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These findings provide new insight into PMS activation by less-toxic metal oxides as catalysts and demonstrate that Mn-based materials can be used to effectively treat water matrices containing emerging pollutants.Constructing effective interphase boundary is one of the efficient approaches for improving photocatalytic performances of semiconductor materials. In this work, an anatase/rutile-TiO2 (AR-TiO2) heterophase junction with appropriate carbon content was successfully fabricated via an in-situ phase transformation process. The phase transformation started from the inner core of the nanoparticles and the area of phase interface between anatase and rutile was carefully controlled by regulating the activation temperature. The well-established type-II band alignment between two TiO2 phases with residual carbon as additional charge transfer intermediary which significantly improved the light-harvesting and photoinduced electron-hole pair separation. As a result, the optimal AR-TiO2-550 catalyst (without adding commonly used Pt as co-catalyst) remarkably enhanced photocatalytic H2 generation (201 μmol h-1 g-1), which was about 12-fold to that of P25. The AR-TiO2-550 heterophase junction also showed long-term stability under simulated solar light irradiation. This research provides a new phase engineering route for developing high-efficient photocatalysts.Photo-generated radicals play an important role in photocatalytic reactions, yet numerous radicals undergo self-quenching before contact with the substrate because of their ultrafast lifetimes and limited diffusion distances, which decreases the utilization of free radicals and reduces the activity of photocatalysts. Herein, both hierarchical pores and oxygen vacancies (OVs) were successfully introduced into a titanium-based metal-organic framework (MOF), namely MIL-125-NH2 (MIL for Materials of Institut Lavoisier), via a simple and controllable acid etching method. The generation of OVs increased the yield of photogenerated radicals, while the hierarchical pore structure conferred a pore enrichment effect, thus enhancing the utilization of photogenerated radicals. Owing to the synergistic effect of the hierarchical pores and OVs, the obtained single-crystal nanoreactor, H-MIL-125-NH2-VO, showed much higher catalytic activity for rhodamine (RhB) degradation than pristine MIL-125-NH2. In fact, the rate constant for catalytic RhB degradation in H-MIL-125-NH2-VO was approximately eight times that of MIL-125-NH2. This work highlights the significant contribution of both hierarchical pores and OVs to enhancing the photocatalytic performance of MOFs.
The free energies associated with adsorption/desorption of individual surfactants from micelles and the fusion/scission of long micelles can be used to estimate the rate constants for micellar kinetics as functions of surfactant and salt concentration.

We compute the escape free energies △G
of surfactant from micelles and the scission free energies △G
of long micelles from coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations coupled with umbrella sampling, for micelles of both sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) in sodium chloride (NaCl) and cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) in sodium salicylate (NaSal).

For spherical micelles, △G
values have maxima at certain aggregation numbers, and at salt-to-surfactant molar concentration ratios R near unity, consistent with experiments. For cylindrical micelles, SDS/NaCl shows a minimum, and CTAC/NaSal a maximum in △G
, both at R~0.7, while △G
of CTAC micelles also peaks at around R~0.7 and that of SDS micelles increases monotonically with R. We explain the non-monotween adsorption/desorption and fusion/scission kinetics with changing salt concentration can be inferred from the free energies for CTAC/NaSal.It is established that ultrathin layered double hydroxide nanosheets (LDHNS) and zeolitic imidazole frameworks (ZIF) are desirable electrochemical sensing modifiers owing to their large surface area and abundant catalytic sites. Integration of them is thus an effective solution to maximize their electrocatalytic activity. Herein, a novel reaction-diffusion framework (RDF) technique is applied for the in situ growth of ZIF-67 on ultrathin CoAl-LDHNS (CoAl-LDHNS@ZIF-67). In a confined space of the agar gel matrix of RDF, the coordination reaction between organic ligands and CoAl-LDHNS without an additional Co2+ source achieves the controllable growth of ZIF-67 crystals through a long vertical diffusion. The prepared composite comprises both CoAl-LDHNS and ZIF-67 components with a certain ratio and provides a large surface area and amply catalytic sites, thus realizing a rapid transfer of electron and mass. The CoAl-LDHNS@ZIF-67 modified electrode is employed for the simultaneous detection of naphthol isomers by differential pulse voltammetry. Naphthol isomers display anodic reactions with a wide peak potential difference, allowing their simultaneous detection feasible. Voltammetric responses of α-naphthol and β-naphthol follow good linearity against the concentration in a wide range from 0.3 to 150 μM with limits of detection of 54 and 82 nM, respectively. The proposed sensor also demonstrates excellent selectivity, stability, reproducibility, and practicability for the simultaneous detection of naphthol isomers.Metastasis due to circulating tumor cells (CTCs) shed from the original tumor accounts for the majority of cancer-related death. Efficient CTCs detection is pivotal to the diagnosis of early cancer metastasis. In this work, Platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) decorated hyperbranched PdRu nanospines (PdRu/Pt) hierarchical structures were firstly synthesized to detect CTCs with the assistance of DNAzyme. Meanwhile, Super P and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) acted as sensing medium to improve electrical conductivity and immobilization of anti-EpCAM antibody to specifically capture model CTCs. After immune-conjugation of anti-EpCAM-MCF-7-signal probes on the gold electrode, PtNPs, PdRu nanospines (PdRuNSs) and hemin/G-quadruplex co-catalyzed substrate H2O2 to realize multiplexed signal amplification, which significantly improves the analytical performance of the electrochemical biosensor. A-83-01 price As-proposed biosensor reached a limit of detection (LOD) down to 2 cells mL-1 and showed a wide detection range of 2 to 106 cells mL-1.
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