Solar RRL
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2021
·Vol. 6
·期 2
·2100748
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IF 8.582
Manjing Wang,Biao Shi,Qixing Zhang,Xingliang Li,Sanjing Pan,Ying Zhao,Xiaodan Zhang
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting to hydrogen is a clean process that can achieve green hydrogen. However, the integrated PEC devices have some problems, such as serious incident light loss, poor stability, and high cost. Here, the low-cost perovskite/silicon tandem cell instead of the costly III−V tandem cell as the light absorber is used, combined with high-transmittance quartz glass as a protective layer forming an unassisted solar water-splitting device. Quartz glass can minimize incident light loss and prevent electrolyte corrosion of solar cells. A solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 19.68% is achieved, and the performance can be maintained for 20 h without noticeable change. This structure design provides a novel integrated solar water-splitting system.
研究领域:
材料科学
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能源化学
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半导体器件
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可再生能源
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光催化
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2014
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IF 3.583
Shengling Sun,Jie Li
A method has been developed for the determination of zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), and tin (Sn) in seawater by quadrupole inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (Q-ICP-MS). The method is based on separation of the seven elements by extraction chromatography using N-benzoyl-N-phenylhydroxylamine (BPHA) supported on a microporous acrylic ester polymeric resin. The optimized procedure indicates that the BPHA resin has high selective adsorption for Zr, Nb, Mo, Sn, Hf, Ta, and W (known as fluoride soluble elements), whereas other interference and matrix elements are minimally adsorbed. The optimized eluent mixture with their molarity gives satisfactory recoveries for all analytes. The recovery can be achieved 99% for Zr, 97% for Nb, 97% for Mo, 99% for Sn, 99% for Hf, 95% for Ta, and 98% for W, respectively, by eluting with 6 mL of 6 mol L − 1 HF/1 mol L − 1 HCl. Furthermore, the technique for separation and enrichment of these elements provides a low total method blank. The detection limits for this method are 0.5 ppt for Zr, 0.2 ppt for Nb, 1.7 ppt for Mo, 1.0 ppt for Sn, 0.1 ppt for Hf, 0.1 ppt for Ta, and 0.3 ppt for W, respectively. The validity of the method is evaluated by replicate analyses of seawater reference materials; the precision of the results is better than 3% (RSD, n = 4), and the results are in good agreement with certified values. The established procedure has proved to be both practical and effective for seawater sample analyses.
研究领域:
分析化学
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海洋化学
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环境地球化学
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痕量元素检测
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质谱分析
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Science China-Materials
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2018
·Vol. 61
·期 7
·1001-1006
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IF 4.318
Zhang Guo-Qiang,Ou Wei,Xu Yang-Sen
氢能源是未来最理想的清洁能源, 可以利用太阳能和光催化材料分解水获得. 开发廉价、 资源丰富、 环境友好的光催化材料, 成为近年来能源和环境领域的研究热点. 基于此, 我们报道了一种新型有机光催化材料-不含金属的荧光素超分子纳米片, 其在可见光下显示出高效的光催化分解水产氢活性, 产氢速率接近341 μmol g −1 h −1 , 在420±10 nm的波段下表观量子效率达到1.2%. 这是荧光素超分子晶体首次被报道并应用于可见光下分解水产氢, 这一发现丰富了有机和超分子光催化剂的种类.
研究领域:
光催化
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能源材料
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超分子化学
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清洁能源
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光化学
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2019
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IF 4.784
Xiujuan Zhao,Yangyang Luo,Peixin Tan,Mingxian Liu,Changren Zhou
A high-performance oil-water separation device that built by environment-friendly materials is a promising strategy to solve water pollution problem. In this study, we developed an oil-water separation system with chitin/halloysite nanotubes (C/HNTs) composites. C/HNTs were crosslinked by epichlorohydrin and freeze-dried, then a porous sponge was formed. The C/HNTs sponge was modified to be hydrophobic via immersing into bromohexadecane ethanol solution. The surface structure, mechanical properties, microstructure, oil absorption and oil-water separation ability of the C/HNTs sponge were investigated. The addition of HNTs significantly increased the compressive strength of chitin sponge without influence on porous structure . IR spectra indicated the successful coating of bromohexadecane on the C/HNTs sponge surface, which enabled the hydrophobicity and lipophilicity of this construct. The inside construct of the C/HNTs sponges were full of interconnected pores, and the pore size ranged from 250 to 500 μm. The absorption capability for various oil and grease were measured, including methylbenzene, sunflower seed oil , carbon dichloride, n-hexane, chloroform and acetone. It is found that the total amount of chloroform absorbed by a C/HNTs sponge was ~11.23 times of the sponge's weight, and the absorption for hexane was ~3.94 times of the sponge's weight. The sponge also exhibited an excellent oil-water separation ability with as high as 98.7% separation efficiency. All the results suggested that the chitin/HNTs sponges with improved mechanical property would have a great potential in oil-water separation.
研究领域:
材料科学
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环境工程
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高分子化学
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纳米复合材料
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分离技术
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Sustainable Energy & Fuels
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2020
·Vol. 4
·期 8
·3943-3950
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IF 5.503
Hongpeng Zhou,Menglei Feng,Peiyuan Li,Xiangnan Gong,Dingke Zhang,Shijian Chen
Layered Sb2Se3 consists of infinite chains of repeating Sb4Se6 units stacked along the c-axis via Sb–Se covalent bonds, whereas they are linked by van der Waals force along the a-axis and b-axis. It usually tends to grow along the [hk0] orientation with low surface energy. However, [001]-oriented growth, which efficiently enhances charge transport, is often considered unstable due to its high surface energy. Herein, we propose a growth method to fabricate Sb2Se3 thin films with the preferential [001]-orientation on various substrates (Mo, MoSe2, SLG, NiO, SiO2 and FTO). This crystal facet design of preferentially [001]-oriented Sb2Se3 exposes the majority of the nanoribbons vertically aligned to the substrate, and thus maximally improves the charge transport, which may find applications in diverse optoelectronic devices. We confirmed their performance in photoelectrochemical water reduction. The preferentially [001]-oriented Sb2Se3 photocathode exhibited an impressive photocurrent density of −20.5 mA cm−2 at 0 V vs. RHE and a maximum photocurrent density of −28 mA cm−2 at −0.2 V vs. RHE under 1 sun AM 1.5 G illumination. Thus, the successful use of this [001]-Sb2Se3 photocathode paves the way for the development of high-efficiency Sb2Se3-based devices for optoelectronic applications.
研究领域:
材料科学
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半导体物理
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光电化学
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纳米材料
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能源材料
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2019
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IF 14.229
Jinxing Yu,Lei Zhang,Jun Qian,Zhirong Zhu,Shuang Ni,Gang Liu,Xiaoxiang Xu
Starting from two wide band gap semiconductors AgTaO 3 and SrTiO 3 , we managed to reduce the band gap by forming their solid solutions, i.e. (AgTaO 3 ) 1-x (SrTiO 3 ) x (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0). These solid solutions all adopt cubic perovskite structure similar to SrTiO 3 and high temperature phase of AgTaO 3 , suggesting that SrTiO 3 is helpful to stabilize AgTaO 3 in its high temperature cubic phase. Substantial improvements over photocatalytic hydrogen production were realized in these solid solutions which clearly outperform their parent compounds AgTaO 3 and SrTiO 3 . In-situ exolution of silver nanoparticles at the surface of solid solutions (x = 0.2) substantially strengthen the visible light absorption due to localized surface plasmons of these silver nanoparticles . This contributes to further improvements on both photocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen production under visible light illumination (λ ≥ 400 nm). Apparent quantum efficiency as high as ˜ 2.02% and ˜ 0.11% was achieved at solid solutions (x = 0.2) decorated with silver nanoparticles for full range (λ ≥ 250 nm) and visible light (λ ≥ 400 nm) illumination respectively. Photoelectrochemical analysis suggests that solid solutions own a better charge separation conditions than their parent compounds. Furthermore, the band edge positions of solid solutions (x = 0.2) lie approximately in the middle between AgTaO 3 and SrTiO 3 , being ideal for solar water splitting reactions.
研究领域:
材料科学
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光催化
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能源化学
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半导体物理
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纳米材料
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
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2017
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IF 2.299
Yuan-Zi Xu,Cheng-Zong Yuan,Xue-Ping Chen
To design highly efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a great challenge for electrochemical water splitting. Here we introduce a simple and cost-effective strategy for one-step synthesis of a three-dimensional Ni 3 S 2 /MoS X (x is close to 3) nanosheets on Ni foam (NF) via a sovelthermal reaction. The electrochemical performance of the Ni 3 S 2 /MoS X nanosheets on NF has been investigated and exhibits superior OER electrocatalytic activity as well as excellent electrochemical durability. As a novel non-noble-metal OER catalyst operating in basic electrolytes, this 3D cathode exhibits an onset overpotential of as low as 165 mV, a Tafel slope of 67.5 mV dec −1 and remarkable long-term stability. This catalyst maintains its catalytic activity for at least 14 h and only affords 50, 100, and 150 mA cm −2 OER current densities at overpotentials of 215 mV, 265 mV and 305 mV respectively.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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能源化学
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纳米科技
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催化化学
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2022
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IF 4.598
Mingyuan Chen,Yaxin Lv,Peilin Wu,Liuyan Dong,Xingquan He,Lili Cui
To obtain highly active electrocatalyst for the whole electrochemical water splitting is of importance to generate hydrogen. Co(OH) 2 is used as electrocatalyst towards OER, however, the performance can be improved further. Usually, to construct the interface and adjust the electronic environment of electrocatalysts are regarded as powerful ways to improve the activity. Herein, CeO 2 -Co(OH) 2 sheets supported on copper foam (CF) are fabricated by electrodeposition method. The morphology and the electron structure of metals are adjusted by changing the molar ratio of Co to Ce, thus, resulting in different electrocatalytic activity. The optimal hybrids of CeO 2 -Co(OH) 2 exhibits lower overpotentials of 188, 269 mV to reach 10 mA cm −2 towards HER and OER, respectively, and good stability. Notably, it is found that the electroactivity is extremely superior to that of bare CF as well as the counterparts in the literature. Also, we try to employ M(OH) 2 (M = Fe, Ni) to substitute Co(OH) 2 to investigate the effect of species of hydroxides on the electron interaction between CeO 2 and hydroxides, the XPS results indicate that Ce and Co shows stronger electron interaction compared to other two control hydroxides. As electrocatalysts for alkaline full water splitting, CeO 2 -Co(OH) 2 requires a cell voltage of 1.62 V to drive 10 mA cm −2 . Experimental results prove the advantages of the electron engineering and morphology control.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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能源化学
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纳米材料
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催化化学
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2013
·Vol. 38
·期 13
·5251-5258
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IF 3.548
Qiang Zhao,Zhuobin Yu,Wen Yuan,Jinping Li
Under mild conditions (near-neutral aqueous solutions, room temperature , and atmospheric pressure), an attractive electrolyte was expanded for splitting water and three novel oxygen-evolution catalysts (Co-C i , Ni-C i , Ag-C i ) were generated. The Co-C i catalyst showed a high oxygen-evolution rate (24.42 μmol h −1 ), a low oxygen-evolution overpotential (395 mV) and excellent stability. In addition, the non-amorphous Ag-C i catalyst, different from reported catalyst, was generated. The catalyst has been further characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
研究领域:
材料化学
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电化学
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催化化学
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能源科学
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纳米材料
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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2019
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IF 3.571
Xu Xu,Fuhao Dong,Xinxin Yang,He Liu,Lizhen Guo,Yuehan Qian,Aiting Wang,Shifa Wang,Jinyue Luo
The absorbent materials synthesized from biosources with low cost and high selectivity for oils and organic solvents have attracted increasing attention in the field of oil spillage and discharge of organic chemicals. We developed a convenient surface-grafting method to prepare efficient and recyclable biobased aerogels from epoxidized soybean oil (ESO)-modified cellulose at room temperature. The porous network-like structure of the cellulose aerogel was still fully retained after undergoing hydrophobic modification with ESO. Moreover, the modified aerogels possessed excellent hydrophobicity with a water contact angle of 132.6°. Moreover, the absorbent ability of the hydrophobic cellulose aerogels was systematically assessed. The results showed that modified aerogels could retain more than 90% absorption capacity even after 30 absorption–desorption cycles, indicating that the ESO-grafted cellulose aerogels have practical applications in the oil–water separation from industrial wastewater and oil-leakage removal.
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材料科学
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环境工程
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化学工程
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2011
·Vol. 36
·期 13
·7374-7380
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IF 4.057
Wei Wang,Qiang Zhao,Jinxiang Dong,Jinping Li
A novel silver oxides oxygen evolving catalyst (Ag-OEC) for hydrogen production by water splitting was formed in situ on an indium tin oxide anode, in a near-neutral potassium tetraborate (K 2 B 4 O 7 ) electrolyte. The catalyst exhibited high activity and low overpotential for O 2 evolution under mild conditions. The main functional composition of the catalyst was a redox couple of Ag 2 O/AgO. Catalytic activity during oxygen evolution was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry and Tafel plot. The effects of the concentration, temperature, and pH of K 2 B 4 O 7 solution on the catalyst, and the Faradaic efficiency of the oxygen evolving reaction were examined. The results show that the Ag-OEC exhibits excellent oxygen evolution properties, with an oxygen evolving overpotential of 318 mV at a current density of 1 mA/cm 2 .
研究领域:
电催化
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能源化学
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材料科学
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物理化学
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可持续能源
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
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2018
·Vol. 38
·期 12
·2132-2140
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IF 3.525
Lingfeng Li,Xiaolong Zhao,Donglai Pan,Guisheng Li
Photoactive WO 3 is attractive as a photocatalyst for green energy evolution through water splitting. In the present work, an electrochemical anodic oxidation method was used to fabricate a photo-responsive nanotube array-like WO 3 /W (NA-WO 3 /W) photoanode from W foil as a precursor. Compared with a reference commercial WO 3 /W electrode, the NA-WO 3 /W photoanode exhibited enhanced and stable photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) activity for visible-light-driven water splitting with a typical H 2 /O 2 stoichiometric ratio of 2:1 and quantum efficiency of approximately 5.23% under visible-light irradiation from a light-emitting diode ( λ = 420 nm, 15 mW/cm 2 ). The greatly enhanced PEC performance of the NA-WO 3 /Wphotoanode was attributed to its fast electron–hole separation rate, which resulted from the one-dimensional nanotube array-like structure, high crystallinity of monoclinic WO 3 , and strong interaction between WO 3 and W foil. This work paves the way to a facile route to prepare highly active photoelectrodes for solar light transfer to chemical energy .
研究领域:
材料科学
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物理化学
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能源化学
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纳米科技
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光催化
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电化学
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可再生能源
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