Recent advances in vegetable oil-based polymers and their composites

Gas hydrates have received considerable attention due to their important role in flow assurance for the oil and gas industry, their extensive natural occurrence on Earth and extraterrestrial planets, and their significant applications in sustainable technologies including but not limited to gas and energy storage, gas separation, and water desalination Given not only their inherent structural flexibility depending on the type of guest gas molecules and formation conditions, but also the synthetic effects of a wide range of chemical additives on their properties, these variabilities could be exploited to optimise the role of gas hydrates This includes increasing their industrial applications, understanding and utilising their role in Nature, identifying potential methods for safely extracting natural gases stored in naturally occurring hydrates within the Earth, and for developing green technologies This review summarizes the different properties of gas hydrates as well as their formation and dissociation kinetics and then reviews the fast-growing literature reporting their role and applications in the aforementioned fields, mainly concentrating on advances during the last decade Challenges, limitations, and future perspectives of each field are briefly discussed The overall objective of this review is to provide readers with an extensive overview of gas hydrates that we hope will stimulate further work on this riveting field

Gas hydrates in sustainable chemistry

Recent advances in g-C3N4-based heterojunction photocatalysts

Applications of carbon dots in environmental pollution control: A review

Abstract Chromogenic materials allow the transmittance of visible light and solar energy to be varied under the action of an external stimulus. This paper first discusses buildings related energy savings that can be accomplished by chromogenic technologies, and their beneficial effects on comfort issues. We then summarize recent work on thermochromic VO 2 -based thin films with particular attention to multi-layers of VO 2 and TiO 2 and to new VO 2 :Mg films for which the doping gives significantly lowered absorption of visible light. The final part covers electrochromic materials and devices with foci on coloration efficiency and on durability issues for foil-type constructions based on films of WO 3 and NiO.

Advances in Chromogenic Materials and Devices

Recent Advances in Synthesis of Waterborne Polyurethane and Their Application in Water-based Ink: A Review

Discoloration mechanism, structures and recent applications of thermochromic materials via different methods: A review

Morphology and thermal properties of polyurethane elastomer based on representative structural chain extenders

Synthesis of fluorescent carbon quantum dots from aqua mesophase pitch and their photocatalytic degradation activity of organic dyes

High-performance electrode materials derived from biomass for supercapacitors have been considered as an effective solution to the problems of the fossil energy shortage and the environment deterioration. Most importantly, the specific capacitance, rate performance and cyclic stability for these electrode materials are focused issues. Here, we prepare a new type porous carbon using laminaria japonica as the carbon source via a simple carbonization and activation method, and investigate its morphology, structure and electrochemical properties. The results show that the porous carbon materials exhibit amorphous structure, high specific surface area with abundant pores and oxygen functional groups. The specific capacitance of the porous carbon with a large specific surface area of 1902.42 m2 g−1 and total pore volume of 1.26 cm3 g−1 can reach to 192 F g−1 at 0.1 A g−1. Furthermore, this porous carbon possesses a specific capacitance of 120 F g−1 at 10 A g−1, nearly 100% capacitance retention rate and coulomb efficiency after 10000 cycles at 1 A g−1, indicating excellent rate performance and cyclic stability. Therefore, as-prepared porous carbons derived from laminaria japonica with low cost, easy availability, high regeneration ability and sustainability have a promising application as the electrode materials for supercapacitors.

Youliang Cheng

Papers

Recent Advances in Synthesis of Waterborne Polyurethane and Their Application in Water-based Ink: A Review

Discoloration mechanism, structures and recent applications of thermochromic materials via different methods: A review

Morphology and thermal properties of polyurethane elastomer based on representative structural chain extenders

Synthesis of fluorescent carbon quantum dots from aqua mesophase pitch and their photocatalytic degradation activity of organic dyes

Synthesis of porous carbon materials derived from laminaria japonica via simple carbonization and activation for supercapacitors