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Furthermore, in situ X-ray diffraction and ex situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were employed to study the reaction mechanism. The results presented here provide new insights to design and reveal the reaction mechanisms of transition metal telluride materials in various energy-storage materials.The adoption of compounds that target metalloenzymes comprises a relatively low ( less then 5%) percentage of all FDA approved therapeutics. Metalloenzyme inhibitors typically coordinate to the active site metal ions and therefore contain ligands with charged or highly polar functional groups. While these groups may generate highly water-soluble compounds, this functionalization can also limit their pharmacological properties. To overcome this drawback, drug candidates can be formulated as prodrugs. CB-5339 supplier While a variety of protecting groups have been developed, increasing efforts have been devoted towards the use of caging groups that can be removed upon exposure to light to provide spatial and temporal control over the treatment. Among these, the application of Ru(ii) polypyridine complexes is receiving increased attention based on their attractive biological and photophysical properties. Herein, a conjugate consisting of a metalloenzyme inhibitor and a Ru(ii) polypyridine complex as a photo-cage is presented. The conjugate was designed using density functional theory calculations and docking studies. The conjugate is stable in an aqueous solution, but irradiation of the complex with 450 nm light releases the inhibitor within several minutes. As a model system, the biochemical properties were investigated against the endonucleolytic active site of the influenza virus. While showing no inhibition in the dark in an in vitro assay, the conjugate generated inhibition upon light exposure at 450 nm, demonstrating the ability to liberate the metalloenzyme inhibitor. The presented inhibitor-Ru(ii) polypyridine conjugate is an example of computationally-guided drug design for light-activated drug release and may help reveal new avenues for the prodrugging of metalloenzyme inhibitors.The development of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts with outstanding efficiency and favorable stability at all pH values is of great significance but still a dominating challenge toward the development of electrochemical water-splitting technology. Herein, CoRu alloy nanoparticles assembled in Co4N porous nanosheets (named as CoRu@Co4N) have been successfully achieved from Ru(OH)3@Co(OH)2 through a one-step nitridation process. Benefiting from the unique structure, inherent alloy properties and strong alloy-support interaction derived from the in situ transformation, the resultant hybrids exhibit superior HER activities over a wide pH range, achieving very low overpotentials of 13 mV, 44 mV and 15 mV at 10 mA cm-2 under alkaline, neutral and acidic conditions, respectively. Such activities surpass most reported electrocatalysts and are comparable or even transcendent to commercial Ru/C and Pt/C. Furthermore, CoRu@Co4N also exhibits outstanding stability during the accelerated degradation test (ADT) and chronopotentiometry. link2 Our work provides a new approach for designing pH-universal Ru-involved HER electrocatalysts with remarkable efficiency and prominent durability.In this contribution, we investigate the effect of correlation-induced charge migration on the stability of light-induced ring currents, with potential application as molecular magnets. Laser-driven electron dynamics is simulated using density-matrix based time-dependent configuration interaction. The time-dependent many-electron wave packet is used to reconstruct the transient electronic current flux density after excitation of different target states. These reveal ultrafast correlation-driven fluctuations of the charge migration over the molecular scaffold, sometimes leading to large variations of the induced magnetic field. The effect of electron correlation and non-local pure dephasing on the charge migration pattern is further investigated by means of time-resolved X-ray scattering, providing a connection between theoretical predictions of the charge migration mechanism and experimental observables.Breakdown of solid foods during gastric digestion plays a major role in the release and absorption of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. The breakdown mechanisms of foods during gastric digestion may be influenced by composition, particle geometry, and the resulting moisture uptake and gastric emptying. The extent of breakdown may have implications on the pH, pepsin activity, and subsequent protein hydrolysis. This study aims to identify the influence of particle geometry on pH, buffering capacity, and breakdown mechanisms during in vitro dynamic gastric digestion. Whey protein gels made in different geometries (small, medium, and large cubes with side lengths of 3.1, 5.2, and 10.3 mm, respectively, and spheres with a diameter of 6.5 mm) were subjected to gastric digestion using the Human Gastric Simulator (HGS) over a 180 min period. Particle size in the bulk digesta showed the breakdown mechanism of spheres was primarily by erosion, whereas breakdown of cubes was by fragmentation at the beginning of digestion, followed by erosion. Moisture uptake and gastric emptying of dry matter were significantly influenced by digestion time, particle geometry, and their interaction (p less then 0.001). Initial buffering capacity of the gels was highest in small cubes and lowest in large cubes, causing the pH to decrease faster in large cubes. There was a higher pepsin activity in the liquid phase of the digesta in large cubes compared to the rest of the treatments, which was hypothesized to be due to a diffusion limitation of pepsin, resulting in less diffusion into large cubes due to their lower total specific surface area. Further work is needed to develop quantitative connections between food initial properties, breakdown mechanisms, and their implications on pH, pepsin activity, and nutrient digestibility for future food design.Electrocatalysis plays a decisive role in various energy-related applications. Engineering the active sites of electrocatalysts is an important aspect to promote their catalytic performance. In particular, defect engineering provides a feasible and efficient approach to improve the intrinsic activities and increase the number of active sites in electrocatalysts. In this review, recent investigations on defect engineering of a wide range of electrocatalysts such as metal-free carbon materials, transition metal oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) will be summarized. Different defect creation strategies will be outlined, for example, heteroatom doping and removal, plasma irradiation, hydrogenation, amorphization, phase transition and reduction treatment. In addition, we will overview the commonly used advanced characterization techniques that could confirm the existence and identify the detailed structures, types and concentration of defects in electrocatalysts. The defect characterization tools are beneficial for gaining an in-depth understanding of defects on electrocatalysis and thus could reveal the structure-performance relationship. Finally, the major challenges and future development directions on defect engineering of electrocatalysts will be discussed.Increasing evidence suggested that bacterial infection diseases posed a great threat to human health and became the leading cause of mortality. However, the abuse of antibiotics and their residues in the environment result in the emergence and prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria. Photothermal therapy (PTT) has received considerable attention owing to its noninvasiveness, and proved to be promising in preventing bacterial infection diseases. In this review, we first surveyed the recent progress of PTT-based responsive targeting strategies for bacterial killing. We then highlighted the PTT-based smart designs of bio-films, hydrogels and synergistic methods for treating bacterial infections. link3 Existing challenges and perspectives are also discussed to inspire the future development of a PTT-based platform for the efficient therapy of bacterial infections.The YPRKDETGAERT peptide (PME-1) identified from the Mytilus edulis proteins has been shown to promote the proliferation and differentiation of osteoblasts and it has good bone-forming activity in vitro. Further, PME-1 has been shown to prevent osteoporosis in vivo. PME-1 can be absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract, and the passing rate in monolayer Caco-2 cells was 6.57%. PME-1 can also enter the blood circulation and the concentration of PME-1 in serum reached the maximum, 61.06 ± 26.32 ng mL-1, 20 min after feeding. The multifunctional in vivo imager was used to further determine the distribution of the 5-FITC-(Acp)-YPRKDETGAERT peptide (PME-1-FITC) 2 h after feeding the peptide, and the result confirmed the above results and showed that a part of PME-1-FITC can affect bone in vivo. Therefore, PME-1 not only was easily absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract, but also has the potential beneficial effect on preventing osteoporosis.Electrochemical water splitting has become one of the state of the art approaches to generate hydrogen. It is important to exploit relatively low toxicity, low cost and environmentally friendly water splitting electrocatalysts. A series of Cu-Ni-M (M = S, P and Se) materials were firstly in situ grown on Ni foam and these materials showed excellent water splitting activity. The Cu-Ni-S material shows excellent oxygen evolution reaction performance (200 mV@20 mA cm-2) and the Cu-Ni-P sample shows an effective hydrogen evolution reaction performance (52 mV@10 mA cm-2). When the Cu-Ni-S and Cu-Ni-P materials were assembled into a two-electrode system, the Cu-Ni-S/NF//Cu-Ni-P/NF electrode pairs display superior water splitting activity (1.50 V@20 mA cm-2), which is one of the best electrocatalytic activities reported so far. The experimental analysis demonstrates that the excellent performance of the Cu-Ni-S/NF and Cu-Ni-P/NF materials is attributed to the rapid electron transfer rate, increased electrocatalytically active area, more exposure to active sites and the superior synergistic catalytic factor of Ni2+ and Cu2+. It was found that amorphous oxides were in situ generated on the outside surface of the catalyst through the analysis of the catalyst after the reaction, and they were the real electrocatalytically active centers. Density functional theory demonstrates that the in situ generated Cu-doped NiOOH shows the optimal water adsorption energy compared with NiOOH. This work offers novel views for the design of relatively low toxicity, stable and inexpensive water splitting electrocatalysts.We examined the dynamics of adsorption and the subsequent growth of submonolayered silver on Si(001) from 100 K to 230 K, using scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory. The dynamics is demonstrated to depend on substrate temperature, as described in the following three stages (I) at 100-140 K, silver is adsorbed as isolated aggregates (regular-Ag4, variant-Ag4 and Ag2), in the absence of single silver adatoms. The spontaneous formation of silver aggregates arises from the hot-atom motion upon the initial impingement of individual silver atoms onto the Si(001) substrate. (II) At 140-190 K, the migration of isolated Ag-aggregates is sufficiently activated, leading to the formation of Ag-chains by surface polymerization. (III) At 190-230 K, there is implication that the Ag-chains become mobile on Si(001), en route to forming patches of 2×2 Ag-films by agglomeration.
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