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In analogous binding experiments, the styrene polymer decreases the concentration of propranolol hydrochloride by 2% and 2-naphthol by 26%. Thus, the binding effectiveness is significantly reduced when the hydrogen-bond-acceptor group is not present on the polymer. We also show that the best performing crosslinked pyridine-functionalized polymer is reusable. Overall, these polymer adsorbents demonstrate the potential for removal of micropollutants from water.Despite the increasing number of pharmaceutical companies, university laboratories and funding, less than one percent of initially researched drugs enter the commercial market. In this context, virtual screening (VS) has gained much attention due to several advantages, including timesaving, reduced reagent and consumable costs and the performance of selective analyses regarding the affinity between test molecules and pharmacological targets. Currently, VS is based mainly on algorithms that apply physical and chemistry principles and quantum mechanics to estimate molecule affinities and conformations, among others. Nevertheless, VS has not reached the expected results concerning the improvement of market-approved drugs, comprising less than twenty drugs that have reached this goal to date. In this context, graph neural networks (GNN), a recent deep-learning subtype, may comprise a powerful tool to improve VS results concerning natural products that may be used both simultaneously with standard algorithms or isolated. This review discusses the pros and cons of GNN applied to VS and the future perspectives of this learnable algorithm, which may revolutionize drug discovery if certain obstacles concerning spatial coordinates and adequate datasets, among others, can be overcome.Phytochemical investigation on the acetone extract of Salvia mirzayanii Rech. f. and Esfand. afforded seven new isoprenoids including six new sesterterpenoids salvimirzacolide A-F (1-6), and one new nor-diterpenoid (7). Their structures were established by comprehensive spectroscopic and spectrometric data analysis (1D and 2D NMR, HRMS) and DP4+ NMR chemical shift probability calculation technique. Moreover, the absolute configuration of compounds was determined by using electronic circular dichroism spectroscopy. Evaluation of antiproliferative properties of compounds isolated against four human melanoma cancer cells displayed no cytotoxic activity at the concentration range used.The GABAB receptor is a typical G protein-coupled receptor, and its functional impairment is related to a variety of diseases. While the premise of GABAB receptor activation is the formation of heterodimers, the receptor also forms a tetramer on the cell membrane. Thus, it is important to study the effect of the GABAB receptor aggregation state on its activation and signaling. In this study, we have applied single-molecule photobleaching step counting and single-molecule tracking methods to investigate the formation and change of GABAB dimers and tetramers. A single-molecule stoichiometry assay of the wild-type and mutant receptors revealed the key sites on the interface of ligand-binding domains of the receptor for its dimerization. Moreover, we found that the receptor showed different aggregation behaviors at different conditions. Our results offered new evidence for a better understanding of the molecular basis for GABAB receptor aggregation and activation.Hydrogenolysis of glycerol to propylene glycol represents one of the most promising technologies for biomass conversion to chemicals. However, conventional hydrogenolysis processes are often carried out under harsh H2 pressures and temperatures, leading to intensive energy demands, fast catalyst deactivation, and potential safety risks during H2 handling. Catalytic transfer hydrogenolysis (CTH) displays high energy and atom efficiency. We have studied a series novel solid catalysts for CTH of glycerol. In this work, detailed studies have been conducted on energy optimization, tech-economic analysis, and environmental impact for both processes. The key finding is that relatively less energy demands and capital investment are required for CTH process. CO2 emission per production of propylene glycol is much lower in the case of transfer hydrogenolysis. The outcome of this study could provide useful information for process design and implementation of novel hydrogenolysis technologies for other energy and environmental applications.Managing the excited-state decay by a supramolecular structure is a crucial issue for organic photovoltaics. We show that in thin films of metallo-supramolecular polymers made of bis(terpyridine-4'-yl)terthiophenes and Z n 2 + coupling ions, the photoexcited states generated by ultrashort laser pulses at the wavelength of 440 nm decay by the bi-molecular annihilation predominantly controlled by the Förster transfer between singlet states. During this bi-molecular annihilation of singlet states, intermediate hot triplet pairs are formed, which subsequently dissociate into long-living diffusing triplet states. It explains a significant shortening of the triplet state rise time with increasing pump fluence. The diffusion coefficient of triplets showed power-law time dependence, with its exponent proportional to the pump fluence, decreasing thus the diffusivity of triplets.Convergence with respect to the size of the k-points sampling grid of the Brillouin zone is the main bottleneck in the calculation of optical spectra of periodic crystals via the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). We tackle this challenge by proposing a double grid approach to k-sampling compatible with the effective Lanczos-based Haydock iterative solution. Our method relies on a coarse k-grid that drives the computational cost, while a dense k-grid is responsible for capturing excitonic effects, albeit in an approximated way. Importantly, the fine k-grid requires minimal extra computation due to the simplicity of our approach, which also makes the latter straightforward to implement. We performed tests on bulk Si, bulk GaAs and monolayer MoS2, all of which produced spectra in good agreement with data reported elsewhere. This framework has the potential of enabling the calculation of optical spectra in semiconducting systems where the efficiency of the Haydock scheme alone is not enough to achieve a computationally tractable solution of the BSE, e.g., large-scale systems with very stringent k-sampling requirements for achieving convergence.A wide range of biological activities is exhibited by 1,3,4-thiadiazole moiety such as antidiabetic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, antiviral, antihypertensive, and antimicrobial. To date, drugs such as butazolamide, and acetazolamide. Several modifications have been done in the 1,3,4-thiadiazole moiety which showed good potency as anticonvulsant agents which are highly effective and have less toxicity. After in-depth literature survey in this review, we have compiled various derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole scaffold as anticonvulsant agents.Recently, perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have drew widespread attention due to their high efficiencies. However, because of the sensitivity to moisture and oxygen, perovskite luminescent layers are usually prepared in high-purity nitrogen environment, which increases the cost and process complexity of device preparation and seriously hindrances its commercialization of PeLED in lighting and display application. Herein, dual-phase all-inorganic composite CsPbBr3-Cs4PbBr6 films are fabricated from CsBr-rich perovskite solutions by a simple one-step spin-coating method in the air with high humidity. Compared with the pure CsPbBr3 film, the composite CsPbBr3-Cs4PbBr6 film has much stronger photoluminescence emission and longer fluorescence lifetime, accompanied by increased photoluminescence quantum yield (33%). As a result, we obtained green PeLED devices without hole transport layer exhibiting a maximum brightness of 72,082 cd/m2 and a maximum external quantum efficiency of about 2.45%, respectively. More importantly, the champion device shows excellent stability with operational half-lifetime exceeding 1,000 min under continuous operation in the air. The dual-phase all-inorganic composite CsPbBr3-Cs4PbBr6 film shows attractive prospect for advanced light emission applications.Intermetallic copper telluride thin films, which are important in a number of electronics fields, were electrodeposited using a potentiostatic method in low-pH aqueous electrolyte baths with various ion-source concentrations, and the electrical properties of the formed films were investigated after exfoliation from the substrate. The films were electrochemically analyzed by cyclic voltammetry, while surface and cross-sectional morphologies, compositional ratios, and electrical properties were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractometry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, and Hall-effect experiments. The copper telluride thin films, which were synthesized at various potentials in each bath, exhibit different composition ratios and structures; consequently, they show a variety of electrical and thermoelectric properties, including different electrical conductivities, carrier concentrations, mobilities, and Seebeck coefficients. Among them, the thin film with a 11 CuTe ratio delivered the highest power factor due to carrier filtering at the interface between the two phases.The treatment of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) faces challenges because TSCC has an aggressive biological behavior and manifests usually as widespread metastatic disease. Therefore, it is particularly important to screen out and develop drugs that inhibit tumor invasion and metastasis. Two-dimensional (2D) cell culture has been used as in vitro models to study cellular biological behavior, but growing evidence now shows that the 2D systems can result in cell bioactivities that deviate appreciably the in vivo response. It is urgent to develop a novel 3D cell migration model in vitro to simulate the tumor microenvironment as much as possible and screen out effective anti-migration drugs. Sodium alginate, has a widely used cell encapsulation material, as significant advantages. We have designed a microfluidic device to fabricate a hollow alginate hydrogel microtube model. Based on the difference in liquid flow rate, TSCC cells (Cal27) were able to be evenly distributed in the hollow microtubes, which waspplication in the more efficient screening of anti-migration tumor drugs.This study aims to evaluate the changes in the credit risk of the health care industry in China due to the COVID-19 epidemic by the modified KMV (named by Kealhofer, Mcquown, and Vasicek) model to calculate the default distances. We observe that the overall default distance mainly first decreased and then increased before and after the COVID-19 epidemic control in China; after the epidemic was controlled, the overall credit risk was reduced by 22.8%. Specifically, as shown in subdivided industries, health care equipment and health care facilities have larger credit risk fluctuations, while health care suppliers, health care distributors, and health care services have smaller fluctuations. These results can contribute to our understanding of why the COVID-19 epidemic in China could be controlled earlier, and software facilities are more important than hardware facilities in public health safety. Our methodological innovation is to use the GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) model and threshold regression model to modify the important parameters of the KMV model.