The interleukin-17 (IL-17) family, encompassing IL-17A to IL-17F, plays pivotal roles across various biomedical fields. IL-17A, a prominent cytokine, has garnered significant attention. However, the pathological effects of IL-17 can often be unpredictable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pear black spot is caused by Alternaria tenuissima. It is one of the diseases of concern limiting pear production worldwide. Existing cultivation methods and fungicides are not sufficient to control early blight.
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December 2024
Photoelectrochemistry provides an important application in the production of high-value-added chemicals. However, photoelectrochemical organic transformation with high product selectivity remains a challenge. Until now, various technologies have been developed to promote the selectivity of photoelectrochemical high-value-added chemical production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ability to design halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) offers exceptional potential in photonic technologies. Despite recent inspiring advances, the creation of PNCs with full-color tailorablity, outstanding CPL, and long-term stability remains a substantial challenge. Herein, a robust strategy to craft CPL-active PNCs is reported, exhibiting appealing full-color tunable wavelengths, enhanced CPL, and prolonged stability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrate electroreduction reaction (eNO RR) to ammonia (NH) provides a promising strategy for nitrogen utilization, while achieving high selectivity and durability at an industrial scale has remained challenging. Herein, we demonstrated that the performance of eNO RR could be significantly boosted by introducing two-dimensional Cu plates as electrocatalysts and eliminating the general carrier gas to construct a steady fluid field. The developed eNO RR setup provided superior NH Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 99 %, exceptional long-term electrolysis for 120 h at 200 mA cm, and a record-high yield rate of 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the increasing effort in advancing oxygen electrocatalysts for zinc-air batteries (ZABs), the performance development gradually reaches a plateau via only ameliorating the electrocatalyst materials. Herein, a new class of external field-responsive electrocatalyst comprising NiMnFeO stably dispersed on N-doped Ketjenblack (NiMnFeO/N-KB) is developed via polymer-assisted strategy for practical ZABs. Briefly, the activity indicator ΔE is significantly decreased to 0.
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November 2023
By the end of 2021, the pear yield in Xinjiang reached 1,795,900 tons, accounting for 1/9 of the country. Pear black spot, caused by disease, has had a significant impact on the pear industry. can infect nearly all pear plants, resulting in black spots on the fruit that negatively affect both yield and quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study presents an optimized co-antisolvent modulation strategy for producing two-dimensional lead-free chiral double perovskite nanomaterial with superior chirality and stability. The chiroptical signals or their dissymmetric factors are significantly influenced by the selection of antisolvent mixture. This research contributes to the advancement of chiral semiconductor materials and expands the understanding of their behavior at the nanoscale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSluggish kinetics of hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) in alkaline solution has restricted the rapid development of hydrogen economy. Constructing catalyst with metal-oxide heterostructures can enhance HOR performance; however, little studies concentrate on charge transfer between them, and the corresponding effects on reactions remain unclear. Herein, we report charge-transfer-adjustable CeO/Rh interfaces uniformly dispersed on multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT), which exhibit excellent alkaline HOR performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe past several years have witnessed a rapid development of intelligent wearable devices. However, despite the splendid advances, the creation of flexible human-machine interfaces that synchronously possess multiple sensing capabilities, wearability, accurate responsivity, sensitive detectivity, and fast recyclability remains a substantial challenge. Herein, a convenient yet robust strategy is reported to craft flexible transient circuits via stencil printing liquid metal conductor on the water-soluble electrospun film for human-machine interaction.
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October 2022
A highly stable composite electrolyte was developed in this research to address the performance decline over time in a solid lithium ion battery (SLIB). It involved the synthesis of bifunctional MOF material (MOF-2) from two different functionalized UiO-66 materials containing carboxyl groups and amine groups, respectively, and the subsequent blending of PEO (polyethylene oxide) with the MOF-2 to form the novel composite solid electrolyte (PEO-MOF-2). The composite electrolytes showed higher ionic conductivity (5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ability to craft high-efficiency and non-precious bifunctional oxygen catalysts opens an enticing avenue for the real-world implementation of metal-air batteries (MABs). Herein, Co O encapsulated within nitrogen defect-rich g-C N (denoted Co O @ND-CN) as a bifunctional oxygen catalyst for MABs is prepared by graphitizing the zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF)-67@ND-CN. Co O @ND-CN possesses superb bifunctional catalytic performance, which facilitates the construction of high-performance MABs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge-scale synthesis of graphene-based nanomaterials in stirred tank reactor (STR) often results in serious agglomeration because of the poor control during micromixing process. In this work, reactive impingement mixing is conducted in a two-stage impinging jet microreactor (TS-IJMR) for the controllable and scale-up synthesis of nickel-cobalt boride@borate core-shell nanostructures on RGO flakes (NCBO/RGO). Benefiting from the good process control and improved micromixing efficiency of TS-IJMR, NCBO/RGO nanosheet provides a large BET surface area, abundant of suitable mesopores (2-5 nm), fast ion diffusion, and facile electron transfer within the whole electrode.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, as our population increasingly ages with more pressure on bone and cartilage diseases, bone/cartilage tissue engineering (TE) have emerged as a potential alternative therapeutic technique accompanied by the rapid development of materials science and engineering. The key part to fulfill the goal of reconstructing impaired or damaged tissues lies in the rational design and synthesis of therapeutic agents in TE. Gold nanomaterials, especially gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), have shown the fascinating feasibility to treat a wide variety of diseases due to their excellent characteristics such as easy synthesis, controllable size, specific surface plasmon resonance and superior biocompatibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThough solar cells are one of the promising technologies to address the energy crisis, this technology is still far from commercialization. Thermoelectric materials offer a novel opportunity to convert energy between thermal and electrical aspects, which show the feasibility to improve the performance of solar cells heat management and light harvesting. Polymer-inorganic thermoelectric nanocomposites consisting of inorganic nanomaterials and functional organic polymers represent one kind of advanced hybrid nanomaterials with tunable optical and electrical characteristics and fascinating interfacial and surface chemistry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs an emerging photocatalyst, polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) currently has drawn ever-increasing attention for electrochemical energy conversion and storage due to its graphite-like structure, metal-free characteristic and excellent structural tunability. Nonetheless, its practical applications are still hindered by the poor electrical conductivity induced irreversible capacity loss. Recently, PCN-derived carbon materials with improved conductivity have received increasing interest and made tremendous progress for advanced electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDesigning new hole-transporting materials (HTMs) with desired chemical, electrical, and electronic properties is critical to realize efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with a p-i-n structure. Herein, the synthesis of a novel 3D small molecule named TPE-S and its application as an HTM in PVSCs are shown. The all-inorganic inverted PVSCs made using TPE-S, processed without any dopant or post-treatment, are highly efficient and stable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThermoresponsive nanoparticles (NPs) represent an important hybrid material comprising functional NPs with temperature-sensitive polymer ligands. Strikingly, significant discrepancies in optical and catalytic properties of thermoresponsive noble-metal NPs have been reported, and have yet to be unraveled. Reported herein is the crafting of Au NPs, intimately and permanently ligated by thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), in situ using a starlike block copolymer nanoreactor as model system to resolve the paradox noted above.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInstability of perovskite quantum dots (QDs) toward humidity remains one of the major obstacles for their long-term use in optoelectronic devices. Herein, a general amphiphilic star-like block copolymer nanoreactor strategy for in situ crafting a set of hairy perovskite QDs with precisely tunable size and exceptionally high water and colloidal stabilities is presented. The selective partition of precursors within the compartment occupied by inner hydrophilic blocks of star-like diblock copolymers imparts in situ formation of robust hairy perovskite QDs permanently ligated by outer hydrophobic blocks via coprecipitation in nonpolar solvent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe current trend in the miniaturization of electronic devices has driven the investigation into many nanostructured materials. The ferroelectric material barium titanate (BaTiO3) has garnered considerable attention over the past decade owing to its excellent dielectric and ferroelectric properties. This has led to significant progress in synthetic techniques that yield high quality BaTiO3 nanocrystals (NCs) with well-defined morphologies (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a viable route to plasmonic nanoparticles with well-controlled sizes, shapes, and compositions. A series of monodisperse Ag and Au nanoparticles capped with polystyrene chains (i.e.
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February 2018
The ability to dynamically organize functional nanoparticles (NPs) via the use of environmental triggers (temperature, pH, light, or solvent polarity) opens up important perspectives for rapid and convenient construction of a rich variety of complex assemblies and materials with new structures and functionalities. Here, we report an unconventional strategy for crafting stable hairy NPs with light-enabled reversible and reliable self-assembly and tunable optical properties. Central to our strategy is to judiciously design amphiphilic star-like diblock copolymers comprising inner hydrophilic blocks and outer hydrophobic photoresponsive blocks as nanoreactors to direct the synthesis of monodisperse plasmonic NPs intimately and permanently capped with photoresponsive polymers.
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