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Yang R, Sun Z, Liu X, Long X, Gao L, Shen Y. Biomass composite with exogenous organic acid addition supports the growth of sweet sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ' Dochna') by reducing salinity and increasing nutrient levels in coastal saline-alkaline soil. Front Plant Sci 2023; 14:1163195. [PMID: 37056508 PMCID: PMC10086266 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1163195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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INTRODUCTION In coastal saline lands, organic matter is scarce and saline stress is high. Exploring the promotion effect of intervention with organic acid from biological materials on soil improvement and thus forage output and determining the related mechanism are beneficial to the potential cultivation and resourceful, high-value utilization of coastal mudflats as back-up arable land. METHOD Three exogenous organic acids [humic acid (H), fulvic acid (F), and citric acid (C)] were combined with four kinds of biomass materials [cottonseed hull (CH), cow manure (CM), grass charcoal (GC), and pine needle (PN)] and applied to about 0.3% of medium-salt mudflat soil. The salinity and nutrient dynamics of the soil and the growth and physiological differences of sweet sorghum at the seedling, elongation, and heading stages were observed under different treatments to screen for efficient combinations and analyze the intrinsic causes and influencing mechanisms. RESULTS The soil salinity, nutrient dynamics, and forage grass biological yield during sweet sorghum cultivation in saline soils differed significantly (p < 0.05) depending on the type of organic acid-biomass composite applied. Citric acid-pine needle composite substantially reduced the soil salinity and increased the soil nutrient content at the seedling stage and improved the root vigor and photosynthesis of sweet sorghum by increasing its stress tolerance, allowing plant morphological restructuring for a high biological yield. The improvement effect of fulvic acid-pine needle or fulvic acid-cow manure composite was manifested at the elongation and heading stages. DISCUSSION Citric acid-pine needle composite promoted the growth of saline sweet sorghum seedlings, and the effect of fulvic acid-pine needle composite lasted until the middle and late stages.
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- Ruixue Yang
- College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Ecological Research Center, Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Jiangsu Hilly Area, Nanjing, China
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- College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Lv S, Gao Y, Zhao M, Jiang X, Li X, Yang J, Chen S, Cui S. Biomass-derived porous material synthesized by one-step calcination method for the magnetic solid phase extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls in water. J Sep Sci 2022; 45:1693-1701. [PMID: 35304811 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202100884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Recent findings unfold that biomass materials with the micro/mesoporous structure were often treated as adsorbents for organic substances. In this work, one-step calcination method was adopted in the preparation of magnetic porous green bean biomass material. It has the properties of magnetism and porosity after the addition of Co(NO3 )2 and high temperature calcination. A variety of characterizations have been operated, including energy dispersive X-ray detector, vibrating sample magnetometer, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis and so on. It has the specific surface area 168.1611 m2 ∙g-1 and the pore volumes 0.1764 cm3 ∙g-1 . The material was used in magnetic solid phase extraction of three polychlorinated biphenyls including 2-chlorobiphenyl, 4-chlorobiphenyl and 2,2,5-trichlorobiphenyl. Several factors were investigated, such as material amount, eluents, adsorption time, solution pH, salinity and the reusability. Under optimized conditions, good recoveries (90.24-93.34%) were achieved with the relative standard deviation in a range from 2.30 % to 4.83 %. Three real water samples (tap, river and lake water) were tested to verify the accuracy of the method. This method can be successfully used in the analysis of some polychlorinated biphenyls congeners in water. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Siying Lv
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Nanjing Research Academy of Environment Science, 175 Huju Road, Nanjing, 210013, China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Open Laboratory of Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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Yao W, Zhu X, Xu Z, Davis RA, Liu G, Zhong H, Lin X, Dong P, Ye M, Shen J. Loofah Sponge-Derived Hygroscopic Photothermal Absorber for All-Weather Atmospheric Water Harvesting. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:4680-4689. [PMID: 35034450 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The loofah gourd is like a natural water tank that stores underground water and drains it out after aging, leaving only a three-dimensional network consisting of hollow and interconnected fibers. This phenomenon inspired us to fabricate a solar-energy-powered sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device using a loofah sponge. Herein, moisture absorption and photothermal conversion strategies are rationally designed to fast release the absorbed water. This is accomplished by filling the hollow and connected loofah fiber with LiCl and replacing the original luffa peel with a bacterial cellulose (BC)/carbon nanotube (CNT) photothermal conversion membrane. As a result, loofah/BC/CNT (LBC)@LiCl presents a high water absorption capacity of 2.65 g g-1 at 90% relative humidity (RH) and fast water release performance of 1.33 kg m-2 h-1 under 1.0 sun. Noticeably, ∼1.92-2.40 kg LBC@LiCl can produce daily drinking water for adults (2000-2500 mL) in one night outdoors at ∼66% RH, proving that it is a feasible method to overcome the drinking water shortage of poor and arid areas using cheap and renewable biomass material.
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- Wei Yao
- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia 20059, United States
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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Li X, Cheng X, Gao M, Ren D, Liu Y, Guo Z, Shang C, Sun L, Pan H. Amylose-Derived Macrohollow Core and Microporous Shell Carbon Spheres as Sulfur Host for Superior Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2017; 9:10717-10729. [PMID: 28233993 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Porous carbon can be tailored to great effect for electrochemical energy storage. In this study, we propose a novel structured spherical carbon with a macrohollow core and a microporous shell derived from a sustainable biomass, amylose, by a multistep pyrolysis route without chemical etching. This hierarchically porous carbon shows a particle distribution of 2-10 μm and a surface area of 672 m2 g-1. The structure is an effective host of sulfur for lithium-sulfur battery cathodes, which reduces the dissolution of polysulfides in the electrolyte and offers high electrical conductivity during discharge/charge cycling. The hierarchically porous carbon can hold 48 wt % sulfur in its porous structure. The S@C hybrid shows an initial capacity of 1490 mAh g-1 and retains a capacity of 798 mAh g-1 after 200 cycles at a discharge/charge rate of 0.1 C. A capacity of 487 mAh g-1 is obtained at a rate of 3 C. Both a one-step pyrolysis and a chemical-reagent-assisted pyrolysis are also assessed to obtain porous carbon from amylose, but the obtained carbon shows structures inferior for sulfur cathodes. The multistep pyrolysis and the resulting hierarchically porous carbon offer an effective approach to the engineering of biomass for energy storage. The micrometer-sized spherical S@C hybrid with different sizes is also favorable for high-tap density and hence the volumetric density of the batteries, opening up a wide scope for practical applications.
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- Xiang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
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- Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology , Guilin 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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Zhang F, Yao Y, Wan J, Henderson D, Zhang X, Hu L. High Temperature Carbonized Grass as a High Performance Sodium Ion Battery Anode. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2017; 9:391-397. [PMID: 28034316 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b12542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Hard carbon is currently considered the most promising anode candidate for room temperature sodium ion batteries because of its relatively high capacity, low cost, and good scalability. In this work, switchgrass as a biomass example was carbonized under an ultrahigh temperature, 2050 °C, induced by Joule heating to create hard carbon anodes for sodium ion batteries. Switchgrass derived carbon materials intrinsically inherit its three-dimensional porous hierarchical architecture, with an average interlayer spacing of 0.376 nm. The larger interlayer spacing than that of graphite allows for the significant Na ion storage performance. Compared to the sample carbonized under 1000 °C, switchgrass derived carbon at 2050 °C induced an improved initial Coulombic efficiency. Additionally, excellent rate capability and superior cycling performance are demonstrated for the switchgrass derived carbon due to the unique high temperature treatment.
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- Fang Zhang
- College of Material Science and Technology, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210016, People's Republic of China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Maryland College Park , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Maryland College Park , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Maryland College Park , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Maryland College Park , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- College of Material Science and Technology, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210016, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Maryland College Park , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Tseng KH, Shiao YF, Chang RF, Yeh YT. Optimization of Microwave-Based Heating of Cellulosic Biomass Using Taguchi Method. Materials (Basel) 2013; 6:3404-19. [PMID: 28811442 DOI: 10.3390/ma6083404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Revised: 07/29/2013] [Accepted: 08/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study discusses the application of microwave-based heating for the pretreatment of biomass material, with Pennisetum purpureum selected for pretreatment. The Taguchi method was used to plan optimization experiments for the pretreatment parameter levels, and to measure the dynamic responses. With a low number of experiments, this study analyzed and determined a parameter combination in which Pennisetum purpureum can be rapidly heated to 190 °C. The experimental results suggested that the optimal parameter combination is: vessel capacity of 150 mL (level 2), heating power of 0.5 kW (level 1), and mass of Pennisetum purpureum of 5 g (level 1). The mass of Pennisetum purpureum is a key factor affecting system performance. An eight-order ARX model (Auto-Regressive eXogeneous) was representative of the actual system performance, and the fit was 99.13%. The results proved that microwave-based heating, with the assistance of the Taguchi method for pretreatment of the biomass material, can reduce the parameter combination variations.
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