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However, the relative affinities of HDL and apolipoprotein A-1 (APOA1) examined in competition with human serum albumin exhibited the opposite size dependences, which suggests that the adsorption of HDLs is not driven by the constituent protein, APOA1. In fact, the total strength of non-covalent intermolecular interactions between a HDL particle and a NP relies on the physical contact between the two particles, which thus depends on the varying curvatures of spherical NPs in this case. Therefore, it was concluded that it is whole HDL complex that interacts with the spherical PEG-AuNPs in the initial stage of adsorption toward biomolecular coronas, which is unveiled by the distinct size dependence observed in this study.Herein, we report the development of a catalytic enantioselective addition of N-substituted allyl equivalents to ketone electrophiles through use of Cu-catalyzed reductive coupling to access important chiral 1,2-aminoalcohol synthons in high levels of regio-, diastereo-, and enantioselectivity. Factors affecting enantioinduction are discussed including the identification of a reversible ketone allylation step that has not been previously reported in Cu-catalyzed reductive coupling.Antibiotic resistance will be one of the most prominent challenges to health-care systems in the coming decades, with the OECD predicting that up to 2.4 million deaths will be caused between 2015 and 2050 by drug-resistant bacterial infections in first-world countries alone, with infections costing health-care systems billions of dollars each year. Developing new methods to increase bacterial susceptibility toward drugs is an important step in treating resistant infections. Here, the synergistic effects of gold nanoparticles and the antibiotic drug colistin sulfate have been examined. A tethered lipid bilayer membrane was used to mimic a Gram-negative bacterial cell membrane. Exposing the membrane to gold nanoparticles prior to adding the antibiotic significantly increased the effect of the antibiotic on the membrane. Cationic gold nanoparticles could thus be used to enhance bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics, leading to a more potent treatment.It is quite appealing but challenging to predict and synthesize new nonlinear optical (NLO) materials with exceptional performance. Herein, the different Sn4 cluster core structures and third-order NLO properties are studied through electronic structure, excited hole-electron, bonding character, and aromaticity analysis. As a result, Sn4 clusters with ring core structure (Sn4-R) not only have the smallest Egap, the largest UV-vis response intensity, but also the strongest third-order NLO response in our work. As proved by natural bond orbitals' (NBO) analysis, electron localization function (ELF), and adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP), the Sn44+ has two in-plane four center-two electron (4c-2e) Sn-Sn σ-bonds, resulting in a good delocalization. For the first time, delocalization of metal cluster cores in tin clusters that is beneficial to the third-order NLO response is proposed, which provides a new guidance to design and prepare third-order NLO materials.The nanowire geometry is favorable for the growth of ternary semiconductor materials, because the composition and properties can be tuned freely without substrate lattice matching. To achieve precise control of the composition in ternary semiconductor nanowires, a deeper understanding of the growth is required. One unknown aspect of seeded nanowire growth is how the composition of the catalyst nanoparticle affects the resulting composition of the growing nanowire. We report the first in situ measurements of the nanoparticle and InxGa1-xAs nanowire compositional relationship using an environmental transmission electron microscopy setup. The compositions were measured and correlated during growth, via X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy. Contrary to predictions from thermodynamic models, the experimental results do not show a miscibility gap. Therefore, we construct a kinetic model that better predicts the compositional trends by suppressing the miscibility gap. The findings imply that compositional control of InxGa1-xAs nanowires is possible across the entire compositional range.A photocatalytic decarboxylative radical conjugate addition-elimination-oxa-Michael reaction of hydroxyalkylated carboxylic acids with cyclopentenones is developed to construct diverse cyclopentanonyl-fused functionalized 5-7 membered cyclic ethers. The stereoselective synthetic strategy is amenable to substructural variation, establishing a direct total synthetic route to two diastereomers of C3-amino cyclopentyltetrahydrofuranyl-derived potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors with low nanomolar IC50 values.The implementation of an electrochemical flow cell has enabled improved efficiency for CO2 reduction. However, in situ spectroscopic insights into the interface are still lacking. Here, we investigate a series of copper layers with different thicknesses on gas diffusion electrodes as a benchmark, with the best-performing one showing a Faradaic efficiency of 59.5% and a partial current density of -170 mA cm-2 for ethylene formation in 1 M KOH at -0.70 V against a reversible hydrogen electrode. By comparing the geometric as well as specific current density for ethylene on four Cu catalysts with different thicknesses, we illustrate the effects of bulk pH, local pH, and diffusion of CO2 on C-C coupling. We also reveal that the flexible rotation of the Cu-C bond of the *CO intermediate adsorbed on Cu, as shown by in situ Raman spectroscopy, is likely to be the key factor for efficient C-C coupling in a flow cell.Surface charges inside a nanopore determine the zeta potential and ion distributions and play a significant role in affecting ion transport and the sensitivity of detecting biomolecules. It is of great importance to study the fluctuation of surface charges with the salt concentration and pH in various applications of nanopores. Herein, we proposed a theoretical model to predict the surface charge density of a Si3N4 nanopore, in which both silanol and amine groups were taken into account. It was demonstrated that the surface charge density in the Si3N4 nanopore changes not only with pH but also with the salt concentration. The theoretical model could well predict the experimental results with different salt concentrations, pH values, and pore sizes. The effect of surface functional groups on the isopotential point (pHiep) of the Si3N4 nanopore was also systematically studied. The results indicated that the silanol groups are major determinants of the surface charge, but the influences of the amine groups should not be ignored because the small number of amine groups can change pHiep dramatically. The pHiep value of the Si3N4 nanopore was measured as 4.1, and the ratio of amine over silanol was ascertained as 0.013.A convergent paired electrochemical method was developed for the synthesis of azoxy and azo compounds starting from the corresponding nitroarenes. We propose a unique mechanism for electrosynthesis of azoxy and azo compounds. We find that both anodic and cathodic reactions are responsible for the synthesis of these compounds. The synthesis of azoxy and azo derivatives have been successfully performed in an undivided cell, using carbon rod electrodes, by constant current electrolysis at room temperature.Natural or artificial active objects can demonstrate mirror asymmetry of collective motion when they are moving coherently in a vortex. The majority of known cases related to the emergence of collective dynamical chirality are referred to as active objects with individual structure chirality and/or dynamical chirality. Here, we demonstrate that dynamically and structurally achiral active droplets can self-organize into vortex-like structures. Octane droplets dispersed in the aqueous solution of an anionic surfactant are activated with ammonia addition. The motion of droplets is due to the Marangoni flow emerging at the interfaces of the droplets. We found out that different modes of vortex motion of droplets in the emulsion can arise depending on the size of the region that confines the motion of the droplets and their number density and velocity.Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies exploit facile antibody-mediated targeting to elicit useful immune responses in patients. This work directly compares binding profiles of CAR and αβ T-cell receptors (TCR) with single cell and single molecule optical trap measurements against a shared ligand. DNA-tethered measurements of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) ligand interaction in both CAR and TCR exhibit catch bonds with specific peptide agonist peaking at 25 and 14 pN, respectively. While a conformational transition is regularly seen in TCR-pMHC systems, that of CAR-pMHC systems is dissimilar, being infrequent, of lower magnitude, and irreversible. Slip bonds are observed with CD19-specific CAR T-cells and with a monoclonal antibody mapping to the MHC α2 helix but indifferent to the bound peptide. Collectively, these findings suggest that the CAR-pMHC interface underpins the CAR catch bond response to pMHC ligands in contradistinction to slip bonds for CARs targeting canonical ligands.Near-infrared photoluminescence of a series of three gold monolayer protected clusters (MPCs) with volumes spanning 50-200 Å3 was studied by using variable-temperature photoluminescence (VT-PL) spectroscopy. The three MPCs, which included Au20(SC8H9)15-diglyme, Au25(SC8H9)18, and Au38(SC12H25)24, all exhibited temperature-dependent intensities that reflected a few-millielectronvolt energy gap that separated bright emissive and dark nonradiative electronic states. All clusters showed increased PL intensities upon raising the sample temperature from 4.5 K to a cluster-specific value, upon which increased sample temperature resulted in emission quenching. The increased PL in the low-temperature range is attributed to thermally activated carrier transfer from dark to bright states. The quenching at elevated temperatures is attributed to nonradiative vibrational relaxation through Au-Au stretching of the MPCs metal core. Importantly, the results show evidence of a common and size scalable metal-centered intraband PL mechanism that is general for ultrasmall metal nanoclusters, which are expected to show nonscalable optical properties.Manipulating the nature of the charge carriers at the single-molecule level is one of the major challenges of molecular electronics. Using first-principles quantum transport calculations, we have investigated the electronic transport properties of imidazole-linked single-molecule junctions and identified the hydrogen atom bonded to the pyrrole-like nitrogen in imidazole as a switch to tune the polarity of the charge carriers. Our calculations show that the chemical nature of the imidazole anchors is dramatically altered by dehydrogenation, which changes the dominant charge carriers from electrons to holes. CM 4620 mw It is also revealed that upon dehydrogenation the interfacial Au-N bonds are modified from donor-acceptor-like to covalent, along with a significant promotion of the low-bias conductance and the junction stability. At variance with other traditional methods that always require drastic modifications of the junction structure, our findings provide a promising approach to tailor in situ the polarity of charge carriers in molecular electronic devices.
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