Zwitterion modified chitosan as a high-performance corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in hydrochloric acid solution.

Herein, a novel chitosan Schiff base (CS-FGA) as a sustainable corrosion inhibitor has been successfully synthesized via a simple amidation reaction by using an imidazolium zwitterion and chitosan (CS). The corrosion inhibition property of CS-FGA for mild steel (MS) in a 1.0 M HCl solution was studied by various electrochemical tests and physical characterization methods.

P-doped CoS/NiS heterostructures embedded in N-doped carbon nanoboxes: Synergistical electronic structure regulation for overall water splitting.

Water splitting using transition metal sulfides as electrocatalysts has gained considerable attention in the field of renewable energy. However, their electrocatalytic activity is often hindered by unfavorable free energies of adsorbed hydrogen and oxygen-containing intermediates. Herein, phosphorus (P)-doped CoS/NiS heterostructures embedded in N-doped carbon nanoboxes were rationally synthesized via a pyrolysis-sulfidation-phosphorization strategy.

Amorphous and defective Co-P-O@NC ball-in-ball hollow structure for highly efficient electrocatalytic overall water splitting.

Electrochemical water splitting using hollow and defect-rich catalysts has emerged as a promising strategy for efficient hydrogen production. However, the rational design and controllable synthesis of such catalysts with intricate morphology and composition present significant challenges. Herein, we propose a template-engaged approach to fabricate a novel ball-in-ball hollow structure of Co-P-O@N-doped carbon with abundant oxygen vacancies.

One-step fabrication of three-dimensional macropore copolymer-modified polycarbonate array by photo-crosslinking for protein immunoassay.

A photocross-linked copolymer was prepared, and could rapidly form a macropore structure in phosphate buffer solution (PBS) without the addition of porogen. The photo-crosslinking process contained the crosslinking of the copolymer itself and that with the polycarbonate substrate. The three-dimensional (3D) surface was achieved through one-step photo-crosslinking of the macropore structure.

Development of self-stratified antibacterial polymers click chemistry.

An azide-modified long perfluorinated tail quaternary ammonium methacrylate compound (M2) was designed and synthesized. The fluorine containing polyurethane (PU-F) with strong antibacterial properties was prepared click reaction of M2 and a clickable polymer (PU-Al), which exhibited surface segregation. The PU-F film showed a total kill against both Gram-positive () and Gram-negative () at an M2 content around 1 wt%.

Novel waterborne UV-curable coatings based on hyperbranched polymers electrophoretic deposition.

Two modified types of hyperbranched polymer were successfully prepared using hyperbranched polyether (HBPE) as a matrix, -5-norbornene--2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride (CDA) or -phthalic anhydride (PA) as a modifier and by grafting an NCO-terminated compound (IPDI-HEA). The modified hyperbranched polymers were incorporated into a typical water-soluble polyacrylate (WPA) as crosslinkers to develop high-performance waterborne UV-curable coatings electrophoretic deposition (EPD). Although the particle size of the electrophoretic dispersion increased from 43.

Click Cross-Linking-Improved Waterborne Polymers for Environment-Friendly Coatings and Adhesives.

Waterborne polymers, including waterborne polyurethanes (WPU), polyester dispersions (PED), and polyacrylate emulsions (PAE), are employed as environmentally friendly water-based coatings and adhesives. An efficient, fast, stable, and safe cross-linking strategy is always desirable to impart waterborne polymers with improved mechanical properties and water/solvent/thermal and abrasion resistance. For the first time, click chemistry was introduced into waterborne polymer systems as a cross-linking strategy.

Photophysical properties and singlet oxygen generation of three sets of halogenated corroles.

The luminescence, excited-state absorption, and singlet oxygen generation measurements were performed on three kinds of halogenated corroles: monohydroxyl halogenated corroles (Corrole-F, Corrole-Cl, Corrole-I), peripherally fluorine-substituted corroles (F0, F5, F10, F15), and gallium complexes (F10-Ga, F15-Ga). The fluorescence intensities progressively decrease whereas the triplet quantum yields, oxygen quenching rates, and singlet oxygen quantum yields increase with the increasing of the monohydroxyl halogen atomic weight. Replacing hydrogen atoms of meso-phenyl groups with fluorine atoms induces the blue-shifts of the emission spectra, higher triplet quantum yield, and smaller oxygen quenching rates.