Mussel-inspired cellulose-based adhesive with underwater adhesion ability

Inspired by mussels, a new cellulose-based (CTP) adhesive was fabricated by simply blending via cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), tannic acid (TA), and polyethyleneimine (PEI), where the preparation method was green, facile, and simple. The structure and properties were examined by FT-IR, TGA, XRD, SEM, lap shear tensile, and water absorption tests. The results showed that chemical bonds, hydrogen bonds, and chain entanglement were formed among CNFs, TA, and PEI. Compared with the CNF adhesive, the dry shear strength of the CTP adhesive increased 103% to 392.2?±?32.2 kPa. And the wet shear strength of CTP adhesive increased from 0 kPa to 144.7?±?20.1 kPa, indicating that the CTP adhesive can be used in humid or even water environments. Meanwhile, the water absorption of CTP adhesive decreased from 37.9?±?14.1% to 12.8?±?5.9%. It was the introduction of catechol groups and physical–chemical interactions of three components that endow the CTP adhesive with improved dry and wet adhesion strength and water resistance. Moreover, the proposed CTP adhesive could be used on the surface of various materials, including rubber, plastic, paper, wood, metal, and glass. Overall, this work shows that the CTP adhesive has a wide range of application prospects.

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单宁酸改性制备光敏碳纳米管及UV光固化AESO复合膜的制备

本文以单宁酸（TA）和甲基丙烯酸缩水甘油酯（GMA）为原料，通过开环反应制备出含有双键的光敏单宁酸（pTA），并通过π-π非共价键作用使其吸附到碳纳米管上，得到pTA修饰后的具有良好分散性的光敏碳纳米管（pTA/MWCNTs）。再将该pTA/MWCNTs作为填料添加到环氧大豆油丙烯酸酯（AESO）中，通过UV光固化得到AESO-pTA/MWCNTs复合膜。利用pTA对MWCNTs进行改性，提高了MWCNTs的分散性，同时引入双键，使得pTA/MWCNTs能够参与到光固化过程中，提高了碳纳米管与AESO基质间的界面粘结力，对AESO起到了比较好的增强作用。本文还研究了pTA/MWCNTs的加入对AESO复合涂料光固化动力学及涂膜性能的影响，结果表明该pTA/MWCNTs的掺入提高了光固化AESO复合膜的力学性能，当掺入量为0.8%时，对膜的增强效果最好，与纯AESO比较，其拉伸模量提高了390%，拉伸强度提高了110%。     

胺类分子结构对油酸囊泡pH窗口的影响

基于激光丁达尔效应及浊度测定, 考察了改变二元胺的碳桥长度、 多元胺的氨基多寡、 长链伯胺的碳链长度及季铵化等因素对油酸囊泡pH窗口的影响. 结果表明, 二元胺及多元胺主要导致油酸囊泡的pH窗口向碱性方向拓宽, 而长链伯胺和十二烷基三甲基溴化铵(DTAB)不仅可使油酸囊泡的pH窗口向碱性拓宽, 而且可使油酸在酸性pH区域形成另一个介稳至稳定的新囊泡相. 氨基在不同pH下质子化和脱质子化转换是胺类分子调节油酸囊泡pH窗口的共同驱动力, 疏水作用是长链胺类的又一驱动力, 而静电吸引是季铵盐的另一种特殊驱动力. 分子间相互作用的热力学参数及结合能计算结果表明, 二乙烯三胺为代表的二元胺或多元胺在油酸囊泡表面以氢键或离子-偶极作用等非共价结合为主, 其调节功能弱于长链伯胺及DTAB与油酸的疏水共组装或DTAB与油酸的静电吸引作用.     

Janus纳米金稳定的Pickering乳液界面催化氧化性能

Janus纳米粒子的结构设计和简易合成是Pickering乳液界面催化的关键. 本文通过在Pickering乳液保护法中操纵共轭亚油酸的自组装、 自交联性和弱还原性, 合成了Janus型自交联吸附胶束修饰的纳米Fe₃O₄ (SCA-Fe₃O₄), 并在其表面原位还原金后, 合成了Janus型催化剂Au-SCA-Fe₃O₄, 考察其同时作为乳化剂和催化剂在乳液界面催化苯甲醇氧化生成苯甲醛的性能. 结果表明, 该Janus纳米粒子的金修饰量(质量分数)仅为0.66%, 兼具乳化性、 催化性和磁响应性. Au-SCA-Fe₃O₄可制备外观稳定(100 μm)和热稳定(90 ℃)的苯甲醇/水型Pickering乳液, 可显著提高互不相溶反应物与催化剂间的接触面积, 使其催化活性达到均匀纳米催化剂的2倍和非乳液催化时的3倍, 其在界面的不可转动性使苯甲醛的选择性高于99.9%, 避免了苯甲醛被过度氧化成苯甲酸.     

自交联共轭亚油酸囊泡基荧光纳米点的构筑及其荧光特性

提出了一种生物质碳源借助自组装和自交联手段“构筑”碳基荧光纳米点(FNDs)的新策略,不同于经历裂解、脱水、缩聚和碳化等复杂且不可控反应的“合成”途径。本文以共轭亚油酸(CLA)为碳源,利用其表面活性和聚合活性制得呈蓝绿光发射的自交联共轭亚油酸囊泡基荧光纳米点(SCU-FNDs),粒径易控(平均粒径为17 nm)且具有良好水分散性,FNDs产率高达73.9%。该法简便温和、绿色经济、有利于大规模制备。荧光实验结果显示SCU-FNDs的荧光强度随囊泡表面羧酸基团减少而减弱,随自交联度增大而增大; 同时其荧光强度具有良好的温度线性响应性,升/降温过程均符合I/I₀ = -0.00977T+ 1.229 (T = 25-85 ℃, R² = 0.99)。这些荧光特性皆可以用SCU-FNDs的自组装和自交联结构特性予以解释。     

银催化的环化反应合成异喹啉的研究进展

含有异喹啉骨架的化合物是一类很重要的含氮杂环化合物,广泛存在于具有生物活性的天然产物、有机材料、以及药物分子中。传统的合成异喹啉的方法需要苛刻的反应条件,因此使用温和,简单的方法构建这一骨架的化合物具有重要的现实意义。银类化合物具有路易斯酸特性能够催化活化三键,利用这一特点并使用含氮的亲核试剂进行分子内亲核加成活化的三键是合成异喹啉衍生物的重要方法。本文主要综述了以2-炔基苄亚胺、2-炔基苄基叠氮、2-炔基苯甲醛肟、2-炔基苯甲醛腙及其（2-（乙炔基）芳基）-1,2,3-三唑为反应物,在银催化条件下构建异喹啉环的研究进展,并对部分反应的机理进行了讨论。     

CO2和N2电还原中缺陷及界面工程的最新进展

实现碳氮循环是人类社会发展的迫切要求,也是催化领域的热门研究课题。在可再生能源的推动下,电催化技术引起了人们的广泛关注,且可以通过改变反应电压获得不同的目标产品。基于此,电催化技术被认为是缓解当前能源危机和环境问题的有效策略,对实现碳中和具有重要意义。其中,电催化CO₂还原反应(CO₂RR)和N₂还原反应(N₂RR)是一种有前途的小分子转化策略。然而,CO₂和N₂均为线性分子,其中C＝O和N≡N键的高解离能导致了它们高的化学惰性。此外,最高占据分子轨道(HOMO)和最低未占分子轨道(LUMO)之间的巨大能量间隙使它们具有高的化学稳定性;且CO₂和N₂的低质子亲和力使它们难以被直接质子化。另一方面,由于CO₂RR和N₂RR与析氢反应(HER)具有相近的氧化还原电位,造成其与HER之间存在竞争性关系,这也是致使催化剂在CO₂RR和N₂RR转化效率低的重要影响因素。因此,CO₂RR和N₂RR仍然面临着过电位高及法拉第效率低等问题。为了克服这些瓶颈,人们为提升CO₂RR和N₂RR电催化剂性能做出了很多努力。众所周知,电催化过程发生在催化剂表面,主要涉及质量传递和电子转移等过程。由此可见,催化剂的性能与其质量和电子传输能力密切相关,而调控催化剂表面结构可以优化活性点的质量和电子转移行为。电催化剂的缺陷和界面工程可通过表面原子工程来实现电子结构调控,对于提高气体吸附能力、抑制HER、富集气体及稳定中间产物等具有重要意义。到目前为止,所报道的各种缺陷和复合电催化剂在提高CO₂RR和N₂RR催化性能等方面均表现出巨大的潜力。在此,我们综述了CO₂RR和N₂RR中催化剂缺陷工程及界面工程的最新进展;首先讨论了四种不同的缺陷(空位、高指数晶面、晶格应变和晶格无序)对CO₂RR和N₂RR性能的影响;然后,总结了界面工程在聚合物-无机复合材料催化剂中的重要作用,并给出了典型实例;最后,展望了原子级电催化剂工程的发展前景,提出了开发和设计高效CO₂RR和N₂RR电催化剂的未来发展方向。     

Conversion of bile salts from inferior emulsifier to efficient smart emulsifier assisted by negatively charged nanoparticles at low concentrations

Bile salts (BS), one of the biological amphiphiles, are usually used as solubilizing/emulsifying agents of lipids or drugs. However, BS such as sodium deoxycholate (NaDC) can''t stabilize an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion alone due to its unusual molecular structure. In this paper we report that these emulsifiers with poor emulsifying ability can be transformed to highly efficient emulsifiers by combining with negatively charged particles (silica or montmorillonite). Both together can synergistically co-stabilize oil-in-water emulsions at extremely low concentrations (minimum 0.01 mM NaDC plus 0.003 wt% particles). Moreover, the emulsions can be reversibly switched between stable and unstable triggered by CO₂/N₂ at room temperature. This strategy is universal for emulsions containing different oils (alkanes, aromatic hydrocarbons and triglycerides) and for different BS and offers a generic model for a variety of BS of different molecular structure, which will extend their applications in more technical fields such as emulsion polymerization, biphasic catalysis and emulsion extraction.

Bile salts can be converted to efficient emulsifiers assisted by a trace amount of similarly charged nanoparticles and the emulsions formed are CO₂/N₂ switchable at room temperature.     

乙醇胺类原料形成亚硝胺的比较

为了探究目前表面活性剂生产和应用中用脂肪酸甲基单乙醇酰胺或脂肪酸单乙醇酰胺替代脂肪酸二乙醇酰胺的趋势的可行性,本文首先采用亚硝酸叔丁酯法合成3种乙醇胺的亚硝胺化合物作为基准物,通过鉴定产物结构研究亚硝胺的形成历程,然后以亚硝酸法合成亚硝胺化合物,通过生成率比较3种乙醇胺形成亚硝胺化合物的难易程度。 亚硝化历程分析结果表明,二乙醇胺或甲基单乙醇胺均直接形成相应的亚硝胺,而单乙醇胺通过歧化反应生成二乙醇胺继而形成少量N-亚硝基二乙醇胺。 与二乙醇胺相比,甲基单乙醇胺或单乙醇胺更不易生成亚硝胺,因此用脂肪酸甲基单乙醇酰胺或脂肪酸单乙醇酰胺替代脂肪酸二乙醇酰胺是合理可行的。 本研究结果对保障人类生命健康安全具有理论和实践意义。     

A Facile Strategy to Synthesize Cobalt‐Based Self‐Supported Material for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Designing and developing active, robust, and noble‐metal‐free catalysts with superior stability for electrocatalytic water splitting is of critical importance but remains a grand challenge. Here, a facile strategy is provided to synthesize a series of Co‐based self‐supported electrode materials by combining electrospinning and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies. The Co, Co₃O₄, Co₉S₈ nanoparticles (NPs) are formed in situ simultaneously with the formation of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) during the CVD process, respectively. The Co‐based NPs are uniformly distributed through the CNFs and they can be directly used as the electrode materials for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acid and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline. The Co₉S₈/CNFs membrane exhibits the best HER activity with overpotential of 165 mV at j = 10 mA cm^?2 and Tafel slope of 83 mV dec^?1 and OER activity with overpotential of 230 mV at j = 10 mA cm^?2 and Tafel slope of 72 mV dec^?1. The onion‐like graphitic layers formed around the NPs not only improve the electrical conductivity of the electrode but also prevent the separation of the NPs from the carbon matrix as well as the aggregation.