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The present method, referred to as xDeep-AcPEP, will help to identify effective ACPs in rational peptide design for therapeutic purposes. The data, script files for reproducing the experiments, and the final prediction models can be downloaded from http//github.com/chen709847237/xDeep-AcPEP. The web server to directly access this prediction method is at https//app.cbbio.online/acpep/home.Polyfluoroalkyl phosphate diesters (diPAPs) are widely used for paper and cardboard impregnation and discharged via waste streams from production processes and consumer products. To improve the knowledge about the environmental fate of diPAPs, electrochemical oxidation (EO) was used to characterize the transformation pathways and reaction kinetics. 62 diPAP was transformed electrochemically to perfluorocarboxylic acids (C5-C7 PFCAs) and two intermediates (62 fluorotelomer carboxylic acid, FTCA, and 62 fluorotelomer unsaturated carboxylic acid, FTUCA). EO of potential intermediates 62 monoPAP and 62 fluorotelomer alcohol (FTOH) showed similar transformation products but with different ratios. We show that 62 diPAP is initiated by OH radical (•OH) reactions, as evidenced by the measured steady-state concentrations of •OH with the probe molecule terephthalic acid, quenching experiments, and pH dependency of the reaction. PFHpA was the main product of 62 diPAP oxidation, and it was formed in a pseudo-first-order reaction for which a bimolecular rate constant was estimated to be kO•H,diPAPformPFHpA = 9.4(±1.4) × 107 M-1 s-1 by an initial rate approach. This can be utilized to estimate the environmental half-life of 62 diPAP for the reaction with •OH and the formation kinetics of persistent PFCAs.The liquid-solid triboelectric nanogenerator (LS-TENG) has been demonstrated to harvest energy efficiently through the contact electrification effect between liquid and solid triboelectric materials, which can avoid the wear issue in solid-solid TENG. However, the droplet-based LS-TENG reveals the problems that it generally works with the continuous falling droplets or needs to be fully packaged, which greatly limit its practical application. Here, a droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator (DB-TENG) with a simple open structure is designed to effectively solve these problems. The nonpackaged DB-TENG can work stably under extreme conditions with high humidity or high concentrations of salt, acid, or alkali solutions, showing the DB-TENGs can be flexibly utilized in all types of working environments with better reliability and lower maintenance costs. It is of great significance that the integrated DB-TENG network array can realize the all-weather ocean energy harvesting. Furthermore, under the simulated ocean wave, a scaled-up DB-TENG with considerable output performance can charge capacitors and drive electrical devices. Overall, the DB-TENG shows many advantages simple open structure, all-weather working ability, timely supplement of water loss, no tight packaging, wear resistance, suitable for extreme working environments. This work provides a convenient and feasible way toward all-weather wave energy harvesting in real marine environments.Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling factor for the implementation of upconversion, however, when the realistic constraints of current best-performing silicon devices are considered, many challenges remain before silicon photovoltaics operating under nonconcentrated sunlight can be enhanced via lanthanide-based upconversion. A photophysical model reveals that >1-2 orders of magnitude increase in the intermediate state lifetime, energy transfer rate, or generation rate would be needed before such solar upconversion could start to become efficient. Methods to increase the generation rate such as the use of cosensitizers to expand the absorption range and the use of plasmonics or photonic structures are reviewed. The opportunities and challenges for these approaches (or combinations thereof) to achieve efficient solar upconversion are discussed. ML364 The opportunity for enhancing the performance of technologies such as luminescent solar concentrators by combining upconversion together with micro-optics is also reviewed. Triplet-triplet annihilation-based upconversion is progressing steadily toward being relevant to lower-bandgap solar cells. Looking toward photocatalysis, photophysical modeling indicates that current blue-to-ultraviolet lanthanide upconversion systems are very inefficient. However, hope remains in this direction for organic upconversion enhancing the performance of visible-light-active photocatalysts.The dynamics of metal organic polyhedra (MOP) play a crucial role for their application in catalysis and host-guest chemistry and as functional materials. In this contribution, we study the influence of possible contaminations of different metal precursors on the kinetic properties of MOP. Exemplary five different MOP are studied with metal precursors of varying quality. The metal precursors are either obtained from commercial sources or prepared by various literature procedures. Studies into the self-assembly process using 1H NMR and MS analyses were performed on Pt2L4, Pd2L4, Pd6L12, Pd12L24, and Ni4L6 assemblies. Commonly found impurities are shown to play a prominent role guiding selective formation of MOP, as they allow for an escape from otherwise kinetically trapped intermediates. The energy requirement for selective sphere formation is significantly lowered in many examples providing evidence for a catalytic role of halide impurities/additives in the self-assembly process. Furthermore, even though most analytical features such as 1H NMR and MS analyses show identical results for assemblies with different types of metal precursors, the dynamics of formed assemblies differs significantly if slightly less pure starting materials are used. Tiny amounts of halide contaminations make the MOP more dynamic, which can play an important role for substrate diffusion especially if bulky substrates are used. We believe that this study on the influence of impurities (which were shown to be present in some commercial sources) on the kinetic properties of MOP together with procedures of obtaining high purity metal precursors provides important information for future material preparation and provides a better understanding of already known examples.Calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystal is the most common crystalline component of human kidney stones. The molecular-scale inhibitory mechanisms of COM crystal growth by urinary biomolecules such as citrate and osteopontin adsorbed onto the crystal surface are now well understood. However, the pathways by which dissolved calcium and oxalate ions are incorporated into the molecular step of the COM crystal surface, leading to COM crystal growth-a prerequisite to be elucidated for developing effective therapeutics to inhibit COM stones-remain unknown. Here, using in situ liquid-phase atomic microscopy along with a step kinetic model, we reveal the pathways of the calcium and oxalate ions into the COM molecular step via the growth speed analysis of the molecular steps with respect to their step width at the nanoscale. Our results show that, primarily, the ions are adsorbed onto the terrace of the crystal surface from the solution-the rate-controlling stage for the molecular step growth, i.e., COM crystal growth-and then diffuse over it and are eventually incorporated into the steps. This primary pathway of the ions is unaffected by the model peptide D-Asp6 adsorbed on the COM crystal surface, suggesting that urinary biomolecules will not alter the pathway. These new findings rendering an essential understanding of the fundamental growth mechanism of COM crystal at the nanoscale provide crucial insights beneficial to the development of effective therapeutics for COM kidney stones.In this work, a label-free nonenzymatic photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor is successfully developed for the detection of a typical pollutant, microcystin-LR (MC-LR), based on a visible-light-responsive alloy oxide, with highly ordered and vertically aligned Ti-Fe-O nanotubes (NTs) as substrates. Ti-Fe-O NTs consisting mainly of TiO2 and atomically doped Fe2O3 are in situ prepared on a Ti-Fe alloy by electrochemical anodic oxidation. Using a simple electrochemical deposition technique, reduced graphene oxide (RGO) could be grown onto Ti-Fe-O NTs, exhibiting significant bifunctions. It not only provides an ideal microenvironment for functionalization of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) on the surface but also serves as the PEC signal amplification element because of its outstanding conductivity for photons and electrons. The designed MIP/RGO/Ti-Fe-O NT PEC sensor exhibits high sensitivity toward MC-LR with a limit of detection as low as 10 pM. High selectivity toward MC-LR is also proven for the sensor. A promising detection platform not only for MC-LR but also for other pollutants has therefore been provided.Liquid-like copper selenium compounds have attracted considerable interest in recent years for their excellent thermoelectric performance, abundant element reserves, and low toxicity. However, the related applications are still limited due to the phase transition and precipitation of Cu under an external field. Here, the cubic Cu1.85Se-based compounds with suppressed phase transition and improved critical voltage (Vc) are first studied. In particular, Li/Bi co-doping effectively optimizes hole concentration and the ZTs are substantially improved from 0.2 in Cu1.85Se to 0.7 in Li0.03Cu1.81Bi0.04Se at 760 K. Meanwhile, the latter shows an outstanding Vc above 0.22 V at 750 K, which is the highest value in Cu2-xSe thermoelectric compounds to date. Moreover, S is alloyed in Li0.03Cu1.81Bi0.04Se to greatly reduce the thermal conductivity and the ZT is further enhanced to 0.9 for Li0.03Cu1.81Bi0.04Se0.9S0.1 at 760 K. Our work sheds light on a new strategy to realize good stability and enhanced thermoelectric performance, which provides a new direction for further research.Compared with free miRNAs in blood, miRNAs in exosomes have higher abundance and stability. Therefore, miRNAs in exosomes can be regarded as an ideal tumor marker for early cancer diagnosis. Here, a peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-functionalized nanochannel biosensor for the ultrasensitive and specific detection of tumor exosomal miRNAs is proposed. After PNA was covalently bound to the inner surface of the nanochannels, the detection of tumor exosomal miRNAs was achieved by the charge changes on the surface of nanochannels before and after hybridization (PNA-miRNA). Due to the neutral characteristics of PNA, the efficiency of PNA-miRNA hybridization was improved by significantly reducing the background signal. This biosensor could not only specifically distinguish target miRNA-10b from single-base mismatched miRNA but also achieve a detection limit as low as 75 aM. Moreover, the biosensor was further used to detect exosomal miRNA-10b derived from pancreatic cancer cells and normal pancreatic cells. The results indicate that this biosensor could effectively distinguish pancreatic cancer tumor-derived exosomes from the normal control group, and the detection results show good consistency with those of the quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction method. In addition, the biosensor was used to detect exosomal miRNA-10b in clinical plasma samples, and it was found that the content of exosomal miRNA-10b in cancer patients was generally higher than that of healthy individuals, proving that the method is expected to be applied for the early diagnosis of cancer.