Patents by Inventor Najun Li

Najun Li has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230249161
    Abstract: Disclosed are a Z-type heterojunction composite material of a tungsten oxide nanorod/a titanium carbide quantum dot/an indium sulfide nanosheet, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The method includes: preparing a titanium carbide quantum dot by using freeze-thaw and ultrasound methods for multiple times, and then placing a tungsten trioxide nanorod prepared by a hydrothermal method into a titanium carbide quantum dot aqueous solution, stirring same, and then standing same to obtain a tungsten oxide nanorod loading a quantum dot; stirring and uniformly mixing an indium compound and a sulfur compound in an ethylene glycol solvent, and then adding the tungsten oxide nanorod loading the quantum dot, and performing a reflux reaction at constant temperature to obtain the composite material. The titanium carbide quantum dot of the present invention can provide good electron transport channels at different semiconductor interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20230132599
    Abstract: he invention discloses a porphyrin-based metal coordination conjugated polymer, a preparation method therefor, and an application thereof in photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants. The catalyst of the present invention has an 18?-conjugated skeleton, a nearly planar macrocyclic molecule, a stable rigid structure and a very stable highly conjugated system, so that the catalyst has excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, a wide range of absorption spectra, strong redox capacity, and good chemical and thermal stability. A metal coordinated porphyrin acts as active center, a large number of derivatives can be derived, and the method has emerged as a promising alternative for the photocatalytic degradation of environmental pollutants and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20220355286
    Abstract: Disclosed are a P—N heterojunction composite material supported on the surface of nickel foam, a preparation method therefor and the application thereof. The composite material is a supported catalyst which can be used to remove pollutants in water by means of photoelectrocatalysis. The method comprises firstly modifying, by means of a hydrothermal method, a layered nickel-iron bimetallic hydroxide nanosheet on the surface of clean nickel foam, and then modifying cobalt oxide nanowires on the surface of the layered nickel-iron bimetallic hydroxide nanosheet by means of a mixed solvent-thermal method, so as to obtain a P—N heterojunction catalyst composite material supported on the surface of nickel foam (Ni foam@NiFe-LDH/Co3O4). The composite material has a good response to visible light, which can greatly enhance the absorption and utilization of light, and is further beneficial to enhance the performance of the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20220355284
    Abstract: Melamine is calcined to obtain melem; melem, perylene tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a solvent are mixed to obtain a mixture, and the mixture is subjected to a solvothermal reaction in an inert atmosphere to obtain perylene imide; and the perylene imide is dispersed in an aqueous solution containing a bismuth source and a tungsten source, and is subjected to a hydrothermal reaction to obtain a perylene imide/bismuth tungstate composite photocatalytic material. By means of constructing an organic-inorganic composite photocatalytic material, the introduction of the organic photocatalytic material that responds to visible light may enable the composite material to have a wider spectral response range; and the introduction of an inorganic semiconductor catalyst enables the composite material to produce more oxidizing active free radicals, thereby enhancing the photocatalytic degradation performance of the composite material on organic pollutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20220347666
    Abstract: Monodisperse polystyrene microspheres are self-assembled on a conductive surface of FTO glass by vertical deposition method to prepare three-dimensional ordered photonic crystal opal template; the three-dimensional ordered photonic crystal opal template is immersed in a solution containing rhodium source, titanium source and strontium source, and is then calcined to prepare a rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material; and the rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material is added to water containing pollutants, and is then subjected to illumination and/or ultrasonic treatment to complete the removal of the pollutants in the water. The three-dimensional ordered macroporous rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material may be applied in the field of photocatalysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20220347660
    Abstract: A bismuth iodide oxide/zinc oxide composite material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof in piezoelectric photocatalytic removal of organic pollutants. The conductive substrate spin-coated with a zinc oxide seed solution is annealed and added to the precursor solution for reaction to obtain a zinc oxide nanorod array (ZnO NRs); the zinc oxide nanorod array is added into a bismuth iodide precursor solution for reaction to obtain the bismuth iodide oxide/zinc oxide composite material (BiOI/ZnO NAs). The composite material is put into an aqueous solution containing bisphenol A, adsorption is performed in the dark for half an hour, and then ultrasound and visible light are used together to remove organic pollutants in the water. After piezoelectric photocatalytic degradation of 90 minutes, bisphenol A in the aqueous solution is almost completely degraded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Patent number: 11439990
    Abstract: The invention provides a titanium carbide nanosheet/layered indium sulfide heterojunction and an application of the same in degrading and removing water pollutants. A simple electrostatic self-assembly method is used to uniformly absorb indium ions on the surfaces of Ti3C2 nanosheets, which effectively inhibits the stacking of the nanosheets and is beneficial to the uniform growth of In2S3 nanosheets on the surfaces of the Ti3C2. The present invent overcomes two disadvantages of too fast photogenerated carrier recombination rate of In2S3 and easy agglomeration of nano-scale In2S3, and effectively improves the separation efficiency and photocatalytic activity of photogenerated electron-hole of In2S3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Patent number: 11345616
    Abstract: A heterojunction composite material consisting of one-dimensional In2O3 hollow nanotube and two-dimensional ZnFe2O4 nanosheets and its application are disclosed. When using this material for catalytic reactions, the hollow cavity and two-dimensional nanosheets of hollow nanomaterials can not only reduce the migration distance to accelerate the electron-hole separation, but also provide a large surface area and rich active sites to promote pollution adsorption and surface catalysis. At the same time, multiple light scattering or reflection in the hollow cavity of the hollow nanomaterials can increase light absorption and utilization. In addition, the heterojunction photocatalyst constructed by growing two-dimensional semiconductor nanosheets on a tubular substrate can promote the effective separation of photogenerated electrons and photogenerated holes, thereby improving the catalytic efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Patent number: 11207670
    Abstract: The invention discloses a loaded multifunctional catalysis composite material, a preparation method thereof and an application of the composite material to catalytic removal of water pollutants. The preparation method includes the steps: preparing a zinc oxide nano-sheet loaded nickel foam (Ni@ZnO) composite material by an electro-deposition method; compounding molybdenum disulfide micro-nano particles on ZnO porous nano-sheets by an electro-deposition method to obtain Ni@ZnO/MoS2. The composite material Ni@ZnO/MoS2 combines the advantages of components such as nickel foam, the zinc oxide nano-sheets and molybdenum disulfide from the point of material performances, high catalytic degradation activity and recycled performances are achieved, photo-catalysis and electro-catalysis are combined from the point of material application, and the catalytic activity of the composite material is improved by the aid of synergistic effects of photo-catalysis and electro-catalysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Patent number: 11192093
    Abstract: A preparation method of a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material includes: (1) etching Ti3AlC2 with LiF/HCl to prepare two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet; (2) preparing a nanosheet aggregate by electrostatic self-assembly of a two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet and a positively charged nitrogen-containing cationic compound; (3) calcining the nanosheet aggregates to prepare a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Patent number: 11084027
    Abstract: A method of preparing a three-dimensional composite material includes the following steps: preparing polystyrene by soap-free emulsion polymerizing, obtaining polystyrene opal by a vertical deposition method, synthesizing MoP IO (molybdenum phosphide inverse opal), and compounding with quantum points CdS, so as to obtain a novel inorganic composite material, namely cadmium sulfide quantum dot-compounded MoP IO. The preparation method has the advantages that the MoP IO is prepared first, and the MoP IO is of a three-dimensional cyclic pore structure and has the photonic band gap feature, so that the MoP IO has better catalysis effect in light catalysis in comparison with that of common porous material; the MoP IO is compounded with the cadmium sulfide quantum dots, so that the light absorbing ability is enhanced, and the composite material capable of absorbing the visible light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Publication number: 20200368731
    Abstract: The invention provides a titanium carbide nanosheet/layered indium sulfide heterojunction and an application of the same in degrading and removing water pollutants. A simple electrostatic self-assembly method is used to uniformly absorb indium ions on the surfaces of Ti3C2 nanosheets, which effectively inhibits the stacking of the nanosheets and is beneficial to the uniform growth of In2S3 nanosheets on the surfaces of the Ti3C2. The present invent overcomes two disadvantages of too fast photogenerated carrier recombination rate of In2S3 and easy agglomeration of nano-scale In2S3, and effectively improves the separation efficiency and photocatalytic activity of photogenerated electron-hole of In2S3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20200354235
    Abstract: A heterojunction composite material consisting of one-dimensional In2O3 hollow nanotube and two-dimensional ZnFe2O4 nanosheets and its application are disclosed. When using this material for catalytic reactions, the hollow cavity and two-dimensional nanosheets of hollow nanomaterials can not only reduce the migration distance to accelerate the electron-hole separation, but also provide a large surface area and rich active sites to promote pollution adsorption and surface catalysis. At the same time, multiple light scattering or reflection in the hollow cavity of the hollow nanomaterials can increase light absorption and utilization. In addition, the heterojunction photocatalyst constructed by growing two-dimensional semiconductor nanosheets on a tubular substrate can promote the effective separation of photogenerated electrons and photogenerated holes, thereby improving the catalytic efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Patent number: 10730759
    Abstract: A preparation method of inverse opal material for visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants includes 1) using titanium dioxide precursor as raw material, preparing nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal by one-step process in the presence of nitrogen source, and 2) in the presence of reducing agent, using the nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal, selenium precursor, and cadmium precursor as raw materials to prepare the cadmium selenide sensitized nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianmei Lu, Najun Li
  • Publication number: 20200122130
    Abstract: A preparation method of a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material includes: (1) etching Ti3AlC2 with LiF/HCl to prepare two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet; (2) preparing a nanosheet aggregate by electrostatic self-assembly of a two-dimensional transition metal carbide nanosheet and a positively charged nitrogen-containing cationic compound; (3) calcining the nanosheet aggregates to prepare a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped carbon-based titanium dioxide composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20190329233
    Abstract: A method of preparing a three-dimensional composite material includes the following steps: preparing polystyrene by soap-free emulsion polymerizing, obtaining polystyrene opal by a vertical deposition method, synthesizing MoP IO (molybdenum phosphide inverse opal), and compounding with quantum points CdS, so as to obtain a novel inorganic composite material, namely cadmium sulfide quantum dot-compounded MoP IO. The preparation method has the advantages that the MoP IO is prepared first, and the MoP IO is of a three-dimensional cyclic pore structure and has the photonic band gap feature, so that the MoP IO has better catalysis effect in light catalysis in comparison with that of common porous material; the MoP IO is compounded with the cadmium sulfide quantum dots, so that the light absorbing ability is enhanced, and the composite material capable of absorbing the visible light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20190329236
    Abstract: The invention discloses a loaded multifunctional catalysis composite material, a preparation method thereof and an application of the composite material to catalytic removal of water pollutants. The preparation method includes the steps: preparing a zinc oxide nano-sheet loaded nickel foam (Ni@ZnO) composite material by an electro-deposition method; compounding molybdenum disulfide micro-nano particles on ZnO porous nano-sheets by an electro-deposition method to obtain Ni@ZnO/MoS2. The composite material Ni@ZnO/MoS2 combines the advantages of components such as nickel foam, the zinc oxide nano-sheets and molybdenum disulfide from the point of material performances, high catalytic degradation activity and recycled performances are achieved, photo-catalysis and electro-catalysis are combined from the point of material application, and the catalytic activity of the composite material is improved by the aid of synergistic effects of photo-catalysis and electro-catalysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20180346343
    Abstract: A preparation method of inverse opal material for visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants includes 1) using titanium dioxide precursor as raw material, preparing nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal by one-step process in the presence of nitrogen source, and 2) in the presence of reducing agent, using the nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal, selenium precursor, and cadmium precursor as raw materials to prepare the cadmium selenide sensitized nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide inverse opal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Patent number: 10118151
    Abstract: The invention discloses a composite with an adsorption-visible light catalytic degradation synergistic effect and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method includes the specific steps that firstly, a bismuth oxyiodide/bismuth oxychloride composite nano-particle loaded activated carbon fiber composite ACF@BiOIxCl1-x is synthesized; then, the fiber surface is grafted with polyethyleneimine, and the end composite PEI-g-ACF@BiOIxCl1-x is obtained. The composite can rapidly adsorb pollutants in water, and meanwhile the pollutants are efficiently degraded with a photocatalyst loaded on the surface of the composite; besides, the purpose of recycling and reusing the photocatalyst is achieved, the comprehensive treatment capability of the composite is improved, the service life of the composite is prolonged, and the use cost is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Jiang, Jianmei Lu, Najun Li, Dongyun Chen
  • Publication number: 20180008953
    Abstract: The invention discloses a composite with an adsorption-visible light catalytic degradation synergistic effect and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method includes the specific steps that firstly, a bismuth oxyiodide/bismuth oxychloride composite nano-particle loaded activated carbon fiber composite ACF@BiOIxCl1-x is synthesized; then, the fiber surface is grafted with polyethyleneimine, and the end composite PEI-g-ACF@BiOIxCl1-x is obtained. The composite can rapidly adsorb pollutants in water, and meanwhile the pollutants are efficiently degraded with a photocatalyst loaded on the surface of the composite; besides, the purpose of recycling and reusing the photocatalyst is achieved, the comprehensive treatment capability of the composite is improved, the service life of the composite is prolonged, and the use cost is lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jun JIANG, Jianmei LU, Najun LI, Dongyun CHEN