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Furthermore, a method for computing correction factors to more easily account for thermodynamic repartitioning is provided. Applying these correction factors to mechanical-only aerosol predictions significantly reduced errors to less then 0.5 μg/m3 for the total indoor PM2.5 while bypassing explicit thermodynamic simulations.In this work, novel atrazine (ATZ) molecularly imprinted nanofibrous membranes (A-MNMs) with a molecular organic framework (MOF)-based viscid bead structure were developed based on a natural spider-web-inspired strategy for selective separation of ATZ. Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVDF/PVA) blended nanofibrous membranes as the basal membrane were synthesized by electrospinning technology combined with a chemical cross-linking procedure. The most critical design is that MOF nanocrystals as the matrix of the viscid bead structure were assembled on the PVDF/PVA blended nanofibrous membrane surface and the specific recognition sites were efficiently constructed on the surface and pores of the MOF-based viscid bead structure by a surface imprinting strategy. Significantly, the as-synthesized MOF-based viscid bead structure has an enhanced specific surface area, which helps to form abundant specific recognition sites in A-MNMs. Therefore, the A-MNMs with a spider-web-like structure presented an enhanced rebinding capacity (37.62 mg g-1) and permselectivity (permselectivity factors β were 4.21 and 4.31) toward ATZ. Moreover, the A-MNMs display strong practicability in separation of ATZ from simulated environmental water samples. The presented work has shown tremendous potential for preparing natural spider-web-like molecularly imprinted membranes (MIMs) for selective separation of environment pollutants.In urban areas, untreated stormwater runoff can pollute downstream surface waters. To intercept and treat runoff, low-impact or "green infrastructure" approaches such as using biofilters are adopted. Yet, actual biofilter pollutant removal is poorly understood; removal is often studied in laboratory columns, with variable removal of viable and culturable microbial cell numbers including pathogens. Here, to assess bacterial pollutant removal in full-scale planted biofilters, stormwater was applied, unspiked or spiked with untreated sewage, in simulated storm events under transient flow conditions, during which biofilter influents versus effluents were compared. Based on microbial biomass, sequences of bacterial community genes encoding 16S rRNA, and gene copies of the human fecal marker HF183 and of the Enterococcus spp. marker Entero1A, removal of bacterial pollutants in biofilters was limited. Dominant bacterial taxa were similar for influent versus effluent aqueous samples within each inflow treatment of either spiked or unspiked stormwater. Bacterial pollutants in soil were gradually washed out, albeit incompletely, during simulated storm flushing events. In post-storm biofilter soil cores, retained influent bacteria were concentrated in the top layers (0-10 cm), indicating that the removal of bacterial pollutants was spatially limited to surface soils. To the extent that plant-associated processes are responsible for this spatial pattern, treatment performance might be enhanced by biofilter designs that maximize influent contact with the rhizosphere.Salbutamol (SAL), a β-2 adrenoreceptor agonist, is an unpopular addition to livestock and poultry, causing several side effects to human health. Thus, it is very important to develop a simple and rapid analytical method to screen SAL in the field of food safety. Here, we present an immunochromatographic assay (ICA) method for sensitively detecting SAL with polydopamine-decorated iridium oxide nanoparticles (IrO2@PDA NPs) as a signal tag. The IrO2@PDA with excellent hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, and stability was synthesized by oxidating self-polymerization of dopamine hydrochloride (DAH) on the surface of IrO2 NPs and used to label monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) through simple physical adsorption. Compared with IrO2 NPs, the IrO2@PDA also possessed superior optical properties and higher affinity with mAbs. With the proposed method, the limit of detection for SAL was 0.002 ng/mL, which was improved at least 24-fold and 180-fold compared with the IrO2 NPs-based ICA and conventional gold nanoparticles-based ICA, respectively. Furthermore, the SAL residuals in pork, pork liver, and beef were successfully detected by the developed biosensor and the recoveries ranged from 85.56% to 115.56%. Briefly, this work indicated that the powerful IrO2@PDA-based ICA can significantly improve detection sensitivity and has huge potential for accurate and sensitive detection of harmful small molecules analytes in food safety fields.A novel two-dimensional Cd-based metal-organic framework (MOF), [Cd(pddb)H2O]n (Cd-MOF), has been hydrothermally synthesized using the V-shaped ligand 4,4'-(pyridine-2,6-diyl)-dibenzoic acid (H2pddb) and structurally characterized. The framework exhibits fascinating one-dimensional in-plane channels functionalized with active pyridine-N sites. The as-synthesized Cd-MOF exhibits excellent water and chemical stability. Furthermore, a simple and nondestructive coordinated postsynthetic modification method has been applied to Cd-MOF to obtain a class of MOF hybrids functionalized by lanthanide ions. More interestingly, Eu3+@Cd-MOF can act as a dual-emissive ratiometric fluorescent probe for 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) acetic acid (MEAA), a metabolite of 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethanol, which could result in DNA damage and teratogenic and developmental toxicity. During the sensing process, the fluorescence sensor exhibits notable water tolerance, reusability, and a low detection limit (8.5 μg mL-1). In addition, the chemical substances in human urine and serum do not interfere with the fluorescence quenching process, which makes it possible for the fluorescent probe to be applied in the detection of MEAA in human urine and serum systems. The possible sensing mechanism is also studied and discussed in detail.The rampaging COVID-19 needs bioassaying methods of low cost and high robustness for those living in the poorly developed regions. Here, we propose such a method that does not need expensive and complicated equipment. Only a set of hand-held small devices is sufficient. A section along an optic fiber cable is stripped, so that laser light travelling through it will leak outside, while biosensing process taken place on this stripped section can form a new cladding layer of hydrogel, restoring the laser output of the fiber. selleck inhibitor A short peptide probe immobilized on the stripped section of the fiber can covalently capture a biomarker protein of SARS-Cov-2 from the serum sample. Through the cross-linking of the target protein with the interfering proteins in the serum sample, a hydrogel is covalently immobilized around the stripped section, highly resistant to detergent rinsing that is indispensable for removing nonspecific interference from the clinical sample. Using this "covalent biosensing" strategy, only one peptide probe is sufficient to simultaneously achieve ultrahigh affinity toward the biomarker protein of SARS-Cov-2 and effective signal amplification.Improvements in single-cell protein analysis are required to study the cell-to-cell variation inherent to diseases, including cancer. Single-cell immunoblotting (scIB) offers proteoform detection specificity, but often relies on fluorescence-based readout and is therefore limited in multiplexing capability. Among rising multiplexed imaging methods is multiplexed ion beam imaging by time-of-flight (MIBI-TOF), a mass spectrometry imaging technology. MIBI-TOF employs metal-tagged antibodies that do not suffer from spectral overlap to the same degree as fluorophore-tagged antibodies. We report for the first-time MIBI-TOF of single-cell immunoblotting (scIB-MIBI-TOF). The scIB assay subjects single-cell lysate to protein immunoblotting on a microscale device consisting of a 50- to 75-μm thick hydrated polyacrylamide (PA) gel matrix for protein immobilization prior to in-gel immunoprobing. We confirm antibody-protein binding in the PA gel with indirect fluorescence readout of metal-tagged antibodies. Since MIBI-TOF is a layer-by-layer imaging technique, and our protein target is immobilized within a 3D PA gel layer, we characterize the protein distribution throughout the PA gel depth by fluorescence confocal microscopy and confirm that the highest signal-to-noise ratio is achieved by imaging the entirety of the PA gel depth. Accordingly, we report the required MIBI-TOF ion dose strength needed to image varying PA gel depths. Lastly, by imaging ∼42% of PA gel depth with MIBI-TOF, we detect two isoelectrically separated TurboGFP (tGFP) proteoforms from individual glioblastoma cells, demonstrating that highly multiplexed mass spectrometry-based readout is compatible with scIB.The RNA-cleaving 17E DNAzyme exhibits different levels of cleavage activity in the presence of various divalent metal ions, with Pb2+ giving the fastest cleavage. In this study, the metal-phosphate interaction is probed to understand the trend of activity with different metal ions. For the first-row transition metals, the lowest activity shown by Ni2+ correlates with the inhibition by the inorganic phosphate and its water ligand exchange rate, suggesting inner-sphere metal coordination. Cleavage activity with the two stereoisomers of the phosphorothioate-modified substrates, Rp and Sp, indicated that Mg2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, and Co2+ had the highest SpRp activity ratio of >900. Comparatively, the activity was much less affected using the thiophilic metals, including Pb2+, suggesting inner-sphere coordination. The pH-rate profiles showed that Pb2+ was different than the rest of the metal ions in having a smaller slope and a similar fitted apparent pKa and the pKa of metal-bound water. Combining previous reports and our current results, we propose that Pb2+ most likely plays the role of a general acid while the other metal ions are Lewis acid catalysts interacting with the scissile phosphate.High-energy sodium-ion batteries have a significant prospective application as a next-generation energy storage technology. However, this technology is severely hindered by the lack of large-scale production of battery materials. Herein, a self-standing film, assembled with SnS-Sn/multiwalled carbon nanotubes encapsulated in carbon fibers (SnS-Sn/MCNTs@CFs), is prepared using ball milling and electrospinning techniques and used as sodium-ion battery anodes. To compensate the poor internal conductivity of SnS-Sn nanoparticles, MCNTs are used to interweave SnS-Sn nanoparticles to improve the conductivity. Moreover, the designed three-dimensional carbon fiber conductive network can effectively shorten the diffusion path of electron/Na+, accelerate the reaction kinetics, and provide abundant active sites for sodium absorption. Benefiting from these unique features, the self-standing film offers a high reversible capacity of 568 mA h g-1 at 0.1 A g-1 and excellent cycling stability at 1 A g-1 with a reversible capacity of 359.3 mA h g-1 after 1000 cycles. In the sodium-ion full cell device, the capacity is stable at 283.7 mA h g-1 after 100 cycles at a current of 100 mA g-1. This work provides a new strategy for electrode design and facilitates the large-scale application of the sodium-ion battery.
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