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Managing the mastic pull-off force through the modify of contact geometry.
Transient supercapacitors (TSCs), a new type of advanced supercapacitor (SC) that can completely dissolve with environmentally and biologically benign byproducts in vivo after performing their specified function, have broad application prospects in the fields of green electronics, implantable devices, personalized medicine, military security, and other fields. However, research on TSCs is still in its infancy, and there are still many challenges to be solved, such as the complex preparation process and low energy density. Herein, we report a facile superassembly manufacturing method for an implantable and fully biodegradable three-dimensional network Zn@PPy hybrid electrode by screen printing and electrochemical deposition. The produced superassembled interdigital pseudocapacitor exhibits superior electrochemical performances due to the high capacitances and excellent rate performances of the pattern Zn@PPy electrode and NaCl/agarose electrolyte. An optimized biodegradable SC exhibits a maximum energy density of 0.394 mW h cm-2 and can be fully degraded in vivo in 30 days without any adverse effects in the host organism. This work provides a new platform for transient electronic technology for diverse implantable electronic applications.ConspectusThe interactions of halides and ammonium ions with lead halide perovskite nanocrystals have been extensively studied for improving their phase stability, controlling size, and enhancing their photoluminescence quantum yields. However, all these nanocrystals, which showed intense and color tunable emissions, mostly retained the six faceted cube or platelet shapes. Shape tuning needs the creation of new facets, and instead of composition variations by foreign ions interactions/substitutions, these require facet stabilizations with suitable ligands. Among most of the reported cases of lead halide perovskites, alkyl ammonium ions are used as a capping agent, which substituted in the surface Cs(I) sites of these nanocrystals. Hence, new surface ligands having a specific binding ability with different facets other than those in cube/platelet shapes are required for bringing stability to new facets and, hence, for tuning their shapes.In this Account, interactions of alkyl ammonium ions on the surface of peskite nanocrystals and obtaining new shapes and properties are proposed.The introduction of subnanometer clusters as active sites on the surface of photocatalysts for efficiently tuning the selectivity and activity of the photocatalyts is still a challenge. Herein, the subnanometer Ag/AgCl clusters were incorporated on atomically thin defective Bi12O17Cl2 nanosheets via rebinding with unsaturated Cl atoms. Benefiting from the surficial Bi vacancies (VBi) and Bi-O vacancies (VBi-O) in this atomically thin architecture, the local atomic arrangement was tuned so that the subnanometer Ag/AgCl clusters were successfully incorporated. An enhancement of photocatalytic activity for NO removal was achieved in which the activity is 3 times higher than that of Bi12O17Cl2 and 1.8 times higher than that of defective Bi12O17Cl2. The substitution of the active sites from surficial VBi and VBi-O to be subnanometer Ag/AgCl clusters enables a tunable redox potential and different reaction mechanisms in NO removal. Moreover, the selectivity of the photoinduced redox reaction on NO oxidation and CO2 reduction was achieved via introducing an extra energy level.Fas ligand (FasL, CD178) is known to bind to its receptor (Fas, CD95) and mediate cellular apoptosis to maintain immune homeostasis. Bcl-2 apoptosis Recently, it has been recognized that tumor cells and their microenvironments allow an adjacent vascular endothelium to express the FasL on its cell membrane, utilizing the endothelium as an immune barrier to kill antitumor cytotoxic T cells. Here, a microfluidic tumor vasculature model is presented, which enables the recapitulation of an endothelial immune barrier expressing FasL. The in vitro three-dimensional model replicates enhanced endothelial FasL expression under the hypoxic tumor microenvironment. Apoptosis rates of FasL-susceptible target cells are augmented under the microenvironment with upregulated FasL but are consequently abrogated by administrations of pharmacological inhibitions, FasL-Fas blockades. The microfluidic system suggests its promising applications in elucidating complex immunosuppressive mechanisms of the tumor microenvironment and screening of cell-mediated immunotherapies as a preclinical model.Technological breakthroughs in electron microscopy (EM) have made it possible to solve structures of biological macromolecular complexes and to raise novel challenges, specifically related to sample preparation and heterogeneous macromolecular assemblies such as DNA-protein, protein-protein, and membrane protein assemblies. Here, we built a V-shaped DNA origami as a scaffolding molecular system to template proteins at user-defined positions in space. This template positions macromolecular assemblies of various sizes, juxtaposes combinations of biomolecules into complex arrangements, isolates biomolecules in their active state, and stabilizes membrane proteins in solution. In addition, the design can be engineered to tune DNA mechanical properties by exerting a controlled piconewton (pN) force on the molecular system and thus adapted to characterize mechanosensitive proteins. The binding site can also be specifically customized to accommodate the protein of interest, either interacting spontaneously with DNA or through directed chemical conjugation, increasing the range of potential targets for single-particle EM investigation. We assessed the applicability for five different proteins. Finally, as a proof of principle, we used RNAP protein to validate the approach and to explore the compatibility of the template with cryo-EM sample preparation.Protonolysis of β-diketiminato (nacnac) rare-earth metal bis-alkyl complexes LnacnacLnR2(THF) (Ln = Y and Lu) with 2 equiv of Ph2PNHPh or Ph2PCH2NHPh afforded the bis-amido complexes LnacnacY(Ph2PNPh)2 and LnacnacLn(Ph2PCH2NPh)2 (Ln = Y and Lu). Metalation of the latter complexes with 1 equiv of Ni(COD)2 led to the isolation of unusual heterobimetallic Ni(II)-Ln(III) complexes formed via P-C bond cleavage of one [Ph2PCH2NPh]- ligand. Notably, both the imine PhN═CH2 and phosphide Ph2P- fragments from the P-C bond cleavage were trapped in the Ni(II)-Ln(III) core with a relatively weak interaction between the two metal centers. The Ni(II)-Y(III) complex have exhibited versatile reactivity, such as coordination of isonitrile to the Ni(II) center, insertion of nitrile with the coordinated imine, and ring-opening of the epoxide by nucleophilic attack from the phosphide group.
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