Fe3O4@C Nanotubes Grown on Carbon Fabric as a Free-Standing Anode for High-Performance Li-Ion Batteries

Recently, Li-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted extensive attention owing to their wide applications in portable and flexible electronic devices. Such a huge market for LIBs has caused an ever-increasing demand for excellent mechanical flexibility, outstanding cycling life, and electrodes with superior rate capability. Herein, an anode of self-supported Fe₃O₄@C nanotubes grown on carbon fabric cloth (CFC) is designed rationally and fabricated through an in situ etching and deposition route combined with an annealing process. These carbon-coated nanotube structured Fe₃O₄ arrays with large surface area and enough void space can not only moderate the volume variation during repeated Li⁺ insertion/extraction, but also facilitate Li⁺/electrons transportation and electrolyte penetration. This novel structure endows the Fe₃O₄@C nanotube arrays stable cycle performance (a large reversible capacity of 900 mA h g⁻¹ up to 100 cycles at 0.5 A g⁻¹) and outstanding rate capability (reversible capacities of 1030, 985, 908, and 755 mA h g⁻¹ at 0.15, 0.3, 0.75, and 1.5 A g⁻¹, respectively). Fe₃O₄@C nanotube arrays still achieve a capacity of 665 mA h g⁻¹ after 50 cycles at 0.1 A g⁻¹ in Fe₃O₄@C//LiCoO₂ full cells.     

Iridium-Catalyzed C5-Regioselective Esterification of Dienyl Alcohols with Carboxylic Acids

One-step process for the preparation of a 1,3-dienyl-5-ester motif from readily available substrate remains a challenging work in organic synthesis. We herein report the first example of C5-regioselective esterification of unactivated dienyl alcohols, using free carboxylic acids as nucleophiles under mild conditions, providing a series of 1,3-dienyl-5-ester compounds in excellent regioselectivity and E-selectivity.     

Bay区取代苝二酰亚胺分子构型及聚集调控:邻位甲基位阻效应

设计并合成了2种苝二酰亚胺分子PBI1和PBI2,研究了bay区的苯氧基团邻位甲基取代对分子构型及分子聚集的影响.通过对单晶结构的分析,发现邻位甲基的引入明显影响苝二酰亚胺分子构型,使得4个苯氧基呈中心对称分布.由于甲基的空间位阻效应,有效地减弱了分子间π-π相互作用,从而提高了分子的溶解性与溶液加工成膜性.研究结果表明,在π共轭分子结构中的关键位置引入小的甲基取代基能够显著调控分子的聚集行为,有效减少光电材料分子中非光电活性(增溶性基团)的含量,对光电材料分子的设计合成具有重要的指导意义.     

A Re2O7 catalyzed cycloetherification of monoallylic diols

A Re₂O₇ catalyzed cycloetherification of monoallylic diols is described. The reaction features short reaction time, mild reaction conditions and exclusive E selectivity. A wide range of monoallylic alcohols with alkyl or aryl substituents on olefin smoothly undergo ring closure to deliver corresponding oxa-heterocycles. The reaction is also operationally simple and not sensitive to air and moisture.     

Enzyme-free colorimetric assay for mercury(II) using DNA conjugated to gold nanoparticles and strand displacement amplification

The authors describe a colorimetric method for the determination of Hg(II) ion. It is based on the color change from red to colorless as displayed by gold nanoparticle (AuNP) modified with thymine - rich DNA. Signal amplification is accomplished by free strand displacement recycling. In this strategy, Hg(II) unfolds the arch-trigger duplex due to the high affinity between Hg(II) and the thymines to form T-Hg(II)-T structures, thereby causing the release of trigger. The liberated trigger unfolds the hairpin structure of H1, and unfolded H1 further unfolds with H2. As a result, the H2 hairpin displaces trigger, and the released trigger unfolds another H1. This results in strong and enzyme-free strand displacement recycling amplification. The aggregation of DNA-AuNPs occurs in the presence of the duplex formed by hairpins H2 and H1. This results in a color change from red to colorless that can be visually observed. Under optimal conditions, the assay has a detection range over 4 orders of magnitude and a 3.4 nM detection limit. The assay is selective, sensitive, rapid and cost-effective. In our perception, it represents a useful platform for determination of Hg(II).

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Graphical abstract Schematic presentation of the  simple, rapid, low cost colorimetric detection of mercury(II) based on enzyme-free strand displacement amplification along with DNA-labeled AuNP.

     

2-羟基-3,4,6-三甲氧基查尔酮的合成

本文开发了一种天然产物2-羟基-3,4,6-三甲氧基查尔酮(1)的十克级规模快速合成方法。通过改良合成2-羟基-3,4,6-三甲氧基苯甲醛(7)的甲基化和甲酰化条件,将7的合成总收率从文献报道的22%提高至68%。并以7为原料在乙腈为溶剂、80℃加热的条件下通过Wittig反应在50mmol规模以85%的收率合成了产物1。     

Coherence and Quantum Phase Transition in Spin Models

Based on quantum renormalization group (QRG) method, we investigated quantum coherence and quantum phase transition (QPT) in XXZ chain and XY chain, respectively. The results show that both the geometric quantum coherence and entropic coherecne can accurately indicate the QPT at critical point after enough iteration steps. Moreover, the increasing anisotropy parameter destroys the coherence in the XXZ chain, while enhances it in the XY chain. In addition, focused on the XXZ chain we analyzed the nonanalytic phenomena and scaling behaviors with different theoretical exponents in detail.