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...
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.
Precipitation at grain boundaries is typically not regarded as an efficient method for strengthening materials since it can induce grain boundary embrittlement, which detrimentally affects ductility. In this research,...
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Building differentiated charge distributed polarized atomic pairs may be an alternative for N2 activation. In this work, CuInS2 atomic layers with asymmetric In-In polarized site pairs are prepared by doping Fe single...
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Defects in materials significantly alter their electronic and structural properties,which affect the per-formance of electronic devices,structural alloys,and functional ***,calculating all the possible defects in comp...
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Defects in materials significantly alter their electronic and structural properties,which affect the per-formance of electronic devices,structural alloys,and functional ***,calculating all the possible defects in complex materials with conventional Density Functional Theory(DFT)can be compu-tationally *** enhance the efficiency of these calculations,we interfaced Density Functional Tight Binding(DFTB)with the Clusters Approach to Statistical Mechanics(CASM)software package for the first *** SiC and ZnO as representative examples,we show that DFTB gives accurate results and can be used as an efficient computational approach for calculating and pre-screening formation ener-gies/convex *** DFTB+CASM implementation allows for an efficient exploration(up to an order of magnitude faster than DFT)of formation energies and convex hulls,which researchers can use to probe other complex systems.
Pseudomonas *** been considered one of the most promising microbial platform strains due to its versatile metabolism,enabling the valorization of waste materials into value-added chemical *** the native producer of po...
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Pseudomonas *** been considered one of the most promising microbial platform strains due to its versatile metabolism,enabling the valorization of waste materials into value-added chemical *** the native producer of polyhydroxyal-kanoates(PHAs),the biodegradable biopolyesters,it has been widely engineered by various metabolic engineering tools for the production of PHAs composed of short-chain-length and medium-chain-length monomers with adjustable composition from diverse carbon sources,ranging from pure sugars to crude oils and fatty *** review discusses the feasibility of Pseudomonas *** the industrial host strain and the recent advances regarding the systems metabolic engineering strategies for PHAs production in Pseudomonas sp.
As an emerging class of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDCs),two-dimensional(2D)rhenium dichalcogenides(ReX_(2),X=S or Se)have recently aroused great research interest due to their unique anisotropic...
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As an emerging class of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDCs),two-dimensional(2D)rhenium dichalcogenides(ReX_(2),X=S or Se)have recently aroused great research interest due to their unique anisotropic structure(1T′phase),and the related novel properties and ***,many efforts have been devoted to the controllable syntheses of high-quality monolayer or few-layer ReX_(2)flakes/films by chemical vapor deposition(CVD),wherein the metallic Au foil is found to be a unique substrate,due to the relatively strong interfacial coupling between monolayer ReX_(2)and *** the conductive nature of Au enables in situ characterizations of the as-grown ReX_(2)samples,which is essential for exploring the fundamental properties and internal growth ***,this review focuses on the recent progresses on the CVD syntheses and in situ characterizations of high-quality monolayer ReX_(2)flakes/films and their heterostructures with graphene on Au *** effects of Au foils on improving the crystal quality and inducing the growth of monolayer ReX_(2)single crystals are intensively *** crystallinity,domain morphology,atomic and electronic structures,as well as the growth behaviors of monolayer ReX_(2)flakes/films and graphene/ReX_(2)heterostructures on Au revealed by in situ characterization techniques are also *** contrasts,the growth behaviors of monolayer or few-layer ReX_(2)on insulating substrates are also ***,the potential applications of 2D ReX_(2)in new-generation electronic,optoelectronic devices,and energy-related fields are also ***,future research directions are also prospected for propelling the practical applications of 2D ReX_(2)materials in more versatile fields.
The interaction between{112}deformation twinning and grain boundary in coaxial polycrystalline tantalum under shock compression was studied with molecular dynamics simulation under different grain pair misorientation ...
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The interaction between{112}<111>deformation twinning and grain boundary in coaxial polycrystalline tantalum under shock compression was studied with molecular dynamics simulation under different grain pair misorientation angles(MA)and geometric compatibility factor(m’).Generally,in the coaxial polycrystal,the value of MA determines the occurrence of twin transfer(TT)or twin blockage(TB),i.e.,twin transfer occurs at MA≤29°with twin blockage *** TT,the value of m’affects the selection of twin variants.,i.e.,the twin system with a larger m’is easier to *** morphology of twin pairs is ruler-shaped and lenticular under TT and TB,respectively,with different thickening mechanisms,including grain boundary dislocation emission.
Electrocatalytic reduction of CO_(2) to fuels and chemicals possesses huge potential to alleviate current environmental *** doping in metal-nitrogen-carbon(M-N-C)single-atom catalysts(SACs)has been found to be capable...
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Electrocatalytic reduction of CO_(2) to fuels and chemicals possesses huge potential to alleviate current environmental *** doping in metal-nitrogen-carbon(M-N-C)single-atom catalysts(SACs)has been found to be capable to promote the electrocatalytic CO_(2) reduction reaction(CO_(2)RR).However,the origin of the enhanced activity is still ***,we report that sulfur-doped cobalt-nitrogen-carbon single-atom catalyst(Co1-SNC)exhibits superior CO_(2)RR performance compared to sulfur-free counterpart(Co1-NC).On the basis of in situ attenuated total reflectance surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy(ATR-SEIRAS),kinetic isotope effect(KIE)and theoretical calculation,it is demonstrated that sulfur doping can promote water activation,elevate the d-band center of Co active site,and reduce the free energy of*COOH intermediate *** work deepens the understanding of the CO_(2)RR chemistry over heteroatom-doped SACs for designing efficient CO_(2)RR processes.
Sidechain engineering as an efficient and convenient strategy has been widely used to optimize molecular structure of photovoltaic materials for boosting power conversion efficiency(PCE)of organic solar cells(OSCs).He...
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Sidechain engineering as an efficient and convenient strategy has been widely used to optimize molecular structure of photovoltaic materials for boosting power conversion efficiency(PCE)of organic solar cells(OSCs).Herein,a new Y-series acceptor named Y-Th Si with trialkylsilyl-substituted thiophene as conjugated sidechain is *** with its parental Y6 with multiple intermolecular interactions,Y-Th Si has a unitary molecular packing due to the additional steric hindrance from twodimensional(2D)-conjugated ***,Y-Th Si shows an obviously blue-shifted absorption with an onset of~850 nm but significantly up-shifted lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy *** the PM6:Y-Th Si pair,the spin-coating OSCs achieve a decent PCE of 14.56%with an impressively high photovoltage(V_(OC))of 0.936 *** by its high V_(OC)and narrow absorption,Y-Th Si is introduced into near-infrared absorbing binary PM6:BTP-eC9 host to construct ternary *** to the complementary absorption,optimized morphology,and minimized energy loss properties,the PM6:BTP-e C9:Y-Th Si-based OSCs offer a higher PCE of 18.34%.Moreover,our developed strategy can overcome the commonly existed PCE drop when the blade-coating towards large-scale printing is used ***,a comparable PCE of 18.34%is achieved,which is one of the best values for the blade-coating OSCs so far.
Grain boundaries(GBs)can be treated as two-dimensional(2-D)interfacial phases(also called“complexions”)that can undergo interfacial phase-like *** bulk phase diagrams and calculation of phase diagram(CALPHAD)methods...
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Grain boundaries(GBs)can be treated as two-dimensional(2-D)interfacial phases(also called“complexions”)that can undergo interfacial phase-like *** bulk phase diagrams and calculation of phase diagram(CALPHAD)methods serve as a foundation for modern materialsscience,we propose to extend them to GBs to have equally significant *** perspective article reviews a series of studies to compute the GB counterparts to bulk phase ***,a phenomenological interfacial thermodynamic model was developed to construct GB lambda diagrams to forecast high-temperature GB disordering and related trends in sintering and other properties for both metallic and ceramic *** parallel,an Ising-type lattice statistical thermodynamic model was utilized to construct GB adsorption(segregation)diagrams,which predicted first-order GB adsorption transitions and critical *** two simplified thermodynamic models emphasize the GB structural(disordering)and chemical(adsorption)aspects,***,hybrid Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics atomistic simulations were used to compute more rigorous and accurate GB“phase”*** GB diagrams of thermodynamic and structural properties were further extended to include mechanical ***,machine learning algorithms were combined with atomistic simulations to predict GB properties as functions of four independent compositional variables and temperature in a 5-D space for a given GB in high-entropy alloys or as functions of five GB macroscopic(crystallographic)degrees of freedom plus temperature and composition for a binary alloy in a 7-D *** relevant studies are also *** perspective and outlook,including two emerging fields of high-entropy grain boundaries(HEGBs)and electrically(or electrochemically)induced GB transitions,are discussed.
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