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Eljaddi T, Cabassud C. Wetting-Based Comparison of Ag, Carbon Black, and MoS 2 Composite Membranes for Photothermal Membrane Distillation. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:780. [PMID: 37755202 PMCID: PMC10535641 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13090780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Photothermal membrane distillation is a new-generation desalination process that can take advantage of the ability of specific materials to convert solar energy to heat at the membrane surface and thus to overcome temperature polarization. The development of appropriate photothermal membranes is challenging because many criteria need to be considered, including light to heat conversion, permeability and low wetting, and fouling, as well as cost. Based on our experience with wetting characterization, this study compares photothermal membranes prepared using different well-known or promising materials, i.e., silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs), carbon black, and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), in terms of their structural properties, permeability, wettability, and wetting. Accordingly, membranes with different proportions of photothermal NPs are prepared and fully characterized in this study. Wetting is investigated using the detection of dissolved tracer intrusion (DDTI) method following membrane distillation operations with saline solutions. The advantages of MoS2 and carbon black-based photothermal membranes in comparison with polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes include both a permeability increase and a less severe wetting mechanism, with lower wetting indicators in the short term. These materials are also much cheaper than Ag NPs, having higher permeabilities and presenting less severe wetting mechanisms.
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- Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRAE, INSA, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, CEDEX 04, 31077 Toulouse, France
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Alessandro F, Macedonio F, Drioli E. Plasmonic Phenomena in Membrane Distillation. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:254. [PMID: 36984641 PMCID: PMC10058825 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13030254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Water scarcity raises important concerns with respect to human sustainability and the preservation of important ecosystem functions. To satisfy water requirements, seawater desalination represents one of the most sustainable solutions. In recent decades, membrane distillation has emerged as a promising thermal desalination process that may help to overcome the drawbacks of traditional desalination processes. Nevertheless, in membrane distillation, the temperature at the feed membrane interface is significantly lower than that of the bulk feed water, due to the latent heat flux associated with water evaporation. This phenomenon, known as temperature polarization, in membrane distillation is a crucial issue that could be responsible for a decay of about 50% in the initial transmembrane water flux. The use of plasmonic nanostructures, acting as thermal hotspots in the conventional membranes, may improve the performance of membrane distillation units by reducing or eliminating the temperature polarization problem. Furthermore, an efficient conversion of light into heat offers new opportunities for the use of solar energy in membrane distillation. This work summarizes recent developments in the field of plasmonic-enhanced solar evaporation with a particular focus on solar-driven membrane distillation applications and its potential prospects.
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Elmaghraoui D, Ben Amara I, Jaziri S. Nickel Chalcogenide Nanoparticles-Assisted Photothermal Solar Driven Membrane Distillation (PSDMD). MEMBRANES 2023; 13:195. [PMID: 36837698 PMCID: PMC9961219 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13020195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Revised: 10/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Developing photothermal solar driven membrane distillation (PSDMD) is of great importance in providing fresh water for remote off-grid regions. The production of freshwater through the PSDMD is driven by the temperature difference between feed and distillate sides created via the addition of efficient photothermal nanostructures. Here we proposed nickel sulfides and nickel tellurium nanoparticles (NPs) to be loaded into the polymeric membrane to enhance its performance. Ag and CuSe NPs are also considered for comparison as they are previously used for membrane distillation (MD). Our theoretical approach showed that all of the considered NPs increased the temperature of the PVDF membrane by around a few degrees. NiS and NiTe2 NPs are the most efficient solar light-to-heat converters compared to NiTe and NiS2 NPs due to their efficient absorption over the visible range. PVDF membrane loaded with 25% of NiCs NPs and a porosity of 32% produced a transmembrane vapor flux between 22 and 27 L/m2h under a 10-times-amplified sun intensity. Under the same conditions, the PVDF membrane loaded with CuSe and Ag NPs produced 15 and 18 L/m2h of vapor flux, respectively. The implantation of NPs through the membrane not only increased its surface temperature but also possessed a high porosity which provided a higher distillation and energy efficiency that reached 58% with NiS NPs. Finally, great agreement between our theoretical model and experimental measurement is obtained.
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- Donia Elmaghraoui
- Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiére Condensée, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, El Manar 2092, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiére Condensée, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, El Manar 2092, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiére Condensée, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, El Manar 2092, Tunisia
- Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, Structures et Propriétés, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Jarzouna 7021, Tunisia
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Abramovich S, Dutta D, Rizza C, Santoro S, Aquino M, Cupolillo A, Occhiuzzi J, Russa MFL, Ghosh B, Farias D, Locatelli A, Boukhvalov DW, Agarwal A, Curcio E, Bar Sadan M, Politano A. NiSe and CoSe Topological Nodal-Line Semimetals: A Sustainable Platform for Efficient Thermoplasmonics and Solar-Driven Photothermal Membrane Distillation. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2201473. [PMID: 35808958 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202201473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The control of heat at the nanoscale via the excitation of localized surface plasmons in nanoparticles (NPs) irradiated with light holds great potential in several fields (cancer therapy, catalysis, desalination). To date, most thermoplasmonic applications are based on Ag and Au NPs, whose cost of raw materials inevitably limits the scalability for industrial applications requiring large amounts of photothermal NPs, as in the case of desalination plants. On the other hand, alternative nanomaterials proposed so far exhibit severe restrictions associated with the insufficient photothermal efficacy in the visible, the poor chemical stability, and the challenging scalability. Here, it is demonstrated the outstanding potential of NiSe and CoSe topological nodal-line semimetals for thermoplasmonics. The anisotropic dielectric properties of NiSe and CoSe activate additional plasmonic resonances. Specifically, NiSe and CoSe NPs support multiple localized surface plasmons in the optical range, resulting in a broadband matching with sunlight radiation spectrum. Finally, it is validated the proposed NiSe and CoSe-based thermoplasmonic platform by implementing solar-driven membrane distillation by adopting NiSe and CoSe nanofillers embedded in a polymeric membrane for seawater desalination. Remarkably, replacing Ag with NiSe and CoSe for solar membrane distillation increases the transmembrane flux by 330% and 690%, respectively. Correspondingly, costs of raw materials are also reduced by 24 and 11 times, respectively. The results pave the way for the advent of NiSe and CoSe for efficient and sustainable thermoplasmonics and related applications exploiting sunlight within the paradigm of the circular blue economy.
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- Shir Abramovich
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, 67100, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci CUBO 44A, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci CUBO 44A, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci cubo 31/C, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, 67100, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Ecology, and Earth Sciences, Università della Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 12/B, Arcavacata di, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
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- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, 28049, Spain
- Instituto "Nicolás Cabrera", Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain
- Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone S.C.p.A, S.S. 14-km 163.5 in AREA Science Park, Trieste, 34149, Italy
- College of Science, Institute of Materials Physics and Chemistry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci CUBO 44A, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
- Seligenda Membrane Technologies s.r.l., c/o University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci Cubo 45A, Rende, CS, 87036, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, 67100, Italy
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Santoro S, Avci AH, Politano A, Curcio E. The advent of thermoplasmonic membrane distillation. Chem Soc Rev 2022; 51:6087-6125. [PMID: 35789347 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00097c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination/purification of salty/contaminated water for human uses is particularly relevant. Membrane distillation is an emerging hybrid thermal-membrane technology with the potential to overcome the drawbacks of conventional desalination by a synergic exploitation of the water-energy nexus. Although membrane distillation is considered a green technology, efficient heat management remains a critical concern affecting the cost of the process and hindering its viability at large scale. A multidisciplinary approach that involves materials chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials and polymer science is required to solve this problem. The combination of solar energy with membrane distillation is considered a potentially feasible low-cost approach for providing high-quality freshwater with a low carbon footprint. In particular, recent discoveries about efficient light-to-heat conversion in nanomaterials have opened unprecedented perspectives for the implementation of sunlight-based renewable energy in membrane distillation. The integration of nanofillers enabling photothermal effects into membranes has been demonstrated to be able to significantly enhance the energy efficiency without impacting on economic costs. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview on the state of the art, the opportunities, open challenges and pitfalls of the emerging field of solar-driven membrane distillation. We also assess the peculiar physicochemical properties and synthesis scalability of photothermal materials, as well as the strategies for their integration into polymeric nanocomposite membranes enabling efficient light-to-heat conversion and freshwater.
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- Sergio Santoro
- University of Calabria - Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Cubo 44 A, Via Pietro Bucci, 87036 Rende CS, Italy.
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- University of Calabria - Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Cubo 44 A, Via Pietro Bucci, 87036 Rende CS, Italy.
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, via Vetoio, 67100 L'Aquila (AQ), Italy.
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- University of Calabria - Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Cubo 44 A, Via Pietro Bucci, 87036 Rende CS, Italy.
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Akouibaa A, Masrour R, Jabar A, Benhamou M, Ouarch M, Derouiche A. Study of the Optical and Thermoplasmonics Properties of Gold Nanoparticle Embedded in Al 2O 3 Matrix. PLASMONICS (NORWELL, MASS.) 2022; 17:1157-1169. [PMID: 35228839 PMCID: PMC8865734 DOI: 10.1007/s11468-022-01607-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this paper, the optical and thermoplasmonics properties of nanocomposites consisting of spherical gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) integrated in Al 2 O 3 matrix are determined using the Finite Element Method (FEM). Firstly, the refractive index ( n ) , extinction coefficient ( κ ) , absorption coefficient ( μ a ) , and optical conductivity ( σ ) are calculated from the effective complex permittivity obtained by solving the Laplace's equation for different size and concentration of nanoparticles. The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) properties of AuNPs are optimized from the peak presented in the absorption coefficient spectrum. The results show that the optical parameters n , κ , μ a , and σ undergo a strong variation around the wavelength λ max corresponding to the SPR phenomenon. The value of λ max increases from 560 to 600 n m when the radius of the particles varies between r = 5 and r = 30 n m . The effect of the AuNP concentration on the band gap energy E g ( e V ) of Au- Al 2 O 3 nanocomposites is also studied, a shift from E g = 5.34 to E g = 5.49 e V is observed when the concentration of the AuNPs increases from 0 to 0.82 % . The electric field enhancement induced by the AuNPs at plasmonic resonance is also determined depending to the particle size; the results show that the enhancement factor increases from g = 4.71 to g = 6.95 when the radius of the AuNPs increases from r = 5 to 30 n m . The thermal dissipation of the plasmonic energy of spherical of our system dispersed in the Al 2 O 3 matrix is determined considering the Joule effect which occurs by the oscillation of the charges at the plasmonic resonance. The generated thermal power by particles is calculated for different sizes, which allows to calculate the thermal power per gram of particles depending on the intensity of the incident electric field. The results show that the plasmonic thermal power is almost identical for small particles when the radius is less than r = 15 n m and increases considerably when the size increases from r = 15 to 30 n m . For a fixed size and incident field amplitude, we calculated the temperature change in the nanocomposites Au- Al 2 O 3 depending of time for different particle concentrations; the temperature variation curves obtained are linear as a function of time.
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- Abdelilah Akouibaa
- LPPPC, Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik, Casablanca, Hassan II University Casablanca, P.O. Box 7955, Casablanca, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Solid Physics, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Solid Physics, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, EDSC, Moulay Ismail University, P.O. Box 11201, Meknes, Morocco
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- CRMEF, Casablanca-Settat (Annex El-Jadida), Casablanca, Morocco
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- LPPPC, Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik, Casablanca, Hassan II University Casablanca, P.O. Box 7955, Casablanca, Morocco
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Su J, Cai P, Yan T, Yang ZM, Yuan S, Zuo JL, Zhou HC. Enhancing the photothermal conversion of tetrathiafulvalene-based MOFs by redox doping and plasmon resonance. Chem Sci 2022; 13:1657-1664. [PMID: 35282630 PMCID: PMC8826858 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc07001k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Near-infrared (NIR) photothermal materials hold great promise for use in several applications, particularly in photothermal therapy, diagnosis, and imaging. However, current NIR responsive materials often show narrow absorption bands and low absorption efficiency, and have long response times. Herein, we demonstrate that the NIR absorption of tetrathiafulvalene-based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can be tuned by redox doping and using plasmonic nanoparticles. In this work, a MOF containing redox-active tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) units and Dy-carboxylate chains was constructed, Dy-m-TTFTB. The NIR absorption of the as-synthesized Dy-m-TTFTB was further enhanced by Ag+ or I2 oxidation, transforming the neutral TTF into a TTF˙+ radical state. Interestingly, treatment with Ag+ not only generated TTF˙+ radicals, but it also formed Ag nanoparticles (NPs) in situ within the MOF pores. With both TTF˙+ radicals and Ag NPs, Ag NPs@Dy-m-TTFTB was shown to exhibit a wide range of absorption wavelengths (200–1000 nm) and also a high NIR photothermal conversion. When the system was irradiated with an 808 nm laser (energy power of 0.7 W cm−2), Ag NPs@Dy-m-TTFTB showed a sharp temperature increase of 239.8 °C. This increase was higher than that of pristine Dy-m-TTFTB (90.1 °C) or I2 treated I3−@Dy-m-TTFTB (213.0 °C). The photo-response of the redox-active metal–organic framework has been systematically tuned by incorporating plasmonic Ag nanoparticles and tetrathiafulvalene radicals, resulting in efficient near-infrared photothermal conversion materials.![]()
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- Jian Su
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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