Title
Microrobotic photocatalyst on-the-fly: 1D/2D nanoarchitectonic hybrid-based layered metal thiophosphate magnetic micromachines for enhanced photodegradation of nerve agent
Date Issued
15 October 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Micro/nanorobots, deployed to programmable missions, are at the forefront of next-generation machinery and robotics. Here, we present magnetically actuated 2D-microrobot photocatalysts with enhanced photocatalysis due to enhanced mass transfer by photocatalytic on-the-fly microrobot action. The magnetic 2D-microrobots, consisting of layered manganese thiophosphates (MnPS3) and Fe3O4 nanochains, are fabricated by electrostatic assembly, which provides versatile and efficient 1D/2D hetero-dimensional nanoarchitectonic hybridization. The resulting MnPS3-Fe3O4 microrobots are actively propelled by vertical tumbling under a transversal rotating external magnetic field. Particularly, a programmed swarming mode enables local fluid convection and self-stirring, which enhances the photochemical reaction. The promise of swarming 2D-microrobots was shown for enhanced photodegradation of an organic pollutant (Rhodamine B, Rh-B) and the nerve agent chlorpyrifos (CPS); here, MnPS3-Fe3O4 microrobots act like moving 2D photocatalysts, with enhanced degradation efficiency of 10.3% (Rh-B) and 8.8% (CPS) compared to that of static hybrids. The moving 2D photocatalyst and hetero-dimensional nanoarchitectonic methodology demonstrated here can potentially inspire a variety of high-performance magnetic 2D-micro/nanorobots for catalytic applications.
Volume
446
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química Nano-procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131923222
Source
Chemical Engineering Journal
ISSN of the container
13858947
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the project “Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots” (reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR). J.K. further acknowledges the support from Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2021R1A6A3A03044028).
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