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Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The water permeability of amorphous carbon dots (CDs) is demonstrated by investigating their plasticization. Novel polyamide‐based and amorphous nanoparticles are synthesized by controlling their inner packing density. Water plasticization is evidenced by the decrease of the CDs glass transition temperature with increasing the hydration degree.
Elisa Sturabotti, Valerio Di Lisio, Lucia Cardo, Alessandro Camilli, Estela Moretón Alfonsín, Daniele Cangialosi, Amaia Iturrospe Ibarra, Arantxa Arbe, Maurizio Prato   +8 more
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Tuning Amorphous‐Crystalline Catalytic Interfaces by Mechanochemistry: Cu‐Based Metallic Glasses Coupled with Ceria for CO Oxidation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Ball‐milling Cu‐based metallic glasses with ceria creates a unique nanostructure where metallic glass particles are wrapped by CeO2 nanoparticles. The intimate integration triggers copper state reorganization during reaction and aging, boosting CO oxidation and COPrOx activity.
Maahin Mirzay‐Shahim, Mehran Nabahat, Laia Pascua‐Solé, Isabel Serrano, Ilaria Lucentini, Xènia Garcia, Marina Armengol‐Profitós, Asier Agrelo‐Lestón, Ignasi Burgués‐Ceballos, Núria J. Divins, Ignacio J. Villar‐Garcia, Virginia Pérez‐Dieste, Carlos Escudero, Carlo Marini, Jordi Llorca, Eloi Pineda, Pere Bruna, Lluís Soler   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil salinity hazard monitoring with portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and electrical conductivity meters

Frontiers in Soil Science
Soil salinization is a major form of land degradation that diminishes soil fertility and health, thereby severely impacting the economic development and livelihood improvement of agrarian countries worldwide.
Tarik El Moatassem, Ayoub Lazaar, Fassil Kebede   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades, Pedro Hidalgo, David Maestre, Ruth Martínez‐Casado, Emilio Nogales, Beatriz Rodríguez, G. Cristian Vásquez, Bianchi Méndez   +7 more
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POM‐Based Water Splitting Catalyst Under Acid Conditions Driven by Its Assembly on Carbon Nanotubes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A newly‐engineered POM‐based electrocatalyst incorporating non‐innocent counter cations exhibits fast kinetics for either the OER or HER under strongly acidic conditions (1 m H2SO4), depending on whether it is assembled on carbon nanotubes (1@CNT) or physically mixed with them (1/CNT). In water‐splitting tests using a two‐electrode setup, these systems
Eugenia P. Quirós‐Díez, Melanie Guillén‐Soler, Carlos Herreros‐Lucas, Alejandro López‐Moreno, José Manuel Vila‐Fungueiriño, Antonio Luis Llamas‐Saiz, Karol Strutyński, Manuel Melle‐Franco, María del Carmen Giménez‐López   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correcting field determination of elemental contents in soils via portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

Ciência e Agrotecnologia
Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry has been useful worldwide for determining soil elemental content under both field and laboratory conditions.
Thaís Santos Branco Dijair, Fernanda Magno Silva, Anita Fernanda dos Santos Teixeira, Sérgio Henrique Godinho Silva, Luiz Roberto Guimarães Guilherme, Nilton Curi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Cu‐Based Near‐IR Active MOF with an Ion‐Pair Guest Exhibiting Versatile and Selective Gas‐Solid Reactivity

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The new Cu‐containing MOF (Me2NH2)(CuICl2)@[Cu4(INA)4Cl2O]·1.5dmf (3) contains a cation and an anion as guests and shows UV‐near‐mid‐IR absorption and near‐IR emission. MOF 3 shows gas‐solid reactivity in the presence of NH3 and HCOOH to yield two new 3D MOF.
Rajat Saha, Alejandro Cortés‐Villena, Silvia Gómez‐Coca, Alberto Fernández‐Alarcón, Joaquín Calbo, Raquel E. Galian, Enrique Ortí, Eliseo Ruiz, Mónica Giménez‐Marqués, Samia Benmansour, Carlos J. Gómez‐García   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure assessment of nanotitanium oxide powder handling using real-time size-selective particle number concentration measurements and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry -The possibility of exposure to nonagglomerated nanomaterials during the handling of nanomaterial fine powders. [PDF]

Ind Health, 2022
Takaya M, Yamada M, Kobayashi K, Higashikubo I, Hagiwara M, Ono-Ogasawara M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for Environmental Applications

, 2020
Heavy metal contamination in environmental applications is particularly important because of its potential impact on associated ecosystems and human health. At present, monitoring of heavy metals is usually done by taking and preparing samples for off-line laboratory measurements. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis is a powerful and widely used tool for
openaire   +2 more sources

Azaporphyrinoid‐Based Photo‐ and Electroactive Architectures for Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A long‐standing collaboration between the Torres and Guldi groups has yielded diverse azaporphyrinoid‐based donor‐acceptor nanohybrids with promising applications in solar energy conversion. This conspectus highlights key molecular platforms and structure‐function relationships that govern light and charge management, supporting the rational design of ...
Jorge Labella, Kobra Azizi, Dirk M. Guldi, Tomás Torres   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source