Processing large collections of earth observation (EO) time-series, often petabyte-sized, such as NASA's Landsat and ESA's Sentinel missions, can be computationally prohibitive and costly. Despite their name, even the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) versions of such collections can rarely be used as direct input for modeling because of cloud presence and/or prohibitive storage size. Existing solutions for readily using these data are not openly available, are poor in performance, or lack flexibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of high-efficiency molecularly imprinted photocatalysts is still challenging due to the lack of hydrophilic and suitable functional monomers. In this work, the bio-sourced lysozyme was developed as the hydrophilic functional monomer, and Cu-doped BiOBr was used as the photocatalysts, to prepare a novel hydrophilic molecularly imprinted lysozyme-BiOBr composite (BiOBr-Cu/LyzMIP) with enhanced visible light utilization. Lysozyme could form a transparent layer to mitigate the light transmission obstruction caused by the surface imprinting layer, making it an ideal functional monomer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article presents results of using remote sensing images and machine learning to map and assess land potential based on time-series of potential Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) composites. Land potential here refers to the potential vegetation productivity in the hypothetical absence of short-term anthropogenic influence, such as intensive agriculture and urbanization. Knowledge on this ecological land potential could support the assessment of levels of land degradation as well as restoration potentials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, a facile method has been developed to synthesize a novel type of porous magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (FeO-MER-MMIPs) for the selective adsorption and removal of meropenem. The FeO-MER-MMIPs, with abundant functional groups and sufficient magnetism for easy separation, are prepared in aqueous solutions. The porous carriers reduce the overall mass of the MMIPs, greatly improving their adsorption capacity per unit mass and optimizing the overall value of the adsorbents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe separation and purification of proteins is an essential precondition for proteomics research because of the intricate matrix environment. Hence, a facile method has been developed to synthesize hyperbranched polyethyleneimine modified magnetic nanomaterials (FeO-NH-BPEI) with dendritic structure, unique electrostatic effect, and abundant functional groups for the selective adsorption of proteins which greatly avoids the drawbacks of time consumption and leakage of metal ions in traditional pre-treatment. The preparation conditions, physical and chemical properties, and adsorption performance of FeO-NH-BPEI have been fully studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNonspecific interactions of conjugated polymers (CPs) with various proteins prove to be a major impediment for researchers when designing a suitable CP-based probe for the amplified and selective recognition of particular proteins in complex body fluids. Herein, a new strategy is presented for the precise and specific monitoring of clinically important serum albumin (SA) proteins at the nanomolar level using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-modulated CP-surfactant ensembles as superior sensing materials. In brief, the newly designed color-tunable CP PF-DBT-Im undergoes intense aggregation with the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), enabling drastic change in the emission color from violet to deep red due to intermolecular FRET.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA kind of novel multi-stimuli responsive molecularly imprinted polymers with bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a dummy template (MSR-BSA-MIPs) was fabricated for specific recognition of human serum albumin (HSA) with modulated affinity. The MSR-BSA-MIPs were prepared through free radical polymerization using vinyl modified magnetic nanoparticles as substrates, bovine serum albumin (BSA), with high amino acid sequence similarity but low price compared to HSA, as the dummy template, -(3-(dimethylamino)-propyl)-methacrylamide (DMAPMA) and -isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm) as functional monomers with ionic strength and temperature response. The conditions of polymerization, adsorption and elution were systematically investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe emergence of conjugated polymers (CPs) has provided a pathway to attain smart multifunctional conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNs) with enhanced properties and diverse applications. CPNs based on π-extended CPs exhibit high fluorescence brightness, low cytotoxicity, excellent photostability, reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation ability, high photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE), etc. which endorse them as an excellent theranostic tool.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA synergistic imprinting strategy of covalent and non-covalent interactions is proposed to prepare magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (DI-MMIPs) for highly selective separation of procyanidin B2 (PC) from grape seed samples. Dopamine and 3-amino-phenylboronic acid as cooperative functional monomers endow the imprinted sites with synergistic tailoring. Benefiting from the synergistic effect, the DI-MMIPs exhibit enhanced imprinting performance with high adsorption capacity (27.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNovel magnetic molecularly imprinted nanobeads for 17β-estradiol (E2), namely, E2-MMINs, were synthesized by molecularly imprinted polymers on the surface of magnetic nanobeads in aqueous solvents. The hydrophilic nanobeads were set up by adopting carboxyl group-functionalized FeO nanoparticles as carriers, E2 as template molecule, and dopamine as functional monomer. The synthesized E2-MMINs were investigated in different aspects including synthesis conditions, physical and chemical properties, and adsorption conditions.
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