One-pot solvothermal synthesis of In-doped amino-functionalized UiO-66 Zr-MOFs with enhanced ligand-to-metal charge transfer for efficient visible-light-driven CO reduction.

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) with high porosity and highly tunable physical/chemical properties can serve as heterogeneous catalysts for CO photoreduction, but the application is hindered by the large band gap (E) and insufficient ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT). In this study, a simple one-pot solvothermal strategy is proposed to prepare an amino-functionalized MOF (aU(Zr/In)) featuring an amino-functionalizing ligand linker and In-doped Zr-oxo clusters, which enables efficient CO reduction driven with visible light. The amino functionalization leads to a significant reduction of E as well as a charge redistribution of the framework, allowing the absorption of visible light and the efficient separation of photogenerated carriers.

One-pot solvothermal synthesis of flower-like Fe-doped InS/FeS S-scheme hetero-microspheres with enhanced interfacial electric field and boosted visible-light-driven CO reduction.

S-scheme heterojunctions hold great potential for CO photoreduction into solar fuels, but their activities are severely limited by the low efficiency of interfacial charge transfer. In this work, a facile one-pot solvothermal reaction has been developed to dope Fe into flower-like InS/FeS hetero-microspheres (Fe-InS/FeS HMSs), which are demonstrated as an efficient S-scheme photocatalyst for visible-light-driven CO photoreduction. The doping of Fe not only reduces the bandgap of InS and thus extends the optical response to the visible-light region, but also increases the densities of donors and sulfur vacancies, which leads to an elevated Fermi level (E).

Sensing Mechanisms: Calcium Signaling Mediated Abiotic Stress in Plants.

Plants are exposed to various environmental stresses. The sensing of environmental cues and the transduction of stress signals into intracellular signaling are initial events in the cellular signaling network. As a second messenger, Ca links environmental stimuli to different biological processes, such as growth, physiology, and sensing of and response to stress.

Design of MXene Composites with Biomimetic Rapid and Self-Oscillating Actuation under Ambient Circumstances.

Although responsive actuators have been intensively investigated, it remains challenging to enable rapid and self-oscillating actuation under ambient circumstances without human intervention analogous to living organisms. By hybridizing a unique type of two-dimensional nanomaterials (i.e.

Bisphenol A(BPA), BPS and BPB-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis mediated by mitochondria in human neuroblastoma cell lines.

The analogues of biphenol A (BPA), including bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol B (BPB), are commonly used to replace the application of BPA in containers and wrappers of daily life. However, their safeties are questioned due to their similar chemical structure and possible physiological effects as BPA. To investigate the neurotoxic effects of BPA, BPS, and BPB as well as their underlying mechanism, IMR-32 cell line from male and SK-N-SH cell line from female were exposed respectively to BPA, BPS and BPB with concentrations of 1 nM, 10 nM, 100 nM, 1 μM, 10 μM, and 100 μM for 24 h.

Molecular Insight into Water Transport through Heterogeneous GO-based Two-Dimensional Nanocapillary.

Nanofluidics in two-dimensional (2-D) heterogeneous layered materials with hybrid overlapping structures exhibit promising potential in filtration and separation applications. However, molecular transport across the heterogeneous interlayer galleries remains largely unexplored, in particular, there exists disputation in the function and performance of hybrid graphene oxide (GO)-based laminate membrane for the water transport. Herein, heterogeneous 2-D GO-based nanochannels were employed as a typical platform to investigate the water flow by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulation.