Monodispersed SWNTs Assembled Coating Layer as an Alterna-tive to Graphene with Enhanced Alkali-ion Storage Performance

Graphene coating is commonly used to improve the performance of electrode materials,while its steric hindrance effect hampers fast ion transport with compromised rate capability.Herein,a unique single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWNTs)coating layer,as an alternative to graphene,has been developed to improve the battery behavior of iron-based anodes.Benefiting from the structure merits of mesoporous SWNTs layer for fast electron/ion transport and hollow Fe₃O₄ for volume accommodation,as-prepared Fe₃O₄@SWNTs exhibited excellent lithium storage performance.It delivers a high capacity,excellent rate capability,and long lifespan with capacities of 582 mA·h·g^-1 at 5 A·g^-1 and 408 mA·h·g^-1 at 8 A·g^-1 remained after 1000 cycles.Such performance is better than graphene-coated Fe₃O₄ and other SWNT-Fe₃O₄ architectures.Besides,SWNTs coating is also used to improve the sodium and potassium storage performance of FeSe₂.The kinetics analysis and ex-situ experiment further reveal the effect of SWNTs coating for fast electron/ion transfer kinetics and good structure stability,thus leading to the superior performance of SWNTs-coated composites.     

脉冲熔融-飞行时间质谱法测定Nd-Fe-B材料中的氧、氮、氢

建立了脉冲熔融-飞行时间质谱法测定Nd-Fe-B材料中的氧、氮、氢的方法,在选定的实验条件下,氧、氮、氢的检出限分别为0.021,0.060,0.002μg/g;利用系列标准样品得到各元素的校准曲线,线性相关系数R2均大于0.99。将方法应用于Nd-Fe-B材料的测定,经对比实验验证,方法测定值与传统的脉冲熔融-红外/热导方法测定值相符合。     

聚氨酯泡沫富集-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-AES)测定土壤及水系沉积物中铊含量

建立了一种以聚氨酯泡沫富集-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-AES)测定土壤及水系沉积物中铊含量的分析方法,利用正交实验,确定最佳实验条件,方法的检出限为0.01mg/L,对土壤及水系沉积物标准物质的测定结果与推荐值相符,相对误差小于10%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=10)在1.9%~4.9%。     

Porphyrin-based donor–acceptor COFs as efficient and reusable photocatalysts for PET-RAFT polymerization under broad spectrum excitation

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are crystalline and porous organic materials attractive for photocatalysis applications due to their structural versatility and tunable optical and electronic properties. The use of photocatalysts (PCs) for polymerizations enables the preparation of well-defined polymeric materials under mild reaction conditions. Herein, we report two porphyrin-based donor–acceptor COFs that are effective heterogeneous PCs for photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT). Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we designed porphyrin COFs with strong donor–acceptor characteristics and delocalized conduction bands. The COFs were effective PCs for PET-RAFT, successfully polymerizing a variety of monomers in both organic and aqueous media using visible light (λ_max from 460 to 635 nm) to produce polymers with tunable molecular weights (MWs), low molecular weight dispersity, and good chain-end fidelity. The heterogeneous COF PCs could also be reused for PET-RAFT polymerization at least 5 times without losing photocatalytic performance. This work demonstrates porphyrin-based COFs that are effective catalysts for photo-RDRP and establishes design principles for the development of highly active COF PCs for a variety of applications.

Porphyrin-based donor–acceptor COFs are effective heterogeneous photocatalysts for photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT), including for aqueous polymerizations and under red-light excitation.     

基于节点非结构模型的换热网络结构多样性分析及改进优化策略

强制进化随机游走算法优化换热网络过程中会出现个体结构相似现象,导致种群结构多样性下降,算法全局搜索能力不足,难以进一步优化换热网络结构。针对基于节点非结构模型的换热网络结构相似现象展开研究,制定两个评价指标衡量优化过程中个体结构相似水平,发现个体结构内相似换热单元数逐步增加,而相似换热单元的热负荷差距逐步减小,个体结构相似水平越来越高。基于此,以提升种群多样性为指导,提出换热单元排斥性进化策略,通过增大相似换热单元的热负荷差距,激励相似换热单元的差异性进化,从而改变结构进化方向,降低相似结构规模。最后应用20SP和15SP两个算例验证该策略的有效性,结构年综合费用与文献最优结果相比分别下降了12 105＄·a^-1和52 535＄·a^-1,说明该策略可以有效提升算法全局搜索能力。     

Proton Tunneling Distances for Metal Hydrides Formation Manage the Selectivity of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

A series of manganese polypyridine complexes were prepared as CO₂ reduction electrocatalysts. Among these catalysts, the intramolecular proton tunneling distance for metal hydride formation (PTD-MH) vary from 2.400 to 2.696 Å while the structural, energetic, and electronic factors remain essentially similar to each other. The experimental and theoretical results revealed that the selectivity of CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) is dominated by the intramolecular PTD-MH within a difference of ca. 0.3 Å. Specifically, the catalyst functionalized with a pendent phenol group featuring a slightly longer PTD-MH favors the binding of proton to the [Mn−CO₂] adduct rather than the Mn center and results in ca. 100 % selectivity for CO product. In contrast, decreasing the PTD-MH by attaching a dangling tertiary amine in the same catalyst skeleton facilitates the proton binding on the Mn center and switches the product from CO to HCOOH with a selectivity of 86 %.     

Activation of Bulk Li2S as Cathode Material for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries through Organochalcogenide-Based Redox Mediation Chemistry

Lithium sulfide (Li₂S) is considered as a promising cathode material for sulfur-based batteries. However, its activation remains to be one of the key challenges against its commercialization. The extraction of Li⁺ from bulk Li₂S has a high activation energy (E_a) barrier, which is fundamentally responsible for the initial large overpotential. Herein, a systematic investigation of accelerated bulk Li₂S oxidation reaction kinetics was studied by using organochalcogenide-based redox mediators, in which phenyl ditelluride (PDTe) can significantly reduce the E_a of Li₂S and lower the initial charge potential. Simultaneously, it can alleviate the polysulfides shuttling effect by covalently anchoring the soluble polysulfides and converting them into insoluble lithium phenyl tellusulfides (PhTe-S_xLi, x>1). This alters the redox pathway and accelerates the reaction kinetics of Li₂S cathode. Consequently, the Li||Li₂S-PDTe cell shows excellent rate capability and enhanced cycling stability. The Si||Li₂S-PDTe full cell delivers a considerable capacity of 953.5 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.2 C.     

Back Cover: Multilayered Ceramic Membrane with Ion Conducting Thin Layer Induced by Interface Reaction for Stable Hydrogen Production (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 6/2023)

Conventional methods for fabricating multilayered ceramic membranes with ion conducting dense thin layers are often cumbersome, costly, and limited by poor adhesion between layers. Inspired by the architectural structure of the rooted grasses in soil, here, we report an interface-reaction-induced reassembly approach for the direct fabrication of Ce_0.9Gd_0.1O_2−δ (CGO) thin layers rooted in the parent multilayered ceramic membranes by only one firing step. The CGO dense layers are very thin, and adhered strongly to the parent support layer, ensuring low ionic transport resistance and structural integrity of the multilayered membranes. When using as an oxygen permeable membrane for upgrading fossil-fuel-derived hydrogen, it shows very long durability in harsh conditions containing H₂O, CH₄, H₂, CO₂ and H₂S. Furthermore, our approach is highly scalable and applicable to a wide variety of ion conducting thin layers, including Y_0.08Zr_0.92O_2−δ, Ce_0.9Sm_0.1O_2−δ and Ce_0.9Pr_0.1O_2−δ.     

Unveiling One-to-One Correspondence Between Excited Triplet States and Determinate Interactions by Temperature-Controllable Blue-Green-Yellow Afterglow

Phosphorescence of organic materials is highly dependent on intermolecular interactions, for the sensitive triplet excitons toward environment and aggregated structures. However, until now, relationship between phosphorescence and intermolecular interactions is still unclear for complicated influence factors and uncontrollable aggregated behaviors. Herein, taking temperature as the controlled variable, the afterglow can continuously change from blue to green, then to yellow, even achieve the white emission with deuteration process. It is mainly due to the hierarchical architectures of molecular aggregates with rational distribution of intermolecular interactions, as well as gradually unlocking process of interactions with different energies. Accordingly, the one-to-one correspondence between the determinate interactions and excited triplet states have been established, guiding accurate design of desirable phosphorescence materials by hierarchical control of aggregated structures.