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Wan C, Li R, Wang J, Cheng DG, Chen F, Xu L, Gao M, Kang Y, Eguchi M, Yamauchi Y. Silica Confinement for Stable and Magnetic Co-Cu Alloy Nanoparticles in Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024:e202404505. [PMID: 38598471 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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Ammonia borane (AB) with 19.6 wt.% H2 content is widely considered a safe and efficient medium for H2 storage and release. Co-based nanocatalysts present strong contenders for replacing precious metal-based catalysts in AB hydrolysis due to their high activity and cost-effectiveness. However, precisely adjusting the active centers and surface properties of Co-based nanomaterials to enhance their activity, as well as suppressing the migration and loss of metal atoms to improve their stability, presents many challenges. In this study, mesoporous-silica-confined bimetallic Co-Cu nanoparticles embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon (CoxCu1-x@NC@mSiO2) were synthesized using a facile mSiO2-confined thermal pyrolysis strategy. The obtained product, an optimized Co0.8Cu0.2@NC@mSiO2 catalyst, exhibits enhanced performance with a turnover frequency of 240.9 molH2∙molmetal∙min-1 for AB hydrolysis at 298 K, surpassing most noble-metal-free catalysts. Moreover, Co0.8Cu0.2@NC@mSiO2 demonstrated magnetic recyclability and extraordinary stability, with a negligible decline of only 0.8% over 30 cycles of use. This enhanced performance was attributed to the synergistic effect between Co and Cu, as well as silica confinement. This work proposes a promising method for constructing noble-metal-free catalysts for AB hydrolysis.
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- Chao Wan
- Zhejiang University, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, CHINA
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- Anhui University of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, CHINA
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- Anhui University of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, CHINA
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- Anhui University of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, CHINA
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- National Institute for Materials Science, Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, JAPAN
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- Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, JAPAN
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- The University of Queensland, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), Saint Lucia Campus, 4072, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
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Wan C, Li G, Wang J, Xu L, Cheng DG, Chen F, Asakura Y, Kang Y, Yamauchi Y. Modulating Electronic Metal-Support Interactions to Boost Visible-Light-Driven Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane: Nickel-Platinum Nanoparticles Supported on Phosphorus-Doped Titania. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202305371. [PMID: 37291046 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202305371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ammonia borane (AB) is a promising material for chemical H2 storage owing to its high H2 density (up to 19.6 wt %). However, the development of an efficient catalyst for driving H2 evolution through AB hydrolysis remains challenging. Therefore, a visible-light-driven strategy for generating H2 through AB hydrolysis was implemented in this study using Ni-Pt nanoparticles supported on phosphorus-doped TiO2 (Ni-Pt/P-TiO2 ) as photocatalysts. Through surface engineering, P-TiO2 was prepared by phytic-acid-assisted phosphorization and then employed as an ideal support for immobilizing Ni-Pt nanoparticles via a facile co-reduction strategy. Under visible-light irradiation at 283 K, Ni40 Pt60 /P-TiO2 exhibited improved recyclability and a high turnover frequency of 967.8 molH 2 ${{_{{\rm H}{_{2}}}}}$ molPt -1 min-1 . Characterization experiments and density functional theory calculations indicated that the enhanced performance of Ni40 Pt60 /P-TiO2 originated from a combination of the Ni-Pt alloying effect, the Mott-Schottky junction at the metal-semiconductor interface, and strong metal-support interactions. These findings not only underscore the benefits of utilizing multipronged effects to construct highly active AB-hydrolyzing catalysts, but also pave a path toward designing high-performance catalysts by surface engineering to modulate the electronic metal-support interactions for other visible-light-induced reactions.
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- Chao Wan
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, 310058, Hangzhou, China
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, 305-0044, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, 59 Hudong Road, 243002, Ma'anshan, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, 59 Hudong Road, 243002, Ma'anshan, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, 59 Hudong Road, 243002, Ma'anshan, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, 59 Hudong Road, 243002, Ma'anshan, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Materials Process Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8603, Nagoya, Japan
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- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, 305-0044, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Materials Process Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8603, Nagoya, Japan
- School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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Xu S, Zheng K, Boruntea CR, Cheng DG, Chen F, Ye G, Zhou X, Coppens MO. Surface barriers to mass transfer in nanoporous materials for catalysis and separations. Chem Soc Rev 2023. [PMID: 37278085 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00627h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Surface barriers to mass transfer in various nanoporous materials have been increasingly identified. These past few years especially, a significant impact on catalysis and separations has come to light. Broadly speaking, there are two types of barriers: internal barriers, which affect intraparticle diffusion, and external barriers, which determine the uptake and release rates of molecules into and out of the material. Here, we review the literature on surface barriers to mass transfer in nanoporous materials and describe how the existence and influence of surface barriers has been characterized, aided by molecular simulations and experimental measurements. As this is a complex, evolving research topic, without consensus from the scientific community at the time of writing, we present various current viewpoints, not always in agreement, on the origin, nature, and function of such barriers in catalysis and separation. We also emphasize the need for considering all the elementary steps of the mass transfer process in optimally designing new nanoporous and hierarchically structured adsorbents and catalysts.
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- Shuman Xu
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
- EPSRC ''Frontier Engineering'' Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering & Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.
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- EPSRC ''Frontier Engineering'' Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering & Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Coal to Cleaning Liquid Fuels, National Energy R & D Center for Coal to Liquid Fuels, Synfuels China Co., Ltd, Beijing 101400, China
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- EPSRC ''Frontier Engineering'' Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering & Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
- Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou 324000, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
- Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou 324000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- EPSRC ''Frontier Engineering'' Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering & Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.
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Wang H, Qin M, Wu Q, Cheng DG, Meng X, Wang L, Xiao FS. Zeolite Catalysts for Green Production of Caprolactam. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c01693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hai Wang
- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
- ZJU-Hengyi Global Innovation Research Center, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Key Lab of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310028, China
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- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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Ju ZY, Song LN, Chong MB, Cheng DG, Hou Y, Zhang XM, Zhang QH, Ren LH. Selective Aerobic Oxidation of C sp3-H Bonds Catalyzed by Yeast-Derived Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Oxygen Codoped Carbon Materials. J Org Chem 2022; 87:3978-3988. [PMID: 35254832 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Nitrogen, phosphorus, and oxygen codoped carbon catalysts were successfully synthesized using dried yeast powder as a pyrolysis precursor. The yeast-derived heteroatom-doped carbon (yeast@C) catalysts exhibited outstanding performance in the oxidation of Csp3-H bonds to ketones and esters, giving excellent product yields (of up to 98% yield) without organic solvents at low O2 pressure (0.1 MPa). The catalytic oxidation protocol exhibited a broad range of substrates (38 examples) with good functional group tolerance, excellent regioselectivity, and synthetic utility. The yeast-derived heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts showed good reusability and stability after recycling six times without any significant loss of activity. Experimental results and DFT calculations proved the important role of N-oxide (N+-O-) on the surface of yeast@C and a reasonable carbon radical mechanism.
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- Zhao-Yang Ju
- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.,Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, 78 Jiuhuabei Road, Quzhou 324000, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.,Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, 78 Jiuhuabei Road, Quzhou 324000, P. R. China
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Men YL, You Y, Pan YX, Gao H, Xia Y, Cheng DG, Song J, Cui DX, Wu N, Li Y, Xin S, Goodenough JB. Selective CO Evolution from Photoreduction of CO2 on a Metal-Carbide-Based Composite Catalyst. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:13071-13077. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Yu-Long Men
- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Zou JJ, Liu CJ, Yu KL, Cheng DG, Zhang YP, He F, Du HY, Cui L. Highly efficient Pt/TiO2 photocatalyst prepared by plasma-enhanced impregnation method. Chem Phys Lett 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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