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Materials

Enhancing Osteogenic Potential in Bone Tissue Engineering: Optimizing Pore Size in Alginate?Gelatin Composite Hydrogels
12/05/2024 - Bone tissue engineering is a complex process where the scaffold plays a significant role as it contributes to phenotypically stable tissue formation and stem cell differentiation. These properties...
Advanced Hierarchical Biomorphous Silicon Carbide Monoliths
11/05/2024 - In this novel biomimetic synthesis, porous SiC monoliths are produced via a sintering regime (1300–1550?°C) based on a composite of paper?derived carbon fibers and phenolic resin. The resulting...
Expanded ROS Generation and Hypoxia Reversal: Excipient?free Self?assembled Nanotheranostics for Enhanced Cancer Photodynamic Immunotherapy
12/05/2024 - The efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT)?related cancer therapies is significantly restricted by two irreconcilable obstacles, i.e., low reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation capability and...
The Unprecedented Biodegradable Polyzwitterion: A Removal?Free Patch for Accelerating Infected Diabetic Wound Healing
12/05/2024 - Zwitterionic polymers have emerged as an important class of biomaterials to construct wound dressings and antifouling coatings over the past decade due to their excellent hydrophilicity. However, all...
Nanogalvanic Cells Release Highly Reactive Electrons in Tumors to Effectively Eliminate Tumors
12/05/2024 - External stimuli triggering chemical reactions in cancer cells to generate highly reactive chemical species are very appealing for cancer therapy, in which external irradiation activating sensitizers...
Activating Iterative Revolutions of the Cancer?Immunity Cycle in Hypoxic Tumors with a Smart Nano?Regulator
11/05/2024 - The activation of sequential events in the cancer?immunity cycle (CIC) is crucial for achieving effective anti?tumor immunity. However, formidable challenges, such as innate and adaptive immune...
Terahertz and Infrared Plasmon Polaritons in PtTe2 Type?II Dirac Topological Semimetal
11/05/2024 - Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic excitations existing at the interface between a metal and a dielectric. SPPs provide a promising path in nanophotonic devices for light...
Stereoscopic Polymer Network for Developing Mechanically Robust Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells with an Efficiency Approaching 25%
11/05/2024 - Flexible perovskite solar cells (pero?SCs) have the potential to overturn the application scenario of silicon photovoltaic technology. However, their mechanical instability severely impedes their...
Topology Reconfiguration of Anion?Pillared Metal?Organic Framework from Flexibility to Rigidity for Enhanced Acetylene Separation
11/05/2024 - Flexible metal?organic framework (MOF) adsorbents commonly encounter limitations in removing trace impurities below gate?opening threshold pressures. Topology reconfiguration can fundamentally...
Near?Infrared Luminescent Materials Incorporating Rare Earth/Transition Metal Ions: From Materials to Applications
11/05/2024 - Near?infrared materials exhibiting high photoluminescence quantum yields present a promising avenue to broaden our capacity and threshold for detection and manipulation, extending beyond the visible...
In vivo assessment of TiO2 based wear nanoparticles in periprosthetic tissues
- A multimodal approach combining inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), single-particle ICP-MS (spICP-MS), scanning electron microscopy-energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy...
Metal–ligand cross-link strategy engineered iron-doped dopamine-based superstructure as peroxidase-like nanozymes for detection of glucose
- Nanozymes are nanomaterials with mimetic enzyme properties and the related research has attracted much attention. It is of great value to develop methods to construct nanozymes and to study their...
Nile red staining for rapid screening of plastic-suspect particles in edible seafood tissues
- Concerns regarding microplastic (MP) contamination in aquatic ecosystems and its impact on seafood require a better understanding of human dietary MP exposure including extensive monitoring. While...
Influence of Nitrogen Content in Food Waste on Biogas Production
10/05/2024 - In this study, nitrogen content of food waste was adjusted by the addition of ammonium chloride to achieve the desired C/N ratio. Biogas production at different ammonium chloride percentages was...
Novel Aryl Thioamides Derivatives as Insect Growth Regulators Analogues against Spodoptera littoralis(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Design, Synthesis, Insecticidal Activity and Biochemical Impacts
11/05/2024 - A significant reason for developing innovative insecticidal active agents is the exponential rise in resistance to traditional chemical pesticides. Exploring new classes of insecticidal compounds...
Preparation of Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata polysaccharide iron(III) complex and evaluation of its biological activity
12/05/2024 - This study extracted and purified a polysaccharide from Rehmanniae radix praeparata (RGP) with an average molecular weight. The structural characteristics of RGP and its iron(III) complex,...
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Gypsogenin Derivatives as Potential Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agents
12/05/2024 - Natural compounds are important sources for the treatment of chronic disorders such as cancer and microbial infectious disorders. In this research, Gypsogenin and its derivatives (2?a–2?f) have...
Synthesis, Biological and Molecular Docking Studies of Thiazole?Thiadiazole derivatives as potential Anti?Tuberculosis Agents
12/05/2024 - Tuberculosis remains a global health threat, with increasing infection rates and mortality despite existing anti?TB drugs. The present work focuses on the research findings regarding the development...
Zn promoted GaZrOx ternary solid solution oxide combined with SAPO?34 effectively converts CO2 to light olefins with low CO selectivity
10/05/2024 - We proposed a new strategy for CO2 hydrogenation to prepare light olefins by introducing Zn into GaZrOx to construct ZnGaZrOx ternary oxides, which was combined with SAPO?34 to prepare a...
Asymmetric Carbene Transfer: Enhancing Chemical Diversity for Drug Discovery
12/05/2024 - The exploration of chemical space for disease targets is of paramount importance. However, the current repertoire of chemically synthesized compounds, numbering around 108, merely scratches the...
Keplerate?Type Polyoxometalates?Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Higher Performance via the Morphology Modulation of Blackberry Structure
12/05/2024 - The triboelectric material is the key factor affecting the performance of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Inorganic materials have higher heat resistance and stability than widely used organic...