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Heart failure affects 1-2% of the adult population and one of the main contributors to its development is cardiomyopathy. Assessing a patient's risk for adverse events in heart failure is challenging and made more difficult by the heterogenous phenotypic expression of the disease. Cardiac MRI has long been a gold standard measure of myocardial function and anatomy due to its high spatial and temporal resolution. More recently, it has been posited to play a more critical role in the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiomyopathy-related heart failure. Given the limitations of more commonly used imaging modalities, increasing the clinical use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging could potentially improve the prognosis of specific subgroups of patients at risk of adverse cardiac events.Preferential uptake of either levorotatory (L) or dextrorotatory (D) enantiomer of a chiral molecule is a potential planetary life-detection method. On Earth, bacteria, as a rule, metabolize D-sugars and L-amino acids. Here, we use growth experiments to identify exceptions to the rule and their potential impact on the method's reliability. Our experiments involve six strains of Bacillus and collective uptake of the sugars glucose and arabinose, and the amino acids alanine, glutamic acid, leucine, cysteine, and serine-all of which are highly soluble. We find that selective uptake is not evident unless (1) each sugar is tested individually and (2) multiple amino acids are tested together in a mixture. Combining sugars should be avoided because, as we show in Bacillus bacteria, the same organisms may catabolize one sugar, glucose, in D-form and another sugar, arabinose, in L-form. Single amino acids should be avoided because bacteria can access certain proteinogenically incompatible enantiomers using specific racemases. Specifically, bacteria contain an alanine acid racemase and can catabolize D-alanine if no other D-amino acids are present. The proposed improvements would reliably separate nonselective chemical reactions from biological reactions and, if life is indicated, inform whether the selective patterns for amino acids and sugars are the same as on Earth.Lead halide perovskites provide a test bed for exploring nonlinear optical properties. Although the underlying centrosymmetric crystal structure of 3D lead halide perovskites precludes the phenomenon of second harmonic generation, the third and higher-order harmonic generation are allowed. In this work, we probe the third harmonic generation (THG) from CsPbBr3 nanocrystals (NCs) and compare it to the THG from CsPbBr3 NCs with Ruddlesden-Popper planar faults (RP-CsPbBr3), formed via postsynthetic fusion-growth. The THG from CsPbBr3 NCs is negligible compared with that of RP-CsPbBr3 NCs within a wide range of femtosecond excitation wavelengths. We further compare the THG from a thin film of RP-CsPbBr3 with that of a single crystal of methylammonium lead bromide (MAPbBr3). The THG efficiency of RP-CsPbBr3 is found to be three times greater than that of MAPbBr3. An effective third-order susceptibility of the order of 10-18 m2 V-2 is obtained for a RP-CsPbBr3 film, opening up the prospect of inorganic halide perovskite NCs with planar defects for a range of nonlinear optical applications.As one fundamental property of light, polarization has a huge impact in quantum optics and optoelectronics through light-matter interactions. However, the bright and near-unity polarized light emissions in the visible range by solid crystalline materials are scantly realized. Here, we report well-defined quasi two-dimensional (2D) hybrid crystals based on the linear alignment of Cu2I2-dimer/bidentate ligand hybrid clusters for achieving bright and near-unity linearly polarized light emissions. Using first-principle calculations, we demonstrate that the superaligned transition dipole moments are the key for the observed excellent polarized light emissions. To further enhance the photoluminescence (PL) polarization degree, we fabricate Cu2I2-dimer-based hybrid nanobelts, which display high PL quantum yield (up to 64%) and ultrahigh PL polarization degree (∼0.99). Our reported copper iodine cluster-based luminescent hybrid materials for bright and highly polarized light emissions will have great potential for future quantum optics applications.We identify two distinct regimes for the diffusion of the ionic liquid [BMIM][PF6] confined between parallel graphene walls using molecular dynamics simulations. Within 2 nm of the wall, the cations and anions form a well-defined layered structure. In this region, the in-plane diffusion coefficients are suppressed when compared to their bulk values and increase monotonically with the distance away from the wall. Beyond 2 nm from the wall, the density profile and in-plane diffusion coefficients recover their bulk values. The channel-averaged in-plane diffusion coefficients increase monotonically with wall separation and recover the bulk values at a separation of 15 nm. ML-SI3 purchase A simple semianalytical model is proposed that mirrors this trend. The results also highlight the importance of applying a finite-size correction to molecular dynamics-predicted diffusion coefficients of confined liquids, which may otherwise be unusually larger than their bulk values.The orexin2 receptor (OX2R), which is classified as a class A G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), is the target of our study. We performed over 20 several-microsecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations of the wild type and mutants of OX2R to extract the characteristics of the structural changes taking place in the active state. We introduced mutations that exhibited the stable inactive state and the constitutively active state in class A GPCRs. In these simulations, significant characteristic structural changes were observed in the V3096.40Y mutant, which corresponded to a constitutively active mutant. These conformational changes include the outward movement of the transmembrane helix 6 (TM6) and the inward movement of TM7, which are common structural changes in the activation of GPCRs. In addition, we extracted a suitable index for the quantitative evaluation of the active and inactive states of GPCRs, namely, the inter-atomic distance of Cα atoms between x(3.46) and Y(7.53). The structures of the inactive and active states solved by X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy can be classified using the inter-atomic distance. Furthermore, we clarified that the inward movement of TM7 requires the swapping of M3056.36 on TM6 and L3677.56 on TM7. Finally, we discussed the structural advantages of TM7 inward movement for GPCR activation.As a new generation of light sources, GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have wide applications in lighting and display. Heat dissipation in LEDs is a fundamental issue that leads to a decrease in light output, a shortened lifespan, and the risk of catastrophic failure. Here, the temperature spatial distribution of the LEDs is revealed by using high-resolution infrared thermography, and the piezo-phototronic effect is proved to restrain efficaciously the temperature increment for the first time. We observe the temperature field and current density distribution of the LED array under external strain compensation. Specifically, the temperature rise caused by the self-heating effect is reduced by 47.62% under 0.1% external strain, which is attributed to the enhanced competitiveness of radiative recombination against nonradiative recombination due to the piezo-phototronic effect. This work not only deepens the understanding of the piezo-phototronic effect in LEDs but also provides a novel, easy-to-implement, and economical method to effectively enhance thermal management.Dumulmycin (1) was isolated from Streptomyces sp. DM28, a bacterial strain from a riverine sediment sample. The structure of 1 was elucidated as a bicyclic macrolide possessing 19-membered and 5-membered rings by spectroscopic analysis. The stereochemistry of 1 was determined by J-based configuration analysis, ROESY NMR data, DP4 calculations, and the modified Mosher's method. Genetic analysis identified a trans-acyltransferase polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster for 1. Dumulmycin exhibited in vitro antitubercular activity (MIC50 = 27.1 μM).The need to chemically convert CO2 at the interface of aqueous amine solutions has become particularly relevant for the development and the broad distribution of cost-effective and near-future devices for direct air capture working at low (e.g., ambient) partial pressure. Here, we have determined the stability of a CO2-monoethanolamine zwitterion and its chemical conversion into carbamate at the vapor/liquid water interface by first-principles molecular dynamics simulations coupled with a recently introduced enhanced sampling technique. Contrary to the bulk water case, our results show that both the zwitterion and carbamate ions are poorly stable at the vapor/amine aqueous interface, further stating the differences between the homogeneous and heterogeneous CO2 chemical conversion. The design of novel and cost-effective capture systems, such as those offered by amine-based scrubbing solutions, working at low (e.g., ambient) CO2 partial pressure should explore the use of novel solvents, different from aqueous mixtures, to overcome the limits of the current absorbents.Dipyrrolylnitrophenols (DPPhs) afforded various hydrogen-bonding-stabilized π-electronic anions upon deprotonation. Through ion-pair metathesis, π-electronic cations were introduced as a counter species to provide π-electronic ion pairs that occurred as tightly bound states in solution while resulting in solid-state charge-by-charge assemblies. The assembling modes were modulated according to the geometries and electronic states of the positively charged constituents along with the substituents of the DPPh anions.The total synthesis of viridiofungins A (1) and B (2) via β-lactone 3 in 13 steps is reported. Key steps included an HF-mediated rearrangement of cyclobutene diester 9 to form a bicyclic lactone 6, an olefin cross metathesis between disubstituted alkene 3 and alkene 4 in which isomerization was suppressed, and a novel β-lactone ring opening to form the amide. Deprotection then gave either viridiofungin A (1) or B (2) in high yield.An efficient catalytic asymmetric cascade cycloaddition reaction of arylalkynols with dioxopyrrolidines was developed. This reaction was achieved using Au(I) and (R)-BINOL-Ti(IV) bimetallic catalysts and exclusively delivered a series of chiral oxo-bridged bicyclic benzooxacine compounds in up to 86% yield with 96% ee as well as >331 dr. Meanwhile, three new σ bonds and three new stereogenic centers were formed in a one-pot process.1H spin-lattice relaxation rate (R1) dispersions were acquired by field-cycling (FC) NMR relaxometry between 0.01 and 35 MHz over a wide temperature range on polyisoprene rubber (IR), either unfilled or filled with different amounts of carbon black, silica, or a combination of both, and sulfur cured. By exploiting the frequency-temperature superposition principle and constructing master curves for the total FC NMR susceptibility, χ″(ω) = ωR1(ω), the correlation times for glassy dynamics, τs, were determined. Moreover, the contribution of polymer dynamics, χpol″(ω), to χ″(ω) was singled out by subtracting the contribution of glassy dynamics, χglass″(ω), well represented by the Cole-Davidson spectral density. Glassy dynamics resulted moderately modified by the presence of fillers, τs values determined for the filled rubbers being slightly different from those of the unfilled one. Polymer dynamics was affected by the presence of fillers in the Rouse regime. A change in the frequency dependence of χpol″(ω) at low frequencies was observed for all filled rubbers, more pronounced for those reinforced with silica, which suggests that the presence of the filler particles can affect chain conformations, resulting in a different Rouse mode distribution, and/or interchain interactions modulated by translational motions.
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