Reusable, Green, Portable Ionogels Based on Terpyridine-Imidazole Salt for Visual Monitoring of Pork Spoilage.

Ionogels have emerged as a promising approach because they combine the advantageous properties of ionic liquids and gels. Herein, a novel gelator bearing terpyridine and imidazolium salt units was designed and synthesized, which assembled into ionogels in three ionic liquids by a heating-cooling procedure. The properties of ionogels were characterized by FT-IR, UV-vis spectroscopy, POM, XRD, and rheology, and resonance light scattering and opacity measurements were conducted to investigate the gelation kinetics.

Renting vs. Owning: Public Stereotypes of Housing Consumption Decision From the Perspective of Confucian Culture: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials.

The ideas of face consciousness, group conformity, extended family concept, and crisis consciousness in Confucian culture have a subtle and far-reaching impact on housing consumption decision among the Chinese public, forming a housing consumption model of "preferring to own a house rather than rent one." The poor interaction between the housing rental market and the sales market caused by the shortage of rental demand and irrational purchasing behaviors has led to soaring house prices and imbalance between supply and demand that prevail in major cities in China. To gain a deeper understanding of public cognitive attitude toward decisions on owning and renting a house, this study divided the subjects into high and low impact groups based on the overall Confucian culture and four subdimensions.

Morphology luminescence and photovoltaic performance of lanthanide-doped CaWO nanocrystals.

Multifunctional materials have attracted recent attention due to their various applications in many fields. In this work, CaWO nanocrystals were prepared by a hydrothermal method. Nanoparticles, nanowires, and micro-sized structures were obtained by controlling the reaction temperature, Ca-to-WO ratio and type of dopant.

In situ synthesis, enhanced luminescence and application in dye sensitized solar cells of YO/YOS:Eu nanocomposites by reduction of YO:Eu.

YO/YOS:Eu nanocomposites were successfully prepared by reducing YO:Eu nanocrystals. The obtained YO/YOS:Eu nanocomposites not only can emit enhanced red luminescence excited at 338 nm, but also can be used to improve the efficiency of the dye sensitized solar cells, resulting an efficiency of 8.38%, which is a noticeable enhancement of 12% compared to the cell without YO/YOS:Eu nanocomposites.

Iodine-131 induces apoptosis in HTori-3 human thyrocyte cell line and G2/M phase arrest in a p53-independent pathway.

Iodine‑131 is known to destroy residual thyroid tissue following surgical resection of differentiated thyroid carcinoma and is widely used to treat hyperthyroidism. However, the mechanism by which iodine‑131 induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in the human thyrocyte cell line, Htori‑3, remains to be elucidated. In the present study, the cytotoxic effect of iodine‑131 on the HTori‑3 cell line and the underlying mechanism of iodine‑131‑induced cell apoptosis were investigated.

[A study on the relationship between insulin-like growth factor, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 and fetal growth retardation].

Objective: To explore the effect of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) on the fetal growth.

Methods: Samples of maternal blood and matched umbilical cord blood were collected at time of delivery from twenty pairs of mothers and newborns with normal birth weight (control group) twenty pairs with fetal growth restriction (FGR group) and ten pairs with macrosomia (macrosomia group). Serum IGF-I, IGF-II and IGFBP-3 were measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and immunoradiometric analysis (IRMA).