FOOD CONTROL
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2023
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Menghu Liu,Muhammad Zareef,Afang Zhu,Wenya Wei,Huanhuan Li,Quansheng Chen
The public is seriously at risk for major health problems due to environment contamination from lead ions (Pb 2+ ) and heavy metal bioaccumulation in agricultural goods. In this study, core-shell silver-coated gold nanorods (Au@Ag NRs) were created and treated with glutathione (GSH) and 4-aminobenzoic acid (4-MBA) to monitor Pb 2+ using the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique. Its free carboxyl groups can chelate Pb 2+ added in solution and then present self-aggregated, bringing about more “hot spots” to acquire the significant enhancement signal of 4-MBA. The SERS intensity had a good linear correlation (y = 2420.81x+11333.62, R 2 = 0.9914) in the dynamic range of Pb 2+ concentration of 0.5–1000 μg/L under the current optimization conditions, and LOD was 0.021 μg/L. In addition, recoveries of 94.17–101.12% and 81.31–97.86% for Pb 2+ in tea powder and glutinous rice flour confirmed the monitoring accuracy of Pb 2+ , highlighting its huge potential in the monitoring food quality and safety.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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Xiao-He Liu,Yi He,Zhi Li,Ai-Hua Cheng,Zhiqi Song,Zhi-Xuan Yu,Shouning Chai,Cheng Cheng,Chi He
Recently, atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) become a new class of photosensitizer for light energy conversion in metal-cluster-sensitized semiconductor (MCSS) system. However, fundamental understanding for the suitable combination of NCs and semiconductor is still unclear. Aside from aspects of light harvesting, energy level alignment and catalytic activity, interfacial interaction behavior at NCs/semiconductor interface is also crucial due to its important influence in charge transportation. In this work, the interface interaction between Au NCs and TiO 2 is examined by precise transformation of Au NCs from Au 22 (SG) 18 to Au 18 (SG) 14 , as well as its effect on photocatalytic hydrogen production activity. From the optical, charge transport and solid-states spectroscopy analyses, it is able to display that precisely tuning the number of core atoms from Au 22 (SG) 18 to Au 18 (SG) 14 results in the strong interface interaction between Au NCs and TiO 2 , reflecting in high difference of work function and modified surface band bending of TiO 2 , therefore promoting the injection of electrons from NCs to TiO 2 and reducing interfacial charges recombination. As a result, Au 18 (SG) 14 /TiO 2 shows higher hydrogen generation rate than Au 22 (SG) 18 /TiO 2 under light irradiation . This work would provide new insights into rational combination of metal NCs with semiconductor and highlights the overlooked effect of interfacial interaction behavior on light energy conversion.
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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
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2023
·Vol. 123
·期 8
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Zhang Qianwen,Wu Huaxiong,Du Yuxiang,Zhang Minghui,Xu Bangqiang,Chen Genqiang,He Shi,Zhang Dan,Li Qi,Wang Hong-Xing
In this study, Au nanoparticles were introduced to functionalize hydrogen-terminated diamond (H-diamond) to optimize surface modification and improve the performance of diamond sensor for trace detection of SARS-CoV-2 N-protein. The Au nanoparticles were obtained by an electron beam evaporation system and annealing. Atom force microscope and scanning electron microscope were utilized to characterize the structure, morphology, and distribution of fabricated Au nanoparticles. The concentration of SARS-CoV-2 N-protein was determined by the investigation of transfer characteristics of a diamond solution gate field effect transistor. Sensitivity of this sensor was obtained as 27.43 mV/lg (N-protein concentration), which was higher than a regular H-diamond sensor. In addition, it had a wider linear detection range of 10 −15 –10 −5 mg/ml and a lower limit of detection of 10 −15 mg/ml. Accordingly, the detection performance of diamond sensor has been greatly improved due to the functionalization of Au nanoparticles.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2023
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Shipeng Wu,Rong Shang,Hao Zhang,Qinghu Tang,Qiue Cao,Bang Gu,Wenhao Fang
Low-temperature imine formation through oxidative coupling of alcohols with amines under base-free conditions is very important for fine-chemical synthesis. Supported-Au catalysts show superior performances toward selective oxidation reactions but are scarcely reported for the above application. In this work, the finely-dispersed Au nanoparticles (ca. 2.4 nm) loaded on magnetic Fe x Co 1 O y oxides were developed as novel, efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalyst. Varying the Fe/Co molar ratio allowed tuning the Au−Fe x Co 1 O y interface and further boosting the selective oxidation performance of Au. The optimum Au/Fe 0.25 Co 1 O y catalyst showed >99% yield of benzylideneaniline and 20.1 mol imine mol Au −1 h −1 productivity using the model reaction at 30 °C under air atmosphere without alkaline additives. This was the best result compared to benchmark Au-based catalysts in the literature. In addition, this catalyst exhibited superior performances towards gram-scaled synthesis and diverse substrates. XRD, N 2 -physisorption, TEM, H 2 -TPR, O 2 -TPD, EPR, pyridine-adsorbed FT-IR, and kinetic investigations were used to study this Au catalytic system. It was found that the synergy between Fe 2 O 3 and Co 3 O 4 can induce formation of abundantly mobile and reactive oxygen species (i.e., O 2 − and O − related to oxygen vacancies) and electron-rich metallic Au species on the surface of mesoporous Fe x Co 1 O y oxides. These interfacial features were disclosed to be vital to activating molecular O 2 and O H bond in an alcohol. Besides, it was demonstrated that the surface Lewis acidic sites associated with coordinatively unsaturated Co 3+ ions can help facilitate the tandem oxidation-condensation reactions.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2022
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Jixiang Ji,Ruru Li,Hao Zhang,Yingnan Duan,Qian Liu,Haozhi Wang,Zhurui Shen
To date, the efficient photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into high-value C2 products remains a great challenge. Herein, the Au-CeO 2 nanocomposite with Au-O-Ce sites at the micro-interface was developed to achieve a highly selective conversion of CO 2 into C 2 H 6 . This can be partially ascribed to the formation of key intermediates of COCO* was confirmed via in-situ Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, indicating that the Au-CeO 2 micro-interface could prompt the multi-electron reduction of CO* before desorption, and enable the production of C2 species. Moreover, theoretical calculations suggested that Au-O-Ce sites at the micro-interface could reduce the energy barriers for the formation of COOH* and COCO*, facilitating the production of C 2 H 6 . Therefore, the Au-CeO 2 nanocomposite exhibited a C 2 H 6 production rate of 11.07 µmol g −1 h −1 and high electron selectivity of 93.1 % (product selectivity: 65.3 %), which is comparable with most state-of-the-art photocatalysts.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2022
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Jinyu Huang,Jianwei Li,Zhonglei Zhang,Junda Li,Xiangdong Cao,Jihua Tang,Xuejin Li,Youfu Geng,Jiaqi Wang,Yu Du,Yatao Yang,Xiaofang Pan
Detecting trace ppb-level of formaldehyde (HCHO) in indoor ambient and human exhaled breath using metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) gas sensor has attracted increasing attention. Herein, Ag nanoparticles (Ag NP) modified In 2 O 3 and Au nanocage (Au NC) modified In 2 O 3 as well as bimetal Ag NP and Au NC co-modified In 2 O 3 were successfully prepared via one-step microwave-assisted solvothermal method and were used to construct semiconductor gas sensor. It is exciting to observe that the sensor based on Ag 6 Au 1 /In 2 O 3 exhibits the highest response of 277 toward 5 ppm HCHO at low operating temperature (170 °C), which is about 7 times, 38 times and 102 times higher than 6 wt. % Ag/In 2 O 3 , 1 wt. % Au/In 2 O 3 and pristine In 2 O 3 , respectively. Moreover, the selectivity and detection limit (down to 26 ppb) of Ag 6 Au 1 /In 2 O 3 sensor to HCHO have been proven to be greatly improved. This excellent sensing performance indicates that the proposed bimetal Ag and Au co-modification with synergistic catalysis effect offers an effective design for highly sensitive and efficient HCHO detection devices. Moreover, the mechanism of HCHO sensing with Au and Ag co-loaded In 2 O 3 was explored by the calculations obtained from first-principle density functional theory studies .
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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Linjia Li,Rui Zhang,Yanhong Lin,Dejun Wang,Tengfeng Xie
The exploitation of morphological engineering strategies enables the design of semiconductor-based photocatalysts with a precision that significantly enhances their photocatalytic activity. In this study, a paradigm has been provided that embeds plasmonic nanostructures within the bulk of the semiconductor, which demonstrates an improvement in interfacial charge transfer and separation. It involves a distinct core-double shelled Au@carbon dots@CdS hybrid, exhibiting excellent photocatalytic H 2 generation under the visible light radiation. The interfacial engineering between the plasmonic nucleus and the semiconductor shell has been performed by the incorporation of carbon dots as faster charge channels. The effective driving force for plasmon-enhanced bulk charge separation of semiconductors and the unhindered interfacial charge transmission derived from carbon dots have been demonstrated by the use of steady state surface photovoltage (SPV) and transient state surface photovoltage (TPV) methods, as well as some intrinsic kinetics information of interfacial photoexcited charge carriers transfer processes.
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Foods
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2022
·Vol. 11
·期 18
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Biao Zhang,Ruofan Zhou,Huiqi Zhang,Danfeng Cai,Xiaodong Lin,Yihan Lang,Yulou Qiu,Xuping Shentu,Zihong Ye,Xiaoping Yu
A smartphone colorimetric sensor based on the Pt@Au nanozyme was successfully developed for the visual and quantitative detection of omethoate in fruit and vegetables. The anti-omethoate antibody was conjugated on the surface of the Pt@Au nanozyme as a catalytic functional signal probe, and coating antigen conjugated on the surface of magnetic polystyrene microspheres (MPMs) was used as a separation capture probe. In the sensing system, when the catalytic functional signal probe was combined with a separation capture probe containing no omethoate, the visible blue color appeared with the addition of tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) chromogenic solution, and the maximum B value of the sensing system was obtained via the smartphone. With increasing concentrations of omethoate, the visualization of the sensing system decreased, and the B-value obtained via the smartphone dropped. Under optimal detection conditions, the omethoate could be detected in a linear range of 0.5–50 μg/L (R2= 0.9965), with a detection limit of 0.01 μg/L. The accuracy and reliability of the detection results of this colorimetric sensor were successfully confirmed by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and gas chromatography. This colorimetric sensor provides a technical reference and potential strategy for the immunoassay of hazard factors in resource-scarce laboratories.Keywords:colorimetric sensor;Pt@Au nanozyme;visualized biosensing;smartphone-based quantitative detection;omethoate
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2022
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Long Chen,Haozhou Shi,Chenjia Ye,Xiaoyu Xia,Yi Li,Chenying Pan,Yanhua Song,Jun Liu,Hao Dong,Di Wang,Xing Chen
In this work, Au decorated In-doped SnO 2 (Au@In 2 O 3 -SnO 2 ) porous nanotubes (PNTs) were fabricated via electrospinning and a subsequent calcination treatment. The In-doped SnO 2 PNTs with various Au/Sn molar ratios possessed good ethanol sensing properties. As a result, the 3 % mol Au decorated In-doped SnO 2 PNTs had high response to ethanol (R a /R g = 316.8–100 ppm) and can detect ethanol down to 50 ppb at a low working temperature of 150 °C. In addition, the gas sensor also had high selectivity, good reversibility and long-term stability. The enhanced sensing performance was mainly ascribed to the increase of oxygen vacancies , catalytic activity of Au nanocatalysts, and porous structures . The sensing results demonstrated that Au@In 2 O 3 -SnO 2 PNTs had the great potential for ethanol detecting, and provide a facile method for rationally designing other types of gas sensors.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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Weiping Liao,Haoyi Lin,Jiaxing Zhang,Jiaqi Wang,Kaixuan Yang,Ting Su,Hongying Lü,Zhiguo Zhu
2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is a potential substitute of petroleum-based terephthalic acid to manufacture polymer. The selective aerobic oxidation of renewable 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to FDCA is a promising and appealing route for establishing sustainable and environmentally friendly chemical process. Au catalysts have exhibited exceptional catalytic performances for this highly anticipated chemical transformation, where the used support intensively impacts the catalytic productivity from the standpoint of metal-support and guest organic-support interactions. Herein, Sn-Beta zeolite was straightforward and rapidly synthesized via structural reconstruction without the auxiliary of any solvents, which was adopted as support for Au catalyst to construct bifunctional catalysts. As for Au/Sn-Beta sample, Lewis acid sites were related to Sn 4+ ions in the zeolite framework, while electronic properties and particle size of Au species were capable of being modulated by Au dosages. In addition, charge transfer from Au species to framework Sn 4+ ions resulted in the formation of Au δ+ species. Au/Sn-Beta catalyst with metal-Lewis acid cooperative active sites showed unique catalytic productivity of FDCA product in the aerobic oxidation of HMF to FDCA, whose catalytic performance was correlated with Lewis acid amounts as well as geometric and electronic effect of Au particle. Reaction mechanism analysis revealed the pathway and concrete step that Lewis acid site functioned. The aim is to provide some guidance for constructing a task-specific multifunctional supported catalyst from the view of support-enhanced effect for the catalytic conversion of biomass resource with multi-functional-groups.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2022
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Yazhou Qin,Shusheng Yin,Mingjie Chen,Weixuan Yao,Yingsheng He
The problem of opioid abuse has become a global problem. Thus, creating an urgent need for highly sensitive detection of opioid substances. In this work, we developed a method for the controllable preparation of Ag@Au nanocrystals (Ag@Au NCs) for highly sensitive SERS detection of fentanyl and its analogs. By regulating the concentration of ligands on the surface of silver seed, we successfully prepared Ag@Au NCs with three different morphologies, including core-satellite, yolk shell and hollow structure. Firstly, we explored the SERS-enhancing effect of Ag@Au NCs with different morphology using rhodamine 6G as the molecule to be tested. The results show that the core-satellite Ag@Au NCs has the best SERS effect, and the lowest detection concentration for R6G reached to 10 -10 M. Furthermore, we used the prepared core-satellite Ag@Au NCs to detect fentanyl and its five analogs, including carfentanyl, furanylfentanyl, thiofentanyl, 4-fluorobutyrfentanyl and N-4-piperidylacetanilide. Trace detection was achieved for the above six substances. For the environmental water samples spiked with fentanyl, the calculated recovery was 89.2% with an RSD value of 7.3%. Moreover, in order to realize the qualitative analysis of the characteristic peaks of different fentanyl analogs, we performed DFT calculations on the Raman spectra of the above-mentioned 6 substances. By analyzing the DFT calculation results, conventional Raman spectroscopy and SERS spectroscopy, we realized the distinction of six fentanyl analogs with similar structures.
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Frontiers in Chemistry
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2022
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Qian Ningkang,Ji Liang,Li Xiao,Huang Jingbo,Li Junjie,Wu Xingqiao,Yang Deren,Zhang Hui
Combining the core-shell structure with the optimization of surface composition and structure in the shell is a fantastic strategy to enhance the electrocatalytic performances. Here, we synthesized trimetallic Au@PtxSny core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) with tunable composition and structure of Pt-Sn alloyed shells. Impressively, the Au@PtSn core-shell NPs with hexagonal PtSn alloyed shells exhibited the highest mass activity and specific activity toward ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) in alkaline electrolyte, which are 13.0 and 12.7 times higher than those of the commercial Pt/C. In addition, the Au@PtSn core-shell NPs displayed the best stability compared to commercial Pt/C, with only 44.8% loss vs. 86.8% loss in mass activity after 1,000 s due to the stronger anti-poisoning ability for reaction intermediates. The theory calculations reveal that the introduction of Au core and alloying Pt with Sn both endow Pt with an appropriate d-band center, and thus effectively boosting the EOR activity.
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