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Liposozyme for wound healing and inflammation resolution Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Zhichao Deng, Mingzhen Zhang
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Janus liposozyme for the modulation of redox and immune homeostasis in infected diabetic wounds Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Tingting Wei, Tiezheng Pan, Xiuping Peng, Mengjuan Zhang, Ru Guo, Yuqing Guo, Xiaohan Mei, Yuan Zhang, Ji Qi, Fang Dong, Meijuan Han, Fandi Kong, Lina Zou, Dan Li, Dengke Zhi, Weihui Wu, Deling Kong, Song Zhang, Chunqiu Zhang
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Nanoparticles for inducing Gaucher disease-like damage in cancer cells Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chunyan Yue, Wenjing Lu, Shuxin Fan, Zhusheng Huang, Jiaying Yang, Hong Dong, Xiaojun Zhang, Yuxin Shang, Wenjia Lai, Dandan Li, Tiejun Dong, Ahu Yuan, Jinhui Wu, Lifeng Kang, Yiqiao Hu
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Tackling debt, biodiversity loss, and climate change Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Elizabeth C. Losos, Alexander Pfaff, Stuart L. Pimm
At the United Nations climate conference in late 2023, multilateral development banks and environmental institutions committed to raising the number, size, types, and effectiveness of funding mechanisms that support developing countries to address the interconnected crises of debt, climate, and biodiversity. A “Task Force on Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Financing for Nature and Climate” will convene
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Single-site iron-anchored amyloid hydrogels as catalytic platforms for alcohol detoxification Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jiaqi Su, Pengjie Wang, Wei Zhou, Mohammad Peydayesh, Jiangtao Zhou, Tonghui Jin, Felix Donat, Cuiyuan Jin, Lu Xia, Kaiwen Wang, Fazheng Ren, Paul Van der Meeren, F. Pelayo García de Arquer, Raffaele Mezzenga
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Sensitive proton-radiation detectors Nat. Mater. (IF 41.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Matthew C. Beard
Halide perovskite nanocrystal scintillators detect high-energy protons with sensitivity suitable for clinical applications.
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Phase segregation and nanoconfined fluid O2 in a lithium-rich oxide cathode Nat. Mater. (IF 41.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Kit McColl, Samuel W. Coles, Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor, Benjamin J. Morgan, M. Saiful Islam
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Accelerating ionizable lipid discovery for mRNA delivery using machine learning and combinatorial chemistry Nat. Mater. (IF 41.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Bowen Li, Idris O. Raji, Akiva G. R. Gordon, Lizhuang Sun, Theresa M. Raimondo, Favour A. Oladimeji, Allen Y. Jiang, Andrew Varley, Robert S. Langer, Daniel G. Anderson
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Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials Nat. Mater. (IF 41.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Laisi Chen, Amy X. Wu, Naol Tulu, Joshua Wang, Adrian Juanson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Michael T. Pettes, Marshall A. Campbell, Mingjie Xu, Chaitanya A. Gadre, Yinong Zhou, Hangman Chen, Penghui Cao, Luis A. Jauregui, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi
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A diminished North Atlantic nutrient stream during Younger Dryas climate reversal Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Tyler D. Vollmer, Shannon G. Valley, Eric Blackmon, Sifan Gu, Thomas M. Marchitto
The high rate of biological productivity in the North Atlantic is stimulated by the advective supply of nutrients into the region via the Gulf Stream (nutrient stream). It has been proposed that the projected future decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will cause a reduction in nutrient supply and resulting productivity. In this work, we examine how the nutrient stream
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Spike timing–based coding in neuromimetic tactile system enables dynamic object classification Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Libo Chen, Sanja Karilanova, Soumi Chaki, Chenyu Wen, Lisha Wang, Bengt Winblad, Shi-Li Zhang, Ayça Özçelikkale, Zhi-Bin Zhang
Rapid processing of tactile information is essential to human haptic exploration and dexterous object manipulation. Conventional electronic skins generate frames of tactile signals upon interaction with objects. Unfortunately, they are generally ill-suited for efficient coding of temporal information and rapid feature extraction. In this work, we report a neuromorphic tactile system that uses spike
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Why my heart beats for Nigeria’s endangered bats Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Iroro Tanshi works to better understand a number of threatened species.
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Decent work for all: why multinationals need a helping hand Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Moses Ngoze explains why the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises in Africa are key to achieving global economic growth.
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World’s brightest X-rays: China first in Asia to build next-generation synchrotron Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
The US$665-million High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) outside Beijing puts China among only a handful of countries that have fourth-generation synchrotron light sources.
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Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-12
A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare.
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Daily briefing: ‘The ugly side of science’ — how to report negative results Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Data repositories, workshops and alternative journals allow scientists to destigmatize and discuss negative results. Plus, a major step toward ultra-precise ‘nuclear’ clocks and the first rocky exoplanet with a confirmed atmosphere.
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High performance thermoelectric composites via scalable and low-cost ink processing Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 ANM Tanvir, Md Omarsany Bappy, Minxiang Zeng, Wenjie Shang, Ke Wang, Kaidong Song, Yukun Liu, Eleonora Isotta, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Alexander William Dowling, Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang
Despite significant increases in thermoelectric Figure of merit zT achieved in the past two decades, the lack of scalable and low-cost device manufacturing methods has remained a major barrier for large-scale adoption of thermoelectric devices for cooling and power generation. Here, we report a highly reproducible, facile, and cost-effective ink-based processing technique to fabricate thermoelectric
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Photocontrolled heterojunctions constructed from holmium single atom modified Mg1.2Ti1.8O5/g-C3N4 with enhanced photocatalytic CO2 conversion Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jing An, Shuang Ge, Guofeng Wang, Honggang Fu
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Eco-friendly volatile additive enabling efficient large-area organic photovoltaic module processed with non-halogenated solvent Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Ziyan Jia, Jiannan Pan, Xu Chen, Yaohui Li, Tianyu Liu, Hanbo Zhu, Jizhong Yao, Buyi Yan, Yang Michael Yang
The pursuit of sustainable manufacturing for organic solar cells (OSCs) has prompted the exploration of environmentally friendly, non-halogenated solvents. However, contemporary OSCs processed with these solvents often require the inclusion of toxic halogenated additives to optimize photovoltaic performance. In this study, we devised a processing method that incorporates not only a non-halogenated
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Defect-balanced Active and Stable Co3O4-x for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis at Ampere-level Current Density Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chengli Rong, Shuhao Wang, Shen Xin, Chen Jia, Qian Sun, Qiang Zhang, Chuan Zhao
Active and stable noble metal-free catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are essential for realizing large-scale hydrogen production using proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. Herein, we discover that engineering the defect and morphology of spinel cobalt oxide allows the optimal vacancy-rich Co3O4 hollow nanocubes (Vo-Co3O4 HNCs) catalyst with exceptional activity with a low overpotential
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Multimodal optoacoustic imaging: methods and contrast materials Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF 46.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Zhenyue Chen, Irmak Gezginer, Quanyu Zhou, Lin Tang, Xosé Luís Deán-Ben, Daniel Razansky
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Controllable synthesis of high-entropy alloys Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF 46.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jingjing Liang, Guanghui Cao, Mengqi Zeng, Lei Fu
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Identification of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with mcm topology and their application in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Xin Zhao, Fengju Tian, Xianghao Han, Qiao-Yan Qi
Covalent organic frameworks have attracted considerable attention in recent years as a distinct class of crystalline porous organic materials. Their functional properties are inherently linked to their structural characteristics. Although hundreds of COFs have been reported so far, the types of their topologic structure are still limited. In this article, we report the identification of mcm topology
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Origin of copper as a unique catalyst for C–C coupling in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jie Chen, Benjamin W. J. Chen, Jia Zhang, Wei Chen, Yi-Yang Sun
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Copper-oxygen adducts: new trends in characterization and properties towards C−H activation Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Catherine Belle, Jonathan De Tovar, Rébecca Leblay, Yongxing Wang, Laurianne Wojcik, Aurore Thibon-Pourret, Marius Reglier, A. Jalila Simaan, Nicolas Le Poul
This review summarizes the latest discoveries in the field of C−H activation by copper monoxygenases and more particularly by their bioinspired systems. This work first describes recent background on copper-containing enzymes along with additional interpretations about the nature of the active copper-oxygen intermediates. It then focuses on relevant examples of bioinorganic synthetic copper-oxygen
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Identifying a real space measure of charge-shift bonding with probability density analysis Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Michel V. Heinz, Leonard Reuter, Arne Lüchow
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Trimodal Operation of a Robust Smart Organic Crystal Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Kui Chen, Wenbo Wu, Hui Yu, Jiaxuan Zhu, Yaoguang Feng, Jingkang Wang, Xin Huang, Liang Li, Ting Wang, Na Wang, Pance Naumov, Hongxun Hao
We describe a dynamic crystalline material that integrates mechanical, thermal, and light modes of operation, with unusual robustness and resilience and a variety of both slow and fast kinematic effects that occur on very different time scales. In the mechanical mode of operation, crystals of this material are amenable to elastic deformation, and they can be reversibly morphed and even closed into
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Zinc chloride-catalyzed Grignard addition reaction of aromatic nitriles Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Manabu Hatano, Kisara Kuwano, Riho Asukai, Ayako Nagayoshi, Haruka Hoshihara, Tsubasa Hirata, Miho Umezawa, Sahori Tsubaki, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Ken Sakata
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Neutral Inverse-Sandwich Rare-Earth Metal Complexes of the Benzene Tetraanion Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Yi Wang, Yurou Zhang, Jiefeng Liang, Bowen Tan, Chong Deng, Wenliang Huang
Rare-earth metal complexes of the parent benzene tetraanion and neutral inverse-sandwich rare-earth metal arene complexes have remained elusive. Here, we report the first neutral inverse-sandwich rare-earth metal complexes of the parent benzene tetraanion supported by a monoanionic β-diketiminate (BDI) ligand. Reduction of the trivalent rare-earth metal diiodide precursors (BDI)MI2(THF) (BDI = HC(
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Stabilization of Ni-containing Keggin-type Polyoxometalates with Variable Oxidation States as Novel Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Oxidation Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Edman Tsang, Xiang Li, Bryan K Y Ng, Baron Ho, Chunbo Jia, Jining Shang, Tatchamapan Yoskamtorn, Xuelei Pan, Yiyang Li, guangchao Li, Tai-Sing Wu, Yun-Liang Soo, Heyong He, Bin Yue
The development of new recyclable and inexpensive electrochemically active species for water oxidation catalysis is the most crucial step for future utilization of renewables. Particularly, transition metal complexes containing internal multiple, cooperative metal centers to couple with redox catalysis in the inorganic Keggin-type polyoxometalate (POM) framework at high potential or under extreme pH
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Conformational Flexibility Driving Charge-Selective Substrate Translocation Across Bacterial Transporter Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Devika Vikraman, Bibhab Bandhu Majumdar, S. K. Sharavanakkumar, Conrad Weichbrodt, Niels Fertig, Mathias Winterhalter, Jagannath Mondal, Mahendran R. Kozhinjampara
Bacterial membrane porins facilitate the translocation of small molecules while restricting large molecules, and this mechanism remains elusive at the molecular level. Here, we investigate the selective uptake of large cyclic sugars across an unusual passive membrane transporter CymA, comprising a charged zone and a constricting N terminus segment. Using a combination of electrical recordings, protein
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Convergence Criteria for Single-step Free-energy Calculations: The Relation between the Π Bias Measure and the Sample Variance Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Meiting Wang, Ye Mei, Ulf Ryde
Free energy calculations play a crucial role in simulating chemical processes, enzymatic reactions, and drug design. However, assessing the reliability and convergence of these calculations remains a challenge. This study focuses on single-step free-energy calculations using thermodynamic perturbation. It explores how the sample distributions influence the estimated results and evaluates the reliability
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Periodic table screening for enhanced positive contrast in MRI and in vivo uptake in glioblastoma Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Aitor Herraiz, M. Puerto Morales, Lydia Martínez-Parra, Nuria Arias-Ramos, Pilar López-Larrubia, Lucía Gutiérrez, Jesús Mejías, Carlos Díaz-Ufano, Jesús Ruiz-Cabello, Fernando Herranz
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Rational design of pH-responsive near-infrared spirocyclic cyanines: the effects of substituents and the external environment Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Akihiro Sakama, Hyemin Seo, Joji Hara, Yutaka Shindo, Yuma Ikeda, Kotaro Oka, Daniel Citterio, Yuki Hiruta
pH-Responsive spirocyclic cyanine dyes were designed and synthesized. The equilibrium constant for cyclization (pKcycl) could be rationally controlled by changing the nucleophilic moiety and the side chains. Encapsulation in polymer micelles inhibited H-aggregation of the dye, and the pKcycl could be shifted according to the amphiphilic polymer employed.
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Au bipyramids@CuZn MOF core-shell nanozyme enables universal SERS and colorimetric dual-model bioassay Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Mengdi Wang, Feng Shi, Jiayin Li, Lingfeng Min, Zhanjun Yang, Juan Li
In this study, a new type of gold nano-bipyramids@CuZn bimetallic organic framework (AuNBPs@CuZn MOF) nanozyme with high peroxidase (POD)-like activity and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity was constructed with a special core-shell structure, which can catalyze the oxidation of TMB (colourless and Raman-inactive) into ox-TMB (blue and Raman-active). An AuNBPs@CuZn MOF-enabling universal
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Guest-responsive coherence time of radical qubits in a metal-organic framework Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Miku Inoue, Akio Yamauchi, Bhavesh Parmar, Kana Orihashi, Manpreet Singh, Mizue Asada, Toshikazu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Yanai
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) integrated with molecular qubits are promising for quantum sensing. In this study, a new UiO-type MOF with 5,12-diazatetracene (DAT)-containing ligand is synthesized, and the radicals generated in the MOF exhibit high stability and a relatively long coherence time (T2) responsive to the introduction of various guest molecules.
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Multiple Non-covalent Interactions Directed Supramolecular Double Helices: The Orthogonality of Hydrogen, Halogen and Chalcogen Bonding Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chuan-Zhi Liu, Chi Zhang, Zhongyi Li, Jiale Chen, Tonglu Wang, Xiang-Kung Zhang, Meng Yan, Bin Zhai
In this study, benzoselenadiazole-pyridine-bifunctionalized hydrogen-bonded arylamide foldamer was synthesized. The co-crystallization experiment with 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene showed that: a new type of supramolecular double helices, which was induced by triple orthogonal interaction of three-center hydrogen bonding (O···H···O), I···N halogen bonding and Se···N chalcogen bonding, has been constructed
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Hetero Diels-Alder reactions of isolable N-borylenamines Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Pei Liang, Junhui Wei, Yongliang Wei, Xue Wang, Fei Liu, Tongdao Wang
A new strategy for N-borylenamines by reactions of 2-alkynyl benzyl azides with B(C6F5)3 was developed. This novel 1,3-carboboration reaction proceeded via 5-exo-dig cyclization/formal 1,1-carboboration/B(C6F5)2 shift reaction sequence. Additionally, N-borylenamines can undergo hetero Diels-Alder (HDA) reactions with a variety of dienophiles. Our results are the attractive complement to HDA reactions
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Multivalent dendritic DNA aptamer molecules for the enhancement of therapeutic effect Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Yusuke Kawamoto, You Wu, Soyoung Park, Kumi Hidaka, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Yuki Takahashi, Yoshinobu Takakura
Dendritic DNA molecules, referred to as DNA dendrons, consist of multiple covalently linked strands and are expected to improve the cellular uptake and potency of therapeutic oligonucleotides because of their multivalency. In this study, we developed an efficient synthetic method for producing DNA dendrons using strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition. Integration of the antitumor aptamer AS1411
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Boosting the enzymatic activity of CxxC motif-containing PDI family members Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Tsubura Kuramochi, Yukino Yamashita, Kenta Arai, Shingo Kanemura, Takahiro Muraoka, Masaki Okumura
Compounds harboring high acidity and oxidizability of thiol groups permit tuning the redox equilibrium constants of CxxC sites of members of the protein disulphide isomerase family (PDIs) and thus can be used to accelerate folding processes and increase the production of native proteins by minimal loading in comparison to glutathione.
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A Native Mass Spectrometry Approach to Qualitatively Elucidate Interfacial Epitopes of Transient Protein-Protein Interactions Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Clinton Gareth Lancaster Veale, Abir Chakraborty, Richwell Mhlanga, Fernando Albericio, Beatriz G. de la Torre, Adrienne Edkins, David Clarke
Native mass spectrometric analysis of TPR2A and GrpE with unpurified peptides derived from limited proteolysis of their respective PPI partners (HSP90 C-terminus and DnaK) facilitated efficient, qualitative identification of interfacial epitopes involved in transient PPI formation. Application of this approach can assist in elucidating interfaces of currently uncharacterised transient PPIs.
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Synthesis of benzooxepane-fused cyclobutene derivatives via Pd-catalyzed cascade reactions of haloarenes and diynylic ethers Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Shugao Zhu, Wenliang Huang, Shihan Liu, Rongjing Yu, Yufeng Ma, Hong Wang, Rui Zhang, Bin Liu, Yu Lan, Ruwei Shen
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Atomic‐Scale Tracking Topological Phase Transition Dynamics of Polar Vortex‐Antivortex Pairs Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Ruixue Zhu, Sizheng Zheng, Xiaomei Li, Tao Wang, Congbing Tan, Tiancheng Yu, Zhetong Liu, Xinqiang Wang, Jiangyu Li, Jie Wang, Peng Gao
Non‐trivial topological structures, such as vortex‐antivortex (V‐AV) pairs, have garnered significant attention in the field of condensed matter physics. However, the detailed topological phase transition dynamics of V‐AV pairs, encompassing behaviors like self‐annihilation, motion, and dissociation, have remained elusive in real space. Here, we employ polar V‐AV pairs as a model system and track their
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Activating Iterative Revolutions of the Cancer‐Immunity Cycle in Hypoxic Tumors with a Smart Nano‐Regulator Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Junying Ding, Yang Lu, Xueze Zhao, Saran Long, Jianjun Du, Wen Sun, Jiangli Fan, Xiaojun Peng
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 resistance, along with the off‐target adverse effects of non‐selective immunomodulators, persist. In this study, a tumor‐selective nano‐regulator named PNBJQ has been presented, focusing on targeting two non‐redundant
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High‐Entropy Prussian Blue Analogues Enable Lattice Respiration for Ultra‐Stable Aqueous Aluminum‐Ion Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Kai Du, Yujie Liu, Yiqi Zhao, Hui Li, Hexiong Liu, Chunhao Sun, Mingshan Han, Tianyi Ma, Yuxiang Hu
Aqueous aluminum ion batteries (AAIBs) hold significant potential for grid‐scale energy storage owing to their intrinsic safety, high theoretical capacity, and abundance of aluminum. However, the strong electrostatic interactions and delayed charge compensation between high‐charge‐density aluminum ions and the fixed lattice in conventional cathodes impede the development of high‐performance AAIBs.
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The Unprecedented Biodegradable Polyzwitterion: A Removal‐Free Patch for Accelerating Infected Diabetic Wound Healing Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Zhuoya Wang, Danyang Chen, Hongying Wang, Siyu Bao, Liping Lang, Chunyan Cui, Haotian Song, Jianhai Yang, Wenguang Liu
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 the reported zwitterionic polymers are non‐degradable because of non‐cleavable carbon‐carbon bonding backbones, and must be removed periodically after treatment to avoid hypoxia in the wound, thus leading
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Expanded ROS Generation and Hypoxia Reversal: Excipient‐free Self‐assembled Nanotheranostics for Enhanced Cancer Photodynamic Immunotherapy Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Jing Yang, Bibo Ren, Xuntao Yin, Lunli Xiang, YanQiu Hua, Xue Huang, Haibo Wang, Zhengwei Mao, Wei Chen, Jun Deng
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 hypoxia which constrains the immune response. Herein, we developed a self‐assembled clinical photosensitizer indocyanine green (ICG) and the HSP90 inhibitor 17‐dimethylaminoethylamino‐17‐demethoxygeldanamycin
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Nanogalvanic Cells Release Highly Reactive Electrons in Tumors to Effectively Eliminate Tumors Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Wei‐Qiang Huang, Ya‐Qi Zhu, Fan Gao, Wei You, Guang Chen, Xuan Nie, Lei Xia, Long‐Hai Wang, Chun‐Yan Hong, Ze Zhang, Fei Wang, Yue Yu, Ye‐Zi You
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 to transfer energy or electrons to surrounding oxygen or other molecules is critical for generating cytotoxic reactive species. However, poor light penetration into tissue, low activity of sensitizers
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Scalable Customization of Crystallographic Plane Controllable Lithium Metal Anodes for Ultralong-Lasting Lithium Metal Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jian Tan, Longli Ma, Pengshu Yi, Yuan Wang, Zhiheng Li, Zhan Fang, Xuanyang Li, Shan He, Xuefeng Wang, Mingxin Ye, Jianfeng Shen
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Regulation of Protein Conformation Enables Cell-Selective Targeting of Virus-Mimicking Nanoparticles for siRNA Therapy of Glioblastoma Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Han Zhu, Yi-Fan Wang, Zhi-Gang Wang, Dai-Wen Pang, Shu-Lin Liu
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Atto-Scale Noise Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors Enabled by Controlling Interfacial Energetic Offset through Enhanced Anchoring Ability Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Tae Hyuk Kim, Ji Hyeon Lee, Min Ho Jang, Gyeong Min Lee, Eun Soo Shim, Seunghyun Oh, Muhammad Ahsan Saeed, Min Jong Lee, Byoung-Soo Yu, Do Kyung Hwang, Chae Won Park, Sae Youn Lee, Jea Woong Jo, Jae Won Shim
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Accelerated Engineering of ELP-Based Materials through Hybrid Biomimetic-De Novo Predictive Molecular Design Adv. Mater. (IF 29.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Timo Laakko, Antti Korkealaakso, Burcu Firatligil Yildirir, Piotr Batys, Ville Liljeström, Ari Hokkanen, Nonappa, Merja Penttilä, Anssi Laukkanen, Ali Miserez, Caj Södergård, Pezhman Mohammadi
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These parrots go on killing sprees over real-estate shortages Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Scientists recorded green-rumped parrotlets pecking others’ chicks to death, probably to claim the nest space.
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Diana Wall obituary: ecologist who foresaw the importance of soil biodiversity Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Environmental scientist who revealed the crucial role of underground animals in sustainability.
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All-perovskite tandem solar cells from fundamentals to technological progress Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jaekeun Lim, Nam-Gyu Park, Sang Il Seok, Michael Saliba
Organic-inorganic perovskite materials have gradually progressed from single-junction solar cells to tandem (double) or even multi-junction (triple-junction) solar cells as all-perovskite tandem solar cells (APTSCs) have advantages: (1) the tunable optical bandgap, (2) low-cost because of solution-processing, inexpensive precursors, and thin film process, (3) scalability and lightweight, and (4) an
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Semi-Crystalline Polymers with Supramolecular Synergistic Interactions: From Mechanical Toughening to Dynamic Smart Materials Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Chen-Yu Shi, Wen-Yu Qin, Dahui Qu
Semi-crystalline polymers (SCPs) with anisotropic amorphous and crystalline domains as basic skeleton are ubiquitous from natural products to synthetic polymers. The combination of chemically incompatible hard and soft phases contributes to unique thermal and mechanical properties. The further introduction of supramolecular interactions as noncovalent interacted crystal phase and soft dynamic crosslinking
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Rapidly Solar-driven Atmospheric Water Harvesting with MAF-4 Derived Nitrogen-doped Nanoporous Carbon Chem. Sci. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 MING XUE, Jinhua Feng, Feng Lu, Zhen Chen, Miaomiao Jia, Yi-Le Chen, Wei-Hai Lin, Qing-Yun Wu, Yi Li, Xiao-Ming Chen
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technology is a powerful approach for solving global fresh water scarcity. In this field, an upsurge in searching adsorbents with high water uptake capacity at low relative humidity, rapid adsorption-desorption kinetics and high thermal conductivity, which have been considered to be critical challenges in the AWH process. Herein, we report a MAF-4 (aka
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H2O2-triggered CO release based on porphyrinic covalent organic polymers for photodynamic/gas synergistic therapy Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Yang Wang, Xufeng Liang, Jian An, Jia Pu, Yujia Meng, Yiqiao Bai, Wenqiagn Yu, Yunhan Gao, Tingting Chen, Yong Yao
A novel H2O2-responsive carbon monoxide nanogenerator was designed by effectively encapsulating manganese carbonyl prodrug into porphyrinic covalent organic polymers for realizing the combined CO gas and photodynamic therapy under near infrared light irradiation.
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Functionalisation of MUF-15 Enhances CO2/CH4 Selectivity in Mixed-Matrix Membranes Chem. Commun. (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Yiming Zhang, Elnaz Jangodaz, Ben Yin, Shane Telfer
MUF-15 (MUF = Massey University Framework) is a metal-organic framework with pores that can be tuned by ligand functionalisation. Crystallites of MUF-15 and derivatives were blended with the organic polymer 6FDA-DAM to produce mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs). At a loading of 30 wt.%, membranes with MUF-15-F, MUF-15 with an appended fluoro group, exhibited a CO2 permeability of 1300 Barrer and CO2/CH4