ENERGY
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2019
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IF 5.537
Xu Guan,Zheng Zhou,Ping Luo,Fengshun Wu,Shijie Dong
Aluminum metal needs to be activated to improve its hydrogen generation properties by using an inexpensive way for its wide adoption. Al-based composites activated by low-melting-point metals, oxides, and salts were prepared by high-energy ball milling and characterized using a range of instrumental analysis techniques. Uniform and orthogonal designs were chosen to optimize the components and mechanical alloying parameters of the Al-based composites, respectively, for improving their hydrogen generation properties and reducing cost. The results suggest that the Al-1.0 wt%Ga-1.5 wt%In-3.0 wt%SnCl 2 -1.0 wt%Bi 2 O 3 composite prepared using the parameters A 4 B 1 C 3 D 2 exhibited a hydrogen yield of 1172.3 mL g −1 and maximum hydrogen generation rate of 1030.5 mL min −1 g −1 at 25 °C and atmospheric pressure. The activation energy (E a ) of the hydrolysis reaction was calculated to be 20.0781 kJ mol −1 . Moreover, according to the Tafel curves, the corrosion potential of Al-based composites in water becomes more negative compared with that of pure Al, which could improve its hydrogen generation properties. Therefore, this new material could be used as hydrogen sources for fuel cells.
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FUEL
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2022
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IF 8.035
Puxiang Yan,Haiyong Wang,Yuhe Liao,Pengyao Sun,Chenguang Wang
Catalytic valorization of biomass into chemicals and fuels plays a key role in order to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Herein, a series of hierarchical ZSM-5 zeolites were synthesized by the post-treatment method to transform furfural alcohol (FAL) to levulinic acid (LA). ZSM-5 obtained from tandem alkaline treatment (0.2 M NaOH) and acid washing (0.1 M HCl), denoted as ZSM-5-OH 0.2 -H, exhibited the highest activity, affording 76.2% LA yield in 9:1 acetone–water mixed solvents at 393 K for 0.5 h. The enhanced adsorption capacity and acid accessibility of FAL on zeolite mediated by the introduction of mesopores, as well as the reduced secondary reactions of the generated LA due to few Al atoms in straight and sinusoidal channels (as confirmed by UV–vis diffuse reflectance), were responsible for the outstanding catalytic performance of ZSM-5-OH 0.2 -H. The structure–activity relationship revealed that regulating the porous structure and Al distribution of ZSM-5 was an effective strategy to enhance its hydrolytic performance of FAL to LA. Moreover, ZSM-5-OH 0.2 -H could be reused for three reaction cycles without significant loss in catalytic activity.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2022
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IF 7.336
Qi Liu,Zhenqian Wu,Jingying Sun,Ruimei Xu,Xianwei Li,Xiao Yu,Yong Liu
Co-free, Ni-rich cathode materials have aroused enormous attentions for the low cost, sustainable development of lithium-ion batteries. However, it is not easy to fabricate single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode materials from the hierarchical structured precursors via coprecipitation method. Furthermore, it is difficult to introduce Al dopant during the coprecipitation process to obtain high quality Ni-rich cathode material owing to the rapid sediment of Al 3+ . Herein, we developed a one-step stirring-assisted cation chelation and reassembly route for fabricating crack-free single-crystalline, Al-doped Co-free Ni-rich cathode material. The fabricated LiNi 0.8 Mn 0.16 Al 0.04 O 2 shows a high capacity of 204 mAh g −1 at 0.1C, excellent rate capability (143 mAh g −1 at 10C), and good cycling stability (an initial specific capacity of 178 mAh g −1 with capacity retention of 82.2% at 1C over 200 cycles). Furthermore, when tested at a raised temperature of 55 °C, it exhibited an initial capacity of 194.7 mAh g −1 with capacity retention of 82.1% at 1C over 100 cycles. The outstanding electrochemical performance can be ascribed to the synergistic effect of single crystalline structure and successful doping of Al element in the cathode, which enable fast ion and electron transport , suppress Li/Ni mixing and maintain the structural stability.
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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2020
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IF 7.246
Yujie Li,Yixing Wang,Zhenying Liu,Luyao Jiang,Hu Yang,Zhenliang Xu
Molecular separation of dye mixtures containing the same charge remains a challenge. In the present study, we prepared a composite membrane that could efficiently separate anionic dye mixtures. Briefly, Al-Metal-organic framework (Al-MOF) nanoparticles synthesized by the ion-exchange method were used as fillers during the in-situ synthesis of ethanolamine (ETA) grafted polyacrylonitrile (PAN) membrane. The optimized composite membrane showed a high rejection of congo red (CR) from a single solution (96% rejection) and the CR/methyl orange (MO) mixture (93%/18%) solution. The flux of dye mixture solution reached 180 L m −2 h −1 , higher than many reports in the literature. The further modification on pore size (heat treatment) or surface charge (hydrolysis treatment) improved the membrane performance to separate smaller dye mixture of methyl blue (MB)/MO. Both modified membranes showed a good MB rejection (93%) and flux of 70–85 L m −2 h −1 . While for the separation of the MB/MO mixture, the heat-treated membrane showed the lowest flux and a middling rejection. The surface hydrolyzed membrane showed a better selectivity (96% MB/32% MO) and a higher flux (127 L m −2 h −1 ) than that of the entirety hydrolyzed membrane (93% MB/58% MO and flux of 78 L m −2 h −1 ), which was attributed to their different charge distribution.
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2020
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IF 4.189
Ningyun Hong,Kang Wu,Zhengjun Peng,Zenghu Zhu,Guofeng Jia,Min Wang
O3-type layered transition metal oxides have shown great promise as high-capacity cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries in large-scale energy storage, due to their low cost and the abundance of sodium resources. However, the limited interlayer spacing and the unstable structure of the O3 phase result in inferior cycling stability and poor rate capability, which could even hinder their practical application process. Hereby, we present that doping with nonelectrochemically active Al in NaAlx(Ni0.5Mn0.5)1–xO2 (x = 0, 0.02, 0.06, 0.1) can effectively alleviate these issues. Among these materials, materials with x = 0.02 exhibited the best electrochemical behavior with improved capacity and better cycling property than other materials. Specifically, the discharge capacity of a 2 mol % Al-doped material possesses 63.2% capacity retention after 200 cycles at a current density of 240 mA g–1, which is 21.4% higher than that in NaNi0.5Mn0.5O2. In addition, a 2 mol % Al-doped electrode also shows outstanding rate capability and delivers 90 mAh g–1 at a high rate of 480 mA g–1, compared to only 67 mAh g–1 for that of the pristine one. X-ray diffraction (XRD), cyclic voltammetry (CV), and galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) analysis elucidated that the introduced Al dopant can effectively improve the structural stability and promote kinetics of Na+ diffusion mobility. Therefore, the strategy of doping inactive aluminum elements for optimizing the electrochemical performance of NaNi0.5Mn0.5O2 was verified, which could also open an avenue for the design of other O3-type sodium cathode materials.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 37
·19757-19768
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IF 14.511
Min Lu,Li An,Jie Yin,Jing Jin,Rui Yang,Bolong Huang,Yang Hu,Yong-Qing Zhao,Pinxian Xi
The electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are key electrochemical processes in metal–air batteries and water splitting devices. Aluminium–air batteries, as an important type of metal–air battery, have been considered to be promising power candidates for flexible electronics. Here, we describe electronically engineered amorphous Fe–Co–S sites embedded in Prussian blue analogue (FeCoSx-PBA) hetero-nanoframes. The experimental results and DFT calculations reveal the critical role of the introduced FeCoSx layer to PBA, which enhances the electron transfer and alleviates the overbinding effect of OH* during the OER. The FeCoSx-PBA hybrid system supplies an optimized electronic structure for the alkaline OER, which is also confirmed by the much-lowered overpotential (266 mV at 10 mA cm−2) for the alkaline OER. Furthermore, a flexible Al–air battery based on an FeCoSx-PBA cathode catalyst exhibits a high peak power density (58.3 mW cm−2) and energy density (1483 W h kgAl−1), and outstanding stability for more than 50 h of operation under bending or stretching conditions, demonstrating its potential in the practical application of flexible electronic devices. Our results may provide a new strategy of modulating the electronic structure of air electrode catalysts to efficiently promote the reactivity of alkaline OER and Al–air battery processes.
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iScience
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2021
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IF 5.458
Kun Yu,Jiang Deng,Yongjie Shen,Aiyong Wang,Liyi Shi,Dengsong Zhang
Exploring highly efficient and low-cost supported Pt catalysts is attractive for the application of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combustion. Herein, efficient catalytic combustion of toluene at low temperature over Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalysts has been demonstrated by tailoring active Pt species spatially. Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalyst with low Pt-content (0.26 wt%) containing both interfacial Pt-Al(OH) x and surficial metallic Pt (Pt 0 ) species exhibited super activity and water-resistant stability for toluene oxidation. The strong metal-support interaction located at the Al-OH-Pt interfaces elongated the Pt-O bond and contributed to the oxidation of toluene. Meanwhile, the OH group at the Al-OH-Pt interfaces had the strongest adsorption and activation capability for toluene and the derived intermediate species were subsequently oxidized by oxygen species activated by surficial Pt 0 to yield carbon dioxide and water. This work initiated an inspiring sight to the design of active Pt species for the VOCs combustion.
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Materials Research Express
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2020
·Vol. 7
·期 2
·026401
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IF 1.929
Guoyong Liu,Yuan Yuan,Zhou Jiang,Jiang Youdong,Wang Liang
Superhydrophobic (SHP) surfaces had promising application in anti-icing field. In this work, ZnO SHP surfaces were prepared on aluminum alloy by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering. The structure, chemical composition, morphology, wettability of the SHP surfaces were investigated by using corresponding methods. The anti-frosting/anti-icing performance of the ZnO SHP surfaces were investigated. Morphology of surfaces showed that sputtering time affected the surface morphology of the ZnO surfaces. When the sputtering time was 15 min, the rough structure exhibited excellent anti-frosting/anti-icing property due to the exceptional superhydrophobicity and self-transfer behavior at subzero temperature, which composed by densely gathered nanoclusters. The freezing of water droplets was delayed for about 2 h, and frosting was delayed for approximately 5 h at the temperature of −10 °C. The SHP surfaces could efficiently enhance the anti-icing property in glaze ice. Meanwhile, the as-prepared ZnO SHP surfaces displayed a low ice-adhesion strength of 12 ± 4.7 kPa. However, the structure with large undulation and pore space reduced the anti-frosting/anti-icing property of the SHP surface. This work provided a direction for the design and preparation of anti-icing surfaces for power transmission lines.
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Acta Metallurgica Sinica-English Letters
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2021
·Vol. 35
·期 3
·411-424
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IF 2.755
Xu Rong,Li Ruidi,Yuan Tiechui,Zhu Hongbin,Li Ping
In order to refine the microstructure and improve the performance of direct energy deposited (DED) additively manufactured Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy, TiC-modified Al–Mg–Sc–Zr composites were prepared by DED and the effect of TiC content on the microstructure and performance was studied. In the absence of TiC particle, the microstructure of Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy prepared by DED consisted of fine grains with average size of 8.36 μm, and well-dispersed nano-Al 3 (Sc,Zr) particles inside the grains and Mg 2 Si phase along the grain boundaries. With the addition of 1 wt% TiC, the microstructure of TiC/Al–Mg–Sc–Zr prepared by DED became finer apparently compared with that without TiC; while the further increase of TiC content to 3 wt%, the microstructure of TiC/Al–Mg–Sc–Zr prepared by DED became coarser with appearance of a new kind of needle-like (Ti,Zr) 5 Si 3 phase. Also, the addition of TiC decreased the porosity of Al–Mg–Sc–Zr prepared by DED. Simultaneously, after the addition of TiC, the tensile strength increased from 283.25 MPa to 344.98–361.51 MPa, and the elongation increased from 3.61% to 9.58–14.10%. The potential mechanism of the microstructure evolution and strength improvement was discussed. This research will provide new insights into the available metal matrix composites by laser additive manufacturing (LAM).
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMISTRY
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2024
·Vol. 28
·期 8
·2547-2560
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IF 2.6
Wan Huan,Wang Wei,Bu Lu-xia
In this study, Al-Fe and Al-Fe-Mn alloy anodes are prepared and examined. The influence of impurity Fe on the microstructure and properties of Al alloy anodes is investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and electrochemical testing techniques. The results reveal that the presence of impurity Fe in Al alloys significantly shifts the open-circuit potential of the Al anode towards the positive side and reduces its discharge efficiency. However, the adverse impact of impurity Fe is mitigated by alloying with Mn. Specifically, the open-circuit potential of Al-0.20%Fe-0.20%Mn anodes is observed to shift negatively by 70 mV when compared to that of Al-0.20%Fe in a 3 M KOH solution. Furthermore, the anode utilization of Al-0.20%Fe-0.20%Mn anodes, following continuous discharge at 30 mA·cm −2 and 100 mA·cm −2 for 30 min, is found to be 70% and 52% higher, respectively, than that of Al-0.20%Fe anodes. This highlights the effectiveness of Mn modification as a preferable approach to ameliorate the detrimental effects of impurity Fe.
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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2017
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IF 6.035
Jinqiang Cui,Jiuqing Liu,Chunfeng He,Jie Li,Xiufeng Wu
As an important component of the lithium ion batteries, the separator has attracted much attention by researchers. In this paper, a polymer electrolyte separator based on the blended polymer of polyvinylidene fluoride and cellulose acetate was obtained via non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS), meanwhile, the Al(OH) 3 particles was used as the addition doping into the blended polymer matrix. The structure, for example, pore size, porosity and the crystallization of the resulting separators were characterized. The thermal stability, ionic conductivity and electrochemical performance were also investigated. The results indicated that the PVDF-CA/Al(OH) 3 separator presented high porosity (68.6%), high electrolyte uptake (403.9%), especially superior thermal stability (thermal shrinkage ratio was 4.6% at 160 °C) and excellent ionic conductivity (2.85 mS cm −1 ). In addition, the rate capability (128.28 mA h g −1 at 8 C) and cycle performance (151.97 mA h g −1 after 100 cycles at 1 C) were also superior to those of the commercial polypropylene separator, demonstrating that the PVDF-CA/Al(OH) 3 separator can be a promising separator for the high-safety and high-rate dischargeable lithium ion battery.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2023
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IF 5.2
Yang Yang,Weishuang Fang,Ning Zhang,Huaicheng Xiang,Ying Tang,Jie Li,Liang Fang
CaEu C O 4 ( C Ga, Al) microwave dielectric ceramics were produced through a solid-state reaction. Orthorhombic olivine CaEuGaO 4 ( pnma ) exhibits a lower permittivity ( ε r = 9.7), a higher quality factor ( Q × f = 82,049 GHz), and a larger negative resonant frequency temperature coefficient ( τ f = −54.6 ppm/°C). CaEuAlO 4 , which has a similar chemical formula, exhibits a perovskite-like structure ( I 4/ mmm , K 2 NiF 4 -type), and its microwave dielectric properties are ε r = 18.9, Q × f = 43,132 GHz, and τ f = −1.6 ppm/°C. The difference in their structures is mainly caused by the properties of the Ga (III) atom. The difference in their dielectric properties can be proved to be affected by the “rattling” effect of Eu 3+ through the bond valence theory. The relationship between the covalence ( f c ) and the bond strength ( S ) was investigated, and the higher bond strength might be the main reason for the higher Q × f in CaEuGaO 4 ceramic.
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