Plant polyphenol-based coordination polymers(CPs) with ultra-small particle size and tailorable compositions are highly desired in biomedical applicatio ns,but their synthesis is still challenging due to the sophistic...
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Plant polyphenol-based coordination polymers(CPs) with ultra-small particle size and tailorable compositions are highly desired in biomedical applicatio ns,but their synthesis is still challenging due to the sophisticated coordination assembly process and unavoidable self-oxidation polymerization of polyphenol. He rein,a general ligand covalent-modification mediated coordination assembly strategy is proposed for the synthesis of water-dispersible CPs with tunable metal species(e.g., Gd,Cu,Ni,Zn,Fe)and ultra-small diameter(8.6-37.8 nm) using nontoxic plant polyphenol(e.g..tannic acid,gallic acid) as a polymerizable *** molecules react with formaldehyde firstly,which can effectively retard the oxidation induced self-polymerization of polyphenol and lead to the formation of metal ions containing CPs colloidal *** ultrafine nanoparticles with stably chelated metal io ns are highly water dispersible and thus advantageous for *** an example,ultra-small Gd contained CPs exhibit higher longitudinal relaxivity(r_(1)=25.5 L mmol^(-1) s^(-1)) value with low r2/r1(1.19) than clinically used Magnevist(Gd-DTPA,r1=3.7 L mmol^(-1) s^(-1)) .Due to the enhanced permeability and retention effect,they can be further used as a positive contrast agent for T1-weighted MR imaging of tumour.
Tailoring microstructures represents a daunting goal in materialsscience. Here, an innovative proposition is to utilize grain boundary (GB) complexions (a.k.a. interfacial phases) to manipulate microstructural evolut...
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Stoichiometric silicon nitride has emerged as a widely used integratedphotonic material owing to its high index of refraction, nonlinear opticalproperties, and broad transparency window spanning visible to mid-IRfrequ...
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In civil engineering, concrete is the most widely used material due to the availability of its components. Research on tribology of semi-rigid structural systems is important in civil engineering, as the initially rig...
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In civil engineering, concrete is the most widely used material due to the availability of its components. Research on tribology of semi-rigid structural systems is important in civil engineering, as the initially rigid contact between concrete and metallic elements can generate micromovement, resulting in wear due to fretting and possible cracks. Recently, a new family of 2D metal carbide and nitride nanosheets called MXenes has stood out in tribological applications due to their layered structure, which provides self-lubricating and reinforcing properties, but they are costly and difficult to produce in large scale, making their use in civil engineering challenging, despite encouraging results from the literature. To overcome this, the present work proposed surface deposition of MXenes by drop-casting (involving very small amounts of Mxenes) to control fretting wear between concrete and steel. One and five applications were deposited from a dispersion at a concentration of approximately 0.4 mg/mL of MXenes in isopropanol. Fretting tests were carried out on concrete (with and without MXenes deposition) against steel counterbodies for a total stroke of 200 μm under different speeds (0.2 and 2 mm/s) and times (5 and 30 min). The results showed that the friction coefficients obtained in the fretting tests did not present a statistically significant difference when using Mxenes either as a reinforcement in the concrete or deposited by drop casting. The wear rates obtained from the fretting tests demonstrated that, for the lower speed, no significant difference could be confirmed for the modified concretes in either the 5 min or the 30 min tests. On the other hand, in the condition of speed = 2 mm/s and time = 5 min, the wear rate for one application of MXenes by dropcasting was lower than the reference. With a higher speed and 30-min test, a greater effect on the wear rate occurred, which may be the result of tribochemical effects in the contact. It is clear that, in t
Refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs) are promising candidates for high-temperature applications due to their exceptional mechanical properties. In this work, we investigate the effect of processing condi...
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This study develops a single-atom Pt-loaded graphitic carbon nitride (SA-Pt/CN) and evaluates its piezo-flexocatalytic properties by conducting a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and Rhodamine B (RB) dye degradation ...
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We demonstrate that doping hydroxyapatite (HAp) with Cr3+ ions induces oxygen vacancies, contributing to paramagnetism. Cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence analyses reveal increased oxygen vacancy formation in O...
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Heavy metal (HM)/magnet bilayers host many magnetoresistances (MR) and spin caloritronic effects. Here we show that the spin Peltier effect and electron-phonon scattering produce much larger unidirectional MR of an HM...
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Sexual selection is thought to play a major role in the evolution of color due to the correlation between a signaler’s physiological state and the displayed *** such,researchers often investigate how color correlates...
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Sexual selection is thought to play a major role in the evolution of color due to the correlation between a signaler’s physiological state and the displayed *** such,researchers often investigate how color correlates to the quality of the ***,research on the relationship between color and individual quality is often taxonomically limited and researchers typically investigate how color phenotypes relate to one index of quality,such as a linear measure of body ***,we investigated the relationship among body size,claw size,claw muscle mass,lipid content,and the color of the claw in male fiddler crabs(Leptuca uruguayensis)which wield an exaggerated claw that varies in color from brown to *** hypothesized that if the color was correlated to one or more indices of male quality,the color displayed on the claws of male *** could be under sexual *** found *** claw color varies substantially among the individuals we ***,we did not find a correlation between claw color and indices of quality;neither brightness nor hue correlated to the indices of quality we *** findings suggest that claw color in *** is unlikely to have evolved to signal quality,but may instead function as a species identity or as a non-indicator sexual signal.
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