二维纳米通道离子筛分膜研究及应用

二维纳米通道膜是由原子层厚度的二维纳米片经自组装堆叠而成的新型薄膜,其离子分离行为相较于传统分离膜具有诸多不同特性,在海水脱盐淡化、能源存储和转化、稀有元素提取与分离等领域具有重要的应用潜力,引起了研究者的极大兴趣和广泛关注,成为近年来膜分离科学与技术领域的重要发展方向和研究热点。本文从二维纳米通道用于精准离子筛分的角度出发,系统总结了二维通道膜的构筑策略、性能评估方法及传质机理,综述了近几年二维纳米通道膜制备及应用的最新研究进展,对其未来发展趋势进行了展望,以期为未来二维纳米通道膜结构优化、性能提升、规模化制备及工程应用等研究提供参考和借鉴。     

仿生纳米通道膜用于海洋渗透能转化研究进展

海洋渗透能因其无碳排放和环境友好的特点而备受关注.反向电渗析技术(RED)是实现海洋渗透能转化的有效方法,而膜作为RED的核心,其性能在这一过程中起着至关重要的作用,决定了海洋渗透能捕获效率.近年来,仿生纳米通道膜的研究取得了显著进展,这些膜模拟了生物体内离子通道的结构和功能,与传统离子交换膜相比,展示了优异的离子选择性和传导性能.本文系统综述了仿生纳米离子通道膜的制备技术及其在海洋渗透能转化中的应用现状与前景.同时,本文还总结了仿生纳米通道膜在实际应用中面临的主要挑战,并展望了其未来的发展方向.     

二维材料膜在气体分离领域的最新研究进展

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, led by graphene, have emerged as nano-building blocks to develop high-performance membranes. The atom-level thickness of nanosheets makes a membrane as thin as possible, thereby minimizing the transport resistance and maximizing the permeation flux. Meanwhile, the sieving channels can be precisely manipulated within sub-nanometer size for molecular separation, such as gas separation. For instance, graphene oxide (GO) channels with an interlayer height of about 0.4 nm assembled by external forces exhibited excellent H₂/CO₂ sieving performance compared to commercial membranes. Cross-linking was also employed to fabricate ultrathin (< 20 nm) GO-facilitated transport membranes for efficient CO₂ capture. A borate-crosslinked membrane exhibited a high CO₂ permeance of 650 GPU (gas permeation unit), and a CO₂/CH₄ selectivity of 75, which is currently the best performance reported for GO-based composite membranes. The CO₂-facilitated transport membrane with piperazine as the carrier also exhibited excellent separation performance under simulated flue gas conditions with CO₂ permeance of 1020 GPU and CO₂/N₂ selectivity as high as 680. In addition, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with layered structures, if successfully exfoliated, can serve as diverse sources for MOF nanosheets that can be fabricated into high-performance membranes. It is challenging to maintain the structural and morphological integrity of nanosheets. Poly[Zn₂(benzimidazole)₄] (Zn₂(bim)₄) was firstly exfoliated into 1-nm-thick nanosheets and assembled into ultrathin membranes possessing both high permeance and excellent molecular sieving properties for H₂/CO₂ separation. Interestingly, reversed thermo-switchable molecular sieving was also demonstrated in membranes composed of 2D MOF nanosheets. Besides, researchers employed layered double hydroxides (LDHs) to prepare molecular-sieving membranes via in situ growth, and the as-prepared membranes showed a remarkable selectivity of ~80 for H₂-CH₄ mixture. They concluded that the amount of CO₂ in the precursor solution contributed to LDH membranes with various preferred orientations and thicknesses. Apart from these 2D materials, MXenes also show great potential in selective gas permeation. Lamellar stacked MXene membranes with aligned and regular sub-nanometer channels exhibited excellent gas separation performance. Moreover, our ultrathin (20 nm) MXene nanofilms showed outstanding molecular sieving property for the preferential transport of H₂, with H₂ permeance as high as 1584 GPU and H₂/CO₂ selectivity of 27. The originally H₂-selective MXene membranes could be transformed into membranes selectively permeating CO₂ by chemical tuning of the MXene nanochannels. This paper briefly reviews the latest groundbreaking studies in 2D-material membranes for gas separation, with a focus on sub-nanometer 2D channels, exfoliation of 2D nanosheets with structural integrity, and tunable gas transport property. Challenges, in terms of the mass production of 2D nanosheets, scale-up of lab-level membranes and a thorough understanding of the transport mechanism, and the potential of 2D-material membranes for wide implementation are briefly discussed.     

用于光催化全解水的二维高分子材料研究进展

通过仿生光合作用将太阳能转化为可储存、可运输的化学燃料是解决全球能源危机和环境问题的有效途径之一。高分子半导体因其电子结构可以简单地从分子水平上进行调控和设计,近几年来在光催化领域展现出广阔的应用前景。由于具有二维平面结构的共轭高分子半导体具有大的比表面积、丰富的表面活性位点和高效的光生电子/空穴分离能力,并且可以方便地形成异质结构等独特的性质,其在光催化分解水领域的应用逐渐引人关注。本文重点介绍了二维高分子半导体在光催化全解水领域的最新研究进展,着重讨论了目前用于调控二维高分子材料能带结构和表面活性位点的方法,并展望二维高分子材料在光催化全解水研究中所存在的机遇和挑战。     

二维材料用于电催化析氢的研究进展

电催化水分解因其丰富的原料来源和环境友好被认为是一种有前途的制氢技术. 开发用于电催化析氢反应的高效电催化剂是迫切需要的. 随着石墨烯的兴起, 二维(2D)材料因其独特的物理、 化学和电子特性, 已逐渐成为水电解的潜在候选材料. 本文介绍了二维材料用于电化学水分解产生氢气的最新进展, 概括了二维材料的合成方法, 总结了改善二维材料电化学析氢性能的策略, 讨论了该领域面临的挑战和未来的发展机遇.     

二维半导体材料与器件——从传统二维光电材料到石墨炔

近年来,二维半导体材料由于其独特的材料结构和电子输运特性得到了科学界的广泛关注,被应用于光电器件、催化和生物传感器等领域。本文系统概述了传统二维材料以及新兴二维材料石墨炔的发现和发展历程。重点聚焦在二维材料在光探测器领域中的应用,探讨了不同二维材料体系及器件结构对光探测器性能的影响;并详细介绍了新兴二维材料——石墨炔,及其合成和应用。展望了传统二维材料及石墨炔在光电转换器件的应用中所面临的机遇和挑战。     

二维半导体材料与器件——从传统二维光电材料到石墨炔

近年来,二维半导体材料由于其独特的材料结构和电子输运特性得到了科学界的广泛关注,被应用于光电器件、催化和生物传感器等领域。本文系统概述了传统二维材料以及新兴二维材料石墨炔的发现和发展历程。重点聚焦在二维材料在光探测器领域中的应用,探讨了不同二维材料体系及器件结构对光探测器性能的影响;并详细介绍了新兴二维材料——石墨炔,及其合成和应用。展望了传统二维材料及石墨炔在光电转换器件应用中所面临的机遇和挑战。     

二维材料的一维纳米带

自石墨烯被发现以来,二维材料研究成为一个新的研究热点。当二维材料制备成一维纳米带结构后,由于宽度方向上的限域效应和边缘结构的差异,导致其具有区别于二维材料的独特的电学、光学和磁学性质,因此逐步成为科学家关注的焦点。本文主要介绍了石墨烯、石墨炔、联苯烯、氮化硼、黑磷、过渡金属二硫族化合物等二维材料的一维纳米带的结构、制备方法和性能研究。首先讨论了二维材料制备成一维纳米带后的结构与性能的改变;其次,着重阐述了典型的纳米带制备方法,包括“自上而下”和“自下而上”两种策略,如二维片层刻蚀、打开纳米管、化学合成、化学气相沉积、外延生长及碳纳米管限域生长等方法,实现可控制备指定纳米宽度与具有特定边缘结构的纳米带,最终获得不同于其二维材料本体的特殊性能。最后,总结了不同方法制备纳米带的优缺点,提出了需要克服的困难和挑战,并展望了未来的研究方向,希望能引起国内外同行的广泛关注。     

稀土上转换纳米发光材料研究进展

上转换纳米发光材料(UCNPs)是一种能在长波长光激发下发出短波长光的发光材料.在较多的研究中UCNPs在980 nm红外光激发下,能发出不同颜色的可见光,可以显著提高信噪比,所以UCNPs在三维立体显示、上转换激光器、红外探测、防伪识别、生物检测等诸多领域都具有广阔的应用前景.从稀土上转换纳米发光材料的基质和稀土离子及其光学性能方面概述了近几年稀土上转换纳米发光材料的研究进展.     

二维材料插层改性方法研究进展

二维材料凭借其独特的电学、光学、磁学等性质引起了广泛关注,如何处理二维材料使其改性是目前的研究热点。 插层方法是目前调控二维材料性质的主要方法之一。 插层过程中,客体粒子插入主体材料的范德华层间,造成二维材料物理与化学性质的变化。 气相、液相、固相插层均可以使二维材料的性质得到提升。 本文主要介绍二维材料插层方法,分析其不同优势和限制条件,并展望如何综合应用插层方法更好地提升二维材料电学、光学等性能。     

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES BASED ON POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE

A new ion exchange membrane based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and sulfonated poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) was prepared by in-situ polymerization. The incorporation of sulfonic groups into the polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane was confirmed by infrared spectroscopy (IR), ion exchange capacity (IEC) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX). Area resistance, IEC and water uptake of the treated membrane were evaluated. When 20% of the crosslinked membrane was sulfonated at 80℃ for 22 h, the PVDF ion exchange membrane can attain 0.8 cm2 area resistance in NaCl aqueous solution at 25℃, IEC is as high as 2.43 millimoles per gram of the wet membrane. The hydrophilicity of PVDF membrane is also significantly improved after treatment. When 60% of crosslinked membrane was sulfonated at 80℃ for 6 h, water uptake of the treated membrane can attain 64.7%.     

Gas transport property of polyallylamine–poly(vinyl alcohol)/polysulfone composite membranes

Polyallylamine (PAAm) was synthesized by free radical polymerization and characterized by Fourier transform infrared resonance (FT-IR) spectroscopy, hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance (¹H NMR) spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The composite membranes were prepared by using PAAm–poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) blend polymer as the separation layer and polysulfone (PSF) ultrafiltration membranes as the support layer. The surface and cross-section morphology of the membrane was inspected by environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). The gas transport property of the membranes, including gas permeance, flux and selectivity, were investigated by using pure CO₂, N₂, CH₄ gases and CO₂/N₂ gas mixture (20 vol% CO₂ and 80 vol% N₂) and CO₂/CH₄ gas mixture (10 vol% CO₂ and 90 vol% CH₄). The plots of gas permeance or flux versus feed gas pressure imply that CO₂ permeation through the membranes follows facilitated transport mechanism whereas N₂ and CH₄ permeation follows solution–diffusion mechanism. Effect of PAAm content in the separation layer on gas transport property was investigated by measuring the membranes with 0–50 wt% PAAm content. With increasing PAAm content, gas permeance increases initially, reaches a maximum, and then decreases gradually. For CO₂/N₂ gas mixture, the membranes with 10 wt% PAAm content show the highest CO₂ permeance of about 1.80 × 10⁻⁵ cm³ (STP) cm⁻² s⁻¹ KPa⁻¹ and CO₂/N₂ selectivity of 80 at 0.1 MPa feed gas pressure. For CO₂/CH₄ gas mixture, the membranes with 20 wt% PAAm content display the highest CO₂ permeance of about 1.95 × 10⁻⁵ cm³ (STP) cm⁻² s⁻¹ KPa⁻¹ and CO₂/CH₄ selectivity of 58 at 0.1 MPa feed gas pressure. In order to explore the possible reason of gas permeance varying with PAAm content, the crystallinity of PVA and PAAm–PVA blend polymers was measured by X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra. The experimental results show an inverse relationship between crystallinity and gas permeance, e.g., a minimum crystallinity and a maximum CO₂ permeance are obtained at 20 wt% PAAm content, indicating that the possibility of increasing CO₂ permeance with PAAm content due to the increase of carrier concentration could be weakened by the increase of crystallinity.     

基于3d元素掺杂的石墨二炔分子传感材料性能调控

二维碳材料因其独特的性质成为凝聚态物理、纳米电子学、生物医药等领域的前沿研究热点。石墨二炔具有天然的半导体特性及独特的大孔网状结构,在纳米电子器件和生物传感方面比石墨烯更具优势。本文使用第一性原理计算研究了单层石墨二炔的纳米带电子输运性质和及石墨二炔对小分子的吸附。我们考虑用掺杂3d金属原子的方法来增强对分子的吸附力。选择在石墨二炔表面吸附能较大的钪(Sc)、钛(Ti)原子,确定石墨二炔表面Sc、Ti单原子在室温下的稳定性,研究了Sc、Ti掺杂石墨二炔用于分子检测的潜在可能。从能带、载流子浓度等方面全面探讨了Sc、Ti掺杂石墨二炔对甲醛分子(HCHO)的响应。又进一步研究了石墨二炔与氨基酸分子间相互作用,发现色散力在相互作用中占主导地位。研究了吸附氨基酸对石墨二炔电子输运的影响,探讨石墨二炔在生物传感方面的潜在应用。     

构筑先进二维异质结构Ag/WO3−x用于提升光电转化效率

Solar energy, which is clean, affordable and reliable, can help alleviate the current environmental pollution and energy crisis efficiently. In the past few decades, great progress has been made in harvesting and converting solar energy into chemical energy. Among various technologies, plasmon-induced photoelectrochemistry has been proposed as a promising alternative for solar energy conversion. The hot electrons generated from plasmon excitation and transfer from metal nanostructures to semiconductors is a potential new paradigm for solar energy conversion. However, the ultrafast decay of the hot carriers is unfavorable for the improvement of photocatalytic efficiency. Therefore, finding more efficient photocatalysts, with enhanced light absorption and a longer carrier lifetime, is of paramount importance for improving the conversion efficiency of solar energy, but their fabrication is challenging. In this work, a plasmonic metal/semiconductor heterostructure based on Ag nanoparticles embedded in two-dimensional (2D) amorphous sub-stoichiometric tungsten trioxide (a-WO_3−x), followed by annealing, was successfully fabricated. Firstly, the peculiar nanostructure of 2D a-WO_3−x was successfully constructed from WS₂ nanosheets with supercritical CO₂ (SC CO₂) at 200 ℃. Secondly, the Ag/a-WO_3−x heterostructure was synthesized using an in situ reduction method. Finally, the obtained 2D heterostructure of Ag/WO_3−x was annealed at 400 ℃ in N₂ to further improve its stability and conductivity. X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were used to characterize the structure, morphology, and composition of the material, respectively. UV-Vis spectra were also measured to evaluate light adsorption. Characterization results show that the amorphous structure can effectively anchor metal nanoparticles, and the metal nanoparticles are uniformly dispersed in the amorphous region and have a small size. The as-prepared nanocomposites showed efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting when serving as photoelectrode materials, and efficient PEC activity towards photo-oxidation degradation currents under excitation of Ag localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The photocurrent response of the Ag/WO_3−x heterostructure was approximately five times greater than that of a-WO_3−x. Moreover, the PEC degradation efficiency of Ag/WO_3−x reached 96.7% for MO under Vis light illumination (after reaction for 120 min), while the PEC degradation efficiency of WO_3−x was only 63.6%. The high PEC performance of the composite photoanode can be ascribed to the local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect of the Ag nanoparticles, which can enhance the light absorption and hot electron transformation. Moreover, the construction of local crystalline-amorphous interfaces can further promote the separation efficiency of the photogenerated electron-hole pairs, and thus increase conductivity. This work provides a positive strategy for the fabrication of advanced photocatalysts, and a new perspective on understanding of the synergistic effects of structural and electronic regulations.     

多孔材料的二氧化碳吸附与光催化转化研究进展(英文)

太阳能光催化是CO_2转化和利用的新兴技术,直接利用洁净充足的太阳能将自然界富有的"温室气体"CO_2转化成化学燃料,不仅有利于消除大气温室效应,而且能缓解能源短缺问题,因而成为人们研究的一个重要方向.但目前CO_2的吸附和转换效率还很低,这是太阳能光催化CO_2资源化的最大障碍.高性能光催化剂的设计和合成是这项技术的关键.针对CO_2光还原反应的特异性,理想的光催化材料应该具有以下功能:强的CO_2吸附能力和高的光催化活性.将光催化剂与对CO_2具有高吸附性的多孔材料结合,就可以将CO_2吸附并富集在吸附剂周围的光催化剂表面上以进行催化转化,因此基于高效多孔吸附材料构筑光催化体系成为光催化转化CO_2的重要研究方向之一.CO_2的循环利用包括吸附和转化两方面,高吸附量的多孔材料是获得CO_2高转化效率的前提.本文首先以多孔材料结构参数及性能指标为主线,对无机多孔材料、金属有机框架材料及微孔有机聚合物材料的研究进展及应用前景进行了评述.通过对多孔材料的改性和新型多孔材料的开发,CO_2的吸附能力得到一定的提升,但是仅仅依靠多孔材料的吸附分离,不能实现CO_2中的碳资源循环.在此基础上,本文重点评述了多孔光催化材料在CO_2光催化转化中的最新研究进展.采用多孔材料与光催化剂结合,可增加材料的比表面积,在界面处暴露更多的活性位点,有利于光催化CO_2转化的进行;同时,通过孔结构和基团调控,可以调控光催化剂的反应活性和产物选择性.特别是金属有机框架材料与微孔有机聚合物材料,改变构建单元的官能团和制备技术还可以实现光谱响应范围的调控,提高太阳光的利用率.大量文献对比发现,引入较高CO_2吸附效率的多孔材料构建光催化体系,CO_2光催化转化的效率及产物选择性显著提高.最后,本文对多孔材料在CO_2光催化转化领域的研究现状与亟待解决的问题进行了剖析,提出了下一步可能的研究方向:(1)提高多孔材料自身的稳定性如耐水性能与光/热稳定性;(2)发展光催化材料在多孔载体的微观组装方法,不影响CO_2吸附效率的前提下提高光催化活性;(3)深入研究多孔光催化材料内部与表面的CO_2转化机理,为进一步提高吸附与转化效率提供理论指导.