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Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-Defined Interface for Boosting CO
Conversion

Binran Zhao, Yiyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Yulong Men, Xinyu Meng and Yunxiang Pan*

In the cover picture, we adapt the ideal from "Journey to the West," one of Chinese four literary classics. The ancient Chinese mythical character, Monkey King, holds a treasure in his hand, which represents the catalysts with well-defined interface. CO2 is blown out from the mouth of Monkey King, then goes through the catalyst interface, and finally is converted into high value-added chemicals like CH4, CH3OH and CO. This well describes the focus of our paper titled “Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-defined Interface for Boosting CO2 Conversion”.
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Atomically Thin 2D TiO2 Nanosheets with Ligand Modified Surface for Ultra-Sensitive Humidity Sensor

Jianze Xiao, Zhihua Fu, Guane Wang, Xiaoliang Ye* and Gang Xu*

Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2204054-2204060  DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0046

April 8, 2022

TiO2 nanosheet, ligand modification, ultra-sensitive, chemiresistive, humidity sensing

ABSTRACT

As a kind of two-dimensional (2D) nanostructured materials, metal oxide nanosheets (MONS) are attractive and promising humidity sensing materials due to their considerable surface area, good charge carrier transportation, and designable surface functional groups properties. Nevertheless, the ultra-thin MONS modified with active functional groups for humidity sensing are still rare. As a proof of concept, the atomically thin TiO2 nanosheets with high surface area and electron-donating amino groups are prepared by a structure-maintained post-ligand modification strategy. The fabricated TiO2-based sensors demonstrate superior humidity sensing performance with high response, short response time, narrow hysteresis, and ultra-low theoretical limit of detection of about 15 ppm. Additionally, the possible mechanism is proposed from the AC complex impedance measurements and DC instantaneous reverse polarity experiments. This work provides a possible path for developing the high-performance 2D nanostructured metal oxides-based humidity materials through the surface chemical method.




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