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Two-dimensional (2D) perovskites with natural multi-quantum-well structure have been reported to offer better stability compared to 3D perovskites. However, the understanding of the exciton separation and transport mechanism in 2D perovskites and developing more efficient organic spacers remain considerable challenges, as the 2D perovskites exhibit large exciton binding energy due to quantum confinement. Here, a class of multiple-ring aromatic ammoniums, 1-naphthalenemethylammonium (NpMA) and 9-anthracenemethylammonium (AnMA), was developed as spacers for 2D Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) perovskite solar cells (PSCs). SKF-34288 In addition to significantly enhanced stability, the device based on (NpMA)2(MA)n-1PbnI3n+1 (average n = 4) exhibits a champion efficiency of 17.25% and a high open-circuit voltage of 1.24 V. The outstanding photovoltaic performance could be ascribed to the ultrafast exciton migration (within 7 ps) from 2D phases to 3D-like phases, which were confirmed by charge carrier dynamics results, leading to efficient exciton separation, charge transportation, and collection. This work facilitates understanding the working mechanism of 2D PSCs in-depth and offers an efficient way to further boost their efficiency and stability by developing multiple-ring aromatic spacers.Stem cell transplantation has been a promising treatment for peripheral arterial diseases in the past decade. Stem cells act as living bioreactors of paracrine factors that orchestrate tissue regeneration. Prestimulated adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) have been proposed as potential candidates but have been met with challenges in activating their secretory activities for clinical use. Here, we propose that tethering the ADSC surface with nanoparticles releasing tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα), named nanostimulator, would stimulate cellular secretory activity in situ. We examined this hypothesis by complexing octadecylamine-grafted hyaluronic acid onto a liposomal carrier of TNFα. Hyaluronic acid increased the liposomal stability and association to CD44 on ADSC surface. ADSCs tethered with these TNFα carriers exhibited up-regulated secretion of proangiogenic vascular endothelial growth factor and immunomodulatory prosteoglandin E2 (PGE2) while decreasing secretion of antiangiogenic pigment epithelium-derived factors. Accordingly, ADSCs tethered with nanostimulators promoted vascularization in a 3D microvascular chip and enhanced recovery of perfusion, walking, and muscle mass in a murine ischemic hindlimb compared to untreated ADSCs. We propose that this surface tethering strategy for in situ stimulation of stem cells would replace the costly and cumbersome preconditioning process and expedite clinical use of stem cells for improved treatments of various injuries and diseases.Alcohol addiction is one of the highly prevalent neurological disorders and a major threat to public health in the 21st century. Alcohol addiction affects people from all age groups and often leads to other serious comorbidities. The pathophysiology of alcohol addiction involves imbalance between the excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the brain. These changes occur in various regions of the brain including reward circuit such as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), nucleus accumbens (NAc), and prefrontal cortex. In this review, we have discussed several neurochemical circuitries which get manipulated and maladapted during alcohol addiction. To date there is no effective therapeutic intervention in clinics devoid of side effects that can successfully treat the patients suffering from alcohol addiction. Understanding the neurobiological intricacies of alcohol addiction is critical for the development of novel anti-addiction therapeutics. Apart from this, we have also discussed the recent therapeutic milestones for the management of alcohol addiction including vasopressin receptors, corticotrophin-releasing factor, GABA receptors, glucocorticoid receptors, brain stimulation and mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement.Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an incurable disease. Like most solid tumors, GBM harbors multiple overexpressed and mutated genes. Small molecules that selectively modulate these targets and their signaling pathways are expected to inhibit GBM phenotypes without affecting normal non-transformed cells. Phenotypic screening can be an effective strategy to uncover such compounds, but a significant limitation is the need for large and diverse libraries to enable the efficient exploration of the large number of cellular targets. Here, we create small chemical libraries by structure-based molecular docking large libraries to a collection of GBM-specific targets identified using the tumor's RNA-seq and mutation data along with cellular protein-protein interaction data. Screening of this enriched library of 50 candidates led to several active compounds. Among them 1 (IPR-2025), which (i) inhibited cell viability of low-passage patient-derived GBM spheroids with single-digit micromolar IC50s that are substantially better than standard-of-care temozolomide; (ii) blocked tube-formation of endothelial cells in Matrigel with sub-micromolar IC50s; and (iii) had no effect on primary hematopoietic CD34+ progenitor spheroids or astrocyte cell viability. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provided potential mechanism of action of 1 and mass spectrometry-based thermal proteome profiling (TPP) revealed possible targets that included the scaffold protein RACK1, which was among targets predicted by molecular docking. The ability of 1 to inhibit GBM phenotypes without affecting normal cell viability suggests that our screening approach that consists of creating enriched libraries by focusing on the tumor's genomic profile may hold promise for generating lead compounds with a high therapeutic index for treatments of incurable diseases like GBM.Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of molecules which generally kill pathogens via preferential cell membrane disruption. Chemokines are a family of signaling proteins that direct immune cell migration and share a conserved α-β tertiary structure. Recently, it was found that a subset of chemokines can also function as AMPs, including CCL20, CXCL4, and XCL1. It is therefore surprising that machine learning based analysis predicts that CCL20 and CXCL4's α-helices are membrane disruptive, while XCL1's helix is not. XCL1, however, is the only chemokine known to be a metamorphic protein which can interconvert reversibly between two distinct native structures (a β-sheet dimer and the α-β chemokine structure). Here, we investigate XCL1's antimicrobial mechanism of action with a focus on the role of metamorphic folding. We demonstrate that XCL1 is a molecular "Swiss army knife" that can refold into different structures for distinct context-dependent functions whereas the α-β chemokine structure controls cell migration by binding to G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs), we find using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) that only the β-sheet and unfolded XCL1 structures can induce negative Gaussian curvature (NGC) in membranes, the type of curvature topologically required for membrane permeation.