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Social abuse: quantifying the burden of damage inside a Southerly African trauma center.
Maternal infection (i.e., ascending infection) and the resulting host inflammatory response are risk factors associated with spontaneous preterm birth (PTB), a major pregnancy complication. However, the path of infection and its propagation from the maternal side to the fetal side have been difficult to study due to the lack of appropriate in vitro models and limitations of animal models. A better understanding of the propagation kinetics of infectious agents and development of the host inflammatory response at the feto-maternal (amniochorion-decidua, respectively) interface (FMi) is critical in curtailing host inflammatory responses that can lead to PTB. To model ascending infection and determine inflammatory responses at the FMi, we developed a microfluidic organ-on-chip (OOC) device containing primary cells from the FMi (decidua, chorion, and amnion [mesenchyme and epithelium]) and collagen matrix harvested from primary tissue. The FMi-OOC is composed of four concentric circular cell/collagen chambers desiponse at the FMi indicative of pathologic pathways of PTB. This OOC model provides a novel platform to study physiological and pathological cell status at the FMi, and is expected to have broad utility in the field of obstetrics.C2 separation is of great importance in the petrochemical industry. Traditionally, it is performed by distillation at cryogenic temperatures, which necessitates the consumption of a huge amount of energy to operate the refrigeration system in the production process. In this regard, it is imperative to seek alternative separation methods with high efficiency and low energy cost. Although of recent origin, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have already been extensively studied as advanced adsorbents in many applications, and significant progress has been made particularly in gas separation owing to their unprecedented porosity and tunable structures. In this review, we extrapolated three most frequently invoked design strategies for efficient C2 separation hinged upon supramolecular interactions, including molecular sieving, gate opening, and surface engineering. Recent progress of MOF materials in C2 separation was highlighted within each of these strategies, and their advantages and limitations are compared and discussed. Accordingly, we provide perspectives on current challenges and future emphases in designing MOF materials for hydrocarbon separation. With our continued efforts in this area, we expect that integrating supramolecular interactions in a single MOF system is a viable approach to achieve a balance between adsorption capacity and selectivity for different hydrocarbon separation scenarios.For the challenge of stabilizing a fullerene-like borospherene, a perfect fullerene-like borospherene B20 with Ih symmetry is stabilized theoretically for the first time by selected 12 η5 (pentahapto)-Mg atoms capped on the 12 B5 pentagons, forming an exohedral metalloborospherene Ih Mg12&B20 molecule. Owing to the pull-push electron transfer relay, the molecule is converted to a spherical electride molecule (Mg2+)12&B2018- + 6e- with multiexcess electrons and high-valent B2018- polyanion with a full-shell electronic configuration, performing the stabilization of the fullerene-like B20 cage. Furthermore, we embed the metal M atom in the B20 cage, forming new endohedral electride molecules (Mg2+)12&(Mn+@B2018-) + (6 + n)e- (M = Li, n = 1 and Mg, n = 2). The embedded atom M increases the excess electron number. Notably, these electride molecules possess two different types of superatomic characteristics, exhibiting the behavior of an electron reservoir. Moreover, a compound (Mg12&B20)2O is designed and obtained, so Mg12&B20 might serve as a nano-building block. In addition, the Mg12&B20 and Mg12&(Mg@B20) electride molecules are efficient external electric field-manipulated nonlinear optical (NLO) switches with high sensitivity and reversibility. The embedding metal atom in the B20 cage can also serve as a new strategy to manipulate NLO switching.Due to the more volatile nature of 210Po in relation to 210Pb, an imbalance of activity concentrations in high temperature combustion processes can be observed, especially in fine particulates (diameter less then 0.1, 0.2 and 0.5 μm). In the atmosphere and in the soil around coal-fired power plants, 210Pb and 210Po concentrations are a combination of activities from natural and anthropogenic sources. In this study only portions of 210Po and 210Pb radionuclides resulting from energy production activities were analyzed. Due to the high mobility of fine particles, a surface area of 172 km × 140 km in central Poland was chosen for simulation. For validation of the modeling approach, three grid versions were applied 1 km, 2 km and 4 km. Simulated results confirmed experimental-computational values of an excess of both radionuclides in the atmosphere in 2017 in the city of Lodz. Different aerosol fractions, seasons and various grids in the selected area were subjected to 36 individual simulations. The 210Po activity concentrations measured in winter and summer 2017 were 42.5 and 8.99 μBq m-3, respectively. Simulated and measured values of artificial 210Po and 210Pb activities are well correlated.Reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption were used to study the adsorption of acrolein, its partial hydrogenation products, propanal and 2-propenol, and its full hydrogenation product, 1-propanol on the Ag(111) surface. Each molecule adsorbs weakly to the surface and desorbs without reaction at temperatures below 220 K. For acrolein, the out-of plane bending modes are more intense than the C[double bond, length as m-dash]O stretch at all coverages, indicating that the molecular plane is mainly parallel to the surface. The two alcohols, 2-propenol and 1-propanol, have notably higher desorption temperatures than acrolein and display strong hydrogen bonding in the multilayers as revealed by a broadened and redshifted O-H stretch. For 1-propanol, annealing the surface to 180 K disrupts the hydrogen-bonding to produce unusally narrow peaks, including one at 1015 cm-1 with a full width at half maximum of 1.1 cm-1. This suggests that 1-propanol forms a highly orderded monolayer and adsorbs as a single conformer. For 2-propenol, hydrogen bonding in the multilayer correlates with observation of the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C stretch at 1646 cm-1, which is invisible for the monolayer. This suggests that for monolayer coverages, 2-propenol bonds with the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C bond parallel to the surface. Similarly, the C[double bond, length as m-dash]O stretch of propanal is very weak for low coverages but becomes the largest peak for the multilayer, indicating a change in orientation with coverage.C-C cross coupling reactions have been widely used for developing synthesis protocols for pharmaceuticals and agricultural products in the past few decades. Of all the reported C-C cross coupling reactions, the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction is preferred because of its mild reaction conditions, the commercial availability of associated reagents and the ease of removal of boron containing by-products. OT-82 cell line Recently, Corma and co-workers [Leyva-Perez et al., Angew. Chem., 2013, 125, 11768] reported water-stabilized three- and four-atom Pd clusters as highly active catalytic species for C-C coupling reactions. The present work focuses on developing detailed mechanistic insights into the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction with Pd3 and Pd4 clusters utilizing density functional theory calculations. The role of the base in the reaction was analysed in this study, which was found to lower the activation barriers of transmetalation over both Pd3 and Pd4. Free energy landscapes for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of bromobenzene and phenylboronic acid over Pd3 and Pd4 clusters were developed. The highest free energy barriers of 34.7 and 30.4 kcal mol-1 were observed for the oxidative addition over Pd3 and Pd4, respectively, indicating the oxidative addition as the rate limiting step. Detailed energetics conclusively proved the active nature of small-atom Pd clusters for catalyzing the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction.Metal organic framework (MOF)-encapsulated metal clusters have shown superior catalytic activity due to geometric and electronic properties of metal clusters, which are largely determined by adsorption sites and sizes and morphologies of encapsulated metal clusters. In the present work, anchoring sites, the stability, and the agglomeration probability of Ptn (n = 1-23) clusters over an MOF-808 framework structure were studied using density functional theory calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulation. It has been found that Ptn (n = 1-7) clusters bind more strongly at the Zr6 metal node sites than at the interface and linker sites. Upon adsorption, significant amounts of electrons (+0.92 to +1.96 |e|) are transferred from Ptn clusters to the MOF framework. The agglomeration of single Pt1 atoms at the Zr6 metal node to form a Ptn cluster is unlikely, while the agglomeration at the interface or the linker is energetically feasible. Compared with the single Zr6 node, the bonding of Ptn clusters with two Zr6 metal nodes is weaker, with less electron (+0.12 to +0.89 |e|) transfer. Finally, our calculations show that CO adsorption at the single Pt atom is stabilized at the interface site, preventing its further agglomeration with Ptn clusters between the two Zr6 metal nodes.The reaction OH + HO2 → H2O + O2 is a prototype of radical-radical reactions. It plays an important role in interstellar/atmospheric chemistry and combustion, and considerable attention has thus been dedicated to its kinetics. In our previous work, we reported an accurate full-dimensional potential energy surface for the title reaction on the ground triplet electronic state. The quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) approach was employed to investigate its kinetics. Although the QCT rate coefficients were in good agreement with some experimental and theoretical results, QCT cannot account for the quantum mechanical effects, such as zero-point vibrational energy, recrossing, and tunneling, which may significantly affect the rate coefficients, particularly at low temperatures. In this work, the reduced-dimensional quantum dynamics and ring polymer molecular dynamics calculations were carried out to examine these effects and their impact on rate coefficients over the temperature range of 300-1300 K.Lack of quality data and difficulty generating these data hinder quantitative understanding of reaction kinetics. Specifically, conventional methods to generate transition state structures are deficient in speed, accuracy, or scope. We describe a novel method to generate three-dimensional transition state structures for isomerization reactions using reactant and product geometries. Our approach relies on a graph neural network to predict the transition state distance matrix and a least squares optimization to reconstruct the coordinates based on which entries of the distance matrix the model perceives to be important. We feed the structures generated by our algorithm through a rigorous quantum mechanics workflow to ensure the predicted transition state corresponds to the ground truth reactant and product. In both generating viable geometries and predicting accurate transition states, our method achieves excellent results. We envision workflows like this, which combine neural networks and quantum chemistry calculations, will become the preferred methods for computing chemical reactions.
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