纳米SiC基光催化剂研究进展

工业化无疑促进了经济的发展,提高了生活水平,但也导致了一些问题,包括能源危机、环境污染、全球变暖等, 其中这些所产生问题主要是由燃烧煤炭、石油和天然气等化石燃料引起的。光催化技术具有利用太阳能将二氧化碳转化为碳氢化合物燃料、从水中制氢、降解污染物等优点,从而在解决能源危机的同时避免环境污染,因此被认为是解决这些问题的最有潜力的技术之一。在各种光催化剂中,碳化硅(SiC)由于其优良的电学性能和光电化学性质,在光催化、光电催化、电催化等领域具有广阔的应用前景。本文首先系统地阐述了各种SiC的合成方法,具体包括模板生长法、溶胶凝胶法、有机前驱物热解法、溶剂热合成法、电弧放电法,碳热还原法和静电纺丝等方法。然后详细地总结了提升SiC光催化活性的各种改性策略,如元素掺杂、构建Z型(S型)体系、负载助催化剂、可见光敏化、构建半导体异质结、负载炭材料、构建纳米结构等。最后重点论述了半导体的光催化机理以及SiC复合物在光催化产氢、污染物降解和CO₂还原等领域的应用研究进展,并提出了前景展望。     

纳米SiC基光催化剂研究进展

Industrialization undoubtedly boosts economic development and improves the standard of living; however, it also leads to some serious problems, including the energy crisis, environmental pollution, and global warming. These problems are associated with or caused by the high carbon dioxide (CO₂) and sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. Photocatalysis is considered one of the most promising technologies for eliminating these problems because of the possibility of converting CO₂ into hydrocarbon fuels and other valuable chemicals using solar energy, hydrogen (H₂) production from water (H₂O) electrolysis, and degradation of pollutants. Among the various photocatalysts, silicon carbide (SiC) has great potential in the fields of photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, and electrocatalysis because of its good electrical properties and photoelectrochemistry. This review is divided into six sections: introduction, fundamentals of nanostructured SiC, synthesis methods for obtaining nanostructured SiC photocatalysts, strategies for improving the activity of nanostructured SiC photocatalysts, applications of nanostructured SiC photocatalysts, and conclusions and prospects. The fundamentals of nanostructured SiC include its physicochemical characteristics. It possesses a range of unique physical properties, such as extreme hardness, high mechanical stability at high temperatures, a low thermal expansion coefficient, wide bandgap, and superior thermal conductivity. It also possesses exceptional chemical characteristics, such as high oxidation and corrosion resistance. The synthesis methods for obtaining nanostructured SiC have been systematically summarized as follows: Template growth, sol-gel, organic precursor pyrolysis, solvothermal synthesis, arc discharge, carbon thermal reduction, and electrospinning. These synthesis methods require high temperatures, and the reaction mechanism involves SiC formation via the reaction between carbon and silicon oxide. In the section of the review involving the strategies for improving the activity of nanostructured SiC photocatalysts, seven strategies are discussed, viz., element doping, construction of Z-scheme (or S-scheme) systems, supported co-catalysts, visible photosensitization, construction of semiconductor heterojunctions, supported carbon materials, and construction of nanostructures. All of these strategies, except element doping and visible photosensitization, concentrate on enhancing the separation of holes and electrons, while suppressing their recombination, thus improving the photocatalytic performance of the nanostructured SiC photocatalysts. Regarding the element doping and visible photosensitization strategies, element doping can narrow the bandgap of SiC, which generates more holes and electrons to improve photocatalytic activity. On the other hand, the principle of visible photosensitization is that photo-induced electrons move from photosensitizers to the conduction band of SiC to participate in the reaction, thus enhancing the photocatalytic performance. In the section on the applications of nanostructured SiC, photocatalytic H₂ production, pollutant degradation, CO₂ reduction, photoelectrocatalytic, and electrocatalytic applications will be discussed. The mechanism of a photocatalytic reaction requires the SiC photocatalyst to produce photo-induced electrons and holes during irradiation, which participate in the photocatalytic reaction. For example, photo-induced electrons can transform protons into H₂, as well as CO₂ into methane, methanol, or formic acid. Furthermore, photo-induced holes can convert organic waste into H₂O and CO₂. For photoelectrocatalytic and electrocatalytic applications, SiC is used as a catalyst under high temperatures and highly acidic or basic environments because of its remarkable physicochemical characteristics, including low thermal expansion, superior thermal conductivity, and high oxidation and corrosion resistance. The last section of the review will reveal the major obstacles impeding the industrial application of nanostructured SiC photocatalysts, such as insufficient visible absorption, slow reaction kinetics, and hard fabrication, as well as provide some ideas on how to overcome these obstacles.      

Capacitive Sensing of Amino Acids Using Caliraxene‐Coated Silicon Transducers

The possibility of using capacitance and flat band voltage as measurable quantities for determining amino acids that are neither electroactive nor with strong UV‐vis absorption has been explored. The sensors were fabricated by immobilizing calixarene derivatives on Si/SiO₂/Si₃N₄ transducers. The measurements were made in sulfuric acid media of ca. pH 1 and in physiological buffer of pH 7.4. The different calixarene derivatives showed varying sensitivities to the amino acids ranging from 8 to 137 mV/decade.     

硅及硅基负极材料的研究进展

硅（Si）具有极高的理论容量、 较低的电压平台和丰富的自然资源, 有成为下一代高能量密度锂离子电池负极材料的潜力. 但Si不同于石墨, 其固有电导率低, 循环过程中体积变化巨大, 不宜直接作为负极材料. 因此出现了许多从维度结构、 复合材料、 黏结剂和电解质等方面改善或适配Si基负极材料的改性方案, 以使其满足商业化的要求. 本文综合评述了近年Si基负极材料的研究进展, 总结了不同方面的设计要素, 介绍了代表性材料的性能表现, 最后, 对目前Si基材料面临的问题进行了简要分析, 并展望了其作为锂离子电池负极的研究前景.     

高压条件下合成硅纳米线

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were synthesized with silicon monoxide as the only starting material. At the beginning, a protective gas argon was charged into the reaction chamber and the temperature ramp was controlled at 3 ℃·min^-1. The growth condition for SiNWs was controlled at 480 ℃ under the pressure of 2.8 MPa. The morphology and the structure of the products were characterized by TEM, HRTEM and XRD. The results revealed that SiNWs were diamond structure and their diameters were distributed from 5 to 25 nm. The SiNW was single crystal in the central core and was coated with amorphous silica shell at the exterior surface. Influenced by the quantum effect, Raman spectrum of the SiNWs was found to be redshifted. The oxide-assisted growth mechanism was suggested to explain the growth model of self-assembled SiNWs.     

H2三光子共振增强电离光谱中的反常压力效应

在H2和的三光子共振增强多光子电离光谱中观察到反常压力现象，其中有些是首次报导的．线移、线展宽、线分裂和光谱强度的负压效应都可以用三次谐波再吸收的机理解释．用考虑了相位区配条件导出的近似表达式计算的不同压力下线移、线分裂、光谱强度与实验结果一致．用新设计的串联二对电极的气体池得到的光谱直接证明了三次谐波再吸收的机理，圆偏振光实验无信号也支持上述机理．     

Progress in Enzyme-Based Biosensors Using Optical Transducers

Enzyme-based biosensors are well developed and relatively mature technique in the biosensing field. Biosensors that utilise enzymes as the recognition elements represent the most extensively studied area. The organisation of an enzyme-based biosensor requires the integration of the biocatalyst with the support or immobilised materials to the extent that the biocatalytic transformation is either optically or electronically transduced. Any optical or electrical changes at the support material as a result of the biocatalytic process, that is, depletion of the reactant or formation of the product, provide routes for the opto/electronic transduction of the biological process occurring at the sensing surface. This review focuses on the discussion of some enzyme immobilisation techniques including physical and chemical immobilisation. Enzyme-based biosensors using various optical detection methods such as absorptiometry, luminometry, chemiluminescence, evanescent wave, and surface plasmon resonance are also included. Finally, different types of enzyme-based optical biosensors for ascorbic acid, bilirubin, cholesterol, choline, ethanol, glucose, glutamate/glutamine, lactate, penicillin, urea, and uric acid determinations are presented.On sabbatical leave at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2004–July 2005     

Theoretical Investigation of the Solid State Reaction of Silicon Nitride and Silicon Dioxide forming Silicon Oxynitride (Si2N2O) under Pressure

The high‐pressure behavior of Si₂N₂O is studied for pressures up to 100 GPa using density functional theory calculations. The investigation of a manifold of hypothetical polymorphs leads us to propose two dense phases of Si₂N₂O, succeeding the orthorhombic ambient‐pressure polymorph at higher pressures:a defect spinel structure at moderate pressures and a corundum‐type structure at very high pressures. Taking into account the formation of silicon oxynitride from silicon dioxide and silicon nitride and its pressure dependence, we propose five pressure regions of interest for Si₂N₂O within the pseudo‐binary phase diagram SiO₂‐Si₃N₄: (i) stability of the orthorhombic ternary phase of Si₂N₂O up to 6 GPa, (ii) a phase assemblage of coesite, stishovite, and β‐Si₃N₄ between 6 and 11 GPa, (iii) a possible defect spinel modification of Si₂N₂O between 11 and 16 GPa, (iv) a phase assemblage of stishovite and γ‐Si₃N₄ above 40 GPa, and (v) a possible ternary Si₂N₂O phase with corundum‐type structure beyond 80 GPa. The existence of both ternary high‐pressure phases of Si₂N₂O, however, depends on the delicate influence of configurational entropy to the free energy of the solid state reaction.     

Promising Methods for Manufacturing High-Performance Piezoelectric Transducers

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The paper studies the possibility of changing the properties of piezoceramic materials of various functional groups. The aim of this work was to vary the...     

Resonant nonlinear absorption in Zn-phthalocyanines

In this work, we investigate the nonlinear absorption dynamics of Zn phthalocyanine in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). We used single pulse and pulse train Z-scan techniques to determine the dynamics and absorption cross-sections of singlet and triplet states at 532 nm. The excited singlet state absorption cross-section was determined to be 3.2 times higher than the ground state one, giving rise to reverse saturable absorption. We also observed that reverse saturable absorption occurs from the triplet state, after its population by intersystem crossing, whose characteristic time was determined to be 8.9 ns. The triplet state absorption cross-section determined is 2.6 times higher than the ground state one. In addition, we used the white light continuum Z-scan to evaluate the singlet excited state spectrum from 450 to 710 nm. The results show two well-defined regions, one above 600 nm, where reverse saturable absorption is predominant. Below 600 nm, we detected a strong saturable absorption. A three-energy-level diagram was used to explain the experimental results, leading to the excited state absorption cross-section determination from 450 nm up to 710 nm.     

Resonant three-body recombination

This paper discusses a resonant atomic process in dense plasmas which up to now has not been carefully studied: a free electron is captured by an ion into an autoionizing state whose stabilization occurs via collisional processes. The rate for this mechanism is proportional to the square of the electronic density. It may appropriately be called “resonant three-body recombination”. It is shown that for many ions in a broad range of temperatures and densities this mechanism is the dominant recombination process.     

Resonant nonequilibrium temperatures

In this paper, we investigate nonequilibrium temperatures in a two-state system driven to a nonequilibrium steady state by the action of an oscillatory field. The nonequilibrium temperature is determined by coupling a small cavity or probe to the nonequilibrium system and studying the fluctuating noise in the cavity, as has been proposed in the context of glassy systems. We show the presence of resonant effects in the nonequilibrium temperature and discuss the existence of a constitutive steady-state equation in such nonequilibrium conditions. We propose this simple model as an excellent system to carry out experimental measurements of nonequilibrium temperatures. This may help to better understand the physical meaning of such an elusive concept.     

Resonant non-linear spectroscopy in strong fields

A method is presented to describe multiple resonant non-linear spectra in the presence of strong laser fields. The Liouville equation for the density operator of the molecular system is transformed to a time-independent linear equation system. This can be easily solved rigorously by numerical methods or, after partitioning into a strong-field part and a perturbation, the solution can be obtained analytically by a novel perturbative approach. The results account for power broadening. Rabi splitting of signals, and power-induced extra resonances, the latter being related to the pure dephasing-induced resonances in the weak-field limit. The method can be applied to a large number of multiple resonant non-linear spectroscopies, especially CARS, CSRS, coherent Rayleigh scattering and sum- or difference-frequency generation.     

Rivalry under Pressure: The Coexistence of Ambient‐Pressure Motifs and Close‐Packing in Silicon Phosphorus Nitride Imide SiP2N4NH

Non‐metal nitrides such as BN, Si₃N₄, and P₃N₅ meet numerous demands on high‐performance materials, and their high‐pressure polymorphs exhibit outstanding mechanical properties. Herein, we present the silicon phosphorus nitride imide SiP₂N₄NH featuring sixfold coordinated Si. Using the multi‐anvil technique, SiP₂N₄NH was obtained by high‐pressure high‐temperature synthesis at 8 GPa and 1100 °C with in situ formed HCl acting as a mineralizer. Its structure was elucidated by a combination of single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction and solid‐state NMR measurements. Moreover, SiP₂N₄NH was characterized by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy and (temperature‐dependent) powder X‐ray diffraction. The highly condensed Si/P/N framework features PN₄ tetrahedra as well as the rare motif of SiN₆ octahedra, and is discussed in the context of ambient‐pressure motifs competing with close‐packing of nitride anions, representing a missing link in the high‐pressure chemistry of non‐metal nitrides.     

等离子体发射光谱法测定碳化硅中的游离总硅含量

针对分光光度法测定游离总硅含量受干扰因素多、测试数据不稳定的缺点,探讨了采用ICP-AES法测定碳化硅中游离总硅含量。采用行星球磨仪对碳化硅样品进行研磨,以硝酸钠、硝酸、氢氟酸作溶剂,采用微波消解法处理样品。选择212．412nm特征谱线并以其强度U）与对应的硅浓度（c）建立校准曲线,硅的质量浓度在10-100μg／mL范围内与特征谱线强度呈良好的线性关系,线性方程为I=233．76c＋86．94,线性相关系数间．997,检出限为0．027μg／mL。测定结果的相对标准偏差为1．35％～2．79%（n=6）。加标回收率为97．6％～108．0％。该法测定碳化硅中游离总硅含量是可行的。     

Resonant opto-optical switching in organic polymer waveguides

Photochromic polymer films are prepared by doping a polymer matrix like PMMA up to a few wt% with the fulgides “Aberchrome”. Opto optical switching is achieved in planar waveguides. Optical switching with gratings in waveguides and in transparent films is reported for latent gratings activated by uniform exposure.     

Resonant photoadsorption of uranyl ions in solution

Experimental evidence is given for the photoadsorption of uranyl ions in solutions, under the selective action of laser radiation. The effect was studied in two different systems involving uranyl solutions in contact with the surfaces of a ZnSe plate or a silicon wafer, respectively. Infrared spectrophotometrical methods as well as the measured value of the dielectric breakdown field showed in both cases an accumulation of resonant ions on the irradiated sites.     

Resonant soft X-ray scattering in polymer science

Resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS) is an emerging, powerful technique to probe the nano-to-mesoscale structure of polymers and other molecules. It joins together small-angle X-ray scattering (a statistical nanoprobe) with X-ray spectroscopy that brings with it unique chemical and bond-orientation sensitivity. Through over a decade of discovery and development, RSoXS is moving from a niche technique applied to organic electronic thin films to a mature tool applicable to a plethora of polymeric and molecular systems, encompassing new modalities, analyses, and simulation methods. This development promises to deliver increasingly quantitative answers to challenging questions in polymer science as well as expand its usefulness to complementary fields. This review presents a full synopsis of the technique, including background on the theoretical underpinnings, measurement best practices, and examples of recent RSoXS applications and discoveries provided here to accelerate the transition to a broader range of soft matter and polymeric fields.     

化学转化-气相色谱法测定氮化硅中的游离硅

建立了用化学转化－气相色谱法测定氮化硅中游离硅的分析方法。游离硅和氮化硅与熔融的氢化钠反应,排出氢,氨和少量二氧化碳和水蒸汽。吸收除去氨、二氧化碳和水蒸汽后,用热导检测器检测氢。方法简便,准确,平均回收率为９６％,相对标准偏差〈５％。