A Piezocatalysis Strategy to Enable Efficient Redox in Solid-State Battery.

Piezocatalysis is considered to be a favorable catalytic technology by utilizing external mechanical stimulation to promote the specific redox reactions. The application of piezocatalysis in batteries is promising but faces formidable challenges. Herein, the operation principles of piezocatalysis were successfully demonstrated by constructing solid-state Li-Se and Li-S battery models with interfacial stress accumulation.

Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticle Composites by Slow Chemical Reduction of Metal-Organic Frameworks.

Constructing metal nanoparticle (MNP) composites from metal-organic framework (MOF) precursors has attracted extensive attention as the MOF precursors provide an excellent porous matrix for the generation of MNP composites, which enables the direct fabrication of well-dispersed MNP composites. In this work, a novel strategy is proposed to fabricate MNP composites by slow chemical reduction (SCR) of MOF precursors at room temperature. The reduction process is skillfully slowed via using ethanol as the solvent, and the formation of MNP composites is then realized by the SCR process.

In situ synthesis of a FeS/MIL-53(Fe) hybrid catalyst for an efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction.

The development of efficient MOF-based electrocatalysts with good stability to produce hydrogen is a great challenge in the field of sustainable energy conversion. Herein, we introduced a controlled in-situ sulfurization strategy to generate a highly active and stable hybrid catalyst containing good conductive Fe3S4 ultrasmall nanosheets attached on the surface of 3D MIL-53(Fe) for the hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic solutions.

Association of serum resistin levels with metabolic syndrome and early atherosclerosis in obese Chinese children.

Aim: To investigate the association of serum resistin levels with metabolic syndrome (MS) and early atherosclerosis in obese children.

Methods: A total of 176 obese children and 88 healthy children were enrolled in this study, and were gender and age matched. Obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ≥ the 95th percentile for age and sex.

Association of serum adiponectin levels with artherosclerosis and the metabolic syndrome in obese children.

Background: The atherosclerotic process starts at an early age and is linked to obesity. However, the exact pathophysiological mechanism is poorly understood.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between serum adiponectin and metabolic syndrome and early arteriosclerosis.

Intensive care unit staff nurses: predicting factors for career decisions.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to understand the factors related to intention to leave their job among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses in eastern Taiwan and to make between-group comparisons between an intention to leave and an intention to stay as well as to predict the influencing factors that affect ICU staff nurses' intention to leave.

Background: Nurses' intention to leave their job may have an important impact on the actual turnover of nurses. The issue has always been of concern to nursing executives.

Syntheses and structures of two chiral zincophosphite compounds: [Zn(C8H8N2)(HPO3)] and (C6H13N2)[Zn3(C6H12N2)(HPO3)3(H2PO3)].

Employing achiral organic amines (2-methylbenzimidazole and 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) as the structure-directing agent and ligand, two chiral zincophosphites, [Zn(C(8)H(8)N(2))(HPO(3))] 1 and (C(6)H(13)N(2))[Zn(3)(C(6)H(12)N(2))(HPO(3))(3)(H(2)PO(3))] 2, have been hydro(solvo)-thermally synthesized, crystallizing in the chiral space group P2(1)2(1)2(1).

Solvatochromic response imposed by environmental changes in matrix/chromophore entities: luminescent cyclometalated platinum (II) complex in Nafion and silica materials.

Luminescent cyclometalated complex [Pt(L)py]+ (1) immobilised in Nafion film exhibits a solvatochromic shift in emission maximum from 530 to 650 nm upon immersion in ethanol but no effect is detected with aprotic organic solvents, whereas the emission of the [Pt(L)]+ luminophore anchored in silica materials shows a blue shift from approximately 665 to 550 nm upon exposure to pentane vapour but no shift is observed for ethanol vapour.

Chiral ruthenium porphyrin encapsulated in ordered mesoporous molecular sieves (MCM-41 and MCM-48) as catalysts for asymmetric alkene epoxidation and cyclopropanation.

Encapsulation of chiral ruthenium porphyrin [RuII(D4-Por*)CO] in modified mesoporous silica supports such as MCM-41 and MCM-48 achieves active catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes by 2,6-dichloropyridine N-oxide and intramolecular cyclopropanation, which is the first example of chiral metalloporphyrin supported on ordered molecular sieves.