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Tumor phototherapy is of great significance for the expansion and advancement of cancer treatment methods. Herein, two-dimensional boron nanosheets (B NSs) with a thickness of 2.4 nm exhibiting an excellent photothermal conversion performance were developed via a simple liquid phase ultrasonic stripping method. Following the loading of the photosensitizer agent chlorin e6 (Ce6) and subsequent modification with poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), a B@Ce6-PAH-PAA NS nanomedicine exhibiting dual modal imaging-guided cancer photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) properties, as well as outstanding stability was developed. The suitable nano-size (120 nm) of B@Ce6-PAH-PAA NSs can allow drugs to target tumor tissue with an enhanced permeability and retention effect (EPR). The cytotoxicity experiments demonstrated that B@Ce6-PAH-PAA NSs exhibited good biocompatibility even at high concentrations. Furthermore, the in vitro and in vivo experiments showed the excellent synergistic therapeutic effect of this nanomedicine for PTT and PDT.Studies of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) using post mortem brain tissues have uncovered several perturbations in metals such as copper, iron, and zinc. However, studies of the effects of key, potentially confounding variables on these tissues are currently lacking. Moreover, human-brain tissues have limited availability, further enhancing the difficulty of matching potentially-significant variables including age, sex-matching, post-mortem delay (PMD), and neuropathological stage. This study aimed to investigate the effects of such factors and how they might influence metal concentrations in post-mortem brains. Cingulate gyrus from AD cases and matched controls was obtained from two brain banks, based in Auckland, New Zealand and Manchester, UK. Inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was employed to measure levels of nine essential metals in brain tissues, and compared concentrations between cases and controls, and between cohorts, to analyse effects of age, sex, Braak stage, brain weight, and PMD. The same methods were used to investigate the effects of PMD under more controlled conditions using ex vivo healthy adult rat-brain tissue. Metal concentrations in human brain were found to be unmodified by differences in age, sex-matching, Braak stage, brain weight, and PMD between cohorts. Some metals were, however, found to vary significantly across different regions in rat brains. XMUMP1 These results indicate that investigations of metal homeostasis in AD and other neurodegenerative conditions can be reliably performed using brain tissues without confounding by varying PMD, age, sex-matching, brain weight, and Braak stage. However, regions of study should be selected carefully.Powder-derived liquid marbles (LMs) are versatile nonwetting systems but are confronted with many limitations in application, as their surface particles are usually large and agglomerated. Recently, sol-gel film-derived LMs have come on the scene that are termed monolayer nanoparticle-covered (mNPc) LMs based on their unique characteristics, revealing great application potential but also generating many questions. Here, mechanical robustness, a very important yet to be addressed property, of mNPc LMs was systematically studied. Rolling, pendant contact, and compression experiments were designed using bare and coated glasses with water contact angles (WCAs) ranging from 23° to 157°. With rupture as a quality criteria, the mechanical robustness of mNPc LMs enhanced with the hydrophobicity of solid surfaces that exerted pressure on them, but maintained much weaker than typical powder LMs until the solid surface was superhydrophobic. In particular, when contacting hydrophilic surfaces of WCAs ≤53°, an mNPc LM did not have the capacity for nonwetting and ruptured immediately, even if the pressure approached zero. This was distinct from powder LMs and indicated that a particle shell as thin as ∼20 nm could not prevent intermolecular attractions between the internal liquid and external solid surface. An interface scenario consisting of solid surface microroughness was proposed to address this issue. On the other hand, mNPc LMs remained unruptured on superhydrophobic surfaces but presented degraded elasticity under extreme compression. Uncovering these properties could be of much help for developments of mNPc LMs and their counterparts, the mNPc liquid plasticines.Water scarcity is a reality in our world, and scenarios predicted by leading scientists in this area indicate that it will worsen in the next decades. However, new technologies based on low-cost seawater desalination can prevent the worst scenarios, providing fresh water for humanity. With this goal, membranes based on nanoporous materials have been suggested in recent years. One of the materials suggested is MoS2, and classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is one of the most powerful tools to explore these nanomaterials. However, distinct force fields employed in MD simulations are parameterized based on distinct experimental quantities. In this paper, we compare two models of salt that were built based on distinct properties of water-salt mixtures. One model fits the hydration free energy and lattice properties, and the second fits the crystal density and the density and the dielectric constant of water and salt mixtures. To compare the models, MD simulations for salty water flow through nanopores of two sizes were used - one pore big enough to accommodate hydrated ions, and one smaller in which the ion has to dehydrate to enter - and two rigid water models from the TIP4P family - TIP4P/2005 and TIP4P/ε. Our results indicate that the water permeability and salt rejection by the membrane are more influenced by the salt model than by the water model, especially for the narrow pore. In fact, completely distinct mechanisms were observed, and they are related to the characteristics employed in the ion model parameterization. The results show that not only can the water model influence the outcomes, but the ion model plays a crucial role when the pore is small enough.
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