Solar-assisted high-efficient cleanup of viscous crude oil spill using an ink-modified plant fiber sponge.

Rapid and efficient clean-up of viscous crude oil spills is still a global challenge due to its high viscous and poor flowability at room temperature. The hydrophobic/oleophilic absorbents with three-dimensional porous structure have been considered as a promising candidate to handle oil spills. However, they still have limited application in recovering the high viscous oil.

A Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Channels Constructed from Nonpolar Aromatic Rings for the Selective Separation of Ethane/Ethylene Mixtures.

The separation of ethane and ethylene is an important segment in the purification of chemical raw materials in industrial production. However, due to their similar physical and chemical properties, the separation of C H /C H is challenging. Herein, we report the selective adsorption of ethane over ethylene by a microporous metal-organic framework with nonpolar aromatic rings constructed channels, [Co (TATB)(H O) ] ⋅ 5DMA ⋅ 3H O (Co-TATB, H TATB=4,4',4''-(s-triazine-2,4,6-triyl) tribenzoic acid).

Comprehensive Analysis of Competing Endogenous RNA Network Focusing on Long Noncoding RNA Involved in Cirrhotic Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

The role of long noncoding RNAs- (lncRNAs-) associated competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) in the field of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) biology is well established, but the involvement of lncRNAs competing interactions in the progression of liver cirrhosis to HCC is still unclear. We aimed to explore the differential expression profiles of lncRNAs, microRNAs (miRNA), and messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to construct a functional ceRNA network in cirrhotic HCC. The lncRNA, miRNA, and mRNA expression datasets were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus and The Cancer Genome Atlas.

Two Tb-metal organic frameworks with different metal cluster nodes for CH/CO separation.

Through regulating the reaction solvent and temperature, two Tb-based metal-organic frameworks, ((CH)NH)[Tb(μ-OH)(μ-OH)(PTB)]·(DMF)·(HO) (1) and ((CH)NH){[Tb(μ-O)(μ-OH)(HO)][Tb(μ-O)(HCO) (PTB)]}·(DMF)·(HO) (2) (HPTB = pyridine-2,4,6-tribenzoic acid), have been synthesized. Structural analysis showed that the cluster node of 1 is a Tb cluster, while 2 contains two different nodes of a Tb cluster and a Tb cluster, which leads to their different pore structures and may potentially separate CH/CO. Gas adsorption demonstrates that both MOFs can separate CH and CO, but 2 has a more optimized pore environment than 1 and can exhibit better selective separation of CH/CO.