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The extraordinary stability of the film suggests its high potential for industrial and practical applications. The antioxidizing phenomena can be attributed to self-protection of the MXene surface by adsorbed organic molecules, which are particularly stabilized with positively charged molecules via chemisorption.The design of low-cost yet highly efficient electrocatalysts plays a critical role in energy storage and conversion reactions. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is considered a bottleneck of electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen fuel generation. It is still challenging to extract a high density of charge carriers in noble-metal-free alternative catalysts to facilitate sluggish kinetics. Herein, we report the rational design and coherent interface engineering for combining light-harvesting Cu31S16 with electroactive Co9-xNixS8 (x = 0-9) to form novel Cu31S16-Co9-xNixS8 heterodimers. By delicately controlling the kinetic growth in a seed-mediated growth method, the bifunctional centers, even with two distinct crystal phases, were integrated into a synergistic architecture, which achieved full-spectrum solar energy capture and light conversion to drive and activate the electrochemical reaction. Benefiting from the well-defined structure, high-quality interface, oriented attachment, and optimal Co/Ni bimetal ratio, Cu31S16-Co7.2Ni1.8S8 produces a dramatically reduced overpotential (242 mV at 10 mA cm-2) with a shift of 83 mV under visible-light excitation, achieving a 4.5-fold higher turnover frequency than that of its unirradiated Co7.2Ni1.8S8 counterpart. This enhanced performance also far exceeds commercial RuO2 (358 mV at 10 mA cm-2) and most nonprecious-metal nanocatalysts. Further mechanistic studies reveal that coherent interface engineering leads to a strong photo/electricity coupling effect and efficient spatial charge separation, which induces sufficient hot holes that eventually accumulate at the electroactive sites to accelerate the multihole-involved OER. This work would open up new opportunities for the fabrication of non-noble metal electrocatalysts and management of charge carriers.Capsanthin, a characteristic red carotenoid found in the fruits of red pepper (Capsicum annuum), is widely consumed as a food and a functional coloring additive. An enzyme catalyzing capsanthin synthesis was identified as capsanthin/capsorubin synthase (CCS) in the 1990s, but no microbial production of capsanthin has been reported. We report here the first successful attempt to biosynthesize capsanthin in Escherichia coli by carotenoid-pathway engineering. Our initial attempt to coexpress eight enzyme genes required for capsanthin biosynthesis did not detect the desired product. The dual activity of CCS as a lycopene β-cyclase as well as a capsanthin/capsorubin synthase likely complicated the task. We demonstrated that a particularly high expression level of the CCS gene and the minimization of byproducts by regulating the seven upstream carotenogenic genes were crucial for capsanthin formation in E. coli. Our results provide a platform for further study of CCS activity and capsanthin production in microorganisms.A single-step approach is reported for the preparation of nitrones from benzyl halides and nitrosoarenes via pyridinium ylides, utilizing 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) catalyst and mild reaction conditions (Li2CO3, dimethylacetamide, and room temperature). The reaction provides both keto- and aldonitrones in high yields with a wide scope for benzyl halides and nitrosoarenes. In the same reaction system, 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane, which does not have an aryl group, also affords the corresponding N-tert-butyl nitrones from primary benzyl bromides that have an electron-withdrawing group. As an application of the reaction, methyl 2-bromo-2-phenylacetate was used to prepare the corresponding isoxazolidine by a sequential one-pot synthesis.Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 5 (TRPM5) is a nonselective monovalent cation channel activated by intracellular Ca2+ increase. Within the gastrointestinal system, TRPM5 is expressed in the stoma, small intestine, and colon. In the search for a selective agonist of TRPM5 possessing in vivo gastrointestinal prokinetic activity, a high-throughput screening was performed and compound 1 was identified as a promising hit. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ABT-888.html Hit validation and hit to lead activities led to the discovery of a series of benzo[d]isothiazole derivatives. Among these, compounds 61 and 64 showed nanomolar activity and excellent selectivity (>100-fold) versus related cation channels. The in vivo drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic profile of compound 64 was found to be ideal for a compound acting locally at the intestinal level, with minimal absorption into systemic circulation. Compound 64 was tested in vivo in a mouse motility assay at 100 mg/kg, and demonstrated increased prokinetic activity.Microcapillary hydrodynamic chromatography (MHDC) is a well-established technique for the size-based separation of suspensions and colloids, where the characteristic size of the dispersed phase ranges from tens of nanometers to micrometers. It is based on hindrance effects which prevent relatively large particles from experiencing the low velocity region near the walls of a pressure-driven laminar flow through an empty microchannel. An improved device design is here proposed, where the relative extent of the low velocity region is made tunable by exploiting a two-channel annular geometry. The geometry is designed so that the core and the annular channel are characterized by different average flow velocities when subject to one and the same pressure drop. The channels communicate through openings of assigned cut-off length, say A. As they move downstream the channel, particles of size bigger than A are confined to the core region, whereas smaller particles can diffuse through the openings and spread throughout the entire cross section, therein attaining a spatially uniform distribution. By using a classical excluded-volume approach for modeling particle transport, we perform Lagrangian-stochastic simulations of particle dynamics and compare the separation performance of the two-channel and the standard (single-channel) MHDC. Results suggest that a quantitative (up to thirtyfold) performance enhancement can be obtained at operating conditions and values of the transport parameters commonly encountered in practical implementations of MHDC. The separation principle can readily be extended to a multistage geometry when the efficient fractionation of an arbitrary size distribution of the suspension is sought.
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