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Conjugated 5,5'-Bicalixarene scaffolds having fluorophores at the chain termini have been prepared and tested in the supramolecular detection of nitric oxide. Scaffolds bearing electron-rich fluorophores demonstrated a stronger turn-off response to the presence of NO than the fluorophore-free analogue in both organic and aqueous media, while no fluorescence quenching happened when the electron-deficient fluorophores were employed. Unprecedented ratiometric supramolecular sensing was observed when fluorophores of the opposite electronic demands were placed at the scaffold's termini.In this work, a novel zirconium-based metal-organic framework (MOF) composite material, UiO-(OH)2@RhB, has been solvothermally prepared with zirconyl chloride octahydrate, 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid, and rhodamine B (RhB) for ratiometric fluorescence sensing of Al3+ ions in an aqueous medium. The luminescence measurement results showed that, at the single excitation wavelength of 420 nm, the fluorescence intensity of the ligand at 500 nm increased significantly in the case of Al3+, while that of RhB at 583 nm changed slightly, together with an apparent color change. Under optimal conditions, UiO-(OH)2@RhB exhibited an extraordinary sensitivity (10 nM), good selectivity, and a fast response (2 min) for Al3+. As far as we know, the limit of detection is superior to that of the current reported MOF-based Al3+ fluorescence sensors. The response mechanism suggested that -OH could capture Al3+ in water through coordination and high electrostatic affinity and achieved turn-on ratiometric fluorescence through the excited-state intramolecular proton transfer process and stable fluorescence of RhB. In addition, this sensor was also applied to actual food samples (grain beans), with the recoveries ranging from 89.08% to 113.61%. Such a turn-on ratiometric fluorescence sensor will provide a constructive strategy for the ultrasensitive detection of Al3+ in practical applications.The growing importance of nanomaterials toward the detection of neurotransmitter molecules has been chronicled in this review. Neurotransmitters (NTs) are chemicals that serve as messengers in synaptic transmission and are key players in brain functions. Abnormal levels of NTs are associated with numerous psychotic and neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, their sensitive and robust detection is of great significance in clinical diagnostics. For more than three decades, electrochemical sensors have made a mark toward clinical detection of NTs. Ivosidenib The superiority of these electrochemical sensors lies in their ability to enable sensitive, simple, rapid, and selective determination of analyte molecules while remaining relatively inexpensive. Additionally, these sensors are capable of being integrated in robust, portable, and miniaturized devices to establish point-of-care diagnostic platforms. Nanomaterials have emerged as promising materials with significant implications for electrochemical sensing due to their inherent capability to achieve high surface coverage, superior sensitivity, and rapid response in addition to simple device architecture and miniaturization. Considering the enormous significance of the levels of NTs in biological systems and the advances in sensing ushered in with the integration of nanotechnology in electrochemistry, the analysis of NTs by employing nanomaterials as interface materials in various matrices has emerged as an active area of research. This review explores the advancements made in the field of electrochemical sensors for the sensitive and selective determination of NTs which have been described in the past two decades with a distinctive focus on extremely innovative attributes introduced by nanotechnology.Lithium plating-one of the critical processes in the desired high-energy lithium metal batteries-is accompanied by lithium whisker growth, which causes several problems that prevent the employment of metallic lithium anodes in rechargeable systems. They include low coulombic efficiency, electrolyte consumption, and the risk of short circuits, which can lead to thermal runaway of the battery. In recent years several strategies were suggested to mitigate whisker growth. The mechanism of this process, however, still lacks understanding. Here, we reveal the importance of surface diffusion along grain boundaries in solid lithium. We show that, at first, the plating of lithium onto a lithium substrate is possible as bulk crystal growth with a planar crystallization front for the Li grains with oblique (nonperpendicular to the surface) grain boundaries. Further, the developed compressive stress makes lithium diffusion to the grain base unfavorable, and new grains nucleate at the surface. The latter are the cause of the whisker growth from their roots. These findings indicate that the control of grain-boundary diffusion and grain size and structure paves the way to overcome the nonuniform morphology of plated lithium.The incommensurate magnetic structure (0.47, 0, 0.49) of NaYNiWO6 exhibits unconventional spin-density waves (SDWs) along the [100] direction, in which up and down spins alternate in each half-wave. This is in contrast to conventional SDWs, in which only one type of spin is present in each half-wave. We probed the formation of these unconventional SDWs by evaluating the spin exchanges of NaYNiWO6 based on density functional theory calculations and analyzing the nature of the spin frustration in NaYNiWO6 and by noting that a SDW is a superposition of two cycloids of opposite chirality. The unconventional SDWs along the [100] direction originate from the spin-frustrated antiferromagnetic chains of Ni2+ ions along that direction, leading to conventional SDWs along the [101] direction and unconventional SDWs along the [001] direction.

Spinal meningioma is mostly benign, but they can exhibit neurological deficit. The relationship between neurological impairment and its radiographic findings, including intratumor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gadolinium enhancement and calcification in computed tomography (CT) scan, has not been studied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of preoperative image findings with neurological status in spinal meningioma.

Patients histologically diagnosed with spinal meningioma (n = 24), with an average age of 65.4 years, were included. The patients were classified into 2 groups, the homogeneous and heterogeneous groups, based on the contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI findings. Further, baseline demographics (age, sex, presence of preoperative paralysis [manual muscle testing 3 or worse neurological deficit in upper and/or lower limbs], tumor level, tumor length, and tumor occupation ratio), histological findings (Ki-67 index and histological subtypes), and CT findings (presence of intratumor calcification and Hounsfield unit [HU] value) were examined.