{"title":"Design and Preparation of Activated Carbon with High Specific Surface Area and Porosity Through an Organic Activator Coupled with CO2 Activation","authors":"Yizhong Li, Xiaoqing Yan, Zhi Cui, Jingkang Yuan, Baorong Xu, Guidong Yang","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The advancement of effective techniques for the production of activated carbon has been a prominent focus of research. Herein, this work designs and successfully prepares a nontoxic, environmentally friendly organic activator on the surface of carbon materials through in situ organic fermentation treatment method. The production of activated carbon via this novel organic activator is at a temperature of 850 °C under CO<sub>2</sub> atmosphere for an activation time of 90 min, showing a specific surface area (<i>S</i><sub>BET</sub>) of 1354 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>, an adsorption capacity of iodine (<i>Q</i><sub>I</sub>) of 1195 mg g<sup>−1</sup><sub>,</sub> and a total pore volume (<i>V</i><sub>tot</sub>) of 0.855 cm<sup>3</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>. Compared to the activated carbon prepared at high temperature under pure CO<sub>2</sub>, these results represent increases of 69.67%, 53.01%, and 93.44% in <i>S</i><sub>BET</sub>, <i>Q</i><sub>I</sub>, and <i>V</i><sub>tot</sub> values, respectively. By means of thermogravimetric (TG) analysis and simultaneous thermal analysis-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry a suggested activation process and mechanism of the novel organic activators is proposed. This organic activator is not only used for semi-coke (SC) based activated carbon preparation and saturated activated carbon (SAC) regeneration, but also attracts other industrial activated carbon production.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400450","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce
{"title":"FACS-Sortable Triple Emulsion Picoreactors for Screening Reactions in Biphasic Environments","authors":"Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biphasic environments can enable successful chemical reactions where any single solvent results in poor substrate solubility or poor catalyst reactivity. For screening biphasic reactions at high throughput, a platform based on microfluidic double emulsions can use widely available FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting) machines to screen millions of picoliter reactors in a few hours. However, encapsulating biphasic reactions within double emulsions to form FACS-sortable droplet picoreactors requires optimized solvent phases and surfactants to produce triple emulsion droplets that are stable over multi-hour assays and compatible with desired reaction conditions. This work demonstrates such FACS-sortable triple emulsion picoreactors with a fluorocarbon shell and biphasic octanol-in-water core. First, surfactants are screened to stabilize octanol-in-water emulsions for the picoreactor core. With these optimized conditions, stable triple emulsion picoreactors (>70% of droplets survived to 24 hr), produced protein in the biphasic core via cell-free protein synthesis are generated, and sorted these triple emulsions based on fluorescence using a commercial FACS sorter at >100 Hz with 75–80% of droplets recovered. Finally, an in-droplet lipase assay with a fluorogenic resorufin substrate that partitions into octanol is demonstrated. These triple emulsion picoreactors have the potential for future screening bead-encoded catalyst libraries, including enzymes such as lipases for biofuel production.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana-Marija Milisav, Lamborghini Sotelo, Cristina Cantallops-Vilà, Tommaso Fontanot, Ina Erceg, Krunoslav Bojanić, Tomislav Vuletić, Željka Fiket, Maja Ivanić, Silke Christiansen, Edwige Meurice, Maja Dutour Sikirić
{"title":"Poly(Amino Acid) LbL Multilayers With Embedded Silver and Copper Oxide Nanoparticles as Biocompatible Antibacterial Coatings","authors":"Ana-Marija Milisav, Lamborghini Sotelo, Cristina Cantallops-Vilà, Tommaso Fontanot, Ina Erceg, Krunoslav Bojanić, Tomislav Vuletić, Željka Fiket, Maja Ivanić, Silke Christiansen, Edwige Meurice, Maja Dutour Sikirić","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400631","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing concern over implant-associated infections motivates the development of novel antibacterial coatings for medical devices as an effective strategy in reducing the occurrence of IAI. Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) incorporating metal/metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) as antimicrobial components receive special attention for their ability to coat diverse surface types and low potential to induce antimicrobial resistance. This study investigates the potential of poly(amino acid) multilayers consisting of poly-L-lysine and poly-L-glutamic acid with embedded silver (PEMAg) or copper oxide (PEMCuO) deposited on titanium surfaces for the coating of medical surfaces. The results of the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, scanning electron microscopy, and electron dispersive spectroscopy show that both types of NPs are successfully incorporated in the PEM and deposited over the entire coated surface. The incorporation of NPs in PEM prevents the burst release. The viability of MG-63 cells is higher than 70% on all investigated PEMs, confirming their biocompatibility. PEMCuO shows better biofilm prevention compared to PEMAg, entirely preventing <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> biofilm and allowing the formation of only weak <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> biofilm. The results obtained confirm the high potential of poly(amino acids) multilayers with embedded metal/metal oxide NPs as biocompatible antimicrobial coatings for medical devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400631","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143497084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Photoswitchable Wetting Properties of Hydrophobic Porous Spiropyran Copolymer Surfaces Through Surface Roughness Engineering (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)","authors":"Niloofar Nekoonam, Franziska Dreher, Fadoua Mayoussi, Pang Zhu, Ralf Thomann, Ramin Montazeri, Sagar Bhagwat, Leonhard Hambitzer, Dorothea Helmer","doi":"10.1002/admi.202470084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202470084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Photoswitchable Wettability</b></p><p>The spiropyran-containing porous surfaces with a certain roughness range demonstrate a photoswitchable wetting properties upon UV exposure due to the ring-opening reaction of spiropyran resulting in a higher dipole moment. Condensate droplets on UV-switched regions coalesce faster, lower number of droplets as well as larger merged droplets form on the surface as the surface is less hydrophobic. More details can be found in article 2400396 by Dorothea Helmer and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"11 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202470084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanan Li, Nian Li, Constantin Harder, Shanshan Yin, Yusuf Bulut, Apostolos Vagias, Peter M. Schneider, Wei Chen, Stephan V. Roth, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Peter Müller-Buschbaum
{"title":"Factors Shaping the Morphology in Sol-Gel Derived Mesoporous Zinc Titanate Films: Unveiling the Role of Precursor Competition and Concentration (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)","authors":"Yanan Li, Nian Li, Constantin Harder, Shanshan Yin, Yusuf Bulut, Apostolos Vagias, Peter M. Schneider, Wei Chen, Stephan V. Roth, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Peter Müller-Buschbaum","doi":"10.1002/admi.202470082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202470082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films</b></p><p>In article 2400215, Peter Möller-Buschbaum and co-workers show the systematical development of mesoporous metal oxide films with tailored structures, offering strong potential for high-performance industrial applications such as photovoltaics and photocatalysis. Key factors such as material mass, acid concentration, precursor ratio, and calcination are highlighted to emphasize their impact on film morphology.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"11 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202470082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Franck, Jarek Dabrowski, Markus Andreas Schubert, Dominique Vignaud, Mohamed Achehboune, Jean-François Colomer, Luc Henrard, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius
{"title":"Investigating Impacts of Local Pressure and Temperature on CVD Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Ge(001)/Si","authors":"Max Franck, Jarek Dabrowski, Markus Andreas Schubert, Dominique Vignaud, Mohamed Achehboune, Jean-François Colomer, Luc Henrard, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400467","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on Ge substrates is a promising pathway to high-quality hBN thin films without metal contaminations for microelectronic applications, but the effect of CVD process parameters on the hBN properties is not well understood yet. The influence of local changes in pressure and temperature due to different reactor configurations on the structure and quality of hBN films grown on Ge(001)/Si is studied. Injection of the borazine precursor close to the sample surface results in an inhomogeneous film thickness, attributed to an inhomogeneous pressure distribution at the surface, as shown by computational fluid dynamics simulations. The additional formation of nanocrystalline islands is attributed to unfavorable gas phase reactions due to the radiative heating of the injector. Both issues are mitigated by increasing the injector-sample distance, leading to an 86% reduction in pressure variability on the sample surface and a 200 °C reduction in precursor temperature. The resulting hBN films exhibit no nanocrystalline islands, improved thickness homogeneity, and high crystalline quality (Raman FWHM = 23 cm<sup>−1</sup>). This is competitive with hBN films grown on other non-metal substrates but achieved at lower temperature and with a low thickness of only a few nanometers.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ondrej Dyck, Aisha Okmi, Kai Xiao, Sidong Lei, Andrew R. Lupini, Stephen Jesse
{"title":"Your Clean Graphene is Still Not Clean","authors":"Ondrej Dyck, Aisha Okmi, Kai Xiao, Sidong Lei, Andrew R. Lupini, Stephen Jesse","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers working with thin samples, such as monolayer graphene, are consistently struggling against contamination. Indeed, the problem of hydrocarbon contamination is known from the earliest days of electron microscopy and efforts to reduce this problem are ubiquitous to almost all high-vacuum experiments. Accurate knowledge of the behavior of such contamination is essential for electron beam (e-beam) based atomic fabrication, where it is aspired to select and control matter on an atom-by-atom basis. Here, the vexing question of hydrocarbon contamination on graphene is taken up. Image intensity is used to directly reveal the presence of diffusing hydrocarbons on ostensibly clean graphene. These diffusing hydrocarbons are previously inferred but not directly observed. Surprising dynamic variations of the concentration of these hydrocarbons impels questions about their origin. Here, some possible explanations are presented and some tentative conclusions are drawn. This work updates the conceptual model of “clean graphene” and offers refinements to the description of e-beam induced hydrocarbon deposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu-Han Huang, Zhi-Wei Chen, Chao-Hsin Wu, Po-Tsung Lee, Shih-Yen Lin
{"title":"Layer Number Controllable Molybdenum Disulfide Film Growth and Its Applications in Vertical and Planar Photodetectors","authors":"Yu-Han Huang, Zhi-Wei Chen, Chao-Hsin Wu, Po-Tsung Lee, Shih-Yen Lin","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400641","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wafer-scale and layered MoS<sub>2</sub> films are grown by sulfurizing amorphous MoS<sub>2</sub> films deposited on sapphire substrates by using a radio-frequency sputtering system. To verify the layer numbers of the multi-layer MoS<sub>2</sub> films, atomic layer etchings are adopted. Wafer-scale MoS<sub>2</sub> film growth with good layer number uniformity up to 30 is observed. A vertical device with 20-layer MoS<sub>2</sub> embedded in between Al (bottom) and Au (top) electrodes is fabricated. With different work functions of the metal electrodes, photo-excited electrons and holes in the MoS<sub>2</sub> layer can be separated and form photovoltaic responses. With the insertion of 5 nm MoO<sub>3</sub> carrier transport layer between the MoS<sub>2</sub> layer and the top Au electrode, enhanced photovoltaic responses are observed for the device. By using graphene as the carrier transport layer and MoS<sub>2</sub> as the light absorption layer, avalanche photocurrents are observed for planar MoS<sub>2</sub>/graphene photoconductive devices. With the assist of the higher electron density in multi-layer MoS<sub>2</sub>, an easier compensation in the loss of photo-excited electrons and therefore, charge neutrality in the MoS<sub>2</sub> layer can be maintained. Significant reduction in the rise/fall times from >100 ms. to <10 ms. is also observed for the planar photodetector with 10-layer MoS<sub>2</sub> absorption layer.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400641","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143497411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nickel Age of High-Temperature Superconductivity","authors":"S. Lin Er Chow, A. Ariando","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400717","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unconventional high-temperature superconductivity has long been a captivating puzzle in condensed matter physics. The 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics celebrated the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxide ceramics. Nearly four decades later, a broad class of high-temperature superconducting oxides has yet to be demonstrated, and the fundamental understanding of the pairing mechanism remains inconclusive. Recently, nickel oxides have emerged as a new class of high-temperature superconductors, beyond copper, where correlated phases can be controlled by doping, pressure, strain, and dimensionality. In this article, we provide our perspective on the recent developments and prospects of the nickel age of high-temperature superconductivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400717","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}