Publications by authors named "Jiang-Yan Xue"

Phosphatases play important roles in converting organic phosphorus into inorganic phosphorus in soil. However, studies from this perspective on the water-level-fluctuation zone (WLFZ) of the Three Gorges Reservoir are limited. In this study, phosphatase activity and the forms of phosphorus were analyzed.

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Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have aroused great attention because of the low cost and environmental benignity of sodium resources. However, practical applications of SIBs are plagued by the sluggish kinetics of sodium ions with large size in the host structure, which results in poor rate performance and rapid capacity decline. Herein, a self-templated approach was developed to synthesize MoS /Cu Se nanosheets with improved interfacial electron- and ion-transfer kinetics.

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  • The study focuses on enhancing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as high-efficiency electrocatalysts for water splitting due to their excellent structural attributes like porosity and active sites.
  • It highlights the creation of innovative NiCo-MOF hollow nanospheres (HNSs) and their further enhancement by doping with iron (Fe), which significantly boosts their electrocatalytic performance.
  • The resulting Fe@NiCo-MOF HNSs exhibited improved efficiency with lower overpotential and Tafel slope values, along with remarkable stability over prolonged use, indicating a promising advancement in energy conversion technologies.
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As an important two-dimensional material, layered double hydroxides (LDHs) show considerable potential in electrocatalytic reactions. However, the great thickness of the bulk LDH materials significantly limits their catalytic activity. In this work, we report ultrathin NiFe-LDH nanosheets with sulfate interlayer anions (NiFe(SO)(OH)·7HO) (U-LDH(SO )), which can be synthesized in gram-scale by a simple solvothermal method.

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  • - Pristine metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are gaining interest for their high surface areas, large porosity, and impressive catalytic abilities, particularly for energy-related applications like the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER).
  • - Designing efficient functional MOFs for OER is crucial for addressing the energy crisis, with tri-metallic MOFs showing promise in improving water oxidation processes.
  • - This review aims to summarize the latest advancements in tri-metallic MOFs and their synthesis methods, highlighting their potential to enhance catalytic performance and foster new developments in various scientific fields.
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Design and synthesis of non-noble metal electrocatalysts with high activity and durability for the electrolysis of water is of great significance for energy conversion and storage. In this work, we prepared a series of Fe-doped MoS nanomaterials by simple one-pot solvothermal reactions of (NH)MoS with FeCl·6HO. An optimized working electrode of Fe-MoS-5 displayed high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity with a relatively small overpotential of 173 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cm in 0.

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The development of bifunctional non-noble metal electrocatalysts demonstrating high activity and stability for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great significance for renewable and clean energy. In this work, we report hierarchically structured integrated Fe-MoS/NiS/NF (NF = nickel foam) materials prepared by a facile in situ solvothermal method, and among them, the Fe-doped MoS was assembled into spine-like nanorods. The optimized electrocatalyst (denoted as Fe-MoS/NiS/NF-2) demonstrated excellent activity and durability for performing the HER and OER in an alkaline electrolyte (pH = 14) with low overpotentials of 130.

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The reaction pathway of the formation of 3,4-dinitrofuroxan from glyoxime is theoretically investigated under experimental conditions with 25 % nitric acid and dinitrogentetroxide reagents to clarify the mechanism of formation of a furoxan ring by glyoxime. The geometric configurations of minima and transition-state species are optimized at the (U)B3LYP/6-311++G** level. The CCSD(T) and CASSCF(10e,8o)/CASSCF(9e,8o) single-point energy corrections at the same level are performed on top of the optimized geometries.

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