Showing papers in "Applied Surface Science in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the intensity ratio of the D* to G band and the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) was investigated to evaluate the degree of reduction of rGO.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photoreduction of CO2 into high value-added carbon-based compounds through photocatalytic reduction technology is considered as one of the more promising strategies to solve the greenhouse effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, a self-doped hollow-sphere porous carbon with a KOH to carbon mass ratio of 4 (NS-HPC-4) was obtained from abundant biomass puffball spores via a simple carbonization and KOH activation process for the first time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed iron oxide nanorods uniformly coated on the polypyrrole/reduced graphene oxide (Fe3O4@PPy/rGO) nanohybrids by the chemical reflux method.

TL;DR: In this article, the photocatalytic mechanism involving charge transfer and separation, and degradation path using step-scheme WO3/CdIn2S4 hybrid photocatalyst was investigated and discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the combination of electrospinning and hydrothermal method is developed to fabricate the composite membrane of ferri-based spinel CoFe2O4 (CFO) loaded nitrogen doped carbon nanofibers (CFONC) applied to positive current collector with Li2S6 catholyte and binder-free of Li-S batteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions for reliable X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis were checked by studying ion irradiation effects for single-phase Group IVB transition metal (IVB-TM) boride, carbide, nitride, and oxide thin film specimens.

TL;DR: In this paper, three Fe-based MOFs with significantly different porous properties and open metal sites were applied as adsorbents to remove TCH, and the adsorption mechanism was investigated using experiments and computations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized porous ZnO nanosheets using a conventional solvothermal method to investigate NO2 gas sensing properties, which triggered the detection of NO 2 gas with high sensitivity.

TL;DR: In this article, powder X-ray diffraction (p-XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and XPS were employed to accurately study the phosphate adsorption process onto lanthanum hydroxide adsorbent.

TL;DR: Sunlight active CdS/BiOBr heterojunction photocatalyst was fabricated by a solvothermal route as mentioned in this paper, which exhibited 100% removal of norfloxacin and ciprofloxinacin under simulated visible light and complete degradation of the antibiotics under natural sunlight.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of CeO2/BiOI S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts were prepared through a simple co-precipitation and hydrothermal method.

TL;DR: In this article, a facile hydrothermal method was used to construct new Z-scheme N-BiOBr/NiFe2O4-15 nanocomposites.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel catalyst composed of Ag3PO4 bridged by Ni/Ti LDH-graphene heterojunction structure was successfully prepared by a simple in-situ deposition method, which has excellent catalytic performance for 4-NP and 2-NA.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of flexoelectricity in photoexcited carrier separation and photocatalysis enhancement was elucidated by comparatively investigating the photocatalytic, flexocatalyt and flexo-photocatalysis activities of centrosymmetric Ag2MoO4 photocatalyst for degrading methylene blue (MB).

TL;DR: A space-confined carbonization strategy is developed to synthesize carbon nanosheets (CNSs) from various carbon precursors such as glucose and coal tar pitch (CTP) using expanded vermiculite as template.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple double organic ligand strategy and controllable pyrolysis treatment were used to regulate the Ni-MOF derived pomegranate-like Ni@C Microspheres.

TL;DR: In this paper, a super-low ruthenium (Ru) (0.6) doped bimetallic phosphide derived from 2D MIL-53(NiFe) MOF nanosheets (i.e., Ru-NiFeP/NF) on nickel foam was developed via a continuous two-step hydrothermal followed by phosphorization process.

TL;DR: In this article, the selectively Se-doped Co3O4@CeO2 nanoparticle-dotted nanoneedle arrays through three continuous operations of mild hydrothermal, air calcination and selective selenation were introduced.

TL;DR: An efficient nanocomposite adsorbent of magnetic core-shell MnFe2O4@TiO2 nanoparticles loaded on reduced graphene oxide was successfully synthesized via a hydrothermal followed by sol-gel route.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of different types of point defects on the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the two dimensional MoSi2N4 (MSN) monolayer was studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the scandium atom doped molybdenum sulfide material (Sc-MoS2) was proposed, and the adsorption behaviors of four typical SF6 decomposing gases (H2S, SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2) on the surfaces of intrinsic MoS2 and Sc-Mo S2 were studied based on density functional theory (DFT) method.

TL;DR: In this article, a hydrogel derived FeCo/FeCoP embedded in N, P-doped three-dimensional porous carbon framework was prepared by the high-temperature pyrolysis and subsequent acid-etching.

TL;DR: In this paper, Bismuth oxybromide/molybdenum disulfide/graphene oxide (BiOBr/MoS2/GO) heterojunction composites were fabricated to modulate the adsorption ability and photocatalytic degradation performance toward oxytetracycline (OTC).

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption of Rhodamine B (Rh.B) was achieved by Zeolite imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) in the dark condition, and the adaption rate was noticeably increased under visible and UV light irradiations.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-in-one strategy of combining photocatalysis with Fenton-like has broad prospects on establishing novel photocatalysts for eliminating hightoxic organic pollutants and generating O2 concurrently in aquatic environment.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-standing electrode, NiO/C@CNF composite, provides a high rate capability with high specific capacitances of 742.2 and 671.1F g−1, respectively.

TL;DR: A combination of density functional theory (DFT) and nonequilibrium green function (NEGF) based simulation was employed to investigate the prospects of two-dimensional (2D) WO3 materials for gas sensing applications as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, an emerging Ti3C2 MXene cocatalyst bridged Ag/Ag3PO4 to induce a highly visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity, synthesized by electrostatic self-assembly method and the partial reduction of Ag+ ions to Ag0 in MXene solution.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was demonstrated that the mostly F-terminated Ti3C2Tx MXene could play as a strong adsorbent of methylene blue (MB) in wastewater.