Shaohua Xie, Yue Lu, Kailong Ye, Wei Tan, Sufeng Cao, Chunying Wang, Daekun Kim, Xing Zhang, Jeremia Loukusa, Yaobin Li, Yan Zhang, Lu Ma, Steven N Ehrlich, Nebojsa S Marinkovic, Jiguang Deng, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Fudong Liu
Effective synthesis and application of single-atom catalysts on supports lacking enough defects remain a significant challenge in environmental catalysis. Herein, we present a universal defect-enrichment strategy to increase the surface defects of CeO2-based supports through H2 reduction pretreatment. The Pt catalysts supported by defective CeO2-based supports, including CeO2, CeZrOx, and CeO2/Al2O3 (CA), exhibit much higher Pt dispersion and CO oxidation activity upon reduction activation compared to their counterpart catalysts without defect enrichment. Specifically, Pt is present as embedded single atoms on the CA support with enriched surface defects (CA-HD) based on which the highly active catalyst showing embedded Pt clusters (PtC) with the bottom layer of Pt atoms substituting the Ce cations in the CeO2 surface lattice can be obtained through reduction activation. Embedded PtC can better facilitate CO adsorption and promote O2 activation at PtC-CeO2 interfaces, thereby contributing to the superior low-temperature CO oxidation activity of the Pt/CA-HD catalyst after activation.
在缺乏足够缺陷的载体上有效合成和应用单原子催化剂仍然是环境催化领域的一大挑战。在此,我们提出了一种通用的缺陷富集策略,通过 H2 还原预处理来增加 CeO2 基载体的表面缺陷。与未进行缺陷富集的相应催化剂相比,由缺陷 CeO2 基支撑物(包括 CeO2、CeZrOx 和 CeO2/Al2O3 (CA))支撑的铂催化剂在还原活化时表现出更高的铂分散性和一氧化碳氧化活性。具体来说,铂以嵌入单原子的形式存在于具有富集表面缺陷(CA-HD)的 CA 载体上,在此基础上,通过还原活化可获得嵌入铂簇(PtC)的高活性催化剂,其底层铂原子取代了 CeO2 表面晶格中的 Ce 阳离子。嵌入的 PtC 能更好地促进 CO 的吸附,并促进 PtC-CeO2 界面上 O2 的活化,从而使活化后的 Pt/CA-HD 催化剂具有更高的低温 CO 氧化活性。
{"title":"Enhancing the Carbon Monoxide Oxidation Performance through Surface Defect Enrichment of Ceria-Based Supports for Platinum Catalyst.","authors":"Shaohua Xie, Yue Lu, Kailong Ye, Wei Tan, Sufeng Cao, Chunying Wang, Daekun Kim, Xing Zhang, Jeremia Loukusa, Yaobin Li, Yan Zhang, Lu Ma, Steven N Ehrlich, Nebojsa S Marinkovic, Jiguang Deng, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Fudong Liu","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c03078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c03078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Effective synthesis and application of single-atom catalysts on supports lacking enough defects remain a significant challenge in environmental catalysis. Herein, we present a universal defect-enrichment strategy to increase the surface defects of CeO<sub>2</sub>-based supports through H<sub>2</sub> reduction pretreatment. The Pt catalysts supported by defective CeO<sub>2</sub>-based supports, including CeO<sub>2</sub>, CeZrO<sub><i>x</i></sub>, and CeO<sub>2</sub>/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> (CA), exhibit much higher Pt dispersion and CO oxidation activity upon reduction activation compared to their counterpart catalysts without defect enrichment. Specifically, Pt is present as embedded single atoms on the CA support with enriched surface defects (CA-HD) based on which the highly active catalyst showing embedded Pt clusters (Pt<sub>C</sub>) with the bottom layer of Pt atoms substituting the Ce cations in the CeO<sub>2</sub> surface lattice can be obtained through reduction activation. Embedded Pt<sub>C</sub> can better facilitate CO adsorption and promote O<sub>2</sub> activation at Pt<sub>C</sub>-CeO<sub>2</sub> interfaces, thereby contributing to the superior low-temperature CO oxidation activity of the Pt/CA-HD catalyst after activation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanrong Yang, Jietao Zhou, Conghui Xie, Wang Tian, Ming Xue, Tianran Han, Keyu Chen, Yuheng Zhang, Yayong Liu, Yufei Huang, Haijiong Sun, Chang Liu, Shao-Meng Li
Monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air is crucial for understanding their atmospheric impacts and advancing their emission reduction plans. This study presents an innovative integrated methodology suitable for achieving semireal-time high spatiotemporal resolution three-dimensional measurements of VOCs from ground to hundreds of meters above ground. The methodology integrates an active AirCore sampler, custom-designed for deployment from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), a proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) for sample analysis, and a data deconvolution algorithm for improved time resolution for measurements of multiple VOCs in air. The application of the deconvolution technique significantly improves the signal strength of data from PTR-MS analysis of AirCore samples and enhances their temporal resolution by 4 to 8 times to 4-11 s. A case study demonstrates that the methodology can achieve sample collection and analysis of VOCs within 45 min, resulting in >120-360 spatially resolved data points for each VOC measured and achieving a horizontal resolution of 20-55 m at a UAV flight speed of 5 m/s and a vertical resolution of 5 m. This methodology presents new possibilities for acquiring 3-dimensional spatial distributions of VOC concentrations, effectively tackling the longstanding challenge of characterizing three-dimensional VOC distributions in the lowest portion of the atmospheric boundary layer.
{"title":"A New Methodology for High Spatiotemporal Resolution Measurements of Air Volatile Organic Compounds: From Sampling to Data Deconvolution.","authors":"Yanrong Yang, Jietao Zhou, Conghui Xie, Wang Tian, Ming Xue, Tianran Han, Keyu Chen, Yuheng Zhang, Yayong Liu, Yufei Huang, Haijiong Sun, Chang Liu, Shao-Meng Li","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c05669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c05669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air is crucial for understanding their atmospheric impacts and advancing their emission reduction plans. This study presents an innovative integrated methodology suitable for achieving semireal-time high spatiotemporal resolution three-dimensional measurements of VOCs from ground to hundreds of meters above ground. The methodology integrates an active AirCore sampler, custom-designed for deployment from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), a proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) for sample analysis, and a data deconvolution algorithm for improved time resolution for measurements of multiple VOCs in air. The application of the deconvolution technique significantly improves the signal strength of data from PTR-MS analysis of AirCore samples and enhances their temporal resolution by 4 to 8 times to 4-11 s. A case study demonstrates that the methodology can achieve sample collection and analysis of VOCs within 45 min, resulting in >120-360 spatially resolved data points for each VOC measured and achieving a horizontal resolution of 20-55 m at a UAV flight speed of 5 m/s and a vertical resolution of 5 m. This methodology presents new possibilities for acquiring 3-dimensional spatial distributions of VOC concentrations, effectively tackling the longstanding challenge of characterizing three-dimensional VOC distributions in the lowest portion of the atmospheric boundary layer.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabrication of robust isolated atom catalysts has been a research hotspot in the environment catalysis field for the removal of various contaminants, but there are still challenges in improving the reactivity and stability. Herein, through facile doping alkali metals in Pt catalyst on zirconia (Pt-Na/ZrO2), the atomically dispersed Ptδ+-O(OH)x- associated with alkali metal via oxygen bridge was successfully fabricated. This novel catalyst presented remarkably higher CO and hydrocarbon (HCs: C3H8, C7H8, C3H6, and CH4) oxidation activity than its counterpart (Pt/ZrO2). Systematically direct and solid evidence from experiments and density functional theory calculations demonstrated that the fabricated electron-rich Ptδ+-O(OH)x- related to Na species rather than the original Ptδ+-O(OH)x-, serving as the catalytically active species, can readily react with CO adsorbed on Ptδ+ to produce CO2 with significantly decreasing energy barrier in the rate-determining step from 1.97 to 0.93 eV. Additionally, owing to the strongly adsorbed and activated water by Na species, those fabricated single-site Ptδ+-O(OH)x- linked by Na species could be easily regenerated during the oxidation reaction, thus considerably boosting its oxidation reactivity and durability. Such facile construction of the alkali ion-linked active hydroxyl group was also realized by Li and K modification which could guide to the design of efficient catalysts for the removal of CO and HCs from industrial exhaust.
制造坚固的孤立原子催化剂一直是环境催化领域去除各种污染物的研究热点,但在提高反应活性和稳定性方面仍存在挑战。本文通过在氧化锆(Pt-Na/ZrO2)上的铂催化剂中掺杂碱金属,成功制备了通过氧桥与碱金属结合的原子分散铂δ+-O(OH)x-。这种新型催化剂的 CO 和碳氢化合物(HCs:C3H8、C7H8、C3H6 和 CH4)氧化活性明显高于同类催化剂(Pt/ZrO2)。来自实验和密度泛函理论计算的系统性直接和确凿证据表明,作为催化活性物种的富电子 Ptδ+-O(OH)x- 与 Na 物种而非原始 Ptδ+-O(OH)x- 相关,可以很容易地与吸附在 Ptδ+ 上的 CO 反应生成 CO2,且决定速率步骤的能垒从 1.97 eV 显著降至 0.93 eV。此外,由于 Na 物种对水的强烈吸附和活化,这些由 Na 物种连接的单位 Ptδ+-O(OH)x- 在氧化反应过程中很容易再生,从而大大提高了其氧化反应活性和耐久性。通过 Li 和 K 的改性,这种碱离子连接活性羟基的简便构造也得以实现,这将有助于设计出高效的催化剂,用于去除工业废气中的 CO 和 HC。
{"title":"Facilely Fabricated Single-Site Pt<sup>δ+</sup>-O(OH)<sub><i>x</i></sub>- Species Associated with Alkali on Zirconia Exhibiting Superior Catalytic Oxidation Reactivity.","authors":"Jianjun Chen, Zhiyu Li, Wei Tan, Yu Xie, Jinyan Cao, Qiulin Zhang, Ping Ning, Jiming Hao","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c00725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c00725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fabrication of robust isolated atom catalysts has been a research hotspot in the environment catalysis field for the removal of various contaminants, but there are still challenges in improving the reactivity and stability. Herein, through facile doping alkali metals in Pt catalyst on zirconia (Pt-Na/ZrO<sub>2</sub>), the atomically dispersed Pt<sup>δ+</sup>-O(OH)<sub><i>x</i></sub>- associated with alkali metal via oxygen bridge was successfully fabricated. This novel catalyst presented remarkably higher CO and hydrocarbon (HCs: C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>8</sub>, C<sub>7</sub>H<sub>8</sub>, C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>6</sub>, and CH<sub>4</sub>) oxidation activity than its counterpart (Pt/ZrO<sub>2</sub>). Systematically direct and solid evidence from experiments and density functional theory calculations demonstrated that the fabricated electron-rich Pt<sup>δ+</sup>-O(OH)<sub><i>x</i></sub>- related to Na species rather than the original Pt<sup>δ+</sup>-O(OH)<sub><i>x</i></sub>-, serving as the catalytically active species, can readily react with CO adsorbed on Pt<sup>δ+</sup> to produce CO<sub>2</sub> with significantly decreasing energy barrier in the rate-determining step from 1.97 to 0.93 eV. Additionally, owing to the strongly adsorbed and activated water by Na species, those fabricated single-site Pt<sup>δ+</sup>-O(OH)<sub><i>x</i></sub>- linked by Na species could be easily regenerated during the oxidation reaction, thus considerably boosting its oxidation reactivity and durability. Such facile construction of the alkali ion-linked active hydroxyl group was also realized by Li and K modification which could guide to the design of efficient catalysts for the removal of CO and HCs from industrial exhaust.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenqiang Gao, Luisa F Posada, Vahid Shiravand, Shubhashish Shubhashish, Capri Price, Radislav A Potyrailo, Karim Younsi, Shiyao Shan, Ibrahima Ndiaye, Jierui Zhou, Andres Laso, Nenad Uzelac, Wesley Zhong, Steven L Suib, Yang Cao
With the annual global electricity production exceeding 30,000 TWh, the safe transmission of electric power has been heavily relying on SF6, the most potent industrial greenhouse gas. While promising SF6 alternatives have been proposed, their compatibilities with materials used in gas-insulated equipment (GIE) must be thoroughly studied. This is particularly true as the emerging SF6 alternatives generally leverage their relatively higher reactivity to achieve lower global warming potentials (GWPs). Here, a high-throughput compatibility screening of common GIE materials was conducted with a representative SF6 alternative, namely, C4F7N (2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propanenitrile)/CO2 gas mixtures. In this screening, the insulation performance of C4F7N/CO2 gas mixtures, as an indicator of the C4F7N/materials compatibility level, was periodically monitored during the thermal aging with tens of materials from SF6-insulated GIE, including desiccants/adsorbents, rubber, plastics, composites, ceramics, metals, etc. The identification of incompatible materials and the follow-up mechanism studies suggested that the acidity of materials represents the primary cause for C4F7N/materials incompatibility when C4F7N/CO2 gas mixtures are used as a drop-in replacement solution for existing SF6-insulated apparatuses. Mitigation strategies tackling the acidity of materials were then proposed and validated. Additionally, the amphoteric characteristics of C4F7N were briefly discussed. This work provides insight into the materials incompatibility of SF6 alternatives, along with validated mitigation strategies, for the selection and design of materials used in future eco-friendly GIE.
{"title":"High-Throughput Compatibility Screening of Materials for SF<sub>6</sub>-Alternative Insulation.","authors":"Wenqiang Gao, Luisa F Posada, Vahid Shiravand, Shubhashish Shubhashish, Capri Price, Radislav A Potyrailo, Karim Younsi, Shiyao Shan, Ibrahima Ndiaye, Jierui Zhou, Andres Laso, Nenad Uzelac, Wesley Zhong, Steven L Suib, Yang Cao","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c03190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c03190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the annual global electricity production exceeding 30,000 TWh, the safe transmission of electric power has been heavily relying on SF<sub>6</sub>, the most potent industrial greenhouse gas. While promising SF<sub>6</sub> alternatives have been proposed, their compatibilities with materials used in gas-insulated equipment (GIE) must be thoroughly studied. This is particularly true as the emerging SF<sub>6</sub> alternatives generally leverage their relatively higher reactivity to achieve lower global warming potentials (GWPs). Here, a high-throughput compatibility screening of common GIE materials was conducted with a representative SF<sub>6</sub> alternative, namely, C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N (2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propanenitrile)/CO<sub>2</sub> gas mixtures. In this screening, the insulation performance of C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N/CO<sub>2</sub> gas mixtures, as an indicator of the C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N/materials compatibility level, was periodically monitored during the thermal aging with tens of materials from SF<sub>6</sub>-insulated GIE, including desiccants/adsorbents, rubber, plastics, composites, ceramics, metals, etc. The identification of incompatible materials and the follow-up mechanism studies suggested that the acidity of materials represents the primary cause for C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N/materials incompatibility when C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N/CO<sub>2</sub> gas mixtures are used as a drop-in replacement solution for existing SF<sub>6</sub>-insulated apparatuses. Mitigation strategies tackling the acidity of materials were then proposed and validated. Additionally, the amphoteric characteristics of C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>7</sub>N were briefly discussed. This work provides insight into the materials incompatibility of SF<sub>6</sub> alternatives, along with validated mitigation strategies, for the selection and design of materials used in future eco-friendly GIE.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the number of coastal nuclear facilities rapidly increases and the wastewater from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant has been discharged into the Pacific Ocean, the nuclear environmental safety of China's marginal seas is gaining increased attention along with the heightened potential risk of nuclear accidents. However, insufficient work limits our understanding of the impact of human nuclear activities on the Yellow Sea (YS) and the assessment of their environmental process. This study first reports the 129I and 127I records of posthuman nuclear activities in the two YS sediments. Source identification of anthropogenic 129I reveals that, in addition to the gaseous 129I release and re-emission of oceanic 129I discharged from the European Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants (NFRPs), the Chinese nuclear weapons testing fallout along with the global fallout is an additional 129I input for the continental shelf of the YS. The 129I/127I atomic ratios in the North YS (NYS) sediment are significantly higher than those in the other adjacent coastal areas, attributed to the significant riverine input of particulate 129I by the Yellow River. Furthermore, we found a remarkable 129I latitudinal disparity in the sediments than those in the seawaters in the various China seas, revealing that sediments in China's marginal seas already received a huge anthropogenic 129I from terrigenous sources via rivers and thus became a significant sink of anthropogenic 129I. This study broadens an insight into the potential impacts of terrigenous anthropogenic pollution on the Chinese coastal marine radioactive ecosystem.
{"title":"Anthropocene <sup>129</sup>I Record in the Yellow Sea Sediments and Its Indication for River-Delivered Radioactive Pollution to Marginal Seas.","authors":"Yanyun Wang, Tianfeng Guo, Yukun Fan, Luyuan Zhang, Zhigang Guo, Peng Cheng, Jianghu Lan, Qi Liu, Xiaolin Hou","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c02123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the number of coastal nuclear facilities rapidly increases and the wastewater from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant has been discharged into the Pacific Ocean, the nuclear environmental safety of China's marginal seas is gaining increased attention along with the heightened potential risk of nuclear accidents. However, insufficient work limits our understanding of the impact of human nuclear activities on the Yellow Sea (YS) and the assessment of their environmental process. This study first reports the <sup>129</sup>I and <sup>127</sup>I records of posthuman nuclear activities in the two YS sediments. Source identification of anthropogenic <sup>129</sup>I reveals that, in addition to the gaseous <sup>129</sup>I release and re-emission of oceanic <sup>129</sup>I discharged from the European Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants (NFRPs), the Chinese nuclear weapons testing fallout along with the global fallout is an additional <sup>129</sup>I input for the continental shelf of the YS. The <sup>129</sup>I/<sup>127</sup>I atomic ratios in the North YS (NYS) sediment are significantly higher than those in the other adjacent coastal areas, attributed to the significant riverine input of particulate <sup>129</sup>I by the Yellow River. Furthermore, we found a remarkable <sup>129</sup>I latitudinal disparity in the sediments than those in the seawaters in the various China seas, revealing that sediments in China's marginal seas already received a huge anthropogenic <sup>129</sup>I from terrigenous sources via rivers and thus became a significant sink of anthropogenic <sup>129</sup>I. This study broadens an insight into the potential impacts of terrigenous anthropogenic pollution on the Chinese coastal marine radioactive ecosystem.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Patrone, Maria Vila-Costa, Jordi Dachs, Stefano Papazian, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Rubén Gil-Solsona
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic systems is a highly heterogeneous mixture of water-soluble organic compounds, acting as a major carbon reservoir driving biogeochemical cycles. Understanding DOM molecular composition is thus of vital interest for the health assessment of aquatic ecosystems, yet its characterization poses challenges due to its complex and dynamic chemical profile. Here, we performed a comprehensive chemical analysis of DOM from highly urbanized river and seawater sources and compared it to drinking water. Extensive analyses by nontargeted direct infusion (DI) and liquid chromatography (LC) high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) through Orbitrap were integrated with novel computational workflows to allow molecular- and structural-level characterization of DOM. Across all water samples, over 7000 molecular formulas were calculated using both methods (∼4200 in DI and ∼3600 in LC). While the DI approach was limited to molecular formula calculation, the downstream data processing of MS2 spectral information combining library matching and in silico predictions enabled a comprehensive structural-level characterization of 16% of the molecular space detected by LC-HRMS across all water samples. Both analytical methods proved complementary, covering a broad chemical space that includes more highly polar compounds with DI and more less polar ones with LC. The innovative integration of diverse analytical techniques and computational workflow introduces a robust and largely available framework in the field, providing a widely applicable approach that significantly contributes to understanding the complex molecular composition of DOM.
水生系统中的溶解有机物(DOM)是水溶性有机化合物的高度异质混合物,是推动生物地球化学循环的主要碳库。因此,了解溶解有机物的分子组成对水生生态系统的健康评估至关重要,但由于其化学成分复杂多变,对其表征提出了挑战。在这里,我们对高度城市化的河水和海水中的 DOM 进行了全面的化学分析,并将其与饮用水进行了比较。通过Orbitrap进行的非靶向直接注入(DI)和液相色谱(LC)高分辨质谱(HRMS)的广泛分析与新型计算工作流程相结合,实现了DOM的分子和结构表征。在所有水样中,使用这两种方法计算出了 7000 多个分子式(DI 中为 4200 个,LC 中为 3600 个)。虽然 DI 方法仅限于分子式计算,但结合库匹配和硅学预测对 MS2 光谱信息进行下游数据处理,可对所有水样中 LC-HRMS 检测到的 16% 的分子空间进行全面的结构表征。事实证明,这两种分析方法互为补充,涵盖了广阔的化学空间,其中包括使用去离子水的高极性化合物和使用液相色谱的低极性化合物。多种分析技术和计算工作流程的创新整合为该领域引入了一个强大且基本可用的框架,提供了一种广泛适用的方法,大大有助于了解 DOM 复杂的分子组成。
{"title":"Enhancing Molecular Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter by Integrative Direct Infusion and Liquid Chromatography Nontargeted Workflows.","authors":"Jessica Patrone, Maria Vila-Costa, Jordi Dachs, Stefano Papazian, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Rubén Gil-Solsona","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c00876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c00876","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic systems is a highly heterogeneous mixture of water-soluble organic compounds, acting as a major carbon reservoir driving biogeochemical cycles. Understanding DOM molecular composition is thus of vital interest for the health assessment of aquatic ecosystems, yet its characterization poses challenges due to its complex and dynamic chemical profile. Here, we performed a comprehensive chemical analysis of DOM from highly urbanized river and seawater sources and compared it to drinking water. Extensive analyses by nontargeted direct infusion (DI) and liquid chromatography (LC) high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) through Orbitrap were integrated with novel computational workflows to allow molecular- and structural-level characterization of DOM. Across all water samples, over 7000 molecular formulas were calculated using both methods (∼4200 in DI and ∼3600 in LC). While the DI approach was limited to molecular formula calculation, the downstream data processing of MS2 spectral information combining library matching and in silico predictions enabled a comprehensive structural-level characterization of 16% of the molecular space detected by LC-HRMS across all water samples. Both analytical methods proved complementary, covering a broad chemical space that includes more highly polar compounds with DI and more less polar ones with LC. The innovative integration of diverse analytical techniques and computational workflow introduces a robust and largely available framework in the field, providing a widely applicable approach that significantly contributes to understanding the complex molecular composition of DOM.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Hafiz All Hosen, Deanne J Whitworth, Frederic D L Leusch, Nicholas Yuen, Susan M Bengtson Nash
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales accumulate persistent and toxic chemicals, which are transported to Antarctica through distant sources and in situ usage. The extreme seasonal migration-associated fast of humpback whales results in the remobilization of persistent and lipophilic environmental contaminants from liberated fat stores. Mitochondria play a key role in lipid metabolism, and any disruption to mitochondrial function is expected to influence whole-organism bioenergetics. It is therefore of interest to advance understanding of the impact of known contaminants of the Antarctic sea-ice ecosystem upon humpback whale cellular bioenergetics. Using cell line-based in vitro testing, this study employed the Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer to study cellular metabolic activity in live humpback whale fibroblast cells. The assay, based on oxygen consumption rate, provides insights into the cause of cellular bioenergetic disruption. Immortalized skin fibroblasts were exposed to four priority environmental chemicals found in the Antarctic sea-ice ecosystem. Our findings reveal chemical-dependent functional alterations and varying bioenergetic profile responses. Chlorpyrifos was observed to decrease mitochondrial basal oxygen consumption; dieldrin increased basal oxygen consumption; trifluralin's impact was dose-specific, and endosulfan displayed no effect. Our results provide unique insights into environmental chemical mechanisms of action on cellular bioenergetics, generating much-needed taxa-specific chemical effect data in support of evidence-based conservation policy and management.
{"title":"Bioenergetic Shifts in Humpback Whale Fibroblasts Upon Chemical Exposure.","authors":"Md Hafiz All Hosen, Deanne J Whitworth, Frederic D L Leusch, Nicholas Yuen, Susan M Bengtson Nash","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.3c10595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c10595","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Southern Hemisphere humpback whales accumulate persistent and toxic chemicals, which are transported to Antarctica through distant sources and <i>in situ</i> usage. The extreme seasonal migration-associated fast of humpback whales results in the remobilization of persistent and lipophilic environmental contaminants from liberated fat stores. Mitochondria play a key role in lipid metabolism, and any disruption to mitochondrial function is expected to influence whole-organism bioenergetics. It is therefore of interest to advance understanding of the impact of known contaminants of the Antarctic sea-ice ecosystem upon humpback whale cellular bioenergetics. Using cell line-based <i>in vitro</i> testing, this study employed the Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer to study cellular metabolic activity in live humpback whale fibroblast cells. The assay, based on oxygen consumption rate, provides insights into the cause of cellular bioenergetic disruption. Immortalized skin fibroblasts were exposed to four priority environmental chemicals found in the Antarctic sea-ice ecosystem. Our findings reveal chemical-dependent functional alterations and varying bioenergetic profile responses. Chlorpyrifos was observed to decrease mitochondrial basal oxygen consumption; dieldrin increased basal oxygen consumption; trifluralin's impact was dose-specific, and endosulfan displayed no effect. Our results provide unique insights into environmental chemical mechanisms of action on cellular bioenergetics, generating much-needed taxa-specific chemical effect data in support of evidence-based conservation policy and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinling Fan, Leslie K. Arrazolo, Jiaxin Du, Huimin Xu, Siyu Fang, Yue Liu, Zhongbiao Wu, Jae-Hong Kim, Xuanhao Wu
Nitrate, a prevalent water pollutant, poses substantial public health concerns and environmental risks. Electrochemical reduction of nitrate (eNO3RR) has emerged as an effective alternative to conventional biological treatments. While extensive lab work has focused on designing efficient electrocatalysts, implementation of eNO3RR in practical wastewater settings requires careful consideration of the effects of various constituents in real wastewater. In this critical review, we examine the interference of ionic species commonly encountered in electrocatalytic systems and universally present in wastewater, such as halogen ions, alkali metal cations, and other divalent/trivalent ions (Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3–/CO32–, SO42–, and PO43–). Notably, we categorize and discuss the interfering mechanisms into four groups: (1) loss of active catalytic sites caused by competitive adsorption and precipitation, (2) electrostatic interactions in the electric double layer (EDL), including ion pairs and the shielding effect, (3) effects on the selectivity of N intermediates and final products (N2 or NH3), and (4) complications by the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and localized pH on the cathode surface. Finally, we summarize the competition among different mechanisms and propose future directions for a deeper mechanistic understanding of ionic impacts on eNO3RR.
{"title":"Effects of Ionic Interferents on Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction: Mechanistic Insight","authors":"Jinling Fan, Leslie K. Arrazolo, Jiaxin Du, Huimin Xu, Siyu Fang, Yue Liu, Zhongbiao Wu, Jae-Hong Kim, Xuanhao Wu","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c03949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c03949","url":null,"abstract":"Nitrate, a prevalent water pollutant, poses substantial public health concerns and environmental risks. Electrochemical reduction of nitrate (eNO<sub>3</sub>RR) has emerged as an effective alternative to conventional biological treatments. While extensive lab work has focused on designing efficient electrocatalysts, implementation of eNO<sub>3</sub>RR in practical wastewater settings requires careful consideration of the effects of various constituents in real wastewater. In this critical review, we examine the interference of ionic species commonly encountered in electrocatalytic systems and universally present in wastewater, such as halogen ions, alkali metal cations, and other divalent/trivalent ions (Ca<sup>2+</sup>, Mg<sup>2+</sup>, HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>–</sup>/CO<sub>3</sub><sup>2–</sup>, SO<sub>4</sub><sup>2–</sup>, and PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3–</sup>). Notably, we categorize and discuss the interfering mechanisms into four groups: (1) loss of active catalytic sites caused by competitive adsorption and precipitation, (2) electrostatic interactions in the electric double layer (EDL), including ion pairs and the shielding effect, (3) effects on the selectivity of N intermediates and final products (N<sub>2</sub> or NH<sub>3</sub>), and (4) complications by the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and localized pH on the cathode surface. Finally, we summarize the competition among different mechanisms and propose future directions for a deeper mechanistic understanding of ionic impacts on eNO<sub>3</sub>RR.","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.028,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141489818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-02Epub Date: 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c02006
Yiqing Wang, Mengchang He, Chunye Lin, Wei Ouyang, Xitao Liu
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from the oxygenation of reactive Fe(II) species significantly affect the transformation of metalloids such as Sb at anoxic-oxic redox interfaces. However, the main ROS involved in Sb(III) oxidation and Fe (oxyhydr)oxides formation during co-oxidation of Sb(III) and Fe(II) are still poorly understood. Herein, this study comprehensively investigated the Sb(III) oxidation and immobilization process and mechanism during Fe(II) oxygenation. The results indicated that Sb(III) was oxidized to Sb(V) by the ROS produced in the aqueous and solid phases and then immobilized by formed Fe (oxyhydr)oxides via adsorption and coprecipitation. In addition, chemical analysis and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) characterization demonstrated that Sb(V) could be incorporated into the lattice structure of Fe (oxyhydr)oxides via isomorphous substitution, which greatly inhibited the formation of lepidocrocite (γ-FeOOH) and decreased its crystallinity. Notably, goethite (α-FeOOH) formation was favored at pH 6 due to the greater amount of incorporated Sb(V). Moreover, singlet oxygen (1O2) was identified as the dominant ROS responsible for Sb(III) oxidation, followed by surface-adsorbed ·OHads, ·OH, and Fe(IV). Our findings highlight the overlooked roles of 1O2 and Fe (oxyhydr)oxide formation in Sb(III) oxidation and immobilization during Fe(II) oxygenation and shed light on understanding the geochemical cycling of Sb coupled with Fe in redox-fluctuating environments.
{"title":"Novel Insights into Sb(III) Oxidation and Immobilization during Ferrous Iron Oxygenation: The Overlooked Roles of Singlet Oxygen and Fe (oxyhydr)oxides Formation.","authors":"Yiqing Wang, Mengchang He, Chunye Lin, Wei Ouyang, Xitao Liu","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c02006","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.est.4c02006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from the oxygenation of reactive Fe(II) species significantly affect the transformation of metalloids such as Sb at anoxic-oxic redox interfaces. However, the main ROS involved in Sb(III) oxidation and Fe (oxyhydr)oxides formation during co-oxidation of Sb(III) and Fe(II) are still poorly understood. Herein, this study comprehensively investigated the Sb(III) oxidation and immobilization process and mechanism during Fe(II) oxygenation. The results indicated that Sb(III) was oxidized to Sb(V) by the ROS produced in the aqueous and solid phases and then immobilized by formed Fe (oxyhydr)oxides via adsorption and coprecipitation. In addition, chemical analysis and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) characterization demonstrated that Sb(V) could be incorporated into the lattice structure of Fe (oxyhydr)oxides via isomorphous substitution, which greatly inhibited the formation of lepidocrocite (γ-FeOOH) and decreased its crystallinity. Notably, goethite (α-FeOOH) formation was favored at pH 6 due to the greater amount of incorporated Sb(V). Moreover, singlet oxygen (<sup>1</sup>O<sub>2</sub>) was identified as the dominant ROS responsible for Sb(III) oxidation, followed by surface-adsorbed ·OH<sub>ads</sub>, ·OH, and Fe(IV). Our findings highlight the overlooked roles of <sup>1</sup>O<sub>2</sub> and Fe (oxyhydr)oxide formation in Sb(III) oxidation and immobilization during Fe(II) oxygenation and shed light on understanding the geochemical cycling of Sb coupled with Fe in redox-fluctuating environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141304780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The effect of aqueous solution chemistry on the ionic hydration structure and its corresponding nanofiltration (NF) selectivity is a research gap concerning ion-selective transport. In this study, the hydration distribution of two typical monovalent anions (Cl- and NO3-) under different aqueous solution chemical conditions and the corresponding transmembrane selectivity during NF were investigated by using in situ liquid time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry in combination with molecular dynamics simulations. We demonstrate the inextricable link between the ion hydration structure and the pore steric effect and further find that ionic transmembrane transport can be regulated by breaking the balance between the hydrogen bond network (i.e., water-water) and ion hydration (i.e., ion-water) interactions of hydrated ion. For strongly hydrated (H2O)nCl- with more intense ion-water interactions, a higher salt concentration and coexisting ion competition led to a larger hydrated size and, thus, a higher ion rejection by the NF membrane, whereas weakly hydrated (H2O)nNO3- takes the reverse under the same conditions. Stronger OH--anion hydration competition resulted in a smaller hydrated size of (H2O)nCl- and (H2O)nNO3-, showing a lower observed average hydration number at pH 10.5. This study deepens the long-overlooked understanding of NF separation mechanisms, concerning the hydration structure.
{"title":"Response of Ionic Hydration Structure and Selective Transport Behavior to Aqueous Solution Chemistry during Nanofiltration.","authors":"Chenghai Lu, Zhibin Chen, You Wu, Yanyan Zhang, Fuyi Wang, Chengzhi Hu, Jiuhui Qu","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.4c01783","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.est.4c01783","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of aqueous solution chemistry on the ionic hydration structure and its corresponding nanofiltration (NF) selectivity is a research gap concerning ion-selective transport. In this study, the hydration distribution of two typical monovalent anions (Cl<sup>-</sup> and NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>) under different aqueous solution chemical conditions and the corresponding transmembrane selectivity during NF were investigated by using <i>in situ</i> liquid time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry in combination with molecular dynamics simulations. We demonstrate the inextricable link between the ion hydration structure and the pore steric effect and further find that ionic transmembrane transport can be regulated by breaking the balance between the hydrogen bond network (i.e., water-water) and ion hydration (i.e., ion-water) interactions of hydrated ion. For strongly hydrated (H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub><i>n</i></sub>Cl<sup>-</sup> with more intense ion-water interactions, a higher salt concentration and coexisting ion competition led to a larger hydrated size and, thus, a higher ion rejection by the NF membrane, whereas weakly hydrated (H<sub>2</sub>O)<i><sub>n</sub></i>NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup> takes the reverse under the same conditions. Stronger OH<sup>-</sup>-anion hydration competition resulted in a smaller hydrated size of (H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub><i>n</i></sub>Cl<sup>-</sup> and (H<sub>2</sub>O)<i><sub>n</sub></i>NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>, showing a lower observed average hydration number at pH 10.5. This study deepens the long-overlooked understanding of NF separation mechanisms, concerning the hydration structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":36,"journal":{"name":"环境科学与技术","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}