The scarcity,high cost and susceptibility to CO of Platinum severely restrict its application in alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR).Hybridizing Pt with other transition metals provides an effective strategy to ...The scarcity,high cost and susceptibility to CO of Platinum severely restrict its application in alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR).Hybridizing Pt with other transition metals provides an effective strategy to modulate its catalytic HOR performance,but at the cost of mass activity due to the coverage of modifiers on Pt surface.Herein,we constructed dual junctions'Pt/nitrogen-doped carbon(Pt/NC)andδ-MoC/NC to modify electronic structure of Pt via interfacial electron transfer to acquire Pt-MoC@NC catalyst with electron-deficient Pt nanoparticles,simultaneously endowing it with high mass activity and durability of alkaline HOR.Moreover,the unique structure of Pt-MoC@NC endows Pt with a high COtolerance at 1,000 ppm CO/H_(2),a quality that commercial Pt-C catalyst lacks.The theoretical calculations not only confirm the diffusion of electrons from Pt/NC to Mo C/NC could occur,but also demonstrate the negative shift of Pt d-band center for the optimized binding energies of*H,*OH and CO.展开更多
碱性阴离子交换膜燃料电池(AEMFCs)可以直接将氢的化学能转化为电能,被认为是新兴绿色氢经济的基石技术.但其阳极氢氧化反应(HOR)动力学缓慢,严重依赖于Pt基催化剂.由于Pt基催化剂极易被CO毒化、动力学过程复杂以及价格昂贵,极大限制了...碱性阴离子交换膜燃料电池(AEMFCs)可以直接将氢的化学能转化为电能,被认为是新兴绿色氢经济的基石技术.但其阳极氢氧化反应(HOR)动力学缓慢,严重依赖于Pt基催化剂.由于Pt基催化剂极易被CO毒化、动力学过程复杂以及价格昂贵,极大限制了其商业化应用.因此,亟需开发高效、稳定和抗CO毒化能力强的新型HOR催化剂.Pd具有与Pt相似的氢键结合能,并且比Pt储量丰富,有望成为实现HOR的候选催化剂.然而,Pd的本征催化活性和Pt相比仍有很大差距.近年来,磷化钯因具有功能多样性和高催化活性被广泛关注.此外,缺陷工程可以有效调控催化剂的表面结构,改善中间体的吸附强度,提高催化剂的催化活性.因此,构建富含缺陷的磷化钯催化剂有望提高其HOR的性能.然而,该方向研究较少,反应机理尚不清楚.因此,阐明空位缺陷对于提高磷化钯催化剂HOR性能的作用机制,对促进AEMFCs电催化反应具有重要意义.本文通过溶胶-凝胶法以及低温磷化策略合成了一种碗状半球结构的富含磷空位Pd3P@C(V_(p)-Pd_(3)P@C)催化剂,并用于碱性HOR.在磷化过程中,通过调整Pd前驱体和磷源比例以及煅烧温度,在碳碗状半球载体上合成具有不同晶相组成(Pd/Pd_(3)P@C,Pd_(3.20)P_(12)@C,Pd_(3)P@C,和Pd_(5)P_(2)@C)的Pd_(x)P_(y)@C催化剂.扫描电镜和透射电镜证实了催化剂为碗状半球形貌.利用电子顺磁共振波谱研究了Pd_(x)P_(y)@C催化剂的磷空位浓度,结果表明,Pd/P比例为1:3时,在350℃下煅烧得到的Vp-Pd_(3)P@C具有最高的磷空位浓度.X射线光电子能谱证实了磷空位促进了d-p轨道杂化,增强了Pd和磷之间的电子相互作用.电化学测试结果表明,Vp-Pd_(3)P@C具有最高的HOR性能,Vp-Pd_(3)P@C在50 mV的质量活性为1.66 mAμg_(Pd)^(–1),交换电流密度为3.2 mA cm^(–2),优于Pd3P(0.45 mAμg_(Pd)^(-1),1.78 mA cm^(–2))和商业Pt/C(0.3 mAμg_(Pd)^(-1),2.29 mA cm^(–2)).同时,该催化�展开更多
BACKGROUND:Regulatory T cells(Tregs) play crucial roles in both induction and maintenance of tolerance. This active immune regulation may contribute not only to the control of immune responses to self-antigens and the...BACKGROUND:Regulatory T cells(Tregs) play crucial roles in both induction and maintenance of tolerance. This active immune regulation may contribute not only to the control of immune responses to self-antigens and thereby prevent autoimmune diseases,but also the control of responses to non-self molecules in adaptive immunity. Numerous experimental and clinical studies indicate that manipulating the balance between regulatory and responder T cells is an effective strategy to control immune responsiveness after transplantation. DATA SOURCES:Literature search was conducted using PubMed on the related subjects. Part of the material was based on the most recent work in the authors’ laboratory. RESULTS:We propose some new strategies to achieve transplant tolerance in rodent animals via manipulating Treg function,including using histone deacetylase(HDAC) inhibitor to regulate Foxp3 transcription and enhance Treg suppression,induction of Treg-sparing apoptosis via Nur77,and identification of the co-inhibitory molecule herpes virus entry mediator(HVEM) as an effector molecule for Treg function. CONCLUSION:Regulation of Treg function will definitely provide us very promising tools to achieve clinical tolerance in the future.展开更多
High-quality Pt-based catalysts are highly desirable for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR),which is of critical importance for the commercial applications of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,most of the Pt-based...High-quality Pt-based catalysts are highly desirable for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR),which is of critical importance for the commercial applications of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,most of the Pt-based catalysts have suffered from high cost and low operation durability.Herein a two-step method has been developed to synthesize porous Pt nanoframes decorated with Bi(OH)3,which show excellent catalytic activity and operation durability in both alkaline and acidic media.For example,the nanoframes show a mass activity of 6.87 A·mgPt−1 in alkaline media,which is 13.5-fold higher than that of commercial Pt/C.More importantly,the catalyst can be reactivated simply,which shows negligible activity loss after running for 180,000 s.Further in situ attenuated total reflection-infrared(ATR-IR)absorption spectroscopy and CO-stripping experiments indicate that surface Bi(OH)3 species can greatly facilitate the formation of adsorbed OH species and subsequently remove carbonaceous poison,resulting in a significantly enhanced stability towards EOR.This work may favor the tailoring of desired electrocatalysts with high activity and durability for future commercial application of DEFCs.展开更多
Highly active and durable Pd-based electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR)play a crucial role in the commercialization of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,the poisonous intermediates(especially ad...Highly active and durable Pd-based electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR)play a crucial role in the commercialization of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,the poisonous intermediates(especially adsorbed CO species(COad))formed during the EOR process can easily adsorb and block the active sites on Pd electrodes,which in turn limits the catalytic efficiency.Hence,we present a series of Pd-based composites with a strong coupling interface consisting of Pd nanosheets and amorphous Bi(OH)_(3)species.The incorporation of Bi(OH)3 can induce an electron-rich state adjacent to the Pd sites and effectively separate the Pd ensemble,leading to excellent CO tolerance.The optimal Pd-Bi(OH)_(3)NSs catalyst manifests a mass activity of 2.2 A·mgPd^(-1),which is 5.7 and 2.0 times higher than that of Pd NSs and commercial Pd/C catalyst,respectively.Further CO-stripping experiments and CO-DRIFTS tests confirm the excellent CO tolerance on Pd-Bi(OH)3 NSs electrode,leading to the enhanced EOR durability.展开更多
Co-signaling molecules are molecules whose ligands on the surface of cells interact with receptors on the surface of T cells to convey stimulatory or inhibitory signals to regulate immune responses.Co-signaling molecu...Co-signaling molecules are molecules whose ligands on the surface of cells interact with receptors on the surface of T cells to convey stimulatory or inhibitory signals to regulate immune responses.Co-signaling molecules play an important role in tumor and autoimmune diseases.Lately,studies have shown that co-signaling molecules are also involved in the regulation of maternal-fetal immune tolerance,and abnormalities of co-signaling molecules may lead to the imbalance of maternal-fetal immune tolerance,resulting in recurrent abortion,eclampsia and other pregnancy complications.ICOSL/ICOS is a ligand and receptor of costimulatory signals,which regulates maternal and fetal immune tolerance by participating in T cell differentiation and Th1 and Th2 cytokine secretion.Therefore,this article reviews the structure of ICOSL/ICOS,the distribution of ICOSL/ICOS at the maternal-fetal interface and its immune regulation during pregnancy,in order to provide new ideas for the future study of immunotherapy of pregnancy complications caused by abnormal co-signaling molecules.展开更多
Developing anode catalysts of substantially enhanced activity for hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)and anti-CO poisoning performance is of great importance for the application of proton exchange membrane fuel cells(PEM...Developing anode catalysts of substantially enhanced activity for hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)and anti-CO poisoning performance is of great importance for the application of proton exchange membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs).Herein,we report Pd cluster in situ decorated urchin-like W_(18)O_(49)(WO_(2.72))electrocatalysts by a photo-reduction method for high performance HOR.The synthesized Pd-WO_(2.72)-L composite of low loading amount of 0.44 wt.%Pd by Xenon light reduction exhibits markedly high HOR catalytic activity and stability in 0.5 M H_(2)SO_(4),and the specific HOR current density and mass activity of Pd-WO_(2.72)-L are~1.5 and~80 times those of 20 wt.%Pt/C catalyst,respectively.Moreover,excellent anti-CO poisoning ability has also been obtained.The excellent HOR activity and anti-CO poisoning performance of Pd-WO_(2.72)-L have been discussed mainly in terms of the dual synergetic catalytic effects between Pd and WO_(2.72):Pd activation to Pd^(δ+)by the electron transfer from Pd to W promotes the hydrogen adsorption and activation to H*species,which results in largely elevated HOR activity;Pd degradation due to the CO poisoning is effectively prevented by WO_(2.72),which is responsible for the excellent CO-tolerance performance.展开更多
直接乙醇燃料电池(DEFCs)被认为是最有前途的便携式电源设备之一.目前用于DEFCs的主流催化剂是Pt基或Pd基催化剂,然而它们不能有效地断裂C–C键,只能使乙醇部分氧化为CH_(3)CHO或CH_(3)COOH.此外,大多数贵金属催化剂容易被反应中间体CO...直接乙醇燃料电池(DEFCs)被认为是最有前途的便携式电源设备之一.目前用于DEFCs的主流催化剂是Pt基或Pd基催化剂,然而它们不能有效地断裂C–C键,只能使乙醇部分氧化为CH_(3)CHO或CH_(3)COOH.此外,大多数贵金属催化剂容易被反应中间体CO毒化,降低了催化剂的稳定性和寿命,这些因素都抑制了催化剂的实际应用.本文中,我们报道了一种用于乙醇氧化反应的具有不同Rh含量的超细三金属PtNiRh纳米线,Pt_(6)Ni_(2)Rh_(3)/C具有最优的催化活性(1.16 A mg_(Pt^(-1)))、抗CO中毒能力和稳定性.理论计算表明,在双金属PtNi中引入Rh,使得该催化剂具有良好的中间物吸附和C–C键断裂能力,有利于乙醇的完全氧化.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.52072272,52171145 and 22109120)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ21B030002)+1 种基金the Zhejiang Provincial Special Support Program for High-level Talents (2019R52042)the Key programs for Science and Technology Innovation of Wenzhou (ZG2022037)。
文摘The scarcity,high cost and susceptibility to CO of Platinum severely restrict its application in alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR).Hybridizing Pt with other transition metals provides an effective strategy to modulate its catalytic HOR performance,but at the cost of mass activity due to the coverage of modifiers on Pt surface.Herein,we constructed dual junctions'Pt/nitrogen-doped carbon(Pt/NC)andδ-MoC/NC to modify electronic structure of Pt via interfacial electron transfer to acquire Pt-MoC@NC catalyst with electron-deficient Pt nanoparticles,simultaneously endowing it with high mass activity and durability of alkaline HOR.Moreover,the unique structure of Pt-MoC@NC endows Pt with a high COtolerance at 1,000 ppm CO/H_(2),a quality that commercial Pt-C catalyst lacks.The theoretical calculations not only confirm the diffusion of electrons from Pt/NC to Mo C/NC could occur,but also demonstrate the negative shift of Pt d-band center for the optimized binding energies of*H,*OH and CO.
文摘碱性阴离子交换膜燃料电池(AEMFCs)可以直接将氢的化学能转化为电能,被认为是新兴绿色氢经济的基石技术.但其阳极氢氧化反应(HOR)动力学缓慢,严重依赖于Pt基催化剂.由于Pt基催化剂极易被CO毒化、动力学过程复杂以及价格昂贵,极大限制了其商业化应用.因此,亟需开发高效、稳定和抗CO毒化能力强的新型HOR催化剂.Pd具有与Pt相似的氢键结合能,并且比Pt储量丰富,有望成为实现HOR的候选催化剂.然而,Pd的本征催化活性和Pt相比仍有很大差距.近年来,磷化钯因具有功能多样性和高催化活性被广泛关注.此外,缺陷工程可以有效调控催化剂的表面结构,改善中间体的吸附强度,提高催化剂的催化活性.因此,构建富含缺陷的磷化钯催化剂有望提高其HOR的性能.然而,该方向研究较少,反应机理尚不清楚.因此,阐明空位缺陷对于提高磷化钯催化剂HOR性能的作用机制,对促进AEMFCs电催化反应具有重要意义.本文通过溶胶-凝胶法以及低温磷化策略合成了一种碗状半球结构的富含磷空位Pd3P@C(V_(p)-Pd_(3)P@C)催化剂,并用于碱性HOR.在磷化过程中,通过调整Pd前驱体和磷源比例以及煅烧温度,在碳碗状半球载体上合成具有不同晶相组成(Pd/Pd_(3)P@C,Pd_(3.20)P_(12)@C,Pd_(3)P@C,和Pd_(5)P_(2)@C)的Pd_(x)P_(y)@C催化剂.扫描电镜和透射电镜证实了催化剂为碗状半球形貌.利用电子顺磁共振波谱研究了Pd_(x)P_(y)@C催化剂的磷空位浓度,结果表明,Pd/P比例为1:3时,在350℃下煅烧得到的Vp-Pd_(3)P@C具有最高的磷空位浓度.X射线光电子能谱证实了磷空位促进了d-p轨道杂化,增强了Pd和磷之间的电子相互作用.电化学测试结果表明,Vp-Pd_(3)P@C具有最高的HOR性能,Vp-Pd_(3)P@C在50 mV的质量活性为1.66 mAμg_(Pd)^(–1),交换电流密度为3.2 mA cm^(–2),优于Pd3P(0.45 mAμg_(Pd)^(-1),1.78 mA cm^(–2))和商业Pt/C(0.3 mAμg_(Pd)^(-1),2.29 mA cm^(–2)).同时,该催化�
基金This work is supported by NIH grant R01-AI 54720- 01 to WWH.
文摘BACKGROUND:Regulatory T cells(Tregs) play crucial roles in both induction and maintenance of tolerance. This active immune regulation may contribute not only to the control of immune responses to self-antigens and thereby prevent autoimmune diseases,but also the control of responses to non-self molecules in adaptive immunity. Numerous experimental and clinical studies indicate that manipulating the balance between regulatory and responder T cells is an effective strategy to control immune responsiveness after transplantation. DATA SOURCES:Literature search was conducted using PubMed on the related subjects. Part of the material was based on the most recent work in the authors’ laboratory. RESULTS:We propose some new strategies to achieve transplant tolerance in rodent animals via manipulating Treg function,including using histone deacetylase(HDAC) inhibitor to regulate Foxp3 transcription and enhance Treg suppression,induction of Treg-sparing apoptosis via Nur77,and identification of the co-inhibitory molecule herpes virus entry mediator(HVEM) as an effector molecule for Treg function. CONCLUSION:Regulation of Treg function will definitely provide us very promising tools to achieve clinical tolerance in the future.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFE0129600)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21673150 and 21703146)+1 种基金the financial support from the 111 Project,Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology(NANO-CIC)the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD).
文摘High-quality Pt-based catalysts are highly desirable for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR),which is of critical importance for the commercial applications of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,most of the Pt-based catalysts have suffered from high cost and low operation durability.Herein a two-step method has been developed to synthesize porous Pt nanoframes decorated with Bi(OH)3,which show excellent catalytic activity and operation durability in both alkaline and acidic media.For example,the nanoframes show a mass activity of 6.87 A·mgPt−1 in alkaline media,which is 13.5-fold higher than that of commercial Pt/C.More importantly,the catalyst can be reactivated simply,which shows negligible activity loss after running for 180,000 s.Further in situ attenuated total reflection-infrared(ATR-IR)absorption spectroscopy and CO-stripping experiments indicate that surface Bi(OH)3 species can greatly facilitate the formation of adsorbed OH species and subsequently remove carbonaceous poison,resulting in a significantly enhanced stability towards EOR.This work may favor the tailoring of desired electrocatalysts with high activity and durability for future commercial application of DEFCs.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51922073 and 21902109)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Nos.BK20200960 and BK20180097)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Higher Education in Jiangsu Province(No.20KJB150041)the Natural Science Foundation of Nantong University for High-Level Talent(No.03083033).
文摘Highly active and durable Pd-based electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR)play a crucial role in the commercialization of direct ethanol fuel cells(DEFCs).However,the poisonous intermediates(especially adsorbed CO species(COad))formed during the EOR process can easily adsorb and block the active sites on Pd electrodes,which in turn limits the catalytic efficiency.Hence,we present a series of Pd-based composites with a strong coupling interface consisting of Pd nanosheets and amorphous Bi(OH)_(3)species.The incorporation of Bi(OH)3 can induce an electron-rich state adjacent to the Pd sites and effectively separate the Pd ensemble,leading to excellent CO tolerance.The optimal Pd-Bi(OH)_(3)NSs catalyst manifests a mass activity of 2.2 A·mgPd^(-1),which is 5.7 and 2.0 times higher than that of Pd NSs and commercial Pd/C catalyst,respectively.Further CO-stripping experiments and CO-DRIFTS tests confirm the excellent CO tolerance on Pd-Bi(OH)3 NSs electrode,leading to the enhanced EOR durability.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81960283,82072880)。
文摘Co-signaling molecules are molecules whose ligands on the surface of cells interact with receptors on the surface of T cells to convey stimulatory or inhibitory signals to regulate immune responses.Co-signaling molecules play an important role in tumor and autoimmune diseases.Lately,studies have shown that co-signaling molecules are also involved in the regulation of maternal-fetal immune tolerance,and abnormalities of co-signaling molecules may lead to the imbalance of maternal-fetal immune tolerance,resulting in recurrent abortion,eclampsia and other pregnancy complications.ICOSL/ICOS is a ligand and receptor of costimulatory signals,which regulates maternal and fetal immune tolerance by participating in T cell differentiation and Th1 and Th2 cytokine secretion.Therefore,this article reviews the structure of ICOSL/ICOS,the distribution of ICOSL/ICOS at the maternal-fetal interface and its immune regulation during pregnancy,in order to provide new ideas for the future study of immunotherapy of pregnancy complications caused by abnormal co-signaling molecules.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledged the support from the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(No.19ZR1479400)the State Key Laboratory for Modication of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials,Donghua University(No.KF1818)the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing(Wuhan University of Technology).
文摘Developing anode catalysts of substantially enhanced activity for hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)and anti-CO poisoning performance is of great importance for the application of proton exchange membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs).Herein,we report Pd cluster in situ decorated urchin-like W_(18)O_(49)(WO_(2.72))electrocatalysts by a photo-reduction method for high performance HOR.The synthesized Pd-WO_(2.72)-L composite of low loading amount of 0.44 wt.%Pd by Xenon light reduction exhibits markedly high HOR catalytic activity and stability in 0.5 M H_(2)SO_(4),and the specific HOR current density and mass activity of Pd-WO_(2.72)-L are~1.5 and~80 times those of 20 wt.%Pt/C catalyst,respectively.Moreover,excellent anti-CO poisoning ability has also been obtained.The excellent HOR activity and anti-CO poisoning performance of Pd-WO_(2.72)-L have been discussed mainly in terms of the dual synergetic catalytic effects between Pd and WO_(2.72):Pd activation to Pd^(δ+)by the electron transfer from Pd to W promotes the hydrogen adsorption and activation to H*species,which results in largely elevated HOR activity;Pd degradation due to the CO poisoning is effectively prevented by WO_(2.72),which is responsible for the excellent CO-tolerance performance.
基金supported by Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(ZDYF2021GXJS207,ZDYF2020037,and 2020207)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22109034,22109035,52164028,and 62105083)+2 种基金the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea(Hainan University,MRUKF2021029)the specific research fund of the Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Provincethe“Young Talent Support Plan”of Xi’an Jiaotong University。
文摘直接乙醇燃料电池(DEFCs)被认为是最有前途的便携式电源设备之一.目前用于DEFCs的主流催化剂是Pt基或Pd基催化剂,然而它们不能有效地断裂C–C键,只能使乙醇部分氧化为CH_(3)CHO或CH_(3)COOH.此外,大多数贵金属催化剂容易被反应中间体CO毒化,降低了催化剂的稳定性和寿命,这些因素都抑制了催化剂的实际应用.本文中,我们报道了一种用于乙醇氧化反应的具有不同Rh含量的超细三金属PtNiRh纳米线,Pt_(6)Ni_(2)Rh_(3)/C具有最优的催化活性(1.16 A mg_(Pt^(-1)))、抗CO中毒能力和稳定性.理论计算表明,在双金属PtNi中引入Rh,使得该催化剂具有良好的中间物吸附和C–C键断裂能力,有利于乙醇的完全氧化.
