Interfacial Metal Chlorides as a Tool to Enhance Charge Carrier Dynamics, Electroluminescence, and Overall Efficiency of Organic Optoelectronic Devices.

Interface engineering is the key to optimizing optoelectronic device performance, addressing challenges like reducing potential barriers, passivating interface traps, and controlling recombination of charges. Metal fluorides such as lithium fluoride are employed in interface modification within organic devices due to their strong dipole characteristics but carry health risks, high processing costs, and minimal impact on interface traps in organic electronics. Hence, this study investigates alternative metal chloride (MC) nanocrystals (sodium, cesium, rubidium, and potassium chlorides) that exhibit a strong dipole moment and are readily processable with the aim of reducing the influence of interface traps.

Nano-TiO/TiN Systems for Electrocatalysis: Mapping the Changes in Energy Band Diagram across the Semiconductor|Current Collector Interface and the Study of Effects of TiO Electrochemical Reduction Using UV Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

TiO is the most widely used material in photoelectrocatalytic systems. A key parameter to understand its efficacy in such systems is the band bending in the semiconductor layer. In this regard, knowledge on the band energetics at the semiconductor/current collector interface, especially for a nanosemiconductor electrode, is extremely vital as it will directly impact any charge transfer processes at its interface with the electrolyte.

No gender differences in the 24-month course of non-invasive liver fibrosis markers after DAA therapy in HCV-mono and HCV/HIV-coinfected patients.

Untreated HCV mono and HCV/HIV coinfected women have lower degrees of liver fibrosis (LF) compared to men. Direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy attains viral eradication in > 90% of patients with progressive LF decline in parallel. Gender-related differences in LF regression in the long term assessed by non-invasive liver fibrosis markers (NILFM) in HCV mono and HCV/HIV coinfected after DAA treatment have not been explored so far.

Mineral Bioaccessibility and Antioxidant Capacity of Protein Hydrolysates from Salmon () and Mackerel () Backbones and Heads.

Information on the bioaccessibility of minerals is essential to consider a food ingredient as a potential mineral fortifier. In this study, the mineral bioaccessibility of protein hydrolysates from salmon () and mackerel () backbones and heads was evaluated. For this purpose, the hydrolysates were submitted to simulated gastrointestinal digestion (INFOGEST method), and the mineral content was analyzed before and after the digestive process.