Showing papers in "Applied Surface Science in 2019"

TL;DR: Interestingly, at the concentration range in which the AgNPs showed an antibacterial effect, they were not toxic to HaCaT mammalian cells, suggesting green tea synthesized AgNPS could find important biomedical applications in the combat of pathogenic bacteria with low cytotoxicity to normal cells.

TL;DR: The Towards Oxide-Based Electronics (TO-BE) Action as mentioned in this paper has been recently running in Europe and has involved as participants several hundred scientists from 29 EU countries in a wide four-year project.

TL;DR: In this article, a Z-scheme heterostructured α-Fe2O3@g-C3N4 catalyst was successfully synthesized through co-calcination of melamine and Fe-based MOF.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-step polymer-network gel process was used to synthesize Ag-ZnO nanocatalyst with superior photocatalytic properties, which can be further improved by optimizing the external factors, such as catalyst dosage, ambient temperature and initial solution pH.

TL;DR: In this paper, the most stable doping site of Ni atom on pristine InN monolayer and adsorption behavior of Ni-doped InN (Ni-InN) was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a density functional theory (DFT) method was carried out to simulate the adsorption of three dissolved gases on Pd-doped MOS2 (Pd-MoS2) monolayer.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical Ti3C2/Fe3O4/PANI ternary composite was synthesized using HF etching, coprecipitation and in-situ polymerization route.

TL;DR: In this article, a kind of novel chemical mechanical polishing slurry is developed consisting of silica, hydrogen peroxide and chitosan oligosaccharide, where all the three compositions are environment friendly.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent progress on MnO2-based materials for catalytic oxidation of HCHO, with a particular emphasis on the enhancement of the catalytic activity at low temperature, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the mild steel corrosion inhibition in 1 1/M HCl solution containing Mangifera indica (mango) (M. indica) leaves extract was examined by electrochemical and surface studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile and effective approach to reduce graphene oxide spontaneously by zinc metal is developed and subsequently, the reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is self-assembled to create a layer-by-layer film on the Zn foil surface.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical porous Ni/Co-layered double hydroxide (NiCo-LDH) hollow dodecahedra was synthesized by etching zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) as a self-sacrificing template with Ni(NO3)2.

TL;DR: In this article, a noble metal-free visible-light driven composite was successfully synthesized via a simply one-pot hydrothermal method, which possessed the unique nanosheets-on-microrods heterostructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors comprehensively summarize the significant and recent advances in room-temperature HCHO oxidation over noble metal-based catalysts, which contain platinum (Pt), gold (Au), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), and/or rhodium (Rh) as the essential ingredient.

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption behaviors of methylene blue, rhodamine B, and methyl orange over graphene oxide were studied both experimentally and theoretically, and it was shown that the selectivity for positive dye was rapid and quantitative where removal efficiencies of 97% and 88% were obtained for the positive dyes methylene Blue and rhodamines B, respectively, within 15min; the negative dye, methyl orange, was not adsorbed.

TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental and important interface engineering strategies of designing hierarchical photocatalysts, such as fabricating Z-Scheme heterojunctions, constructing Schottky-based heterjunctions, creating carbon-based and designing multicomponent heterjunction, are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical CdS-Ag2S nanocomposites was synthesized through a microwave-assisted solvothermal method, which exhibited a high visible light photocatalytic H2 evolution rate of 375.6

TL;DR: In this article, the Ni foam served as the skeleton frame for anchoring Co, Mn-LDH nanoneedles to form three dimensional net structures, and open spaces among Co, LDH nano-needles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile sol-gel method was used to synthesize hexagonal boron nitride (H-BN)/titania (TiO2) nanocomposites photocatalysts.

TL;DR: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was investigated for suppressing copper corrosion in 0.5 M H2SO4 through electrochemical measurement, microscopic surface observation, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the electronic and optical properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of graphene-like gallium nitride (g-GaN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel isotype heterojunction consisted of MCN and UCN, respectively derived from hydrothermally-treated melamine and urea, was synthesized.

TL;DR: ZnIn2S4 flower-like microspheres decorated with CeO2 as cocatalyst have been successfully fabricated through a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method for visible-light carbon dioxide (CO2) photoreduction to produce methanol (CH3OH) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with Pt co-catalyst was synthesized by in-situ photoreduction and used as a visible light photocatalyst.

TL;DR: In this article, a Z-scheme photocatalytic system mechanism of N-ZnO/g-C3N4 composites was proposed for the enhanced H2 evolution and degradation rate.

TL;DR: In this article, p type Cu2−xSe/n type CdS composite photocatalyst was proposed for the first time to improve photocatalysis performance for Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of vertical heterostructures formed by transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) MX2 and boron nitride (BP) were addressed.

TL;DR: In this article, the Ni-phosphorus (Ni-P) cocatalyst decorated graphitic C3N4 was used for photocatalytic water splitting to H2 generation.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple solvothermal route for in situ heterogeneous nucleation and growth of Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles on the Ti3C2Tx MXene surface and interlayer was reported, thus balancing the impedance matching, introducing more loss mechanism and enhancing microwave absorption performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ZIF-67@Fe3O4@ESM composite was synthesized using a facile, efficient, and green ultrasound-assisted method, and the results showed that the Langmuir adsorption isotherm well explained the obtained equilibrium data with a maximum adsore capacity of 344.82 and 250.81 mg/g for Cu2+ and BR18, respectively.