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Prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been considered as the most potential serological biomarker for the early stage detection of prostate cancer. GNE-049 Here, a label-free fluorescence aptasensing strategy for detecting PSA based on hybridization chain reaction (HCR) and G-quadruplex DNAzymes has been developed. This designed strategy consists of three DNA probes, aptamer probe (AP), hairpin probe 1 (H1) and hairpin probe 2 (H2). In the presence of target PSA, the aptamer sequences in AP specifically recognized PSA to form a PSA-aptamer complex, causing an AP conformation change and thus releasing the initiator, which triggered the chain-like assembly of H1 and H2 that yielded extended nicked double-stranded DNA through HCR. Upon the addition of hemin, the G-rich segments at the end of H1 and H2 self-assembled into the peroxidase-mimicking hemin/G-quadruplex DNAzymes, which catalyzed the hydrogen peroxide-mediated oxidation of thiamine to give a fluorescence signal dependent on the concentration of PSA. Under optimal conditions, a limit of detection of 0.05 nM and a linear range from 0.1 nM to 1 nM (R2 = 0.9942) were achieved by this assay. In addition, other interfering proteins, such as IgG, AFP and CEA, did not produce any significant change in the fluorescence intensity response, indicating good selectivity of this sensor for PSA detection. Finally, this proposed aptasensor was successfully used for diluted serum samples.Co, N co-doped carbon (CoN@C) with properly engineered heteropores was facilely synthesized using metal carbonate hydroxides as metal precursor and multistage porogen. CoN@C therefore exhibits superior ORR catalytic activity with a half-wave potential of 0.876 V vs. RHE, and the CoN@C-based zinc-air battery can be stably cycled for 100 h.Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is used to investigate plasmonic and photocatalytic properties of walled gold-palladium microplates (WAu@PdMPs), an alloy bimetallic nanostructures with unique chemical selectivity, and high sensitivity. We found that WAu@PdMPs can reduce 4-nitrobenzenethiol simultaneously to p,p'-dimercaptoazobisbenzene (DMAB) and 4-aminothiophenol, whereas such reduction yields only DMAB on the surface of monometallic nanostructures.Switching of the Ce3+/Ce4+ oxidation states in cerium oxide nanoparticles (CNPs) provides various superior nanozyme activities. However, nanozymes lack a switch to reversibly regulate the multi-nanozyme capacity depending on physiological/pathological environments, e.g. different pH and H2O2 levels. Furthermore, highly concentrated Ce3+ ions with abundant oxygen vacancies (Vo) in CNPs have the potential to enhance their catalytic activities, but the phosphate anions (P) adsorbed on Ce3+ ions block their several catalytic activities. This study, therefore, demonstrates that the tunable P-mediated stability of Ce3+ ions involves the superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic activity of CNPs, and leads to enhanced switching efficiency of their anti/pro-oxidant activities. Herein, highly concentrated Ce3+ ions in Vo-CNP layers (Vo-CNPLs) were fabricated, and the threshold conditions necessary to alter the stability of Ce3+ ions treated with P were explored by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. P-adsorbed Ce3+ ions (P-Ce3+) in Vo-CNPLs were efficiently destabilized in H2O2 solution (pH 5-6) rather than in HCl and HNO3 solutions (pH 3), and the presence of H2O2 readily released P from Ce3+ sites. Indeed, though P-Ce3+ temporarily arrested the SOD mimetic activity to generate H2O2 (linked to anti-oxidant activity) at physiological pH, they did enable the initiation of SOD mimetic activity (pro-oxidant activity) even at pH 5 close to biologically-appropriate acid conditions, e.g. in lysosome/endosome/tumor-microenvironments. These findings suggest that P-Ce3+ ions enhance the switching efficiency of their anti/pro-oxidant activities. Thus, P-mediated switches could be utilized to achieve a better understanding of the nanozyme switching-mechanisms, and for the design of multi-functional nanozymes for enhancing therapeutic efficacy.A record ethanol production rate of 281.6 μmol g-1 h-1 for the photocatalytic conversion of methane over nitrogen vacancy-rich carbon nitride at room temperature was achieved. Systematic studies demonstrate that the CH4 was activated by the highly reactive ˙OH radicals generated, via H2O2, from the photo-reduction of O2 with H2O.Nanosheet-based MFI membranes, known to be highly selective for hydrocarbon isomer separations, exhibit an NH3/N2 mixture separation factor of 2236 with NH3 permeance of 1.1 × 10-6 mol m-2 s-1 Pa-1, and NH3/H2 separation factor of 307 with NH3 permeance of 2.3 × 10-6 mol m-2 s-1 Pa-1 at room temperature. Consistent with a competitive sorption-based separation, lower operating temperatures and higher pressures result in increased separation factor. At 323 K, with an equimolar mixed feed of NH3/N2, the fluxes and separation factors at 3 and 7 bar are 0.13 mol m-2 s-1 and 191, and 0.26 mol m-2 s-1 and 220, respectively. This performance compares favorably with that of other membranes and suggests that MFI membranes can be used in separation and purification processes involving mixtures of NH3/N2/H2 encountered in ammonia synthesis and utilization. The membranes also exhibit high performance for the separation of ethane, n-propane and n-butane from H2.In this paper, sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are used as low-cost precursors to synthesize carbon aerogels with a hierarchical meso-macroporous and branching nanostructure (HMM-BNCA). An HMM-BNCA-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) (HMM-BNCA/GCE) exhibits high electrocatalytic activity for some electroactive biomolecules. For ascorbic acid (AA), the HMM-BNCA/GCE exhibits low oxidation peak potential and detection limit (-0.005 V and 0.45 μM, S/N = 3), high sensitivities (195.43 and 121.00 μA mM-1 cm-2) and wide linear ranges (10-1250 μM and 1250-4750 μM), which are superior to those obtained at the GCE and carbon nanotube (CNT)-modified GCE (CNT/GCE). The HMM-BNCA/GCE exhibits significant resistance to fouling and the interfering substances for the detection of AA. The successful and accurate detection of AA in real samples (such as vitamin C injections and vitamin C soft drinks) in this work demonstrates the feasibility and tremendous potential of HMM-BNCA/GCE for the analysis of AA in complex systems.
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