The global nitrogen cycle holds immense importance due to its crucial role in supporting life, supplying vital nutrients for plant growth, preserving environmental balance, and enabling the proper functioning of ecosy...
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The global nitrogen cycle holds immense importance due to its crucial role in supporting life, supplying vital nutrients for plant growth, preserving environmental balance, and enabling the proper functioning of ecosystems. However, human activities frequently disrupt this cycle, leading to the accumulation of nitrates and nitrites in water bodies. This accumulation causes environmental pollution and health risks. Traditional methods for treating nitrogen pollution, including biological, physical, and chemical approaches, have inherent limitations. In recent years, electrocatalysis has emerged as a promising and sustainable approach for nitrogen management. This technology offers superior efficiency, high selectivity, and environmental *** not only enables accurate detection of nitrogen pollutants in the environment but also facilitates their conversion into harmless nitrogen gas. Moreover, recent advancements have focused on the upcycling of nitrogen pollutants into valuable compounds,such as ammonia and urea. In this comprehensive review, we showcase the applications of electrocatalysis in sustainable nitrogen management. Specifically, we highlight its use in the sensing, removal, and upcycling of major nitrogen pollutants,including nitrate（NO3-）, nitrite（NO2-）, and nitric oxide（NO）. We discuss the use of catalysts, such as Pd alloys, Cu-based, and Fe-based materials, in electrochemical sensing and catalysis. Additionally, we explore recent advancements in the conversion of nitrogen pollutants into valuable compounds like ammonia and urea. The review also addresses current challenges and future opportunities in the field, including innovations in sensor and catalyst design, as well as large-scale treatment strategies. We anticipate that these perspectives will provide profound insights for effective nitrogen pollution control and sustainable utilization of nitrogen resources.
Organosulfur materials are a sustainable alternative to the present-day layered oxide cathodes in lithium-based *** such organosulfur material that was intensely explored from the 1990s to early 2010s is 2,5-dimercapt...
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Organosulfur materials are a sustainable alternative to the present-day layered oxide cathodes in lithium-based *** such organosulfur material that was intensely explored from the 1990s to early 2010s is 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole(DMCT).However,research interest declined as the electrode reactions with DMCT were assumed to be too sluggish to be *** with the advances in metal-sulfur batteries,we revisit DMCT-based materials in the form of poly[tetrathio-2,5-(1,3,4-thiadiazole)],referred to as *** an appropriate choice of electrode design and electrolyte,pDMCT-S cathode paired with a Li-metal anode shows a capacity of 715 mA h g^(-1)and a Coulombic efficiency of 97.7%at a C/10 rate,thus quelling the concerns of sluggish ***,pDMCT-S shows significantly improved long-term cyclability compared to a sulfur *** into the origin of the stability reveals that the discharge product Li-DMCT in its mesomeric form can strongly bind to polysulfides,preventing their dissolution into the electrolyte and *** unique mechanism solves a critical problem faced by sulfur ***,this mechanism results in a stable performance of pDMCT-S with Na-metal cells as *** study opens the potential for exploring other organic materials that have inherent polysulfide sequestering capabilities,enabling long-life metal-sulfur batteries.
The microenvironment of immunosuppression and low immunogenicity of tumor cells has led to unsatisfactory therapeutic effects of the currently developed *** cell death,such as pyroptosis and ferroptosis,can efficientl...
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The microenvironment of immunosuppression and low immunogenicity of tumor cells has led to unsatisfactory therapeutic effects of the currently developed *** cell death,such as pyroptosis and ferroptosis,can efficiently boost antitumor ***,the exploration of nanoplatform for dual function inducers and combined immune activators that simultaneously trigger pyroptosis and ferroptosis remains ***,a multifunctional pH-responsive theranostic nanoplatform(M@P)is designed and constructed by self-assembly of aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer MTCN-3 and immunoadjuvant Poly(l:C),which are further encapsulated in amphiphilic *** nanoplatform is found to have the characteristics of cancer cell targeting,pH response,near-infrared fluorescence imaging,and lysosome ***,after targeting lysosomes,M@P can cause lysosome dysfunction through the generation of reactive oxygen species and heat under light irradiation,triggering pyroptosis and ferroptosis of tumor cells,achieving immunogenic cell death,and further enhancing immunotherapy through the combined effect with the immunoadjuvant Poly(I:C).The anti-tumor immunotherapy effect of M@P has been further demonstrated in in vivo antitumor experiment of 4T1 tumor-bearing mouse model with poor *** research would provide an impetus as well as a novel strategy for dual function inducers and combined immune activators enhanced photoimmunotherapy.
Photoacoustic imaging,an acoustic imaging modality with potentially optical resolution in an optical turbid medium,has attracted great ***,the convergence of wavefront optimization and raster scanning in computational...
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Photoacoustic imaging,an acoustic imaging modality with potentially optical resolution in an optical turbid medium,has attracted great ***,the convergence of wavefront optimization and raster scanning in computational photoacoustic imaging leads to the challenge of fast mapping,especially for a spatial resolution approaching the acoustic deep-subwavelength *** a sparse sampling paradigm,compressive sensing has been applied in numerous fields to accelerate data acquisition without significant quality *** this work,we propose a dual-compressed approach for photoacoustic surface tomography that enables high-efficiency imaging with 3D spatial resolution unlimited by the acoustics in a turbid *** dual-compressed photoacoustic imaging with single-pixel detection,enabled by spatially optical modulation with synchronized temporally photoacoustic coding,allows decoding of the fine optical information from the modulated acoustic signal even when the variance of original photoacoustic signals is *** perform a proof-of-principle numerical demonstration of dual-compressed photoacoustic imaging, that resolves acoustic sub-acoustic-wavelength details with a significantly reduced number of measurements,revealing the potential for dynamic *** dual-compressed concept,which transforms unobtrusive spatial difference into spatio-temporal detectable information,can be generalized to other imaging modalities to re alize efficient,high-spatial-resolution imaging.
As global population rises,accompanied by escalating environmental pollution and climate change,numerous countries find themselves grappling with an acute scarcity of natural freshwater resources^([1]).Seawater desali...
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As global population rises,accompanied by escalating environmental pollution and climate change,numerous countries find themselves grappling with an acute scarcity of natural freshwater resources^([1]).Seawater desalination presents a compelling solution to this looming crisis,especially considering the oceans are Earth’s largest water reservoir^([2]).
We synthesized CaRuO3 (001) thin films on a set of substrates and investigated their electronic and magnetic properties via combining magnetotransport measurements with first-principles density-functional theory calcu...
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We synthesized CaRuO3 (001) thin films on a set of substrates and investigated their electronic and magnetic properties via combining magnetotransport measurements with first-principles density-functional theory calculations. The experimental results indicate that a moderate strain can introduce the Kondo effect in the system, leading to a significant modulation of the non-Fermi liquid behavior. Moreover, when the strain reaches a certain threshold, the system undergoes a metal-semiconductor transition, accompanied by a transition from a nonmagnetic state to a plausible G-type antiferromagnetic state. We attribute the observed phenomena in CaRuO3 to strain-induced disruption of the delicate balance between the itinerant and the local Ru 4d electrons. These findings shed light on the intriguing magnetic and non-Fermi liquid behavior of CaRuO3, systematically tailored by heteroepitaxial strain.
In recent years,sodium-ion capacitors have attracted attention due to their cost-effectiveness,high power density and similar manufacturing process to lithium-ion ***,the utilization of oxide electrodes in traditional...
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In recent years,sodium-ion capacitors have attracted attention due to their cost-effectiveness,high power density and similar manufacturing process to lithium-ion ***,the utilization of oxide electrodes in traditional sodium-ion capacitors restricts their further advancement due to the inherent low operating voltage and electrolyte consumption based on their energy storage *** address these challenges,we incorporated Zn,Cu,Ti,and other elements into Na_(0.67)Ni_(0.33)Mn_(0.67)O_(2) to synthesize P2-type Na_(0.7)Ni_(0.28)Mn_(0.6)Zn_(0.05)Cu_(0.02)Ti_(0.05)O_(2) with a modulated entropy and pillaring *** the synergistic interplay between the interlayer pillar and the entropy modulation within the layers,the material exhibits exceptional toughness,effectively shielding it from detrimental phase transitions at elevated voltage *** a result,the material showcases outstanding kinetic properties and long-term cycling stability across the voltage *** integrating these materials with hierarchical porous carbon nanospheres to form a"rocking chair"sodium-ion capacitor,the hybrid full device delivers a high energy density(171 Wh·kg^(-1))and high power density(5245 W·kg^(-1)),as well as outstanding cycling stability(77% capacity retention after 3000 cycles).This work provides an effective material development route to realize simultaneously high energy and power for next-generation sodium-ion capacitors.
The electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction(NitRR)represents a promising approach toward achieving economically and environmentally sustainable ***,it remains a challenge to regulate the size effect of electrocata...
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The electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction(NitRR)represents a promising approach toward achieving economically and environmentally sustainable ***,it remains a challenge to regulate the size effect of electrocatalysts to optimize the catalytic activity and ammonia ***,the Cu-based catalysts were tailored at the atomic level to exhibit a size gradient ranging from single-atom catalysts(SACs,0.15–0.35 nm)to single-cluster catalysts(SCCs,1.0–2.8 nm)and nanoparticles(NPs,20–30 nm),with the aim of studying the size effect for the NO_(3)^(-)-to-NH_(3) reduction ***,the Cu SCCs exhibit enhanced metal–substrate and metal–metal interactions by taking advantageous features of Cu SACs and Cu ***,Cu SCCs achieve exceptional electrocatalytic performance for the NitRR with a maximum Faradaic efficiency of ca.96%NH_(3)and the largest yield rate of ca.1.99 mg·h^(-1)·cm^(-2) at-0.5 V *** hydrogen electrode(RHE).The theoretical calculation further reveals the size effect and coordination environment on the high catalytic activity and selectivity for the *** work provides a promising various size-controlled design strategy for aerogel-based catalysts effectively applied in various electrocatalytic reactions.
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