In this report, praseodymium hydroxide Pr(OH)3 nanowires with different aspect ratios (length to diameter ratios) were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal approach. The variations in alkali concentration during synthesis are found to form different aspect ratios of nanowires. The X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy analysis demonstrate the absence of any impurity phases in as-prepared materials. Subsequently, photocatalytic activities of as-prepared nanowires were evaluated by the degradation of methyl orange (MO). Our findings reveal that the nanowires with larger aspect ratios have higher photocatalytic efficiency than the smaller aspect ratio samples. X-ray photospectroscopy investigations reveal that the samples with higher aspect ratio are found to exhibit more oxygen vacancies as compared to lower aspect ratio samples. The enhanced photocatalytic activities can be attributed to the presence of higher percentage of active crystal facet (100), higher concentration of defects densities and narrower band gap. Thus, Pr(OH)3 nanowires can be considered as a potential candidate for the application of wastewater treatment and related technologies. 相似文献
The prospective studies on memcapacitor models and potential applications are of importance due to its dynamical behavior. For this purpose, a memcapacitor 相似文献
Due to their early origin and extreme conservation, cofactors are valuable molecular fossils for tracing the origin and evolution of proteins. First, as the order of protein folds binding with cofactors roughly coincides with protein-fold chronology, cofactors are considered to have facilitated the origin of primitive proteins by selecting them from pools of random amino acid sequences. Second, in the subsequent evolution of proteins, cofactors still played an important role. More interestingly, as metallic cofactors evolved with geochemical variations, some geochemical events left imprints in the chronology of protein architecture; this provides further evidence supporting the coevolution of biochemistry and geochemistry. In this paper, we attempt to review the molecular fossils used in tracing the origin and evolution of proteins, with a special focus on cofactors. 相似文献
Small-sized bimetallic nanoparticles that possess numerous accessible metal sites and optimal geometric/electronic structures show great promise for advanced synergetic catalysis but remain synthetic challenge so far. Here, an universial synthetic method is developed for building a library of bimetallic nanoparticles on mesoporous sulfur-doped carbon supports, consisting of 24 combinations of 3 noble metals (that is, Pt, Rh, Ir) and 7 other metals, with average particle sizes ranging from 0.7 to 1.4 nm. The synthetic strategy is based on the strong metal-support interaction arising from the metal-sulfur bonding, which suppresses the metal aggregation during the H2-reduction at 700 °C and ensure the formation of small-sized and alloyed bimetallic nanoparticles. The enhanced catalytic properties of the ultrasmall bimetallic nanoparticles are demonstrated in the dehydrogenation of propane at high temperature and oxidative dehydrogenations of N-heterocycles.
The Zhundong coal (ZDC) with a huge proven reserve is featured by high abundance of sodium species which behaves actively in the thermal conversion of it. In this work, to better understand the multiple roles of sodium species in coal pyrolysis, influences of sodium species with different occurrence modes on the thermal behaviors and gas evolution during pyrolysis of a sodium-rich ZDC were investigated. Raw coal was initially demineralized by dilute hydrochloric acid. Subsequently, sodium species was reloaded into the demineralized sample by ion-exchanged or immersed method. For quantitative analyses, a thermo-gravimetric analyzer coupled with a mass spectrometer was used to record the weight loss of different samples and the ever-changing amount of gaseous products in pyrolysis. The results show that the structural change induced by demineralized and ion-exchanged treatment is mainly reflected in the band intensity of carboxyl groups. In pyrolysis of ZDC, total volatile matters yield has a close relation with the occurrence modes of sodium species. It is proved that water-soluble sodium species has catalytic effects on the thermal-cracking reactions, whereas exchangeable sodium species tends to facilitate char-formed reactions. Compared with exchangeable ones, water-soluble sodium species can be also volatilized more easily in pyrolysis. As for gas evolution, exchangeable sodium species can obviously affect formation of CO through char gasification and it is also favorable to formation of hydrogen radicals. Moreover, due to the low sulfur content in ZDC, the intensity of H2S released from all samples is extremely weak, which suggests that ZDC is a suitable feedstock for clean coal utilization. 相似文献
The high-performance unidirectional manipulation of microdroplets is crucial for many vital applications including water collection and bioanalysis. Among several actuation methods (e.g., electric, magnetic, light, and thermal actuation), mechanical vibration is pollution-free and biocompatible. However, it suffers from limited droplet movement mode, small volume range (VMax/VMin < 3), and low transport velocity (≤11.5 mm s−1) because the droplet motion is a sliding state caused by the vertical vibration on the asymmetric hydrophobic microstructures. Here, an alternative strategy is proposed—horizontal vibration for multimode (rolling, bouncing/reverse bouncing, converging/diffusing, climbing, 90o turning, and sequential transport), large-volume-range (VMax/VMin ≈ 100), and high-speed (≈22.86 mm s−1) unidirectional microdroplet manipulation, which is ascribed to the rolling state on superhydrophobic slant microwall arrays (SMWAs) fabricated by the one-step femtosecond laser oblique ablation. The unidirectional transport mechanism relies on the variance of viscous resistance induced by the difference of contact area between the microdroplet and the slant microwalls. Furthermore, a circular, curved, and “L”-shaped SMWA is designed and fabricated for droplet motion with particular paths. Finally, sequential transport of large-volume-range droplets and chemical mixing microreaction of water-based droplets are demonstrated on the SMWA, which demonstrates the great potential in the field of microdroplet manipulation. 相似文献