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In a word, we are pleased to report two potential photosensitizers with excellent performance and reasonable price for Type I/II photoreactions. We expect our study will offer some theoretical guidance and help in TP-PDT.Nanoassembly of gold nanoparticles has been achieved through a simple and facile process without using any surfactants or linkers. Atomic force microscopy confirmed assemblies of several tens of microns, whereas tiny interparticle gaps less than 5 nm was revealed by scanning electron microscopy. Such nanoassemblies with tiny interparticle gaps were found to be highly surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active with enhancement factor in the order of 6 to 8. Contrary to usual trends in nanoparticles size dependent SERS enhancement, such 2D nanoassemblies of different sizes of nanoparticles showed relatively broadened SERS enhancement distribution. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) analysis was employed to highlight the EM-field distribution in connection to such giant SERS enhancement. In depth and hotsite-wise analysis on EM near-field distributions for monomers, dimers and septamers of 50 nm of gold nanoparticles were carried out at three specific incident polarizations (i.e. s-, 45° and p-polarizations). At s- and p-polarization the strongest hotsites were having the EM near-field distributions in the range of 124.8 and 133.3 V/m respectively with lower population of confined EM near-fields. Such correlated investigation will be indispensable to understand and interpret hierarchical and functional nanoassemblies from its unit nanoparticle blocks for the advances of technological breakthroughs.Due to the crucial biological roles of hydrogen polysulfides (H2Sn) in living systems, the selective determination of H2Sn is essential. In this work, we reported a turn-on fluorescent probe, JSI-Sn, for H2Sn with high sensitivity and good selectivity. Probe JSI-Sn displayed a near-infrared emission (λmaxEm = 701 nm) and a large Stokes shift (123 nm) in the presence of H2Sn in solution. Using probe JSI-Sn as an indispensable tool, the monitoring of intracellular H2Sn in living cells and zebrafish were realized.A new luminescence Cd(II)-MOF (1) ([Cd3(BTC)2(TPT)(H2O)2]·4H2O, TPT = tris(4-pyridyl)triazine, H3BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) was successfully synthesized under solvothermal conditions. 1 contains 3D framework which consist of Cd atoms and btc3- anions with the large channels along c axis. Then, tpt ligands locate in the channels by utilizing three N atoms to bridge two Cd1 atoms and one Cd2 atom. Selleckchem Tolebrutinib 1 not only possesses remarkable thermal stability, but also can steadily exist in different organic solvents and various acid/base solutions (pH = 3-12). Moreover, 1 can detect 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP) and chromate (CrO42-/Cr2O72-) anions with high selectivity and sensitivity in water via the luminescent quenching. The detection limits of 1 for TNP and CrO42-/Cr2O72- are 6.23 μM and 2.13 μM/2.87 μM. The mechanism of TNP luminescence quenching may be attributed to photoinduced electron transfer and resonance energy transfer, and CrO42-/Cr2O72- quenching involves resonance energy transfer and competitive absorption of light. Additionally, 1 has the great anti-interference ability and repeatability for detecting TNP and CrO42-/Cr2O72-, which can display the feasibility of this material as a stable luminescent probe in aqueous system.A novel pyridyl-based ligand with multiple binding sites was developed as potential turn on fluorescent probe for mercuric ion. In comparison with other transition metal ions, the ligand displayed a significant optical selectivity and sensitivity for Hg2+ in aqueous solution with a remarkable fluorescence enhancement. The obtained spectroscopic response was related to the inhibition of the photo-chemical mechanism known as photo-induced electron transfer (PET) in the ligand and CN isomerization by Hg2+ binding. A good linearity between fluorescence responses and Hg2+ concentration was obtained in the range 3.3 × 10-9 M-1.6 × 10-8 M and a nanomolar level limit of detection (LOD) (1.4 × 10-9 M ~ 0.28 ppb) and limit of quantification (LOQ) (4.8 × 10-9 M ~ 0.93 ppb) were obtained. Both LOD and LOQ values are very low compared to the reported permissible Hg2+ level in drinking water (2 ppb) by US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The possible binding mode between ligand and Hg2+ were determined using Job's plot analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations and a complex with 11 stoichiometric ratio was suggested. The response of the pyridyl ligand upon Hg2+ addition was noted to be fast without any time delay and reversible. The performance of the ligand at nanomolar level of Hg2+ and real sample application of the proposed method was investigated and satisfactory results were obtained.Exploring the multi-dimensional energy landscape of a large protein in detail is a computational challenge. Such investigations may include analysis of multiple folding pathways, rate constants for important conformational transitions, locating intermediate states populated during folding, estimating energetic and entropic barriers that separate populated basins, and visualising a high-dimensional surface. The complexity of the landscape can be simplified through coarse-grained structure-based models (SBMs). These widely used coarse-grained representations of proteins provide a minimalist approximation to the free energy landscape, which subsumes the folding behaviour of many single-domain proteins. Here we describe the combination of SBMs with discrete path sampling (DPS), and show how this approach can provide details of the landscape and folding pathways. Combining SBMs and DPS provides an efficient framework for sampling the protein free energy landscape and for calculating various kinetic and thermodynamic quantities.
The main evidence regarding social inequalities in cancer risk comes from industrialized countries. The aim of this manuscript was to analyze the association between cancer incidence and socioeconomic position (SEP) in a middle-income country (Costa Rica) between 2011 and 2015.

An ecological study at the level of the electoral district was conducted. The 477 districts were divided by area and wealth using the 2011 Census. The sample was defined using the National Electoral Rolls used for presidential elections of 2006 and 2010 (N = 2 798 517). 44 799 cancer cases were included coming from the Costa Rican Cancer Registry. Cox models were used.

All cancer sites combined, we observed a positive gradient, with incidence being lower in the poorest districts than in the wealthiest (HRQ2 = 0.98 [0.93-1.03], HRQ3 = 0.92 [0.85-0.99], HRQ4 = 0.83 [0.77-0.88]). For colon, skin, breast, prostate, thyroid and other cancer sites, a positive social gradient was observed. For stomach, lung, and cervical (invasive or in-situ) cancers, a negative social gradient was found.
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