Latest ArticlesExploiting a tissue diagnosis method to abstain the involuted operating and consume valuable reagents while realizing high-speed and inexpensive pathological grading technology to supply a better scheme for cancer therapy is a significant method of cancers detection. A promising immuno-fluorescence strategy was rationally designed and synthesized by loading ruthenium complex into cervical cancer-targeted DNA-cage, which was well used to realize high-speed and inexpensive diagnosis of clinical cervical cancer tumor tissues avoiding the traditional multi-stage process, thus demonstrating high application potential in clinical pathological grading and surgical judgment. Moreover, it has been finding that Apts-DNA@Ru can enrichment in the tumor region, interestingly, no enrichment in normal cervical cancer tissue. It has the potential to realize the integration of in vivo diagnose and further synchronous treatment in the near future. Thence, this study demonstrates a strategy for integration of cancer-targeted DNA-cage and fluorescent RuPOP as alternative IHC reagents for next-generation more rapid convenient cancer detection.
Developing selectively targeted photothermal agents to reduce side effects in photothermal therapy remains a great challenge. Inspired by the key role of endoplasmic reticulum in the protein synthesis and intracellular signal transduction, particularly for the immunogenic cell death induced by endoplasmic reticulum stress, we developed an endoplasmic reticulum-targeted organic photothermal agent (Ts-PT-RGD) for enhancing photothermal therapy of tumor. The photothermal agent was covalently attached with 4-methylbenzenesulfonamide and cyclic Arg-Gly-Asp (cRGD) peptide for realizing the targeting of endoplasmic reticulum and tumor cell. Owing to its amphiphilic properties, it readily self-assembles in water to form nanoparticles. The photothermal agent possesses excellent photophysical properties and biological compatibility. In vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrate that it can actively target endoplasmic reticulum and effectively ablate tumor with near-infrared laser.
Meso-Ni@HZSM-5 bi-functional catalysts were successfully post-encapsulated with about 3–7 nm Ni nanoparticles within HZSM-5 crystals, which exhibited significantly efficient conversion activity (67.4 g[palmitic acid] g[Ni]−1 h−1) of palmitic acid and 100% selectivity of hydrocarbons with the outstanding stability during recycling application, compared to the impregnated Ni/HZSM-5 catalyst (14.0 g[palmitic acid] g[Ni]−1 h−1).
Biomass-based carbon nanodots (CNDs) are becoming promising fluorescent materials due to their superior optical properties and excellent biocompatibility. However, most fluorescent CNDs are prepared under high temperatures with artificial chemicals as precursors. In this work, multicolor biomass-based CNDs have been prepared by employing natural biomass as precursors through an ultrasonic-assisted method at room temperature. The multicolor biomass-based CNDs can be prepared within 10 min, and cavitation produced by ultrasound in solution contributes to the polymerization of biomolecules into nanodots. The emission of the CNDs covers from blue to red region, with emission peaks centered at 410 nm, 520 nm and 670 nm, and the corresponding photoluminescence quantum yields of the CNDs are 11%, 12% and 28%, respectively. Furthermore, bacterial imaging by using the biomass-based CNDs as fluorescent imaging agent has been demonstrated. This work provides a convenient ultrasonic-assisted way for fabrication multicolor and eco-friendly biomass CNDs, demonstrating their application in bacterial imaging.
Various enzymatic reactions or enzymatic cascade reactions occur efficiently in biological microsystems due to space constraints or orderly transfer of intermediate products. Inspired by this, the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-like nanozyme (Fe-aminoclay) was in situ synthesized on the surface of alkali-activated halloysite nanotubes and the natural enzyme (glucose oxidase, GOx) was immobilized on it to construct a high-efficiency GOx-FeAC@AHNTs cascade nanoreactor. In which, FeAC@AHNTs can not only be used as a carrier for immobilized enzymes, but also help its catalytic activity to cooperate with glucose oxidase in a cascade reaction. The microcompartments and substrate channel effect of this enzyme-nanozyme microsystem exhibit a superior catalytic performance than that of natural enzyme system, and exhibits excellent long-term stability and recyclability. Subsequently, the GOx-FeAC@AHNTs cascade nanoreactor was employed as a glucose colorimetric platform, which displayed a low detection limit (0.47 µmol/L) in glucose detection. This enzyme-nanoenzyme nanoreactor provides a simple and effective example for constructing a multi-enzyme system with limited space, and lays the foundation for subsequent research in the fields of biological analysis and catalysis.
Life on Earth uses a common set of l-amino acids (l-aa) to construct proteins and d-nucleosides (d-Nu) to form nucleic acids, which serve as the carrier of genetic information. Herein, we reveal the intrinsic mechanism of chiral selection of l-aa and d-Nu from the perspective of chemical origin of life. This work employed 15N-labeled l-aa and performed one-pot synthesis of nucleotide amidate of amino acid (N-aa-NMP) using equal amounts of l-15N-aa and d-14N-aa with d-/l-Nu in the aqueous solution of trimetaphosphate, generating l-15N-aa-NMP and d-14N-aa-NMP, respectively. The 31P-NMR data indicated that l-aa was preferentially selected during the formation of N-aa-NMP in the presence of d-Nu. Surprisingly, d-aa was preferred over l-aa in the presence of l-Nu. Further analysis revealed that l-15N-aa-d-NMP vs. d-14N-aa-l-NMP and d-14N-aa-d-NMP vs. l-15N-aa-l-NMP were mirror isomers of each other, respectively. These data suggest that there could be a set of chiral systems opposite to that on Earth, which infers there might be a world of life that is a mirror image of the Earth.
As emerging two-dimensional materials, metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheet composites possess many unique physical and chemical properties, thus being expected to be widely applied in gas separation and adsorption, energy conversion and storage, heterogeneous catalysis, sensing as well as biomedicine. In this review, we first introduce the methods for integrating MOF nanosheets with other materials to prepare multifunctional composites. Next, the applications of MOF nanosheet composites in versatile fields are summarized and discussed. We hope this review will be instructive for researchers in the aspects of designs, preparations and applications of MOF nanosheet composites.
Light-driven conversion of CO2 into chemicals/fuels is a desirable approach for achieving carbon neutrality using clean and sustainable energy. However, its scale-up application is restricted due to insufficient efficiency. Herein, we present a photothermal catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 into CH4 over Ru/black TiO2 catalysts, aiming to achieve the synergistic use of light and heat in solar energy during CO2 conversion. Owing to the desirable spectral response ability and photothermal conversion performance of black TiO2, an efficient combination of photocatalysis and thermocatalysis has been established. The CO2 hydrogenation was significantly accelerated because of the increased catalyst surface temperature enabled by the photothermal effect of black TiO2. Simultaneously, through the in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) observation, electron-rich Ru nanoparticles was achieved based on the photo-induced excitation, thereby providing more negative hydride to improve nucleophilic attack to the CO2, obtaining the CH4 yield of 93.8%.
The synthesis of cyclic polymer is an important topic in polymer chemistry. Herein, we report a one-step method to prepare cyclic polypyrazoles. Monomers with two functional groups, diazo and alkyne, were synthesized and polymerized via 1,3-diploar cycloaddition in bulk under heating without any catalyst. Polypyrazoles with molecular weights in the range of 3800-4400 g/mol and yields in the range of 78.8-98.7% were successfully synthesized. No chain end group was detected by LC-QTOF-MS and FTIR, which proves the cyclic structure of polypyrazoles. What is noteworthy is that the cyclic polypyrazoles can self-assemble into vesicles during the reprecipitation process, which was proved by the results of SEM and TEM. The reason for that is the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bond between NH and ester groups.
Room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) is important in both organic electronics and encryption. Despite rapid advances, a universal approach to robust and tunable RTP materials based on amorphous polymers remains a formidable challenge. Here, we present a strategy that uses three-dimensional (3D) confinement of carbon dots in a polymer network to achieve ultra-long lifetime phosphorescence. The RTP of the as-obtained materials was not quenched in different polar organic solvents and the lifetime of the RTP was easily tuned by adjusting the amount of crosslinking or varying the drying temperature of the 3D molecular network. As a demonstration of potential application, as-obtained RTP materials were successfully used to prepare RTP fibres for flexible textiles. As well as bringing to light a fundamental principle for the construction of polymer materials with RTP, we have endowed traditional carbon dots and polymers with fresh features that will expand potential applications.
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