SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Feng Xiao,Yang Zhou,Hao Zhang,Yanhui Wu
Fluoride pollution will cause serious harm to the human ecological environment. The capacitive deionization method for fluoride removal has the advantages of low cost, low energy consumption, and convenient operation. Electrode material is crucial for desalination performance. In this study, a novel manganese doped hollow cubic carbon material (MHCC) was prepared by constructing ZIF-8 with hollow cubic morphology as a precursor and carbonizing it with manganese acetate as a manganese source. Then, the derived MHCC material was characterized and tested for capacitive fluoride removal. The adsorption capacity of MHCC10 (the mass ratio of carbon material to manganese acetate tetrahydrate was 10:1) reached 6.2 mg/g and 25.5 mg/g at the initial NaF concentration of 30 mg/L and 150 mg/L respectively. It could maintain 85.5% of the initial capacity after 10 adsorption–desorption cycles. The CDI defluoridation mechanism of MHCC was analyzed. The hollow porous structure inherited from etched ZIF-8 can promote the formation of electric double layers. An appropriate amount of manganese doping has a pseudocapacitive effect, which helps to increase adsorption capacity and improve cycling performance. This work provides a new approach for the design and preparation of novel capacitive fluoride removal electrode materials.
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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2021
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IF 8.742
Qiuchen Wang,Yan Dai,Xuehua Ruan,Wenji Zheng,Xiaoming Yan,Xiangcun Li,Gaohong He
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with 1D gas transport channel has great prospect in MMMs based CO 2 separation. However, the insufficient compatibility with polymer and inner diameter of CNTs limit further improvement of their CO 2 separation performances. In this work, the unique ZIF-8 hollow nanotubes (HNTs) were proposed to construct high-speed gas transmission channel in MMMs by a three-step method (electrospinning-calcination-hydrothermal), aiming at concurrently improving the gas permeability and selectivity. The hollow inner cavity provides long-range and low-resistance gas transmission channels to ensure high gas permeability. At the same time, the ZIF-8 crystals composing the tube wall can not only screen for gas molecules pair, but also strengthen the affinity between the filler and polymer matrix by its organic ligands, thus the gas selectivity can be raised. Compared with ZIF-8 nanoparticles and ZnO HNTs, ZIF-8 HNTs based MMMs present competitive CO 2 separation. When the loading of ZIF-8 HNTs is 5 wt%, the gas separation performance shows the best, in which the CO 2 permeability is 147 Barrer and the CO 2 /N 2 selectivity is 68, approaching to the 2008 Robeson upper limit and surpassing most reported CNTs/Pebax based membranes. Therefore, the proposed ZIF-8 HNTs are promising for MMMs based CO 2 separation.
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Analytical Methods
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2021
·Vol. 13
·期 20
·2338-2344
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IF 2.896
Hexiang Li,Fawei Zhu,Jun Xiang,Fangbin Wang,Qi Liu,Xiaoqing Chen
We herein report a facile and scalable strategy for the fabrication of a metal–organic framework (MOF) based composite by in situ growing ZIF-8 on gold nanoparticle (AuNP) loaded magnetic carbon nanotubes (mCNTs). AuNPs were firstly loaded on PEI (polyethylenimine) modified mCNTs by electrostatic forces, and then AuNPs/mCNTs were encapsulated into the ZIF-8 frame through in situ self-assembling of zinc ions and 2-methylimidazole. The morphology, spectroscopy and structural properties of the AuNP/mCNT@ZIF-8 nanocomposites were systematically characterized. The conductivity–strain tests revealed that the in situ insertion of AuNPs/mCNTs in ZIF-8 could not only shorten the electron transfer distance between active sites and mCNTs, but also increase the dispersion of mCNTs, which would benefit the electron and mass transfer. Besides, by adopting the AuNP/mCNT@ZIF-8 nanocomposite-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) as the working electrode, a novel electrochemical sensor was successfully developed for the detection of bisphenol A (BPA). A linear range of BPA detection from 1 μM to 100 μM with a limit of detection of 690 nM was favorably obtained. Moreover, the developed sensor exhibited satisfactory reproducibility and superior stability with excellent anti-interference ability, and was successfully applied in the detection of BPA in real samples.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 7
·4167-4175
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IF 12.732
Haoyu Li,Peng Mu,Jian Li,Qingtao Wang
Purification of highly emulsified oily wastewater is of significance but challenging due to the critical limitations of low efficiency and serious membrane blocking. Herein, inspired by the desert beetle's capability of water-collection in air, we first constructed an inverse desert beetle-like membrane to achieve oil capture in water, thus improving the separation performances of the surfactant-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion. The as-prepared nanofibrous membrane consists of hydrophobic/oleophilic ZIF-8 bumps and underlying underwater superoleophobic polyacrylonitrile (PAN), and possesses a similar structure to desert beetles but with opposite wettability. In the process of emulsion demulsification, besides the sieving effect of the underlying traditional underwater superoleophobic PAN membrane, the bumpy oleophilic ZIF-8 particles of the composite membrane can capture oil, thus strengthening the demulsification ability of the membrane. Furthermore, the separation efficiency of the inverse desert beetle-like membrane is up to 99.92% for surfactant-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion, which is superior to that of traditional single underwater superoleophobic PAN membranes lacking the hydrophobic bump structure. Moreover, for light oil-in-water emulsion, the permeation flux also increases because the captured tiny oil droplets can aggregate subsequently and grow large enough to detach from the underlying surface which greatly reduces the incidence of filter cake formation and congestion. This inverse desert beetle-like membrane opens up new avenues for designing advanced membranes in the oil/water emulsion separation field.
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2020
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Qian Ren,Junsong Mou,Yanmei Guo,Huiqi Wang,Xiyue Cao,Feifei Zhang,Jianfei Xia,Zonghua Wang
A simple homogeneous electrochemical aptasensor was designed by using target-responsive substrate releasing from aptamer-gated zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8)-derived porous carbon nanocontainer. The nanocontainer (Z-700) was prepared by calcination of ZIF-8 at 700 °C. Z-700 had great biocompatibility, high surface areas and pore volume , especially the graphene-like π-rich structure, which was beneficial for adsorbing aptamer easily. The electroactive dyes methylene blue (MB) was then trapped in the pores of Z-700 and easily capped with aptamer as gatekeeper based on π-stacking interaction. Upon addition of target protein thrombin (Thb), the Thb could specifically recognize and combine with its aptamer to form complex. Thereafter, the aptamer bio-gate opened and the MB released from the pores, which could be detected on the screen-printed electrode. Under the optimized conditions, the proposed Thb aptasensor showed a wide detection range from 1 fM to 1 nM with a low detection limit of 0.57 fM. The strategy by using ZIF-8-derived porous carbon and aptamer bio-gate provides a promising scheme for developing simple, rapid, reliable and ultrasensitive bioassays, which has a great potential as a powerful tool in disease diagnosis and biomedicine.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2020
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IF 4.65
Rui Li,Wei Li,Chun Jin,Qinyu He,Yinzhen Wang
ZIF-8@TiO 2 micron composite, one kind of new high-efficiency photocatalyst was prepared by hydrothermal method in this work. We compared the ability of ZIF-8, TiO 2 nanospheres and ZIF-8@TiO 2 to catalytically degrade tetracycline. The results of the characterization show that the TiO 2 nanospheres grow uniformly on the surface of ZIF-8, and ZIF-8 and TiO 2 are linked together by chemical bonds. The synergistic effect of ZIF-8 and TiO 2 greatly enhances the catalytic ability of the composite photocatalyst. In ZIF-8@TiO 2 micron composite, ZIF-8 provides a new way for photogenerated electron transfer as a charge separator, to reduce the charge recombination rate. Since the hybrid combines the advantages of ZIF-8 and TiO 2, ZIF-8@TiO 2 exhibits excellent ability to catalytically degrade tetracycline. The possible photocatalytic mechanism of the hybrid photocatalyst was also discussed.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2021
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IF 6.707
Jinchang Xu,Guofeng Liang,Di Chen,Zilong Li,Hao Zhang,Jian Chen,Fangyan Xie,Yanshuo Jin,Nan Wang,Hui Meng
H 2 -O 2 proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), one of the applications of hydrogen energy with specific energy density of 143 MJ/kg, might be a promising alternative to replace the use of fossil energy. The key to accelerate the application of PEMFCs is to design an efficient non-precious metal catalyst to lower the overpotential of the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein, we developed a novel iron and nitrogen doped carbon (FeNC) catalyst using ferrocene as iron source, ZIF-8 as organic framework as well as the main carbon source. The regular morphology of ZIF-8 and ferrocene can prevent active sites from agglomeration, resulting a homogenous distribution of Fe, N and C. Moreover, the high specific area, porous structure and abundant catalytic Fe and N species gave rise to the ORR performance of the catalyst. As a result, the as-prepared FeNC catalyst showed an onset and half-wave potential of 0.95 V and 0.78 V in 0.1 M HClO 4 with 1600 rpm, respectively. The catalysts were also applied in a PEMFC as the cathode catalysts with an open circuit voltage of more than 0.9 V and a maximum power density of 601 mW/cm 2 . Additionally, the as-prepared FeNC-1:30 catalyst showed a current density of 380 mA/cm 2 at 0.7 V, which outperformed other as-prepared catalysts.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2021
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IF 6.498
Rui Luo,Junwen Wu,Jing Zhao,Dong Fang,Zongtang Liu,Lin Hu
The non-radical oxidation processes of persulfate activation by carbon materials have shown great potential for industrial and saline wastewater treatment . Recently, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as an emerging precursor have been widely used for fabricating functional carbon materials. Herein, we reported ZIF-8 derived defect-rich nitrogen-doped carbon (ZCNs) via NaCl-assisted pyrolysis for efficient non-radical activation of peroxydisulfate to degrade rhodamine B (RB). All samples exhibited excellent catalytic activity , and ZCN-900 (pyrolyzed at 900 °C) was found to be the most active, able to degrade 96 % of RB quickly within 10 min. Quenching tests and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analyses suggested that the singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) dominated the degradation process by a non-radical pathway. Furthermore, the effect of anions and water quality on RB oxidation were investigated, and ZCN-900/PDS system showed great resistance to the anions and natural organic matters (NOM). This work may provide a significant addition to MOF-based functional materials for environmental remediation based on the results above.
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Advanced Materials Interfaces
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2019
·Vol. 7
·期 2
·1901490
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IF 4.713
Yixing Zhan,Yating Wang,Ming Wang,Xiaoqing Ding,Xinlong Wang
The nano metal–organic framework particles (nano ZIF-8) are grafted onto the surface of short carbon fibers (SCFs) by a facile in situ growth method in order to functionalize SCFs. The morphology, crystal structure, and chemical element composition of modified SCFs (ZIF-8@SCFs) are investigated. The grafted nano-ZIF-8 could remarkably enhance the roughness, polarity, and wettability of SCFs surface and promote the curing reaction of epoxy composites. The tensile strength, flexural strength, elastic modulus, toughness, and impact strength of the epoxy composites with 1 wt% ZIF-8@SCFs are increased by 25%, 31%, 51%, 28%, and 42% compared to that of the composites with 1 wt% SCFs, respectively. Furthermore, the storage modulus ( E ′) and glass transition temperature ( T g ) are enhanced from 2558 MPa and 108.2 °C to 3000 MPa and 147.6 °C. The significant improvement in mechanical and thermomechanical properties of the prepared composites could be ascribed to the ameliorated wettability, enhanced mechanical interlock, and increased chemical bonding induced by ZIF-8@SCFs.
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2019
·Vol. 29
·期 17
·1807191
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IF 15.621
Zequn Yang,Hailong Li,Jianping Yang,Shihao Feng,Xi Liu,Jiexia Zhao,Wenqi Qu,Pu Li,Yong Feng,Po-Heng Lee,Kaimin Shih
A key challenge in elemental mercury (Hg 0 ) decontamination from flue gas lies in the design of a sorbent with abundant reactive adsorption sites that exhibit high affinity toward Hg 0 to simultaneously achieve rapid capture and large capacity. Herein, zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) supported copper selenide (CuSe) nanocomposites are synthesized by a newly designed two-step surfactant-assisted method. The as-prepared CuSe/ZIF-8 with CuSe to ZIF-8 mass ratio of 80% (0.8NC-ZIF) exhibits unparalleled performance toward Hg 0 adsorption with equilibrium capacity and average rate reaching 309.8 mg g −1 and 105.3 µg g −1 min −1 , respectively, surpassing all reported metal sulfides and traditional activated-carbon-based sorbents. The impressive performance of 0.8NC-ZIF for Hg 0 immobilization is primarily attributed to the adequate exposure of the Se-terminated sites with high affinity toward Hg 0 resulted from the layered structure of CuSe. The adsorbed mercury selenide exhibits even higher stability than the most stable natural mercury ore—that is, mercury sulfide—hence minimizing its environmental impact when the CuSe/ZIF-8 sorbent is dumped. This work provides a new mindset for future design of sorbents for efficient Hg 0 capture from industrial flue gas. The results also justify the candidature of CuSe/ZIF to be applicable for mercury pollution remediation in real-world conditions.
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Catalysis Science & Technology
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2019
·Vol. 9
·期 10
·2673-2681
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IF 5.726
Bing Hu,Yazhi Yin,Zixin Zhong,Dengdeng Wu,Guoliang Liu,Xinlin Hong
Maximizing the Cu–ZnO interface is regarded as the best strategy to promote methanol synthesis activity over CuZn catalysts. Reducing the ZnO particle size can enhance the Cu–ZnO interaction, but its synthesis with a sub-5 nm size still remains a challenge. Moreover, the fabrication of an active powder catalyst with an inverse ZnO/Cu configuration is still very rare. In this work, we report a facile synthesis of inverse ZnO/Cu catalysts by direct calcination of Cu@ZIF-8 (zeolitic imidazolate framework-8). The particle size of ZnO and Cu can be tuned by changing the Cu loading as well as the calcination temperature. Importantly, inverse ZnO/Cu catalysts with sub-5 nm ZnO were obtained under gentle calcination at 623 K. In the CO2 hydrogenation reaction, the highest methanol synthesis activity reached 933 g kgcat−1 h−1 at 533 K and 4.5 MPa, with a high turnover frequency (TOF) of 0.013 s−1, over an optimized C2Z-623 catalyst, which exceeds the commercial CuZnAl catalyst (HiFuel R120, Johnson Matthey) and has ranked the top reported value over advanced CuZn catalysts under comparable conditions. Such excellent activity is attributed to the inverse structure of Cu particles covered by sub-5 nm ZnO, which promotes the intimate Cu–ZnO interface with enhanced SMSI. Moreover, we find that the methanol turnover frequency (TOF) monotonically increases with decreasing the particle size of ZnO as well as Cu. It is proposed that reducing the ZnO size favors the spillover of reducible ZnOx species onto the Cu surface while lowering the Cu size is responsible for the enhanced amount of exposed Cu steps for accommodating Zn species, both of which could facilitate the formation of Zn covered Cu steps as active sites for methanol synthesis.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2018
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Gongduan Fan,Xiaomei Zheng,Jing Luo,Huiping Peng,Hui Lin,Minchen Bao,Liang Hong,Jinjin Zhou
The presence of acetaminophen (ACT) used for painkillers has attracted great attention in the world, which have potentially adverse effects on aquatic lives and human beings. Advanced oxidation technology applied to water repair has received increasing concerns in recent years. In this study, photodegradation ACT in aqueous solution over Ag/AgCl@ZIF-8 synthesised by a simple stirring method was investigated under visible light irradiation. The prepared photocatalyst was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-vis). The degradation rates of ACT under different parameters were studied to get the optimal operating conditions in water. Results showed that the photodegradation process fitted pseudo-first order model well. 99% ACT degradation achieved when Ag/AgCl@ZIF-8 was delivered to the solution compared with ZIF-8 and Ag/AgCl with the maximum value of constant ( k app ). The degradation rate obviously slowed down when the initial concentration of ACT increased to 2 mg/L while it increased with the increasing of dosage of photocatalyst. In contrast, pH has little effect on the degradation of ACT over Ag/AgCl@ZIF-8. The Ag/AgCl@ZIF-8 showed high efficiency for degradation after three repeated cycles which demonstrated the prepared photocatalyst has high stability. The O 2 − turned out to be the main active group during the photodegradation process responsible for the disappearance of ACT. Intermediate products analysis results by LC-MS showed that photolysis was the first step of photocatalytic degradation for ACT followed by a ring cleavage.
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