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A novel fluoride (F-) colorimetric and fluorescent probe (P1) based on a core-extended perylene tetra-(alkoxycarbonyl) (PTAC) derivative was developed. The probe exhibited high sensitivity and selectivity for distinguishing F- from other common anions through significant changes of the UV-Vis and fluorescence spectra. Job's plot analysis revealed that the stoichiometry of the P1-F- interaction is 1  1. The association constant between P1 and F- was estimated to be 9.7 × 102 M-1 and the detection limit of F- was about 0.97 μM. An approximately 76 nm red-shift in the absorption and fluorescent quenching response was observed when F- was associated with P1. The emission intensity (I 574) decreased linearly along with the F- concentration from 3 × 10-5 M to 2 × 10-4 M. Pyroxamide in vivo The mechanism of intermolecular proton transfer (IPT) was deduced based on the changes in the absorption, fluorescence, electrochemistry, and 1H NMR titration spectra. The density functional theory (DFT) theoretical results of the P1-F- complex are in good agreement with the experimental results. The rapid detection of F- ions in the solid state and living cells was also studied.13-Aminomethyl-15-thiomatrine (M19) previously developed by our research group was a promising candidate for novel anti-osteoporosis drug development. However, the application of M19 was limited by its unsatisfactory druggability including poor chemical stability, excessively broad pharmacological activity and some degree of cytotoxicity. To solve these problems, M19-based bone targeting and cathepsin K sensitive peptide-drug conjugates (BTM19-1, BTM19-2 and BTM19-3) were developed to realize precise drug release in the bone tissue. Subsequent studies showed a rapid drug release process via cathepsin K digestion but sufficient stability over several hours in chymotrypsin. Besides, greatly improved chemical stability and strong hydroxyapatite binding affinity were also demonstrated. In biological evaluation studies, these PDCs showed less cytotoxicity and similar osteoclast inhibitory activity compared with the prototype drug. The optimal BTM19-2 could serve as a suitable candidate for further osteoporosis therapy research.In the present work, we report the fabrication of a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate on a simple and easily fabricable hydrophobic surface. The substrates are prepared by slow and fast evaporation of a droplet of silver nanoparticle suspension in water. The corresponding identifiers for two substrates are "s_evp" and "f_evp" respectively. It is found that the dried spot size is small on s_evp compared to that on f_evp. This also minimizes the coffee stain effect and enriches the spot in a better way on s_evp compared to f_evp. Consequently, using SERS experimentation on our lab-built setup, concentration as low as 2.5*10-12 M of rhodamine 6G molecules was detected on s_evp compared to 2.5 × 10-10 M on f_evp. The proposed s_evp SERS substrate is much easier to fabricate and easy to use compared to super-hydrophobic SERS substrates.Membranes for membrane distillation (MD) are mostly made of polymeric and ceramic materials. We demonstrate here that the laterally-compressed, vertically-aligned CNTs (VACNT) obtainable from a CNT forest are an excellent membrane material for vacuum membrane distillation (VMD). The VACNT structure provides interstices between CNTs for extracting vaporized water molecules, while efficiently filtering the impurity salts. The VACNT membrane is shown to deliver excellent performance when tested for the desalination of 3.5 wt% NaCl water solution, as exemplified by the permeability of 68 LMH (liter per square meter per hour) achieved at the salt rejection of over 99.8% at 65 °C. We also demonstrate that the VACNT membrane performance can be maintained with time with the aid of a simple cleaning procedure, which bodes well for a long lifetime of the membrane for VMD application.This review systematically summarizes the C18-diterpenoid alkaloid (DA) compositions isolated from the genera Aconitum and Delphinium in the Delphineae tribe (Ranunculaceae). A total of 117 distinct C18-DA components have been reported, including 58 lappaconitine-type DAs, 54 ranaconitine-type DAs, and five rearranged-type DAs. These components mainly originated from plants from the subgenus Lycoctonum in the genus Aconitum or less frequently from plants within the genus Delphinium. Natural C18-DAs have exhibited a wide range of bioactivities, including analgesic, antiarrhythmic, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and insecticidal activities, which are closely related to their chemical structures. The high chemical and biological diversities among the reported C18-DA constituents in Delphineae plants indicated their potential as a vast resource for drug discovery. Additionally, the Delphineae plant C18-DAs exhibited chemotaxonomic values and showed a high regularity of distribution at different taxonomic levels; therefore, the Delphineae plant C18-DAs can serve as good chemical molecular markers in the taxonomic treatment of plants within this tribe, especially in the infrageneric division.One of the major weaknesses of therapeutic peptides is their sensitivity to degradation by proteolytic enzymes in vivo. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are a good carrier for therapeutic peptides to improve their stability and cellular uptake in vitro and in vivo. We conjugated the anticancer KT2 peptide as an anticancer peptide model to PEGylated GNPs (GNPs-PEG) and investigated the peptide stability, cellular uptake and ability of the GNPs-KT2-PEG conjugates to induce MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cell death. We found that 11 nm GNPs protected the conjugated KT2 peptide from trypsin proteolysis, keeping it stable up to 0.128% trypsin, which is higher than the serum trypsin concentration (range 0.0000285 ± 0.0000125%) reported by Lake-Bakaar, G. et al., 1979. GNPs significantly enhanced the cellular uptake of KT2 peptides after conjugation. Free KT2 peptides pretreated with trypsin were not able to kill MDA-MB-231 cells due to proteolysis, while GNPs-KT2-PEG was still able to exert effective cancer cell killing after trypsin treatment at levels comparable to GNPs-KT2-PEG without enzyme pretreatment. The outcome of this study highlights the utility of conjugated anticancer peptides on nanoparticles to improve peptide stability and retain anticancer ability.A simple, one-step electrodeposition process was rapidly performed on a metal substrate to fabricate calcium superhydrophobic surfaces in an electrolyte containing calcium chloride (CaCl2), myristic acid (CH3(CH2)12COOH), and ethanol, which can avoid the intricate post-processing of surface treatment. The morphology and surface chemical compositions of the fabricated superhydrophobic surfaces were systematically examined by means of SEM, XRD, and FTIR, respectively. The results indicate that the deposited surfaces were mainly composed of calcium myristate, which can dramatically lower surface free energy. The shortest process for constructing a superhydrophobic surface is about 0.5 min, and the maximum contact angle of the as-prepared surfaces can reach as high as 166°, showing excellent superhydrophobicity. By adjusting the electrodeposition time, the structure of the cathodic surface transforms from the turfgrass structure, loose flower structures, larger and dense flower structures, secondary flower structures, and then into tertiary or more flower structures. The superhydrophobic surfaces showed excellent rebound performance with a high-speed camera. After a pressing force, their hardness increases, but the superhydrophobic performance is not weakened. Inversely, the bouncing performance is enhanced. This electrodeposition process offers a promising approach for large areas of superhydrophobic surfaces on conductive metals and strongly impacts the dynamics of water droplets.Using density functional (DFT) theory calculations, we have investigated the electronic band structure, optical and photocatalytic response of BSe, M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) monolayers and their corresponding BSe-M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. Optimized lattice constant, bond length, band structure and bandgap values, effective mass of electrons and holes, work function and conduction and valence band edge potentials of BSe and M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) monolayers are in agreement with previously available data. Binding energies, interlayer distance and Ab initio molecular dynamic simulations (AIMD) calculations show that BSe-M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) vdW heterostructures are stable with specific stacking and demonstrate that these heterostructures might be synthesized in the laboratory. The electronic band structure shows that all the studied vdW heterostructures have indirect bandgap nature - with the CBM and VBM at the Γ-K and Γ-point of BZ for BSe-Ti2CO2, respectively; while for BSe-Zr2CO2 and BSe-Hf2CO2 vdW heterostructures the CBM and VBM lie at the K-point and Γ-point of BZ, respectively. Type-II band alignment in BSe-M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) vdW heterostructures prevent the recombination of electron-hole pairs, and hence are crucial for light harvesting and detection. Absorption spectra are investigated to understand the optical behavior of BSe-M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) vdW heterostructures, where the lowest energy transitions are dominated by excitons. Furthermore, BSe-M2CO2 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) vdW heterostructures are found to be potential photocatalysts for water splitting at pH = 0, and exhibit enhanced optical properties in the visible light zones.A series of hydrazone derivatives of 2-(benzamido) benzohydrazide was designed, synthesized, and characterized utilizing FTIR, NMR and UV spectroscopic techniques along with mass spectrometry. Compound 10 was also characterized through X-ray crystallography. These synthesized compounds were assessed for their potential as anti-Alzheimer's agents by checking their AChE and BChE inhibition properties by in vitro analysis. The synthesized derivatives were also evaluated for their antioxidant potential along with cytotoxicity studies. The results clearly indicated that dual inhibition of both the enzymes acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) was achieved by most of the compounds (03-13), showing varying IC50values. Remarkably, compound 06 (IC50 = 0.09 ± 0.05 for AChE and 0.14 ± 0.05 for BChE) and compound 13 (IC50 = 0.11 ± 0.03 for AChE and 0.10 ± 0.06 for BChE) from the series showed IC50 values comparable to the standard donepezil (IC50 = 0.10 ± 0.02 for AChE and 0.14 ± 0.03 for BChE). Moreover, the derivative 11 also exhibited selective inhibition against BChE with IC50 = 0.12 ± 0.09. Meanwhile, compounds 04 and 10 exhibited good anti-oxidant activities, showing % scavenging of 95.06% and 82.55%, respectively. Cytotoxicity studies showed that the synthesized compounds showed cell viability greater than 80%; thus, these compounds can be safely used as drugs. DFT and molecular docking studies also supported the experimental findings.Hyperbranched polymers, a subclass of dendritic polymers, mimic nature's components such as trees and nerves. Hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG) is a hyperbranched polyether with outstanding physicochemical properties, including high water-solubility and functionality, biocompatibility, and an antifouling feature. HPG has attracted great interest in the modification of different objects, in particular carbon-based nanomaterials. In this review, recent advances in the synthesis and application of HPG to modify carbon-based nanomaterials, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, fullerene, nanodiamonds, carbon dots, and carbon fibers, are reviewed.
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