Enhancement of infrared absorption through a patterned thin film of magnetic field and spin-coating directed self-assembly of gold nanoparticle stabilised ferrofluid emulsion.

Molecular vibration signals were amplified by the gold strip gratings as a result of grating resonances and nearby electric field hotspots. Colloidal gold island films exhibit similar enhancement; however, the uneven geometrical characteristics of these films restrict the tunability of the vibrational enhancement. Infrared absorption is enhanced by regular metallic patterns such as arrays of strips fabricated using a top-down approach such as nanolithography, although this technology is expensive and difficult.

Cyclic peptides target the aromatic cage of a PHD-finger reader domain to modulate epigenetic protein function.

Plant homeodomain fingers (PHD-fingers) are a family of reader domains that can recruit epigenetic proteins to specific histone modification sites. Many PHD-fingers recognise methylated lysines on histone tails and play crucial roles in transcriptional regulation, with their dysregulation linked to various human diseases. Despite their biological importance, chemical inhibitors for targeting PHD-fingers are very limited.

Multi-factor study of the effects of a trace amount of water vapor on low concentration CO capture by 5A zeolite particles.

Water vapor is ubiquitous and affects the performance of an adsorbent. In this work, a grand-canonical Monte Carlo method (GCMC) combining with dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) calculation is adopted to investigate the effect of a trace amount of water vapor on low concentration CO capture in 5A zeolite particles. The force field parameters for the interactions among CO, water, and 5A zeolite are obtained DC-DFT calculations.