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Hybrid solvents based on cholinium amino acid ionic liquids ([Ch][AA] ILs) mixed with water are environmentally benign solvents with low toxicity. [Ch][AA] ILs are used in biomass pretreatment processes to dissolve targeted (macro)molecules such as lignin from lingnocellulose. Understanding how [Ch][AA] ILs dissolve polymers is therefore of great i...
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Simple preparation, favorable price and environmental protection have been a long-term challenge in the field of electrochemistry. Herein, we studied and prepared a bifunctional Mo-doped Co3O4 ultrathin nanosheets, which has been validated as an effective binder-free electrode material for electrocatalytic water splitting and supercapacitors. The m...
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Electrocatalytic water splitting used for generating clean and sustainable hydrogen (H2) can be very promising to address current energy shortage and associated environmental issues. However, this methodology is severely impeded by the tardy oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Hence, designing a preferable kinetics and thermodynamics oxidation reactio...
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Absorbing materials can convert electromagnetic wave (EMW) energy into heat and other energy and dissipate it. Carbon materials can attenuate EMW by generating large conduction losses due to their high conductivity. The introduction of low dielectric materials can improve impedance matching caused by high conductivity. However, the density of mater...
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This work firstly demonstrates the ethanolamine (ETA)-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of BiVO4, with different ratios of exposed {110}/{010} planes and relates this to performance in photocatalytic oxidative coupling of benzylamine under visible light. {110}-dominant BiVO4 exhibits outstanding photocatalytic activity at room temperature owing to sy...
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Sluggish charge transfers at the electrode/electrolyte interface and fast recombination of electron-hole pairs limit the photoelectrocatalytic water-splitting ability of the bismuth tungstate (Bi2WO6). To address these issues, sulfur doped-graphitic carbon nitride/bismuth tungstate (S-g-C3N4/Bi2WO6) heterostructured hybrid material with different w...
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It is still challenging to construct stable 3D energy storage materials at the nanoscale by precise pore structure control and reasonable surface modification. Herein, a novel interwoven porous Co(CO3)0.35Cl0.20(OH)1.10 (CoCCHH)-CoSe heterogeneous-tube @PEDOT:PSS 3D foam with abundant active sites is presented as supercapacitor electrodes. The elec...
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Under specific conditions, rod-like cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) can assemble into structurally ordered soft glasses (SGs) with anisotropy that can be controlled by applying shear. However, to achieve full structural control of SGs in real industrial processes, their response to mixed shear and extensional kinematics needs to be determined. We hypo...
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Conductive hydrogels present great potential in bioelectronics, ionotronic devices, and electronic skin. However, the creeping and plastic deformation of hydrogel often lead to poor stability and low reliability in applications. Here, we report a highly elastic conductive hydrogel based on crosslinked carbon nanotubes (CNT) and poly(vinyl alcohol) ...
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The adsorption of nonionic polymers to cellulose is of large importance both in the plant cell wall during synthesis and for the development of sustainable materials from wood. Here, the thermodynamics of adsorption of the polysaccharide xyloglucan (XG) to both native and chemically modified cellulose with carboxyl groups was investigated using mol...
