Lysine-Functionalized Layered Double Hydroxides For The Antibiotics’ Efficient Removal: Controllable Fabrication Via BBD Model And Removing Mechanism

Ly @ FeZn layered double hydroxides (LDHs) controllable fabrication based on Box-Behnken Design (BBD) model was fabricated, and presented stable and efficient removal performance for Ciprofloxacin (CIP), Norfloxacin (NOR) and Ofloxacin (OFL) removal. It should be noted that Ly @ FeZn had different adsorption behavior towards CIP, NOR and OFL. Furthermore, the Ly @ FeZn was characterized by SEM, XRD, FT-IR and XPS. Results revealed the optimized fabrication condition (temperature of 60 °C, Fe / Zn molar ratio of 0.5 and the lysine dosage of 5.8 mmol) for the removing efficient. The highest adsorption capacity of CIP, NOR and OFL were 193.83, 190.20 and 62.12 mg/g, respectively. Adsorption kinetics of both CIP and NOR were well simulated with the pseudo-first-order kinetic model, while that of OFL was well-described by the pseudo-second-order. Moreover, the adsorption thermodynamics of CIP and NOR on Ly @ FeZn indicated that the adsorption processes were exothermal, feasible and spontaneous. It was worth noting that the adsorption mechanism of Ly @ FeZn for CIP and NOR were the synergistic reaction of electrostatic attraction, chemical bonding and flocculation. On the other side, the adsorption behavior of OFL was relatively low, and the adsorption mechanism was only electrostatic attraction.

Controllable Fabrication of SiC@C-Fe3O4 Hybrids and Their Excellent Electromagnetic Absorption Properties

In this work, a batch of novel ternary hybrids (SiC@C-Fe3O4), characterized by SiC nanowires core, carbon shell, and adhered Fe3O4 nanoparticles were controllably synthesized via surface carbonization of SiCnw followed by hydrothermal reaction. Carbon, which was derived from SiC with nanometer thickness, possesses an amorphous structure, while Fe3O4 nanoparticles are in a crystalline state. Simultaneously, the inducement of Fe3O4 nanoparticles can provide significant magnetic loss, which is well-tuned by changing the molar content of iron precursors (FeCl3·6H2O and FeCl2·4H2O). SiC@C-Fe3O4 hybrids show great electromagnetic absorption performance owing to the synergy effect of dielectric and magnetic losses. The minimum refection loss can reach to −63.71 dB at 11.20 GHz with a thickness of 3.10 mm, while the broad effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) can reach to 7.48 GHz in range of 10.52–18.00 GHz with a thickness of 2.63 mm. Moreover, the EAB can also cover the whole X band and Ku band. The outstanding performance of the obtained material implys that it is a promising candidate as an electromagnetic absorber.

A Novel Technique for Controllable Fabrication of Multilayer Copper/Brass Block

Fabricating a dissimilar-metal block with micro/nano-multilayered structures is usually used by engineers and scientists because of their excellent mechanical properties. In the current work, multilayered copper/brass blocks were effectively fabricated by a synthetical DWFR technique, which includes the processes of diffusion welding, forging and rolling. Diffusion welding was used as the first operation to metallurgically bond the copper and brass sheets, with a Zn diffusion transition layer (thickness of ~100 μm), which can guarantee the bonding strength of copper/brass interfaces during the subsequent forging and rolling processes. After diffusion welding, the original copper/brass blocks were required to be forged, with its total thickness reduced to ~10 mm. This can further restrain the delamination of copper and brass layers during the final rolling process. Rolling was utilized as the ideal operation that can precisely tune the thickness of copper/brass laminate. This novel DWFR technique can easily tune the multilayered copper/brass blocks with controllable layer thickness (from ~250 to ~800 nm). The copper/brass interfaces were well-bonded, and the utilization efficiency of raw materials was very high (>95%).

One-Dimensional (NH=CINH3)3PbI5 Perovskite for Ultralow Power Consumption Resistive Memory

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) have proven to be promising active layers for nonvolatile memories because of their rich abundance in earth, mobile ions, and adjustable dimensions. However, there is a lack of investigation on controllable fabrication and storage properties of one-dimensional (1D) OIHPs. Here, the growth of 1D (NH=CINH3)3PbI5 ((IFA)3PbI5) perovskite and related resistive memory properties are reported. The solution-processed 1D (IFA)3PbI5 crystals are of well-defined monoclinic crystal phase and needle-like shape with the length of about 6 mm. They exhibit a wide bandgap of 3 eV and a high decomposition temperature of 206°C. Moreover, the (IFA)3PbI5 films with good uniformity and crystallization were obtained using a dual solvent of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). To study the intrinsic electric properties of this anisotropic material, we constructed the simplest memory cell composed of only Au/(IFA)3PbI5/ITO, contributing to a high-compacted device with a crossbar array device configuration. The resistive random access memory (ReRAM) devices exhibit bipolar current-voltage (I-V) hysteresis characteristics, showing a record-low power consumption of ~0.2 mW among all OIHP-based memristors. Moreover, our devices own the lowest power consumption and “set” voltage (0.2 V) among the simplest perovskite-based memory devices (inorganic ones are also included), which are no need to require double metal electrodes or any additional insulating layer. They also demonstrate repeatable resistance switching behaviour and excellent retention time. We envision that 1D OIHPs can enrich the low-dimensional hybrid perovskite library and bring new functions to low-power information devices in the fields of memory and other electronics applications.