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The key to explain these findings is provided by the vibrational analysis, which shows very low energy wagging motions for the axial COs. S63845 Thus, the incoming CO only displaces the outgoing CO when the complex has an outgoing CO near the wag's turning point. This dissociative interchange mechanism predicted by the calculation explains the unexpected combination of kinetics and stability characteristics. Kinetics reveals that the reaction is first-order in the Os dimer with a negative Eyring entropy, while a stability study shows that the Os dimer's decomposition rate is several orders of magnitude slower than CO exchange.Protein therapy provides a powerful alternative to small-molecule-based therapy, especially on cellular targets that are normally considered to be less druggable. Intracellular protein delivery, in particular, in a cell-type-specific manner, is still highly challenging. At present, few general strategies are available for the robust and selective intracellular delivery of proteins. In this Letter, by using zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) as protein-encapsulated nanoparticles and simultaneous doping with norbornene-modified imidazole (MIM-Nor), followed by surface attachment of the resulting nanoparticles with cetuximab (Cet) through click chemistry, we successfully synthesized Cet@protein@ZIF-8N, which was subsequently used for the selective intracellular delivery of functional proteins to epidermal-growth-factor-receptor (EGFR)-overexpressed cells. Both in-cell and in vivo experiments proved that Cet@RNase A@ZIF-8N can effectively deliver RNase A with the retention of selective inhibition. Furthermore, the same strategy was successfully applied to cell-type-specific gene editing through the delivery of a Cas9/sgRNA complex to knockdown the endogenous expression of glutathione peroxidase (GPX4), a key protein in ferroptosis. Our new system thus has potential implications in future cancer treatment and the development of precision medicine.The production of elemental sulfur from petroleum refining has created a technological opportunity to increase the valorization of elemental sulfur by the synthesis of high-performance sulfur-based plastics with improved optical, electrochemical, and mechanical properties aimed at applications in thermal imaging, energy storage, self-healable materials, and separation science. In this Perspective, we discuss efforts in the past decade that have revived this area of organosulfur and polymer chemistry to afford a new class of high-sulfur-content polymers prepared from the polymerization of liquid sulfur with unsaturated monomers, termed inverse vulcanization.The nitrogen reduction reaction is of great scientific significance as a hydrogen fuel carrier as well as a source of value-added products; in context to this, photoelectrochemical (PEC) nitrogen fixation emerges as an effective and environmentally benign strategy to meet the need. Hence, the current work reports an effective catalytic system containing a low-cost iron boride-based cocatalyst onto the CeO2 nanosheet matrix for photoelectrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction. The harmonized electronic property and the ensemble effect of phosphorus and boron in FeB/P with unsaturated metal sites make it a site-selective cocatalyst for nitrogen adsorption and its polarization. Furthermore, the low Fermi level of iron borophosphide enhances the trapping of photogenerated electrons from CeO2 and productively provides it to the adsorbed nitrogen species. The observed peculiar photocurrent behavior confirms the interaction of photogenerated electrons with adsorbed nitrogen species and its subsequent reduction by the surrounding protonic environment. The optimized CeO2-FeB/P photoelectrocatalyst exhibited an excellent NH3 yield velocity, i.e., 9.54 μg/h/cm2 at -0.12 V vs RHE with a solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency of 0.046% under ambient conditions. The same catalyst is also very active under near-zero biasing conditions and possesses impressive durability even after multiple uses. This work might strategically direct a promising way for the exploration of new photoelectrocatalytic systems for effective PEC-nitrogen reduction reaction.Prussian blue (PB) and its analogues (PBAs) are drawing attention as promising materials for sodium-ion batteries and other applications, such as desalination of water. Because of the possibilities to explore many analogous materials with engineered, defect-rich environments, computational optimization of ion-transport mechanisms that are key to the device performance could facilitate real-world applications. In this work, we have applied a multiscale approach involving quantum chemistry, self-consistent mean-field theory, and finite-element modeling to investigate ion transport in PBAs. We identify a cyanide-mediated ladder mechanism as the primary process of ion transport. Defects are found to be impermissible to diffusion, and a random distribution model accurately predicts the impact of defect concentrations. Notably, the inclusion of intermediary local minima in the models is key for predicting a realistic diffusion constant. Furthermore, the intermediary landscape is found to be an essential difference between both the intercalating species and the type of cation doping in PBAs. We also show that the ladder mechanism, when employed in multiscale computations, properly predicts the macroscopic charging performance based on atomistic results. In conclusion, the findings in this work may suggest the guiding principles for the design of new and effective PBAs for different applications.Plasmonic materials are a promising category of photocatalysts for solar energy harvesting and conversion. However, there are some significant obstacles that need to be overcome to make plasmonic catalysts commercially available. One major challenge is to obtain a systematic understanding of how to design and optimize plasmonic systems from the perspective of both plasmonic materials and reagent molecules to achieve highly efficient and selective catalysis. It is well-known that the contributions of plasmon-molecule interactions such as plasmon-induced resonant energy transfer and charge transfer to the catalytic mechanism are rather complicated and possibly multifold. Observation of these phenomena is challenging due to the highly heterogeneous nature of plasmonic substrates as well as the large difference in sizes and optical cross sections between plasmonic materials and molecules. In this work, we use a molecular perspective to examine the crucial process of energy transfer between plasmons and molecules, with the goal of determining which experimental parameters can be used to control this energy flow. We employ ultrafast surface-enhanced anti-Stokes and Stokes Raman spectroscopy to investigate vibrational energy transfer in plasmonic-molecule systems. By comparing the energy transfer kinetics of five different aromatic thiols on the picosecond time scale, we find that intermolecular forces play an important role in energy distribution in molecules adsorbed to plasmonic materials, which changes the amount of energy deposited onto the molecule and the lifetime of the energy deposited. Our work implies that careful consideration of catalyst loading and molecule adsorption geometry is crucial for enhancing or suppressing the rate and efficiency of plasmon-driven energy transfer.Electrocatalytic N2 oxidation (NOR) into nitrate is a potential alternative to the emerging electrochemical N2 reduction (NRR) into ammonia to achieve a higher efficiency and selectivity of artificial N2 fixation, as O2 from the competing oxygen evolution reaction (OER) potentially favors the oxygenation of NOR, which is different from the parasitic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for NRR. Here, we develop an atomically dispersed Fe-based catalyst on N-doped carbon nanosheets (AD-Fe NS) which exhibits an exceptional catalytic NOR capability with a record-high nitrate yield of 6.12 μ mol mg-1 h-1 (2.45 μ mol cm-2 h-1) and Faraday efficiency of 35.63%, outperforming all reported NOR catalysts and most well-developed NRR catalysts. The isotopic labeling NOR test validates the N source of the resultant nitrate from the N2 electro-oxidation catalyzed by AD-Fe NS. Experimental and theoretical investigations identify Fe atoms in AD-Fe NS as active centers for NOR, which can effectively capture N2 molecules and elongate the N≡N bond by the hybridization between Fe 3d orbitals and N 2p orbitals. This hybridization activates N2 molecules and triggers the subsequent NOR. In addition, a NOR-related pathway has been proposed that reveals the positive effect of O2 derived from the parasitic OER on the NO3- formation.Monitoring the secretion of proteins from single cells can provide important insights into how cells respond to their microenvironment. This is particularly true for immune cells, which can exhibit a large degree of response heterogeneity. Microfabricated well arrays provide a powerful and versatile method to assess the secretion of cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors from single cells, but detection sensitivity has been limited to high levels on the order of 10,000 per cell. Recently, we reported a quantum dot-based immunoassay that lowered the detection limit for the cytokine TNF-α to concentrations to nearly the single-cell level. Here, we adapted this detection method to three additional targets while maintaining high detection sensitivity. Specifically, we detected MCP-1, TGF-β, IL-10, and TNF-α using quantum dots with different emission spectra, each of which displayed a detection threshold in the range of 1-10 fM or ∼1-2 molecules per well. We then quantified secretion of all four proteins from sormal and diseased immune cell populations in vitro and in vivo.Antibiotic-resistant pathogens are a serious threat to global public health. The emergence of drug-resistant pathogens is due to the improper use of antibiotics, making the treatment of bacterial infections very challenging. Here, we reported an efficient antibiotic delivery nanoparticle to minimize antibiotic resistance. The nanoparticle was designed to target the bacterial membrane using mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) modified with an ovotransferrin-derived antimicrobial peptide (OVTp12), enabling the antibiotic to be delivered to the vicinity of the pathogenic bacteria. Moreover, we observed that OVTp12-modified nanoparticles effectively inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli in vitro and in vivo. The nanoparticle with high biosafety could significantly downregulate the expression of inflammation-related cytokines in infected tissues. Thus, this novel bacterial targeted nanoparticle provides advantages in minimizing bacterial drug resistance and treating bacterial infection.Ion selectivity is an essential property of ion-selective membranes (ISMs). To date, all of the artificial ISMs have been reported to exhibit sole ion selectivity (SIS), either cation or anion selectivity. Here, we first demonstrate unconventional dual ion selectivity (DIS) in a bipolar channel membrane determined by the forward side toward ion flux. When the bipolar membrane meets the conditions of opposite ion selectivities and comparable resistance for both constructive layers, no matter which layer faces the ion flux, it functions as a selective layer and determines the selectivity of the whole membrane. The exploration of the unconventional DIS property inspires us to fabricate a new generation of ISMs, as well as other membranes for separation.
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