JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2018
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IF 5.091
Kui Yin,Shanshan Zhang,Yuyang Sun,Hui Huang,Yafei Cheng,Fan Liao,Mingwang Shao
Hydrogen is considered as a promising energy source because of its high combustion heat and clean products. Among the various hydrogen evolution methods, electrocatalysis is the most convenient and effective way. However it is still problematic to find low-cost and high-efficiency electrocatalysts. In this work, Os-Ag-Si and Os-Au-Si ternary electrocatalysts were investigated. It is interesting that Os-Ag-Si exhibits higher hydrogen evolution performance than that of Os-Au-Si, even though Ag is a worse HER catalyst than Au. The optimal ternary catalyst Os-Ag-Si with mass ratio of 15:15:70 (Os:Ag:Si) was synthesized by a facile Si H bond reduction method, which shows superior hydrogen evolution reaction performance with a low Tafel slope of 40 mV·dec −1 . In addition, the current density of Os-Ag-Si-15 catalyst surpasses that of 20% Pt/C when the overpotential is larger than 160 mV. The introduction of Ag in the Os-Ag-Si ternary catalyst could enhance the electrocatalytic activity, reduce the cost of catalysts, and even be better than Os-Au-Si.
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材料科学
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能源化学
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ANALYST
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2021
·Vol. 147
·期 2
·303-311
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IF 4.616
Chao Chen,Chenxi Wang,Pengcheng Zhao,Jin Zhang,Dechong Ma,Junjie Fei
First, the nanocomposite Au@rGO-MWCNT was synthesized by a hydrothermal method. Next, a temperature-controlled composite sensing film was prepared by composite modification of poly(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate) (PMEO2MA) and Au@rGO-MWCNT on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE). This sensor was shown to exhibit good temperature sensitivity and reversibility to dopamine. When the testing temperature is lower than the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the polymer, the PMEO2MA chain is in a stretched state, which increases the distance between the Au@rGO layers and leads to the inability of MWCNTs in one layer to contact another Au@rGO layer and to low conductivity. Therefore, in this state, dopamine cannot detect an electrochemical signal, and it is termed an “off” state. When the temperature is higher than the LCST of the polymer, the PMEO2MA chain shrinks, allowing the MWCNTs to make contact with another layer of Au@rGO; the electron transfer rate of the modified film increases, and the electrochemical behavior of dopamine turns to an “on” state. Moreover, the sensor has a wide detection range (0.1 to 9.0 μM and 9.0 to 239.0 μM), and the limit of detection of dopamine is as low as 30 nM. This method has been successfully applied to the determination of dopamine in human serum samples. The on–off sensor provides a new avenue for the application of temperature-sensitive polymers.
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生物传感
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分析化学
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材料科学
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2020
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IF 4.189
Lina Lin,Xiaoyu Feng,Dengpeng Lan,Yuang Chen,Qilan Zhong,Chao Liu,Yan Cheng,Ruijuan Qi,Jianping Ge,Chengzhong Yu,Chun-gang Duan,Rong Huang
Interface structure plays an extremely important role in the charge-transfer and photocatalytic performances in plasmonic metal/semiconductor systems. Defect engineering by introducing an oxygen vacancy (Ovac) is an effective way to modulate the interface structure. Here, a representative photocatalyst system including TiO2, TiO2–x, Au-TiO2 and Au-TiO2–x as designed delicately to reveal the detailed mechanism of the plasmon-resonance-induced charge separation in interfacial defect structure from the nanoscale. The local charge transfer via a conducting amorphous-like interface layer is visualized as the arched valence change from Ti3+ to Ti4+ at the Au-TiO2–x interface after Schottky contact. This phenomenon eventually leads to the enhancement of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) at 2.3 eV, and the introduction of Ovac reduces the Schottky barrier height of Au-TiO2–x by 5 mV compared with that of Au-TiO2. Under visible light, Au-TiO2–x excites the most photogenerated carriers to the surface, which is larger than that of TiO2–x and Au-TiO2. It can be concluded that the changes in electronic structure eventually promote charge transfer in visible light and explain the original reason that the coupling of Ovac and Au could improve the photocatalytic performance.
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材料科学
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物理化学
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2019
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IF 8.355
Yuqi Geng,Jiaqi Li,Wenjuan Lu,Ning Wang,Zeyang Xiang,Yanzhao Yang
In this paper, superparamagnetic Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 -NH 2 nanoparticles were applied to adsorb Au(III)/Pd(II)/Pt(IV) in HCl medium. The successful synthesis of Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 -NH 2 was characterized through TEM, SEM and FT-IR. Electrostatic interaction between magnetic NPs and metal anions was proposed as the main adsorption mechanism by zeta potential analysis. Maximum adsorption capacities and adsorption behaviors under metal anions concentrations, acidity, NaCl, kinetic and isotherm models were investigated. Notably, the Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 -NH 2 shows the excellent acidity and salinity resistance on Au(III), Pd(II) adsorption. The separation routine among Au(III), Pd(II) and Pt(IV) was proposed. As investigated, Pt(IV) could be isolated due to the less adsorption amount onto Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 -NH 2 (≤1%). Then, the adsorbed Au(III) was eluted selectively by HCl + N-hexanol alcohol + ethanol + H 2 O 2 mixing solution. Then, the adsorbed Pd(II) was completely eluted by thiourea solution. The recovery efficiencies of Au(III), Pd(II) and Pt(IV) were kept over 92%, 97% and 94% respectively, during 5 turns of cycling separation experiments. Total loss amount of Fe is around 7%. Hence that, the particle demonstrates the good stability and high adsorption capacity, which possess great potential for practical Au(III), Pd(II) and Pt(IV) separation.
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化学工程
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材料科学
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ACS Catalysis
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2016
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IF 9.307
Shanhui Zhu,Yanfeng Xue,Jing Guo,Youliang Cen,Jianguo Wang,Weibin Fan
The high-yield synthesis of the biofuel γ-valerolactone (GVL) is a challenging task, which currently stems from the depolymerization of cellulose to levulinic acid, followed by its hydrogenation. We have developed a novel integrated process for the production of GVL from hemicellulose without using liquid acids and external hydrogen. The hemicellulose feed underwent hydrolysis and consecutive dehydration to produce furfural over ZSM-5 catalyst. Subsequently, the formed furfural with 2-propanol performed tandem conversion to GVL over Au/ZrO2 catalyst combined with ZSM-5. This process gave a high yield of GVL under mild conditions: up to 61.5% based on hemicellulose. The outstanding performance was mainly ascribed to the strong interface interaction of Au with ZrO2 species, large amounts of medium-strength acid sites over ZSM-5, and efficient synergy between active metal and acid sites.
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生物化学
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催化化学
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2025
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IF 19
Wenchao Shangguan,Guoqiang Li,Shidi Gui,Xiaodong Zhang,Sugang Meng,Shifu Chen,Yingxuan Li
Separating photoexcited holes in metallic nanostructure to drive H 2 O oxidation reaction to balance the CO 2 photoreduction reaction is highly desirable, but challenging. The bottleneck lies in the sluggish kinetics of both photoexcited hole transfer and H 2 O oxidation. Herein, this work demonstrates that the in situ reconstruction of n -type wide-bandgap AlOOH-supported Au nanoparticle heterogeneous photocatalyst, triggered by thermal and photothermal cooperative effect during photocatalytic reactions, facilitates the efficient CO 2 photoreduction through optimizing the Au 5 d -band holes separation and H 2 O activation. In situ and ex situ characterizations evidence restructuring at interfaces to form an ultrathin γ-Al 2 O 3 nanolayer (≈2 nm thickness), which optimizes the energy band structure and promotes spontaneous transfer of photoexcited Au 5 d -band holes to the valence band of AlOOH, and prolongs the lifetime of electrons available for CO 2 reduction on Au. Furthermore, hydroxyl vacancies generated during restructuring process are demonstrated to promote H 2 O adsorption and lower the energy barrier for O 2 formation, supplying adequate protons for CO 2 protonation reduction and thereby boosting CO 2 photoreduction efficiency. This study offers valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms of utilizing n -type semiconductors to separate photoexcited d -band holes in metal nanoparticles.
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RSC Advances
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2014
·Vol. 5
·期 12
·9130-9137
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IF 3.708
Jiahuan Lei,Yu Liu,Xinyu Wang,Pan Hu,Xinsheng Peng
Au nanoparticles/mesoporous CuO nanosheets were successfully synthesized by the assembly of negatively charged AuCl4−1 and positively charged CuO nanosheets using sodium citrate and thermal reduction, respectively. The structure and morphology were characterized in detail. Both the loading amount of Au nanoparticles and the performance were controlled by the reduction process. The resulting Au/CuO NSs exhibited good catalytic activity for CO oxidation and good non-enzymatic sensitivity for glucose.
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材料科学
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化学
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生物传感
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催化反应
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CRYSTENGCOMM
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2019
·Vol. 21
·期 45
·6935-6944
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IF 3.382
Qunling Fang,Yuhang Sun,Jinyu Duan,Linfeng Bai,Kezhu Xu,Qinshan Xiong,Huajian Xu,Ken Cham-Fai Leung,Ailing Hui,Shouhu Xuan
Metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived nanostructures exhibit wonderful characteristics and possess broad application potential by modulating the complex composition and inner nanostructure. Although various MOF-based nanocomposites have been successfully developed, a facile method that can easily modulate the structure-dependent chemical components of the MOF-derived hybrids remains a challenge. By coating zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) with Au/polydopamine (Au/PDA) via in situ redox-oxidation polymerization of HAuCl4 and dopamine, it was found that the ZIF-8 templates were simultaneously etched off to give Au/PDA hybrid microcapsules with a cubic shape. This one-step sacrificial templating process followed a competing chelation between gold ions and Zn2+ cations to 2-methylimidazole and PDA; thus, both the hollow and the yolk-like hybrid cubic microcapsules were controllably obtained by varying the synthetic dynamics. Owing to the hollow nature, penetrated PDA shell, well-distributed Au nanocrystals, and unique stable nanostructure, the non-spherical Au/PDA hybrid cubic microcapsules showed high performance in catalyzing the reduction of 4-nitrophenol as well as adsorption/release of ibuprofen as a model drug. Moreover, this simple strategy offers a controllable design in developing multifunctional nanocomposites with definite inner nanostructures and activities for nanocatalysis, drug delivery, energy storage etc.
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材料科学
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纳米技术
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催化化学
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药物递送
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ACS Omega
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2022
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IF 4.132
Zhengxia Yang,Hai-Sheng Su,En-Ming You,Siying Liu,Zihang Li,Yun Zhang
Breast cancer appears to be one of the leading causes of cancer-related morbidity and mortality for women worldwide. The accurate and rapid diagnosis of breast cancer is hence critical for the treatment and prognosis of patients. With the vibrational fingerprint information and high detection sensitivity, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been extensively applied in biomedicine. Here, an optimized bimetallic nanosphere (Au@Ag NS) 3D substrate was fabricated for the aim of the diagnosis of breast cancer based on the SERS analysis of the extracellular metabolites. The unique stacking mode of 3D Au@Ag NSs provided multiple plasmonic hot spots according to the theoretical calculations of the electromagnetic field distribution. The low relative standard deviation (RSD = 2.7%) and high enhancement factor (EF = 1.42 × 105) proved the uniformity and high sensitivity. More importantly, the normal breast cells and breast cancer cells could be readily distinguished from the corresponding SERS spectra based on the extracellular metabolites. Furthermore, the clear clusters of SERS spectra from MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 extracellular metabolites in the orthogonal partial least-squares discriminant analysis plot indicate the distinct metabolic fingerprint between breast cancer cells, which imply their potential clinical application in the diagnosis of breast cancer.
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生物医学
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纳米技术
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癌症研究
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LUMINESCENCE
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2023
·Vol. 39
·期 2
·e4651
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IF 2.9
Weiwei Yuan,Shuhuai Li,Xionghui Ma,Chaohai Pang,Yuwei Wu,Mingyue Wang,Bei Li
The luminescence performance of fluorescent reagents plays a crucial role in fluorescence analysis. Therefore, in this study, a novel bi-ligand Zn-based metal–organic framework, Au nanoparticle (NP) fluorescent material was synthesized using a hydrothermal method with Zn as the metal source. Simultaneously, a DNA aptamer was introduced as a molecular recognition element to develop a Zn-based MOF@Au NPs/DNA aptamer fluorescent probe for the ultra-trace detection of thiamethoxam residues in agricultural products. The probe captured different concentrations of the target molecule, thiamethoxam, through the DNA aptamer, causing a conformational change in the DNA aptamer and bursting the fluorescence of the probe, therefore establishing a fluorometric method for thiamethoxam detection. This method is highly sensitive due to the excellent luminescence properties of the Zn-based MOF@Au NPs, and the DNA aptamer can specifically recognize thiamethoxam, offering high selectivity. The linear range of the method was 2.5–6000 × 10 −11 mol L −1 , with a detection limit of 8.33 × 10 −12 mol L −1 . This method was applied to the determination of actual samples, such as bananas, and the spiked recovery rate was found to be in the range 84.05–109.07%. Overall, the proposed probe has high sensitivity, high selectivity, and easy operation for the detection of thiamethoxam residues in actual samples.
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分析化学
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食品安全
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纳米技术
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SENSORS
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2024
·Vol. 24
·期 14
·4477
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IF 3.4
Junyi Wang,Yanpei Xu,Yutong Song,Qi Wang
Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is widely used in sensor sensitization due to its excellent optical properties. In this study, we present a sensitivity-enhanced surface plasmon resonance alcohol sensor based on Fe2O3/Au. We describe the fabrication process of the sensor and characterize its structure. We conduct performance testing on sensors coated multiple times and use solutions with the same gradient of refractive indices as the sensing medium. Within the refractive index range of 1.3335–1.3635, the sensor that was coated twice achieved the highest sensitivity, reaching 2933.2 nm/RIU. This represents a 30.26% enhancement in sensitivity compared to a sensor with a pure gold monolayer film structure. Additionally, we demonstrated the application of this sensor in alcohol concentration detection by testing the alcohol content of common beverages, showing excellent agreement with theoretical values and highlighting the sensor’s potential in food testing.
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传感器技术
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材料科学
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光学
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2021
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IF 8.198
Zhuang Zeng,Zhuoshi Li,Shaoxia Guo,Jing Lv,Shouying Huang,Yue Wang,Xinbin Ma
Higher alcohol synthesis (HAS) direct from syngas using Fe-based catalysts is quite promising, but there are still problems in the construction of intimate-contact and stable dual sites to obtain satisfactory higher alcohol selectivity and space time yield (STY). Herein, a series of Au–Fe2.2C catalysts derived from monodisperse Janus Au–Fe3O4 nanoparticles with different Fe/Au ratios were prepared. The optimal catalyst with a Fe/Au molar ratio of 11.6 achieved the most Janus nanoparticles and exhibited the highest STY toward higher alcohols of 0.195 g gcat–1 h–1 and excellent catalytic stability over 200 h. The superior performance of this catalyst was attributed to the unique Au–Fe2.2C Janus structure, which could enhance both CO insertion and CO dissociation as well as their synergistic effect. The correlation of the CO adsorption behavior and STY toward alcohols was established as well, indicating that the balance between CO nondissociated adsorption and CO dissociated adsorption played an important role in enhancing the alcohol formation. Moreover, the strong interaction between Au and iron species in Janus nanoparticles could facilitate the formation of ε′-Fe2.2C and benefit the stability of the catalyst. These results may provide new ideas for the design and fabrication of high-performance catalysts with dual sites for HAS.
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