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This technique could improve the work of quality control inspectors both from industry and regulatory perspectives for effective and quick detection of cocoa bean fraud.Ruthenium complexes with bioactive ligands are becoming promising substitutes for platinum complexes due to their precise action against various cancers. In the present study, the synthesis of three new arene Ru(ii) complexes containing new carbazole-based hydrazone ligands of general formula [(η6-benzene)Ru(L)Cl] (1-3; L = carbazolone benzhydrazone ligands), and their anticancer properties are described. The structural characterization of the ligands and their ruthenium complexes has been realized with the aid of elemental analysis, IR, UV-vis, NMR and HR-MS techniques. The molecular structures of all three complexes have been elucidated by single crystal X-ray crystallography and reveal the existence of pseudo-octahedral geometry around the ruthenium. The in vitro cancer cell growth inhibition property of the complexes against A549 (lung carcinoma), A2780 (ovarian adenocarcinoma) and non-cancerous 16HBE (human lung bronchial epithelium) cells were examined by MTT assay. All the complexes display good cytotocancer chemotherapy beyond platinum drugs.The differential capacitance of an electrical double layer is a topic of great importance to develop more efficient and environment-friendly energy storage devices electric double layer supercapacitors. In addition to the bare electrostatic interactions, recent experimental and computational studies suggest that electrodes covered by ionizable groups do interact selectively with specific ion types, an effect that can increase the maximal conductivity and voltage of a supercapacitor. Inspired by this, in the present work we investigate how ion-specific non-electrostatic interactions modify the differential capacitance of a flat electrode whose surface is covered by ionizable groups subject to a charge regulation process. The incorporation of hydration interactions by means of ion-specific Yukawa potential into the Poisson-Boltzmann theory allows our model to describe different scenarios of ion-surface affinity and, hence, the selective depletion or accumulation of specific ion types close to a charged surface. We obtained larger capacitance values when considering electrodes that favor the accumulation of cations and the depletion of anions.The assembly of binuclear Cu(i) metallaclips with 2,2'-bis-dipyrrin based metalloligands gives rise to a diversity of architectures featuring a recurring π-stacked compact tetranuclear metallacycle but differing in their nuclearity and dimensionality depending on the nature of the capping ligands and metal cations.Because of their promising applications in electronics, topological materials have been much investigated recently. Here, we propose that palladium oxide (PdO) is an excellent topological semimetal with 0-D and 1-D band crossings and definite nontrivial surface states. The 0-D band crossing produces a pair of triply degenerate nodal points, and the 1-D band crossings form two nodal loops in PdO. After spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is included, the triply degenerate nodal points transform into Dirac points, and the nodal loops open small gaps. The SOC gaps at the nodal loops are comparable or lower than those of typical nodal loop materials. These results suggest that PdO can naturally host multiple fermions. Remarkably, all the fermions in PdO manifest definite nontrivial surface states, whereas triply degenerate nodal points and Dirac fermions show Fermi arc surface states, and the nodal loop fermion shows drumhead surface states. The topological band structure for the fermions and their nontrivial surface states are quite promising to be detected in future experiments.X-ray Raman scattering (XRS) spectroscopy is an emerging inelastic scattering technique which uses hard X-rays to study the X-ray absorption edges of low-Z elements (e.g. C, N, O) in bulk. This study applies XRS spectroscopy to pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbons. These materials are thermochemically-produced carbon from renewable resources and represent a route for the sustainable production of carbon materials for many applications. Results confirm local structural differences between biomass-derived (Oak, Quercus Ilex) pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbon. In comparison with NEXAFS, XRS spectroscopy has been shown to be more resilient to experimental artefacts such as self-absorption. Density functional theory XRS calculations of potential structural sub-units confirm that hydrothermal carbon is a highly disordered carbon material formed principally of furan units linked by the α carbon atoms. Comparison of two pyrolysis temperatures (450 °C and 650 °C) shows the development of an increasingly condensed carbon structure. Based on our results, we have proposed a semi-quantitative route to pyrolysis condensation.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is an economic and easy operation technique that has been widely used for the detection of protein in industry. However, the low loading capacity of the enzyme reporter has contributed to the low sensitivity of traditional ELISA, and the cross-linking procedures of the enzyme-labeled antibody in ELISA methods can lead to the inactivation of the enzyme, which will further decrease the sensitivity. To address this issue, herein we fabricated "carrier-free" nanoparticles to obtain a horseradish peroxidase (HRP) labelled reporter with a high HRP loading capacity. A disulphide-containing bis-N-hydroxy succinimide (NHS) crosslinker (NHS-SS-NHS) was used to control the link and release of traceless HRPs, thus without reduction of its enzymatic activity. The HRP nanoparticle (NanoHRP) was successfully applied for dot blotting and ELISA. see more When carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was used as a target, the detection limit of the NanoHRP-based ELISA was 0.005 ng mL-1, which was about 400 times more sensitive than traditional ELISA. A good correlation between the CEA concentrations and the response values measured by NanoHRP ELISA was obtained in the range of 0.005 to 1 ng mL-1. This concept could be exploited to improve ELISA tests, especially those requiring a high accuracy, to facilitate physicians in deciding the appropriate medical treatment.