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Each of these factors contributes to the assembly of competitive all-solid-state Li/Li, LiFePO4/Li, and LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2/Li cells, demonstrating the importance of surface chemistry and interfacial engineering in the design of all-solid-state Li metal batteries for high-current-density applications.Chiral propargylsilanes and chiral allenylsilanes have emerged as versatile building blocks for organic synthesis. However, efficient methods for preparing these organosilicon compounds are lacking. We herein report a highly enantioselective method for synthesis of chiral propargylsilanes and chiral allenylsilanes from readily available alkynyl sulfonylhydrazones. Specifically, chiral spiro phosphate dirhodium complexes were used to catalyze asymmetric insertion of alkynyl carbenes into the Si-H bonds of silanes to afford a variety of chiral propargylsilanes with excellent enantioselectivity. Subsequently, a platinum catalyst was used for stereospecific isomerization of the chiral propargylsilanes to the corresponding chiral allenylsilanes.Rising CO2 concentration and temperatures in urban areas are now well-known, but the potential of an emerging oxygen crisis in the world's large cities has so far attracted little attention from the science community. Here, we investigated the oxygen balance and its related risks in 391 global large cities (with a population of more than 1 million people) using the oxygen index (OI), which is the ratio of oxygen consumption to oxygen production. Our results show that the global urban areas, occupying only 3.8% of the global land surface, accounted for 39% (14.3 ± 1.5 Gt/yr) of the global terrestrial oxygen consumption during 2001-2015. We estimated that 75% of cities with a population more than 5 million had an OI of greater than 100. Also, cities with larger OI values were correlated with more frequent heatwaves and severe water withdrawals. In addition, cities with excessively large OI values would likely experience severe hypoxia in extremely calm weather. Thus, mitigation measures should be adopted to reduce the urban OI in order to build healthier and more sustainable cities.Advances in microscopy, microfluidics, and optogenetics enable single-cell monitoring and environmental regulation and offer the means to control cellular phenotypes. The development of such systems is challenging and often results in bespoke setups that hinder reproducibility. To address this, we introduce Cheetah, a flexible computational toolkit that simplifies the integration of real-time microscopy analysis with algorithms for cellular control. Central to the platform is an image segmentation system based on the versatile U-Net convolutional neural network. This is supplemented with functionality to robustly count, characterize, and control cells over time. EX 527 purchase We demonstrate Cheetah's core capabilities by analyzing long-term bacterial and mammalian cell growth and by dynamically controlling protein expression in mammalian cells. In all cases, Cheetah's segmentation accuracy exceeds that of a commonly used thresholding-based method, allowing for more accurate control signals to be generated. Availability of this easy-to-use platform will make control engineering techniques more accessible and offer new ways to probe and manipulate living cells.Neural network (NN) potential energy surfaces (PESs) have been widely used in atomistic simulations with ab initio accuracy. While constructing NN PESs, their training data points are often sampled by molecular dynamics trajectories. This strategy can be however inefficient for reactive systems involving rare events. Here, we develop an uncertainty-driven active learning strategy to automatically and efficiently generate high-dimensional NN-based reactive potentials, taking a gas-surface reaction as an example. The difference between two independent NN models is used as a simple and differentiable uncertainty metric, allowing us to quickly search in the uncertainty space and place new samples at which the PES is less reliable. By interfacing this algorithm with the first-principles simulation package, we demonstrate that a globally accurate NN potential of the H2 + Ag(111) system can be constructed with merely ∼150 data points. This PES can be further refined to describe H2 dissociation on Ag(100) by adding ∼130 more configurations on this facet. The entire process is completely automatic and self-terminated once the relative error criterion is fulfilled. Impressively, data points sampled by this uncertainty-driven strategy are substantially fewer than by the traditional trajectory-based sampling. The final NN PES not only converges well the quantum dissociation probability of the molecule but also well-reproduces the phonon properties of the substrate and is capable of describing surface temperature effects. These results show the potential of this active learning approach in developing high-dimensional NN reactive potentials in gas and condensed phases.The ever-increasing space exploration enterprise calls for novel and high-quality radiation-resistant materials, among which nonlinear optical materials and devices are particularly scarce. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown promising potential, but the radiation effects on their nonlinear optical properties remain largely elusive. We previously fabricated 2D bismuthene for mode-locking sub-ns laser; herein, their space adaption was evaluated under a simulated space radiation environment. The as-synthesized thin layers of bismuthene exhibited strong third-order nonlinear optical responses extending into the near-infrared region. Remarkably, when exposed to 60Co γ-rays and electron irradiation, the bismuthene showed only slight degradation in saturable absorption behaviors that were critical for mode-locking in space. Ultrafast spectroscopy was applied to address the radiation effects and damage mechanisms that are difficult to understand by routine techniques. This work offers a new bottom-up approach for preparing 2D bismuthene, and the elucidation of its fundamental excited-state dynamics after radiation also provides a guideline to optimize the material for eventual space applications.In this work, high-dimensional (21D) quantum dynamics calculations on the mode-specific surface scattering of a carbon monoxide molecule on a copper(100) surface with lattice effects of a five-atom surface cell are performed through the multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) method. We employ a surface model in which five surface atoms near the impact site are treated as fully flexible quantum particles, while all other more distant atoms are kept at fixed locations. To efficiently perform the 21D ML-MCTDH wave packet propagation, the potential energy surface is transferred to a canonical polyadic decomposition form with the aid of a Monte Carlo-based method. Excitation-specific sticking probabilities of CO on Cu(100) are computed, and lattice effects caused by the flexible surface atoms are demonstrated by comparison with sticking probabilities computed for a rigid surface. The dependence of the sticking probability of the initial state of the system is studied, and it is found that the sticking probability is reduced when the surface atom on the impact site is initially vibrationally excited.While electrophilic reagents for histidine labeling have been developed, we report an umpolung strategy for histidine functionalization. A nucleophilic small molecule, 1-methyl-4-arylurazole, selectively labeled histidine under singlet oxygen (1O2) generation conditions. Rapid histidine labeling can be applied for instant protein labeling. Utilizing the short diffusion distance of 1O2 and a technique to localize the 1O2 generator, a photocatalyst in close proximity to the ligand-binding site, we demonstrated antibody Fc-selective labeling on magnetic beads functionalized with a ruthenium photocatalyst and Fc ligand, ApA. Three histidine residues located around the ApA binding site were identified as labeling sites by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. This result suggests that 1O2-mediated histidine labeling can be applied to a proximity labeling reaction on the nanometer scale.In this paper, we present PyKrev, a Python library for the analysis of complex mixture Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FT-MS) data. PyKrev is a comprehensive suite of tools for analysis and visualization of FT-MS data after formula assignment has been performed. These comprise formula manipulation and calculation of chemical properties, intersection analysis between multiple lists of formulas, calculation of chemical diversity, assignment of compound classes to formulas, multivariate analysis, and a variety of visualization tools producing van Krevelen diagrams, class histograms, PCA score, and loading plots, biplots, scree plots, and UpSet plots. The library is showcased through analysis of hot water green tea extracts and Scotch whisky FT-ion cyclotron resonance-MS data sets. PyKrev addresses the lack of a single, cohesive toolset for researchers to perform FT-MS analysis in the Python programming environment encompassing the most recent data analysis techniques used in the field.A cubic quadruple perovskite oxide CeMn3Cr4O12 has been synthesized under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions of 8 GPa and 1273 K. The X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals that the Ce ions are in a trivalent state, as represented by the ionic model of Ce3+Mn3+3Cr3+4O12. The magnetic study demonstrates three independent antiferromagnetic transitions attributed to Ce (∼10 K), Mn (46 K), and Cr (133 K) ions. Furthermore, a magnetic field-induced antiferromagnetic-to-ferromagnetic (metamagnetic) transition of Ce3+ 4f moments is observed at low temperatures below 20 K, exhibiting a rare example of metamagnetism in the Ce3+-oxides. This finding represents that the 3d-electron magnetic sublattices play a role in the metamagnetism of 4f-electron magnetic moments, demonstrating a new aspect of the 3d-4f complex electron systems.Self-assembling peptide nanostructures have been shown to be of great importance in nature and have presented many promising applications, for example, in medicine as drug-delivery vehicles, biosensors, and antivirals. Being very promising candidates for the growing field of bottom-up manufacture of functional nanomaterials, previous work (Frederix, et al. 2011 and 2015) has screened all possible amino acid combinations for di- and tripeptides in search of such materials. However, the enormous complexity and variety of linear combinations of the 20 amino acids make exhaustive simulation of all combinations of tetrapeptides and above infeasible. Therefore, we have developed an active machine-learning method (also known as "iterative learning" and "evolutionary search method") which leverages a lower-resolution data set encompassing the whole search space and a just-in-time high-resolution data set which further analyzes those target peptides selected by the lower-resolution model. This model uses newly generated data upon each iteration to improve both lower- and higher-resolution models in the search for ideal candidates. Curation of the lower-resolution data set is explored as a method to control the selected candidates, based on criteria such as log P. A major aim of this method is to produce the best results in the least computationally demanding way. This model has been developed to be broadly applicable to other search spaces with minor changes to the algorithm, allowing its use in other areas of research.
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