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Using in situ variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (300-673 K) during chemical vapor deposition of two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on Pd(111) from borazine precursor at pressures up to 10-6 mbar, we identify the mechanisms leading to carpetlike uphill or downhill growth across the Pd steps. Deposition at a higher rate and lower temperature promotes uphill growth via preferential attachment at the ascending and descending step-edges, whereas a lower deposition rate and higher temperature lead to downhill growth via nucleation and growth of islands on Pd terraces. We attribute this unusual growth behavior to differences in temperature-dependent rates of hBN deposition at the steps versus on the Pd terraces. Our results illustrate how growth mechanisms can be activated by a pair of parameters (substrate temperature and partial pressure of borazine) and provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying carpetlike growth of hBN and other layered materials.ZnO, as a low-cost yet significant semiconductor, has been widely used in solar energy conversion and optoelectronic devices. In addition, Cu/ZnO-based catalysts can convert syngas (H2, CO, and CO2) into methanol. However, the main concern about the intrinsic connection between the physical and chemical properties and the structure of ZnO still remains. In this work, efforts are made to decipher the physical and chemical information encoded into the structure. Through using NMR-IR techniques, we, for the first time, report a new ZnO model with three H+ cations incorporated into one Zn vacancy. 1H magic-angle spinning NMR and IR spectra demonstrate that Ga3+ cations are introduced into the Zn vacancies of the ZnO lattice, which replace the H+ cation, and thus further confirm the feasibility of our proposed model. The exchange between the H+ cation in Zn vacancies and the D2 gas phase shows that ZnO can activate H2 because of the quantized three H+ cations in the defect site.Although colloidal nanoparticles are known to enter into cells via endocytosis, the direct membrane permeation of nanoparticles is rarely reported, and the underlying mechanism of direct membrane permeation is largely unsolved. However, a direct membrane-penetrating nanoparticle has great advantage as a delivery carrier that offers high delivery efficiency, faster delivery kinetics, and minimal lysosomal degradation. Here we show that arginine-terminated Au nanoparticles of less then 10 nm size enter via energy-independent direct membrane penetration, but as the size increases, the nanoparticles switch to energy-dependent endocytotic uptake. As a delivery carrier, less then 10 nm Au nanoparticles directly transport an electrostatically bound protein into the cytosol within a minute and allow direct access of the protein to subcellular compartments. Valproic acid manufacturer This direct delivery approach has been used for efficient nuclear targeting of proteins and can be adapted for direct cytosolic delivery or subcellular targeting applications with high efficiency.In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectroscopy experiments prove that the excitation energy transfer (EET) in photosynthetic light-harvesting systems presents long-lived electronic quantum beating signals. After being discovered in the light-harvesting system, the quantum coherence effect has aroused widespread discussion. To illustrate the EET process in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) and phycocyanin 645 (PC645) complex, the local protein environment is often thought to be the same; however, this is ambivalent to the practical structural analysis of the light-harvesting complex. By adopting the dissipaton equation of motion theory, we present the effect of a heterogeneous protein environment on the energy transfer process with accurate numerical results. We demonstrate that the energy transfer process relies on the local heterogeneous environment for the FMO complex. A similar good agreement is found for the PC645 complex. Furthermore, we discuss the optimal value of different chromophores in the excitation energy transfer process by controlling the environmental characteristics.Using NMR spectroscopy, the conformational studies of two fluoroethylsulfonamides (N-(2-fluoroethyl)-p-tolylsulfonamide (1) and N-(2-fluoroethyl)trifluoromethanesulfonamide (2)) revealed that fluorine gauche effects are a function of ionization. While acids 1 and 2 exhibited gauche effects (with gauche populations of 87% and 92% in DMSO-d6, respectively), their anions, on the other hand, preferred the anti conformer (with gauche populations of 35% and 55%, respectively). The ability of these compounds to undergo conformational changes as a function of ionization enabled their application as molecular probes (standards) for determining the acidity (pKa) of organic compounds in DMSO, which was achieved with the aid of the equation Krel = [(3JAH - 3Jobs)/(3Jobs - 3JA)]2, where Krel is the ratio of ionization constants of two acids (standard and test acids), 3JAH and 3JA are the proton-fluorine vicinal coupling constants of the standard acid and its anion, respectively, and 3Jobs represents the proton-fluorine vicinal coupling constant observed at the midpoint of an acid-base equilibrium. As a means of demonstrating its utility, this equation accurately calculated the ionization constants (Ka) of several organic compounds in DMSO. Taking advantage of fluorine's unique gauche effect as a strategy for molecular design has the potential to open a new frontier in structural chemistry.This study investigates the local structure and dynamics of hydration water around the intrinsically disordered protein amyloid-β (Aβ) and its Alzheimer's disease causative N-terminus mutants, i.e., A2V, Taiwan (D7H), Tottori (D7N), and English (H6R), and the protective A2T mutant via atomistic MD simulations. The effect of mutations on the hydration environment around different domains of this protein is evaluated through the surface distribution function, tetrahedral order parameter, and the survival probability of the water molecules within the hydration shell. The water density around the hydrophobic hp1 (17-21) domain is found to be higher for the A2T mutant as compared to the wild-type Aβ and its selected causative mutants. The average tetrahedral order parameter of water molecules around the hydrophobic hp1 (17-21) domain shows that water molecules are less ordered around the A2V, Taiwan, Tottori, and English mutants and more ordered around the A2T mutant than those of the wild-type protein. The survival probability decays rapidly for the A2V, Taiwan, Tottori, and English mutants, while it is comparatively slower for the protective A2T mutant.