Room temperature synthesis of γ-Fe2O3 by sonochemical route and its response towards butane

Nanocrystalline gamma iron oxide (γ-Fe₂O₃) has been synthesized at room temperature through sonication-assisted precipitation technique. The key in obtaining γ-Fe₂O₃ at room temperature lies in exploiting high-power ultrasound (600 W). The gas-sensing properties to n-butane of pure γ-Fe₂O₃ were investigated by studying the electrical properties of the sensor elements fabricated from the synthesized powder. The maximum response (90%) of the sensor to 1000 ppm n-butane at 300 °C can be explained on the basis of catalytic activity of the nanocrystallites. The response and recovery time of the sensor to 1000 ppm n-butane were less than 12 s and 120 s, respectively.     

铁卟啉化合物与氧气分子形成的体系的密度泛函理论研究(英文)

采用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法在6-31G(d)基组水平下对氯化铁(+3)卟啉与氧气分子形成的体系进行了研究,得到了几何构型,电子性质及分子轨道结构等相关数据.对两个体系不同自旋状态下的几何构型参数和电子性质对比发现:受体系立体构型对称性的影响,在两个体系中凡是与卟啉环上N原子相关的几何参数及电子性质均呈现出相同规律性.又采用密度泛函理论UB3LYP/6-311G*//UB3LYP/6-31G*方法对这两个体系不同自旋状态下的能量进行了计算,分析表明自旋多重度越高体系越稳定.然后分别分析了两个体系在最稳定自旋状态下的分子轨道占据情况及中心Fe原子最外层3d轨道的电子分布情况,结果表明Fe原子的3d二和3dxz/3dyz与氧气分子的单占据反键轨道HOMO π*2px/π*2py之间存在相互作用,这种相互作用引起铁卟啉环与O2分子间的电子转移并使O2活化.然而,根据分析在通常状态下铁卟啉对O2分子的活化作用是微弱的.     

Partial oxidation of isobutene to methacrolein on Bi-W/Fe-Co-Mo-K catalysts

The partial oxidation of isobutene to methacrolein and methacrylic acid was studied on oxidic catalysts containing mainly a mixture of bismuth tungstate and iron-cobalt-potassium molybdate. Catalyst shaping was done by extrusion. The kinetic measurements were performed by monitoring the gas-phase composition along the length of a fixed bed of catalyst. The reactor was treated as an isothermal plug-flow system. The network of parallel and consecutive reactions taking place in this system can be described by a simplified scheme. It is possible to predict the gas-phase composition prevailing in the reactor using five different kinetic parameters. In the temperature range 380<<420°C grain selectivities as high as 85% combined with yields of methacrolein and methacrylic acid about 72% at 92% conversion were obtained.     

Characteristics of Fe/AlPO4-5 catalyst prepared with organic solution

The Fe/AlPO₄-5 catalysts are prepared by impregnation with aqueous and organic solution (acetic acid, alcohol and acetone) of iron(III) nitrite respectively. The characterization of catalyst by means of XPS, Mössbauer spectroscopy, TPR and CO hydrogenation is reported. The catalyst prepared with the aqueous solution has no activity for CO hydrogenation because the Fe(III) in the catalyst cannot be reduced to -Fe. However, the catalysts prepared with organic solution possess obvious hydrogenation activity, in which -Fe is present in the initial reduced catalyst besides Fe³⁺ and Fe²⁺. The results may be explained by the interaction degrees between the metal and the support induced by the different impregnation solvents.     

Methane coupling at low temperatures on Ru(0001) and Ru(11¯20) catalysts

The conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons on single crystal Ru catalysts has been investigated using combined elevated-pressure kinetic measurements/surface science studies. The reaction consists of activation of methane on Ru(0001) and Ru(11¯20) surfaces to produce carbonaceous intermediates at temperatures between 350 and 700 K and rehydrogenation of these species to ethane and propane at 370 K. It is found that under the reaction conditions employed, the maximum yield in ethane/propane production occurs at 500 K on both surfaces. Influence of the hydrogenation temperature on the production of ethane and propane is also examined. On Ru(0001), the yields of ethane and propane maximize at = 400 K, whereas no maximum yield was observed on Ru(11 0) in the 300–500 K temperature range. Under optimum reaction conditions, hydrocarbon products consist of 16% ethane and 2% propane. High-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (HREELS) has been used to identify various forms of hydrocarbonaceous intermediates following methane decomposition. An effort is made to relate the hydrocarbon intermediates identified by HREELS to the gas phase products observed in the elevated pressure experiments.     

基于开放光路FLRDS技术的C2H2和C2H6气体检测

磷酸铁锂电池因其较长的使用寿命和环保性,被广泛应用于储能系统。然而,近年来,储能电站安全事故频发,给电网稳定运行造成了威胁。在热失控过程中,磷酸铁锂电池会产生C₂H₂和C₂H₆等可燃气体,是造成燃烧、爆炸等灾害的重要原因。因此,实时准确监测储能预制舱内C₂H₂和C₂H₆等可燃气体的浓度是保障其安全稳定运行的关键。文中提出一种基于开放光路光纤环形腔衰荡光谱(fiber loop ring-down spectroscopy,FLRDS)技术的气体检测方法,可实现自由空间内微量气体在线监测。对梯度折射率(gradient index,GRIN)透镜的空间光耦合光学损耗进行理论和实验分析,建立插入损耗为0.95 dB的开放光路FLRDS气体检测系统。根据C₂H₂和C₂H₆红外光谱特性,开展激光光源性能测试。模拟开放空间气体环境研究了C₂H₂和C₂H₆的气体浓度检测方法,结果表明,该系统具有较好的稳定性,N₂背景下测量信号标准偏差S仅为平均值的0.156%。衰荡时间与气体浓度之间存在良好的线性关系,C₂H₂线性拟合度R²为0.998 32,C₂H₆线性拟合度R²为0.994 72。反演计算结果表明,C₂H₂和C₂H₆的最大相对误差分别为3.215%和4.72%,最大绝对误差分别为16.86 μL/L和12.74 μL/L,测量精度良好。     

Floating Catalyst Chemical Vapor Deposition Patterning Nitrogen-Doped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Shape Tailorable and Flexible Micro-Supercapacitors

Micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) as high-power density energy storage units are designed to meet the booming development of flexible electronics, requiring simple and fast fabrication technology. Herein, a fast and direct solvent-free patterning method is reported to fabricate shape-tailorable and flexible MSCs by floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD). The nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (N-SWCNTs) are directly deposited on a patterned filter by FCCVD with designable patterns and facilely dry-transferred on versatile substrates. The obtained MSCs deliver an excellent areal capacitance of 3.6 mF cm⁻² and volumetric capacitance of 98.6 F cm⁻³ at a scan rate of 5 mV s⁻¹ along with excellent long-term cycle stability over 125 000 circles. Furthermore, the MSCs show good performance uniformity, which can be readily integrated via connection in parallel or series to deliver a stable high voltage (4 V with five serially connected devices) and large capacitance (5.1 mF with five parallel devices) at a scan rate of 100 mV s⁻¹, enabling powering the light emitting displays. Therefore, this method blazes the trail of directly preparing flexible, shape-customizable, and high-performance MSCs.     

结合全局上下文与融合注意力的干涉相位去噪

目的 干涉相位去噪是合成孔径雷达干涉测量（interferometric synthetic aperture radar,InSAR）技术中的关键环节,其效果对测量精度具有重要影响。针对现有的干涉相位去噪方法大多关注局部特征以及在特征提取方面的局限性,同时为了平衡去噪和结构保持两者之间的关系,提出了一种结合全局上下文与融合注意力的相位去噪网络GCFA-PDNet(global context and fused attention phase denoising network)。方法 将干涉相位分离为实部和虚部依次输入到网络,先从噪声相位中提取浅层特征,再将其映射到由全局上下文提取模块和融合注意力模块组成的特征增强模块,最后通过全局残差学习生成去噪图像。全局上下文提取模块能提取全局上下文信息,具有非局部方法的优势;融合注意力模块既强调关键特征,又能高效提取隐藏在复杂背景中的噪声信息。结果 所提出的方法与对比方法中性能最优者相比,在模拟数据结果的平均峰值信噪比（peak signal to noise ratio, PSNR）和结构相似性（structural similarity,...     

Photocatalytic activity of a new composite material of Fe (III) oxide nanoparticles wrapped by a matrix of polymeric carbon nitride and amorphous carbon

Polymeric carbon nitride was synthesized from urea and doped with Cu and Fe to act as co-catalysts. The material doped with Fe was a new composite material composed of Fe(III) oxides (acting as a co-catalyst) wrapped by the polymer layers and amorphous carbon. Furthermore, the copper doped material was described in a previous report. The photocatalytic degradation of the azo dye direct blue 1 (DB) was studied using as photocatalysts: pure carbon nitride (CN), carbon nitride doped with Cu (CN-Cu) and carbon nitride doped with Fe (CN-Fe). The catalysts were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller method (BET), etc. The adsorption phenomenon was studied using the Langmuir and Freundlich models. For the kinetic study, a solution of 500 mg L^?1 of DB1 was treated with each catalyst, visible light and H₂O₂. The dye concentration was measured by spectrophotometry at the wavelength of 565 nm, and the removal of the total organic content (TOC) was quantified. BET analysis yielded surface areas of 60.029, 20.116 and 70.662 m²g^?1 for CN, CN-Cu and CN-Fe, respectively. The kinetics of degradation were pseudo-first order, whose constants were 0.093, 0.039 and 0.110 min^?1 for CN, CN-Cu and CN-Fe, respectively. The total organic carbon (TOC) removal reached the highest value of 14.46% with CN-Fe.     

Ferritin Protein Regulates the Degradation of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Proteins implicated in iron homeostasis are assumed to be also involved in the cellular processing of iron oxide nanoparticles. In this work, the role of an endogenous iron storage protein—namely the ferritin—is examined in the remediation and biodegradation of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Previous in vivo studies suggest the intracellular transfer of the iron ions released during the degradation of nanoparticles to endogenous protein cages within lysosomal compartments. Here, the capacity of ferritin cages to accommodate and store the degradation products of nanoparticles is investigated in vitro in the physiological acidic environment of the lysosomes. Moreover, it is questioned whether ferritin proteins can play an active role in the degradation of the nanoparticles. The magnetic, colloidal, and structural follow‐up of iron oxide nanoparticles and proteins in lysosome‐like medium confirms the efficient remediation of potentially harmful iron ions generated by nanoparticles within ferritins. The presence of ferritins, however, delays the degradation of particles due to a complex colloidal behavior of the mixture in acidic medium. This study exemplifies the important implications of intracellular proteins in processes of degradation and metabolization of iron oxide nanoparticles.