High photocatalytic activity and stability for decomposition of gaseous acetaldehyde on TiO2/Al2O3 composite films coated on foam nickel substrates by sol-gel processes

A set of anatase titanium dioxide (TiO₂) films coated on foam nickel that modified by Al₂O₃ films as transition layer (indicated as TiO₂/Al₂O₃ films) were synthesized via sol-gel route. The bulk and surface properties of the TiO₂/Al₂O₃ films were characterized by thermal gravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), and BET. The photocatalytic activities of TiO₂/Al₂O₃ films were investigated based on the degradation of gaseous acetaldehyde under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. The foam nickel is a promising substrate material in practical applications because of its excellent hydrodynamic properties for gas passing. The TiO₂/Al₂O₃ composite films showed much higher photocatalytic activity and stability for degradation of gaseous acetaldehyde than the onefold TiO₂ films. The significant enhancement in photocatalytic activity and stability can be ascribed to the coating of Al₂O₃ transition layer, which concentrates the target substances around TiO₂ particles and increases the specific surface area (SSA) of the substrate (the SSAs of bare foam nickel and Al₂O₃ modified foam nickel are 0.12 and 113.7 m²/g, respectively) to provide more sites for TiO₂ loading.     

纳米复合全固态聚膦腈电解质

为了进一步提高聚合物电解质的室温离子电导率和锂离子的迁移数,通过对纳米二氧化硅的表面修饰,并采用可聚合的带氧化乙烯-氧化丙烯共聚侧链取代的聚膦腈大单体制备了纳米复合的全固态电解质.通过X射线光电子能谱,扫描电镜,差热扫描分析对纳米复合电解质的性能和形貌进行了分析,并通过交流阻抗考察了电解质与电极间的界面稳定性,用循环伏安表征了电解质的电化学稳定窗口,考察了锂盐含量对电解质离子电导率的影响,测试了电解质的离子电导率随温度的关系,并对锂离子的迁移数进行了测定.研究结果表明,通过纳米复合的方法,提高了聚合物电解质的离子电导率,降低了界面电阻,提高了锂离子迁移率.     

染料敏化太阳电池用聚合物电解质

综述了本研究小组近年来用于染料敏化太阳电池中聚合物电解质的研究概况.设计合成了几类性能优良的聚合物电解质,较好地改进了液体电解质染料敏化太阳电池(DSSC)的使用稳定性,研究结果具有实际应用的价值,并提出了此领域研究今后的发展方向.     

NiO/LaMnO3催化剂用于乙醇水蒸气重整反应

采用柠檬酸络合-浸渍法制备了NiO/LaMnO3钙钛矿型复合氧化物催化剂并将其应用于乙醇水蒸汽重整制氢反应, 考察了NiO含量、焙烧温度对催化剂性能的影响, 采用XRD、TPR和热分析等手段对催化剂进行了表征. 结果表明, 该催化剂具有高活性、高选择性和良好的稳定性. 催化剂中的NiO含量和焙烧温度对催化性能有显著影响. 在原料气体积组成为20%(体积分数, φ) C2H5OH 和水以及80%(φ)N2, 其中水醇摩尔比为3:1, 空速为80000 mL·h-1·g-1 cat, 反应温度为400 ℃时, 15%(质量分数, w)的NiO/LaMnO3上, 乙醇转化率接近100%. 关联催化剂活性和TPR及XRD实验结果, 发现催化剂的高活性源于由催化剂前驱体中进入钙钛矿型复合氧化物晶格中的镍离子被还原所得的金属镍.     

A coupled reagent of o-phthalaldehyde and sulfanilic acid for protein detection based on the measurements of light scattering signals with a common spectrofluorometer

A rapid and sensitive method for the determination of proteins is proposed with a coupled reagent of o-phthalaldehyde and sulfanilic acid by measuring the light scattering (LS) signals with a common spectrofluorometer. Mechanism investigations showed that o-phthalaldehyde couples at first with sulfanilic acid with fast speed and forms a new synthesized Schiff base dye, which then interacts with protein rapidly on acidic condition, resulting in greatly enhanced LS signals with the maximum peak located at 344 nm. Based on the linear relationship between enhanced LS intensities and concentrations of proteins, a novel assay of HSA and BSA is established in the linear range of 0.1-25.0 microg ml(-1) with the limits of detection (3sigma) being 13 ng ml(-1) depending on the concentration of the reagent. Results for sample detections of our method were consistent with the documented spectrophotometric method with CBB G250 assay.     

Non-covalent anionic porphyrin functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes as an optical probe for specific DNA detection

With water-soluble anionic tetra (p-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (TCPP) to solubilize multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MCNTs), we obtained a suspension that could be stable more than 1 week. With this TCPP/MCNTs suspension, we propose a spectrofluorometric method of DNA hybridization in this contribution. Our basic finding for this work is that the fluorescence from a dye-tagged single stranded DNA (ssDNA), which was directly added to the TCPP/MCNTs suspension, gets quenched, and the fluorescence could be remained if the dye-tagged single stranded DNA is first to be hybridized with its complementary target DNA to form a double stranded DNA (dsDNA) hybrid and added into the TCPP/MCNTs suspension. Mechanism investigations showed that the reason for the former is due to the adsorption of ssDNA on the surfaces of MCNTs, and that for the latter is due to the strong electrostatic repulsion force between the negative charge TCPP/MCNTs complexes and dsDNA. Thus, target DNA in a DNA sample and single-base mismatch in DNA sequences could be easily detected.     

Diastereoselective cycloadditions of a soluble polymer-supported substituted allyl alcohol derived from Baylis-Hillman reaction with nitrile oxides

A diastereoselective cycloaddition of a soluble polymer-supported Baylis-Hillman adduct with nitrile oxides is described. The reaction has shown to proceed with moderate diastereoselectivity, favoring the syn isomer of the resulting 3,5-substituted isoxazolines. The stereochemistry of the products has been assigned using ¹H NMR studies. The structure of one of the diastereomers has been determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis.     

A rational approach to emission ratio enhancement of chemodosimeters via regulation of intramolecular charge transfer

The sensitivity as well as dynamic range of a ratiometric probe is determined by the ratio of emission intensities at two wavelengths. Thus, it is highly desirable to acquire a large ratiometric fluorescence response at two wavelengths. However, ratiometric fluorescent signals are intrinsic characteristics of the particular probe-analyte interactions. The design for fluorescent probes with a large ratiometric signal remains a challenging task. There is still a lack of a proper approach to enhance the ratiometric fluorescence response for fluorescent chemodosimeters. Herein, we introduced a novel strategy to increase the emission ratios of a chemodosimeter via modulation of intramolecular charge transfer.     

Long-chained gemini surfactants for semipermanent wall coatings in capillary electrophoresis of proteins

In this paper, we presented the first example of using gemini surfactants as semipermanent coatings in CE for protein separation. These coatings are based on the self-assembly of a series of cationic gemini surfactants, alkanediyl-alpha,omega-bis(dimethylalkylammonium bromide) (m-s-m), on the capillary wall. The coatings can keep stable for a long time without surfactant in the buffer, e.g., after the surfactants were removed from the buffer, the reversed EOF only decreased by 3.6 and 3.9% for 18-2-18 and 16-2-16 coatings over 60 min under continuous electrophoretic conditions. The coating stability increased with the alkyl chain length m. The double long chains of geminis (m > or = 14) yielded a good coating stability; meanwhile, the spacer group acted as an EOF modifier. Thus, this bifunctional surfactant coating provided a new buffer-independent method for EOF control. For 18-s-18 series, the best coating stability and largest EOF were obtained at s = 10. Ranging s from 3 to 10 yielded a linear fine-tuning of EOF and thereby allowed the adjustment of the protein apparent mobility. Highly efficient separation (>500 000 plates/m) was achieved with all the 18-s-18 coatings. Excellent run-to-run and day-to-day reproducibility (RSD of migration time 相似文献   

In vitro degradation of porous poly(l-lactide-co-glycolide)/β-tricalcium phosphate (PLGA/β-TCP) scaffolds under dynamic and static conditions

In vitro degradation of porous poly(l-lactide-co-glycolide)/β-tricalcium phosphate (PLGA/β-TCP) scaffolds was studied by incubating the samples in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) at 37 °C and pH 7.4 under dynamic loading with respect to static conditions for 12 weeks. Under dynamic conditions, acidity of PBS was alleviated by the better solution circulation, and water absorption of the scaffolds increased more than that under static conditions in the first 8 weeks. Changes in mass, height, diameter, relative molecular mass and its distribution also happened more remarkably under dynamic conditions. Moreover, obvious cracks and a larger amount of β-TCP particles were observed on the wall of the scaffolds after degradation for 12 weeks under dynamic loading. Compressive modulus and strength showed an increase from the beginning to the 10th week but were lower after then. Results showed that degradation of PLGA/β-TCP scaffolds under dynamic conditions exhibited a significantly faster rate than that under static conditions.