Synthesis and properties of CO2-based plastics: Environmentally-friendly, energy-saving and biomedical polymeric materials

Y Xu, L Lin, M Xiao, S Wang, AT Smith, L Sun… - Progress in Polymer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Production of biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide, particularly as a means of
recycling industrial waste gas, is a promising advancement in environmental and energy …

The source of natural and anthropogenic heavy metals in the sediments of the Minjiang River Estuary (SE China): implications for historical pollution

Y Xu, Q Sun, L Yi, X Yin, A Wang, Y Li… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Two sedimentary cores in the Minjiang River estuary (SE China) are documented for grain
size, clay minerals, heavy metals, magnetic parameters and Pb isotopes to investigate the …

Catalytic materials for direct synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from CO2

M Zhang, Y Xu, BL Williams, M Xiao, S Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The direct synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from CO 2 and methanol is a green synthetic
route owing to nontoxicity of starting materials and synthetic process. DMC is widely used …

An ERDAS image processing method for retrieving LST and describing urban heat evolution: a case study in the Pearl River Delta Region in South China

Q Sun, J Tan, Y Xu - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2010 - Springer
A spatial-temporal model with Model Maker tool is designed to retrieve Land Surface Temperature
(LST) and to describe the changes of urban heat island, as well as urban development…

Cooperative chloride hydrogel electrolytes enabling ultralow-temperature aqueous zinc ion batteries by the hofmeister effect

C Yan, Y Wang, X Deng, Y Xu - Nano-micro letters, 2022 - Springer
Aqueous zinc ion batteries have high potential applicability for energy storage due to their
reliable safety, environmental friendliness, and low cost. However, the freezing of aqueous …

Perovskite oxides as transparent semiconductors: a review

H He, Z Yang, Y Xu, AT Smith, G Yang, L Sun - Nano Convergence, 2020 - Springer
Traditional transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have been widely used for various
optoelectronic applications, but have the trade-off between conductivity and transmittance. Recently…

Fully alternating sustainable polyesters from epoxides and cyclic anhydrides: economical and metal-free dual catalysis

L Lin, J Liang, Y Xu, S Wang, M Xiao, L Sun… - Green Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We disclose an economical and metal-free catalyst system of (thio)ureas/organic bases for
effective fully alternating copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides, which remains a …

Using detrital zircons from river sands to constrain major tectono-thermal events of the Cathaysia Block, SE China

Y Xu, CY Wang, T Zhao - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Detrital zircons from the Minjiang and Zhujiang Rivers in SE China have been analyzed for
U/Pb ages and Lu–Hf isotopic compositions to constrain their provenance and the growth …

Nonflammable highly-fluorinated polymer electrolytes with enhanced interfacial compatibility for dendrite-free lithium metal batteries

K Deng, Z Xu, S Zhou, Z Zhao, K Zeng, M Xiao… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional liquid electrolytes applied in lithium-ion batteries suffer from high flammability,
lithium dendrites and leakage. Gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) are promising alternative …

Protection of nanostructures-integrated microneedle biosensor using dissolvable polymer coating

…, Z Cao, D Lin, L Zhou, T Hang, G He, Y Xu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Real-time transdermal biosensing provides a direct route to quantify biomarkers or
physiological signals of local tissues. Although microneedles (MNs) present a mini-invasive …