Bowen Li, Ting Wang, Ming Xu, Yuqi Wang, Zhaoxing Li, Mei Liu, Wenjing Zhang, Ming Feng
{"title":"Structuring MoO3-polyoxometalate hybrid superstructures to boost electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction","authors":"Bowen Li, Ting Wang, Ming Xu, Yuqi Wang, Zhaoxing Li, Mei Liu, Wenjing Zhang, Ming Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110467","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110467","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improving the surface atoms utilization efficiency of catalysts is extremely important for large-scale H<sub>2</sub> production by electrochemical water splitting, but it remains a great challenge. Herein, we reported two kinds of MoO<sub>3</sub>-polyoxometalate hybrid nanobelt superstructures (MoO<sub>3</sub>-POM HNSs, POM = PW<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub> and SiW<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub>) using a simple hydrothermal method. Such superstructure with highly uniform nanoparticles as building blocks can expose more surface atoms and emanate increased specific surface area. The incorporated POMs generated abundant oxygen vacancies, improved the electronic mobility, and modulated the surface electronic structure of MoO<sub>3</sub>, allowing to optimize the H* adsorption/desorption and dehydrogenation kinetics of catalyst. Notably, the as-prepared MoO<sub>3</sub>-PW<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub> HNSs electrodes not only displayed the low overpotentials of 108 mV at 10 mA/cm<sup>2</sup> current density in 0.5 mol/L H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> electrolyte but also displayed excellent long-term stability. The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance of MoO<sub>3</sub>-POM superstructures is significantly better than that of corresponding bulk materials MoO<sub>3</sub>@PW<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub> and MoO<sub>3</sub>@SiW<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub>, and the overpotentials are about 8.3 and 4.9 times lower than that of single MoO<sub>3</sub>. This work opens an avenue for designing highly surface-exposed catalysts for electrocatalytic H<sub>2</sub> production and other electrochemical applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 2","pages":"Article 110467"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDA-complexes-enabled photochemical synthesis of α-amino acids with imines and tetrabutylammonium oxalate","authors":"Min-Hang Zhou, Jun Jiang, Wei-Min He","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110446","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 1","pages":"Article 110446"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Lv , Zhi Li , Peng Yin , Ping Wan , Mingshan Zhu
{"title":"Recent progress on non-metallic carbon nitride for the photosynthesis of H2O2: Mechanism, modification and in-situ applications","authors":"Hao Lv , Zhi Li , Peng Yin , Ping Wan , Mingshan Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) production has been considered as a promising strategy for H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> synthesis due to its environmentally friendly. Among various photocatalysts, carbon nitride-based materials are excellent candidates for H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> production because of their excellent visible-light response, low cost and high stability. In this review, we summarize in detail the research progress on the photocatalytic production of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> by carbon nitride. First, we summarize the basic principles of photocatalysis and photocatalytic H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> production. Second, the classification and modification methods of carbon-nitride-based materials are discussed, including morphology modulation, noble metal loading, defect control, heterojunction regulation, molecular structure engineering and elemental doping. Finally, the different <em>in-situ</em> applications of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> <em>via</em> photosynthesis were discussed, including disinfection and antibiotic resistant genes degradation, organic pollutants degradation, medical applications and fine chemical synthesis. This review brings great promise for <em>in-situ</em> H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> photosynthesis, which is expected to serve as a key component in future applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 1","pages":"Article 110457"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142592841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modular miniaturized synthesis and in situ biological evaluation facilitate rapid discovery of potent MraY inhibitors as antibacterial agents","authors":"Mianling Yang , Meehyein Kim , Peng Zhan","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 2","pages":"Article 110455"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A composite hydrogel with porous and homogeneous structure for efficient osmotic energy conversion","authors":"Guilong Li, Wenbo Ma, Jialing Zhou, Caiqin Wu, Chenling Yao, Huan Zeng, Jian Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the impact of energy crisis and environmental problems, it is urgent to develop green sustainable energy. Osmotic energy stored in the salinity difference between seawater and river water is one of the sustainable, abundant, and renewable energy. However, the membranes used to capture osmotic energy by reverse electrodialysis (RED) always suffer from low ion selectivity, low stability and low power. Hydrogels with three-dimensional (3D) networks have shown great potential for ion transportation and energy conversion. In this work, based on the homogeneity and porosity characteristics of acrylamide (AM) hydrogel, as well as the remarkable stability and abundant negative charge of 3-sulfopropyl acrylate potassium salt (SPAK), a high-performance AM/SPAK cation-selective hydrogel membrane was successfully developed for harvesting osmotic energy. Compared to AM hydrogels, utilizing AM/SPAK as a monomer mixture greatly facilitated the preparation of homogeneous polymers, exhibiting a porous structure, exceptional ion selectivity, and remarkable stability. A maximum output power density of 13.73 W/m<sup>2</sup> was achieved at a 50-fold NaCl concentration gradient, exceeding the commercial requirement of 5 W/m<sup>2</sup>. This work broadens the idea for the construction and application of composite hydrogel in high efficiency osmotic energy conversion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 2","pages":"Article 110449"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaojiao Liang , Youming Peng , Zhichao Xu , Yufei Wang , Menglong Liu , Xin Liu , Di Huang , Yuehua Wei , Zengxi Wei
{"title":"Boron/phosphorus co-doped nitrogen-rich carbon nanofiber with flexible anode for robust sodium-ion battery","authors":"Jiaojiao Liang , Youming Peng , Zhichao Xu , Yufei Wang , Menglong Liu , Xin Liu , Di Huang , Yuehua Wei , Zengxi Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flexible energy storage devices have been paid much attention and adapts to apply in various fields. Benefiting from the active sites of boron (B) and phosphorus (P) doping materials, co-doped carbon materials are widely used in energy storage devices for the enhanced electrochemical performance. Herein, B and P co-doped flexible carbon nanofibers with nitrogen-rich (B-P/NC) are investigated with electrospinning for sodium-ion battery. The flexible of binderless B-P/NC with annealing of 600 °C (B-P/NC-600) exhibits the remarkable performance for the robust capacity of 200 mAh/g at 0.1 A/g after 500 cycles and a durable reversible capacity of 160 mAh/g even at 1 A/g after 12,000 cycles, exhibiting the equally commendable stability of flexible B-P/NC-600. In addition, B-P/NC-600 delivers the reversible capacity of 265 mAh/g with the test temperature of 60 °C. More importantly, the flexible B-P/NC-600 is fabricated as anode for the whole battery, delivering the capacity of 90 mAh/g at 1 A/g after 200 cycles. Meanwhile, theoretical calculation further verified that boron and phosphorus co-doping can improve the adsorption capacity of nitrogen carbon materials. The favorable performance of flexible B-P/NC-600 can be ascribed to the nitrogen-rich carbon nanofibers with three-dimensional network matrix for the more active site of boron and phosphorus co-doping. Our work paves the way for the improvement of flexible anodes and wide-operating temperature of sodium-ion batteries by doping approach of much heteroatom.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 1","pages":"Article 110452"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haiming Wu , Gaya N. Andrew , Rajini Anumula , Zhixun Luo
{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘How ligand coordination and superatomic-states accommodate the structure and property of a metal cluster: Cu4 (dppy)4 Cl2 vs. Cu21 (dppy)10 with altered photoluminescence’ Chin. Chem. Lett. 2024, 35, 108340","authors":"Haiming Wu , Gaya N. Andrew , Rajini Anumula , Zhixun Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"35 12","pages":"Article 109912"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1001841724004315/pdfft?md5=ddf8d2e38282e482f6f6d14749a4ac75&pid=1-s2.0-S1001841724004315-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual atom-bridge effect promoting interfacial charge transfer in 2D/2D Cs3Bi2Br9/BiOBr epitaxial heterojunction for efficient photocatalysis","authors":"Yuan Teng , Zichun Zhou , Jinghua Chen , Siying Huang , Hongyan Chen , Daibin Kuang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optimizing the interfacial quality of halide perovskites heterojunction to promote the photogenerated charge separation is of great significance in photocatalytic reactions. However, the delicately regulation of interfacial structure and properties of halide perovskites hybrid is still a big challenge owing to the growth uncontrollability and incompatibility between different constituents. Here we use BiOBr nanosheets as the start-template to <em>in situ</em> epitaxially grow Cs<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>9</sub> nanosheets by “cosharing” Bi and Br atoms strategy for designing a 2D/2D Cs<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>9</sub>/BiOBr heterojunction. Systematic studies show that the epitaxial heterojunction can optimize the synergistic effect of BiOBr and Cs<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>9</sub> <em>via</em> the formation of tight-contact interfaces, strong interfacial electronic coupling and charge redistribution, which can not only drive the Z-scheme charge transfer mechanism to greatly promote the spatial separation of electron-hole pairs, but also modulate the interfacial electronic structure to facilitate the adsorption and activation of toluene molecules. The heterojunction exhibited 62.3 and 2.4-fold photoactivity improvement for toluene oxidation to benzaldehyde than parental BiOBr and Cs<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>9</sub>, respectively. This study not only proposed a novel dual atom-bridge protocol to engineer high-quality perovskite heterojunctions, but also uncovered the potential of heterojunction in promoting electron-hole separation as well as the application in photocatalytic organic synthesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 2","pages":"Article 110430"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tianyi Yang , Fangxi Su , Dehuan Shi , Shenghong Zhong , Yalin Guo , Zhaohui Liu , Jianfeng Huang
{"title":"Efficient propane dehydrogenation catalyzed by Ru nanoparticles anchored on a porous nitrogen-doped carbon matrix","authors":"Tianyi Yang , Fangxi Su , Dehuan Shi , Shenghong Zhong , Yalin Guo , Zhaohui Liu , Jianfeng Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Propane dehydrogenation (PDH) is a vital industrial process for producing propene, utilizing primarily Cr-based or Pt-based catalysts. These catalysts often suffer from challenges such as the toxicity of Cr, the high costs of noble metals like Pt, and deactivation issues due to sintering or coke formation at elevated temperatures. We introduce an exceptional Ru-based catalyst, Ru nanoparticles anchored on a nitrogen-doped carbon matrix (Ru@NC), which achieves a propane conversion rate of 32.2 % and a propene selectivity of 93.1 % at 550 °C, with minimal coke deposition and a low deactivation rate of 0.0065 h<sup>−1</sup>. Characterizations using techniques like TEM and XPS, along with carefully-designed controlled experiments, reveal that the notable performance of Ru@NC stems from the modified electronic state of Ru by nitrogen dopant and the microporous nature of the matrix, positioning it as a top contender among state-of-the-art PDH catalysts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"36 2","pages":"Article 110444"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xi Tang , Chunlei Zhu , Yulu Yang , Shihan Qi , Mengqiu Cai , Abdullah N. Alodhayb , Jianmin Ma
{"title":"Additive regulating Li+ solvation structure to construct dual LiF−rich electrode electrolyte interphases for sustaining 4.6 V Li||LiCoO2 batteries","authors":"Xi Tang , Chunlei Zhu , Yulu Yang , Shihan Qi , Mengqiu Cai , Abdullah N. Alodhayb , Jianmin Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The battery energy density can be improved by raising the operating voltage, however, which may lead to rapid capacity decay due to the continuous electrolyte decomposition and the thickening of electrode electrolyte interphases. To address these challenges, we proposed tripropyl phosphate (TPP) as an additive−regulating Li<sup>+</sup> solvation structure to construct a stable LiF–rich electrode carbonate−based electrolyte interphases for sustaining 4.6 V Li||LiCoO<sub>2</sub> batteries. This optimized interphases could help reduce the resistance and achieve better rate performance and cycling stability. As expected, the Li||LiCoO<sub>2</sub> battery retained 79.4 % capacity after 100 cycles at 0.5 C, while the Li||Li symmetric cell also kept a stable plating/stripping process over 450 h at the current density of 1.0 mA/cm<sup>2</sup> with a deposited amount of 0.5 mAh/cm<sup>2</sup>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10088,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Chemical Letters","volume":"35 12","pages":"Article 110014"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}