Materials Today Communications
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2024
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IF 3.7
Guang Yang,Jin Liang,Tian Lei,Yaxi Zhang,Zhao Yin
This study primarily centers on the fabrication of NiMoO 4 -C@Ni(FeMo)-Se composite electrocatalysts directly onto nickel foam substrates through a hydrothermal followed by electrodeposition technique. Through this method, the carbon submicron sphere structure, interlinked by NiMoO 4 nanorods , undergoes further optimization, resulting in a more refined NiMoO 4 -C@Ni(FeMo)-Se core-shell structure. The NiMoO 4 -C@ Ni(FeMo)-Se /NF composite electrode exhibited exceptional OER catalytic activity in a 1 M KOH solution, with an overpotential of merely 228 mV at a current density of 50 mA·cm −2 and a Tafel slope of 35.9 mV·dec −1 , significantly superior to that of the blank NF. Additionally, a 40-hour stability test at a current density of 50 mA·cm −2 demonstrated that the potential remained nearly constant, highlighting the exceptional OER activity and long-term stability of the synthesized catalyst. Moreover, in the overall water splitting process, the utilization of a dual-electrode NiMoO 4 ‐C@Ni(FeMo)‐Se/NF||Pt‐C/NF electrolytic cell demands a remarkably low potential of 1.48 V to achieve a current density of 10 mA·cm −2 , demonstrating exceptional electrocatalytic activity and long-term stability. Therefore, this study provides a promising route for the application of hydrogen production from alkaline aqueous solutions.
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PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH
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2024
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Wenxuan Liu,Runlin Gui,Yang Li,Man Li,Zhen Lei,Yanyan Jin,Yi Yu,Yujia Li,Lu Qian,Yuyan Xiong
Insulin resistance (IR) is a central pathophysiological process underlying numerous chronic metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes and obesity. Lycii Cortex, a widely used traditional Chinese herb, has demonstrated potential benefits in preventing and managing diabetes and IR. Whereas, the specific bioactive compounds responsible for these protective effects and their underlying mechanisms of action remain elusive. This study aimed to identify the bioactive components within Lycii Cortex that contribute to its anti-diabetic effects and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying its beneficial actions on insulin resistance. Network pharmacology and molecular docking analyses were employed to identify the potential active compounds in Lycii Cortex and their corresponding target proteins. An in vitro model of IR was established using palmitic acid (PA)-treated HepG2 cells. Cell viability was assessed using the CCK-8 assay, while glucose uptake was evaluated by 2-NBDG staining and extracellular glucose measurement. To validate the in vitro findings, an in vivo model of obesity-induced IR was established using high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice. The network pharmacology analysis preliminarily identified 13 candidate chemicals and 10 hub LyC and IR-related genes (LIRRGs). Molecular docking analysis demonstrates that Linarin as the potential active component exhibits the greatest potential to target c-FOS for preventing obesity-induced IR. Enrichment analysis suggested that Linarin-targeted pathways are correlated with inflammation. In vitro experimental validation demonstrated that Linarin was capable of protecting against PA-induced IR in HepG2 cells evidenced by improving glucose uptake ability and reducing extracellular glucose content. Additionally, we found that Linarin ablated PA-induced increase in the expression of c-FOS and inflammatory cytokines. Furthermore, in PA-treated cells, silencing c-FOS markedly improved glucose consumption, and reduced inflammation and Arginase 2 (ARG2) expression. Similarly, as exposure to PA, silencing ARG2 also ameliorated glucose uptake and inflammation, while not affecting c-FOS expression. In vivo experiments further showed that Linarin administration remarkably improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, and reduced the fat mass and body weight in HFD-induced obese mice. In this study, Linarin has been identified as the bioactive compound of Lycii Cortex to ameliorate obesity-related IR and inflammation through the c-FOS/ARG2 signaling cascade. These findings underscore the therapeutic potential of Linarin and provide valuable insights into developing novel intervention strategies for type 2 diabetes therapy.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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Yiyun Sun,Qiuyue Men,Xiaomeng Ren,Chunhong Yan,Shuang Song,Chunqing Ai
Fucoidan has attracted significant attention owing to its remarkable bioactivities, but the effect of molecular weight (Mw) on its activities in the context of alcoholic liver diseases (ALD) is poorly understood. In this study, low Mw fucoidan (OSLF) was prepared, and its protective effect against alcohol-induced liver injury was assessed in a mouse model. OSLF increased weight gain and colon length, improved lipid disorders, and reduced oxidative stress in mice exposed to alcohol, alleviating liver injury. OSLF alleviated inflammation in the liver by inhibiting alcohol-activated NF-κB and MAPK pathways. The underlying mechanism can be attributed to the improvement of alcohol-induced dysbiosis of the gut microbiota, including a decrease in Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes and an increase in microbiota diversity, as well as the abundances of Parabacteroides , Bacteroides , and Faecalibaculum . Metabolomics results showed that OSLF improved alcohol-induced abnormalities of microbiota metabolites, primarily involving amino acid metabolism and short chain fatty acids production. In addition, OSLF ameliorated bile acid metabolism in the gut and regulated the expression of bile acid-associated genes in the liver, affecting bile acid synthesis, regulation, and transport. It suggested that OSLF had the potential for the management of ALD by regulating the gut microbiota-bile acid-liver axis.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Ping-an Yang,Wenjiao Deng,Haibo Ruan,Zhengwei Qu,Rui Li,Lirui Wang,Jiufei Luo,Zhihao Zhou,Mengjie Shou,Xin Huang,Qiao Chen,Xinglong Gong
The study of designing and developing ferromagnetic nanocomposites with both microwave absorption (MA) and corrosion protection properties through microscopic heterogeneous interfacial engineering and crystal phase engineering remains challenging. In this study, Fe@C core–shell nanowires (FCNWs) are obtained by magnetic field-controlled in situ reduction method and annealing process to de-regulate the carbon shell thickness and carbon morphology. The enhancement of Fe-C heterogeneous relative interfacial effects and dielectric/magnetic response is revealed using density functional theory and simulated electromagnetic field distribution, and the modulation of the amorphous carbon/graphitic carbon ratio achieves the enhancement of dipole polarization in the low-frequency region. The FCNWs absorber had a minimum reflection loss (RL min ) of −47.6 dB at a thickness of 4.9 mm, and the maximum effective absorption bandwidth (EAB max ) was achieved at 5.5 mm up to 4.0 GHz. In addition, the shielding effect of the graphitic carbon shell on the corrosion medium and the addition of additional electron conduction pathways allow the FCNWs absorber to obtain smaller corrosion currents and larger polarization resistances compared to Fe nanowires. Thus, modulation of atomic-scale heterogeneous interfaces and crystal phases has great potential in modulating the dielectric response.
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Talanta Open
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2024
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Wen-Xuan Jia,Ming-Ming Tao,Xin-Yu Wang,Yan-Feng Huang,Ying Li
To address the limitations of natural enzymes, more and more artificial enzymes have been developed. As the most appropriate candidate, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and MOFs-based derivatives have generated extensive interest due to their remarkable properties and potential applications in enzymes mimicry. In this work, Ce/Cu mixed metal oxides-carbon composite (CeCuO x /C) was synthesized through a simple oxidation method with bimetallic MOFs CeCu-BTC as precursors. It was found that the prepared CeCuO x /C possess four different enzyme-like activities, including peroxidase, oxidase, laccase and phosphatase mimetic activities. The kinetics parameters and potential influence factors of enzyme-like activities were studied and CeCuO x /C exhibited high catalytic activity, excellent stability, and reusability. Additionally, a cysteine detecting method was established via oxidase-like activity of CeCuO x /C. The linear response to the cysteine was in the range of 50 to 900 μM, and the limit of detection was 3.24 μM. The spiking recoveries were in the range 93.5–100.2 % for cysteine in artificial human urine samples and the relative standard deviations were found within the ranges of 1.2–2.9 %. This work presents a new approach for the design of multi-enzyme mimics and develops the potential of CeCuO x /C for biological sensing.
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LANGMUIR
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2024
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Mian Gong,Yihui Dong,Minghai Zhu,Fengxiang Qin,Tianchi Wang,Faiz Ullah Shah,Rong An
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a remarkably powerful analytical technique enabling trace-level detection of biological molecules. The interaction of a probe molecule with the SERS substrate shows important distinctions in the SERS spectra, providing inherent fingerprint information on the probe molecule. Herein, nonhalogenated phosphonium-based ionic liquids (ILs) containing cations with varying chain lengths were used as trace additives to amplify the interaction between the cytochrome c (Cyt c) and Zr–Al–Co–O (ZACO) nanotube arrays, strengthening the SERS signals. An increased enhancement factor (EF) by 2.5–41.2 times compared with the system without ILs was achieved. The improvement of the SERS sensitivity with the introduction of these ILs is strongly dependent on the cation chain length, in which the increasing magnitude of EF is more pronounced in the system with a longer alkyl chain length on the cation. Comparing the interaction forces measured by Cyt c-grafted atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes on ZACO substrates with those predicted by the extended Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (XDLVO) theory, the van der Waals forces became increasingly dominant as the chain length of the cations increased, associated with stronger Cyt c–ZACO XDLVO interaction forces. The major contributing component, van der Waals force, stems from the longer cation chains of the IL, which act as a bridge to connect Cyt c and the ZACO substrate, promoting the anchoring of the Cyt c molecules onto the substrate, thereby benefiting SERS enhancement.
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Oncology Letters
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2018
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Hongchao Han,Jie Xu,Weiwei Ji,Lisheng Wang,Aikun Wang
Transmembrane protein with epidermal growth factor (EGF)‑like and two follistatin motifs 2 (TMEFF2) is downregulated in human gastric cancer, and its levels are associated with tumor aggressiveness. Herein, a positive correlation was identified between serum vitamin C levels (µg/ml) and mRNA levels of TMEFF2 in gastric cancer tissue. TMEFF2 silencing promotes cell proliferation in GES‑1 normal human gastric epithelial cells and AGS human gastric adenocarcinoma cells. Notably, vitamin C and AG490 exerted antiproliferative effects on the two cell lines. The present study demonstrated that small interfering (si)‑RNA‑TMEFF2 exerts pro‑proliferative effects on GES‑1 and AGS cells. The results revealed that vitamin C significantly inhibited the growth of GES‑1 and AGS cells by reducing cell viability, decreasing the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and blocking the STAT3 pathway. Moreover, siRNA‑TMEFF2‑induced enhanced cell viability and PCNA expression were significantly reversed by additional vitamin C treatment; notably, markedly enhanced TMEFF2 expression was observed. Upregulated TMEFF2 expression was observed in association with the antiproliferative effect of AG490. In conclusion, serum vitamin C content (µg/ml) was positively correlated with the mRNA levels of TMEFF2 in gastric cancer tissue. Exploring novel drugs that target TMEFF2 is a potential therapeutic strategy for blocking human GC.
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MOLECULES
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2024
·Vol. 29
·期 17
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IF 4.2
Jintao Yao,Guangzhao Zhu,Jingrui Huang,Xiaoru Meng,Maolong Hao,Shoupu Zhu,Zhen Wu,Fanxu Kong,Yue Zhou,Qi Li,Guowang Diao
Commercial graphite anode has advantages such as low potential platform, high electronic conductivity, and abundant reserves. However, its theoretical capacity is only 372 mA h g−1. High-energy lithium-ion batteries have been a research hotspot. The Si anode has an extremely high specific capacity, but its application is hindered by defects such as large volume changes, poor electronic conductivity, and a small lithium-ion diffusion coefficient. Here, the Si/thermally reduced graphite oxide@carbon (Si/RGtO@C) composite was fabricated by electrostatic self-assembly followed by thermal treatment. The RGtO synergistic carbon coating layer can effectively compensate for the low electronic conductivity and buffer the volume expansion effect of the Si nanoparticles during charge/discharge cycles. The Si/RGtO@C anode demonstrated a significantly increased capacity compared to the RGtO. After 300 cycles, Si/RGtO@C kept a discharged capacity of 367.6 mA h g−1at a high current density of 1.0 A g−1. The Si/RGtO@C anode shows an application potential for commercial high-energy lithium-ion batteries.
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CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES
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2024
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Guangpeng He,Deyu Kong,Xiaoguang Chen,Shujing Fan,Tao Meng,Jiabin Li
In this paper, low-cost dihydrate gypsum (CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O) was used as calcium source together with sodium metasilicate solution to prepare calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gels through a mechanochemical activation strategy by using planetary and vibrational ball-milling. The influences of the prepared C-S-H gels on hydrating and hardening properties of super-retarded cement-based materials with sucrose were investigated. The results showed that CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O reacted with sodium metasilicate solution under mechanochemical effect during both planetary and vibrational ball-milling, although CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O was just slightly dissolved in water. It was also interestingly found that the C-S-H gels can continuously form while resting for a certain time after ball-milling. Under the mechanochemical activation, the prepared C-S-H gels had complete characteristic diffusion peaks and were composed of layered, flocculent and fibrous structures. While incorporating the prepared C-S-H gels into the super-retarded cement paste with sucrose, the cement hydration was greatly accelerated and the compressive strength of the hardened cement-based materials was also effectively improved at early age as expected. Through X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, it was found that C-S-H gels can effectively promote the growth of CH crystals along the (001) and (101) crystal planes. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results supported that the C-S-H gels inhibited the refinement of ettringite (AFt) crystals in super-retarded HCP with sucrose, which was more obvious at 28 d.
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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
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2024
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Xuan Hou,Shuhua Ma,Xiaohui Wang,Yanjun Ou,Ruiping Liu
Industrial waste fly ash was transformed into a fluffy C-S-H (hydrated calcium silicate) material with thermal activation process . The textural property of the material makes it easily integrated and well dispersed in cement using 2% addition. Characterization techniques such as hydration heat, XRD , thermogravimetric analysis , were carried out to elucidate the effect of this C-S-H on cement hydration : the compressive strength of cement mortar was improved beyond 25%; and the viscosity of cement paste was reduced by 22%; the volume of solidified cement expand by 10%. This advances the overall utilization of cement and improve the properties as well.
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RARE METALS
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2025
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Liu Lang,Zhang Qian,Han Guangrui,Zhang Mengjie,Song Xinyu,Xiao Hong,Hou Linrui,Jiang Ruiyu,Yuan Changzhou
Si, as the most promising anode with high theoretical capacity for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), is hampered in commercial application by its poor electrical conductivity and significant volume expansion. Herein, the core-shell Si@SiO x /C@C-Ar (SSC-A) or Si@SiO x /C@C-H 2 /Ar (SSC-H) composites are purposefully designed by in situ introduction of inorganic SiO x in pure Ar or H 2 /Ar atmosphere to realize a Si-based anode for LIBs. By introducing different atmospheres, the valence states of SiO x are regulated. The inorganic transition layer formed by the combination of SiO x with higher average valence and asphalt-derived carbon demonstrates better performance in both stabilizing the core-shell structure and inhibiting the agglomeration of Si particles. Given these advantages, the SSC-A electrode exhibits excellent electrochemical performance (1163 mAh g −1 after 400 cycles at 1 A g −1 ), and the commercial blended graphite-SSC-A electrode reaches a specific capacity of 442 mAh g −1 with 74.8% capacity retention under the same conditions. Even the SSC-A electrode without Super P maintains an ultrahigh discharge specific capacity of 803 mAh g −1 with 60.6% after cycling. Importantly, the full batteries based on SSC-A without Super P achieve a discharge specific capacity of 126 mAh g −1 with 28.2% capacity decay after 200 cycles, demonstrating the superior commercial application potential.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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Xuefeng Zhou,Xiaohai Zheng,Jinyu Li,Lijuan Shen,Xiaoyang Pan,Xuhui Yang,Min-Quan Yang
Photocatalytic selective oxidation of benzylic C( sp 3 )-H bonds to high-value oxygenates holds great potential for sustainable organic synthesis, yet remains challenging due to inefficient charge separation and limited substrate activation over conventional photocatalysts. Herein, a C 3 N 4 /PMA 2 PbBr 4 heterojunction is rationally designed via an anti-solvent strategy, integrating 2D PMA 2 PbBr 4 with π-conjugated C 3 N 4 . Experimental and theoretical analyses reveal that the internal electric field induced by band alignment drives spatial charge separation, preserving the powerful holes in the valence band of PMA 2 PbBr 4 for direct C H bond activation and electrons in the conduction band of C 3 N 4 for efficient O 2 reduction. Notably, C 3 N 4 demonstrates enhanced toluene adsorption via π-π interactions, concentrating substrates at reactive interfaces. The synergistic interplay of optimized charge dynamics and molecules activation enhances hole-mediated C H cleavage and radical-driven further oxidation. Consequently, the optimized 5 % C 3 N 4 /PMA 2 PbBr 4 achieves a benzaldehyde production rate of 5783 μmol g −1 h −1 under visible light, outperforming pristine PMA 2 PbBr 4 by a factor of 1.7 and C 3 N 4 of 25.8.
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