The assembly of single-core molybdate into hundreds of cores of giant molybdenum blue (Mo-blue) clusters has remained a long-standing unresolved scientific puzzle. To reveal this fascinating self-assembly behavior, we demonstrate an aqueous flowing in-operando Raman characterization system to capture the building blocks' evolution from the "black box" reaction process. We successfully visualized the sequential transformation of NaMoO into MoO ({Mo}), high nuclear MoO ({Mo}) cluster, and finally polymerization product of [HKMoO(SO)] ({Mo(SO)}) during the HSO acidification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo reduce the cost of Si-Al aerogels preparation, circulating fluidized bed fly ash (CFA) was developed to be as the alternative to synthetic precursors. High energy consumption of alkali-melting and secondary wastes production were the major challenges. Here, a technique characterized by effective energy consumption and non-secondary waste was developed to convert CFA into Si-Al aerogel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGiant polyoxomolybdates are a special class of polyoxometalate clusters which can bridge the gap between small molecule clusters and large polymeric entities. Besides, giant polyoxomolybdates also show interesting applications in catalysis, biochemistry, photovoltaic and electronic devices, and other fields. Revealing the evolution route of the reducing species into the final cluster structure and also their further hierarchical self-assembly behaviour is undoubtedly fascinating, aiming to guide the design and synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld J Diabetes
November 2022
Diabetic wounds (DWs) are a common complication of diabetes mellitus; DWs have a low cure rate and likely recurrence, thus affecting the quality of patients' lives. As traditional therapy cannot effectively improve DW closure, DW has become a severe clinical medical problem worldwide. Unlike routine wound healing, DW is difficult to heal because of its chronically arrested inflammatory phase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The present study explored the construction and application of a standardized postoperative pain-management procedure for patients with perianal abscess.
Methods: Two study groups (the observation group and the intervention group) were established retrospectively. The observation group comprised 46 patients with perianal abscess who enrolled in this study between June 2019 and June 2020.
{PMo} poly(oxometalate) (POM) clusters have huge steric hindrance and limited active oxygen atoms, which make them difficult to combine with metal-organic units to form three-dimensional (3D) porous structures. Therefore, functionalization of such POMs has always been a bottleneck that is difficult to break through. In this study, {PMo} POM was successfully grafted on a lock-like metal-organic chain to generate a multiporous coordination polymer, [{Na(HO)(Hbtb)}{Cu(HO)(pz)Cl}{HSr⊂PMoMoO}]·3HO () (pz = pyrazine; btb = 1,4-bis(1,2,4-triazole) butane).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe catalytic pyrolysis pathways of carbonyl compounds in coal were systematically studied using density functional theory (DFT), with benzaldehyde (CHCHO) employed as a coal-based model compound and ZnO, γ-AlO, and CaO as catalysts. The results show that the products of both pyrolysis and catalytic pyrolysis are CH and CO. However, the presence of any of the catalysts changes the reaction pathway and reduces the energy barrier, indicating that these catalysts promote CHCHO decomposition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring wound healing and tissue repair the dermal fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transdifferentiation plays an important role, transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is considered to be the main stimuli factor of transdifferentiation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as key post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. The involvement of miRNAs and their roles in TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation remains to be determined in detail.
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