NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY
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2023
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Deng Shanshan,Gao Yuan,Lv Mengting,Li Xinyu,Ma Yulin,Guo Yuchen,Li Tiejun,Zhang Yuefan
Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) is the leading cause of chronic cerebral dysfunction syndrome with its complex pathological mechanisms involving cortical and hippocampal neuronal loss, white matter lesions, and neuroinflammation. I-C-F-6 is a septapeptide, which has anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects. This study aimed to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of I-C-F-6 in chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH)-induced neurological injury. C57BL/6 J mice were subjected to bilateral common carotid artery stenosis (BCAS), and BV2 microglia cells were induced with oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD). In vivo, mice were divided randomly into four groups: Sham, BCAS, GBE (30 mg/kg), and I-C-F-6 (0.5 mg/kg). In vitro, microglia were divided randomly into four groups: control, OGD, I-C-F-6 (25 μg/mL), and Shikonin (800 nmol/L). Through LFB, TUNEL, and NeuN staining, we found that I-C-F-6 was able to mitigate myelin pathology and reduce the number of apoptotic neurons. Furthermore, immunofluorescence staining revealed that I-C-F-6 was able to reduce microglia clustering and downregulate NF-κB p65. We also observed a significant downregulation of M1 phenotype microglia signature genes, such as TNF-α, iNOS, and upregulation of anti-inflammatory cytokines, such as Arg-1 and IL-10, indicating that I-C-F-6 may mainly reduce polarization towards the M1 phenotype in microglia. Notably, I-C-F-6 downregulated the expression of NF-κB signaling pathway-related proteins IKK-β and NF-κB p65, as well as pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and iNOS. In conclusion, I-C-F-6 can improve neurological damage, alleviate neuroinflammation, and inhibit microglia polarization to the M1 phenotype via the NF-κB signaling pathway.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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Hongbo Liang,Yanan Liu,Meixiu Song,Xiaoshuang Wang,Yan Song,Xiaoxiao Huang
Nano-engineering and hybrid with carbon are effective methods for improving the electrochemical performance of Mn 3 O 4 anodes. However, there are many difficulties in further reducing the size of Mn 3 O 4 . To solve these challenges, a novel hollow microsphere structure constituted of ultra-small Mn 3 O 4 nanoparticles (less than 5 nm) embedded within ultrathin carbon nanosheets is designed as anode materials by a simple two-step heating treatment method. The ultra-small Mn 3 O 4 nanoparticles will accelerate the kinetic reaction process and relieve volume variation. Meanwhile, In-situ fabrication of conductive carbon nanosheets play an important role in the electronic/ion transfer and the structure stability. Due to the synergistic effect of ultra-small Mn 3 O 4 nanoparticles and carbon nanosheets, the material shows a topmost reversible capacity of 804 mAh g −1 at the current density of 1 C and maintains a high specific capacity of 603 mAh g −1 after 700 cycles. The strategy can be extended to prepare of other functional nanoparticles and apply in energy storage and catalysis.
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
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2023
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IF 2.8
Bo Li,Mohib Ullah Khan,Cheng Qv,Lin Chen,Ying Xiong,Lixin Zhang,Mingzai Wu
Conventional flexible zinc-air batteries (ZABs) electrolytes are mainly made of hydrogels, and thus can freeze at low temperatures and cause cell failure. Here, we report a gel electrolyte consisting of agar, polyacrylamide and dimethyl sulfoxide with high ionic conductivity (24 mS cm −1 ) at −30 °C. The flexible ZABs based on this gel electrolyte showed good cycling stability (45 h) at −30 °C, which provides a new idea for the development of low-temperature resistant flexible ZABs.
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2023
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Zizhuang He,Hanxiao Xu,Lingzi Shi,Xiangru Ren,Jie Kong,Panbo Liu
The synergistic effect of hollow cavities and multiple hetero-interfaces displays huge advantages in achieving lightweight and high-efficient electromagnetic wave absorption, but still confronts huge challenges. Herein, hierarchical Co 2 P/CoS 2 @C@MoS 2 composites via the self-sacrificed strategy and a subsequent hydrothermal method have been successfully synthesized. Specifically, ZIF-67 cores first act as the structural template to form core-shell ZIF-67@poly(cyclotriphosphazene-co-4,4′-sulfonyldiphenol) (ZIF-67@PZS) composites, which are converted into hollow Co 2 P@C shells with micro-mesoporous characteristics because of the gradient structural stabilities and preferred coordination ability. The deposition of hierarchical MoS 2 results in phase transition (Co 2 P→Co 2 P/CoS 2 ), yielding the formation of hierarchical Co 2 P/CoS 2 @C@MoS 2 composites with hollow cavities and multiple hetero-interfaces. Benefiting from the cooperative advantages of hollow structure, extra N,P,S-doped sources, lattice defects/vacancies, diverse incoherent interfaces, and hierarchical configurations, the composites deliver superior electromagnetic wave capability (−56.6 dB) and wideband absorption bandwidth (8.96 GHz) with 20 wt.% filler loading. This study provides a reliable and facile strategy for the precise construction of superior electromagnetic wave absorbents with efficient absorption attenuation.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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Nankun Chen,Yiyao Xiao,Chao Wang,Jiahao He,Ningning Song
Ternary hierarchical Fe3O4@C@MoS2 composites and binary hierarchical Fe3O4@C composites were successfully fabricated by a modified mixed solvothermal method, a self-oxidation polymerization method, and a hydrothermal process. Their magnetic properties and microwave absorption performance were investigated. Dual resonance behavior was observed in the Fe3O4@C@MoS2 composites. One of the resonances was attributed to natural resonance with a resonance frequency of 2.58 GHz, which was much higher than that for Fe3O4 bulk (1.5 GHz). The other originated from the superparamagnetic/ferromagnetic relaxation with a resonance frequency of 12.45 GHz. The minimum reflection loss (RLmin) reached −64.30 dB with a matched thickness of 2.24 mm at 11.64 GHz, and the maximum effective absorption bandwidth (EABmax) covered 6.39 GHz with a matched thickness of 1.89 mm. In addition, the maximum Radar cross section (RCS) reduction value reached 31.90 dB m2 at a scattering angle of 0°. Electron holography analysis confirmed a dense magnetic absorption network in the Fe3O4@C@MoS2 composites. The boost in microwave absorption performance was caused by the synergistic effects of magnetic and dielectric properties owing to the ternary hierarchical structure, shape magnetic anisotropy, and incorporation of 1T/2H MoS2. Besides, the binary hierarchical Fe3O4@C composites also exhibited good absorbing performance caused by natural resonance, with an RLmin of −52.90 dB at 5.80 mm, an EABmax of 5.98 GHz at 3.38 mm, and a relatively high RCS reduction value of 13.04 dB m2 at θ = 20°. This work paves the way for designing multicomponent hierarchical absorbers with broadband and intensive microwave absorption.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2023
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Rui Sui,Jing Chai,Xuerui Liu,Jiajing Pei,Xuejiang Zhang,Xingdong Wang,Yu Wang,Juncai Dong,Wei Zhu,Wenxing Chen,Liang Zhang,Zhongbin Zhuang
The metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) type oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts are promising for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells, but catalysts with further improved performance are challenging. Here, we report the efficient improvement of the ORR activity of M-N-C catalysts by employing highly polarizable metal cation Ag + . Ag, Fe single atomic sites embedded in concave nitrogen doped carbon (Ag 1 Fe 1 /CNC) is successfully synthesized and shows high performance towards ORR, indicating by both the ultra-high half-wave potential of 0.917 V and membrane electrolyte assembly performance of peak power density up to 1.26 W cm −2 . The binding energy of the ORR intermediates on the highly polarizable Ag site in Ag 1 Fe 1 /CNC was significantly tuned by the adjacent Fe site by more than 0.2 eV, and thus leading to a low theoretical ORR overpotential of only 0.398 V. The employment of the highly polarizable metal cation brings a novel and efficient approach to construct highly active catalysts.
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BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
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2023
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Dongchao Xu,Ajuan Liu,Qiang Liu,Hongchen Zhang,Mengyao Tian,Ying Bian,Xiaofeng Zhang,Meidan Ying,Hongzhang Shen
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most devastating diseases; it has a considerably poor prognosis and may become the second most lethal malignancy in the next 10 years. Chemotherapeutic resistance is common in PDAC; thus, it is necessary to exploit effective alternative drugs. In recent years, traditional folk medicines and their extracts have shown great potential in cancer treatment. The seed of Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. is a traditional medicine in Asia. Because of its analgesic effects and ability to reduce swelling, it is often used as an adjuvant treatment for abdominal tumors. Cucurbitacin compounds are extracts abundant in Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. Here, we found that cucurbitacin C (CuC), a member of the cucurbitacin family, has apparent anti-PDAC therapeutic properties. CuC decreased the viability and suppressed the proliferation of PDAC cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Further studies revealed that CuC inhibited cell migration and invasion by inhibiting epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In addition, G2/M arrest was induced, and the apoptotic pathway was activated. Transcriptomic and bioinformatic analyses showed that CuC inhibited the cGMP-PKG-VASP axis, increasing the content of cGMP to restore tumor characteristics. The antitumor activity of CuC in vivo was verified through animal experiments, and no obvious side effects were observed. Overall, our study indicates a candidate therapeutic compound for PDAC that is worthy of further development.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2023
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Xiaoqing Lv,Zhengtai Ma,Jiaqi Xu,Zhen Wang,Guixian Zhu,Beiju Huang
The paper-based analytical platforms have been applied in biochemical detection and environmental monitoring due to their low cost and easy operation. Despite their advantages, the complexity of fabrication has limited their further application. Here, a simple and innovative approach using parylene C, a material commonly used in semiconductors, is reported to fabricate paper-based chips and construct a point-of-care testing (POCT) platform through smartphones. Parylene C is deposited on the filter paper through a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) clamp and forms a hydrophobic barrier. A three-channel paper-based chip was utilized to detect aluminum (Al) ions on a smartphone platform by the chromogenic method. The color change after Al 3+ detection is represented with △E which was photographed and calculated by app on smartphone. The detection limit is 0.05 mg/L and the detection range is from 0.05 mg/L to 10 mg/L which indicates the application potential in the field of biochemical detection. This new paper-based sensing method and smartphone-based portable detection platform are simple, low-cost, fast, and highly sensitive, and provides a potential application for on-site, visual detection of ions and even other substances.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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Qiaona Liu,Xin Han,An Qian,Xin Pu,Lei Ye,Jichang Liu,Jian Zhang,Jinshan Zhan
The development of highly active and stable cocatalysts using earth-abundant transition metals to replace noble metals is important for the application of photocatalytic hydrogen production technology. In this study, two-dimensional (2D) carbon-encapsulated NiCo bimetallic nanosheets (NiCo@C) was designed for the first time as a new co-catalyst to synergistically combine with graphitic carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) and promote its hydrogen evolution . The NiCo@C cocatalysts were using an innovative molten salt method by using nickel hexacyanocobaltate Ni 3 [Co(CN) 6 ] 2 (Ni-Co PBA) nanocubes as precursor. The Ni-Co PBA nanocubes undergo dissolution growth and salt templating processes to form bimetallic 2D nanosheets during charring in molten salt media, and combine with 2D g-C 3 N 4 to form NiCo@C/g-C 3 N 4 photocatalyst . The optimized NiCo@C/g-C 3 N 4 photocatalyst significantly improved the H 2 evolution activity, and the H 2 evolution rate reached 3791.07 μmol·g −1 ·h −1 , which was 5 times higher than that of the particle CoNi/g-C 3 N 4 (636.89 μmol·g −1 ·h −1 ). The H 2 evolution activity was also comparable to that of the photocatalytic activity of 1.0% Pt/g-C 3 N 4 system, indicating that the earth-abundant NiCo@C can replace noble metal as a cocatalyst to significantly enhance the photocatalytic performance of 2D photocatalysts. The conversion of three-dimensional Ni-Co PBA into carbon-coated 2D metal nanosheets by molten salt-assisted pyrolysis provides a feasible approach to explore the synthesis and design of efficient and robust non-precious metal catalysts.
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ENERGY & FUELS
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2021
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Siyu Wei,Wei Zhou,Rui Han,Junfeng Li,Jihui Gao,Guangbo Zhao,Yukun Qin
The sorption heat storage based on composites with salt hydrates enables the efficient utilization and trans-seasonal storage of solar energy. Nevertheless, the limitation of heat and mass transfer of salt hydrates has restricted the implementation of this technology. Here, a novel strategy is proposed to synthesize a multistage core–shell sorbent, where salt hydrates are dispersed in the macropores of the expanded perlite (EP) before being coated with a carbon layer outside the EP/Ca particles. The abundant macropores in the matrix are beneficial to the high salt loading and efficient mass transfer. Moreover, the carbon shell significantly enhances the light-to-heat conversion performance of the sorbent, and the heat can be directly transferred from the shell to the internal salt hydrates for desorption, thus realizing the absorption, conversion, and storage of solar energy in the multistage core–shell sorbent. The sorption capacity of EP/Ca@C-0.25 is determined to be 1.22 g-H2O/g-sorbent under the conditions of 20 °C and RH 80%, and 84% of the water can be desorbed after irradiation under the 1 kW/m2 simulated sunlight for 2 h, with a heat storage density of 1698 J/g-sorbent in the heat storage process. Additionally, we also studied the performance of EP/Ca@C-0.25 in a solar-driven thermal energy storage system. In summer, the sorbent is placed outdoors and desorbed under sunlight within 2 h to achieve heat storage. In winter, the sorbent is placed in a fixed bed for adsorption, and the heat released during adsorption increases the air temperature by 5 °C for 10 h. Typically, the multistage core–shell sorbent demonstrates a potential sorbent for large-scale use in solar-driven thermal energy storage for practical purposes.
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ChemCatChem
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2021
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Xinxin Jin,Yan Xie,Junhong Fu,Chaoyue Zhao,Yinghao Xu,Yang Lv,Bingsen Zhang,Keju Sun,Rui Si,Jiahui Huang
Graphical ORR : We fabricated a FeSA/HNPC electrocatalyst with well atomically dispersed FeN 4 species. DFT calculations uncovered that the single-atomic FeN 4 sites within FeSA/HNPC electrocatalyst present in the configurations of pyrrole-N 4 −Fe are more favorable than those of pyridine-N 4 −Fe for boosting ORR performances. Atomically dispersed Fe−N−C electrocatalysts have displayed excellent catalytic performances towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), while the identification of the genuine active sites remains a challenge. Herein, we report a Fe−N−C electrocatalyst of FeSA/HNPC featuring single-atomic FeN 4 sites on hierarchically N-doped porous carbon (HNPC), which shows a very competitive ORR activity in alkaline solution even at a low electrocatalyst loading of 0.2 mg cm −2 on the working electrode. A comparison of energy barriers in ORR reveals that the single-atomic FeN 4 active sites in FeSA/HNPC existing in the form of pyrrole-N 4 −Fe is more favorable than that of pyridine-N 4 −Fe for the enhanced ORR activity. Understanding the nature of FeN 4 active sites will greatly benefit the design of Fe−N−C electrocatalysts with highly effective ORR performances.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2021
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Rongcheng Mo,Xiaoran Zhang,Zhenyu Chen,Shangli Huang,Yanjie Li,Lizhe Liang,Zhi Qun Tian,Pei Kang Shen
Developing platinum-based nanoparticles on carbon catalysts with high activity and stability for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is of great significance for the practical application of fuel cells. Herein, a synchronous strategy of preparing nano-sized PtCo supported on atomic Co and N co-doped carbon nanorods (PtCo/Co–N–C NR) was developed to replace the conventional method of impregnating Pt sources into ready-made carbon materials , in which metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with Co and Zn ions of rhombic dodecahedron were first prepared using 2-methylimidazole as building block and then their morphology was transformed into porous nanorods via the reduction of Co ions to Co–B–O complex in the MOFs by NaBH 4 ; subsequently, Pt was deposited on the Co–Zn MOF nanorods through the displacement reaction of PtCl 6 2 - and metallic Co and coordination between MOF and PtCl 6 2 - ; after pyrolysis and acid-leaching process, highly dispersed PtCo/Co–N–C NR was obtained. Attributed to its unique characteristics of hierarchical pore structure , uniform PtCo alloy nanoparticles with the average size of 7.0 nm and strong supporting interaction effect, the catalyst exhibits high ORR activity and stability with the mass activity of 577.0 mA mg −1 Pt and specific activity of 1.4 mA cm −2 at 0.9 V vs RHE in 0.1 M HClO 4 , which is about 3.6 times and 3.5 times high than that of commercial Pt/C catalyst respectively. This strategy would provide a flexible route to develop highly active and stable ORR electrocatalysts with various morphologies for optimizing the exposure of active sites.
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