Carbon nanosol promotes plant growth and broad-spectrum resistance.

Carbon nanosol (CNS) is a carbon-based nanomaterial capable of promoting plant growth while the underlying mechanism involved in this process remains unknown. This study demonstrates that CNS promotes rice seedling growth under restricted concentrations. Macroelement transporter mutants were investigated to further investigate the CNS-mediated promotion of rice seedling growth.

Utilization of composite particles with customizable cross-linked lignin patches for dental cleansing.

Lignin, a natural polyphenol polymer, is a biocompatible, cost-effective and accessible material. To fully utilize the benefits of lignin, it is crucial to transform its complex macromolecules into nanoscale particles in a single solvent. In this research, an assembly-mediated internal cross-linking method in single solvent was proposed to manufacture cross-linked lignin colloidal particles with nanoscale particle size controlled to be around 50 nm.

Nanoscale Composite Lignin Colloids with Tunable Visible Colors Used for Anti-UV Cosmetics.

Nanoscale composite lignin colloids were prepared on a large scale with a process of assembly-mediated internal cross-linking in a good solvent, thus possessing absolutely nanoscale dimensions, excellent robustness, and less aggregation. The therefore prime UV resistance and various natural visible colors contribute to the preservation and beautification of skin.

Mechanisms of single herbs and herbal pairs in the treatment of mammary gland hyperplasia: An integrated review.

Background: The pathogenesis of hyperplasia of mammary glands (HMG) is a complex process, involving multiple links and systems within the body. Current clinical research indicates that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) demonstrates a significant therapeutic effect in treating HMG. Single herbs or herbal pairs (two herbs) are the basic units of preventing and treating HMG.

Review of Mammary Gland Hyperplasia in Classical Chinese Medical Literature.

Objective: Mammary gland hyperplasia is a common gynecological disease, which seriously affects the patient's physical and mental health. Therapeutic strategies to treat the disease include endocrine therapy and surgery. Compared to Western treatment, traditional Chinese medicine prescription shows its superiority in treatment.

Eczema compound patents' herbal combination rules research based on complex system entropy clustering: A review.

The aim of this study is to investigate the herbal compound patents' combination rules of eczema. Eczema herbal compound patents (oral drugs) from the past 29 years were collected, and a database was created. Complex system entropy clustering was used to analyze the prescription rule for eczema herbal compound patents.

Self-assembled/composited lignin colloids utilizing for therapy, cosmetics and emulsification.

Lignin, the most abundant source of renewable aromatic compounds on the planet, is attracting more scholarly attention due to its possibility of replacing petroleum-based chemicals and products. However, it remains underutilized because of the heterogeneity of its multi-level structure that prevents homogenization and standardization of derived products. The key to solving these problems lies in finding a general preparation method to achieve the integrated utilization of lignin molecules at all levels.

Value and influencing factors of valid Traditional Chinese Medicine compound prescription patents for mammary gland hyperplasia.

Objective: To explore the value and factors influencing the maintenance of valid Traditional Chinese Medicine compound prescription patents for the management of mammary gland hyperplasia.

Methods: The State Intellectual Property Office Patents Database, China Patent Information Center Patents Database, Soopat Patent Search Platform, and CNIPR Search Platform of Chinese and Foreign Patent Database were searched to identify Traditional Chinese Medicine compound prescription patents for mammary gland hyperplasia that had been maintained for at least 5 years. Logistic regression analysis was used to detect the factors influencing the maintenance of valid patents.

Study on a Strain of sp with the Potential to Improve the Quality of Oil Sands.

A strain of sp, named as Y316, can degrade heavy fractions such as resins and asphaltenes in oil sand. We used Y316 to degrade oil sand samples for 35 days. After bacterial degradation, the oil sand degradation efficiency was 5.

Deposition-precipitation preparation of Ag/AgPO/WO nanocomposites for efficient Visible-light degradation of rhodamine B under strongly acidic/alkaline conditions.

A series of novel visible-light-driven Ag/AgPO/WO (AAPW) Z-scheme heterostructures were fabricated using a facile deposition-precipitation method followed by photo-reduction without adding any surfactant. To explore more deeply about the photocatalytic activity of AAPW nanocomposites under neutral and strongly acidic/alkaline conditions, we investigated their photocatalytic rhodamine B (RhB) efficiency at different pH value that was controlled by adding HNO or NaOH aqueous solution. It was found that as-prepared AAPW photocatalysts showed enhanced photocatalytic RhB efficiency under neutral and even strongly acidic/alkaline environment.

[Research on distribution of patents' holders for Chinese herbal compounds in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular based on cluster analysis].

To discuss the distribution of patents' holders for Chinese herbal compounds in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, the patents' holders for Chinese herbal compounds in treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular were cluster analyzed by means of simple statistics and cluster analysis. Clustering variables were composed of patent applications, patent maintained number, related papers' quantity, etc. Chinese herbal compound patents' holders were divided into four categories according to their different scientific research and patent strength.

Novel mesoporous P-doped graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets coupled with ZnIn2S4 nanosheets as efficient visible light driven heterostructures with remarkably enhanced photo-reduction activity.

In this report, we rationally designed and fabricated P-C3N4/ZnIn2S4 nanocomposites by in situ immobilizing ZnIn2S4 nanosheets onto the surface of mesoporous P-doped graphite carbon nitrogen (P-C3N4) nanosheets in a mixed solvothermal environment; their application to the photoreduction of 4-nitroaniline was used to estimate the photocatalytic performance. Different to the template route, here the mesoporous P-C3N4 nanosheets were prepared with a template-free strategy. The as-fabricated P-C3N4/ZnIn2S4 nanocomposites were systematically characterized by analyzing the phase structure, chemical components, electronic and optical properties and separation of charge carrier pairs.

Well-Combined Magnetically Separable Hybrid Cobalt Ferrite/Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as Efficient Catalyst with Superior Performance for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Catalysts with low-cost, high activity and stability toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are extremely desirable, but its development still remains a great challenge. Here, a novel magnetically separable hybrid of multimetal oxide, cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4), anchored on nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide (CoFe2O4/NG) is prepared via a facile solvothermal method followed by calcination at 500 °C. The structure of CoFe2O4/NG and the interaction of both components are analyzed by several techniques.

Preparation of Hemocompatible Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-F127 Nanospheres and Their Application to Biosensor for Analysis of Whole Blood.

In this paper, the novel poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-F127 nanospheres (PLGA-F127 NSs) were synthesized and used to establish an amperometric glucose biosensor that can be applied in whole blood directly. This property of glucose biosensor was based on the antibiofouling property of PLGA-F127 NSs. More details of preparing PLGA-F127 NSs and immobilizing glucose oxidase (GOx) on (PLGA-F127)/glass carbon electrode (GCE) were presented.

Characterization of a layered methylene blue/vanadium oxide nanocomposite and its application in a reagentless H2O2 biosensor.

Layered nanocomposite of methylene blue (MB)-intercalated vanadium oxide was obtained through a simple hydrothermal synthesis method using MB, V2O5, and NaI as starting materials. The intercalation reaction was proven to be successful using X-ray diffraction pattern. The MB-V2O5 nanocomposite was characterized using a scanning electron micrograph, infrared spectra, thermogravimetric analysis, UV spectra, and electrochemical measurements.

[Regularity of drug use of patents in force of traditional Chinese medicine compounds in preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases on basis of frequency analysis].

Objective: To study the regularity of drug use of patents in force of traditional Chinese medicine compounds in treating cardiovascular diseases and provide reference for new drug R&D and patent protection.

Method: With long-lasting patents in force of traditional Chinese medicine compounds in treating cardiovascular diseases as the study object, the frequency analysis was made for studying their core ingredients, efficacy, channel tropism and drug compatibility.

Result And Conclusion: There are nearly 30 frequently used traditional Chinese medicine compounds in treating cardiovascular diseases with patents in force including Salvia miltiorrhiza and Astragalus mongholicus, with main efficacy for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and reinforcing Qi and the highest efficacy in heart, liver, spleen and lung channels.

[Current service invention patents and growth pathways on basis of cluster analysis].

This study aims for enhancing quantity and quality of patents of traditional Chinese medicine compounds of traditional Chinese medicine enterprises, traditional Chinese medicine colleges and relevant institutions while building an efficient pathway for patent protection using simple statistics and cluster analysis, with service invention patent holders of traditional Chinese medicine compounds as the study object.

[Cluster analysis on authorized patents of compound traditional Chinese medicines with different efficacy in 2010].

Objective: To discuss the authorized patent of compound traditional Chinese medicines with different efficacy in 2010, in order to provide reference for R&D of relevant compounds and patent protection.

Method: Literatures for patents of compound traditional Chinese medicines were searched to screen relevant data and create a sample space. The samples were classified by hierarchical cluster procedures and iterative partitioning procedures using "authorized percentage" and "authorized time interval" as variable quantities.

[Regional development of patents of traditional Chinese medicine compounds on basis of cluster analysis].

Objective: To study current regional development and optimization schemes of patents of traditional Chinese medicine compounds.

Method: Simple statistics and cluster analysis were adopted for calculating application quantity, maintenance quantity and quantity of scientific research papers related to patents of traditional Chinese medicine compounds in different regions. On that basis, cluster analysis was used for studying current development patents of traditional Chinese medicine compounds in different regions.

[Analyses on positive influence of harmonous development of traditional Chinese medicine compounds' researchs and patent protection].

Current patent protection of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compounds is far from being satisfactory with increasing research and development achievements. As patent protection of traditional Chinese medicine compounds is closely related with many fields such as research and development of new TCM drugs, industrial development and TCM internationalization, the development of research and harmonious development of TCM compounds and their patent protection is bound to have a far-reaching influence on domestic and even international societies.

[Preparation and spectral characterisation of TiO2/polyaniline nanocomposites with 2D lamellar morphology].

Nanostructured polyanilines (PANIs) are selected quite often as the matrix for the synthesis of inorganic/conductive polymer composites due to their excellent optical, electrical and magnetic properties. Herein both 2D lamellar PANI and the cor responding composite loading TiO2 species were successfully prepared from a microemulsion system, as composed by dodecyl benzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) and water. The composite was achieved through a simultaneous polymerization of aniline in the presence of ammonium persulfate and hydrolysis of tetrabutyl titanate.

[Spectroscopic analysis studies of organo-attapulgite/nylon 6 composites].

The surface organic modification of attapulgite with silane coupling reagent was studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Qrgano-attapulgite/nylon 6 composites with different content of attapulgite were prepared by means of melt blending, and the crystal structure and morphology were investigated. The results show that the surface content of Si, N and C of the modified attapulgite increased.

Novel PEG functionalized graphene nanosheets: enhancement of dispersibility and thermal stability.

A series of polyethylene glycol (PEG) functionalized graphene sheet hybrid materials (FGHMs) have been successfully synthesized via ester linkages. Interestingly, our products can be dispersed in both polar/protic solvents and nonpolar/nonprotic ones, which differ significantly from previously reported systems and are of great value in the wide-spread application of these "carbon nanosheet" based materials by solution-phase processing. Furthermore, the addition of PEG-modified carbon nanosheets as nanofillers significantly improves the thermal stability of the bulk polymers.

A nanostructured graphene/polyaniline hybrid material for supercapacitors.

A flexible graphene/polyaniline hybrid material as a supercapacitor electrode was synthesized by an in situ polymerization-reduction/dedoping-redoping process. This product was first prepared in an ethylene glycol medium, then treated with hot sodium hydroxide solution to obtain the reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline hybrid material. Sodium hydroxide also acted as a dedoping reagent for polyaniline in the composite.