Publications by authors named "Xianglin Zhu"

The effective S-scheme homojunction relies on the precise regulation of band structure and construction of advantaged charge migration interfaces. Here, the electronic structural properties of g-C3N4 were modulated through meticulous polymerization of self-assembled supramolecular precursors. Experimental and DFT results indicate that both the intrinsic bandgap and surface electronic characteristics were adjusted, leading to the formation of an in-situ reconstructed homojunction interface facilitated by intrinsic van der Waals forces.

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  • Photocatalytic hydrogen production using solar energy is an effective solution for energy and environmental issues, but inefficiencies arise from the rapid recombination of charges in semiconductor catalysts.
  • Researchers used a co-catalyst loading strategy, specifically incorporating cobalt sulfide (CoS) onto bulk carbon nitride (BCN), to enhance photocatalytic performance for hydrogen production.
  • The optimal CoS-BCN composite (with 15% CoS) showed a performance improvement of 156 times compared to BCN alone, as CoS nanoparticles facilitate electron transfer and reduce charge recombination, enhancing hydrogen evolution efficiency.
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The photocatalytic CO reduction reaction is severely limited by sluggish charge kinetics. To address this issue, a strategy utilizing non-metal-doped layered double hydroxide (LDH) has been developed to control the electronic structure of spindle-shaped nanoflowers, resulting in efficient photocatalytic CO reduction. The results demonstrate that the designed catalyst yields 263.

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The improvement of surface reactivity in noble-metal-free cocatalysts is crucial for the development of efficient and cost-effective photocatalytic systems. However, the influence of crystallinity on catalytic efficacy has received limited attention. Herein, we report the utilization of structurally disordered MoSe with abundant 1T phase as a versatile cocatalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

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The concentration of atmospheric CO has exceeded 400 ppm, surpassing its natural variability and raising concerns about uncontrollable shifts in the carbon cycle, leading to significant climate and environmental impacts. A promising method to balance carbon levels and mitigate atmospheric CO rise is through photocatalytic CO reduction. Titanium dioxide (TiO), renowned for its affordability, stability, availability, and eco-friendliness, stands out as an exemplary catalyst in photocatalytic CO reduction.

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Due to the highly nonlinear, multi-stage, and time-varying characteristics of the marine lysozyme fermentation process, the global soft sensor models established using traditional single modeling methods cannot describe the dynamic characteristics of the entire fermentation process. Therefore, this study proposes a weighted ensemble learning soft sensor modeling method based on an improved seagull optimization algorithm (ISOA) and Gaussian process regression (GPR). First, an improved density peak clustering algorithm (ADPC) was used to divide the sample dataset into multiple local sample subsets.

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CdS has emerged as a possible candidate for photocatalytic hydrogen generation. However, further improvement in the performance of the Cd metal site is challenging due to limited optimization space. To solve this limitation, in this work, the Mn-Cd dual-metal photocatalyst was synthesized by a one-step solvothermal method, and the effects of different proportions of bimetals on hydrogen production activity were systematically studied.

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With the development of the world economy and the rapid advancement of global industrialization, the demand for energy continues to grow. The significant consumption of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal, and natural gas, has led to excessive carbon dioxide emissions, causing global ecological problems. CO hydrogenation technology can convert CO into high-value chemicals and is considered one of the potential ways to solve the problem of CO emissions.

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The weak adsorption of CO and the fast recombination of photogenerated charges harshly restrain the photocatalytic CO reduction efficiency. The simultaneous catalyst design with strong CO capture ability and fast charge separation efficiency is challenging. Herein, taking advantage of the metastable characteristic of oxygen vacancy, amorphous defect BiOCO (named BOC) was built on the surface of defect-rich BiOBr (named BOB) through an in situ surface reconstruction progress, in which the CO in solution reacted with the generated Bi around the oxygen vacancies.

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To overcome the thermodynamic and kinetic impediments of the Sabatier CO methanation reaction, the process must be operated under very high temperature and pressure conditions, to obtain an industrially viable conversion, rate, and selectivity. Herein, we report that these technologically relevant performance metrics have been achieved under much milder conditions using solar rather than thermal energy, where the methanation reaction is enabled by a novel nickel-boron nitride catalyst. In this regard, an in situ generated HOB⋅⋅⋅B surface frustrated Lewis's pair is considered responsible for the high Sabatier conversion 87.

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Photosynthetic bacteria wastewater treatment is an efficient water pollution treatment method, but photosynthetic bacteria fermentation is a multivariable, non-linear, and time-varying process. So it is difficult to establish an accurate model. Aiming at the difficulty of online measurement of key parameters, such as bacterial concentration and matrix concentration in photosynthetic bacteria fermentation process, an improved ant colony algorithm least squares support vector machine (AC-LSSVM) soft sensing model method is proposed in this paper.

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The problems that the key biomass variables in fermentation process are difficult measure in real time; this paper mainly proposes a multi-model soft sensor modeling method based on the piecewise affine (PWA) modeling method, which is optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) with an improved compression factor (ICF). Firstly, the false nearest neighbor method was used to determine the order of the PWA model. Secondly, the ICF-PSO algorithm was proposed to cooperatively optimize the number of PWA models and the parameters of each local model.

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For fermentation process with multi-operating conditions, it is difficult to predict the cell concentration under the new operating conditions by the soft sensor model established under the specific operating conditions. Inspired by the idea of transfer learning, a method based on an improved balanced distribution adaptive regularization extreme learning machine (IBDA-RELM) was proposed to solve the problem. The domain adaptation (DA) method in transfer learning is developed to reduce distribution distance by transforming data.

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Low selectivity and poor activity of photocatalytic CO reduction process are usually limiting factors for its applicability. Herein, a hierarchical electron harvesting system is designed on CoNiP hollow nano-millefeuille (CoNiP NH), which enables the charge enrichment on CoNi dual active sites and selective conversion of CO to CH . The CoNiP serves as an electron harvester and photonic "black hole" accelerating the kinetics for CO -catalyzed reactions.

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Photocatalytic CO reduction is a means of alleviating energy crisis and environmental deterioration. In this work, a rising two-dimensional (2D) material rarely reported in the field of photocatalytic CO reduction, black phosphorus (BP) nanosheets, is synthesized, on which CoP is in situ grown by solvothermal treatment using BP itself as a P source. CoP on the BP nanosheets (BPs) surface can prevent the destruction of BPs in ambient air and, in the meantime, favor charge separation and CO adsorption and activation during the catalytic process.

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The vital state variables in marine alkaline protease (MP) fermentation are difficult to measure in real-time online, hardly is the optimal control either. In this article, a dynamic soft sensor modeling method which combined just-in-time learning (JITL) technique and ensemble learning is proposed. First, the local weighted partial least squares algorithm (LWPLS) with JITL strategy is used as the basic modeling method.

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The L-lysine fermentation process is a complex, nonlinear, dynamic biochemical reaction process with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. There is a complex nonlinear dynamic relationship between each state variable. Some key variables in the fermentation process that directly reflect the quality of the fermentation cannot be measured online in real-time which greatly limits the application of advanced control technology in biochemical processes.

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L-Lysine is produced by a complex non-linear fermentation process. A non-linear model predictive control (NMPC) scheme is proposed to control product concentration in real time for enhancing production. However, product concentration cannot be directly measured in real time.

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For effective monitoring and control of the fermentation process, an accurate real-time measurement of important variables is necessary. These variables are very hard to measure in real-time due to constraints such as the time-varying, nonlinearity, strong coupling, and complex mechanism of the fermentation process. Constructing soft sensors with outstanding performance and robustness has become a core issue in industrial procedures.

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Background: Aiming at the characteristics of nonlinear, multi-parameter, strong coupling and difficulty in direct on-line measurement of key biological parameters of marine low-temperature protease fermentation process, a soft-sensing modeling method based on artificial bee colony (ABC) and multiple least squares support vector machine (MLSSVM) inversion for marine protease fermentation process is proposed.

Methods: Firstly, based on the material balance and the characteristics of the fermentation process, the dynamic "grey box" model of the fed-batch fermentation process of marine protease is established. The inverse model is constructed by analyzing the inverse system existence and introducing the characteristic information of the fermentation process.

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To overcome the problem that soft-sensing model cannot be updated with the bioprocess changes, this article proposed a soft-sensing modeling method which combined fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) algorithm with least squares support vector machine theory (LS-SVM). FCM is used for separating a whole training data set into several clusters with different centers, each subset is trained by LS-SVM and sub-models are developed to fit different hierarchical property of the process. The new sample data that bring new operation information is introduced in the model, and the fuzzy membership function of the sample to each clustering is first calculated by the FCM algorithm.

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Due to the high degree of strong coupling and nonlinearity of marine lysozyme fermentation process, it is difficult to accurately model the mechanism. In order to achieve real-time online measurement and effective control of bacterial concentration during fermentation, a generalized predictive control method based on least squares support vector machines is proposed. The particle swarm optimization least squares support vector machine (PSO-LS-SVM) model of lysozyme concentration is established by optimizing the regularization parameters and the kernel parameters of the least squares support vector machine by particle swarm optimization.

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FeP as a noble-metal-free catalyst has been successfully decorated onto the Zn Cd S photocatalyst surface through an in situ phosphating process. In particular, the 2 % FeP/Zn Cd S-P sample showed the best hydrogen generation activity of 24.45 mmol h  g which is over 130 times higher than that of pure Zn Cd S and nearly 1.

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A facile and efficient photoreduction method is employed to synthesize the composite of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite (MAPbI ) with reduced graphene oxide (rGO). This MAPbI /rGO composite is shown to be an outstanding visible-light photocatalyst for H evolution in aqueous HI solution saturated with MAPbI . Powder samples of MAPbI /rGO (100 mg) show a H evolution rate of 93.

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The catalase from marine bacterium Acinetobacter sp. YS0810 (YS0810CAT) was purified and characterized. Consecutive steps were used to achieve the purified enzyme as follows: ethanol precipitation, DEAE Sepharose ion exchange, Superdex 200 gel filtration, and Resource Q ion exchange.

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