Growth of Hydrophilic CuS Nanowires via DNA‐Mediated Self‐Assembly Process and Their Use in Fabricating Smart Hybrid Films for Adjustable Chemical Release

Facile growth of CuS nanowires through self‐assembly and their application as building blocks for near‐infrared light‐responsive functional films have been demonstrated. It is found that DNA is a key factor in preparing the CuS material with defined nanostructure. An exclusive oriented self‐aggregate growth mechanism is proposed for the growth of the nanowires, which might have important implications for preparing advanced, sophisticated nanostructures based on DNA nanotechnology. By employing the hydrophilic CuS nanowire as an optical absorber and thermosensitive nanogel as guest reservoir inside alginate film, a new platform for the release of functional molecules has been set up. In vitro studies have shown that the hybrid film possesses excellent biocompatibility and the release rate of chemical molecules from the film could be controlled with high spatial and temporal precision. Our novel approach and the resulting outstanding combination of properties may advance both the fields of DNA nanotechnology and light‐responsive devices.     

Consistency check on the fundamental and alternative flux operators in loop quantum gravity

There are different constructions of the flux of triad in loop quantum gravity, namely the fundamental and alternative flux operators. In parallel to the consistency check on the two versions of operator by the algebraic calculus in the literature, we check their consistency by the graphical calculus. Our calculation based on the original Brink graphical method is obviously simpler than the algebraic calculation. It turns out that our consistency check fixes the regulating factor κreg of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator as1/2, which corrects its previous value in the literature.     

硫化氢对钴改性活性焦脱除煤气中汞的影响机理

采用等体积浸渍煅烧法制备钴改性活性焦(Co-AC),并采用BET、XRD等分析手段进行表征。 利用固定床吸附实验台,研究了模拟煤气(N₂、H₂、CO、H₂S)气氛下汞的吸附特性,重点关注H₂S对汞吸附的影响。 结果表明,5%负载量的Co-AC在120 ℃和H₂S作用下具有优异的脱汞能力,2 h内平均脱汞效率高达97.8%。 此外基于密度泛函理论,首先计算了H₂S、HS及S在Co₃O₄(110)表面的吸附能及键长,通过比较H—S键键长的变化得出H₂S会逐步解离成HS与S,然后将优化后的S-Co₃O₄(110)作为Hg的吸附基底,研究其吸附特性,得出Hg与S反应生成稳定的HgS,吸附能为-3.503 eV,证明了汞的吸附遵循Eley-Rideal机制。 Co-AC吸附剂在高温下脱汞性能受到极大的抑制,因为随吸附温度升高,表面活性硫的减少及硫和汞的反应平衡常数下降显著,导致汞的脱除能力下降。 本文采用了实验加模拟的手段,探明了H₂S存在时Hg⁰在钴基吸附剂表面的反应机理,为协同脱除煤气中的H₂S和Hg⁰提供了理论指导。     

Photocontrolled Multidirectional Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on an Upconversion Substrate

The effective guidance of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) differentiation on a substrate by near‐infrared (NIR) light is particularly attractive for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, most of current substrates cannot control multidirectional differentiation of MSCs like natural tissues. Herein, a photocontrolled upconversion‐based substrate was designed and constructed for guiding multidirectional differentiation of MSCs. The substrate enables MSCs to maintain their stem‐cell characteristics due to the anti‐adhesive effect of 4‐(hydroxymethyl)‐3‐nitrobenzoic acid modified poly(ethylene glycol) (P1) attached on the upconversion substrate. Upon NIR irradiation, the P1 is released from the substrate by photocleavage. The detachment of P1 can change cell–matrix interactions dynamically. Moreover, MSCs cultured on the upconversion substrate can be specifically induced to differentiate to adipocytes or osteoblasts by adjusting the NIR laser. Our work provides a new way of using NIR‐based upconversion substrate to modulate the multidirectional differentiation of MSCs.     

Silver‐Infused Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Framework: Surface‐Adaptive,On‐Demand Nanoplatform for Synergistic Bacteria Killing and Wound Disinfection

The fabrication of functional nanoplatforms for combating multidrug‐resistant bacteria is of vital importance. Among them, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have shown an antibacterial effect; however, the remainder cores of Ag NPs after use might have a toxic effect on humans. Thus, Ag ions based materials have been fabricated to substitute Ag NPs for antibacterial applications. Nevertheless, the always‐on release state leads to the low biocompatibility, which limits their biomedical applications. In addition, the single effect also restricts their antibacterial ability. Herein, a powerful surface‐adaptive, on‐demand antimicrobial nanoplatform is fabricated by coating hyaluronic acid (HA) on Ag ions loaded photosensitive metal‐organic frameworks to exhibit a strong synergistic effect. The nanoplatform shows good biocompatibility with nontargeted cells, as negatively charged HA can prevent the release of Ag ions. While in the presence of targeted bacteria, the secreted hyaluronidase can degrade HA on the nanoplatform and produce positively charged nanoparticles, which display increased affinity to bacteria and show a strong synergistic antibacterial effect owing to the released Ag ions and generated reactive oxygen species under visible light irradiation. Importantly, due to the outstanding on‐demand antimicrobial performance, the nanoplatform also shows great effects on treating multidrug‐resistant bacteria infected wounds in mice models.     

Water Dissociation Kinetic-Oriented Design of Nickel Sulfides via Tailored Dual Sites for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution

The reaction kinetics of alkaline hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) is a trade-off between adsorption and desorption for intermediate species (H₂O, OH, and H_ads). However, due to the complicated correlation between the intermediates adsorption energy and electronic states, targeted regulating the adsorption energy at the atomic level is not comprehensive. Herein, nonmetals (B, N, O, and F) are used to modulate the adsorption energy and electronic structure of Ni₃S₄, and propose that H₂O and OH adsorption energy are correlate directly with d-band center (ε_d) of transition metal Ni, and H_ads adsorption energy has a linear dependence on p-band center (ε_p) of nonmetal S. Direct experimental evidence is offered that in all nonmetals doping samples, Tafel slope and exchange current density can be improved regularly with the ε_d and ε_p, and F-Ni₃S₄ shows the optimum activity with tiny overpotential 29 and 92 mV for harvesting current density 10 and 100 mA cm⁻², respectively. Furthermore, the micro-kinetics analysis and density functional theory calculations verify that F-doping can efficiently reduce the energy barrier of the Volmer step, eventually accelerating the HER kinetics. This work provides atomic-level insight into the structure-properties relationship, and opens an avenue for kinetic-oriented design of alkaline HER and beyond.     

一维波导中并置两原子的量子纠缠

在线性离散关系下研究了一维波导中两个并列放置的原子之间的量子纠缠.为调查两原子间的纠缠度,用实空间方法计算了透射和反射光谱振幅,讨论了单光子的散射特性和纠缠态的并发性.结果表明:通过改变原子偶极-偶极相互作用可产生Fano线型的散射光谱,偶极-偶极相互作用可作为导致光谱Fano共振的一种可能的工具.通过调控原子-波导的耦合强度,量子并发也会发生Fano共振,可通过观察Fano共振推断出最大量子纠缠.     

一种基于多通道欠采样宽带频谱感知设计

Hassanieh等设计了一种基于稀疏傅里叶变换的实时宽带频谱感知和解译技术BigBand,该技术利用3台通用低速采集卡,实现最多2个混叠稀疏信号的解译。本文基于BigBand给出一种利用多通道低速采集卡宽带频谱感知设计方案,实现用低速采样解决宽频范围内多稀疏信号的快速感知解译。同时给出了一种该方案的实验验证方法。实验结果表明,四通道BigBand能支持同一频点最多3个信号混叠的恢复。