Study on the Water Absorption Characteristics of Anthracite Particles after Immersion in Water.

Reducing pollution caused by coal dust has always been a hot issue in the coal mining industry, and the water absorption of coal particles plays an important role in dust reduction. To study the relationship between different immersion time and the water absorption of coal particles, the substance content of coal particles after immersion was analyzed and water absorption characterization of coal particles was carried out by X-ray diffraction (XRD), water absorption calculations, and water absorption measurements. The results indicate that immersion can alter the material content of coal particles, leading to a decrease in the content of soluble mineral kaolinite, thereby affecting the wettability of coal particles.

Mussel-Inspired Catechol-Formaldehyde Resin-Coated FeO Core-Shell Magnetic Nanospheres: An Effective Catalyst Support for Highly Active Palladium Nanoparticles.

Magnetic FeO@catechol-formaldehyde resin (CFR) core-shell nanospheres were fabricated via a controllable hydrothermal method. The shell thickness of FeO@CFR nanospheres can be effectively regulated in the range of 10-170 nm via adjusting reaction parameters. In particular, catechol groups on the surface of nanospheres also play a significant role in mussel-inspired chemistry to further combine with graphene oxide (GO) to wrap the FeO@CFR spheres.

Mussel-inspired construction of thermo-responsive double-hydrophilic diblock copolymers-decorated reduced graphene oxide as effective catalyst supports for highly dispersed superfine Pd nanoparticles.

Well-dispersed ultrafine palladium nanoparticles supported by reduced graphene oxide functionalized with catechol-terminated thermo-responsive block copolymer (PdNPs@BPrGO) were successfully constructed for highly efficient heterogeneous catalytic reduction. We first synthesized a novel temperature-responsive episulfide-containing double-hydrophilic diblock copolymer, poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate-co-2,3-epithiopropyl methacrylate)-block-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (P(PEGMA-co-ETMA)-b-PNIPAM), through a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization utilizing a chain-transfer agent with a catechol unit as the end group. The obtained block copolymers can be facilely anchored to the surface of GO via mussel-inspired chemistry.

Thermoresponsive Amphiphilic Block Copolymer-Stablilized Gold Nanoparticles: Synthesis and High Catalytic Properties.

A series of novel well-defined 8-hydroxyquinoline (HQ)-containing thermoresponsive amphiphilic diblock copolymers {poly(styrene- co-5-(2-methacryloylethyloxy-methyl)-8-quinolinol)- b-poly( N-isopropylacrylamide) P(St- co-MQ)- b-PNIPAm (P1,2), P(NIPAm- co-MQ)- b-PSt (P3,4)} and triblock copolymer poly( N-isopropylacrylamide)- b-poly(methyl-methacrylate- co-5-(2-methacryloylethyloxymethyl)-8-quinolinol)- b-polystyrene PNIPAm- b-P(MMA- co-MQ)- b-PSt (P5) were prepared by reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization, and their self-assembly behaviors were studied. Block copolymer P1-P5-stabilized gold nanoparticles (Au@P1-Au@P5) with a small size and a narrow distribution were obtained through the in situ reduction of gold precursors in an aqueous solution of polymer micelles with HQ as the coordination groups. The resulting Au@P nanohybrids possessed excellent catalytic activity for the reduction of nitrophenols using NaBH.