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A Novel Dual-Channel Carbon Nitride Homojunction with Nanofibrous Carbon for Significantly Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production
Photocatalytic H2O2 synthesis (PHS) via graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is a low-carbon and environmentally friendly approach, which has garnered tremendous attention. However, as for the pristine g-C3N4, the PH...
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Emerging Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters and Ultrasmall Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrochemical Energy Catalysis: Synthesis Strategies and Surface/Interface Engineering
Atomically precise metal nanocluster and ultrasmall nanoparticle catalysts have garnered significant interest in electrocatalysis applications due to their unique geometric and electronic structures. As an int...
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Open AccessEngineering Fe-N4 Electronic Structure with Adjacent Co-N2C2 and Co Nanoclusters on Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis
Engineering Fe-N4 electronic structure with adjacent Co-N2C2 and Co sub-nanoclusters to optimize the electronic structure of the Fe-N4 active center is first demonstrated.
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For the optimal functional recovery of force-transmitting connective tissues, obtaining grafts that are mechanically robust and integrating them with host bone effectively to tolerate high loads during violent...
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Open AccessRational coordination regulation in carbon-based single-metal-atom catalysts for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction
Single-metal-atom catalysts (SMACs) have garnered extensive attention for various electrocatalytic applications, owing to their maximum atom-utilization efficiency, tunable electronic structure, and remarkable...
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Chain structure-dependent electrochemical performance of polyimide cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Organic polyimides have received an ever-growing interest in lithium-ion batteries based on the reversible anion stabilization mechanism of redox-active carbonyl groups due to their high theoretical capacities...
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Molten-salt-templated fabrication of N, S co-doped hierarchically porous carbons for high-performance supercapacitors
Heteroatom-doped porous carbons with hierarchical structures have been regarded as promising electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitors. Herein N, S co-doped hierarchically porous carbon (NSHPC) ...
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Sonochemical synthesis of Co3O4/graphene/Co3O4 sandwich architecture for high-performance supercapacitors
Binary composites comprised of metal oxides and graphene with novel microstructure prepared via a simple, rapid and high-efficiency strategy is of key significance for the development of high-performance super...
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Multi-actor multi-criteria sustainability assessment framework for energy and industrial systems in life cycle perspective under uncertainties. Part 2: improved extension theory
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development has been widely incorporated in energy and industrial systems. This paper is the second part of a two-paper series dealing with multi-actor multi-crite...
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Multi-actor multi-criteria sustainability assessment framework for energy and industrial systems in life cycle perspective under uncertainties. Part 1: weighting method
Life cycle sustainability assessment is meaningful for the decision-makers/stakeholders to select the most sustainable option among multiple alternatives; however, there are usually various severe uncertainty ...
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Synthesis and photo-responsive behaviors of hollow polyazobenzene micro-spheres
By means of distillation precipitation polymerization, the silica-hybrid particles with polyazobenzene shell (PAzo@SiO2) microspheres were prepared with 6-(4-methoxy-4′-oxy-azobenzene) hexyl methacrylate (Azo-M) ...
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A facile method for the synthesis of ZnS/polystyrene composite particles and ZnS hollow micro-spheres
In this research studies, a surfactant-free emulsion polymerization method was employed to synthesize nano-ZnS/polystyrene composite particles. In this approach, 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMEMA) was...
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A facile method to fabricate silica-coated carbon nanotubes and silica nanotubes from carbon nanotubes templates
Silica-coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have been prepared by the sol–gel polymerization of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) in the presence of the acid-oxidized MWCNTs at room temperature, followed by oxi...
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In this study, a kind of novel all-cellulose ecocomposites based on cellulose and rice husk (RH) has been prepared by using green solvent, ionic liquid (IL), as processing medium. Due to the presence of the RH...
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Control on self-assembly structures of rod-coil-rod (PANI)98−(PEG)136−(PANI)98 triblock copolymer
The self-assembly behaviors of the rod-coil-rod (PANI)98−(PEG)136−(PANI)98 triblock copolymer are investigated in different solvents, such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), dimethyl formamide (DMF), ethanol and wa...
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Regulation of FAT/CD36 mRNA gene expression by long chain fatty acids in the differentiated 3T3-L1 cells
Defects in fatty acid translocase (FAT/CD36) have been identified as a major factor in insulin resistance and defective fatty acid and glucose metabolism. Therefore, understanding of the regulation of FAT/CD36...