Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Baoping Zhang, Qinfen Gu, Cheng Wang, Qili Gao, Jiaxin Guo, Pak Wai Wong, Chain Tsuan Liu, Alicia Kyoungjin An
Summary: This study presents a self-assembled flexible porphyrin Ti3C2Tx MXene Janus membrane for dual-functional enabled photothermal desalination, demonstrating efficient water pumping, heat localization, vapor generation, and salt resistance. The interaction and charge redistribution between MXene and porphyrin lead to a stable hydrophobic/hydrophilic Janus structure with synergistically enhanced photothermal conversion, providing an effective strategy for seawater desalination using MXene membranes.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Jinwei Xue, Lei Zhu, Xu Zhu, Hui Li, Chao Ma, Shifan Yu, Daofeng Sun, Fujun Xia, Qingzhong Xue
Summary: A superhydrophobic and superoleophilic functionalized sponge was prepared for effective oil/water separation and selective oil adsorption. The sponge showed strong oil absorption capacity and great performance in various harsh environments, indicating promising applications in oily wastewater treatment.
SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Huie Liu, Zimei Lin, Shi Guo, Qilin Guo, Shuang Chen, Xiangyan Dou
Summary: By impregnating melamine sponge with graphene oxide and conducting heat treatment, reduced graphene oxide melamine sponges with excellent photothermal properties and adsorption capacities were obtained. The sponge showed high oil adsorption capacity and retained its performance after multiple uses.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Sai Li, Lei Zhang, Ziwei Qin, Liyi Zhou, Tiantian Lv, Fan Wu, Zongxing Liu, Chang Zhao, Chunna Yu, Guangjian Xing
Summary: In this study, a hydrophobic Ti3C2TX/polyurethane (Ti3C2TX/PU) sponge was successfully prepared for oil/water separation, exhibiting high separation efficiency and ultra-high separation flux. The sponge also showed promising performance under harsh conditions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yihao Guan, Zhining Wang, Mutai Bao, Xiuping Chen, Limei Dong, Yun Shen, Yiming Li
Summary: Efficient and safe recovery of high-viscosity marine crude oil spills is a worldwide challenge. In this study, a superhydrophobic sponge with excellent performance was successfully prepared by polymerizing dopamine on the skeleton surface and coating it with light-absorbing Fe3O4 NPs-Graphene. The sponge exhibits superior vertical heat conductivity and oil absorption, and can be continuously heated using an electric heating device, making it suitable for recovering high-viscosity marine crude oil spills at night or in extreme weather.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Amir Reza Akhiani, Hendrik Simon Cornelis Metselaar, Bee Chin Ang, Mehdi Mehrali, Mohammad Mehrali
Summary: This study presents a new approach for designing high-performance phase change composites by using proper amination of melamine sponge (MS) to construct an integrated MXene and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) structure. The MXene/rGO sponges have shown to effectively enhance the thermophysical and photo absorption properties of paraffin wax (PW) in the composite PCM, making them suitable for waste-heat recovery and solar thermal energy storage applications.
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Zhangdi Li, Zhipeng Lin, Qiong Tian, Fengxian Qiu, Tao Zhang
Summary: This study presents a facile and practical method to develop a solar-heating modified melamine sponge sorbent by dip-coating layer-by-layer (LBL) electrostatic assembly of graphene oxide (GO) and carbon nanotubes (CNT) onto the melamine sponge skeleton. The sorbent exhibits enhanced light absorption ability, photothermal conversion, hydrophobicity, and mechanical properties compared to the individual GO/MS and CNT/MS sorbents. The easily-prepared solar-assisted rGO/CNT/MS with high photothermal performance, corrosion resistance, mechanical compressibility, coating firmness, and oil sorption ability shows great potential in oil spill recovery.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Tianyi Wang, Xiaoyu Sun, Xin Guo, Jinqiang Zhang, Jian Yang, Shouxuan Tao, Jun Guan, Lin Zhou, Jie Han, Chengyin Wang, Hang Yao, Guoxiu Wang
Summary: This study discovered that MXene sheet demonstrates an ultrahigh removal capability for typical cytokine interleukin-6 and exhibits excellent blood compatibility, offering a new avenue for using MXene sheets as an ultra-efficient hemoperfusion absorbent to eliminate cytokine storm syndrome in severe COVID-19 patients.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Ling Li, Shanshan Lian, Xuezhi Li, Zeyuan Kuai, Donglin Jiang, Shu Chen, Chang Peng
Summary: In this study, a Ti3C2Tx MXene/coumarin composite with effective photoreversible performance and reversible hydrophobicity was designed and fabricated. The composite material shows potential for application in photoreversible energy conversion devices, overcoming limitations in humid environments.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Wubo Wan, Zhuang Yang, Tao Tan, Yu Li, Zehao Zhang, Peng Zhang, Feng He
Summary: In this study, a melamine sponge was modified by methyl trichlorosilane (MTS) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to create a 3D porous Mel@MTS/PDMS sponge. The modified sponge exhibited superior oil-adsorbing capacity and hydrophobicity, making it suitable for oil-water separation and environmental purification.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Qian-Ru Xiao, Peng Xu, Si Sun, Xiao-Li Qiang, Xiao-Long Shi
Summary: In this study, a conductive and hydrophobic sponge was successfully fabricated through a simple modification method. The sponge exhibited excellent oil sorption performance and stability under harsh conditions. Additionally, it could be used for continuous oil-water separation and oil detection.
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Pei-Lin Wang, Chang Ma, Qi Yuan, Tian Mai, Ming-Guo Ma
Summary: The newly developed porous PDMS@WSM absorbent, demonstrated excellent compressibility and oil absorption ability, exhibited efficient oil adsorption within a short period of time. The absorbent showed good reusability and cycle stability, making it widely applicable in crude oil spill remediation and other environmental cleaning fields.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Jinku Ma, Shuaishuai Ma, Jinjuan Xue, Minjing Xu, Jiaqian Zhang, Jin Li, Zhuzi Zhao, Songjian Zhao, Junli Pan, Zhaolian Ye
Summary: A PDMS/CuS/CFs/RGO sponge with excellent photothermal conversion ability and stability was synthesized using natural renewable resources. The sponge showed outstanding oil cleaning absorption rates and recyclability, as well as the ability to degrade dyes.
SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Meruyert Nazhipkyzy, Dana Assylkhanova, Nurgain Araylim, Aigerim Seitkazinova, Gamzenur Ozsin, Esin Apaydin Varol
Summary: In this study, a flexible and porous hydrophilic melamine sponge was coated by superhydrophobic soot for the efficient removal of petroleum oil. The soot-coated sponge exhibited excellent superhydrophobicity and high adsorption capacity, and maintained this capacity even after multiple cycles of use, making it a promising candidate for oil-polluted water treatment.
JOURNAL OF WATER PROCESS ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Qiyuan Li, Wei Wang, Huimeng Feng, Lin Cao, Hongfen Wang, Di Wang, Shougang Chen
Summary: In this study, a new photocatalytic antibacterial material Ti3C2Tx@CuS was developed to achieve efficient antibacterial effect, showing excellent antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The Ti3C2Tx@CuS heterojunction promoted electron-hole separation, improved electron transport efficiency, and elevated reactive oxygen species generation, with a stronger photothermal effect compared to CuS for enhanced antibacterial performance. The Ti3C2Tx@CuS heterojunction has a promising application prospect in the disinfection and antibacterial fields.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Liyan Xiong, Weihua Ding, Xiaohui Huang, Weichun Huang
Summary: Traffic flow forecasting is crucial for intelligent transportation system, aiming to enhance traffic safety and improve traffic management capability. This study proposes a novel neural network structure called CLSTAN, which utilizes attention mechanism and spatiotemporal relationship to accurately predict traffic flow. Experimental results on TaxiBJ and BikeNYC datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of CLSTAN over other baseline experiments.
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Weichun Huang, Yixue Yang, Xiaohui Huang, Zhiying Peng, Liyan Xiong
Summary: In recent years, a new fine-grained task called emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE) has been proposed in sentiment analysis field, aiming to extract all emotions and their causes from a document. However, existing methods often ignore the relationship between emotion clauses and cause clauses. To address this, we propose an end-to-end framework that uses interactive attention and fusion mechanism to learn the relationship between emotions and causes, achieving better results than state-of-the-art baselines.
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Liyan Xiong, Hu Yi, Xiaohui Huang, Weichun Huang
Summary: This paper proposes an efficient network model for counting crowds in crowded scenes. The model achieves accurate counting of crowds with varying densities and scales through multi-scale contextual feature fusion and spatial channel attention mechanism. Experimental results show that the model outperforms many state-of-the-art methods in counting performance and generated density maps.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Jun Zhu, Hongyan Chen, You Zi, Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Summary: This study successfully synthesized uniform zero-dimensional bismuth quantum dots of different sizes and applied them in photoelectrochemical photodetection. The results showed that the fabricated bismuth quantum dot-based electrode exhibited suitable photoresponse and excellent photodetection performance. By optimizing the size, the best photoelectrochemical photoresponse behavior can be achieved.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Qing Dong, Qingqiu Huang, Mengke Wang, Hongyan Chen, You Zi, Weichun Huang
Summary: A novel and practical method has been discovered for the synthesis of esters from carboxylic acids, which shows high efficiency and good to excellent yields under mild conditions. This method is applicable to a series of carboxylic acids including simple molecules, drugs, and amino acids.
TETRAHEDRON LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hongyan Chen, Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Summary: This study presents the fabrication of a composite material consisting of two-dimensional selenium nanosheets and a sponge. The composite exhibits highly stable photothermal conversion with a wettability transition from hydrophilicity to hydrophobicity. It has potential applications in solar desalination and photothermal sterilization.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
You Zi, Songrui Wei, Zhihui Huang, Jun Zhu, Yi Hu, Mengke Wang, Han Zhang, Weichun Huang
Summary: In this study, zero-dimensional (0D) monoelemental bismuth (Bi) quantum dots (QDs) were utilized as photocatalysts for direct dehydrogenative phosphonylation under visible light irradiation. The 0D Bi QDs showed high photocatalytic efficiency in the formation of S-P(O) bonds between thiols and H-P(O) compounds. Mechanism study and density functional theory (DFT) calculation revealed the generation of sulfide radicals on the surface of the 0D Bi QDs. The as-synthesized 0D Bi QDs exhibited suitable adsorption energy and sufficient charge transfer to effectively promote phosphonylation. This unique transformation can potentially lead to more sustainable organic photocatalytic transformations based on high-efficiency QDs or QD-related nanocomposites.
CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ching-Han Liu, Shih-Chung Huang, Chun-Hao Yin, Wei-Chun Huang, Jin-Shuen Chen, Yao-Shen Chen, Su-Ting Gan, Shiow-Jyu Tzou, Ching-Tsai Hsu, Hao-Ming Wu, Wen-Hwa Wang
Summary: Individuals of Asian descent have a higher risk of developing hyperuricemia and gout compared to Western populations. Urate-lowering therapy is effective in treating hyperuricemia and gout. However, the association between febuxostat, a type of urate-lowering therapy, and atrial fibrillation (AF) in Asian populations has not been properly investigated.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
You Zi, Yi Hu, Junmei Pu, Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Summary: With the rapid consumption of nonrenewable energy, solar energy is considered to be a promising solution to meet future energy requirements and mitigate environmental issues. The photoelectrochemical (PEC) device, which utilizes semiconductor nanostructure-based photocatalysts, is believed to be an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly way to utilize solar energy. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the recent progress in interface engineering of semiconductor nanostructures for PEC applications, as well as the challenges and future directions in the field of next-generation PEC devices.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hongyan Chen, Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Summary: PbO, as a new emerging 2D material, has unique optical and electronic properties, making it promising for a wide range of applications in nanophotonics. This minireview summarizes the synthesis of PbO nanostructures and discusses the recent progress in optoelectronics/photonics applications based on PbO nanostructures, as well as the current challenges and future opportunities in this research area.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yi Hu, Junmei Pu, Yingzi Hu, You Zi, Hongyan Chen, Mengke Wang, Weichun Huang
Summary: This contribution reports a novel copper-based sponge, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)@graphdiyne (GDY)@Cu, which is constructed by in situ synthesis of GDY on a commercial Cu sponge, followed by the modification of PDMS. The as-fabricated PDMS@GDY@Cu sponge not only possesses excellent self-cleaning activity and remarkably enhanced anticorrosion performance, but also displays significantly improved antibacterial activities under irradiation. The results demonstrate that GDY-based functional coatings hold great promises in the protection of copper devices under harsh conditions.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jinghui Peng, Ying Zhang, Weichun Huang
Summary: Visual relationship detection is an important direction in image processing, aiming to explore object relationships. This paper proposes a method that combines image location and feature information fusion to enhance the visual relationship detection effect, using a pre-training pre-processing dataset and an entities relationship network.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Manivannan Govindaraj, Wei-Chun Huang, Chia-Yi Lee, Venkatesan Lakshmanan, Yu-Hsiang Liu, Pamela Berilyn So, Chia-Her Lin, Jhy-Der Chen
Summary: This study reports the synthesis and structural characterization of various Hg(II) halide complexes using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. The ligand type and halide anion were found to play important roles in determining the structural diversity of the complexes. The luminescent properties and stability of selected complexes were also evaluated.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Huang Weichun, Ding Xingu, Zi You
Summary: Phosphonium salts, as important derivatives of phosphines, have been widely used in organic synthesis, especially in the construction of vinyl/aryl groups, showing promising potential in the field.
CHINESE JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
