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coli cells. By deleting the gene frmA for endogenous conversion of HCHO to formate and controlling HCHO at a level of about 0.6 mM, the concentration and yield of PDO were increased from initially 5.67 mM (0.43 g/L) and 0.057 mol/mol to 17.35 mM (1.32 g/L) and 0.096 mol/mol in bioconversion of ethanol and HCHO with resting E. coli cells. Further engineering of DERA and the HCHO supply module is necessary to realize the potential of this promising metabolic pathway.In this article, we designed and synthesized the thionated NpImidazole derivatives BS and NS, new heavy-atom-free photosensitizers, which efficiently generate a triplet excited state with high singlet oxygen quantum yield. NX-1607 molecular weight The introduction of the C═S bond to the NpImidazole core is essential for increasing spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The fluorescence emission of BS and NS was quenched at standard ambient temperature, accompanied with the increase in the ISC process from the singlet states to triplet excited states via thionation. BS and NS showed negligible dark cytotoxicity against HeLa cells in working concentration. In contrast, BS and NS rapidly induced cell death under blue light irradiation both under normoxia and hypoxia conditions. Our current study demonstrates that the C═S group can play an important role in type I ROS generation of PSs, which are unprecedented in the previous reports. Finally, the photophysical changes were assigned to the oxidative desulfurization of the C═S group of BS and NS to the C═O group of the corresponding BO and NO via hypochlorite. The combined results demonstrated the dual function of BS and NS as a fluorescent imaging agent for ClO- and an anti-cancer therapeutic by PDT that showed the potential strategy for "one-for-all" and multifunctional agents.Determining whether aqueous diffusion and dispersion lead to significant isotope fractionation is important for interpreting the isotope ratios of organic contaminants in groundwater. We performed diffusion experiments with modified Stokes diaphragm cells and transverse-dispersion experiments in quasi-two-dimensional flow-through sediment tank systems to explore isotope fractionation for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, 2,6-dichlorobenzamide, and metolachlor at natural isotopic abundance. We observed very small to negligible diffusion- and transverse-dispersion-induced isotope enrichment factors (ε less then -0.4 ‰), with changes in carbon and nitrogen isotope values within ±0.5‰ and ±1‰, respectively. Isotope effects of diffusion did not show a clear correlation with isotopologue mass with calculated power-law exponents β close to zero (0.007 less then β less then 0.1). In comparison to ions, noble gases, and labeled compounds, three aspects stand out. (i) If a mass dependence is derived from collision theory, then isotopologue masses of polyatomic molecules would be affected by isotopes of multiple elements resulting in very small expected effects. (ii) However, collisions do not necessarily lead to translational movement but can excite molecular vibrations or rotations minimizing the mass dependence. (iii) Solute-solvent interactions like H-bonds can further minimize the effect of collisions. Modeling scenarios showed that an inadequate model choice, or erroneous choice of β, can greatly overestimate the isotope fractionation by diffusion and, consequently, transverse dispersion. In contrast, available data for chlorinated solvent and gasoline contaminants at natural isotopic abundance suggest that in field scenarios, a potential additional uncertainty from aqueous diffusion or dispersion would add to current instrumental uncertainties on carbon or nitrogen isotope values (±1‰) with an additional ±1‰ at most.As the demand for wearable electronic devices increases, interest in small, light, and deformable energy storage devices follows suit. Among these devices, wire-shaped supercapacitors (WSCs) are considered key components of wearable technology due to their geometric similarity to woven fiber. One potential method for creating WSC devices is the layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique, which is a "bottom-up" method for electrode fabrication. WSCs require conformal and adhesive coatings of the functional material to the wire-shaped substrate, which is difficult to obtain with other processing techniques such as vacuum filtration or spray-coating. However, the LbL assembly technique produces conformal and robust coatings that can be deposited onto a variety of substrates and shapes, including wires. In this study, we report WSCs made using the LbL assembly of alternating layers of positively charged reduced graphene oxide functionalized with poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) and negatively charged Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets conformally deposited on activated carbon yarns. In this construct, the added LbL film enhances capacitance, energy density, and power density by 240, 227, and 109%, respectively, relative to the uncoated activated carbon yarn, yielding high specific and volumetric capacitances (237 F g-1, 2193 F cm-3). In addition, the WSC possesses good mechanical stability, retaining 90% of its initial capacity after 200 bending cycles. This study demonstrates that LbL coatings on carbon yarns are promising as linear energy storage devices for fibrous electronics.Nanostructured materials with precisely defined and water-bicontinuous 1-nm-scale pores are highly sought after as advanced materials for next-generation nanofiltration membranes. While several self-assembled systems appear to satisfy this need, straightforward fabrication of such materials as submicron films with high-fidelity retention of their ordered nanostructure represents a nontrivial challenge. We report the development of a lyotropic liquid crystal mesophase that addresses the aforementioned issue. Films as thin as ∼200 nm are prepared on conventional support membranes using solution-based methods. Within these films, the system is composed of a hexagonally ordered array of ∼3 nm diameter cylinders of cross-linked polymer, embedded in an aqueous medium. The cylinders are uniformly oriented in the plane of the film, providing a transport-limiting dimension of ∼1 nm, associated with the space between the outer surfaces of nearest-neighbor cylinders. These membranes exhibit molecular weight cutoffs of ∼300 Da for organic solutes and are effective in rejecting dissolved salts, and in particular, divalent species, while exhibiting water permeabilities that rival or exceed current state-of-the-art commercial nanofiltration membranes.