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The antimicrobial peptides and their potential clinical applications. Open
Nowadays, the bacterial drug resistance leads to serious healthy problem worldwide due to the long-term use and the abuse of traditional antibiotics result in drug resistance of bacteria. Finding a new antibiotic is becoming more and more …
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Analysis of the Mitochondrial Membrane Potential Using the Cationic JC-1 Dye as a Sensitive Fluorescent Probe Open
In recent years, fluorescent dyes have been frequently used for monitoring mitochondrial membrane potential to evaluate mitochondrial viability and function. However, the reproducibility of the results across laboratories strongly depends …
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Mechanistic Insights into Photodegradation of Organic Dyes Using Heterostructure Photocatalysts Open
Due to its low cost, environmentally friendly process, and lack of secondary contamination, the photodegradation of dyes is regarded as a promising technology for industrial wastewater treatment. This technology demonstrates the light-enha…
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Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers Open
This Review provides an overview of the emerging concepts of catalysts, membranes, and membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for water electrolyzers with anion-exchange membranes (AEMs), also known as zero-gap alkaline water electrolyzers. …
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Dendrimers as Nanocarriers for Nucleic Acid and Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy Open
Dendrimers are highly branched polymers with easily modifiable surfaces. This makes them promising structures for functionalization and also for conjugation with drugs and DNA/RNA. Their architecture, which can be controlled by different s…
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Beyond the Hofmeister Series: Ion-Specific Effects on Proteins and Their Biological Functions Open
Ions differ in their ability to salt out proteins from solution as expressed in the lyotropic or Hofmeister series of cations and anions. Since its first formulation in 1888, this series has been invoked in a plethora of effects, going bey…
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Adsorption of Methylene Blue in Water onto Activated Carbon by Surfactant Modification Open
In this paper, the enhanced adsorption of methylene blue (MB) dye ion on the activated carbon (AC) modified by three surfactants in aqueous solution was researched. Anionic surfactants—sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and sodium dodecyl sulfona…
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Factors Influencing the Antibacterial Activity of Chitosan and Chitosan Modified by Functionalization Open
The biomedical and therapeutic importance of chitosan and chitosan derivatives is the subject of interdisciplinary research. In this analysis, we intended to consolidate some of the recent discoveries regarding the potential of chitosan an…
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Engineering Robust Ag‐Decorated Polydopamine Nano‐Photothermal Platforms to Combat Bacterial Infection and Prompt Wound Healing Open
Polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles have emerged as an attractive biomimetic photothermal agent in photothermal antibacterial therapy due to their ease of synthesis, good biodegradability, long‐term safety, and excellent photostability. Howev…
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Multi-anionic and -cationic compounds: new high entropy materials for advanced Li-ion batteries Open
For the first time, a multi-anionic and multi-cationic high entropy oxyhalide is presented as high capacity cathode for Li-ion batteries.
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Synergy of Single-Atom Ni<sub>1</sub> and Ru<sub>1</sub> Sites on CeO<sub>2</sub> for Dry Reforming of CH<sub>4</sub> Open
Heterogeneous catalysis performs on specific sites of a catalyst surface even if specific sites of many catalysts during catalysis could not be identified readily. Design of a catalyst by managing catalytic sites on an atomic scale is sign…
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Mechanistic understanding of the adsorption and thermodynamic aspects of cationic methylene blue dye onto cellulosic olive stones biomass from wastewater Open
In the current study, the mechanistic understanding of the adsorption isotherm and thermodynamic aspects of cationic methylene blue (MB) dye adsorption onto cellulosic olive stones biomass from wastewater were investigated. The batch adsor…
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Anticancer peptide: Physicochemical property, functional aspect and trend in clinical application (Review) Open
Cancer is currently ineffectively treated using therapeutic drugs, and is also able to resist drug action, resulting in increased side effects following drug treatment. A novel therapeutic strategy against cancer cells is the use of antica…
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Regulation of Macrophage Recognition through the Interplay of Nanoparticle Surface Functionality and Protein Corona Open
Using a family of cationic gold nanoparticles (NPs) with similar size and charge, we demonstrate that proper surface engineering can control the nature and identity of protein corona in physiological serum conditions. The protein coronas w…
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Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks for mitochondria-targeted radiotherapy-radiodynamic therapy Open
Selective delivery of photosensitizers to mitochondria of cancer cells can enhance the efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT). Though cationic Ru-based photosensitizers accumulate in mitochondria, they require excitation with less penetrat…
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Chitosan Based Self-Assembled Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery Open
Chitosan is a cationic polysaccharide that is usually obtained by alkaline deacetylation of chitin poly(N-acetylglucosamine). It is biocompatible, biodegradable, mucoadhesive, and non-toxic. These excellent biological properties make chito…
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Malachite green “a cationic dye” and its removal from aqueous solution by adsorption Open
Adsorption can be efficiently employed for the removal of various toxic dyes from water and wastewater. In this article, the authors reviewed variety of adsorbents used by various researchers for the removal of malachite green (MG) dye fro…
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Anionic Redox Activity in a Newly Zn‐Doped Sodium Layered Oxide P2‐Na<sub>2/3</sub>Mn<sub>1−</sub><i><sub>y</sub></i>Zn<i><sub>y</sub></i>O<sub>2</sub> (0 < <i>y</i> < 0.23) Open
The revival of the Na‐ion battery concept has prompted intense research activities toward new sustainable Na‐based insertion compounds and their implementation in full Na‐ion cells. Efforts are parted between Na‐based polyanionic and layer…
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Enhanced adsorptive removal of anionic and cationic dyes from single or mixed dye solutions using MOF PCN-222 Open
MOF PCN-222 exhibits excellent adsorption/removal capacities for numerous anionic and cationic dyes individually and together in solutions.
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Cation–π interactions in protein–ligand binding: theory and data-mining reveal different roles for lysine and arginine Open
The interactions of neutral aromatic ligands with cationic arginine, histidine and lysine amino acid residues have been studied with ab initio calculations, symmetry adapted perturbation theory (SAPT), and a systematic meta-analysis of X-r…
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Mechanism unravelling for ultrafast and selective <sup>99</sup>TcO<sub>4</sub><sup>−</sup> uptake by a radiation-resistant cationic covalent organic framework: a combined radiological experiment and molecular dynamics simulation study Open
Separation of TcO4– by a cationic covalent organic framework is achieved for the first time, showing advantages of extremely fast sorption kinetics, ultrahigh uptake capacity, good anion-exchange selectivity, and excellent radiation resist…
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Successful Decontamination of <sup>99</sup>TcO<sub>4</sub><sup>−</sup> in Groundwater at Legacy Nuclear Sites by a Cationic Metal‐Organic Framework with Hydrophobic Pockets Open
99 Tc contamination at legacy nuclear sites is a serious and unsolved environmental issue. The selective remediation of 99 TcO 4 − in the presence of a large excess of NO 3 − and SO 4 2− from natural waste systems represents a significant …
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Salting-in Effect of Zwitterionic Polymer Hydrogel Facilitates Atmospheric Water Harvesting Open
Hygroscopic salt-hydrogel composite sorbents have attracted increasing attention for atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) applications but suffer from the salting-out effect. To this end, this work, for the first time, discovers that the sal…
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Poly(2‐oxazoline)s: A comprehensive overview of polymer structures and their physical properties Open
Poly(2‐oxazoline)s (PAOx) are of increasing importance for a wide range of applications, mostly in the biomedical field. This review describes the synthesis of 2‐oxazoline monomers and their cationic ring‐opening polymerization, and gives …
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Liquid‐Like Ionic Conduction in Solid Lithium and Sodium Monocarba‐<i>closo</i>‐Decaborates Near or at Room Temperature Open
Both LiCB9H10 and NaCB9H10 exhibit liquid-like cationic conductivities (≥0.03 S cm–1) in their disordered hexagonal phases near or at room temperature. Furthermore, these unprecedented conductivities and favorable stabilities enabled by th…
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Biosorption mechanism of Methylene Blue from aqueous solution onto White Pine (Pinus durangensis) sawdust: Effect of operating conditions Open
In this work, the biosorption mechanism of the cationic dye Methylene Blue (MB) on natural White Pine \nsawdust (NS) (Pinus durangensis) was investigated. Likewise, the surface charge distribution of NS was \ndetermined, and its point of z…
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Removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solution with magnetite/pectin and magnetite/silica/pectin hybrid nanocomposites: kinetic, isotherm and mechanism analysis Open
Novel adsorbents, magnetite nanoparticles modified with pectin shell and silica/pectin double shell, were fabricated and tested for single dye and dye mixture adsorption from water samples.
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The Emergence of Anion−π Catalysis Open
The objective of this Account is to summarize the first five years of anion-π catalysis. The general idea of anion-π catalysis is to stabilize anionic transition states on aromatic surfaces. This is complementary to the stabilization of ca…
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Simultaneous Cationic and Anionic Ligand Exchange For Colloidally Stable CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> Nanocrystals Open
Postsynthesis ligand exchange has been employed extensively on lead halide perovskite (LHP) nanocrystals (NCs), but the complex ligand shell composition of the starting NCs prevented a clear understanding of the exchange process, and the s…
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Cationic and anionic redox in lithium-ion based batteries Open
This review will present the current understanding, experimental evidence and future direction of anionic and cationic redox for Li-ion batteries.