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Daytime atmospheric oxidation chemistry is conventionally considered to be driven primarily by the OH radical, formed via photolytic sources. In this paper we examine how, during winter when photolytic processes are slow, chlorine chemistry can have a significant impact on oxidative processes in the urban boundary layer. Photolysis of nitryl chloride (ClNO2) provides a significant source of chlorine atoms, which enhances the oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the production of atmospheric pollutants. We present a set of observations of ClNO2 and HONO made at urban locations in central England in December 2014 and February 2016. While direct emissions and in-situ chemical formation of HONO continue throughout the day, ClNO2 is only formed at night and is usually completely photolyzed by midday. Our data show that, during winter, ClNO2 often persists through the daylight hours at mixing ratios above 10-20 ppt (on average). In addition, relatively high mixing ratios of daytime HONO (>65 ppt) provide a strong source of OH radicals throughout the day. The combined effects of ClNO2 and HONO result in sustained sources of Cl and OH radicals from sunrise to sunset, which form additional ozone, PAN, oxygenated VOCs, and secondary organic aerosol. We show that radical sources such as ClNO2 and HONO can lead to a surprisingly photoactive urban atmosphere during winter and should therefore be included in atmospheric chemical models.Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic autoimmune disease, which seriously harms human health. 2-Methoxyestradiol The hyperplastic growth of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of RA. However, the pathogenesis of RA remains unclear. In this experiment, we confirmed that Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) could activate the autophagy of RA-FLSs. 3-Methyladenine (3-MA) and Chloroquine (CQ), two types of autophagy blocker, combined with TNF-α were used to treat FLSs. The results showed that this treatment caused a reduction in the level of autophagy-related protein, significant increases in the expression of apoptosis-related protein and the apoptosis rate, and significant inhibition of the proliferation-promoting ability of TNF-α. Ammonium pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate (PDTC), a specific nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) activity blocker, significantly inhibited autophagy induced by TNF-α. Collectively, these findings showed, for the first time, that TNF-α can up-regulate autophagy activity and activate the NF-κB signal pathway. Inhibition of autophagy can improve the imbalance of proliferation/apoptosis of FLSs aggravated by TNF-α to some extent, thus delaying the progression of RA. The NF-κB signal pathway may be involved in the regulation of FLSs autophagy by TNF-α.Exploiting the low-cost and high-efficiency bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts to substitute platinum-group metals is highly desirable but challenging for energy storage/conversion technologies. Herein, we develop a combined gelation/self-assemble/freeze drying process to fabricate a free-standing porous architectures through vertical anchoring two-dimensional (2D) CoMn-LDH nanosheets on three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical N,P co-doped graphene aerogels (NPGA) framework. This unique configuration endows CoMn-LDH/NPGA outstanding catalytic activity toward both oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with a potential difference of ca. 0.72 V between the OER potential at 10 mA cm-2 and the ORR potential at -3 mA cm-2, which is comparable to commercial Pt/C + IrO2 benchmarks, and therefore renders the CoMn-LDH/NPGA assembled zinc-air battery a superior rechargeable performance and cycling stability. In-depth structure-to-property correlation indicates that the prominent bifunctional activity of CoMn-LDH/NPGA are ascribed to large electrochemical active surface area, the rapid mass/charge transfers, the increased exposure and full utilization of active sites originated from the synergistic effect between the uniformly dispersed 2D CoMn-LDH nanosheets and the 3D hierarchical porous NPGA framework.With the rapid development of electronic communications, coated fabrics with EMI shielding capability have attracted increasing attention due to their broad applications in military, civilian, and commercial fields. The coating structure plays a vital role in EMI shielding performance and the fundamental understanding of how the coating structure affects the EMI shielding performance of the coated fabric is urgently needed. In this work, the coating structure has been systematically modulated to study its effects on the shielding performance of the corresponding coated fabric for the rational design of the high-performance EMI shielding materials. Owing to the multiple reflections of the electromagnetic waves triggered by the graphene oxide (GO)/ polypyrrole (PPy) interfaces, the shielding effectiveness (SE) of the coated fabric reaches 39.1 dB by increasing the amount of interface in the coating. Furthermore, more GO/PPy interfaces in the coating results in stronger EMI shielding enhancement once the conductive network is built. This work provides a guideline for the judicious design of shields to achieve excellent EMI shielding performances and offers opportunities for new-generation portable and wearable EMI shielding products.Single-particle analysis is the most powerful method to obtain accurate local information for understanding and monitoring chemical reactions. However, investigations about obtaining comprehensive information at the single-particle level to overcome individual errors and sampling randomness have not been reported to date. Plasmonic nanorods, which have excellent anisotropic optical and chemical properties, make us in situ acquisition of conformation and dynamics of the biological information. On the basis of their anisotropic optical properties of the plasmonic nanorods such as Au nanorods (AuNRs) and data analytics, herein we developed a high-throughput resonance scattering imaging method of AuNRs under dark-field microscopy (DFM) to monitor orientation-independent reaction activity of AuNRs. Data analytics are introduced to determine a large number of AuNRs orientation obtained from a series of polarized DFM images, allowing us to real-time monitor reaction activity of AuNRs at all orientations, and also makes it possible to study the global and local reaction processes of AuNRs at single-particle level.
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