Tuning the properties of a black TiO2-Ag visible light photocatalyst produced by a rapid one-pot chemical reduction

A highly efficient black TiO₂-Ag photocatalytic nanocomposite, active under both UV and visible light illumination, was synthesized by decorating the surface of 25 nm TiO₂ particles with Ag nanoparticles. The material was obtained via a rapid, one-pot, simple (surfactant and complexing agent free) chemical reduction method using silver nitrate and formaldehyde as a metal salt and reducing agent, respectively. The nanocomposite shows an increase of over 800% in the rate of photocatalytic methylene blue dye degradation, compared to commercial unmodified TiO_2, under UV-VIS illumination. Unlike pure TiO₂, the nanocomposite exhibits visible light activation, with a corresponding drop in optical reflectance from 100% to less than 10%. The photocatalytic properties were shown to be strongly enhanced by post-reduction annealing heat treatments in air, which were observed to decrease, rather than coarsen, silver particle size, and increase particle distribution. This, accompanied by a variation in the silver surface oxidation states, appear to dramatically affect the photocatalytic efficiency under both UV and visible light. This highly active photocatalyst could have wide ranging applications in water and air pollution remediation and solar fuel production.     

Dye and its removal from aqueous solution by adsorption: A review

In this review article the authors presented up to-date development on the application of adsorption in the removal of dyes from aqueous solution. This review article provides extensive literature information about dyes, its classification and toxicity, various treatment methods, and dye adsorption characteristics by various adsorbents. One of the objectives of this review article is to organise the scattered available information on various aspects on a wide range of potentially effective adsorbents in the removal of dyes. Therefore, an extensive list of various adsorbents such as natural materials, waste materials from industry, agricultural by-products, and biomass based activated carbon in the removal of various dyes has been compiled here. Dye bearing waste treatment by adsorption using low cost alternative adsorbent is a demanding area as it has double benefits i.e. water treatment and waste management. Further, activated carbon from biomass has the advantage of offering an effected low cost replacement for non-renewable coal based granular activated carbon provided that they have similar or better adsorption on efficiency. The effectiveness of various adsorbents under different physico-chemical process parameters and their comparative adsorption capacity towards dye adsorption has also been presented. This review paper also includes the affective adsorption factors of dye such as solution pH, initial dye concentration, adsorbent dosage, and temperature. The applicability of various adsorption kinetic models and isotherm models for dye removal by wide range of adsorbents is also reported here. Conclusions have been drawn from the literature reviewed and few suggestions for future research are proposed.     

辛巴蓝F-3GA修饰的啤酒废酵母菌亲和吸附溶菌酶

利用j嗪染料辛巴蓝F-3GA修饰经戊二醛交联的啤酒废酵母菌,得到一种新型染料亲和吸附剂.辛巴蓝F-3GA的固载量为161.1 mg/g.以溶菌酶为研究对象,考察吸附时间、酶初始浓度、pH值、离子强度等因素对吸附率的影响.结果表明:当pH=7.0时,其对溶菌酶有较高的吸附量(229.1 mg/g),吸附性能明显优于未接枝...     

A Specific Interaction between Ionic Liquids’ Cations and Reichardt’s Dye

Solvatochromic probes are often used to understand solvation environments at the molecular scale. In the case of ionic liquids constituted by an anion and a cation, which are designed and paired in order to obtain a low melting point and other desirable physicochemical properties, these two indivisible components can interact in a very different way with the probe. This is the case with one of the most common probes: Reichardt’s Dye. In the cases where the positive charge of the cation is delocalized on an aromatic ring such as imidazolium, the antibonding orbitals of the positively charged aromatic system are very similar in nature and energy to the LUMO of Reichardt’s Dye. This leads to an interesting, specific cation-probe interaction that can be used to elucidate the nature of the ionic liquids’ cations. Parallel computational and experimental investigations have been conducted to elucidate the nature of this interaction with respect to the molecular structure of the cation.     

NARROW BANDWIDTH BRIGHT SCARLET ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE BASED ON N,N'-BIS[4-(N,N-DIMETHYLAMONO)-BENZYLIDENE]-DIAMINOMALEONITRILE DYE

A novel red dye, N, N'-bis[4-(N,N-dimethylamino)-benzylidene]diaminomaleonitrile (BAM), was prepared by reacting diaminomaleonitrile with 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)-benzaldehyde and were characterized by ¹H NMR, UV absorption and photoluminescence. The BAM dye showed an absorption peak wavelength of 530 nm and bright photoluminescence with a peak wavelength at 675 nm. It was used as the doped emitter for fabricating a bright scarlet organic electroluminescent (EL) device. The structure of the double-layer EL device consisted of a hole-transport layer and a luminescent layer between ITO glass and magnesium electrodes. The hole-transport layer was a poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) film. The luminescent layer consisted of a host material, 8-hydroxyquinoline aluminum (Alq₃), and BAM dye as the dopant. A bright light with the peak of 620 nm and narrow bandwidth of 50 nm was obtained in the device with a maximum luminance of 6230 cd/m². The emission spectra almost unchanged as the luminance increased with increasing injection current and the bias voltage. A tentative explanation from both the electronic distribution viewpoint and the molecular geometric analysis for the narrow bandwidth of this red dye was offered.     

微生物发酵诱导多孔材料:制备方法和应用

微生物发酵作为一种新的制备多孔材料的方式, 将微生物发酵工程与发泡工程有机结合起来, 克服了传统制备方法需要特殊设备、 操作复杂、 后处理繁琐、 化学药品污染和成本昂贵等缺点, 受到了广泛关注.本文基于微生物发酵多孔材料的研究, 围绕多孔材料的定义和多孔水凝胶的分类及制备方式进行总结.针对微生物发酵诱导制备多孔材料的制备方法, 综合评述了该方法在染料吸附、 海水蒸发脱盐、 电磁屏蔽以及制备新型功能性生物材料等方面的应用.最后, 对微生物诱导制备多孔材料的未来发展进行了展望.     

新型感可见光的光引发体系乙基曙红碘■盐的研究

合成并研究了新型感可见光的光引发体系乙基曙红碘盐。结果表明，该引发剂的物理化学性质和光敏引发效率受其结构、介质性质和浓度等诸多因素影响。在可见光照射下，发生由乙基曙红阴离子向二苯基碘阳离子的电子转移反应，产生具有引发活性的苯自由基和非活性的乙基曙红自由基。测定了光聚合的动力学方程以及聚合物的分子量和分子量分布。比较了曙红单碘盐和双碘盐的各种不同性质     

新型晶体Nd:S-VAP激光特性研究

测量了 Nd:S-VAP[Nd:Sr₅(VO₄)₃F]晶体的吸收光谱特性,在583.0nm 和809.0nm处有强烈的吸收峰.用可调谐染料激光泵浦实现了低阈值、高效率的激光运转.在透射率15%的平-平腔情况下,斜率效率为50%,阈值2mJ,倍频绿光的中心波长为536.0nm,线宽为1.4nm.采用φ4mm×30mm 的氙灯泵浦,实现了自由运转和染料片调 Q 运转.阈值为130mJ,斜效率为1.3%.测量了不同腔长、不同染料片小信号透射率情况下的输出能量、脉冲宽度以及光束发散角和偏振特性等.     

β-环糊精与分散RGFL染料二元包络物研究

本文从 β-环糊精 (β- CD)与分散 RGFL染料包络反应的紫外 -可见光谱、二阶导数光谱和荧光光谱现象分析 ,得出 β- CD与 RGFL形成摩尔比为 1∶ 1包络物 ,包络物的平衡常数 Kf=1 .5× 1 0 3 L/mol。初步推测包络形成机制及包络物形式。