Bifunctional MnOx electrocatalysts for zinc–air batteries in alkaline electrolytes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genesis D. Renderos ◽  
Jason Kuang ◽  
Kenneth J. Takeuchi ◽  
Esther S. Takeuchi ◽  
Amy C. Marschilok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Manganese Oxides ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Natural Abundance ◽  
Alkaline Electrolytes ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Zinc Air Batteries

The growing need for rechargeable zinc–air batteries has led researchers to look for low-cost and robust catalytic candidates. Manganese oxides are promising for their low toxicity, natural abundance and low cost. In this review, we summarize the versatility of manganese oxides which is achievable by adjusting synthetic parameters. In addition, we highlight how manganese oxides impact zinc–air electrochemistry.

Nano Phytomedicine Based Delivery System for CNS Disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 661-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Asadullah Jahangir ◽  
Chettupalli Anand ◽  
Abdul Muheem ◽  
Sadaf Jamal Gilani ◽  
Mohamad Taleuzzaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Herbal Drugs ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Plant Sources ◽  
Herbal Formulations

Herbal medicines are being used since ancient times and are an important part of the alternative and traditional medicinal system. In recent decades, scientists are embracing herbal medicines based on the fact that a number of drugs that are currently in use are derived directly or indirectly from plant sources. Moreover, herbal drugs have lesser side effects, albeit are potentially strong therapeutic agents. The herbal medicine market is estimated to be around US $62 billion globally. Herbal medicine has gained widespread acceptance due to its low toxicity, low cost, ease of accessibility and efficacy in treating difficult diseases. Safety and efficacy are another important factors in the commercialization process of herbal medicines. Nanotechnology has been shown to be potentially effective in improving the bioactivity and bioavailability of herbal medicines. Development of nano-phytomedicines (or by reducing the size of phytomedicine), attaching polymers with phytomedicines and modifying the surface properties of herbal drugs, have increased the solubility, permeability and eventually the bioavailability of herbal formulations. Novel formulations such as niosomes, liposomes, nanospheres, phytosomes etc., can be exploited in this area. This article reviews herbal medicines, which have prominent activity in the Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders and reported nano-phytomedicines based delivery systems.

scholarly journals A simple approach to prepare fluorescent molecularly imprinted nanoparticles

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 7732-7737
Author(s):  
Fenying Wang ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Tingting Wang ◽  
Yu Jin ◽  
Baoping Ling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Silica Sol ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
Imprinted Polymer ◽  
Molecularly Imprinted ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Good Biocompatibility ◽  
Molecularly Imprinted Nanoparticles

Fluorescent molecularly imprinted polymer (FMIP) gains great attention in many fields due to their low cost, good biocompatibility and low toxicity. Here, a high-performance FMIP was prepared based on the autocatalytic silica sol–gel reaction.

scholarly journals High catalytic activity for formaldehyde oxidation of an interconnected network structure composed of δ-MnO2 nanosheets and γ-MnOOH nanowires

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-439
Author(s):  
Ying Tao ◽  
Rong Li ◽  
Ai-Bin Huang ◽  
Yi-Ning Ma ◽  
Shi-Dong Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Activity ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Manganese Oxides ◽  
Active Oxygen Species ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Dispersion ◽  
Hydroxyl Groups ◽  
High Catalytic Activity ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
Surface Hydroxyl

AbstractAmong the transition metal oxide catalysts, manganese oxides have great potential for formaldehyde (HCHO) oxidation at ambient temperature because of their high activity, nontoxicity, low cost, and polybasic morphologies. In this work, a MnO2-based catalyst (M-MnO2) with an interconnected network structure was successfully synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal method. The M-MnO2 catalyst was composed of the main catalytic agent, δ-MnO2 nanosheets, dispersed in a nonactive framework material of γ-MnOOH nanowires. The catalytic activity of M-MnO2 for HCHO oxidation at room temperature was much higher than that of the pure δ-MnO2 nanosheets. This is attributed to the special interconnected network structure. The special interconnected network structure has high dispersion and specific surface area, which can provide more surface active oxygen species and higher surface hydroxyl groups to realize rapid decomposition of HCHO.

Effect of Li Source on Charge/Discharge Performance of LiFePO4

2012 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Hong Quan Liu ◽  
Fei Xiang Hao ◽  
Yi Jie Gu ◽  
Yun Bo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Ion Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Distance ◽  
Pore Characteristics ◽  
Discharge Performance ◽  
High Theoretical Capacity ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Li Ion ◽  
Potential Plateau

LiFePO4 has been considered as the most promising positive electrode due to its low cost, high theoretical capacity, stability and low toxicity, all highly required in vehicle applications. In this work, LiFePO4 compound was synthesized by the solid carbothermic reduction reactions with different Li resource. The pure LiFePO4 phase was confirmed for all samples by analysis of the XRD results. The different morphologies were obtained due to different Li resources. The potential plateau of all samples is in the range from 3V to 4V. The sample (LiCO3 as the Li resource) has a higher discharge capacity of 118mAhg−1 at 0.2C 20% greater than that of the sample (LiOH as the Li resource). The reason comes maybe from nano pore characteristics, which reduce Li ion diffusion distance, and increase the utilization efficiency of material.

Simultaneous enhancements in the Seebeck coefficient and conductivity of PEDOT:PSS by blending ferroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang'an Li ◽  
Xin Guan ◽  
Shizhong Yue ◽  
Xi Zu Wang ◽  
Jianmin Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Seebeck Coefficient ◽  
Thermoelectric Properties ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Low Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Batio3 Nanoparticles

Thermoelectric polymers have attracted great attention because of their unique merits including low thermal conductivity, low cost, non- or low toxicity and high mechanical flexibility. However, their thermoelectric properties particularly...

scholarly journals Traditional Herbal Medicine: A Review of Potential of Inhibitory Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Basic Research and Clinical Trial

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhidong Wang ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Yuanyuan Ji ◽  
Peng An ◽  
Shu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Herbal Remedy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Traditional Herbal Medicine ◽  
Aggressive Cancer ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Arterial Chemoembolization

Although significantly develops in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), features of HCC remain an aggressive cancer with a dismal outcome. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), specifically Chinese herbal medicine (CHM), is one of the most popular complementary and alternative medicine modalities worldwide. The use of heat-clearing and detoxicating (Chinese namedqingre jiedu) CHM has attracted great attention as an alternative antitumor including HCC considering its low toxicity and high activity. Together these reports indicate that CHM is a promising anti-HCC herbal remedy in basic research. For patients with advanced HCC, CHM including formula and single combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization or chemotherapy is able to decrease tumor growth and the side effect of toxicity and improve overall survival, quality of life, and immune function. Due to its abundance, low cost, and safety in consumption, CHM remains a species with tremendous potential for further investigation in HCC.

scholarly journals Degradation of methylene blue by natural manganese oxides: kinetics and transformation products

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 190351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuangxi Zhou ◽  
Zhiling Du ◽  
Xiuwen Li ◽  
Yunhai Zhang ◽  
Yide He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Methylene Blue ◽  
Manganese Oxides ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Reaction System ◽  
Transformation Products ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Initial Concentration ◽  
Environmental Material ◽  
High Redox Potential

In this study, natural manganese oxides (MnO x ), an environmental material with high redox potential, were used as a promising low-cost oxidant to degrade the widely used dyestuff methylene blue (MB) in aqueous solution. Although the surface area of MnO x was only 7.17 m 2 g −1 , it performed well in the degradation of MB with a removal percentage of 85.6% at pH 4. It was found that MB was chemically degraded in a low-pH reaction system and the degradation efficiency correlated negatively with the pH value (4–8) and initial concentration of MB (10–50 mg l −1 ), but positively with the dosage of MnO x (1–5 g l −1 ). The degradation of MB fitted well with the second-order kinetics. Mathematical models were also built for the correlation of the kinetic constants with the pH value, the initial concentration of MB and the dosage of MnO x . Furthermore, several transformation products of MB were identified with HPLC-MS, which was linked with the bond energy theory to reveal that the degradation was initiated with demethylation.

scholarly journals Copper Oxide-Based Photocatalysts and Photocathodes: Fundamentals and Recent Advances

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (23) ◽  
pp. 7271
Author(s):  
Tomasz Baran ◽  
Alberto Visibile ◽  
Michael Busch ◽  
Xiufang He ◽  
Szymon Wojtyla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Co2 Reduction ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Water Electrolysis ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
Abundant Element ◽  
Direct Use

This work aims at reviewing the most impactful results obtained on the development of Cu-based photocathodes. The need of a sustainable exploitation of renewable energy sources and the parallel request of reducing pollutant emissions in airborne streams and in waters call for new technologies based on the use of efficient, abundant, low-toxicity and low-cost materials. Photoelectrochemical devices that adopts abundant element-based photoelectrodes might respond to these requests being an enabling technology for the direct use of sunlight to the production of energy fuels form water electrolysis (H2) and CO2 reduction (to alcohols, light hydrocarbons), as well as for the degradation of pollutants. This review analyses the physical chemical properties of Cu2O (and CuO) and the possible strategies to tune them (doping, lattice strain). Combining Cu with other elements in multinary oxides or in composite photoelectrodes is also discussed in detail. Finally, a short overview on the possible applications of these materials is presented.

Molten salts-assisted synthesis of special open-cell Fe, N co-doped porous carbon as an efficient electrocatalyst for zinc-air batteries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Gao ◽  
Xuan Xie ◽  
Kanjun Sun ◽  
Xiaofei Lei ◽  
Tianyu Hou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Activity ◽  
Porous Carbon ◽  
Molten Salts ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Catalytic Activity ◽  
Open Cell ◽  
Co Doped ◽  
Excellent Stability ◽  
Zinc Air Batteries

Fe, N co-doped carbon electrocatalyst is one of the most attractive alternatives to Pt/C catalysts due to its high catalytic activity, excellent stability and low cost. However, obtaining stable and...

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