Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li et al.
State-of-the-art development of fabrication methods and surface engineering strategies of 1D TiO<sub>2</sub>nanostructures is reviewed, and an overview given of their potential applications including pollutant degradation/CO<sub>2</sub>photoreduction photocatalysts, water splitting, solar cells, lit...
Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li, Mingzheng Ge, Lingmeng Wang et al.
Multifunctional robust TiO<sub>2</sub>@fabrics with special wettability demonstrated potential applications for excellent UV shielding, effective self-cleaning, efficient oil–water separation and microfluidic management.
Chunyan Cao, Mingzheng Ge, Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li et al.
Robust superhydrophobic fabrics constructed by a novel environmentally friendly coating strategy demonstrate multifunctional applications for effective anti-fouling, self-cleaning and versatile oil/water separation.
Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Jianying Huang, Xinnan Zhang et al.
Oil-water separation is critical for the water treatment of oily wastewater or oil-spill accidents. The oil contamination in water not only induces severe water pollution but also threatens human beings' health and all living species in the ecological system. To address this challenge, different nan...
Yanyan Zhang, Zhelong Jiang, Jianying Huang, Linda Y. Lim et al.
The state-of-the-art development of fabrication strategies of multi-dimensional titanate and titania nanostructures is reviewed first. This is followed by an overview of their potential applications in environmental, energy, and biomedical sectors.
Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Shuhui Li, Yuxin Tang et al.
An ultrasonication-assisted in situ deposition strategy was utilised to uniformly decorate plasmonic Ag nanoparticles on vertically aligned TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTAs) to construct a Ag@TiO2 NTA composite. The Ag nanoparticles act as efficient surface plasmon resonance (SPR) photosensitizers to driv...
Jiajun Mao, Mingzheng Ge, Jianying Huang, Yuekun Lai et al.
We first time report a general strategy for one-step fabrication of a ZIF-8 MOF/RGO hydrogel, with the synergistic effects of chemical reduction and cross-linking by metal ions.
Songnan Zhang, Jianying Huang, Zhong Chen, Shu Yang et al.
Liquid mobility on super-wettable materials is of interest for enhanced heat transfer, self-cleaning, anti-fouling, anti-icing, water-harvesting, and oil–water separation.
Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Shuhui Li, Songnan Zhang et al.
An ultrasonication-assisted successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) strategy was developed for uniform deposition of high density p-type Bi2O3 quantum dots on n-type TiO2 nanotube arrays (Bi2O3@TiO2 NTAs), which were constructed by electrochemical anodization in ethylene glycol contai...
Qun Wang, Jianying Huang, Hongtao Sun, Ke‐Qin Zhang et al.
A uniform carbon dot-decorated TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotube array composite heterojunction with full spectrum wavelength light activation was fabricated <italic>via</italic> a facile electrochemical strategy for efficient dye degradation and overall water splitting.
Mingzheng Ge, Shuhui Li, Jianying Huang, Ke‐Qin Zhang et al.
A facile combination of electrodeposition and carbonation techniques was adopted to deposit reduced graphene oxide nanaosheets on TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotube arrays. The RGO-TiO<sub>2</sub> NTAs demonstrated significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity compared to pristine TiO<sub>2</sub> NTAs and an...
Jianying Huang, Yuekun Lai, Lu‐Ning Wang, Shuhui Li et al.
Adhesive forces on a superhydrophobic nanostructure surface may be tailored with extremely high contrast (2.5–170 μN) by modifying structural morphology to manipulate the solid–liquid contact state.
Huaqiong Li, Yuekun Lai, Jianying Huang, Yuxin Tang et al.
nanotube array (TNA) surface in one-step. A 3D binary TNA pattern with extremely high contrast for microfluidic manipulators and biomedical scaffolds is used to guide droplet transportation and human mesenchymal stem cell site-selective growth, respectively.
Xinfang Liu, Yuekun Lai, Jianying Huang, Salem S. Al‐Deyab et al.
Hierarchical SiO<sub>2</sub>@Bi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> core/shell electrospun fibrous membranes with low infrared emissivity were successfully prepared. And the infrared emissivity is influenced by the Bi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> nanoparticles with different phase structures on the surfaces of the...
Shuhui Li, Jianying Huang, Jiajun Mao, Liyuan Zhang et al.
of acid dye. The pH value of the dye solution varied with the adsorption time and the dye removal efficiency greatly depended on the pH. The bioadsorption mechanism of nano-scale hyphae was revealed to be mainly due to electrostatic interactions caused by the pH change. Furthermore, the surface morp...