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Molecules ; 29(3)2024 Jan 31.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38338405

ABSTRACT

Paper-based test strips with on-site visual detection have become a hot spot in the field of target detection. Yet, low specific surface area and uneven deposition limit the further application of test strips. Herein, a novel "turn-on" ratio of molecularly imprinted membranes (Eu@CDs-MIMs) was successfully prepared based on a Eu complex-doped polyvinylidene fluoride membrane for the selective, rapid and on-site visual detection of norfloxacin (NOR). The formation of surface-imprinted polymer-containing carbon dots (CDs) improves the roughness and hydrophilicity of Eu@CDs-MIMs. Fluorescence lifetimes and UV absorption spectra verified that the fluorescence enhancement of CDs is based on the synergistic effect of charge transfer and hydrogen bonding between CDs and NOR. The fluorescent test strip showed a linear fluorescent response within the concentration range of 5-50 nM with a limit of detection of 1.35 nM and a short response time of 1 min. In comparison with filter paper-based test strips, Eu@CDs-MIMs exhibit a brighter and more uniform fluorescent color change from red to blue that is visible to the naked eye. Additionally, the applied ratio fluorescent test strip was combined with a smartphone to translate RGB values into concentrations for the visual and quantitative detection of NOR and verified the detection results using high-performance liquid chromatography. The portable fluorescent test strip provides a reliable approach for the rapid, visual, and on-site detection of NOR and quinolones.


Subject(s)
Norfloxacin , Quantum Dots , Smartphone , Quantum Dots/chemistry , Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry , Carbon/chemistry , Limit of Detection , Spectrometry, Fluorescence/methods
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Crit Rev Anal Chem ; : 1-22, 2024 Jan 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38252119

ABSTRACT

Monitoring food safety is crucial and significantly impacts the ecosystem and human health. To adequately address food safety problems, a collaborative effort needed from government, industry, and consumers. Modern sensing technologies with outstanding performance are needed to meet the growing demands for quick and accurate food safety monitoring. Recently, emerging sensors for regulating food safety have been extensively explored. Along with the development in sensing technology, the metal-organic frameworks (MOF)-based sensors gained more attention due to their excellent sensing, catalytic, and adsorption properties. This review summarizes the current advancements and applications of MOFs-based sensors, including colorimetric, electrochemical, luminescent, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and electrochemiluminescent sensors. and also focused on the applications of MOF-based sensors for the monitoring of toxins such as heavy metals, pesticide residues, mycotoxins, pathogens, and illegal food additives from food samples. Future trends, as well as current developments in MOF-based materials.

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Sci Rep ; 13(1): 15826, 2023 Sep 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37739979

ABSTRACT

An extended (3+1)-dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Boussinesq equation is studied in this paper to construct periodic solution, n-soliton solution and folded localized excitation. Firstly, with the help of the Hirota's bilinear method and ansatz, some periodic solutions have been derived. Secondly, taking Burgers equation as an auxiliary function, we have obtained n-soliton solution and n-shock wave. Lastly, we present a new variable separation method for (3+1)-dimensional and higher dimensional models, and use it to derive localized excitation solutions. To be specific, we have constructed various novel structures and discussed the interaction dynamics of folded solitary waves. Compared with the other methods, the variable separation solutions obtained in this paper not only directly give the analytical form of the solution u instead of its potential [Formula: see text], but also provide us a straightforward approach to construct localized excitation for higher order dimensional nonlinear partial differential equation.

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J Acoust Soc Am ; 154(3): 1563-1576, 2023 Sep 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37695296

ABSTRACT

Detecting acoustic signals in the ocean is crucial for port and coastal security, but existing methods often require informative priors. This paper introduces a new approach that transforms acoustic signal detection into network characterization using a MCN construction method. The method constructs a network representation of the acoustic signal by measuring pairwise correlations at different time scales. It proposes a network spectrum distance method that combines information geometry and graph signal processing theory to characterize these complex networks. By comparing the spectra of two networks, the method quantifies their similarity or dissimilarity, enabling comparisons of multi-scale correlation networks constructed from different time series data and tracking changes in nonlinear dynamics over time. The effectiveness of these methods is substantiated through comprehensive simulations and real-world data collected from the South China Sea. The results illustrate that the proposed approach attains a significant detection probability of over 90% when the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds -18 dB, whereas existing methods require a signal-to-noise ratio of at least -15 dB to achieve a comparable detection probability. This innovative approach holds promising applications in bolstering port security, facilitating coastal operations, and optimizing offshore activities by enabling more efficient detection of weak acoustic signals.

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Nat Plants ; 9(9): 1409-1418, 2023 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37653339

ABSTRACT

Small RNA (sRNA)-mediated trans-kingdom RNA interference (RNAi) between host and pathogen has been demonstrated and utilized. However, interspecies RNAi in rhizospheric microorganisms remains elusive. In this study, we developed a microbe-induced gene silencing (MIGS) technology by using a rhizospheric beneficial fungus, Trichoderma harzianum, to exploit an RNAi engineering microbe and two soil-borne pathogenic fungi, Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum, as RNAi recipients. We first detected the feasibility of MIGS in inducing GFP silencing in V. dahliae. Then by targeting a fungal essential gene, we further demonstrated the effectiveness of MIGS in inhibiting fungal growth and protecting dicotyledon cotton and monocotyledon rice plants against V. dahliae and F. oxysporum. We also showed steerable MIGS specificity based on a selected target sequence. Our data verify interspecies RNAi in rhizospheric fungi and the potential application of MIGS in crop protection. In addition, the in situ propagation of a rhizospheric beneficial microbe would be optimal in ensuring the stability and sustainability of sRNAs, avoiding the use of nanomaterials to carry chemically synthetic sRNAs. Our finding reveals that exploiting MIGS-based biofungicides would offer straightforward design and implementation, without the need of host genetic modification, in crop protection against phytopathogens.


Subject(s)
Crop Protection , Gene Silencing , RNA Interference , Gene Editing , Genes, Fungal
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ACS Nano ; 17(11): 10774-10782, 2023 Jun 13.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37252947

ABSTRACT

Constructing a favorable reaction configuration at the water/catalyst interface is crucial for high-efficiency semiconductor-based water splitting. For a long time, a hydrophilic surface of semiconductor catalysts has been considered necessary for efficient mass transfer and adequate contact with water. In this work, by constructing a superhydrophobic PDMS-Ti3+/TiO2 interface (denoted P-TTO) with nanochannels arranged by nonpolar silane chains, we observe overall water splitting efficiencies improved by an order of magnitude under both the white light and simulated AM1.5G solar irradiation compared to the hydrophilic Ti3+/TiO2 interface. The electrochemical overall water splitting potential on the P-TTO electrode also decreased from 1.62 to 1.27 V, which is close to the thermodynamic limit of 1.23 V. Through the in situ diffuse reflection infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, a nanochannel-induced water configuration transition is directly detected. The density functional theory calculation further verifies the lower reaction energy of water decomposition at the water/PDMS-TiO2 interface. Our work achieves efficient overall water splitting through nanochannel-induced water configurations without changing the bulk of semiconductor catalyst, which reveals the significant role of water status at the interface in the efficiency of the water splitting reaction over the properties of catalyst materials.

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J Colloid Interface Sci ; 639: 355-368, 2023 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36812852

ABSTRACT

Adsorption and wettability are crucial components of catalytic oxidation. To increase the reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation/utilization efficiency of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activators, defect engineering and 2D nanosheet characteristics were used to regulate electronic structures and expose more active sites. Two-dimensional (2D) super-hydrophilic heterostructure by connecting cobalt species modified nitrogen vacancy-rich g-C3N4 (Vn-CN) and LDH (Vn-CN/Co/LDH) with high-density active sites and multi-vacancies, as well as high conductivity and adsorbability, to expedite ROS generation. The degradation rate constant of ofloxacin (OFX) was 0.441 min-1 via the Vn-CN/Co/LDH/PMS system, which was 1-2 orders greater than in the previous studies. Confirmation of the contribution ratios of various reactive oxygen species (ROS), SO4·- and 1O2 in bulk solution, O2·- on the catalyst surface was the most abundant ROS. The catalytic membrane was constructed utilizing Vn-CN/Co/LDH as the assembly element. The 2D membrane achieved the continuous effective discharge of OFX in the simulated water after 80 h/4 cycles of continuous flowing-through filtration-catalysis. This study provides fresh insights into designing a PMS activator for environmental remediation activated on demand.

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J Integr Plant Biol ; 65(4): 1059-1076, 2023 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36426878

ABSTRACT

In nature, plants are colonized by various microbes that play essential roles in their growth and health. Heterosis is a natural genetic phenomenon whereby first-generation hybrids exhibit superior phenotypic performance relative to their parents. It remains unclear whether this concept can be extended to the "hybridization" of microbiota from two parents in their descendants and what benefits the hybrid microbiota might convey. Here, we investigated the structure and function of the root microbiota from three hybrid rice varieties and their parents through amplicon sequencing analysis of bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions. We show that the bacterial and fungal root microbiota of the varieties are distinct from those of their parental lines and exhibit potential heterosis features in diversity and composition. Moreover, the root bacterial microbiota of hybrid variety LYP9 protects rice against soil-borne fungal pathogens. Systematic analysis of the protective capabilities of individual strains from a 30-member bacterial synthetic community derived from LYP9 roots indicated that community members have additive protective roles. Global transcription profiling analyses suggested that LYP9 root bacterial microbiota activate rice reactive oxygen species production and cell wall biogenesis, contributing to heterosis for protection. In addition, we demonstrate that the protection conferred by the LYP9 root microbiota is transferable to neighboring plants, potentially explaining the observed hybrid-mediated superior effects of mixed planting. Our findings suggest that some hybrids exhibit heterosis in their microbiota composition that promotes plant health, highlighting the potential for microbiota heterosis in breeding hybrid crops.


Subject(s)
Microbiota , Oryza , Hybrid Vigor/genetics , Soil , Gene Expression Profiling , Plant Breeding
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Plant Sci ; 326: 111504, 2023 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36272547

ABSTRACT

Ammonium (NH4+) is a major inorganic nitrogen source for plants and also as a signal regulates plant growth and defense. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a class of steroid hormones that control plant developmental and physiological processes through its signaling pathway. Rice is a kind of NH4+-preferring plant which responds to virus infection involving in the regulation of BR biosynthesis and signaling. However, the BR-mediated regulatory mechanisms in rice-virus interactions are not fully understood. In addition, it remains unknown whether there is a direct link between NH4+ and BRs in regulating rice response to virus. HDA703, a histone deacetylase and OsBZR1, a transcription factor, are two positive regulator of BR signaling and interact with each other. In this study, we show that rice plants grown with NH4+ as the sole N source have enhanced resistance to rice stripe virus (RSV), one of the most devastating viruses of rice, than those grown with NO3- as the sole N source. We also show that in contrast to NO3-, NH4+ does not affect BR biosynthesis but promotes BR signaling by upregulating the expression of HDA703 and promoting the accumulation of OsBZR1 in rice shoots. We further show that BR biosynthesis and signaling is required for rice defense against RSV and BR-mediated resistance to RSV attributes to activating HDA703/OsBZR1 module, then decreasing the expression of Ghd7, a direct target of HDA703/OsBZR1. Consistently, increase of the expression of HDA703 or decrease of the expression of Ghd7 enhances rice resistance to RSV. Together, our study reveals that activation of HDA703/OsBZR1-Ghd7 signaling cascade is an undescribed mechanism conferring BR-mediated RSV resistance and NH4+ protects rice against RSV by activating HDA703/OsBZR1-Ghd7-mediated BR signaling in rice.


Subject(s)
Ammonium Compounds , Oryza , Tenuivirus , Tenuivirus/metabolism , Oryza/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Plant Proteins/genetics , Plant Proteins/metabolism , Ammonium Compounds/metabolism , Brassinosteroids/metabolism , Signal Transduction
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Nat Commun ; 13(1): 6999, 2022 Nov 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36385100

ABSTRACT

Graphitic carbon nitride has long been considered incapable of splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen without adding small molecule organics despite the fact that the visible-light response and proper band structure fulfills the proper energy requirements to evolve oxygen. Herein, through in-situ observations of a collective C = O bonding, we identify the long-hidden bottleneck of photocatalytic overall water splitting on a single-phased g-C3N4 catalyst via fluorination. As carbon sites are occupied with surface fluorine atoms, intermediate C=O bonding is vastly minimized on the surface and an order-of-magnitude improved H2 evolution rate compared to the pristine g-C3N4 catalyst and continuous O2 evolution is achieved. Density functional theory calculations suggest an optimized oxygen evolution reaction pathway on neighboring N atoms by C-F interaction, which effectively avoids the excessively strong C-O interaction or weak N-O interaction on the pristine g-C3N4.

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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 14(43): 49338-49351, 2022 Nov 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36268797

ABSTRACT

Fog-harvesting devices (FHDs) have been widely explored and applied to alleviate the shortage of fresh water. However, during the fog collection process, how to maintain a balance between fog capture and water removal behaviors to enhance the water collection rate still remains a challenge. Herein, inspired by the Stenocara beetle, we combined a beetle-like Janus surface and the conventional cross-sectional Janus structure together, developed a simple spray-and-dry strategy to obtain three types of biomimetic asymmetric meshes, and explored the working modes for atmospheric fog collection. The surface wettability could be carefully controlled, and various asymmetric meshes with different water transportation behaviors were obtained. Through a detailed study of the fog collection process, we concluded that there existed three main working modes: Janus mode, hybrid mode, and Janus and hybrid mode. It was noted that the dual-directional Janus pump with the Janus and hybrid working mode balanced the fog capture and water removal ability and exhibited the highest water collection rate of 2478.73 mg m-2 h-1, which was 2.61 times more than that of the corresponding superhydrophilic mesh. Furthermore, the prepared dual-directional Janus pump showed superior mechanical durability and antibacterial ability. In general, this work was considered instrumental in the reasonable design of biomimetic asymmetric meshes and could provide references for efficient atmospheric fog harvesting.

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Inorg Chem ; 61(11): 4681-4689, 2022 Mar 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35258950

ABSTRACT

Interior and surface synergistic modifications can endow the photocatalytic reaction with tuned photogenerated carrier flow at the atomic level. Herein, a new class of 2D/2D SnNb2O6/Ni-doped ZnIn2S4 (SNO/Ni-ZIS) S-scheme heterojunctions is synthesized by a simple hydrothermal strategy, which was used to evaluate the synergy between interior and surface modifications. Theoretical calculations show that the S-scheme heterojunction boosts the desorption of H atoms for rapid H2 evolution. As a result, 25% SNO/Ni0.4-ZIS exhibits significantly improved PHE activity under visible light, roughly 4.49 and 2.00 times stronger than that of single ZIS and Ni0.4-ZIS, respectively. In addition, 25% SNO/Ni0.4-ZIS also shows superior structural stability. This work provides advanced insight for developing high-performance S-scheme systems from photocatalyst design to mechanistic insight.

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Plant Sci ; 316: 111178, 2022 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35151436

ABSTRACT

Regulation of gene expression at translational level has been shown critical for plant defense against pathogen infection. Pre-rRNA processing is essential for ribosome biosynthesis and thus affects protein translation. It remains unknown if plants modulate pre-rRNA processing as a translation regulatory mechanism for disease resistance. In this study, we show a 5' snoRNA capped and 3' polyadenylated (SPA) lincRNA named SUNA1 promotes disease resistance involved in modulating pre-rRNA processing in Arabidopsis. SUNA1 expression is highly induced by Pst DC3000 infection, which is impaired in SA biosynthesis-defective mutant sid2 and signaling mutant npr1. Consistently, SA triggers SUNA1 expression dependent on NPR1. Functional analysis indicates that SUNA1 plays a positive role in Arabidopsis defense against Pst DC3000 relying on its snoRNA signature motifs. Potential mechanism study suggests that the nucleus-localized SUNA1 interacts with the nucleolar methyltransferase fibrillarin to modulate SA-controlled pre-rRNA processing, then enhancing the translational efficiency (TE) of some defense genes in Arabidopsis response to Pst DC3000 infection. NPR1 appears to have similar effects as SUNA1 on pre-rRNA processing and TE of defense genes. Together, these studies reveal one kind of undescribed antibacterial translation regulatory mechanism, in which SA-NPR1-SUNA1 signaling cascade controls pre-rRNA processing and TE of certain defense genes in Arabidopsis.


Subject(s)
Arabidopsis Proteins , Arabidopsis , RNA, Long Noncoding , Arabidopsis/genetics , Arabidopsis/metabolism , Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics , Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism , Disease Resistance/genetics , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Plant Diseases/genetics , Pseudomonas syringae , RNA Precursors/genetics , Salicylic Acid
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J Colloid Interface Sci ; 614: 677-689, 2022 May 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35124295

ABSTRACT

The enhancement of the self-cleaning ability of photocatalytic membranes and their degradation efficiency over tetracycline (TC) still remains a challenge. In this study, an alternative silver vanadate quantum dots (AgVO3 QDs) doped reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and graphitic carbon nitride (C3N4) nanocomposites modified polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane (AgVO3/RGO/C3N4-PVDF) was successfully fabricated to enhance the photocatalytic activity. The AgVO3/RGO/C3N4 nanocomposites were functioned as the active component for the photocatalytic membrane. The unique Z-scheme heterostructure of AgVO3/RGO/C3N4 and the porous PVDF framework synergistically enhanced the separation and transport efficiency of photogenerated carriers and facilitated the interaction between the photocatalyst and the pollutant. As a result, the degradation efficiency of TC for the AgVO3/RGO/C3N4-PVDF reached 88.53% within 120 min, which was higher than those of the binary component membranes (64.8% for RGO/C3N4-PVDF and 79.18% AgVO3/C3N4-PVDF). In addition, AgVO3/RGO/C3N4-PVDF exhibited high permeability (1977 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1) and excellent antifouling activity. Under visible-light irradiation, the flux recovery rate (FRR) increased from 92.4% to 99.1%. Furthermore, AgVO3/RGO/C3N4-PVDF could reject 97.4% of Escherichia coli (E. coli) owning to its self-cleaning capacity, and eliminated the E. coli under visible-light irradiation trough the photogeneration of h+. This study highlights a highly efficient photocatalytic membrane based on a Z-scheme heterostructure, which may have a great potential application in practical wastewater treatment.


Subject(s)
Quantum Dots , Catalysis , Escherichia coli , Fluorocarbon Polymers , Graphite , Nitrogen Compounds , Polyvinyls , Silver Compounds , Vanadates
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J Hazard Mater ; 421: 126715, 2022 01 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34332488

ABSTRACT

How to accelerate the Fe3+/Fe2+ conversion and fabricate recyclable iron-based catalysts with high reactivity and stability is highly desired yet challenging. Herein, vacancy-rich N@FexOy@MoS2 carbonaceous beads were firstly developed via employing sodium alginate, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and Fe-ZIFs through sol-gel self-assembly, followed by in-situ growth and pyrolysis strategies. As expected, A series of characterizations reflected that N@FexOy@MoS2 had high dispersibility and conductivity for fast mass and electron transport, and MoS2 as co-catalyst accelerated the circulation of Fe3+ to Fe2+ that attained 99.4% (0.345 min-1) norfloxacin degradation via PMS activation in a synergistic ''adsorption-driven-oxidation'' process, which much outperformed those of pure MoS2 (32.4%) and N@FexOy powder catalyst (45.3%). Moreover, confined Fe species, graphitic N, pyrrolic N, pyridinic N, and sulfur/oxygen vacancies were found as highly exposed active sites that contributed to the activation of PMS to dominate non-radicals (1O2 and O2·-) and other radicals following a contribution order 1O2 > O2·- > SO4·- > ·OH. More importantly, a fluidized-bed catalytic unit was evaluated and maintained the continuous zero discharge of NX. Overall, this study offered a generally applicable approach to fabricate removable Fe-based catalysts for contaminants remediation.


Subject(s)
Molybdenum , Nitrogen , Catalysis , Oxidation-Reduction , Peroxides
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Mikrochim Acta ; 189(1): 25, 2021 12 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34897555

ABSTRACT

A highly effective fluorescent molecularly imprinted sensor (F-PDA-MIS) based on fluorescent polydopamine (F-PDA) was successfully synthesized for selective and ultrafast detection of p-nitrophenol (P-NP) in drinking water. F-PDA with abundant surface functional groups has been artfully modified to firstly serve as both fluorescent monomer and functional monomer in the synthesis of a uniform luminous F-PDA-MIS, which can greatly improve the detection efficiency. As expected, F-PDA-MIS had an obvious emission wavelength of 535 nm with the optimal excitation wavelength at 400 nm. Specially, F-PDA-MIS could detect P-NP in the range 100 to 1100 nM with much lower detection limit of 24.2 nM within 120 s compared with other conventional imprinted fluorescent sensors based on pure quantum dots (QDs) or dyes. This excellent test phenomenon is mainly ascribed to the rapid electron transfer between F-PDA and P-NP. Satisfactory recovery of 98.0-104% for mineral water and 98.6-106% for boiling water were obtained with relative standard deviations (RSDs) of 2.7-3.4% and 2.6-3.5% respectively. The detection reliability of F-PDA-MIS was verified by the comparison with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-UV). Consequently, F-PDA as a fluorescence functional monomer has been shown to be a possible strategy to effectively improve the detection limit and shorten response time of the target determination in water..


Subject(s)
Drinking Water/analysis , Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry , Indoles/chemistry , Molecularly Imprinted Polymers/chemistry , Nitrophenols/analysis , Polymers/chemistry , Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis , Fluorescent Dyes/chemical synthesis , Indoles/chemical synthesis , Limit of Detection , Molecularly Imprinted Polymers/chemical synthesis , Polymers/chemical synthesis , Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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Small ; 17(39): e2102539, 2021 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34405940

ABSTRACT

Improving greatly the separation efficiency of interfacial charge carrier is a major challenge in photocatalysis. Herein, a new class of C60 -mediated NH2 -MIL-125(Ti)/Zn0.5 Cd0.5 S S-scheme heterojunction with enhanced interfacial charge carrier separation is designed and synthesized. The constructed S-scheme heterojunction thermodynamically favors photocatalytic H2 evolution because of the large driving force resulting from its strong redox abilities. As a consequence, the optimum proportion of C60 -mediated NH2 -MIL-125(Ti)/Zn0.5 Cd0.5 S S-scheme heterojunction displays comparable H2 evolution activity with a rate of 7825.20 µmol h-1 g-1 under visible light irradiation, which is about 93.05 times, 6.38 times and 2.65 times higher than that of 2% C60 /NH2 -MIL-125(Ti), Zn0.5 Cd0.5 S and 45% NH2 -MIL-125(Ti)/Zn0.5 Cd0.5 S, and outperforms the majority of the previously reported MOFs-based photocatalysts. Spectroscopic characterizations and theory calculations indicate that the S-scheme heterojunction can powerfully promote the separation of photogenerated carriers. This work offers a new insight for future design and development of highly active MOFs-based photocatalysts.

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J Colloid Interface Sci ; 600: 794-803, 2021 Oct 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34052530

ABSTRACT

The design and development of high-performance photocatalysts from three aspects of simultaneous enhancement of light harvest, carrier migration rate, and redox reaction rate is still a great challenge. Herein, a novel Co9S8/CdIn2S4 ohmic junction with a robust internal electric field (IEF) is successfully prepared via hydrothermal and in situ synthesis methods and is used for effective photocatalytic H2 evolution (PHE). Under simulated visible light irradiation, the PHE rate of 5% Co9S8/CdIn2S4 can reach 1083.6 µmol h-1 g-1, which is 6.4 times higher than that of CdIn2S4 (170.5 µmol h-1 g-1). The enhanced PHE performance is mainly ascribed to the improved light harvest and carrier separation efficiency and fast surface H2 evolution kinetics. Moreover, Co9S8 nanotubes serve as promising Co-based cocatalysts that can evidently enhance PHE activity. Additionally, Co9S8/CdIn2S4 shows superior stability because the photogenerated carrier transfer path restrains the photocorrosion behavior. The photocatalytic mechanism is proposed based on experimental results and DFT calculations. This work offers new insights for the design and development of highly active photocatalysts from interface engineering.

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J Colloid Interface Sci ; 599: 178-189, 2021 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33933792

ABSTRACT

Photocatalytic materials can be used as self-cleaning functional materials to alleviate the irreversible fouling of ultrafiltration membranes. In this work, the small size g-C3N4/Bi2MoO6 (SCB) blended polysulfone (PSF) ultrafiltration membranes was fabricated by hydrothermal and phase inversion methods. As a functional filler of ultrafiltration membranes, the small size g-C3N4 nanosheet decorated on the surface of Bi2MoO6 can enhance the photocatalytic performance for bovine serum albumin (BSA) degradation, and remove irreversible fouling under visible light irradiation. In addition, the introduction of SCB microspheres into PSF matrix obviously increased the porosity of ultrafiltration membranes. Therefore, the SCB-PSF ultrafiltration membranes displayed excellent antifouling performance (flux recovery ratio is 82.53%) and BSA rejection rates (94.77%). SCB-PSF also had high photocatalytic self-cleaning activity, indicating excellent application prospects in organic wastewater treatment.

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J Hazard Mater ; 417: 126028, 2021 Sep 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33992017

ABSTRACT

Introducing membrane filtration into advanced oxidation processes to decrease energy and cost consumption has been considered as a promising direction in environmental remediation. In this work, we firstly developed a kind of novel lawn-like Fe2O3@Co0.08Fe1.92@nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide@carbon nanotube composites (FeCo@GCTs) through in-situ pyrolysis of self-assembly of Prussian blue analogues and GO, followed through a vacuum-assisted filtration strategy to fabricate 2D confinement freestanding GO composite membrane. Electrochemical analysis and H2-TPR revealed the superiority of FeCo@GCTs as ideal electron acceptor, and this unique lawn-like structure concentrated active sites with a confined space and enriched oxygen vacancies that realized 98.5% (0.128 min-1) sulfamethoxazole degradation via peroxymonosulfate activation, and accelerated the reduction of Cr(VI). Owing to the increasing interlayer spacing of GO nanosheets, the permeation flux of FeCo@GCTs/GO membrane has not only been attained to 487.3 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1, which was more than 7.5-fold of GO membrane (64.6 L·m-2·h-1·bar-1), but also achieved the synergistic membrane filtration and catalytic degradation of pollutants. Furthermore, scavenger experiments and EPR tests were conducted to confirm the active radicals, of which SO4·- and 1O2 were responsible for SMX degradation. Therefore, these features demonstrated great potential for the fabricated 2D confinement catalytic membrane with enriched oxygen vacancies in wastewater purification.

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