Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Overall Splitting of Pure Water in a Porous Microreactor.

Photocatalytic overall splitting of pure water (HO) without sacrificial reagent to hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) holds a great potential for achieving carbon neutrality. Herein, by anchoring cobalt sulfide (CoS) as cocatalyst and cadmium sulfide (CdS) as light absorber to channel wall of a porous polymer microreactor (PP12), continuous violent H and O bubbling productions from photocatalytic overall splitting of pure HO without sacrificial reagent is achieved, with H and O production rates as high as 4.41 and 2.

Efficient and Controllable Synthesis of 1-Aminoanthraquinone via High-Temperature Ammonolysis Using Continuous-Flow Method.

Anthraquinone dyes are the second most important type of dyes after azo dyes. In particular, 1-aminoanthraquinone has been extensively utilized in the preparation of diverse anthraquinone dyes. This study employed a continuous-flow method to synthesize 1-aminoanthraquinone safely and efficiently through the ammonolysis of 1-nitroanthraquinone at high temperatures.

Separation and remediation of environmental pollutants using metal-organic framework-based tailored materials.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a polymer hybrid family of compounds comprising metal ions that have been deliberately incorporated in organic ligands to form several multi-dimensional structures with unique structural and functional attributes. They have the typical properties of brittleness, major porosity, and randomly crystalline. These three factors hampered their potential incorporation into modern technologies.

Robust bioinspired surfaces and their exploitation for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation.

The current improvement in science and engineering, actively dealing with surfaces and interfaces, turns into a functioning control with a thriving advancement propensity. Superlyophobic/superlyophilic phenomena in surface sciences have pulled in broad considerations of researchers and specialists. Inspired by the natural and living organism, researchers have designed different biomimetic materials with exceptional surface wettability, such as the smart wetting of asymmetric spider silk surfaces.

Effective remediation of petrochemical originated pollutants using engineered materials with multifunctional entities.

The highly robust, effective, and sustainable remediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated wastewater matrices, which is mainly generated from petroleum and related petrochemical industries, is of supreme interest. Owing to the notable presence of suspended solids, oil, and grease, organic matter, highly toxic elements, high salts, and recalcitrant chemicals, crude oil emulsions, and hydrocarbon-contaminated wastewater are considered a potential threat to the environments, animals, plants, and humans. To effectively tackle this challenging issue, magnetic hybrid materials assembled at nano- and micro-scale with unique structural, chemical, and functional entities are considered robust candidates for demulsification purposes.

Flower-like NiO/ZnO hybrid coated with N-doped carbon layer derived from metal-organic hybrid frameworks as novel anode material for high performance sodium-ion batteries.

Metal-organic hybrid frameworks are considered as the promising precursor to prepare high performance anode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In the present work, flower-like NiO/ZnO@NC with hollow and porous structure was prepared via a facile solvothermal and calcination process. The hollow and porous structure not only improve the electron transport capability, and but also inhibits the aggregation and accommodates the volume change of NiO/ZnO@NC.

Direct Observation of Oxidation Reaction via Closed Bipolar Electrode-Anodic Electrochemiluminescence Protocol: Structural Property and Sensing Applications.

In this work, we developed an innovative closed bipolar electrode (BPE)-electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensing strategy with generality for target detection. Based on charge balance and 100% current efficiency between the closed BPE poles and the driving electrodes, one of the driving electrodes in one cell of the closed BPE system was employed as ECL sensing surface to reflect the target on the BPE pole in the opposite cell. Compared with traditional BPE-ECL sensing method, which in general adopted the anodic ECL reagents such as Ru(bpy) and its coreactant on one pole (anode) to reflect the target (occurring reduction reaction) on the other pole (cathode), the difference was that the targets occurring oxidation reaction could be detected by the anodic ECL reagents based on this strategy.

Enhanced Uptake of Iodide from Solutions by Hollow Cu-Based Adsorbents.

Cu₂O exhibits excellent adsorption performance for the removal of I anions from solutions by doping of metallic Ag or Cu. However, the adsorption process only appears on the surface of adsorbents. To further improve the utilization efficiencies of Cu content of adsorbents in the uptake process of I anions, hollow spheres of metallic Cu, Cu/Cu₂O composite and pure Cu₂O were prepared by a facile solvothermal method.

Rapid Quantification of Four Anthocyanins in Red Grape Wine by Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography/Triple Quadrupole Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry.

The identification and quantification of four anthocyanins (cyanidin-3-O-glucoside, peonidin-3-O-glucoside, delphinidin-3-O-glucoside, and malvidin-3-O-glucoside) in red grape wine were carried out by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography/triple quadrupole linear ion trap MS (HILIC/QTrap-MS/MS). Samples were diluted directly and separated on a Merck ZIC HILIC column with 20 mM ammonium acetate solution-acetonitrile mobile phase. Quantitative data acquisition was carried out in the multiple reaction monitoring mode.

pH-Sensitive MR Responses Induced by Dendron-Functionalized SPIONs.

We report a series of investigations of the pH-sensitive magnetic resonance (MR) responses of various surface-functionalized SPIONs (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles). First, functionalization of ~12 nm highly monocrystalline SPION cores with three different generations of melamine-dendrons was optimized to give agents with high molar relaxivities (e.g.

A magnetic biomimetic nanocatalyst for cleaving phosphoester and carboxylic ester bonds under mild conditions.

[Structure: see text] As a result of the unique surface structure of nanospheres, Asp and His residues supported on a 12 nm maghemite nanoparticle worked collaboratively as a biomimetic nanocatalyst for hydrolyzing paraoxon (phosphoester) and 4-nitrophenyl acetate (carboxylic ester) in Milli-Q water (pH 7.0) at 37 degrees C, without employing extremes of pH or heavy metals. Our nanocatalyst could be facilely recovered via magnetic concentration.