Publications by authors named "Pengli An"

One shareholder may invest in different listed energy companies, so the information held by common shareholders can be transmitted among companies. Based on the two-mode complex network method, we construct an information flow shareholder-based network and employ different network indicators representing features of information flow as variables to construct panel regression models to analyze the impact of information flow among listed energy companies on the stock returns. The results indicate that the information flow of listed energy companies are increasingly important and play a significant role over a period.

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A novel Hg-responsive thermometer system for translating mercury detection into temperature monitoring was developed based on an aggregation-activated oxidase-like activity of gold nanoparticles.

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Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have recently proposed for advancing colorimetric sensing applications, owing to their excellent performance of sensitive color readout that generated from the oxidation of chromogenic substrates like 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) by reactive oxygen species (ROS) of AOPs such as ·OH and ·O radicals. However, the efficiency of ROS generation and the related HO decomposition in most AOPs is quite low especially at neutral pH, which greatly hampered the practical sensing applications of the AOPs. We herein communicated that β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)-capped gold nanoparticles (β-CD@AuNPs) can promote catalysis at neutral pH for AOP as an excellent co-catalyst.

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Iron ions play a key role in many physiological processes, which can provide feedback for the evaluation of biological systems and environmental processes. New strategies for portable determination of Fe therefore are still in urgent need. Here, through an in situ generation of prussian blue nanoparticles (PB NPs) in aqueous solution, we developed a bimodal method for photothermal and colorimetric detection of Fe.

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A long-term limitation of low color resolution in the monocolorimetric sensors seriously restricts its extending application, especially for the traditional organic dyes-based monocolorimetric sensors. Herein, we explore a simple target-mediated surface chemistry-based modulation for regulating the surface of gold nanorods (AuNRs), resulting in a successful multicolorimetric sensor for inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) activity. It operates on the principle that PPase modulates the release of Fe free from the ferric-pyrophosphate complex (Fe-PPi) through a specific target-catalyzed hydrolysis process, leading to a better mediation for the unique chemical redox reaction between Fe and I.

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Herein, a simple strategy for constructing activity-controllable nanozymes is proposed based on the glutathione (GSH)-gated surface chemistry of citrate-capped Pt nanoparticles (PtNPs). PtNPs have been shown to have oxidase-like activity that can effectively catalyze the oxidation of 3,3',5,5'-tertamethylbenzidine (TMB) by O2, resulting in a typical color reaction from colorless to blue. We found that GSH can inhibit the oxidase-like activity of PtNPs as a molecule-gated surface chemistry element, resulting in a dramatic decrease of the oxidation of TMB.

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