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The adsorption of CO2 on MgAl layered double hydroxides (MgAl-LDHs) based adsorbents has been an effective way to capture CO2, however the adsorption capacity was hampered due to the pore structure and the dispersibility of adsorption active sites. To address the problem, we investigate the effect of intercalated anion and alkaline etching time on the structure, morphology and CO2 uptake performances of MgAl-LDHs. MgAl-LDHs are synthesized by the one-pot hydrothermal method, followed by alkaline etching of NaOH, and characterized by x-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption, scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The CO2 adsorption tests of the samples are performed on a thermogravimetric analyzer, and the adsorption data are fitted by the first-order, pseudo-second-order and Elovich models, respectively. The results demonstrate that among the three intercalated samples, MgAl(Cl) using chloride salts as precursors possesses the highest adsorption capacity of CO2, owing to high crystallinity and porous structure, while MgAl(Ac) employing acetate salts as precursors displays the lowest CO2 uptake because of poor crystallinity, disorderly stacked structure and unsatisfactory pore structure. With regard to alkaline etching, the surface of the treated MgAl(Cl) is partly corroded, thus the specific surface area and pore volume increase, which is conducive to the exposure of adsorption active sites. Correspondingly, the adsorption performance of the alkaline-etched adsorbents is significantly improved, and MgAl(Cl)-6 has the highest CO2 uptake. With the alkaline etching time further increasing, the CO2 adsorption capacity of MgAl(Cl)-9 sharply decreases, mainly due to the collapse of pore structure and the fragmentized sheet-structure. Hence, the CO2 adsorption performance is greatly influenced by alkaline etching time, and appropriate alkaline etching time can facilitate the contact between CO2 molecules and the adsorbent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epitaxial growth and structural characteristics of metastable β-In2Se3 thin films on H-terminated Si(111) substrates are studied. The In2Se3 thin films grown below the β-to-α phase transition temperature (453 K) are characterized to be strained β-In2Se3 mixed with significant γ-In2Se3 phases. The pure-phased single-crystalline β-In2Se3 can be reproducibly achieved by in situ annealing the as-deposited poly-crystalline In2Se3 within the phase equilibrium temperature window of β-In2Se3. It is suggeted that the observed γ-to-β phase transition triggered by quite a low annealing temperature should be a rather lowered phase transition barrier of the epitaxy-stabilized In2Se3 thin-film system at a state far from thermodynamic equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports that the YBa2Cu3--xZnxO7-d (x = 0-0.4) samples are researched by means of x-ray diffraction, calculations of binding energy, the positron experiments and variations of oxygen content. The results of simulated calculations, positron experiments and variations of oxygen content support the existence of cluster effect. Moreover, it is concluded that the cluster effect is an important factor on suppression of high-Tc cuprate superconductivity and the Tc does not depend on the density of valence electron directly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The far-field superlens based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) has shown great application potential, but it is difficult and time-consuming to reconstruct the far-field image. We derive a near-field optical transfer function (NOTF) of a silver slab and analyse its validity so that accurate information of nano-scale object in the near-field can be computed rapidly. The NOTF is helpful not only for analysing the super-resolution imaging process in far-field, but also for providing a track to describe the transmission of optical information from near-field to far-field by using the optical transfer functions theory only. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]