Simultaneously enhancing the photocatalytic and photothermal effect of NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt ternary heterojunction for rapid therapy of bacteria-infected wounds

Infections caused by bacteria threaten human health,so how to effectively kill bacteria is an urgent problem.We therefore synthesized a NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt ternary composite heterojunction with graphene oxide(GO)and platinum(Pt)nanoparticles co-doped with metal-organic framework(NH_(2)-MIL-125)for use in photocatalytic and photothermal synergistic disinfection under white light irradiation.Due to the good conductivity of GO and the Schottky junction between Pt and MOF,the doping of GO and Pt will effectively separate and transfer the photogenerated electron-hole pairs generated by NH_(2)-MIL-125,thereby effectively improving the photocatalytic efficiency of NH_(2)-MIL-125.Meanwhile,NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt has good photothermal effect under white light irradiation.Therefore,the NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt composite can be used for effective sterilization.The antibacterial efficiency of NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli were as high as 99.94%and 99.12%,respectively,within 20 min of white light irradiation.In vivo experiments showed that NH_(2)-MIL-125-GO-Pt could effectively kill bacteria and promote wound healing.This work brings new insights into the use of NH_(2)-MIL-125-based photocatalyst materials for rapid disinfection of environments with pathogenic microorganisms.

Carbonyl polymeric electrode materials for metal-ion batteries

Benefiting from the diversity and subjective design feasibility of molecular structure, flexibility,lightweight, molecular level controllability, resource renewability and relatively low cost, polymeric electrode materials are promising candidates for the next generation of sustainable energy resources and have attracted extensive attention for the foreseeable large scale applications. The conductive polymers have been utilized as electrode materials in the pioneer reports, which, however, have the disadvantages of low stability, low reversibility and slope voltage due to the delocalization of charges in the whole conjugated systems. The discovery of carbonyl materials aroused the interest of organic and polymeric materials for batteries again. This review presents the recent progress in carbonyl polymeric electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries and magnesium-ion batteries. This comprehensive review is expected to be helpful forarousing more interest of organic materials for met

Modulating the metal/organic interface via Cu TCNQ decorated layer toward high performance bottom-contact single-crystal transistors

The organic single-crystal field-effect transistors using anthracene derivative, H-Ant as an active layer with source/drain electrodes decorated by metal charge transfer salt(Cu TCNQ) were fabricated. We demonstrated that this bottom-contact structure displayed an obvious improvement in the electrical characteristics relative to their pristine copper and top-contact gold electrode counterparts. This observation could be ascribed to the lower contact resistance resulting from the energetic match between electrodes and semiconductor.

An Aggregation-Induced Emission Optical Highlighter for the Studies of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Lipid Droplet Content Dynamics

The lipid droplet(LD)is a dynamic organelle responsible for lipid storage and metabolism that plays important roles in maintaining lipid homeostasis.However,limited strategies are available for tracking the LD content exchange.In this contribution,we report a novel fluorescent probe,TPEAmAl,for real-time LD content dynamics tracking.TPE-AmAl is LD-specific,but emits faintly due to its intramolecular motion.Upon photoactivation,it undergoes a photocyclodehydrogenation reaction and shows a large fluorescence increment.Thus,it can be used for highlighting selected LDs with high spatial resolution.By measuring the fluorescence changes in the distal region,the lipid content exchange efficiency can be estimated.In our experiment,LD content exchange rate differences between nascent and mature LDs as well as cells with normal and deficient LD budding machinery are observed.This probe expands the fluorescence-based toolbox for LD content dynamics studies.