Modulation of ligand fields in a single-atom site by the molten salt strategy for enhanced oxygen bifunctional activity for zinc-air batteries

K Wang, Z Lu, J Lei, Z Liu, Y Li, Y Cao - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Achieving full utilization of active sites and optimization of the electronic structure of metal
centers is the key to improving the intrinsic activity of single-atom catalysts (SACs) but still …

Utilization of MSWI fly ash for stabilization/solidification of industrial waste sludge

G Qian, Y Cao, P Chui, J Tay - Journal of hazardous materials, 2006 - Elsevier
This work investigated the potential for utilization of MSWI incineration fly ash as solidification
binder to treat heavy metals-bearing industrial waste sludge. In the study, Municipal Solid …

Construction of Co2P/CoP@ Co@ NCNT rich-interface to synergistically promote overall water splitting

Z Lu, Y Cao, J Xie, J Hu, K Wang, D Jia - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructing heterostructures with rich-interface by the interfacial electron modulating is the
key to integrating the rich functionalities for elcetrocatalysis. Herein, heterogeneous …

Boosting the supercapacitor performance of activated carbon by constructing overall conductive networks using graphene quantum dots

Y Qing, Y Jiang, H Lin, L Wang, A Liu, Y Cao… - Journal of materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Although high-surface-area activated carbons have been widely used for supercapacitors,
they usually have limited capacitive and rate performances primarily because of the low …

Rational design of CdS/BiOCl S-scheme heterojunction for effective boosting piezocatalytic H2 evolution and pollutants degradation performances

P Hao, Y Cao, X Ning, R Chen, J Xie, J Hu, Z Lu… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezocatalysis as an emerging technology is broadly applied in hydrogen evolution and
organic pollutants degradation aspects. However, the dissatisfactory piezocatalytic activity is a …

Large-surface-area activated carbon with high density by electrostatic densification for supercapacitor electrodes

…, J Li, Z Jiang, M Shi, R Sheng, Z Liu, S Zhang, Y Cao… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Although activated carbon has been widely used for supercapacitors, the unsatisfactory
volumetric capacitance and rate performance caused by the well-developed porous structure …

Facile solid-state synthesis of Ag/graphene oxide nanocomposites as highly active and stable catalyst for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol

Y Li, Y Cao, J Xie, D Jia, H Qin, Z Liang - Catalysis Communications, 2015 - Elsevier
A facile solid-state synthetic route was used to fabricate graphene oxide (GO) decorated with
Ag nanoparticles. Ag/GO nanocomposites were prepared by reducing silver acetate with …

Experimental evaluation of decrease in bacterial activity due to cell death and activity decay in activated sludge

X Hao, Q Wang, X Zhang, Y Cao… - Water research, 2009 - Elsevier
Decrease in bacterial activity (cell decay) in activated sludge can be attributed to cell death (reduction
in the amount of active bacteria) and activity decay (reduction in the specific …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanically triggered reversible stepwise tricolor switching and thermochromism of anthracene-o-carborane dyad

X Wu, J Guo, Y Cao, J Zhao, W Jia, Y Chen, D Jia - Chemical Science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel single organic molecule–carborane conjugate, CAN, was synthesized in a high yield
via a modified nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction incorporating an anthracene unit …

Effective promoting piezocatalytic property of zinc oxide for degradation of organic pollutants and insight into piezocatalytic mechanism

X Ning, A Hao, Y Cao, J Hu, J Xie, D Jia - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric zinc oxides with different morphology (ZnO nanoparticles and nanorods,
hereafter abbreviated as ZnO NPs and NRs) are successfully synthesized using facile, green …