A Fluorinated BODIPY-Based Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), an emergent noninvasive cancer treatment, is largely dependent on the presence of efficient photosensitizers (PSs) and a sufficient oxygen supply. However, the therapeutic efficacy of PSs is greatly compromised by poor solubility, aggregation tendency, and oxygen depletion within solid tumors during PDT in hypoxic microenvironments. Despite the potential of PS-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), addressing hypoxia remains challenging.

Hetero-interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks.

Interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) comprise two or more lattices that are mutually entangled. Interpenetration can be used to tune the structures and pore architectures of MOFs to influence, for example, their stability or interactions with guest molecules. The interpenetrating sublattices are typically identical, but hetero-interpenetrated MOFs, which consist of sublattices that are different from one another, have also been serendipitously produced.

Science Teachers' Attitudes towards Computational Modeling in the Context of an Inquiry-Based Learning Module.

This study focuses on science teachers' first encounter with computational modeling in professional development workshops. It examines the factors shaping the teachers' self-efficacy and attitudes towards integrating computational modeling within inquiry-based learning modules for 9th grade physics. The learning modules introduce phenomena, the analysis of measurement data, and offer a method for coordinating the experimental findings with a theory-based computational model.

Controlled partial interpenetration in metal-organic frameworks.

Interpenetration, the entwining of multiple lattices, is a common phenomenon in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Typically, in interpenetrated MOFs the sub-lattices are fully occupied. Here we report a family of MOFs in which one sub-lattice is fully occupied and the occupancy level of the other can be controlled during synthesis to produce frameworks with variable levels of partial interpenetration.

Postcomplexation synthetic routes to dipyrrin complexes.

We report a postfunctionalization synthetic route to dipyrrin complexes that gives access to a broad range of new complexes. This route involves the coordination of a 5-methylthiodipyrrinato ligand to a metal centre followed by displacement of the thiomethyl moiety by a nucleophile. Using rhenium(I) as a platform and amine nucleophiles, we show how complexes that would be difficult or impossible to synthesize via traditional methods can now be accessed.