Stability of Multivalent Ruthenium on CoWO4 Nanosheets for Improved Electrochemical Water Splitting with Alkaline Electrolyte
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 21:e202301952. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301952. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEngineering low-cost electrocatalysts with desired features is vital to decrease the energy consumption but challenging for superior water splitting. Herein, we development a facile strategy by the addition of multivalence ruthenium (Ru) into the CoWO4/CC system. During the synthesis process, the most of Ru3+ ions were insinuated into the lattice of CoWO4, while the residual Ru3+ ions were reduced to metallic Ru and further attached to the interface between carbon cloth and CoWO4 sheets. The optimal Ru2(M)-CoWO4/CC exhibited sup...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 21, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Kai Wang Bowen Bai Kun Luo Jifei Liu Feitian Ran Zhuoqun Li Zengpeng Li Fengyang Gao Wanjun Sun Jing Wang Source Type: research
The Progress of Polymer Composites Protecting Safe Li Metal Batteries: Solid- /Quasi-solid Electrolytes and Electrolyte Additives
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 20:e202301896. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301896. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe impressive theoretical capacity and low electrode potential render Li metal anodes the most promising candidate for next-generation Li-based batteries. However, uncontrolled growth of Li dendrites and associated parasitic reactions have impeded their cycling stability and raised safety concerns regarding future commercialization. The uncontrolled growth of Li dendrites and associated parasitic reactions, however, pose challenges to the cycling stability and safety concerns for future commercialization. To tackle these challe...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 20, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xiaoyue Liu Wenjun Shi Sidong Zhuang Yu Liu Di He Tianyi Wang Gang Feng Tao Ge Source Type: research
Plastic recycling stripped naked - from circular product to circular industry with recycling cascade
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 20:e202301320. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301320. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis perspective combines various expertise to develop and analyse the concept of technology cascade for recycling waste plastics with the goal of displacing as much fossil crude oil as possible. It thereby presents archetype recycling technologies with their strengths and weaknesses. It then combines them in various cascades to process a representative plastic mix, and determines how much (fossil) naphtha could be displaced and at which energy consumption. The cascades rely on a limited number of parameters that are fully repor...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 20, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jean-Paul Lange Sascha R A Kersten Steven De Meester Marcel C P van Eijk Kim Ragaert Source Type: research
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Pure Water Using a IEF-11/g-C < sub > 3 < /sub > N < sub > 4 < /sub > S-Scheme Heterojunction
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 20:e202301538. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301538. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConstruction of S-scheme heterojunction offers a promising way to enhance the photocatalytic performance of photocatalysts for converting solar energy into chemical energy. However, the photocatalytic H2 production in pure water without sacrificial agents is still a challenge. Herein, the IEF-11 with the best photocatalytic H2 production performance in MOFs and suitable band structure was selected and firstly constructed with g-C3 N4 to obtain a S-scheme heterojunction for photocatalytic H2 production from pure water. As a resul...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 20, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: An Qian Xin Han Qiaona Liu Minwei Fan Lei Ye Xin Pu Ying Chen Jichang Liu Hui Sun Jigang Zhao Hao Ling Rongjie Wang Jiangbing Li Xin Jia Source Type: research
Cu-Catalyzed Tandem Oxidation-Intramolecular Cannizzaro Reaction of Biorenewables and Bioactive Molecules
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 20:e202400013. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400013. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA tandem Cu-catalyzed oxidation-intramolecular Cannizzaro reaction leading to bioactive α-hydroxyesters from α-hydroxyketones is reported. The process uses oxygen as a sole oxidant to achieve the formation of glyoxals, which are efficiently converted in situ to important α-hydroxyesters. The mechanistic insights are provided by isotopic labeling and supported by DFT calculations. The transformation proved a robust synthetic tool to achieve the synthesis of human metabolites and hydroxyl esters of various biologically active s...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 20, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Hristo Petkov Martin Ravutsov Manuel Verganista Yavor Mitrev Nuno Candeias Svilen P Simeonov Source Type: research
Biodiesel as a Sustainable Platform Chemical Enabled by Selective Partial Hydrogenation: Compounds Outplace Combustion?!
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 20:e202400036. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400036. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe hydrogenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in vegetable oils and their derivatives is essential for their use in many areas, such as biofuels and food chemistry. However, no attempts have been made to adapt this technology to the requirements of further chemical utilization of fatty acid methyl esters as molecular building blocks, especially for particularly promising double-bond reactions. In this work, we, therefore, use three homogeneous catalytic model reactions (hydroformylation, isomerizing methoxycarbonylati...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 20, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Thomas Friedrich Hubertus Roth Alexander K ühl Maximilian Lukas Spiekermann Hannes Wolfgang Wegener Thomas Seidensticker Source Type: research
Development of a Thermodynamically Favorable Multi-enzyme Cascade Reaction for Efficient Sustainable Production of ω-Amino Fatty Acids and α,ω-Diamines
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202400204. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400204. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInvited for this issue's cover is the group of Huilei Yu at the East China University of Science and Technology. The image shows a sustainable biosynthesis route to nylon monomers from bio-based substrate α, ω-dicarboxylic acids. The Research Article itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202301477.PMID:38369946 | DOI:10.1002/cssc.202400204 (Source: ChemSusChem)
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Ju-Mou Li Kun Shi Ai-Tao Li Zhi-Jun Zhang Hui-Lei Yu Jian-He Xu Source Type: research
Covalent Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting from Air
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202400049. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400049. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite approximately 70% of the earth being covered by water, water shortage has emerged as an urgent social challenge. Sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting stands out as a potent approach to alleviate the situation, particularly in arid regions. This method requires adsorbents with ample working capacity, rapid kinetics, low energy costs, and long-term stability under operating conditions. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a novel class of crystalline porous materials and offer distinct advantages due to their high ...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Fuxiang Wen Ning Huang Source Type: research
Recent Progress on Oligomeric Non-Fullerene Acceptors for Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202301559. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301559. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOrganic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved remarkable power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of over 19% in the past few years due to the rapid development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). However, the operational stability remains a great challenge that inhibits their commercialization. Recently, oligomeric NFAs (ONFAs) have attracted great attention, which not only can deliver excellent device performance, but also improve the thermal-/photo- stability of OSCs. This is attributed to the suppressed molecular diffusion of ONFAs as...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Feng Qi Yanxun Li Francis Lin Alex Jen Source Type: research
Green Additives in Chitosan-based Bioplastic Films: Long-term Stability Assessment and Aging Effects
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202301426. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301426. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough biomass-based alternatives for the manufacturing of bioplastic films are an important aspect of a more sustainable future, their physicochemical properties need to be able to compete with the existing market to establish them a viable alternative. One important factor that is often neglected is the long-term stability of renewables-based functional materials, as they should neither degrade after a day or week, nor last forever. One material showing high potential in this regard, also due to its intrinsic biodegradabilit...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Kordula B Schnabl Laurens D B Mandemaker Yadolah Ganjkhanlou Ina Vollmer Bert Marc Weckhuysen Source Type: research
Development of a Thermodynamically Favorable Multi-enzyme Cascade Reaction for Efficient Sustainable Production of ω-Amino Fatty Acids and α,ω-Diamines
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202400204. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400204. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInvited for this issue's cover is the group of Huilei Yu at the East China University of Science and Technology. The image shows a sustainable biosynthesis route to nylon monomers from bio-based substrate α, ω-dicarboxylic acids. The Research Article itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202301477.PMID:38369946 | DOI:10.1002/cssc.202400204 (Source: ChemSusChem)
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Ju-Mou Li Kun Shi Ai-Tao Li Zhi-Jun Zhang Hui-Lei Yu Jian-He Xu Source Type: research
Covalent Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting from Air
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202400049. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400049. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite approximately 70% of the earth being covered by water, water shortage has emerged as an urgent social challenge. Sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting stands out as a potent approach to alleviate the situation, particularly in arid regions. This method requires adsorbents with ample working capacity, rapid kinetics, low energy costs, and long-term stability under operating conditions. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a novel class of crystalline porous materials and offer distinct advantages due to their high ...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Fuxiang Wen Ning Huang Source Type: research
Recent Progress on Oligomeric Non-Fullerene Acceptors for Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202301559. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301559. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOrganic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved remarkable power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of over 19% in the past few years due to the rapid development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). However, the operational stability remains a great challenge that inhibits their commercialization. Recently, oligomeric NFAs (ONFAs) have attracted great attention, which not only can deliver excellent device performance, but also improve the thermal-/photo- stability of OSCs. This is attributed to the suppressed molecular diffusion of ONFAs as...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Feng Qi Yanxun Li Francis Lin Alex Jen Source Type: research
Green Additives in Chitosan-based Bioplastic Films: Long-term Stability Assessment and Aging Effects
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 19:e202301426. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301426. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough biomass-based alternatives for the manufacturing of bioplastic films are an important aspect of a more sustainable future, their physicochemical properties need to be able to compete with the existing market to establish them a viable alternative. One important factor that is often neglected is the long-term stability of renewables-based functional materials, as they should neither degrade after a day or week, nor last forever. One material showing high potential in this regard, also due to its intrinsic biodegradabilit...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Kordula B Schnabl Laurens D B Mandemaker Yadolah Ganjkhanlou Ina Vollmer Bert Marc Weckhuysen Source Type: research
Boosting Dimethyl Carbonate Production from CO2 and Methanol using Ceria-Ionic Liquid Catalyst
ChemSusChem. 2024 Feb 15:e202301805. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301805. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAs a crucial strategy towards a sustainable chemical industry, the direct synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from renewable carbon dioxide (CO2) and methanol (MeOH) is studied, using CeO2 nanoparticles modified with 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen carbonate ([BMIm][HCO3]) devoid of stoichiometric dehydrating agents. The synthesized CeO2@[BMIm][HCO3] catalyst having high thermal stability harnesses the unique physicochemical properties of CeO2 and the ionic liquid to exhibit a DMC yield of 10.4% and a methanol conversion ...
Source: ChemSusChem - February 16, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Bernard Baffour Asare-Bediako Mi Li Austin Houston Paolo Vilmercati Norman Mannella Nicole Labb é Nourredine Abdoulmoumine Source Type: research
