Catalysis Science & Technology
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2018
·Vol. 8
·期 3
·735-745
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IF 5.365
Lin Dong,Li-Li Yin,Qineng Xia,Xiaohui Liu,Xue-Qing Gong,Yanqin Wang
One-pot depolymerization of lignin to well-defined chemicals and their further deoxygenation to arenes are extremely attractive. Based on our previous results that Nb2O5 species can promote the cleavage of C–O bonds and the synergistic effect between Ru and Nb2O5 species led to the direct transformation of lignin into arenes over a Ru/Nb2O5 catalyst [Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 161041], the importance and influence of ruthenium particle size need to be further studied. Herein, we report the different performances of Ru/NbOPO4 catalysts with various Ru particle sizes in the hydrogenolysis of a lignin model compound. This study shows that the catalytic activities and the product distributions strongly depend on the size of Ru nanoparticles (NPs): Ru NPs with smaller diameters (1.2 and 1.8 nm) have a higher activity for the cleavage of Caliphatic–O and Caromatic–O bonds, whereas Ru NPs with larger diameters (2.5 and 5.3 nm) show a much lower activity for C–O cleavage, especially for the Caromatic–O bond, resulting in totally different product distributions. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed that the presence of step and edge sites in smaller Ru particles can significantly lower the barriers for both Caromatic–O and Caliphatic–O bond cleavage. This study provides a new way for catalyst design towards highly efficient and selective hydrogenolysis of lignin to useful aromatic chemicals.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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Yang Liu,Xinyu Sun,Ying Wang,Shiqing Zhang,Fang Liu,Shaokai Ma,Jun Zhang,Ying Li,Yanming Xue,Chengchun Tang
Birnessite (δ-MnO 2 ), inspired by biological photosynthesis, holds promise as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts in water electrolysis for clean energy. Given that Mn 3+ serves as the active sites, various strategies have been employed to increase the Mn 3+ content to boost the OER activity. To surpass the limitations of the traditional adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM), we have adopted an electrochemical reduction method to introduce metallic Ni and enrich oxygen vacancies onto δ-MnO 2 nanosheets. The resulting Ni/MnO 2 v /CC exhibits exceptional OER performance, with a reduction in overpotential by 190 mV (from 478 mV to 289 mV) at 10 mA cm −2 and a Tafel slope as low as 45 mV dec -1 , indicating accelerated catalytic activity. Experimental and theoretical analyses attribute this enhancement to a transition from the traditional AEM to lattice oxygen mechanism (LOM) mechanism. Moreover, the dual modification also enhances electronic conductivity, electrochemical surface area, and charge transfer ability of δ-MnO 2 . Our work offers a pathway to overcome conventional limitations in OER electrocatalysts, applicable not only to Mn-based catalysts but also to a range of other transition metal oxides.
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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2024
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Mengqi Han,Qinfei Chen,Weikang Tang,Hong Zhou,Jiadong Chen,Wenbin Liu
Surfactants occupy a prominent place in the domestic and industrial fields. Amino acid surfactants have attracted attention as alternatives to petrochemical-based surfactants owing to their good biocompatibility and biodegradability. Conventional amino acid surfactants with structures having only acyl linkages lack multifunctionality. Therefore, novel amino acid surfactants must be developed to achieve this feature. Inspired by melanogenesis , the biomimetic synthesis of melanin-like amino acid surfactants with structures similar to that of melanin was conceived. Natural polyphenols with catechol moieties serve as building blocks for hydrophobic moieties. As a proof-of-concept, caffeic acid phenethyl ester was oxidized to o- quinone using periodate resin. Melanin-like amino acid surfactants were synthesized by conjugating amino acids to o -quinones via Michael addition and Schiff base reactions. The structure was confirmed by mass spectrometry . Melanin-like amino acid surfactants have outstanding surface activity with a low critical micelle concentration and excellent capacity for foaming, emulsifying, dispersing, wetting, and solubilizing. Melanin-like amino acid surfactants exhibit low skin irritation , as well as high tolerance to ions and pH. The utilization of polyphenols introduces multifunctionality, affording antioxidant, antibacterial and whitening activities. This study proposes a modular strategy for fabricating new and multifunctional amino acid surfactants that mimic melanin by simply replacing the o -quinone building block. This biomimetic synthesis route is a sustainable process for the green production of amino acid surfactants. This new generation of amino acid surfactants will contribute to meeting the increasing demand for multifunctional surfactants in both academia and industry.
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THERMOCHIMICA ACTA
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2024
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Huanxin Li,Bo Zhu,Kenan Sun,Xin Ding
The solubility of 3, 4- O -isopropylidene clindamycin (OIC) was determined in twelve solvents at p = 101.3 kPa with the temperature from 273.15 K to 313.15 K. The solubility of OIC increases with the raise temperature. Among the selected solvents, 2-butanol showed the best dissolving ability for OIC, while acetonitrile showed the worst dissolving ability. The obtained data are neatly correlated with five models, including van't Hoff, Yaws, λh , Wilson, and nonrandom two-liquid interaction model (NRTL), with Yaws equation yielding the most accurate predicted results. Moreover, the Conductor-like Screening Model for Real solvents (COSMO-RS) provides better calculated results for the protic solvents than the aprotic ones except for acetonitrile . The dissolving mechanism of OIC was investigated with intermolecular interaction between OIC and solvents, and the analyses indicate that the dissolving process is affected by intermolecular interaction, molecular shape, and size of both solvents and the solute. The apparent thermodynamics analysis shows that the dissolving process of OIC before reaching equilibrium in the twelve solvents is spontaneous, endothermic, and enthalpy driven.
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POLYMERS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
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2024
·Vol. 35
·期 1
·e6269
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Mirza Nadeem Ahmad,Muhammad Naveed Anjum,Muhammad Fayyaz Farid,Atta-ul Haq,Akbar Ali,Muhammad Fayyazur Rehman,Mohammed A. Assiri,Muhammad Safwan Akram
Water pollution is growing at an alarming rate, particularly due to the colored wastewater released by the various industries into aquifers and fresh water sources, and in some extreme cases, they have reached the water table. Faisalabad, a city in Pakistan where there is an industrial cluster of textiles dyeing and manufacturers, water table has become undrinkable. The presence of hazardous dyes and chemicals imposes serious health issues on humans, animals, and plants. The treatment of such toxic dye effluents is crucial and could be done by efficient degradation methods such as photocatalysis. The current study presents synthesis of poly( o -methylaniline)/zinc oxide/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite (POMA/ZnO/rGO NC) using a chemical oxidative polymerization process and explores its properties as a photocatalyst by demonstrating degradation of three dyes. The composite was characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), photoluminescence emission spectroscopy (PL), Brunauer Emmett–Teller analysis (BET), and UV–visible spectroscopy (UV–visible). Further, the photocatalytic activity of POMA/ZnO/rGO NC was evaluated and compared by degrading the direct yellow 12 (DY 12), congo red (CR), and malachite green (MG) dyes in aqueous media under UV irradiation. The results indicated that after 110 min, POMA/ZnO/rGO composite degraded the dyes by 92% (DY 12), 86.1% (CR), and 82.1% (MG), respectively. Moreover, kinetic studies of the photocatalyst were also performed along with reusability test, total organic carbon, chemical oxygen demand, and degradation mechanism.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2025
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Keru Song,Anze Shui,Mingyuan Hu,Hulei Yu
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with regulated band structures and multilayered structures have attracted considerable interest in microwave absorption materials. However, the rational design of the hierarchical structure with phase and defect from a microscopic perspective remains challenging. Here, the O-doped 1 T/2H MoS 2 heterojunction is successfully fabricated with a hierarchical morphologically controllable 3D flowerlike structure using the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide template method. It is found that the heterogeneous interface between 1 T and 2 H MoS 2 phases can increase interfacial polarization, and the defects with O dopants and vacancies are beneficial to improve dipole polarization and conductive loss. Such a synergism results in a significantly enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption (EMWA) in these O-doped 1 T/2H MoS 2 samples, achieving the minimum reflection loss (RL min ) of −55.28 dB at a matching thickness of 2.53 mm and an effective absorption bandwidth of 5.05 GHz at 1.88 mm in the as-fabricated MS0.3C-40 samples. Meanwhile, the RL min of the as-fabricated MS0.3C-50 samples reaches −55.24 dB at a matching thickness of 2.29 mm with a maximum radar cross-section of 38.72 dB∙m 2 . These findings pave the way for optimizing the EMWA performance of TMDs with the synergism of phase engineering and defect engineering.
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ACS Nano
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2025
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Haijuan Zhang,Hengyue Xu,Jie Chen,Daqin Guan,Zhiwei Hu,Xiaomin Xu,Zezhou Lin,Hainan Sun,Xiao Sun,Jiayi Tang,Chih-Wen Pao,Chien-Te Chen,Wei Zhou,Chunchang Wang,Youmin Guo,Zongping Shao
Lattice oxygen participation mechanism (LOM) can break the conventional adsorption scaling limitations to boost electrocatalysis performance and has been utilized to design promising single-phase oxides that generally show favorable bulk oxygen-ion diffusion capability. In pure-phase materials, bulk oxygen vacancies could act as oxygen-ion diffusion channels, implying rich bulk oxygen vacancies at the interfaces of hybrid-phase composites may further boost LOM. Here, by designing hybrid Co2.5Ru0.5Ox hollow nanotubes with rich two-phase interfaces, we report a phenomenon of interfacial LOM. Such hollow nanotubes (∼10 nm wall thickness), composed of spinel Co3O4-x-rutile RuO2-x interfaces, exhibiting a low overpotential of 430 mV and a long-term stability of 1000 h at 500 mA cm–2 for oxygen-evolving reaction (OER) in near-industrial alkaline solutions (6 M KOH). The constructed anion exchange membrane electrolyzer requires only 1.82 V to achieve a 1 A cm–2. Interfacial Co/Ru atomic interactions trigger Co–O–Ru motifs to undergo self-optimization during OER through oxidizing Co/Ru ions and narrowing bond length to create short synergetic active sites, while interfacial oxygen vacancies act as ion-diffusion pathways. Combined mechanism experiments and computations unravel the exceptional interfacial LOM processes. Additionally, the hollow nanotube structure promotes OH– adsorption, serving as a beneficial driving force for interfacial LOM.
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2024
·Vol. 34
·期 33
·2316654
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IF 18.5
Feng Xu,Ming Chen,Yaoxuan Cui,Libin Qian,Jin Wang,Zhao Han,Yanli Lu,Di Wang
The electronic nose aims to emulate the olfactory capabilities of osmatic animals, utilizing olfactory sensing array with different sensing characteristics to perceive odors. However, the separate precursors and preparation methods of sensing materials pose challenges in the fabrication of an olfactory sensing array. In this work, the customization of the surface crystal phase of Sr─Fe─O materials (SFO) is demonstrated through the control of annealing temperature, enabling the simple fabrication of an olfactory sensing array using a single precursor. Significantly, the SFO materials exhibit diverse proportions of surface crystal phases, showcasing varied selective characteristics toward volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The materials also demonstrate remarkable responsiveness, linearity, and response/recovery times. Furthermore, this study unraveles the intricate gas-sensor mechanism through first principle calculations, revealing that Fe spin-down d band center of Sr 3 Fe 2 O 7 , located near the Fermi level, significantly enhances the binding strength of intermediates, leading to a higher response specifically to certain VOCs. Integrating these materials into a unified device, the sensor array quantitatively and discriminatively detected different VOCs. The results indicate that SFO materials hold tremendous potential as a promising and easily manufacturable olfactory material system.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2025
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Mingli Yue,Bixian Wang,Jianbo Zhao,Liangzhong Lv,Ying Fu,Fei Ye
Cancer, the world’s second leading killer, has increasing crude incidence rates and faces multiple prevention/control challenges. Curcumin (Cur) has anticancer activity but low bioavailability, restricting its use in cancer therapy. A nanomaterial (Fe₃O₄/PDA@Cur) for targeted curcumin delivery is developed in this work, which has a magnetic Fe 3 O 4 core made by solvothermal synthesis and a polydopamine (PDA) shell made by one-pot synthesis. Results show that drug loading rate reached 40.3 % when the mass ratio of Fe₃O₄/PDA: Cur was 1:3. The hemolysis rate was measured to be 1.24 % in the hemocompatibility test. The complex exhibited good antibacterial efficacy against both Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus , MIC 250.0 μg/mL and MBC 500.0 μg/mL), Escherichia coli ( E. coli , MIC 625.0 μg/mL and MBC 1250.0 μg/mL), which was attributed to the properties of the incorporated PDA. The material has good blood compatibility and antibacterial effects, and it effectively prevents secondary infection at the tumor site and red-blood-cell lysis. Notably, at pH 5.0, drug release reached 75.5 % via pH-responsive mechanisms which tumor microenvironment (pH 5.0–6.5), drug release is accelerated in these regions, enabling targeted therapy that minimizes toxicity to normal cells and systemic side effects, thereby enhancing treatment safety. This complex, which possesses both drug delivery and antibacterial properties, holds significant clinical importance for preventing opportunistic infections during tumor treatment.
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Frontiers in Nutrition
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2025
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Sixuan Wang,Luorui Li,Qing Meng,Wei Luo,Fang Wei,Liyong Luo,Liang Zeng
Congou black tea has garnered significant interest among customers because of its distinctive floral-fruity aroma. To determine the differences in characteristic volatile compounds among various varieties, a total of 147 volatile compounds were identified across 25 samples via gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Through hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA), 25 samples were classified into two clusters, in which the Fuding variety, Jinguanyin variety, Huangguanyin variety, and Meizhan variety were clustered into one category, whereas the Sichuan population variety was clustered into the other. These two categories were further analyzed via orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), and 48 differential compounds were identified. The Sichuan population variety was found to contain a higher concentration of floral and fruity aroma compounds while exhibiting fewer green or grassy odor compounds. To explore the floral-fruity aroma components of Sichuan Congou black tea (SCBT), forty-nine aroma-active compounds were identified through multidimensional GC–MS/olfactometry (MDGC-MS/O). Among them, six components with odor activity values (OAVs) ≥1 were regarded as key floral-fruity aroma components. Recombination and omission tests ranked the contributions of these compounds as follows: geraniol, linalool, methyl salicylate, benzeneacetaldehyde, beta-myrcene and benzaldehyde. Addition experiments confirmed for the first time that linalool, beta-myrcene and methyl salicylate are the key citrus-like compounds, offering valuable insights for the exploration of germplasm resources and quality control of black tea with special aromas.
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DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
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2025
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Rui Zhang,Duoyu Zhou,Kenan Yi,Songsong Xu,Lina Su,Jianhua Liu,Li Li,Fengyang Yu
Biomass-derived porous carbon has gained significant interest as ideal electrode material for supercapacitor owing to eco-sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and unique inherent microstructure. Herein, N, O co-doped porous carbons have been successfully obtained by single-step carbonization-activation method using waste pomelo peel as carbon source and KHCO 3 /CO(NH 2 ) 2 as activators. In the synthesis process, KHCO 3 as a pore-forming agent plays an important role, and CO(NH 2 ) 2 is used to assist the pore-forming process as well as N doping. Benefiting from high specific surface area (1378.5 m 2 ·g −1 ), predominant microporous structure and O, N co-doping, the best N, O co-doped porous carbon (denoted as PKNAC) exhibits high specific capacitance (364.5 F·g −1 , 1 A·g −1 ), favorable rate performance (retaining 63.86 %, 50 A·g −1 ) and good cycling durability (97.32 % retention, 20,000 cycles). Notably, the assembled quasi-flexible symmetrical supercapacitor in PVA/KOH gel electrolyte achieves the energy density of 13.7 Wh·kg −1 at a power density of 350 W·kg −1 . This work offers a convenient approach to prepare heteroatom-doped porous carbons from biomass waste for high-performance energy storage.
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MOLECULES
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2025
·Vol. 30
·期 15
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IF 4.6
Hongmei Wang,Xiaoxu Zhang,Ziqi Shen,Zichuan Ma
The recovery and abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have received increasing attention due to their significant environmental and health impacts. Supported sulfonic acid materials have shown great potential in converting aromatic VOCs into their non-volatile derivatives through reactive adsorption. However, the anchoring state of sulfonic acid groups, which is closely related to the properties of the support, greatly affects their performance. In this study, two supported sulfonic acid materials, SZO and SMO, were prepared by treating ZrO2and MgO with chlorosulfonic acid, respectively, to investigate the influence of the support properties on the anchoring state of sulfonic acid groups and their reactive adsorption performance foro-xylene. The supports, adsorbents, and adsorption products were extensively characterized, and the reactivity of SZO and SMO towardso-xylene was systematically compared. The results showed that sulfonic acid groups are anchored on the ZrO2surface through covalent bonding, forming positively charged sulfonic acid sites ([O1.5Zr-O]δ−-SO3Hδ+) with a loading of 3.6 mmol/g. As a result, SZO exhibited excellent removal efficiency (≥91.3%) and high breakthrough adsorption capacity (ranging from 38.59 to 82.07 mg/g) foro-xylene in the temperature range of 130 –150 °C. In contrast, sulfonic acid groups are anchored on the MgO surface via ion-paired bonding, leading to the formation of negatively charged sulfonic acid sites ([O0.5Mg]+:OSO3H−), which prevents their participation in the electrophilic sulfonation reaction witho-xylene molecules. This work provides new insights into tuning and enhancing the performance of supported sulfonic acid materials for the resource-oriented treatment of aromatic VOCs.
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