Studies of the interactions of cobalt complexes with amino acids demonstrated that tripod ligands promote the cysteine reaction, while the salen ligands promote histidine coordination, demonstrating a different mechanism of action. The results reported here are significant for better understanding and further design of zinc finger targeting compounds.Capacitive deionization (CDI), which is based on ion electrosorption on the surface of electrically charged electrodes, has attracted widespread attention as a novel, cost-effective and environment-friendly desalination technology. Carbon materials are widely used as CDI electrodes due to their high specific surface area (SSA), superior conductivity, and better stability. Many research efforts have been made to further enhance the CDI performance of carbon materials. In this review, the performance-enhancing strategies of various carbon materials including activated carbon, porous carbon, carbon aerogels, carbon nanotubes and graphene are systematically presented. We also explain the significance of the development of CDI technology and identify where further work is urgently required and where challenges are still faced.Formation of composition conserving defects is an inherent feature that appears in compounds for thermoelectric applications during the processes of their fabrication. Different types of such defects including exchange antisite defects, Schottky defects, and triple-, quatro- and penta-defects in TiNiSn are considered. Density functional theory calculations of the energy of formation of these defects are carried out. It is demonstrated that their formation may lead to a significant decrease of the band gap (Eg), simultaneously causing a transformation to p-type or semi-metal conductivity in this material. The role of nanopores is discussed. It is shown that preparing nanoporous compounds may be an efficient way to create p-type TiNiSn, simultaneously decreasing the thermal conductivity and improving its thermoelectric parameters.Successive chemical reductions of the heteroleptic complex [(tpy)CrIII(tphz)]3+ (tpy = terpyridine; tphz = tetrapyridophenazine) give rise to the mono- and di-radical redox isomers, [(tpy)CrIII(tphz˙-)]2+ and [(tpy˙-)CrIII(tphz˙-)]+, respectively. As designed, the optimized overlap of the involved magnetic orbitals leads to extremely strong magnetic interactions between the S = 3/2 metal ion and S = 1/2 radical spins, affording well isolated ST = 1 and ST = 1/2 ground states at room temperature.It has recently been shown that in a broad class of disordered systems oscillatory shear training can embed memories of specific shear protocols in relevant physical parameters such as the yield strain. These shear protocols can be used to change the physical properties of the system and memories of the protocol can later be "read" out. Here we investigate shear training memories in colloidal gels, which include an attractive interaction and network structure, and discover that such systems can support memories both along and orthogonal to the training flow direction. We use oscillatory shear protocols to set and read out the yield strain memories and confocal microscopy to analyze the rearranging gel structure throughout the shear training. We find that the gel bonds remain largely isotropic in the shear-vorticity plane throughout the training process suggesting that structures formed to support shear along the training shear plane are also able to support shear along the orthogonal plane. Orthogonal memory extends the usefulness of shear memories to more applications and should apply to many other disordered systems as well.4-Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) is one of the earliest patented and most commonly used sunscreen components. There is however a long-lasting controversy on its photo-protective efficacy owing to the lack of information on its protolytic equilibrium and photo-dynamics after absorption of ultraviolet radiation in physiologically relevant aqueous solution. The excitation dynamics in water also remains largely unknown for analogs of PABA such as 4-dimethylaminoacetophenone (DMAAP) and 4-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (DMABA) which are recognized as prototypes for photo-induced twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT). Herein we report a combined application of femtosecond broadband time-resolved fluorescence and transient absorption coupled with density functional theoretical study for PABA, DMAAP, and DMABA under several solvent conditions with representative properties in terms of the pH, polarity and hydrogen bonding capacity. The results we gained demonstrate that, in a neutral aqueous solution, PABA taking the de and opens up the otherwise inaccessible internal conversion (IC) to account for ∼80% of the entire deactivation. The IC, observed to proceed at a rate of ∼2.5 ps, allows the effective recovery of the ground state, providing substantial protection against ultraviolet irradiation. Moreover, the revelation of highly solvent sensitive fluorescence emission from DMABA and DMAAP implies the potential application of these molecules as the functional element in the design of sensory materials for probing the polarity and hydrogen bonding character of the surrounding environment.Photothermal (PT) microscopy is currently the most efficient approach for the detection and spectroscopy of individual non-fluorescent nano-objects based solely on their absorption. The nano-objects in current PT microscopy are usually non-resonant with the probe laser light, and the PT signal is mainly generated from the interactions of the incident probe light and the heating light-induced thermal lens around the imaged object. Inspired by the high sensitivity of the scattering field from the nano-objects near optical resonance to the variation in the local refractive index, we developed a novel strategy of resonant scattering-enhanced PT microscopy where the imaged nano-objects are near-resonant with the probe laser light.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Eloxatin.html  We have demonstrated this by using gold nanorods (NRs) with tunable longitudinal surface plasmon resonances. The PT signal of gold NR near-resonant with the probe light showed dramatic variation in the narrow resonance wavelength range, as small as 15 nm, and the maximal amplitude of the PT signal in this range can be enhanced up to 43 times as compared with the weak PT signal of gold NR non-resonant with the probe light.