Zhejian Cao

Luleå University of Technology | LTU · Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics

Porous NiAl intermetallic compounds demonstrate great potential in various applications by their high porosity and excellent oxidation resistance. However, to obtain a controllable NiAl intermetallic structure by tuning different process parameters remains unclear. In this work, porous NiAl intermetallic compounds were fabricated by economic and en...

Calcium chloride (CaCl2) impregnated zeolite A and strontium chloride (SrCl2) impregnated zeolite A and X composite granules were evaluated as ammonia sorbents for automotive selective catalytic reduction systems. The SrCl2-impregnated zeolite A granules showed a 14% increase in ammonia uptake capacity (8.39 mmol g-1) compared to zeolite A granules...

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning and coated with zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) by a phase conversion growth method and investigated for CO2 capture. The PAN nanofibers were pre-treated with NaOH, and further coated with zinc hydroxide, which was subsequently converted into ZIF-8 by the addition of 2-met...

Strontium chloride (SrCl2) as ammonia (NH3) carriers has been widely exploited due to its high ammonia uptake capacity and low energy penalty for ammonia release. However, the dramatic volume swing during absorption–desorption cycles, from SrCl2 to Sr(NH3)8Cl2 to SrCl2, imposes a challenge to structure SrCl2 for ammonia storage applications. Herein...

In article number 2008505, Farid Akhtar and Zhejian Cao design a novel porous strontium chloride (SrCl2) scaffolded by graphene networks as ammonia carriers. The optimized porous SrCl2‐reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composite demonstrates extraordinary structural stability and rapid kinetics for ammonia absorption and desorption, offering a robust st...

Ammonia is one of the most common reductants for the automotive selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system owing to its high NO2 reduction (deNOx) efficiency. However, ammonia carriers for the SCR system have sluggishly evolved to achieve rapid ammonia dosing. In this study, the MOFs [M2(adc)2(dabco)] (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) were synthesized and chara...

Novel carbon-MgCl2 composites were designed as robust ammonia carriers for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system, with graphite (Gt) and graphene nanoplatelets aggregates (GNA) as additives to MgCl2. The cylindrically pelletized composites manifested high structural stability above the melting temperature of MgCl2 with 95 % mass retention, whe...

The key first step in developing bacterial infections related to implants and medical devices is the attachment of planktonic bacterial cells, and subsequent formation of biofilms. Herein, it is reported that graphene, a 2D carbon-based material, can be effectively used to prevent bacterial attachment. The key parameter for this effect is the orien...

Au/graphene/Au sandwiched plasmonic structures with subnanometer gaps are investigated as ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for graphene and chemical sensing. The subnanomater gaps offer tremendous enhancement in Raman signature of graphene and also chemical molecules, the enhancement mechanism is attributed to the drastic...

Large sheet resistance is the critical problem of graphene for application in electronic and optoelectronic devices as transparent electrodes. Ultraviolet/ozone (UVO) treatment is a convenient, highly effective, vacuum process and post-clean free method. This paper reveals that the effect of UVO treatment on the resistance of graphene is substrate...