ArtikelAnchoring Ru Active Sites on N−CNTs for an Improved One‐pot Cellobiose Conversionvon Zhanglong Guo et al. · 10.03.2023 N-doped CNTs obtained via green plasma technology promoted the anchoring effect of Ru, and further enhanced the H2 activation ability for achieving high hexitols yield in one-pot cellobiose conversion. Abstract In this contribution, N-doped carbon...
ArtikelStudy on Photoelectric Conversion Properties for Near‐infrared Absorbing Materialsvon Bo‐Tau Liu et al. · 10.03.2023 The transformation of near infrared to photocurrent in a solid-state device with Cs0.33WO3 nanorods is reported. Polyvinylpyrrolidone incorporation into the Cs0.33WO3 layer can effectively suppress electron-hole recombination and raise the photocurr...
ArtikelSynthesis of Cationic Silver Nanoparticles with Highly Potent Properties against Oral Pathogens and Their Biofilmsvon Yanping He et al. · 10.03.2023 Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) target multiple sites in bacteria which reduces antimicrobial resistance. We synthesised highly positively charged AgNPs capped with branched PEI (BPEI-AgNPs). Our results demonstrated that BPEI-AgNPs are potent clinical...
ArtikelConstruction of an Ultra‐High‐Energy Density Hybrid Supercapacitor with Self‐Assembled 3D Hydrangea Flower‐like Mo‐rich CoMoO4 Microstructuresvon Gutturu Rajasekhara et al. · 10.03.2023 A 3D hydrangea flower-like mesoporous Mo-rich CoMoO4 microstructure was prepared via a solvothermal technique with remarkable electrochemical performance for supercapacitors. A fabricated hybrid supercapacitor device of CoMoO4//Activated carbon has ...
ArtikelTopological Surface State of Bi2Se3 Modified by Physisorption of n‐Alkanevon Rena Moue et al. · 10.03.2023 n -Tetratertacontane (TTC) is physisorbed on the prototype topological insulator Bi2Se3 surface. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements show that the formation of a TTC layer on Bi2Se3 leads to a change in the topological surfac...
ArtikelChiral Alkynyl‐Stabilized Ag/Cu Nanoclusters from Spontaneous Resolutionvon Xueli Sun et al. · 10.03.2023 Homochiral Ag/Cu nanoclusters stabilized by alkynyl ligands have been prepared in high yield. In the absence of any chiral inducer, the chiral nanoclusters have been isolated in the crystalline form from spontaneous self-resolution. The metal framew...
ArtikelCatalytic Transformation of Positional Nitrophenol Isomers on Highly Active Ag/Linde‐Type A4 Zeolite: A Comparative Analysisvon Patricia Horta‐Fraijo et al. · 10.03.2023 An Ag/ZA4 material is reported as a highly active catalyst for the transformation of positional nitrophenol isomers into valuable products. The stabilization of Ag NPs into the microporous zeolite was influenced by the methodology used for catalysts...
ArtikelMOF‐Derived Oxygen Vacancy‐Rich Co/CoO@NC‐CNTs Hybrid Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reactionvon Xinjie Guo et al. · 10.03.2023 A Co/CoO@NC/CNT-10 catalyst was effectively synthesized using melamine-assisted pyrolysis with Co-MOF as the precursor. With the synergistic effect of metal species, oxygen defects and N-doped carbon nanotubes, the intrinsic activity and electron tr...
ArtikelHierarchical Porous Carbon Spheres Loaded CoOX (CoOx/HPCS) for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Mediavon Yani Hua et al. · 10.03.2023 Hierarchical porous carbon spheres loaded CoOX (CoOx/HPCS) catalysts are prepared and demonstrated to have excellent activity toward ORR with more positive peak potential, initial potential, and half-wave potential than pure HPCS. In addition, the C...
ArtikelSynergy of Pt Single Atom and Clusters toward Selective Glycerol Oxidationvon Zhicheng Luo et al. · 10.03.2023 We combine the affinity of Pt nanoparticles to oxygen-containing groups and the strong activity of Pt single atoms to C−H activation, and prepared a 0.2%Ptatom–1.0%Ptcluster/CeO2 catalyst, which gave a high glycerol conversion of 90.9% with a high g...
ArtikelA Facile Cation‐Exchange Strategy for ZnS‐SnS‐Sb2S3@C Submicron Box as Advanced Anode for Li‐Ion Batteriesvon Miao‐Ling Chen et al. · 10.03.2023 A cation-exchange strategy has been applied to prepare a hierarchical ZnS-SnS-Sb2S3@C (shorten as ZTAS@C) submicron box as LIBs anode. Benefiting from the hollow cubic architecture and the introduced composite of Sb2S3, ZTAS@C shows excellent electr...
ArtikelGreen Synthesis of Hierarchically Porous Alginate/ZIF‐8 Composite Beads for Water Treatmentvon Yingjie Chen et al. · 10.03.2023 Hierarchically porous alginate/ZIF-8 composite beads are obtained through the in-situ growth of ZIF-8 in alginate hydrogel beads crosslinked by Zn2+ and subsequent freeze-drying process, during which only water is used as reaction media. These compo...
ArtikelFront Cover:Tuning Structure and Properties of Pt Catalysts Confined in Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) for Electrocatalysis (ChemNanoMat 3/2023)von Jiacheng Hu et al. · 10.03.2023 The structure of Pt nanocatalysts confined in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) can be tuned through a facile two-step process in which Pt was firstly co-filled with different ratios of Co in SWNTs and followed by acid treatment to remove Co. T...
ArtikelThermoelectric Modules: Key Issues in Architectural Design and Contact Optimizationvon Ranita Basu · 10.03.2023 Thermoelectric modules need to be sketched, manoeuvred and fabricated judiciously to serve the desired performance as either Peltier coolers or power generators. Thus, a balance between the architectural design and contact issues is mandatory to hav...
ArtikelUnderstanding the Degradation Factors, Mechanism and Initiatives for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cellsvon Md. Helal et al. · 10.03.2023 In this review, the degradation mechanism due to several external factors such as moisture, UV light, temperature, and internal factors including hysteresis, polarization effect, and phase transitions have been analyzed extensively. Potential soluti...
ArtikelNanosecond memristor based on oxygen vacancy engineering in SrTiO3 single crystalvon Qin Du et al. · 16.03.2023Memristor is of great significance for the construction of memory device and neuromorphological computing, which need fast response time for ultrahigh data storage, ultra-fast information processing, and efficient neuromorphic computing. Currently, m...
ArtikelAdsorption Induced In‐situ Construction of TiO2 Hollow Sphere/UiO‐66‐NH2 Heterostructures with Boosted Photocatalytic Activity toward Cr(VI) Reductionvon Qiankun Xu et al. · 15.03.2023Water contamination caused by highly toxic Cr(VI) should be resolved imminently with more efficient photocatalytic approach. The interaction between photocatalyst heterostructure is critical for charge separation which largely affect photocatalytic e...
ArtikelOrganic Molecules‐Assisted Engineering of Ultrafine Iridium Nanoclusters with In‐Situ N,O‐Coordination for Efficient Hydrogen Evolutionvon Chen Gao et al. · 15.03.2023 An organic molecular-assisted synthetic method for ultrafine iridium nanoclusters to synthesize with in situ heteroatoms coordination (N, O, S, both N and O) for efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis. The optimized Ir−N−O exhibits the turnover freq...
ArtikelA novel class of greenish‐yellow emitting carbon dots stimulates collective cell migration and 3D uptake in vivovon Udisha Singh et al. · 14.03.2023We present a new class of nitrogen-doped greenish-yellow fluorescent carbon dots (CDs), synthesized using a one-step hydrothermal method. These bright fluorescent nanoparticles have excitation and emission spectra near the red region of the visible l...
ArtikelDendrite‐free and Stable Zn‐ion Energy Storage Devices Enabled by a Three‐dimensional Sn−Cu Foam Hosted Zn Anodevon Yiqi Liang et al. · 13.03.2023 The development of Zn ion energy storage devices is seriously hindered by the drawbacks of dendrite growth, low coulomb efficiency, and volume expansion in the plating/stripping process of Zn metal electrodes. In this paper, the electrode which opti...
ArtikelA Colorimetric Paper Sensor Based on Self‐assembled Nanocomposite Pd−Pt@hemin‐rGO/CNTs‐COOH for the Detection of H2O2von Yanyu Li et al. · 13.03.2023 A new type of nanocomposite enzymes has been developed, composed of Pd−Pt nanoparticles, hemin-rGO and CNTs-COOH. The nanocomposites show a high peroxidase-like activity and a linear response toward H2O2 in the range of 0.05–500 μM with a determinat...
ArtikelCellulose‐based Conductive Gels and Their Applicationsvon Han Jia et al. · 10.03.2023 Herein, we review the recent progress of cellulose-based conductive gels and their applications to flexible sensors, energy storage devices, triboelectric nanogenerators, and actuators. Abstract Cellulose-based conductive gels are representative n...
ArtikelMeso‐substituted Metalloporphyrin‐based Composites for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reactionsvon Rui Yuan et al. · 09.03.2023 Meso -substituted metalloporphyrin-based composites for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reactions (ORRs) were reviewed from effects of molecular structure and types of carbon support to provide insights into the structure-performance relation...
ArtikelRecent Progress in Co3O4‐Based Nanomaterials for Supercapacitorsvon Congcong Lu et al. · 03.03.2023 The research progress and challenges of Co3O4-based materials in supercapacitor electrodes are reviewed. In addition, the reasonable design of Co3O4-based composites has an important impact on the improvement of the electrochemical performance of su...
ArtikelControlling Thickness of ZnSe Intermediate Shell Narrows FWHM of Green‐Emitting Spectra of InP/ZnSe/ZnS Multi‐Shell Quantum Dotsvon Akihito Okamoto et al. · 03.03.2023 The ZnSe thickness of green-emitting InP/ZnSe/ZnS QDs effects on the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of the emission spectrum. The ZnSe intermediate shell plays a crucial role in removing lattice mismatch...
ArtikelChallenges and Progress in Contact Development for PbTe‐based Thermoelectricsvon Philipp Sauerschnig et al. · 01.03.2023 In recent years, the thermoelectric figure of merit zT of PbTe has been dramatically improved through new strategies such as nanostructuring and band engineering. Therefore, the fabrication of modules is garnering increasing interest. Contact layer ...
ArtikelPolyaniline/Carbon Nanotube‐Modified Carbon Felt for Accelerating Underwater Microbial Gas Production to Enhance Power Generationvon Xuanzhe Du et al. · 23.02.2023 Carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes and polyaniline were supported on carbon felt by the dip-coating method and in-situ chemical oxidative polymerization. The modified carbon felt can effectively accelerate the electron transfer between bacte...
ArtikelHierarchically Structured NH2‐MIL‐125/TiO2/Cellulose Composite Membranes With Enhanced Photocatalytic Performancevon Zhan Yang et al. · 13.02.2023 Hierarchical nanofibrous MOF/TiO2/cellulose composite membranes were fabricated, showing enhanced photocatalytic performances towards the photodegradation of RhB under UV light. Abstract A cellulose-based photocatalytic membrane was fabricated by ...
ArtikelAdenine‐Functionalized Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica as Bifunctional Catalyst for CO2 Fixation into Cyclic Carbonatevon Nikita Guha et al. · 10.02.2023 A new adenine-functionalized dendritic fibrous nanosilica shows good selective adsorption ability and an excellent heterocatalytic platform for cycloaddition of CO2 and various epoxides into cyclic carbonates under mild and solvent-free conditions. ...
ArtikelMOF‐Heterostructure‐Mediated pH‐Responsive Adsorptive Removal of Ciprofloxacin: A Step towards Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatmentvon Puja Bhattacharyya et al. · 06.02.2023 The current study focuses on the ciprofloxacin pH-dependent adsorption behaviour of CNS@ZIF67 heterostructure-derived adsorbent. A thorough examination of the kinetics shows that chemisorption is dominating, and FTIR analysis confirms the same. The ...
ArtikelTi3C2Tx/g‐C3N4/CNTs Ternary Hybrid Film for All‐solid Flexible Supercapacitors and Superb Bandwidth Electromagnetic Wave Absorbervon Shuai Zhang et al. · 01.02.2023 The intercalation of g-C3N4 and CNTs to MXene successfully avoids restacking, increases layer spacing, improves interlayer charge density, builds interlayer conductive networks and boosts charge transfer efficiency. MXCN/CNTs hybrid film shows good...
ArtikelNIR‐triggered Synergetic Photothermal and Chemotherapy Cancer Treatment Based on SiO2@Au@SiO2@QDs‐DOX Composite Structural Particlesvon Xinbing Jiang et al. · 28.01.2023 SiO2@Au@SiO2@QDs nanocomposite with dual-functionality of simultaneous heating and temperature sensing were prepared. The heating is activated by a NIR laser through SPR effect while thermal sensing is accomplished by QDs PL thermometry. These nanoc...
ArtikelMultilayer Graphene Oxide‐Silver Nanoparticles for Stable, Highly Sensitive, and Reusable SERS Platformsvon Nguyen Thuy et al. · 27.01.2023 Structure diagram of rGO/Ag NPs for detecting methylene blue based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Abstract Integrating noble metal nanoparticles and graphene materials to enhance the Raman signal is of great significance in surface-enhanc...
ArtikelGeneral Doping Chemistry of Carbon Materialsvon Mohammad Boshir et al. · 29.11.2022 This manuscript mainly discusses the fundamental doping or filler chemistries of different carbon-based materials in terms of general principles to structure-activity relatinships when foreign atom or atoms are incorporated into carbon materials. La...
