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Furthermore, with the exception of prothioconazole using Dutch mini-Luke, both extraction methods resulted in reproducibility and precision values below or equal to 20%. Lastly, Dutch mini-Luke is noted to have a lower matrix effect than QuEChERS, except for prothioconazole. The comparison results showed that Dutch mini-Luke resulted in superior method sensitivity, better recovery, and lower matrix effect towards most investigated analytes and was the only extraction technique that successfully extracted all pesticides analysed in soil matrices.Integrating high-loading dielectric nanoparticles into polar polymer matrices potentially can profit the intrinsic polarization of each phase and allow for greatly enhanced dielectric properties in polymer nanocomposites. It is however challenging to achieve desirable highly filled polar polymer composites because of the lack of efficient approaches to disperse nanoparticles and maintain interfacial compatibility. Here, we report a versatile route to fabricate highly filled barium titanate/fluorinated silicone rubber (BT/FSR) nanocomposites by "thiol-ene click" and isostatic pressing techniques. The loaded BT nanoparticles (from 82 wt% to 90 wt%) are chemically bonded with FSR in the nanocomposites. The existence of the polar group (-CH2CF3) of the polymer matrix does not affect the uniform dispersion of the nanoparticles or the good interfacial compatibility. The 90 wt% BT/FSR nanocomposite shows the highest dielectric constant of 57.8 at 103 Hz, while the loss tangent can be kept below 0.03. Besides, BT/FSR nanocomposites display higher breakdown strength than BT/SR nanocomposites. This work offers a facile strategy towards superior dielectric properties of polymer nanocomposites.CO2 reduction catalysis plays an important role in the process of converting harmful exhaust gas into useful fuels. However, the product complexity and the difficult hydrogenation in critical steps make it difficult to find a suitable catalyst for CO2 reduction. In this work, we report homo/hetero bimetal embedded in two-dimensional materials for electrocatalysis and discovered a new descriptor. We chose β12-borophene accommodating two transition metal atoms for efficient CO2RR as a model system. We found that MnCo and VV systems are promising for CO2 reduction with good stability and high selectivity over HER. Through least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, we discovered a new integrated descriptor containing the spin moment of the metals and the descriptor is linked with the performance of the first step of CO2 hydrogenation. The MnCo system could catalyze a C1 process with low free energy change of the rate determining step. The VV system could also conduct the C2 process with low free energy change of the rate determining step. Bader charge analysis shows the ability of the borophene substrate to provide or hold electrons. This work demonstrates homonuclear and heteronuclear biatomic catalysts with high activity for CO2RR.Tessellation of nine polygons into a 3 × 3 array is accomplished by the self-assembly of specifically designed hexaruthenium macrocycles containing a tetrapod ligand. Differing from the hexagon-containing bipod ligand, more connections lead to a giant discrete stable higher-order assembly. The formed tessellated square array possesses three different kinds of pores and each pore contains different metal ions, including one central tetragonum (Zn4), four corner hexagons (Ru6), and four side irregular hexagons (Ru2Zn2), which provides a promising way to fabricate multichannel architectures.Supramolecular chemistry involving macrocyclic hosts is a highly interdisciplinary and fast-growing research field in chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science. Host-guest based supramolecular assemblies, as constructed through non-covalent interactions, are highly dynamic in nature, and can be tuned easily using their responses to various external stimuli, providing a convenient approach to achieve excellent functional materials. Macrocyclic hosts, particularly cyclodextrins, cucurbit[n]urils, and calix[n]arenes, which have unique features like possessing hydrophobic cavities of different sizes, along with hydrophilic external surfaces, which are also amenable towards easy derivatizations, are versatile cavitands or host molecules to encapsulate diverse guest molecules to form stable host-guest complexes with many unique structures and properties. Interestingly, host-guest complexes possessing amphiphilic properties can easily lead to the formation of various advanced supramolecular assemblies, like pseudorotaxanes, rotaxanes, polyrotaxanes, supramolecular polymers, micelles, vesicles, supramolecular nanostructures, and so on. Moreover, these supramolecular assemblies, with varied morphologies and responsiveness towards external stimuli, have immense potential for applications in nanotechnology, materials science, biosensors, drug delivery, analytical chemistry and biomedical sciences. In this perspective, we present a stimulating overview, discussing simple host-guest systems to complex supramolecular assemblies in a systematic manner, aiming to encourage future researchers in this fascinating area of supramolecular chemistry to develop advanced supramolecular materials with superior functionalities, for their deployment in diverse applied areas.Organometal halide perovskites are promising, high-performance absorbers in solar cells. However, the light-harvesting performance of these devices is still limited by excessive charge carrier recombination. Charge carrier management can be improved, taking into account the transport properties of layers surrounding the absorber. In particular, the choice of an appropriate hole-transport material (HTM) could provide a path towards increasing the device performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The Lambertian reflection on the cell's back-surface reflector could increase the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PSCs as well. Taking into account these facts, we analyse the absorptance and the PCE of a perovskite thin-film solar cell with the Lambertian reflection on the cell's back-surface reflector for various organic and inorganic HTMs. The analysis is done by means of the Monte-Carlo ray tracing simulations complemented by the transfer-matrix method to account for the interference phenomenon in the local generation rate G of carriers in a thin-film multilayer system. This function is employed further in the transport equations to calculate the current-voltage characteristics of the cell. We show that wide band gap HTMs, that possess negligible absorption, increase the photocurrent in the perovskite, passing reflected photons from the back reflector. In contrast, at the same perovskite thickness the PSC gains less photocurrent with narrow band gap HTMs, where an excessive non-radiative recombination takes place. Our analysis demonstrates that the optimal thickness of the solar cell with the typical absorber CH3NH3PbI3 is ∼300 nm, providing the maximal efficiency ∼18.8% for the wide band gap HTM (CuSCN) at the moderate absorber purity (the diffusion length D ∼ 1 μm).We describe the synthesis of poly(glycidyl acetate-co-glycidyl butyrate carbonate)s via the terpolymerization of glycidyl acetate (GA), glycidyl butyrate (GB), and CO2 by a cobalt salen complex in high atom economy. These new non-cytotoxic polycarbonates are pressure-sensitive adhesives, and peel testing shows the adhesive strength ranges from Scotch-Tape® to hot-melt glues based on glycidyl butyrate content. The tunable adherence, benign degradation products, and facile application and removal suggest their utility as temporary adhesives, such as those used in biomedical applications or medical devices. One polymer, (GA-co-GB)-87, exhibits the proper adhesive strength to sufficiently adhere a collagen buttress to the jaws of a steel surgical stapler and easily release the buttress after firing to successfully cut, close, and implant the buttress into lung tissue in an ex vivo sheep model.The CP2 transcription factors are highly conserved in metazoans, where they are divided into two groups grainyhead and late SV40 factor (LSF). We traced their evolutionary history in the Hexapoda using over 500 insect transcriptomes, to test the hypothesis that the evolution of holometaboly involved novel isoforms of these genes. All insects appear to express at least one grainyhead and one LSFlike gene, regardless of life cycle, as in most known metazoa. No major evolutionary events in these gene families occurred during the evolution of insects.The present investigation was framed to understand the genetics and development of conspicuous purple coloured corolla tip flower and multicapsules at axil in sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) from the cross between genotypes IC-205776 (♀) 9 EC-118591 (♂). The conspicuous corolla lip colour is recessive in expression and under digenic control, differing from the earlier reports. The ratio at F2 generation was best fit for 133 indicating inhibitory gene action for purple corolla lip colour. Among two genes, one acts as an inhibitory gene at recessive condition to produce conspicuous purple corolla lip colour. Multicapsules/axil is dominant in expression, controlled by more than one gene. The ratio of multiple capsules/axil and single capsules/axil at F2 generation was the best fit for the ratio 115 indicating dominance modification of duplicate genes for a number of capsules per axil. Single capsule/axil results due to dominance modification of duplicate genes where the homozygous condition of one gene reverses the dominance relation of another gene in heterozygous condition. Joint segregation analysis indicated independent segregation of corolla lip colour and capsule number per axil.India is known for its diverse cultivated and wild rice germplasm. In today's crop improvement programmes, wild relatives are much-needed genetic repository of valuable traits. Analysis of genetic diversity at the chromosomal level is one cost-effective tool to unlock foundational information related to genetics and plant breeding. Presently, enzymatic maceration and air-drying method (EMA) has been applied for the first time in six cultivated and nine wild Indian rice (diploid and tetraploid). EMA method following Giemsa staining has yielded large numbers of cytoplasm free metaphase plates with distinct chromosome morphology. Detailed analysis has revealed karyotype diversities in terms of total chromatin length (TCL), chromosome morphology and location of sat chromosomes within and between the studied species. Most of the cultivated rice has gained additional amount in TCL during the period of domestication in comparison to their progenitor Oryza nivara. Morphological clarity of the small chromosomes of rice was much required and has helped to identify individual chromosomes in the diverse karyotypes. Diversity in landmark SAT chromosomes is another important observation, not reported previously in Indian rice. Present study has shown that in most of the O. sativa members, the 10th pair contains SAT except one where 6th pair is satellited. On the other hand, diversity of SAT in diploid and tetraplod wild species has been recorded on 5th, 7th and 8th chromosome pairs and on 9th, 12th, 22nd and 23rd chromosome pairs, respectively. Karyomorphometric indices has helped to construct dendrogram to elucidate intraspecies and interspecies relationships. Untapped genetic diversity recorded in Indian rice through chromosomal analysis will be useful to the breeders and genome researchers.