Synergistic effects of 2D/2D ZnV2O6/RGO nanosheets heterojunction for stable and high performance photo-induced CO2 reduction to solar fuels by Bafaqeer, A., Tahir, M., Amin, N. A. S.

“…Highly photo-stable and efficient 2D/2D zinc vanadium oxide-reduced graphene oxide (ZnV2O6/RGO) nanosheets heterojunction was fabricated by the one-pot solvothermal method. …”
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Well-designed ZNV2O6/G-C3N4 2D/2D nanosheets heterojunction with faster charges separation via pcn as mediator towards enhanced photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to fuels by Bafaqeer, Abdullah, Tahir, Muhammad, Amin, Nor Aishah Saidina

“…Fabrication of well-designed 2D/2D heterojunction composite with effective interfacial contact by incorporating zinc vanadium oxide (ZnV2O6) and protonated g-C3N4 (pCN) for enhanced photocatalytic CO2 reduction has been investigated. …”

Ambient Particle Components and Newborn Blood Pressure in Project Viva by Antonella Zanobetti, Brent A. Coull, Heike Luttmann‐Gibson, Lenie van Rossem, Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman, Itai Kloog, Joel D. Schwartz, Emily Oken, Jennifer F. Bobb, Petros Koutrakis, Diane R. Gold

“…We calculated average exposures during the 2 to 7 days before birth for the PM2.5 components—aluminum, arsenic, bromine, sulfur, copper, iron, zinc, nickel, vanadium, titanium, magnesium, potassium, silicon, sodium, chlorine, calcium, and lead—measured at the Harvard supersite. …”
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Achieving the Minimum Roughness of Laser Milled Micro-Impressions on Ti 6Al 4V, Inconel 718, and Duralumin by Naveed Ahmed, Ateekh Ur Rehman, Kashif Ishfaq, Rakhshanda Naveed, Khaja Moiduddin, Usama Umer, Adham E Ragab, Ayoub Al-Zabidi

“…Titanium-aluminium-vanadium (Ti 6Al 4V) alloys, nickel alloys (Inconel 718), and duraluminum alloys (AA 2000 series) are widely used materials in numerous engineering applications wherein machined features are required to having good surface finish. …”
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Electrodeposition of Zn and Cu Nanoparticles into TiO₂ Nanotubes on Ti6Al4V: Antimicrobial Effect against <i>S. Epidermidis</i> and Cytotoxicity Assessment by Bruno Ribeiro, Ruben Offoiach, Claudia Monteiro, Miguel R. G. Morais, M. Cristina L. Martins, Ana Paula Pêgo, Elisa Salatin, Lorenzo Fedrizzi, Maria Lekka

“…However, a highly cytotoxic effect against MC3T3-E1 cells was observed on all anodized samples due to the release of vanadium from the alloy. In spite of this, the surface modification reported in this work can be a valid solution for existing commercially available orthopedic implants, considering that similar solutions were already studied in <i>in vivo</i> assays.…”
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Quantitative Regulation of Interlayer Space of NH4V4O10 for Fast and Durable Zn2+ and NH4+ Storage by Shuyue Li, Dongxu Yu, Jingyi Liu, Nan Chen, Zexiang Shen, Gang Chen, Shiyu Yao, Fei Du

“…Abstract Layered vanadium‐based oxides are the promising cathode materials for aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs). …”
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Highly Conductive Proton Selectivity Membrane Enabled by Hollow Carbon Sieving Nanospheres for Energy Storage Devices by Kang Huang, Shuhao Lin, Yu Xia, Yongsheng Xia, Feiyan Mu, Yuqin Lu, Hongyan Cao, Yixing Wang, Weihong Xing, Zhi Xu

“…The proposed membrane exhibited an outstanding energy efficiency (EE) of 84% and long-term stability over 1400 cycles with a 0.065% capacity decay per cycle at 120 mA·cm−2 in a typical vanadium flow battery (VFB) system.…”
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The role of heavy metals in the development of colorectal cancer by Yongsheng Li, Jingwei Lou, Shaozhong Hong, Dengfeng Hou, Yandong Lv, Zhiqiang Guo, Kai Wang, Yue Xu, Yufeng Zhai, Hongzhou Liu

“…Results The level of selenium (Se) was lower in the CRC group compared with the control group (p < 0.01), while vanadium (V), arsenic (As), tin (Sn), barium (Ba) and lead (Pb) were higher (p < 0.05), chromium (Cr) and copper (Cu) were significantly higher (p < 0.0001) in the CRC group than those in the control group. …”
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A Multi-Proxy Approach to Reconstruct Hypoxia on the NW Black Sea Shelf over the Holocene by Sarah Robinet, Alice Ofélia Matossian, Arthur Capet, Lei Chou, François Fontaine, Marilaure Grégoire, Gilles Lepoint, Natalia Piotrowska, Audrey Plante, Olaya Román Romín, Nathalie Fagel

“…Likely, the redox sensitivity of vanadium is obscured by the dominant supply of detrital elements. …”
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A facile green approach to the synthesis of Bi2WO6@V2O5 heterostructure and their photocatalytic activity evaluation under visible light irradiation for RhB dye removal by Shamsa Kanwal, M.I. Khan, Muhammad Uzair, Mahvish Fatima, M.A. Bukhari, Zahra Saman, H.I. Elsaeedy, Urram Shahzad, Zainab Mufarreh Elqahtani, Nourah Alwadai

“…Bismuth tungsten oxide and vanadium pentoxide (Bi2WO6/V2O5) heterostructures are produced by a green synthesis approach using Azadirachta indica extract for photocatalytic performance. …”
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Low-cycle fatigue mechanical behavior of 30CrMo steel under hydrogen environment and numerical verification of chaboche model by Y B Guan, Q Y Wang, C He, L Fu, L Lin, Y Q Zhang, Y R Luo, Z G Wang, X Wu

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Dopamine and epigallocatechin-3-gallate cross-linked coating demonstrates improved osteointegration of polyetheretherketone in rabbits by Genwen Mao, Qianqian Sun, Jiajun Jiang, Jianzhong Sun, Tao Wu, Chi Cheng, Menghao Teng, Yuqi Zhao, Xiaoling Zhou, Hao Zhang, Weiguo Bian

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Defect-engineered graphene-on-silicon-carbide platform for magnetic field sensing at greatly elevated temperatures by Tymoteusz Ciuk, Roman Kozłowski, Agata Romanowska, Andrzej Zagojski, Karolina Piętak-Jurczak, Beata Stańczyk, Krystyna Przyborowska, Dariusz Czołak, Paweł Kamiński

“…High-temperature electrical properties of p-type hydrogen-intercalated quasi-free-standing epitaxial Chemical Vapor Deposition graphene on semi-insulating vanadium-compensated on-axis 6H-SiC(0001) and high-purity on-axis 4H-SiC(0001) originate from the double-carrier system of spontaneous-polarization-induced holes in graphene and thermally-activated electrons in the substrate. …”
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BiVO₄ Ceramic Photoanode with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Stability by Liren Zheng, Minrui Wang, Yujie Li, Fahao Ma, Jiyu Li, Weiyi Jiang, Mu Liu, Hefeng Cheng, Zeyan Wang, Zhaoke Zheng, Peng Wang, Yuanyuan Liu, Ying Dai, Baibiao Huang

“…The experimental results indicated that the enhanced PEC stability of the Mo-BVO (C) could be attributed to its higher crystallinity, which could effectively inhibit the dissociation of vanadium in BiVO₄ during the PEC process. …”
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Thermal Effect and Metallurgical Characteristics of Hydrogen Bottom Blowing in Top–Bottom Combined Blowing Converter by Jianhua Liu, Hongbo Peng, Yang He, Xiaodong Yang, Hao Xu, Yaobin Hou, Dali You

“…The thermal effect and metallurgical characteristics of hydrogen bottom blowing were investigated based on the production data of a steelmaking converter in Pangang Group Xichang Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd. This study shows that hydrogen bottom blowing at an intensity of 0.1–0.5 m³·min⁻¹·t⁻¹—rather than argon blowing at an intensity of 0.1 m³·min⁻¹·t⁻¹—can increase the smelting temperature by 16–73 K, increase the scrap charging ratio by 0.89–5.19%, and reduce CO₂ emissions by 19.79–115.96 kg per ton of steel. …”
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Phonon promoted charge density wave in topological kagome metal ScV6Sn6 by Yong Hu, Junzhang Ma, Yinxiang Li, Yuxiao Jiang, Dariusz Jakub Gawryluk, Tianchen Hu, Jérémie Teyssier, Volodymyr Multian, Zhouyi Yin, Shuxiang Xu, Soohyeon Shin, Igor Plokhikh, Xinloong Han, Nicholas C. Plumb, Yang Liu, Jia-Xin Yin, Zurab Guguchia, Yue Zhao, Andreas P. Schnyder, Xianxin Wu, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, M. Zahid Hasan, Nanlin Wang, Ming Shi

“…Abstract Charge density wave (CDW) orders in vanadium-based kagome metals have recently received tremendous attention, yet their origin remains a topic of debate. …”
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Impact of impedance on electrochromic properties of W-doped V2O5 films by Hua Li, Jun Liao, Yuwei Liu, Yufei Deng, Jian Liang, Zhijuan Tang, Fangbo Liu, Jacques Robichaud, Min Huang, Yuandong Tong, Yahia Djaoued

“…Rct plays its role only when it is low enough to reduce the possibility of chemical dissolution of the intermediate product of vanadium-containing ions: the present critical value could be around 76 Ω.…”
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Detecting Spatial-Temporal Changes of Urban Environment Quality by Remote Sensing-Based Ecological Indices: A Case Study in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, China by Yunfeng Shan, Xiaoai Dai, Weile Li, Zhichong Yang, Youlin Wang, Ge Qu, Wenxin Liu, Jiashun Ren, Cheng Li, Shuneng Liang, Binyang Zeng

“…It has abundant mineral resources, including vanadium, titanium, and water supplies. However, ecological and environmental problems emerge due to the excessive development of mining, agriculture, animal husbandry, and other non-natural urban economies. …”
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Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on the Na⁺ Intercalation Capacity of Binder Free Mn₂V₂O₇-CNTs Electrode: A Structural Investigation by Rahul Parmar, Javad Rezvani, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Decio Batista de Freitas Neto, Jose Mauricio Rosolen, Roberto Gunnella

“…In the present work, we delineate the significant effect of the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their weight percent in the intercalation capacity of the binder-free manganese vanadium oxide (MVO)-CNTs composite electrodes. The performance modification of the electrode is discussed taking into account the cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) layer under optimal performance. …”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Hydrothermal Synthesis of V₂O₅/Zr-SBA-15 Catalysts for Production of Ultralow Sulfur Fuel by Jesús Miguel Ramos, Jin An Wang, Sergio Odin Flores, Lifang Chen, Ulises Arellano, Luis Enrique Noreña, Julio González, Juan Navarrete

“…DBT conversion increased by increasing the vanadium content and correlated well with the amount of surface Lewis acidity. …”
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