Bioinspired Synthesis of Ce O:%Cu Nanobelts for CO Oxidation and Organic Dye Degradation.

Ce O:%Cu nanobelts were bioinspired, designed, and fabricated using commercial filter papers as scaffolds by adding Cu(NO) in the original sol solution of CeO nanobelts, which display excellent catalyst properties for CO oxidation and photocatalytic activity for organic dyes. Compared with pure CeO, CuO belts were synthesized using the same method and the corresponding CeO:50%Cu bulk materials were synthesized without filter paper as scaffolds; the synthesized Ce O:%Cu nanobelts, especially CeO:50%Cu nanobelts, can decrease the reaction temperature of CO to CO at 100 °C with the conversion rate of 100%, much lower than the formerly reported kinds of Ce O:%Cu catalysts. Meanwhile, the synthesized Ce O:%Cu nanobelts also display better photocatalytic activity for organic dyes.

Recurrent episodes of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy in three Chinese families with GJB1 mutations in X-linked Charcot-Marie-tooth type 1 disease: cases report.

Background: The X-linked form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1 (CMTX1) is an inherited peripheral neuropathy that arises in patients with mutations in the gap-junction beta-1 gene (GJB1).

Case Presentation: Three young male patients from Southern China with pes cavus experienced multiple episodes of transient central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction. Three patients all had reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy as detected by brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI-DWI).

Multifunctional luminescent nanomaterials from NaLa(MoO4)2:Eu(3+)/Tb(3+) with tunable decay lifetimes, emission colors, and enhanced cell viability.

A facile, but effective, method has been developed for large-scale preparation of NaLa(MoO4)2 nanorods and microflowers co-doped with Eu(3+) and Tb(3+) ions (abbreviated as: NLM:Ln(3+)). The as-synthesized nanomaterials possess a pure tetragonal phase with variable morphologies from shuttle-like nanorods to microflowers by controlling the reaction temperature and the amount of ethylene glycol used. Consequently, the resulting nanomaterials exhibit superb luminescent emissions over the visible region from red through yellow to green by simply changing the relative doping ratios of Eu(3+) to Tb(3+) ions.