Sunlight-Driven Self-Cleaning Ultrafine Particulate Matter Filter with Antibacterial Activity.

Air pollution by particulate matter (PM) and airborne pathogens causes severe health problems in the human body. Presently, popular disposable air filters yield huge waste and have a fatal impact on the environment. Postuse cleaning of air filters also leads to secondary air and water pollution.

Organometal Halide Perovskite-Based Photoelectrochemical Module Systems for Scalable Unassisted Solar Water Splitting.

Despite achievements in the remarkable photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of photoelectrodes based on organometal halide perovskites (OHPs), the scaling up of small-scale OHP-based PEC systems to large-scale systems remains a great challenge for their practical application in solar water splitting. Significant resistive losses and intrinsic defects are major obstacles to the scaling up of OHP-based PEC systems, leading to the PEC performance degradation of large-scale OHP photoelectrodes. Herein, a scalable design of the OHP-based PEC systems by modularization of the optimized OHP photoelectrodes exhibiting a high solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 10.

Atomic-Scale Homogeneous RuCu Alloy Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction.

Ruthenium (Ru) is the most widely used metal as an electrocatalyst for nitrogen (N ) reduction reaction (NRR) because of the relatively high N adsorption strength for successive reaction. Recently, it has been well reported that the homogeneous Ru-based metal alloys such as RuRh, RuPt, and RuCo significantly enhance the selectivity and formation rate of ammonia (NH ). However, the metal combinations for NRR have been limited to several miscible combinations of metals with Ru, although various immiscible combinations have immense potential to show high NRR performance.

Generation of high-density nanoparticles in the carbothermal shock method.

The carbothermal shock (CTS) method has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it enables the generation of finely controlled polyelemental alloy nanoparticles (NPs). However, fabricating high surface coverage of NPs with minimized exposure of the carbon substrate is essential for various electrochemical applications and has been a critical limitation in CTS method. Here, we developed a methodology for creating NPs with high surface coverage on a carbon substrate by maximizing defect sites of cellulose during CTS.

Ultrafast-Selective Nanofiltration of an Hybrid Membrane Comprising Laminated Reduced Graphene Oxide/Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons.

In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and graphene oxide nanoribbons (GONRs) are used to fabricate a composite membrane that exhibits ultrafast water permeance (312.8 L m h bar) and precise molecular separation (molecular weight cutoff: 269 Da), which surpass the upper bound of previously reported polymer and graphene-based nanofiltration membranes. As two-dimensional GONR exhibits a width on the scale of nanometers, its nanochannels can be enlarged without hindering the stacking of rGO.