Shanghai University

About: Shanghai University is a education organization based out in Shanghai, Shanghai, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Graphene. The organization has 59583 authors who have published 56840 publications receiving 753549 citations. The organization is also known as: Shànghǎi Dàxué.

Bioinspired Design of Strong, Tough, and Thermally Stable Polymeric Materials via Nanoconfinement

Abstract: The combination of high strength, great toughness, and high heat resistance for polymeric materials is a vital factor for their practical applications. Unfortunately, until now it has remained a major challenge to achieve this performance portfolio because the mechanisms of strength and toughness are mutually exclusive. In the natural world, spider silk features the combination of high strength, great toughness, and excellent thermal stability, which are governed by the nanoconfinement of hydrogen-bonded β-sheets. Here, we report a facile bioinspired methodology for fabricating advanced polymer composite films with a high tensile strength of 152.8 MPa, a high stiffness of 4.35 GPa, and a tensile toughness of 30.3 MJ/m3 in addition to high thermal stability (69 °C higher than that of the polymer matrix) only by adding 2.0 wt % of artificial β-sheets. The mechanical and thermostable performance portfolio is superior to that of its counterparts developed to date because of the nanoconfinement and hydrogen-bo...

Scale–Activity Relationship of MnOx-FeOy Nanocage Catalysts Derived from Prussian Blue Analogues for Low-Temperature NO Reduction: Experimental and DFT Studies

Abstract: Size effects have been recognized to promote the catalytic activity and selectivity of metal oxide particles. So far, limited works and studies are conducted to investigate the size effect of metal oxide with the tailored shape in the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 (NH3–SCR). Herein, the MnOx-FeOy nanocage catalysts with varied scales (0.25, 0.5, 1, and 2 μm) were synthesized via a Prussian blue analogue (PBA)-derived method and used for NH3–SCR of NO. By preforming a series of the activity tests over the nanocages with different scales, the NH3–SCR activity of 0.5 μm MnOx-FeOy nanocage catalysts exhibits the highest deNOx activity in the temperature range of 80–200 °C owing to more preferable physical and chemical properties. It has been demonstrated that there is a strong interaction among Mn and Fe cations in the 0.5 μm MnOx-FeOy nanocages. Moreover, the H2-TPR and XPS analysis prove 0.5 μm nanocages exhibit excellent redox properties, which contribute to the higher conservation of NOx. ...