Engineering the Atomic Interface with Single Platinum Atoms for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

It is highly desirable but challenging to optimize the structure of photocatalysts at the atomic scale to facilitate the separation of electron–hole pairs for enhanced performance. Now, a highly efficient photocatalyst is formed by assembling single Pt atoms on a defective TiO₂ support (Pt₁/def‐TiO₂). Apart from being proton reduction sites, single Pt atoms promote the neighboring TiO₂ units to generate surface oxygen vacancies and form a Pt‐O‐Ti³⁺ atomic interface. Experimental results and density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the Pt‐O‐Ti³⁺ atomic interface effectively facilitates photogenerated electrons to transfer from Ti³⁺ defective sites to single Pt atoms, thereby enhancing the separation of electron–hole pairs. This unique structure makes Pt₁/def‐TiO₂ exhibit a record‐level photocatalytic hydrogen production performance with an unexpectedly high turnover frequency of 51423 h^?1, exceeding the Pt nanoparticle supported TiO₂ catalyst by a factor of 591.     

Hot Branching Dynamics in a Light‐Harvesting Iron Carbene Complex Revealed by Ultrafast X‐ray Emission Spectroscopy

Iron N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes have received a great deal of attention recently because of their growing potential as light sensitizers or photocatalysts. We present a sub‐ps X‐ray spectroscopy study of an Fe^IINHC complex that identifies and quantifies the states involved in the deactivation cascade after light absorption. Excited molecules relax back to the ground state along two pathways: After population of a hot ³MLCT state, from the initially excited ¹MLCT state, 30 % of the molecules undergo ultrafast (150 fs) relaxation to the ³MC state, in competition with vibrational relaxation and cooling to the relaxed ³MLCT state. The relaxed ³MLCT state then decays much more slowly (7.6 ps) to the ³MC state. The ³MC state is rapidly (2.2 ps) deactivated to the ground state. The ⁵MC state is not involved in the deactivation pathway. The ultrafast partial deactivation of the ³MLCT state constitutes a loss channel from the point of view of photochemical efficiency and highlights the necessity to screen transition‐metal complexes for similar ultrafast decays to optimize photochemical performance.     

High Compression‐Induced Conductivity in a Layered Cu–Br Perovskite

We show that the onset pressure for appreciable conductivity in layered copper‐halide perovskites can decrease by ca. 50 GPa upon replacement of Cl with Br. Layered Cu–Cl perovskites require pressures >50 GPa to show a conductivity of 10^?4 S cm^?1, whereas here a Cu–Br congener, (EA)₂CuBr₄ (EA=ethylammonium), exhibits conductivity as high as 2×10^?3 S cm^?1 at only 2.6 GPa, and 0.17 S cm^?1 at 59 GPa. Substitution of higher‐energy Br 4p for Cl 3p orbitals lowers the charge‐transfer band gap of the perovskite by 0.9 eV. This 1.7 eV band gap decreases to 0.3 eV at 65 GPa. High‐pressure X‐ray diffraction, optical absorption, and transport measurements, and density functional theory calculations allow us to track compression‐induced structural and electronic changes. The notable enhancement of the Br perovskite's electronic response to pressure may be attributed to more diffuse Br valence orbitals relative to Cl orbitals. This work brings the compression‐induced conductivity of Cu‐halide perovskites to more technologically accessible pressures.     

利用手持技术探究酸碱性对高锰酸钾氧化性的影响

高锰酸钾作为常用的氧化剂,其氧化性强弱与体系酸碱性相关。通过手持技术,利用氧化还原电势(ORP)传感器和pH传感器去探究体系酸碱性对高锰酸钾氧化性的影响。实验发现:pH在酸性条件下,高锰酸钾溶液的氧化性明显增强,随着体系pH的减小,氧化性继续增强;在碱性条件下,其氧化性明显减弱,随着体系pH的增大,其氧化性继续减弱。实际实验中需要根据各种综合因素选用适宜酸碱性的高锰酸钾溶液做氧化剂。     

二维薄层色谱-表面增强拉曼散射联用技术用于饮料及水果中糖精钠的快速分析

采用高稳定、高灵敏的纳米金/多孔二氧化硅复合材料作为SERS基底,构建了一种二维薄层色谱-表面增强拉曼散射(TLC-SERS)联用方法,该技术结合了薄层色谱(TLC)的快速分离功能和SERS定性定量分析的优点,提高了分离能力。采用对巯基苯胺作为探针分子研究了基底的均匀性和批-批重复性。Mapping扫描实验表明,24个测量点峰强度的相对标准偏差(RSD)为5.9%,说明该基底具有良好的点-点重复性。9个批次基底信号值的RSD为7.5%。将该基底用于糖精钠的检测,线性范围为0.1～200 mg/L,检出限为0.06 mg/L。用于实际样品测定,检测出饮料中糖精钠为141 mg/L,水果中为18 mg/L,10 min内能完成分析测试。该方法灵敏度高,特异性强,前处理方式简单,实现了饮料及水果中糖精钠的快速检测。     

液质联用中接口离子化新技术

液相色谱-质谱联用(简称液质联用,LC-MS)将色谱的高分离效能与质谱强大的结构测定功能结合,不仅实现了对复杂混合物更准确的定性定量分析,而且简化了样品的前处理过程,使样品分析更简便,在药物分析、食品与环境分析以及生物样品检测等众多领域得到了广泛的应用。作为LC-MS的核心组成部分,液质接口的作用是将LC的液体引入,发生电离,并将生成的离子传输进MS。因此,接口离子化技术的改进直接影响了LC-MS的发展和应用。为了获得更高的灵敏度和更广泛的适用性,研究人员一直致力于离子化技术的研究,以促进分析物的解吸,提高其电离和传输效率,减少基质效应的干扰。本文针对近年来LC-MS接口离子化技术的改进和发展,从离子化原理出发,对接口离子源的构造、影响电离的因素、以及相关的应用进行综述,探讨其优缺点,并对LC-MS接口离子化技术的发展趋势进行了展望。     

二茂铁骨架系列三齿配体的合成及其在铱催化不对称氢化中的应用

本文主要介绍了一系列基于二茂铁骨架的三齿配体:f-amphox、f-ampha、f-amphol和f-amphamide的合成及其应用。这四类手性膦氮配体的铱络合物可以高活性(TON高达1 000 000)、高转化率(>99%)、高对映选择性(>99% ee)地催化(官能团化)酮等底物的不对称氢化反应。该系列配体成功地应用于地诺帕明、苯福林和沙丁胺醇等手性医药中间体的不对称合成。与传统路线相比,这些合成方法更高效,副产物更少,“三废”排放量更低。     

自支撑硫镍基电极材料制备及其赝电容性能

硫镍基赝电容超级电容器具有较高的比电容和功率密度等优点,是下一代理想的储能装置之一,但其实际应用受到其活性材料的制约,如导电性低和循环性能差等。研究者围绕增强硫镍基赝电容电极材料导电性和提升循环稳定性进行了大量的研究工作。其中,构建自支撑的电极材料被认为是一种降低活性材料和集流体之间界面电阻的有效方法。本文综述了制备自支撑硫镍基赝电容电极的常见方法,并就活性材料的形貌与性能关系进行了总结,主要着眼于集流体改性、离子掺杂、复合材料构建及形貌调控优化等。最后对自支撑硫镍基赝电容电极材料的研究方向进行了展望。     

2-(Diphenylphosphino)benzoate-functionalized diiron ethane-1,2-dithiolate complexes with uncoordinated or coordinated phosphine ligand

Abstract

Treatment of the starting complex [Fe₂(CO)₆{μ-SCH₂CH(CH₂OH)S}] (1) with 2-(diphenylphosphino)benzoic acid in the presence of N,N’-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and 4-dimethylaminopyridine gave the corresponding ester derivative [Fe₂(CO)₆{μ-SCH₂CH(CH₂O₂CC₆H₄PPh₂-2)S}] (2) in 92% yield. Further treatment of complex 2 with one equivalent of Me₃NO · 2?H₂O as the decarbonylating agent yielded diphenylphosphino-substituted complex [Fe₂(CO)₅{μ-SCH₂CH(CH₂O₂CC₆H₄PPh₂-2)S}] (3) in 79% yield. Both complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopy, as well as by X-ray crystallography. Additionally, the electrochemical properties of these complexes were studied by cyclic voltammetry.     

Influence of the molding angle on tensile properties of FDM parts with orthogonal layering

Fused deposition molding (FDM) is one of the most widely used three‐dimensional (3D) printing technologies. This paper explores the influence of the forming angle on the tensile properties of FDM specimens. Orthogonal layering details were studied through experiments, theory, and finite element simulations. The stiffness and strength of the specimens were analyzed using the classical laminated plate theory and the Tsai–Wu failure criterion. The experimental process was simulated using finite element simulations. Results show that it is feasible to predict the stiffness and strength of FDM specimens using classical laminated plate theory and the Tsai–Wu failure criterion. A molding angle of 45° leads to specimens with maximized tensile properties. Numerical simulations show that changing the molding angle changes the internal stress and deformation fields inside samples, leading to FDM samples with different mechanical properties due to the orthogonal layers at different molding angles.