Sustainable synthesis of ammonium nickel molybdate for hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene

This paper reports a sustainable,water-assisted,solid-state method for synthesizing ammonium nickel molybdate（（NH4）HNi2（OH）2（MoO4）2,ANM）,a precursor for an unsupported hydrodesulfurization（HDS） catalyst.The associated ANM formation mechanism is also discussed.The synthesis route consists of physical mixing of the raw materials,water-assisted grinding and heating.The formation mechanism involves replacement of a Mo atom by a Ni atom,generating the metastable intermediate（NH4）4（NiH6Mo6O（24））·5H2O.Heating of this intermediate at 120 ℃ removes the added water and produces ANM.Catalysts prepared by this method exhibit almost the same physicochemical properties and catalytic performance during the HDS of dibenzothiophene as materials made from ANM synthesized by a chemical precipitation procedure.Compared with traditional hydrothermal or chemical precipitation methods,this water-assisted,solid-state synthesis provides several significant advantages,including simplifying the synthetic procedure,reducing waste and energy costs and increasing product yields.These features will be highly important with regard to allowing the application of ANM in industrial-scale processes involving HDS reactions.This water-assisted,solid-state strategy can also be extended to the synthesis of isomorphous compounds such as ammonium cobalt（zinc and copper） molybdate.

Determination of multilevel chirality in nickel molybdate films by electron crystallography

Chiral inorganic materials have attracted great attention owning to their unique physical and chemical properties attributed to the symmetry-breaking of their nanostructures.Chiral inorganic materials can be endowed with chiral geometric configurations from achiral space group crystals through lattice twisting,screw dislocations or hierarchical self-assembled spiral morphologies,showing various characteristic chiral anisotropy.However,the multilevel chirality in chiral nickel molybdate films(CNMFs)remains to be elaborately excavated.In this paper,we report three hierarchical levels of chirality in CNMFs,spanning from the atomic to the micron scale,including primary helically coiled nanoflakes with twisted atomic crystal lattices,secondary helical stacking of layered nanoflakes,and tertiary asymmetric morphology between adjacent nanoparticles.Our findings may enrich the chiral self-assembly structural types and provide valuable insights for the comprehensive analysis path of hierarchical chiral crystals.

Enhanced rate and specific capacity in nanorod-like core-shell crystalline NiMoO_(4)@amorphous cobalt boride materials enabled by Mott-Schottky heterostructure as positive electrode for hybrid supercapacitors

The supercapacitor electrode materials suffer from structure pulverization and sluggish electrode kinetics under high current rates.Herein,a unique NiMoO_(4)@Co-B heterostructure composed of highly conductive Co-B nanoflakes and a semiconductive NiMoO_(4) nanorod is designed as an electrode material to exert the energy storage effect on supercapacitors.The formed Mott-Schottky heterostructure is helpful to overcome the ion diffusion barrier and charge transfer resistance during charging and discharging.Moreover,this crystalline-amorphous heterogeneous phase could provide additional ion storage sites and better strain adaptability.Remarkably,the optimized NiMoO_(4)@Co-B hierarchical nanorods(the mass ratio of NiMoO_(4)/Co-B is 3:1)present greatly enhanced electrochemical characteristics compared with other components,and show superior specific capacity of 236.2 mA h g^(-1)at the current density of 0.5 A g^(-1),as well as remarked rate capability.The present work broadens the horizons of advanced electrode design with distinct heterogeneous interface in other energy storage and conversion field.