Design and Coupled Moisture-Thermal Transfer Simulation of Opposite Cross-Section Polyethylene Terephthalate Knitted Fabric with Hygroscopic Quick-Drying Capability.

In addition to sportswear and outdoor equipment, moisture-absorbent quick-drying fabrics are also widely used in everyday clothing and home textiles. In this study, three types of weft-knitted fabrics were designed using Coolmax fiber and polypropylene fiber. The Coolmax/PP fabric exhibits good stretchability with a strain of 180.

Sandwich-Structured Carbon Nanotube Composite Films for Multifunctional Sensing and Electrothermal Application.

Electro-conductive films with excellent flexibility and thermal behavior have great potential in the fields of wearable electronics, artificial muscle, and soft robotics. Herein, we report a super-elastic and electro-conductive composite film with a sandwich structure. The composite film was constructed by spraying Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymers onto a buckled conductive carbon nanotube-polydimethylsiloxane (CNTs-PDMS) composite film.

Enhancement of CO adsorption and separation in basic ionic liquid/ZIF-8 with core-shell structure.

A novel strategy was proposed to improve the performance of gas separation in nano-materials, by fabricating a core-shell structure out of the basic ionic liquid ([Emim][IDA]) and zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8). The [Emim][IDA]/ZIF-8 exhibits a remarkable CO adsorption capacity of 14 cm g at 298 K and 20 kPa, the ideal selectivity of CO/N is as high as 10 and CO/CH is 348 at 298 K and 100 kPa, which are much higher than the CO adsorption capacity (4.3 cm g) and the selectivity ( = 7.

Microenvironment Modulation of Single-Atom Ru in ZrSBA-15 for CO Hydrogenation to Formic Acid.

The chemical microenvironment modulation of active sites holds promise for facilitating their catalytic performance. Herein, single-atom Ru anchored by ZrSBA-15 modified with diverse organic amine groups has been fabricated and enabled CO hydrogenation to produce formic acid (FA) under mild conditions. However, the reaction cannot be achieved without the modification of organic amines.

Silver Ions Drive Ordered Self-Assembly Mechanisms and Inherent Properties of Lignin Nanoflowers.

Designing anisotropic lignin-based particles and promoting the high-value utilization of lignin have nowadays drawn much attention from scientists. However, systematic studies addressing the self-assembly mechanisms of anisotropic lignin-based particles are scarce. In this work, an interaction including the electrostatic forces and chelating forces between lignin and Ag was regulated via carboxymethylation modification.

Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, Crystal Structures and Antibacterial Activity of Vanadium(V) Complexes of Fluoro- and Chloro-Substituted Benzohydrazone Ligands.

A new vanadium(V) complex, [VOL(OMe)(MeOH)]·MeOH (1·MeOH), was prepared by the reaction of VO(acac)2 with 2-chloro-N'-(5-fluoro-2-hydroxybenzylidene)benzohydrazide (H2L) in methanol. By addition of salicylhydroxamic acid (HSHA) to the methanolic solution of 1, a new salicylhydroxamate-coordinated vanadium(V) complex, [VOL(SHA)]·H2O (2·H2O), was obtained. Both complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy, thermal analysis and single crystal X-ray diffraction.