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Nanoindentation-enhanced tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
Aromatic macromolecules tend to form a compact conformation after physically adsorbed on graphene and it brings about great entropy loss for physisorption, due to the strong interaction between aromatic macromolecules and graphene. However, previous researches have validated the availability of aromatic macromolecules to stabilize graphene based on physisorption. In order to clarify the underlying mechanism of this physisorption process on graphene, a series of aromatic polyamide copolymers are used as models in this research. Apart from their adsorbed conformations on graphene, the conformations of these copolymers as the free states in diluted solutions are taken into consideration. Although these copolymers present the fully extended conformation on graphene, their conformations in diluted solutions vary largely with the copolymer composition. It is verified that the copolymer with smaller conformational change could have the better stabilization effectiveness for graphene, rather than the one having stronger interaction with graphene. Therefore, the entropy-tailored behavior for the adsorption of aromatic macromolecules on graphene is put forward. Based on this mechanism, the chemical structure of aromatic polyamide is optimized and furthermore it is utilized to directly exfoliate natural graphite flakes. Eventually, high-quality graphene nanosheets with a large dimension and low defects are obtained. Moreover, its exfoliating effectiveness is superior to those of the commonly used exfoliating agents nowadays.Highly transparent leafhopper (Thaia rubiginosa) wings are self-decorated with embroidered ball-shaped proteinaceous brochosmoes as distinct anti-predator defenses. The non-sticky brochosomal coating serves as antireflective structures for camouflage in vegetated environments. Inspired by the leafhopper wings, this study reports a new type of reversible antireflection coating enabled by integrating self-assembly methodologies using a shape memory polymer. The resulting embroidered ball-like structure array establishes a refractive index transition on surface, and thereby behaves omnidirectional antireflective characteristics in a broadband visible light region. Interestingly, the highly transparent appearance can be instantly erased and recovered by submerging in common liquids, such as water and ethanol, or by applying contact pressures at ambient conditions. Furthermore, the reversibility and structure-shape effect on the antireflective characteristics are systematically evaluated in this study.MXenes with unique 2D open structure, large surface-area-to-volume ratios, high pseudo-capacitance, and conductivity are attractive for advanced supercapacitor electrodes. However, the restacking issue of MXenes hinders ion accessibility, resulting in the reduction of volume performance, mass load, and speed capability. To address these issues, a facile hydrothermal synthesis strategy is proposed to fabricate Co3O4 nanoparticles-MXene (Co-MXene) composite by the self-assembly process. Co3O4 nanoparticles, introduced in the MXene matrix, effectively prevent self-restacking and shorten ion/electron transport paths. Consequently, the obtained Co-MXene electrode delivers the high-performance of 1081F g-1 at a current density of 0.5 A g-1, surpassing the pristine MXene electrode (89F g-1 at 0.5 A g-1). Being assembled into asymmetric supercapacitors (ASC), a high energy density of 26.06 Wh kg-1 at 700 W kg-1 was realized. After 8000 cycles, the ASC device maintains 83% of initial specific capacitance at 2 A g-1. This work highlights a simple and efficient method for developing high-performance MXene-based electrodes for supercapacitors.Modification of MoS2-based catalysts is effective in solving the overdependence of hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) on noble metal catalysts. In this work, a Zn-doped molybdenum disulfide-reduced graphene oxide (Zn-MoS2-RGO) hybrid was synthesized in one step employing a hydrothermal method. By substituting the position of Mo, uniform doping with Zn improved the catalytic activity of MoS2 for HER. The interlayer spacing of MoS2 increased from 0.65 to 0.75 nm, demonstrating RGO effectively interpolate into MoS2 nanosheets. This prevented aggregation and exposed more edge active sites of MoS2. According to density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the layered structure of the MoS2 nanosheets doped with Zn and intercalated with RGO promoted charge transfer and resulted in outstanding hydrogen evolution activity. Compared with MoS2 (6.86 eV), the Zn-MoS2-RGO hybrid (5.47 eV) with a considerably lower energy level value exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance. Under optimal conditions, at a potential of -0.3 V vs. RHE, the current density reached -169 mA cm-2 in a 0.5 M H2SO4 solution, 4.78 μmol of H2 was produced in 6 h, and the Faraday efficiency reached 92%. The results obtained herein indicated that Zn-MoS2-RGO was a promising candidate for application in electrocatalytic HER.Here, we describe the fabrication of surface oxygen vacancy-enriched ZnFe2O4@TiO2 double-shell hollow heterostructure nanospheres (ZnFe2O4@H-TiO2-x) coupled with spatially separated CoOx and Au-Cu bimetallic cocatalysts. The ZnFe2O4@TiO2 heterojunction and spatially separated dual cocatalysts can significantly promote the separation of photoinduced charge carriers. Combined with the unique hollow double-shell heterostructure characteristics and improved surface state properties, the hybrid nanospheres can efficiently adsorb and activate CO2 molecules. These advantages cause the optimized catalyst to exhibit remarkably higher gas-phase photocatalytic CO2 reduction activity than the control CoOx/ZnFe2O4/Au-Cu and ZnFe2O4@H-TiO2-x double-shell hollow nanospheres loaded with a single cocatalyst. Meanwhile, the Au-Cu bimetal effect boosts the CO2 conversion rate and CH4 selectivity. The optimized hybrid catalyst with a Au/Cu ratio of 11 provides a CH4 yield of 21.39 μmol g-1 h-1 with 93.8% selectivity. PF-06700841 in vitro This work provides a rational photocatalyst design to improve CO2 conversion and CH4 selectivity.
near-infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is a cancer treatment that uses antibody-photoabsorber (IRDye700DX, IR700) conjugates (APCs) which bind to target cells and are photoactivated by NIR light inducing rapid necrotic cell death. NIR-PIT targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor (hEGFR) has been shown to destroy hEGFR expressing human tumor cells and to be effective in immunodeficient mouse models. NIR-PIT can also be targeted to cells in the tumor microenvironment, for instance, CD25-targeted NIR-PIT can be used to selectively deplete regulatory T cells (Tregs) within a tumor. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined therapeutic efficacy of hEGFR and CD25-targeted NIR-PIT in a newly established hEGFR expressing murine oropharyngeal cell line (mEERL-hEGFR).

panitumumab conjugated with IR700 (pan-IR700) was used as the cancer cell-directed component of NIR-PIT and anti-CD25-F(ab')
-IR700 was used as the tumor microenvironment-directed component of NIR-PIT. Efficacy was evaluated using tumor-bearing mice in four groups (1) non-treatment group (control), (2) pan-IR700 based NIR-PIT (pan-PIT), (3) anti-CD25-F(ab')
-IR700 based NIR-PIT (CD25-PIT), (4) combined NIR-PIT with pan-IR700 and anti-CD25- F(ab')
-IR700 (combined PIT).
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