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Technological innovations often occur and make an impact on many industries. In academia, Visual Abstracts have been a trend and represent a creative and dynamic way to disseminate scientific knowledge. Although still rare in Brazil, more than 15 journals already use Visual Abstracts worldwide. This brief paper intends to present the concept and discuss the potential effectiveness of this innovative tool.Linear optics based nanoscopy previously reached resolution beyond the diffraction limit, illuminating samples in the visible light regime while allowing light to interact with freely moving metallic nanoparticles. However, the hydrodynamics governing the nanoparticle motion used to scan the sample is very complex and has low probability of achieving appropriate and fast mapping in practice. Hence, an implementation of the technique on real biological samples has not been demonstrated so far. Moreover, a suitable way to perform controlled nanoparticle scanning of biological samples is required. Here we show a solution where a microfluidic channel is used to flow and trap biological samples inside a water droplet along with suspended nanoparticles surrounded by silicone oil. The evanescent light scattered from the sample and is rescattered by the nanoparticles in the vicinity. This encodes the sub-wavelength features of the sample which can later on be decoded and reconstructed from measurements in the far field. The microfluidic system-controlled flow allows better nanoparticle scanning of the sample and maintains an isolated system for each sample in each droplet. A more localized scan at the droplet water/oil interface is also conducted using amphiphilic nanoparticles where their hydrophilic side is constrained to the droplet and their hydrophobic side is constrained to the oil. This allows higher probability of capturing evanescent fields closer to their origin, yielding better resolution and a higher signal to noise ratio. Using this system, we obtained images of an E. GNE-140 molecular weight coli sample and demonstrated how the method yield fine resolution of the sample contours. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a linear and label free optics imaging process was performed using a micro-fluidic device.The hollow core, concentric graphitic shells, and large surface area of the carbon nano-onion (CNO) make these carbon nanostructures promising materials for highly efficient catalytic reactions. Doping CNOs with heteroatoms is an effective method of changing their physical and chemical properties. In these cases, the configurations and locations of the incorporated dopant atoms must be a key factor dictating catalytic activity, yet determining a structural arrangement on the single-atom length scale is challenging. Here we present direct imaging of individual nitrogen and sulfur dopant atoms in CNOs, using an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) approach, combined with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). Inspection of the statistics of dopant configuration and location in sulfur-, nitrogen-, and co-doped samples reveals dopant atoms to be more closely situated to defects in the graphitic shells for co-doped samples, than in their singly doped counterparts. Correlated with an increased activity for the oxygen reduction reaction in the co-doped samples, this suggests a concerted mechanism involving both the dopant and defect.Dopamine (DA) is one of the catecholamine neurotransmitters used for the treatment of neural disorders. In this study, a novel sensor based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) with dual molecule-recognition for ultrasensitive detection of DA was presented, with a limit of detection (LOD) of 40 fM, without any pretreatment of clinical samples. To realize the sensitive and selective detection of DA in complex samples, the nanoporous silver film (AgNF) surfaces were functionalized with mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) to accurately capture DA, while silver nanocubes (AgNCs) were modified with 4-mercaptobenzene boronic acid (4-MPBA) as a Raman reporter for the quantitative detection of DA. The nanogaps between AgNCs and the AgNF led to the generation of an abundance of hot spots for the SERS signal and thus effectively improved the sensitivity of DA detection. Measurements of DA concentrations in clinical body fluids such as human serum and urine samples are also demonstrated, showing excellent performance for DA detection in a complex environment. Our results demonstrate the promising potential for the ultrasensitive detection of DA for the potential diagnosis of DA-related diseases.Typical methods of doping quantification are based on spectroscopy or conductivity measurements. The spatial dopant distribution assessment with nanometer-scale precision is limited usually to one or two dimensions. Here we demonstrate an approach to detect three-dimensional dopant homogeneity in GaNSi layers using electrochemical etching (ECE). GaNSi layers are grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Dopant incorporation is uniform when the growth front morphology is atomically flat. Non-uniform Si incorporation into GaN is observed when step-bunches are present on the surface during epitaxy. In this study we show that local Si concentration in the area of step-bunch is about three times higher than in the area between step-bunches. ECE spatial resolution in our experiment is estimated to be about 50 nm. This makes ECE a simple and quantitative probing tool for local three-dimensional conductivity homogeneity assessment. Our study proves that ECE could be important both for fundamental studies of crystal growth physics and impurity incorporation and for ion-implanted structures and post-processing device control.The as-synthesized (TBA)8H5[Nd(SiW11O39)2] manifested high catalytic activity for cyanosilylation of ketones, and its catalytic activity could be improved further through rational design of the reaction micro-environment beyond the molecular level, and the corresponding mechanism has been systematically studied.OBJECTIVES Our goal was to evaluate the effect of antiviral therapy on hepatocellular carcinoma incidence for cirrhotic patients with lower hepatitis B virus DNA levels. METHODS Consecutive cirrhosis patients from a US cohort (n = 381) and 408 patients from a Taiwan cohort were enrolled. Patients were classified into a low ( less then 20 IU/ml) and high hepatitis B virus DNA group (≥20 IU/ml), and each was further stratified into treated and untreated subgroups. RESULTS Except for hepatitis B e antigen, baseline characteristics were similar for both hepatitis B virus DNA groups. Antiviral therapy significantly reduced hepatocellular carcinoma incidence in cirrhotic patients with hepatitis B virus DNA ≥20 IU/ml at 5-years (12.2% vs. 22.8%) and 10-years (23.3% vs. 37.2%) (P = 0.0018). For cirrhotic patients with hepatitis B virus DNA less then 20 IU/ml, there was no statistically significant difference in cumulative hepatocellular carcinoma incidence between the treated and untreated groups. After adjusting for age, sex, and hepatitis B e antigen status, antiviral therapy was an independent predictor (hazard ratio 0.