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Fluorescence microscopic analysis of checkpoint protein expression is capable of predicting clinical outcomes for checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. However, accurate detection of their expression levels is hindered by fluorophore photobleaching and cell autofluorescence. We now develop a sensitive and robust fluorescence microscopy method that uses antifade graphite-structured carbon dots (GCDs) on a plasmonic Ag substrate (named ACPAS) for the accurate detection of checkpoint proteins in immunotherapy. In ACPAS, a Ag substrate is used to enhance the fluorescence of GCDs while a continuous illumination is implemented to quench cell autofluorescence, thus enabling a dramatic improvement in the signal-to-background ratio by up to 33-fold. We use ACPAS to monitor programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression levels on various tumor cells and finely differentiate their microscopic changes in combination with chemokine receptor CXCR4-targeted treatments. ACPAS analysis reveals for the first time that CXCR4 agonist (SDF-1α) and antagonist (AMD3100) can potentiate PD-L1 expression by down-regulating CXCR4 expression on tumor cells, which provides valuable information on the development of anti-PD-L1 and anti-CXCR4 combination therapy. We envision that ACPAS will become a broadly useful tool for protein expression studies in biomedicine and life sciences.Improving the sulfur loading in cathodes is a significant challenge for practical lithium-sulfur batteries. Although carbonaceous sulfur hosts can achieve higher sulfur content and loading, the low tap densities of carbonaceous materials lead to low volumetric energy densities, restricting practical application. Here, conductive porous laminated vanadium nitride (VN) as a carbon-free sulfur host has been successfully developed to construct high tap density, high sulfur loading, and high energy density sulfur electrodes. The laminated stacking multiscale VN featuring interconnected holes possesses high storage space for sulfur loading, achieving high sulfur loading and utilization. VN@S materials' sulfur content and tap density can achieve 80 wt % and 1.17 g cm-3, respectively. At the sulfur loading of 1.0 mg cm-2, the VN@S cathode reaches the reversible capacity of 790 mAh g-1 at 1 C after 200 cycles and 145.2 mAh g-1 at 15 C after 500 cycles. Precisely, at a high sulfur loading of 12.6 mg cm-2, the VN@S cathode delivers a reversible capacity of 518.8 mAh g-1 (485.6 mAh cm-3) at 0.1 C after 100 cycles.We report an approach that polymerizable handle-modified nanosized metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are used as independent monomers to be covalently organized by crosslinking molecules (CLMs) into an orderly MOF-assembled hybrid monolithic stationary phase, overcoming the respective problems of previously reported MOF-mixed or embedded stationary phases so far. It has a hierarchical micro-, meso-, and macropore structure throughout the monolithic matrix that is donated from MOF themselves, formed via CLM crosslinking in-between MOFs and expended by porogenic solvents, and a tunable surface chemistry derived inherently from MOFs, regulated by CLMs and initiated by the mobile phases as well. Such a pore structure and surface chemistry display multiplex interactions of sieving and electrostatic repulsion in addition to the polarity-based interactions that synergistically govern the partitioning way and degree of target molecules between the stationary and mobile phases, thus offering the ability to simultaneously separate small and large molecules during one chromatographic run on a nano-flow capillary high-performance liquid chromatography platform. A baseline mutual separation with the HETP and Rs of, for example, 9.2 μm butylbenzene and 4.56 (butylbenzene and pentylbenzene), 7.9 μm (phenylalanine) and 3.50 (tryptophan and phenylalanine), and 7.0 μm (myoglobin) and 1.91 (bovine serum albumin and myoglobin) was achieved when UiO-66/NH-methacrylate was exemplified as a model of MOFs and 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate and stearyl methacrylate together as CLMs. Not limited to the MOFs and CLMs demonstrated here, other available MOFs and CLMs or newly designed and synthesized ones are expected to be used for constructing one's own desired monolithic stationary phases toward her/his particular purposes.The intention of this study was to determine the utility of high-throughput screening (HTS) data, as exemplified by ToxCast and Tox21, for application in toxicological read-across in food-relevant chemicals. GM6001 order Key questions were addressed on the extent to which the HTS data could provide information enabling (1) the elucidation of underlying bioactivities associated with apical toxicological outcomes, (2) the closing of existing toxicological data gaps, and (3) the definition of the boundaries of chemical space across which bioactivity could reliably be extrapolated. Results revealed that many biological targets apparently activated within the chemical groupings lack, at this time, validated toxicity pathway associations. Therefore, as means of providing proof-of-principle, a comparatively well-characterized end point-estrogenicity-was selected for evaluation. This was facilitated through the preparation of two exploratory case studies, focusing upon groupings of paraben-gallates and pyranone-type compounds (notably flavonoids). Within both, the HTS data were seen to reflect estrogenic potencies in a manner which broadly corresponded to established structure-activity group relationships, with parabens and flavonoids displaying greater estrogen receptor affinity than benzoate esters and alternative pyranone-containing molecules, respectively. As such, utility in the identification of out-of-domain compounds was demonstrated, indicating potential for application in addressing point (3) as detailed above.Magnons have proven to be a promising candidate for low-power wave-based computing. The ability to encode information not only in amplitude but also in phase allows for increased data transmission rates. However, efficiently exciting nanoscale spin waves for a functional device requires sophisticated lithography techniques and therefore, remains a challenge. Here, we report on a method to measure the full spin wave isofrequency contour for a given frequency and field. A single antidot within a continuous thin film excites wave vectors along all directions within a single excitation geometry. Varying structural parameters or introducing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction allows the manipulation and control of the isofrequency contour, which is desirable for the fabrication of future magnonic devices. Additionally, the same antidot structure is utilized as a multipurpose spin wave device. Depending on its position with respect to the microstrip antenna, it can either be an emitter for short spin waves or a directional converter for incoming plane waves.