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nerally acknowledged. Expert opinion varies widely. Insufficient clinical outcome data exist to provide robust estimates. Considerable further work is needed to address this, including international collaboration; much is already underway but will take time to provide mature data.Latest developments in the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine compiled from publicly available information and press releases from nonacademic institutions in December 2021.Superwettable Janus membranes with unique interfacial characteristics have versatile applications in oil/water separation, microfluid transportation, and membrane distillation. However, it remains a significant challenge to simply fabricate three-dimensional (3D) metallic foams with Janus superwettability using a facile and environment-friendly method. In this study, a novel method is present to construct a Janus copper foam (CF) by combining superhydrophobicity and superhydrophilicity into CF. Based on gravity, the water in the light oil (LO)/water mixture can be transported from the superhydrophilic (SHL) side to the superhydrophobic (SHB) side, while the heavy oil (HO) in the HO/water/mixture can be transported from the SHB side to the SHL side. Therefore, cylindrical Janus oil/water separation devices with superior separation efficiency and excellent repeatability can achieve on-demand oil/water separation effortlessly. This design and fabrication method offers a novel avenue for the preparation of Janus interface materials for practical applications in liquid transportation, sensor devices, energy materials, and oil spills.FXIa inhibition has been a promising strategy for treating thrombotic diseases. Up to date, many small-molecule FXIa inhibitors have been identified; however, most of them exhibit undesirable selectivity over the homologous plasma kallikrein (PKal). By employing structure-based drug design strategies, we identified many novel selective FXIa inhibitors that have extra interactions with the S2 subsite of FXIa. Among them, compound 35 displayed good inhibitory activity against FXIa and high selectivity over PKal and even several other serine proteases. Additionally, 35 showed significant anticoagulant activity toward the intrinsic pathway without affecting the extrinsic pathway. In vivo, 35 exhibited significant antithrombotic activity without increasing the bleeding risk and obvious toxicity in mice, demonstrating that it could be a promising candidate for further research. This study first demonstrates the importance of the S2 subsite of FXIa, paving the way to design highly selective FXIa inhibitors for clinical uses.Tumor targeting therapy and photodynamic therapy are effective anti-cancer therapies. Their research progress has attracted wide attention and is one of the focuses of anti-cancer drug research and development. The design and synthesis of multifunctional organic phototheranostic agents for superior image-guided diagnosis and phototherapy play an increasingly positive role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Herein, F16M and CyM were obtained through functional design from cyanine and F16. Physicochemical characterization and biological application results showed that CyM is a multifunctional organic biological probe, which can realize intracellular multichannel (green, yellow, red, and NIR) imaging, pH detection, and mitochondrial-targeted photodynamic therapy. As an organic phototheranostic agent, it could not only realize near-infrared imaging and photodynamic therapy in vivo and in vitro but also has excellent biocompatibility and good guiding significance for the development of multichannel imaging and mitochondrial-targeting photodynamic therapy.Bottom-up proteomics provides peptide measurements and has been invaluable for moving proteomics into large-scale analyses. Commonly, a single quantitative value is reported for each protein-coding gene by aggregating peptide quantities into protein groups following protein inference or parsimony. However, given the complexity of both RNA splicing and post-translational protein modification, it is overly simplistic to assume that all peptides that map to a singular protein-coding gene will demonstrate the same quantitative response. By assuming that all peptides from a protein-coding sequence are representative of the same protein, we may miss the discovery of important biological differences. To capture the contributions of existing proteoforms, we need to reconsider the practice of aggregating protein values to a single quantity per protein-coding gene.Weaker Fermi level pinning (FLP) at the Schottky barriers of 2D semiconductors is electrically desirable as this would allow a minimizing of contact resistances, which presently limit device performances. Existing contacts on MoS2 have a strong FLP with a small pinning factor of only ∼0.1. Here, we show that Moire interfaces can stabilize physisorptive sites at the Schottky barriers with a much weaker interaction without significantly lengthening the bonds. This increases the pinning factor up to ∼0.37 and greatly reduces the n-type Schottky barrier height to ∼0.2 eV for certain metals such as In and Ag, which can have physisorptive sites. This then accounts for the low contact resistance of these metals as seen experimentally. Such physisorptive interfaces can be extended to similar systems to better control SBHs in highly scaled 2D devices.Recent times have experienced more than ever the impact of viral infections in humans. Viral infections are known to cause diseases not only in humans but also in plants and animals. Here, we have compiled the literature review of aptamers selected and used for detection and inhibition of viral infections in all three categories humans, animals, and plants. This review gives an in-depth introduction to aptamers, different types of aptamer selection (SELEX) methodologies, the benefits of using aptamers over commonly used antibody-based strategies, and the structural and functional mechanism of aptasensors for viral detection and therapy. The review is organized based on the different characterization and read-out tools used to detect virus-aptasensor interactions with a detailed index of existing virus-targeting aptamers. Along with addressing recent developments, we also discuss a way forward with aptamers for DNA nanotechnology-based detection and treatment of viral diseases. Overall, this review will serve as a comprehensive resource for aptamer-based strategies in viral diagnostics and treatment.Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy, conductometric titration measurements, and EDX elemental mapping were used to examine surfactant adsorption to the gypsum (010) surface and assess the effects of surfactant adsorption on gypsum solubility in aqueous solutions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC) were used as anionic and cationic surfactants, respectively. Gypsum/SDS interactions result in an ordered precipitate layer on the gypsum surface after water evaporation; gypsum/DTAC interaction did not show a similar effect, despite exposure of gypsum to equivalent amounts of surfactant. VSFG spectra showed that SDS molecules adsorb with their chains parallel to the gypsum surface; spectra from gypsum surfaces treated with DTAC, however, showed no measurable response, implying that these surfactants form disorganized aggregates with no polar ordering. Vibrational data were supported by independent EDX measurements that show a uniform distribution of SDS across the gypsum surface. In contrast, element-specific EDX images showed that DTAC clustered in tightly localized patches that left most of the gypsum surface exposed. The uniform adsorption of SDS on the gypsum surface suppresses long-term dissolution up to 40% when compared to samples exposed to DTAC. Gypsum samples in DTAC-containing solutions lose approximately the same amount of material to dissolution as samples immersed in pure water.While the dynamic properties of ionic liquids (ILs) in nanoconfinement play a crucial role in the performance of IL-based electrochemical and mechanical devices, experimental work mostly falls short at reporting "solid-like" versus "liquid-like" behavior of confined ILs. The present work is the first to conduct frequency-sweep oscillatory-shear rheology on IL nanofilms, reconciling the solid-versus-liquid debate and revealing the importance of shear rate in the behavior. We disentangle and analyze the viscoelasticity of nanoconfined ILs and shed light on their relaxation mechanisms. Furthermore, a master curve describes the scaling of the dynamic behavior of four (non-hydrogen-bonding) ILs under nanoconfinement and reveals the role of the compressibility of the flow units.Electric fields can induce bond breaking and bond forming, catalyze chemical reactions on surfaces, and change the structure of self-assembled monolayers on electrode surfaces. Here, we study the effect of electric fields supplied either by an electrochemical potential or by conducting atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) on Si-based monolayers. We report that typical monolayers on silicon undergo partial desorption followed by the oxidation of the underneath silicon at +1.5 V vs Ag/AgCl. The monolayer loses 28% of its surface coverage and 55% of its electron transfer rate constant (ket) when +1.5 V electrochemical potential is applied on the Si surface for 10 min. Similarly, a bias voltage of +5 V applied by C-AFM induces complete desorption of the monolayer at specific sites accompanied by an average oxide growth of 2.6 nm when the duration of the bias applied is 8 min. Atuveciclib Current-voltage plots progressively change from rectifying, typical of metal-semiconductor junctions, to insulating as the oxide grows. These results define the stability of Si-based organic monolayers toward electric fields and have implication in the design of silicon-based monolayers, molecular electronics devices, and on the interpretation of charge-transfer kinetics across them.Herein, we present the synthesis of the first fully characterized monomeric triphosphinoboranes. The simple reaction of boron tribromide with 3 equiv of bulky lithium phosphide tBu2PLi yielded triphosphinoborane (tBu2P)3B. Triphosphinoboranes with diversified phosphanyl substituents were obtained via a two-step reaction, in which isolable bromodiphosphinoborane (tBu2P)2BBr is first formed and then reacts with 1 equiv of less bulky phosphide R2PLi (R2P = Cy2P, iPr2P, tBuPhP, or Ph2P). By utilizing this method, we obtained a series of triphosphinoboranes with the general formula (tBu2P)2BPR2. On the basis of structural and theoretical studies, two main types of triphosphinoborane structures can be distinguished. In the first type, all three electron lone pairs interact with the formally empty p orbital of the central boron atom, resulting in delocalized π bonding, whereas in the second type, one localized P═B bond and two P-B bonds are observed. The Lewis acidic-basic properties of triphosphinoboranes during the reaction of (tBu2P)2BPiPr2 with H3B·SMe2 were analyzed. The P-B bond-containing compound mentioned above not only formed an adduct with BH3 but also activated the B-H bond of the borane molecule, resulting in the incorporation of the BH2 unit into two phosphorus atoms and migration of a hydride to the boron atom of the parent triphosphinoborane. The structures of the triphosphinoboranes were confirmed by single-crystal X-ray analysis, multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and elemental analysis.