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Furthermore, the proposed sensing platform can detect kanamycin in milk samples with excellent recoveries. Therefore, this sensing strategy provides an effective and facile way to detect kanamycin and can help promote the understanding of the constructed mechanism of the AuNC-based ECL system, thus greatly broadening its potential application in ECL fields.Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been reported to be associated with neurological disorders. However, the effects of PM2.5 on changes in metabolic and lipid profile of the brain are unclear. In this study, global metabolomics and lipidomics in mice cortex were investigated from the analyses by ultraperformance liquid chromatography-Orbitrap mass spectrometry. The partial least-squares discriminant analysis showed that the metabolite and lipid profiles were significantly altered by PM2.5 exposure. The changed metabolic pathways including alanine, aspartate, and glutamate metabolism, carnitine metabolism, and glycerophospholipid remodeling pathway were found to be associated with a neurodegenerative process according to their corresponding molecular mechanisms. Our results indicated that PM2.5 exposure could induce neurological damage.The emerging donor-acceptor-donor (A-D-A)-type nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) featuring near-infrared (NIR) photoresponsivity have greatly boosted the development of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and display great potential for sensitive NIR organic photodetectors (OPDs). However, NIR NFAs with absorption above 1000 nm, which is of great importance for application in NIR OPDs for bioimaging, remote communication, night surveillance, etc., are still rare due to the scarcity of strong electron-rich cores. We report herein a new dithiophene building block, namely PDT, which exhibits the strongest electron-donating ability among the widely used dithiophene building blocks. SCH-442416 By applying PDT and PDTT as the electron-donating cores and DFIC as the electron-accepting terminals, we developed two new NIR electron acceptors, PDTIC-4F and PDTTIC-4F, with optical absorptions up to 1030 nm, surpassing that of the well-known O6T-4F acceptor. In comparison with the carbon-oxygen-bridged core COi8 in O6T-4F, the synthetic complexity of PDT and PDTT is significantly reduced. Conventional OPV devices based on PM6PDTTIC-4F display power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of up to 10.70% with a broad external quantum efficiency (EQE) response from the ultraviolet-visible to the infrared, leading to a high short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 25.90 mA cm-2. Encouraged by these results, we investigated inverted PM6PDTTIC-4F-based OPD devices by suppressing the dark current via modulation of the film thickness. The optimal OPD device exhibits compelling performance metrics that can compete with those of commercial silicon photodiodes a record responsivity of 0.55 A W-1 (900 nm) among photodiode-type OPDs and excellent shot-noise-limited specific detectivity (Dsh*) of over 1013 jones.Soft porous crystals (SPCs) with both crystallinity and flexibility have evolved as emerging materials for lots of applications. However, the development of purely organic SPCs (SPOCs) with advanced functionalities significantly lags behind. Herein, we report the construction of an emission-tunable SPOC with a rationally designed squaraine derivative (named as SPOC-SQ). SPOC-SQ is featured with a squaraine core and four peripheries with electron donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) characteristics, which facilitates the formation of porous crystal framework stabilized by π-π interactions and H bonds and at the same time provides structural flexibility through phenyl rotations. This SPOC can be easily obtained from its dichloromethane (DCM) solution and exhibits reversible stimuli-responsive single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) structural transformation, accompanied by bright and tunable emission. In addition, this activated SPOC (SPOC-SQ-a) selectively recognizes and absorbs acetylene (C2H2) over other gases without destroying the single crystallinity, enabling the single-crystal XRD analysis of the structural transformation. Close inspection of single-crystal XRD results of SPOC-SQ-C2H2 facilitates the understanding of the host-guest interactions. More interestingly, upon interacting with C2H2, a one-dimensional (1D) channel is formed in the crystal to adopt C2H2, which proves the SCSC process and provides molecular-level insights into the gate-opening process. Furthermore, C2H2 adsorption dynamics can be monitored in real time by tracking the fluorescence wavelength changes of SPOC-SQ framework. Thus, the unique gate-opening sorption attribute of SPOC-SQ-a crystals toward C2H2 enables its potential applications for gas separation.Cellular mechanical phenotypes in connection to physiological and pathological states of cells have become a promising intrinsic biomarker for label-free cell analysis in various biological research and medical diagnostics. In this work, we present a microfluidic system capable of high-throughput cellular mechanical phenotyping based on a rapid single-cell hydrodynamic stretching in a continuous viscoelastic fluid flow. Randomly introduced single cells are first aligned into a single streamline in viscoelastic fluids before being guided to a flow splitting junction for consistent hydrodynamic stretching. The arrival of individual cells prior to the flow splitting junction can be detected by an electrical sensing unit, which produces a triggering signal to activate a high-speed camera for on-demand imaging of the cell motion and deformation through the flow splitting junction. Cellular mechanical phenotypes, including cell size and cell deformability, are extracted from the analysis of these captured single-cell images. We have evaluated the sensitivity of the developed microfluidic mechanical phenotyping system by measuring the synthesized hydrogel microbeads with known Young's modulus. With this microfluidic cellular mechanical phenotyping system, we have revealed the statistical difference in the deformability of microfilament disrupted, normal, and fixed NIH 3T3 fibroblast cells. Furthermore, with the implementation of a machine-learning-based classification of MCF-10A and MDA-MB-231 mixtures, our label-free cellular phenotyping system has achieved a comparable cell analysis accuracy (0.91, 5.031) with respect to the fluorescence-based flow cytometry results (0.971, 5.331). The presented microfluidic mechanical phenotyping technique will open new avenues for high-throughput and label-free single-cell analysis in diverse biomedical applications.In this paper, a comparative structural, dielectric, and magnetic study of two langasite compounds Ba3TeCo3P2O14 (absence of lone pair) and Pb3TeCo3P2O14 (Pb2+ 6s2 lone pair) have been carried out to precisely explore the development of room temperature spontaneous polarization in the presence of a stereochemically active lone pair. In the case of Pb3TeCo3P2O14, mixing of both Pb 6s with Pb 6p and O 2p helps the lone pair to be stereochemically active. This stereochemically active lone pair brings a large structural distortion within the unit cell and creates a polar geometry, while the Ba3TeCo3P2O14 compound remains in a nonpolar structure due to the absence of any such effect. Consequently, polarization measurement under varying electric fields confirms room temperature ferroelectricity for Pb3TeCo3P2O14, which was not the case for Ba3TeCo3P2O14. A detailed study was carried out to understand the microscopic mechanism of ferroelectricity, which revealed the exciting underlying activity of a polar TeO6 octahedral unit as well as Pb-hexagon.Bacteriophages are viruses whose ubiquity in nature and remarkable specificity to their host bacteria enable an impressive and growing field of tunable biotechnologies in agriculture and public health. Bacteriophage capsids, which house and protect their nucleic acids, have been modified with a range of functionalities (e.g., fluorophores, nanoparticles, antigens, drugs) to suit their final application. Functional groups naturally present on bacteriophage capsids can be used for electrostatic adsorption or bioconjugation, but their impermanence and poor specificity can lead to inconsistencies in coverage and function. To overcome these limitations, researchers have explored both genetic and chemical modifications to enable strong, specific bonds between phage capsids and their target conjugates. Genetic modification methods involve introducing genes for alternative amino acids, peptides, or protein sequences into either the bacteriophage genomes or capsid genes on host plasmids to facilitate recombinant phage generation. Chemical modification methods rely on reacting functional groups present on the capsid with activated conjugates under the appropriate solution pH and salt conditions. This review surveys the current state-of-the-art in both genetic and chemical bacteriophage capsid modification methodologies, identifies major strengths and weaknesses of methods, and discusses areas of research needed to propel bacteriophage technology in development of biosensors, vaccines, therapeutics, and nanocarriers.This paper describes the light-directed functionalization of anisotropic gold nanoparticles with different thiolated-DNA oligomer (oligo) sequences. The starting nanoconstructs are gold nanostars (AuNS) uniformly grafted with one oligo sequence that are then exposed to fs-laser pulses at the plasmon resonance of the branches. The excitation selectively cleaves Au-S bonds at the tips of the branches to create vacant areas for functionalization with a different thiolated oligo sequence. Nanoconstructs synthesized by this approach present one oligo sequence on the AuNS body and branches and a different sequence at the tips. This process enables the formation of nanoparticle superstructures consisting of AuNS cores and small Au satellite nanoparticles at controlled locations after DNA hybridization. Our strategy enables selective oligo presentation at the single-particle level and opens prospects for sophisticated design of nanoscale assemblies that are important in a wide range of biological applications.One of the most critical environmental issues of our age is the escalating release of CO2 into the atmosphere. Separation technologies with low energy footprints may be an effective way to capture CO2 and prevent its accumulation. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can meet separation challenges due to their tailored structures and tunable pore surfaces. However, obstacles to their deployment can include the energy consumed by regeneration, a lack of long-term structural stability, and their production on large scales. Herein, we report on MUF-16 ([Co(Haip)2], H2aip = 5-aminoisophthalic acid), a hydrogen-bonded water-stable microporous material that combines high CO2 adsorption with a low affinity for other gases. MUF-16 is built up from inexpensive starting reagents in a scalable process. It can be easily regenerated at room temperature by purging with inert gas, and it maintains its performance over multiple adsorption/desorption cycles. MUF-16 features one-dimensional channels that trap CO2 guest molecules by a raft of attractive electrostatic interactions and size complementarity. It rejects H2 and N2 molecules around room temperature. This was verified by simulated and experimental breakthrough separation measurements on CO2/N2 and CO2/H2 mixtures. MUF-16 can be pelletized by coating with polymeric poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) to render it compatible with large-scale applications.