site, increases the accessibility of ions, and can give full play to the pseudocapacitance. By the combination of modified PPy (g-PPy) nanoparticles with pseudocapacitive behavior polymerized in situ on sulfonated cellulose (SC) and MXene , not only the electrochemical performance was improved by exploiting the synergy between different electrode materials and different energy storage mechanisms, but also the MXene as a skeleton limited the volume expansion and contraction of PPy during charge/discharge cycles and the g-PPy and SC composites (g-PPy@SC) as a spacer supported the MXene layer, resulting in much higher cycle stability. Cycle stability of 98.4 % even after 10,000 cycle tests. In addition, a symmetric supercapacitor assembled from this electrode material maintains a stability of 84.4 % under 10,000 cycles at a low temperature of −40 °C. Therefore, this study provides a feasible method for the preparation of MXene-based electrodes with high cycling stability.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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Tingting Ding,Ruixia Liu,Xiaofan Yan,Zuoyu Zhang,Fuquan Xiong,Xingong Li,Zhiping Wu
It is a promising idea to graft zwitterionic polymers onto lignin and prepare lignin-grafted-poly [2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl] dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide (Lignin-g-PDMAPS) thermosensitive polymer with the upper critical solution temperature (UCST). In this paper, an electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization (eATRP) method was used to prepare Lignin-g-PDMAPS. The structure and property of the Lignin-g-PDMAPS polymer were characterized by the fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray electron spectroscopy (XPS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). Furthermore, the effect of catalyst structure, applied potential, amount of Lignin-Br, Lignin-g-PDMAPS concentration, NaCl concentration on UCST of Lignin-g-PDMAPS were investigated. It was worth noting that polymerization was well controlled when the ligand was tris (2-aminoethyl) amine (Me 6 TREN), applied potential was −0.38 V and the amount of Lignin-Br was 100 mg. And the UCST of the Lignin-g-PDMAPS aqueous solution (1 mg/ml) was 51.47 °C, the molecular weight was 8987 g/mol, and the particle size was 318 nm. It was also found that the UCST increased and the particle size decreased with the Lignin-g-PDMAPS polymer concentration increased, and the UCST decreased and the particle size increased with the NaCl concentration increases. This work investigated UCST-thermoresponsive polymer which possessed lignin main chain combining the zwitterionic side chain, and provided a new way for development of lignin based UCST-thermoresponsive materials and medical carrier materials, in addition to expand the scope of eATRP.
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Analytical Methods
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2021
·Vol. 13
·期 7
·903-909
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IF 2.896
Yiming Liu,Yanan Sun,Minli Yang
A new kind of convenient, low-cost double-potential ratiometric ECL sensing platform for the quantification of Cu2+ was developed with carbon nitride nanosheets (g-C3N4 NSs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs) as ECL luminophores. g-C3N4 NSs mixed with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was immobilized on a glass carbon electrode (GCE) and produced strong cathodic ECL at a potential of −1.2 V (vs. Ag/AgCl), while GQDs in the solution gave anodic ECL at +2.5 V. MWCNTs were used here to amplify the ECL signal of g-C3N4 NSs. The addition of Cu2+ causes the cathodic ECL signal from g-C3N4 to decline, while the anodic ECL signal from GQDs remains unchanged. With the anodic ECL signal as an internal reference, a double-potential ratiometric ECL sensing platform for Cu2+ was established. The ratio of the cathodic signal intensity to anodic signal intensity showed a linear response to the Cu2+ concentration over a range from 5.0 × 10−10 to 1.0 × 10−6 mol L−1 and the detection limit was 0.37 nmol L−1 (3σ/S). Such a construction strategy alleviates the interference from the environment and therefore improves the detection accuracy of Cu2+. Compared with other methods for Cu2+ detection, this method is simpler and more sensitive.
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
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2021
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Ruibin Liang,Yongquan Du,Junxi Wu,Xintong Li,Tongxin Liang,Jian Yuan,Peng Xiao,Jianwen Chen
In this work, g-C 3 N 4 @NiMoO 4 /CoMoO 4 (gCN@NCM) was fabricated by a hydrothermal method . g-C 3 N 4 sheets were embedded in staggered NiMoO 4 /CoMoO 4 rods to form a three-dimensional structure. The prepared gCN@NCM exhibited good electrochemical performance of high specific capacitance (641.5 F/g) and excellent cycle stability (15.79% of capacitance lost after 8000 cycles). The specific capacitance of the gCN@NCM//active carbon (AC) device got 30% enhanced at the first 2000 cycles. Moreover, 110% of the original specific capacitance was still maintained after 10,000 cycles. These results indicate that the g-C 3 N 4 @NiMoO 4 /CoMoO 4 has great potential in supercapacitors .
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2014
·Vol. 3
·期 5
·911-918
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Yuhua Song,Tingbin Zhang,Xiaoyan Song,Ling Zhang,Chunqiu Zhang,Jinfeng Xing,Xing-Jie Liang
The low transfection efficiency of polycations is still a major problem for successful gene therapy. To address this issue, in this study, hydrophilic poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)-graft-poly[2-(N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (PVP-g-PDMAEMA) and amphiphilic poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)-graft-poly[2-(N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate]-block-poly(methylmethacrylate) (PVP-g-PDMAEMA-b-PMMA) were synthesized via the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) method, and their properties as gene vectors were investigated subsequently. PVP-g-PDMAEMA formed random coils in water and PVP-g-PDMAEMA-b-PMMA self-assembled into spherical core–shell micelles with a very low critical micelle concentration of only 6.3 × 10−3 mg mL−1. PVP-g-PDMAEMA-b-PMMA/pDNA polyplexes demonstrated an excellent gene transfection efficiency, which showed not only much higher gene transfection efficiency than PVP-g-PDMAEMA/pDNA polyplexes, but obviously surpassed 25k PEI at low N/P ratio around 3 on 293T cell lines. Hence, the results suggested that PVP-g-PDMAEMA-b-PMMA could be a highly efficient gene vector.
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Catalysts
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2025
·Vol. 15
·期 1
·95
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Jinghong Fang,Min Wang,Xiaotong Yang,Qiong Sun,Liyan Yu
In this study, a novel Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst was developed by integrating g-C3N4nanoplates into ZnIn2S4microspheres. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis revealed a directional electron transfer from g-C3N4to ZnIn2S4upon heterojunction formation. Under irradiation, electrochemical tests and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy demonstrated significantly enhanced charge generation and separation efficiencies in the ZnIn2S4/g-C3N4composite, accompanied by reduced charge transfer resistance. In photocatalytic CO2reduction, the ZnIn2S4/g-C3N4composite achieved the highest CO yield, 1.92 and 5.83 times higher than those of pristine g-C3N4and ZnIn2S4, respectively, with a notable CO selectivity of 91.3% compared to H2(8.7%). The Z-scheme heterojunction mechanism, confirmed in this work, effectively preserved the strong redox capabilities of the photoinduced charge carriers, leading to superior photocatalytic performance and excellent long-term stability. This study offers valuable insights into the design and development of g-C3N4-based heterojunctions for efficient solar-driven CO2reduction.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2024
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Yumin An,Zanchao Gao,Beibei Dong,Liguo Dong,Libin Zhao
The photocatalytic hydrolysis reaction primarily unfolds on the material's surface, making the material's morphology and microstructure critical for the catalytic efficiency of photocatalysts. In this paper, a formic acid-assisted melamine hydrothermal self-assembly method is explored to prepare g-C 3 N 4 photocatalysts with a unique morphology. The impact of sintering temperature on the morphology of the g-C 3 N 4 photocatalysts are explored and the effect of formic acid concentration on the XRD and FTIR was analyzed. Findings reveal that the g-C 3 N 4 nanostructures photocatalyst possesses fibrous tubular and nanosheet structures, boasting a heightened specific surface area (32.9 m 2 /g) and a more refined graphite-like crystalline framework. When synthesized with a 0.15 M concentration of formic acid, the g- C 3 N 4 nanostructured photocatalyst achieved a hydrogen production rate (1289.4 μmol h −1 g −1 ), which is approximately 4.8 times greater than that of bulk g-C 3 N 4 (264.7 μmol h −1 g −1 ). This work provides a simple method for preparing high-performance g-C 3 N 4 based photocatalysts for visible light hydrolysis hydrogen production.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2015
·Vol. 44
·期 29
·13030-13039
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IF 4.197
Hongmei Chen,Yinghao Xie,Xiaoqin Sun,Meilin Lv,Fangfang Wu,Lei Zhang,Li Li,Xiaoxiang Xu
Separation of photo-generated charges has played a crucial role in controlling the actual performance of a photocatalytic system. Here we have successfully fabricated g-C3N4/TiO2-B nanowire/tube heterostructures through facile urea degradation reactions. Owing to the effective separation of photo-generated charges associated with the type-II band alignment and intimate interfacial contacts between g-C3N4 and TiO2-B nanowires/tubes, such heterostructures demonstrate an improved photocatalytic activity over individual moieties. Synthetic conditions such as hydrothermal temperatures for the preparation of TiO2-B and the weight ratio of TiO2-B to urea were systematically investigated. A high crystallinity of TiO2-B as well as the proper growth of g-C3N4 on its surface are critical factors for a better performance. Our simple synthetic method and the prolonged lifetime of photo-generated charges signify the importance of type-II heterostructures in the photocatalytic applications.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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2020
·Vol. 28
·期 3
·3465-3474
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IF 3.056
Bai Maojuan,Xu Chengcheng,Huang Xuanye,Yin Han,Wan Jun
CuSe as an excellent photocatalytic semiconductor material has wildly used in the field of photocatalysis. In this paper, CuSe-PDA/g-C 3 N 4 was designed and synthesized, and the photocatalytic performance of CuSe was further enhanced by the addition of polydopamine (PDA) and graphite phase carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ). The as-prepared CuSe-PDA/g-C 3 N 4 was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and elemental mapping. The specific surface area and porous characteristics of the material were also studied by N 2 adsorption-desorption isotherm, which the specific surface area were 186.6 m 2 /g and pore size were of 3.1 nm by BET data analysis. The photocatalytic conditions for the degradation of methylene blue (MB) by CuSe-PDA/g-C 3 N 4 were optimized in the experiment. The results showed that the photocatalytic performance of CuSe-PDA/g-C 3 N 4 under visible-light illumination were better than CuSe and PDA owing to the narrow band gap energy and delayed electron-hole recombination. Under the optimized conditions, the removal rate reach to 99% of 50 mg/L MB within 60 min irradiation time. Moreover, the MB removal rate was over 90% through six repeated experiments, which proved that the CuSe-PDA/g-C 3 N 4 composite nanomaterials have good stability and reusability.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2019
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Hemdan S. H. Mohamed,Liang Wu,Chao-Fan Li,Zhi-Yi Hu,Jing Liu,Zhao Deng,Li-Hua Chen,Yu Li,Bao-Lian Su
The development of lithium-ion batteries using transition metal oxides has recently become more attractive, due to their higher specific capacities, better rate capability, and high energy densities. Herein, the in situ growth of advanced mesoporous CuO/O-doped g-C3N4 nanospheres is carried out in a two step hydrothermal process at 180 °C and annealing in air at 300 °C. When used as an anode material, the CuO/O-doped g-C3N4 nanospheres achieve a high reversible discharge specific capacity of 738 mAhg–1 and a capacity retention of ∼75.3% after 100 cycles at a current density 100 mAg–1 compared with the pure CuO (412 mAhg–1, 47%) and O-doped g-C3N4 (66 mAhg–1, 53%). Even at high current density 1 Ag–1, they exhibit a reversible discharge specific capacity of 503 mAhg–1 and capacity retention ∼80% over 500 cycles. The excellent electrochemical performance of the CuO/O-doped g-C3N4 nanocomposite is attributed to the following factors: (I) the in situ growing CuO/O-doped g-C3N4 avoids CuO nanoparticle aggregation, leading to the improved lithium ion transfer and electrolyte penetration inside the CuO/O-doped g-C3N4 anode, thus promoting the utilization of CuO; (II) the porous structure provides efficient space for Li+ transfer during the insertion/extraction process to avoid large volume changes; (III) the O-doping g-C3N4 decreases its band gap, ensuring the increased electrical conductivity of CuO/O-doped g-C3N4; and (IV) the strong interaction between CuO and O-doped g-C3N4 ensures the stability of the structure during cycling.
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