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The NIR-II-responsive nanoprobe can serve as a promising and effective tool for highly sensitive monitoring and imaging of HClO in living systems.BODIPY photocages allow the release of substrates using visible light irradiation. They have the drawback of requiring reasonably good leaving groups for photorelease. Photorelease of alcohols is often accomplished by attachment with carbonate linkages, which upon photorelease liberate CO2 and generate the alcohol. Here, we show that boron-alkylated BODIPY photocages are capable of directly photoreleasing both aliphatic alcohols and phenols upon irradiation via photocleavage of ether linkages. Direct photorelease of a hydroxycoumarin dye was demonstrated in living HeLa cells.With the aim to achieve air-stable polyradical species manifesting strong spin coupling, synthetic endeavors are made toward triradical molecules featuring a truxene-triyl skeleton. Commonly used steric hindering side groups, such as 2,4,6-trichlorophenyl and 9-anthracenyl are both found incompetent at stabilizing the targeted truxene triradical, which appears elusive from isolation and characterization. Nonetheless, single-crystal structures of adducts formed by relevant radicals are obtained, which strongly suggests the transient existence of the designed triradicals. Finally, a truxene triradical comprising an 1-anthracenyl along with two 9-anthracenyl substituents is successfully isolated and found to exhibit decent stability in the air. We propose that, due to the smaller dihedral angle assumed by 1-anthracenyl with respect to the plane of truxene-triyl, more effective π-conjugation allow the spin density to be more widely delocalized and distributed to the anthracenyl side groups. Thus, higher stability is gained by the triradical molecule.Inspired by the nanoconcave top of epidermal cells on tree frogs' toe pads, an array of composite micropillars with nanopits on the surface (CPp) has been designed. Polystyrene (PS) nanoparticles are mixed with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and serve as the template for nanopits on the PS/PDMS composite micropillars. CPp shows much larger wet adhesion compared to the arrays of micropillars without nanopits. Under a certain loading force, most of the liquid between CPp and the counterpart surface is squeezed out, so the liquid that remained in nanopits forms multiple nanoscale liquid bridges within the contact area of a single micropillar. Moreover, a large loading force could squeeze part of the liquid out of nanopits, resulting in the suction effect during the pull-off. The multiple liquid bridges, the suction effect, and the solid direct contact thus contribute to strong wet adhesion, which could be ∼36.5 times that of tree frogs' toe pads. The results suggest the function of nanoconcaves on the toe pad of tree frogs and offer a new design strategy for structured adhesives to gain strong wet adhesion.This work reports a novel dual-phase glass containing TmNaYbF4 upconverting nanocrystals (UCNCs) and CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs). The advantages of this kind of nanocomposite are that it provides a solid inorganic glass host for the in situ co-growth of UCNCs and PNCs, and protects PNCs against decomposition affected by the external environment. TmNaYbF4 NC-sensitized stable CsPbBr3 PNCs photon UC emission in PNCs is achieved under the irradiation of a 980 nm near-infrared (NIR) laser, and the mechanism is evidenced to be radiative energy transfer (ET) from Tm3+ 1G4 state to PNCs rather than nonradiative Förster resonance ET. Consequently, the decay lifetime of exciton recombination is remarkably lengthened from intrinsic nanoseconds to milliseconds since carriers in PNCs are fed from the long-lifetime Tm3+ intermediate state. Under the simultaneous excitation of the ultraviolet (UV) light and NIR laser, dual-modal photon UC and downshifting (DS) emissions from ultra-stable CsPbBr3 PNCs in the glass are observed, and the combined UC/DS emitting color can be easily altered by modifying the pumping light power. In addition, UC exciton recombination and Tm3+ 4f-4f transitions are found to be highly temperature sensitive. ABT-888 purchase All these unique emissive features enable the practical applications of the developed dual-phase glass in advanced anti-counterfeit and accurate temperature detection.Ruthenium pyrochlores, that is, oxides of composition A2Ru2O7-δ, have emerged recently as state-of-the-art catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acidic conditions. Here, we demonstrate that the A-site substituent in yttrium ruthenium pyrochlores Y1.8M0.2Ru2O7-δ (M = Cu, Co, Ni, Fe, Y) controls the concentration of surface oxygen vacancies (VO) in these materials whereby an increased concentration of VO sites correlates with a superior OER activity. DFT calculations rationalize these experimental trends demonstrating that the higher OER activity and VO surface density originate from a weakened strength of the M-O bond, scaling with the formation enthalpy of the respective MOx phases and the coupling between the M d states and O 2p states. Our work introduces a novel catalyst with improved OER performance, Y1.8Cu0.2Ru2O7-δ, and provides general guidelines for the design of active electrocatalysts.Hypochlorite (ClO-) and singlet oxygen (1O2) commonly coexist in living systems and exert important interplaying roles in many diseases. To dissect their complex inter-relationship, it is urgently required to construct a fluorescent probe that can discriminate ClO- and 1O2 in living organisms. Herein, by taking the 3-(aliphaticthio)-propan-1-one group as the unique recognition unit for both ClO- and 1O2, we proposed the first fluorescent probe, Hy-2, to simultaneously discriminate ClO- and 1O2 with high sensitivity and selectivity. Probe Hy-2 itself showed fluorescence in blue channel. After treatment with ClO- and 1O2, respectively, pronounced fluorescence enhancements were observed in the green channel and red channel correspondingly. Moreover, upon development of the probe with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics, the probe could work well in a solution with high water volume fraction. Probe Hy-2 was also able to accumulate into mitochondria and was utilized as an effective tool to image exogenous and endogenous ClO- and 1O2 in mitochondria.