Metal organic framework-assisted copper-modified titania (Cu/TiO) with abundant exposed active sites and highly accessible pore channels for an enhanced photo-generation of hydrogen.

Metal-doping is a common strategy for establishing active sites on photocatalyst, but appropriately exposing them for maximized atomic utilization remains a great challenge in photocatalytic research. Herein, we propose a metal organic framework (MOF)-assisted approach to synthesis copper-modified titania (Cu-TiO/Cu) photocatalyst with homogenously distributed and highly accessible active sites in its matrix. Significantly, an MOF precursor, namely NH-MIL-125, with co-chelation of titania (Ti) and copper (Cu) was subjected to mild calcination, subsequently results in Cu-modified TiO with highly accessible channels to its inner surface.

Iron-optimized oxygen vacancy concentration to strengthen the electrocatalytic ability of the urea oxidation reaction.

Iron-modified Ni(OH)/NiSe enhances oxygen vacancies, expanding the electrochemically active surface area, which exhibiting superior selectivity and stability in urea oxidation reaction, outperforming pristine Ni(OH)@NiSe. It also demonstrates superior catalytic performance in the oxidation reactions of other small molecules.

Facile preparation of tremella-like TiO/Cd:ZnInS photoanode with enhanced photo-electro-chemical (PEC) performance for energy and environmental applications.

The realization of solar-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) process lies in the success development of materials with excellent photoelectric properties. Past reports identified TiO, upon modified with both Cd and ZnInS (ZIS), exhibits promising PEC performance; however, at the cost of tedious preparation. In view of this, our work proposes a facile one-step hydrothermal strategy to deposit both modifiers onto the pre-obtained TiO nanotubes (NTs), realizing rose-like TiO/ZnInS (TiO/ZIS) or tremella-like TiO/Cd:ZnInS (TiO/Cd:ZIS) with improved PEC performances.

Photothermal and Joule heating-assisted thermal management sponge for efficient cleanup of highly viscous crude oil.

Fast and efficient cleanup of high-viscosity oil spills on the sea is still a global challenge today. Traditional recycling methods are either energy demanding or inefficient. Hydrophobic/oleophilic sorbents are promising candidates to handle oil spills, but they have limited ability to recover high viscosity oil.

Vanadium carbide: an efficient, robust, and versatile cocatalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution under visible light.

Herein, we report that vanadium carbide (VC) can efficiently catalyze photocatalytic H2 evolution with excellent stability in a dye-sensitized system under visible light irradiation (≥420 nm) and also serve as an versatile H2 evolution cocatalyst when integrated with various semiconductor photocatalysts.

High-performance Förster resonance energy transfer-based dye-sensitized photocatalytic H evolution with graphene quantum dots as the homogeneous energy donor.

A high-performance dye-sensitized photocatalytic H2 evolution system was developed based on Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) by employing water-soluble and highly photoluminescent N,S codoped graphene quantum dots (NSGQDs) as the homogeneous energy donor, erythrosin B (ErB) as the sensentizing dye, and platinum nanoparticles (Pt NPs) as the catalyst. NSGQDs absorbed high-energy photons that undergo FRET to transfer the excitation energy to the sensitizing ErB for maximizing light absorption and also served as an electron transfer and loading matrix of Pt NPs for accelarating the electron transfer; as a result, the ErB-sensitized NSGQD-Pt system afforded much higher H2 evolution activity than the NSGQD-free dye-sensitized system.

CoAl-layered double hydroxide nanosheets as an active matrix to anchor an amorphous MoS catalyst for efficient visible light hydrogen evolution.

CoAl-layered double hydroxide nanosheets (CoAl-NSs) could serve as an active matrix to effectively anchor amorphous MoSx nanoparticles with high dispersion and the formation of an additional active "CoMoS" phase. The resulting CoAl-NSs/MoSx catalyst showed 13 times higher H2 evolution activity than free MoSx nanoparticles from an erythrosin B-triethanolamine (ErB-TEOA) system under visible light.

Thiomolybdate [MoS] nanocluster: a molecular mimic of MoS active sites for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

Thiomolybdate [MoS] nanoclusters, as a molecular mimic of MoS edge sites, showed high efficiency in catalyzing photochemical H evolution from a molecular system of Ru(bpy)Cl-ascorbic acid (HA) under visible light irradiation (≥420 nm), providing a turnover number of 1570 and an initial turnover frequency of 335 h for H evolution based on the [MoS] catalyst.

Prognostic Value of Protocadherin10 (PCDH10) Methylation in Serum of Prostate Cancer Patients.

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous malignancy with outcome difficult to predict. Currently, there is an urgent need to identify novel biomarkers that can accurately predict patient outcome and improve the treatment strategy. The aim of this study was to investigate the methylation status of PCDH10 in serum of prostate cancer patients and its potential relevance to clinicopathological features and prognosis.