IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v16y2025i1d10.1038_s41467-025-61411-y.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Amorphous/crystalline HTiNbO5-X membranes for efficient confined flow synthesis of acetate ester flavours

Author

Listed:
  • Zhenyuan Fang

    (Beihang University
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Xiang Li

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Yajie Bai

    (Ningbo University of Technology)

  • Yuhui Zhang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Guandi He

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Shuai Pang

    (University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Fan Xia

    (China University of Geosciences
    China University of Geosciences)

  • Daoling Peng

    (South China Normal University)

  • Xiqi Zhang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Lei Jiang

    (Beihang University
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Science and Technology of China)

Abstract

Ideal laminar membrane reactors (LMR) necessitate the rational construction of 2D nanoconfined channels and regulation of microenvironment. The intrinsic structure-activity relationship of laminar membrane reactors essentially remains unclear. Herein, amorphous/crystalline HTiNbO5-X nanosheets (NS) with abundant oxygen vacancy (VO) are successfully prepared and stacked as 2D sub-nanoconfined membrane flow reactors with different interlayer spacings. When the interlayer spacing is decreased to 11.0 Å, the representative HTiNbO5-X membrane exhibits impressive conversion of ≈ 100% within 26.6 s and turnover number of up to 306.42 for the esterification of benzyl alcohol at 23 °C. The combination of structural characterizations and theoretical calculations reveals that the synergistic effect of VO and sub-nanoscale confinement greatly promotes the adsorption and orbital symmetry matching of reactants, and reduces the overall energy barrier. Furthermore, the HTiNbO5-X LMR is accessible for other alcohol derivatives, indicating the efficient and green synthesis of acetate ester flavours under mild conditions. This work demonstrates the promising potential of the metal oxide nanosheets to create inorganic laminar membrane reactors for continuous organic synthesis.

Suggested Citation

  • Zhenyuan Fang & Xiang Li & Yajie Bai & Yuhui Zhang & Guandi He & Shuai Pang & Fan Xia & Daoling Peng & Xiqi Zhang & Lei Jiang, 2025. "Amorphous/crystalline HTiNbO5-X membranes for efficient confined flow synthesis of acetate ester flavours," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:16:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-025-61411-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61411-y
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61411-y
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-025-61411-y?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Feng Bi & Qingjie Meng & Yili Zhang & Hao Chen & Boqiong Jiang & Hanfeng Lu & Qinghua Liu & Hongjun Zhang & Zhongbiao Wu & Xiaole Weng, 2025. "Engineering triple O-Ti-O vacancy associates for efficient water-activation catalysis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Qian Xiao & Wanbin Li & Shujie Xie & Li Wang & Chuyang Y. Tang, 2024. "Ultrafast complete dechlorination enabled by ferrous oxide/graphene oxide catalytic membranes via nanoconfinement advanced reduction," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    3. Yi Wang & Shuo Wang & Yunfan Fu & Jiaqi Sang & Pengfei Wei & Rongtan Li & Dunfeng Gao & Guoxiong Wang & Xinhe Bao, 2025. "Ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate using a stable amorphous/crystalline dual-phase Cu catalyst," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-11, December.
    4. Pengcheng Yao & Han Gong & Zhen-Yu Wu & Hanyu Fu & Bo Li & Bin Zhu & Jiawei Ji & Xueyang Wang & Ning Xu & Changjin Tang & Huigang Zhang & Jia Zhu, 2022. "Greener and higher conversion of esterification via interfacial photothermal catalysis," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 5(4), pages 348-356, April.
    5. Ruilong Li & Dewei Rao & Jianbin Zhou & Geng Wu & Guanzhong Wang & Zixuan Zhu & Xiao Han & Rongbo Sun & Hai Li & Chao Wang & Wensheng Yan & Xusheng Zheng & Peixin Cui & Yuen Wu & Gongming Wang & Xun H, 2021. "Amorphization-induced surface electronic states modulation of cobaltous oxide nanosheets for lithium-sulfur batteries," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-8, December.
    6. Xiaozhi Xu & Jiajie Wang & Awu Zhou & Siyuan Dong & Kaiqiang Shi & Biao Li & Jingbin Han & Dermot O’Hare, 2021. "High-efficiency CO2 separation using hybrid LDH-polymer membranes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    7. Xinze Du & Hongjun Fan & Shenglin Liu & Z. Conrad Zhang, 2023. "Selective nucleophilic α-C alkylation of phenols with alcohols via Ti=Cα intermediate on anatase TiO2 surface," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    8. Rishi Verma & Charvi Singhvi & Amrit Venkatesh & Vivek Polshettiwar, 2024. "Defects tune the acidic strength of amorphous aluminosilicates," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-16, December.
    9. Jie Dai & Yawen Tong & Long Zhao & Zhiwei Hu & Chien-Te Chen & Chang-Yang Kuo & Guangming Zhan & Jiaxian Wang & Xingyue Zou & Qian Zheng & Wei Hou & Ruizhao Wang & Kaiyuan Wang & Rui Zhao & Xiang-Kui , 2024. "Spin polarized Fe1−Ti pairs for highly efficient electroreduction nitrate to ammonia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Jingnan Wang & Kaiheng Zhao & Yongbin Yao & Fan Xue & Fei Lu & Wensheng Yan & Fangli Yuan & Xi Wang, 2025. "Ferromagnetic Fe-TiO2 spin catalysts for enhanced ammonia electrosynthesis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Zhiyuan Han & An Chen & Zejian Li & Mengtian Zhang & Zhilong Wang & Lixue Yang & Runhua Gao & Yeyang Jia & Guanjun Ji & Zhoujie Lao & Xiao Xiao & Kehao Tao & Jing Gao & Wei Lv & Tianshuai Wang & Jinji, 2024. "Machine learning-based design of electrocatalytic materials towards high-energy lithium||sulfur batteries development," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:16:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-025-61411-y. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.