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Biochar is a promising candidate for the adsorptive removal of organic/inorganic pollutants, yet its role in metal-free catalyzed advanced oxidation processes still remains ambiguous. In this work, five biochar samples (PPBKx, where x represents the pyrolysis temperature) were prepared by using metal-enriched phytoremediation plant residue as the feedstock. Notably, PPBK exhibited a high specific surface area (as high as 1090.7 m2 g-1) and outstanding adsorption capacity toward ciprofloxacin (CIP, as much as 1.51 ± 0.19 mmol g-1). 2',3'-cGAMP mw By introducing peroxymonosulfate (PMS, 5 mM) as the chemical oxidant, over 2 mmol g-1 CIP was synergistically adsorbed and oxidized within 30 min although PMS itself could not oxidize CIP efficiently, suggesting the formation of reactive oxidative species. Theoretical calculations revealed that PMS anions preferentially adsorbed on the activated C atoms adjacent to the graphitic N dopant, where the carbon matrix served as the electron donor, instead of as an electron mediator. The adsorbed PMS possessed a smaller molecular orbital energy gap, indicating that it was much easier to be activated than free PMS anions. Surface-bound reactive species were elucidated to be the dominant contributor through chemical quenching experiments and electrochemical characterizations. The catalytic activity of PPBK700 could be greatly retained in repeated oxidations because of the stable N species, which serve as the active catalytic sites, while the CIP adsorption was greatly deteriorated because of the diminishing active adsorption sites (carbon matrix edge) caused by the partial oxidation of PMS. This work not only provides a facile and low-cost approach for the synthesis of functional biochar toward environmental remediation but also deepens the understanding of biochar-catalyzed PMS activation and nonradical oxidation.Understanding the material property origins of performance decay in carbon electrodes is critical to maximizing the longevity of capacitive deionization (CDI) systems. This study investigates the cycling stability of electrodes fabricated from six commercial and two post-processed activated carbons. We find that the capacity decay rate of electrodes in half cells is positively correlated with the specific surface area and total surface acidity of the activated carbons. We also demonstrate that half-cell cycling stability is consistent with full cell desalination performance durability. Additionally, our results suggest that increase in internal resistance and physical pore blockage resulting from extensive cycling may be important mechanisms for the specific capacitance decay of activated carbon electrodes in this study. Our findings provide crucial guidelines for selecting activated carbon electrodes for stable CDI performance over long-term operation and insight into appropriate parameters for electrode performance and longevity in models assessing the techno-economic viability of CDI. Finally, our half-cell cycling protocol also offers a method for evaluating the stability of new electrode materials without preparing large, freestanding electrodes.Pressure sensors form the basic building block for realization of an electronic or tactile skin used in prothesis, robotics, and other similar applications. This paper presents a device consisting of biodegradable piezoelectric material based dynamic pressure sensor coupled with a graphene field-effect-transistor (GFET) operated at very low voltage (50 mV). The device has a biodegradable β-glycine/chitosan composite based metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure connected with GFET in an extended gate configuration. The developed device shows a sensitivity of 2.70 × 10-4 kPa-1 for a pressure range of 5-20 kPa and 7.56 × 10-4 kPa-1 for a pressure range between 20 and 35 kPa. A distinctive feature of the presented device is its very low operation voltage, which offers a significant advantage toward the development of energy efficient large-area electronic skin. Further, the biodegradability of piezoelectric material makes the presented sensors useful in terms of reduced electronic waste, which is currently another growing area of interest.Reported herein is a modular, NiH-catalyzed system capable of proximal-selective hydroamination of unactivated alkenes with diverse amine sources. The key to the successful implementation of this approach is the promotion of NiH insertion into even highly substituted olefins via coordination of the bidentate directing group to the nickel complex. A wide range of primary and secondary amines can be installed in both internal and terminal unactivated alkenes with excellent regiocontrol under the optimized reaction conditions. This protocol is flexible and general for the preparation of a variety of valuable β- and γ-amino acid building blocks that would otherwise be difficult to synthesize. The utility of this transformation was further demonstrated by the site-selective late-stage modification of complex and medicinally relevant molecules. Combined experimental and computational studies illuminate the detailed reaction mechanism.A material that can capture changes in environmental stimuli as a color change can be used to develop sensors and displays. By producing an ordered structure in a polymer gel that reflects particular wavelengths of light, we can express the volume change that occurs based on the environment as the change in the wavelength of reflected light, i.e., structural color. To date, many systems have been developed to change the hue of the structural color as a function of temperature, pH, substance, applied force, and so on. However, as is expected from the principle of optical interference, the gel usually shows a red-shift with increasing volume. In this study, we propose a method for preparing structurally colored stimuli-responsive polymer gels that display appropriate color changes according to changes in environmental stimuli. For this purpose, we employ the photonic balls, which are spherical colloidal crystals consisting of monodisperse silica particles, as templates. By combining the wavelength-selective reflection generated from different photonic band gaps of the photonic balls, we succeeded in developing porous stimuli-responsive polymer gels that exhibited various types of color change, which are not observed in conventional systems.Ferroelectric (FE) materials are thought to be promising materials for self-powered ultraviolet (UV) photodetector applications because of their photovoltaic effects. However, FE-based photodetectors exhibited poor performance because of the weak photovoltaic effect of FE depolarization field (Edp) on the separation of photo-generated carriers. In this work, self-powered photodetectors based on both Edp and built-in electric field at the p-n junction (Ep-n) were designed to obtain enhanced device performance. A NiO/Pb0.95La0.05Zr0.54Ti0.46O3 (PLZT) heterojunction-based device is constructed to take advantage of energy level alignments that favor electron extraction. The device exhibits a tunable performance upon varying the polarization direction of PLZT. The NiO/PLZT heterojunction-based device with the PLZT layer in the poling down state shows a higher responsivity [R = (1.8 ± 0.12) × 10-4 A/W] and detectivity [D* = (3.69 ± 0.2) × 109 Jones], a faster response speed (τr = 0.34 ± 0.03 s, τd = 0.36 ± 0.02 s), and a lower dark current [Idark = (1.3 ± 0.19) × 10-12 A] under zero bias than the PLZT-based device because of the synergistic effects of Edp and Ep-n. Moreover, under weak-light illumination (0.1 mW/cm2), it exhibits even higher R [(6.3 ± 1.2) × 10-4 A/W] and D* [(1.29 ± 0.26) × 1010 Jones] values, which surpass those of most previously reported FE-based self-powered photodetectors. Our work emphasizes the role of the coupling effect between Ep-n and Edp in the photovoltaic process of NiO/PLZT heterojunction-based devices and provides an effective way to promote the self-powered UV photodetector applications.Almost any production and consumption activity generates waste directly or indirectly over its supply chain. This paper is concerned with identifying the product origins of waste or waste footprint of products. It uses the waste input-output (WIO) data recently developed and published by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE), which is, to date, one of the publicly available WIO data with the highest resolution in products and waste. Results show that footprint calculation can identify factors behind the waste flows that otherwise would not be recognizable. The amount of waste for landfill is smaller than that for incineration only because around 80% of potential waste for landfill, mostly construction waste, is absorbed by recycling, attributed to public capital formation. Without this massive demand for recycling, the amount of waste sent to landfill would have been five to six times larger than the actual one, exceeding incineration. Footprint analysis of plastic waste reveals that targeting only postconsumer plastics waste is misleading, because most plastics waste has its origins in production. Service industries are found to be a major contributor to waste incineration and landfill in terms of footprint, whereas their contribution is minor in direct discharge.Despite the central role of reactive organic carbon (ROC) in the formation of secondary species that impact global air quality and climate, our assessment of ROC abundance and impacts is challenged by the diversity of species that contribute to it. We revisit measurements of ROC species made during two field campaigns in the United States the 2013 SOAS campaign in forested Centreville, AL, and the 2010 CalNex campaign in urban Pasadena, CA. We find that average measured ROC concentrations are about twice as high in Pasadena (73.8 μgCsm-3) than in Centreville (36.5 μgCsm-3). However, the OH reactivity (OHR) measured at these sites is similar (20.1 and 19.3 s-1). The shortfall in OHR when summing up measured contributions is 31%, at Pasadena and 14% at Centreville, suggesting that there may be a larger reservoir of unmeasured ROC at the former site. Estimated O3 production and SOA potential (defined as concentration × yield) are both higher during CalNex than SOAS. This analysis suggests that the ROC in urban California is less reactive, but due to higher concentrations of oxides of nitrogen and hydroxyl radicals, is more efficient in terms of O3 and SOA production, than in the forested southeastern U.S.A series of 2,3-dicarboxylato-5-acetyl-4-aminoselenophenes, 5a-j, was obtained via the uncommon assembly of building blocks on a diiron platform, starting from commercial [Fe2Cp2(CO)4] through the stepwise formation of diiron complexes [2a-d]CF3SO3, 3a-d, and 4a-j. The selenophene-substituted bridging alkylidene ligand in 4a-j is removed from coordination upon treatment with water in air under mild conditions (ambient temperature in most cases), affording 5a-j in good to excellent yields. This process is highly selective and is accompanied by the disruption of the organometallic scaffold cyclopentadiene (CpH) and lepidocrocite (γ-FeO(OH)) were identified by NMR and Raman analyses at the end of one representative reaction. The straightforward cleavage of the linkage between a bridging Fischer alkylidene and two (or more) metal centers, as observed here, is an unprecedented reaction in organometallic chemistry in the present case, the carbene function is converted to a ketone which is incorporated into the organic product.
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