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The infrared spectrum of the simplest geminal diol, methanediol or methylene glycol (CH2(OH)2), was successfully probed in the gaseous hydration of formaldehyde. The observed absorption bands coincided with the anharmonic vibrational wavenumbers predicted by B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ calculation. Based on the predicted rotational parameters and dipole derivatives, the simulated rovibrational contours of CH2(OH)2 agreed with the experimental spectrum, and the band origins of the OCO symmetric stretching mode (b-type) and the OCO asymmetric stretching mode (a-type) were determined to be 1027 and 1058 cm-1, respectively. In addition, the isotopic analogues, CD2(OH)2, CH2(OD)2, and CD2(OD)2, were also investigated. The band origins of the CD2 wagging mode (a-type) and the COH bending mode (a, c-type) of CD2(OH)2 were also determined to be 1121 and 1301 cm-1, respectively. The successful infrared characterization of gaseous methanediol makes it possible to directly investigate the relevant chemical reactions of geminal diols in atmosphere, astrophysics, and water-mediated reactions.Thermally insulating materials (TIMs) with ultra-low thermal conductivity, fire-retardancy, and mechanical stability are demanded to improve energy efficiency in many fields, such as petrochemical plants, energy-saving buildings, and aerospace. However, traditional polymer-based TIMs could not meet these demands. Herein, we propose a direct foaming strategy for obtaining carbon nanotube (CNT) aerogels by the gradual expansion of CNT films with H2O2 as a foaming agent at room temperature. The obtained CNT aerogels have hierarchical cellular structures and possess an ultra-low density (4.6 mg cm-3) and thermal conductivity (16.5 mW m-1 K-1) as well as excellent mechanical robustness and fire-resistance. Our results show that such CNT aerogels have promising applications in the field of thermal insulation and present a facile pathway for the design of thermally insulating, fire-retardant materials based on CNTs.Herin, we report a Cu(ii)-porphyrin-derived nanoscale COF, which can be triggered by endogenous H2S via an intracellular sulfidation reaction to generate a metal-free COF-photosensitizer for PDT against H2S-enriched colon tumors with controllable singlet oxygen release; meanwhile in situ generated CuS can be synchronously used as a photothermal agent for PTT.Machine learning models are known to be sensitive to the features used to train them, but there is currently no way to predict the impact of using different features prior to feature extraction. This is particularly important to fields such as nanotechnology that are highly multi-disciplinary, and samples can be characterised many different ways depending on the preferences of individual researchers. Does it matter if nanomaterials are described using the interatomic coordinations or more complex order parameters? In this study we compare results of supervised and unsupervised learning on a single set of gold nanoparticles that has been characterised by two different descriptors, each with a unique feature space. We find that there are some consistencies, and model selection is descriptor-agnostic, but the level of detail and the type of information that can be extracted from the results is sensitive to the way the particles are described. Unsupervised clustering revealed that an atomistic descriptor provides a finer-grained interpretation and clusters that are sub-clusters of a more sophisticated crystallographic descriptor, which is consistent with both how the features were calculated, and how they are interpreted in the domain. Epigenetic inhibitor A supervised classifier revealed that the types of features responsible for the separation are related to the bulk structure, regardless of the descriptor, but capture different types of information. For both the atomistic and crystallographic descriptor the gradient boosting decision tree classifier gave superior results of F1-scores of 0.96 and 0.98, respectively, with excellent precision and recall, even though the clustering presented a challenging multi-classification problem.The present study aims to establish a simple approach involving multi-field multinuclear longitudinal relaxation (R1) analysis of the solvents to decipher solute-solvent interactions during the solvation of model carbohydrates in aqueous trifluoroethanol (TFE) co-solvent systems (TFED2O). The behavior of D2O and TFE is monitored around β-CD (β-cyclodextrin) and glucose through R1D (2H) and R1F (19F), respectively. Correlation times (τc) are estimated for D2O and TFE for various % (v/v) compositions of TFED2O mixtures. The differential trends of the R1 or τc ratio for D2O and TFE (in the presence and absence of carbohydrates) revealed that both β-CD and glucose undergo selective solvation by TFE in comparison to D2O. Owing to its encapsulation properties, β-CD exhibited a comparatively higher tendency to undergo solvation by TFE than glucose. The maximum transfer of solute bound water to bulk solvent appears in the 20-30% (v/v) TFE range. The current approach emerges as being straightforward in contrast to traditional methods that primarily focus on solute behavior to unravel the preferential solvation dynamics.Fenton reactions unavoidably take place in the human body and have been demonstrated to cause oxidative DNA damage. However, the molecular-level understanding of DNA damage mediated by Fenton reactions is limited. Herein, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were made to investigate the counterion effects on aqueous Fenton reactions and the detailed mechanisms of chemical modifications to guanine induced by Fenton reactions. Our calculations show that the activation energy of the Fenton reaction catalyzed by a pure aquo complex [FeII(H2O)6]2+ is too high to agree with experiments, whereas complexation with counteranions reduces the activation energy to a reasonable range. This result suggests that FeII-counteranion complexes are the real catalyst for fast aqueous Fenton reactions. In addition, we found that the Fenton oxidation mediated by FeII bonded to the N7 atom of guanine can result in the formation of 8-oxoguanine and spiroiminodihydantoin through multiple reaction pathways, including the electrophilic addition of ˙OH, H-abstraction by ˙OH, and oxygen atom transfer of oxoiron(iv) species.
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