A hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) electrode and electron spin resonance (ESR) methods were used to continuously monitor and analyze the autoxidation and prooxidation of Danshensu in aqueous solutions with various pH values. We found that Danshensu exhibited...

Octanol-water partition coefficient and water solubility are two important physicochemical properties of organic compounds in medicinal chemistry and environmental chemistry studies. They are used as critical parameters in quantitative structure-acti...

Mixed quantum-classical methods are of great interest in simulating dynamic processes of complex molecular systems. We investigated the application of the Ehrenfest method, the surface hopping method, and the mixed quantum classical Liouville equatio...

Reactions between transition metal oxide clusters and hydrocarbon molecules were extensively studied to reveal the mechanisms of the related catalytic processes at a molecular level. Compared with transition metal oxide cluster cations, anions are us...

Kinetics of the reactions of ozone with diethylamine (DEA) and triethylamine (TEA) were investigated in a self-made Teflon chamber. Experiments were conducted under pseudo-first-order decay conditions using excess DEAand TEA. Cyclohexane was added to...

Large-scale core-shell SiO2/Pt particles were synthesized via layer-by-layer assembly. The platinum shell was found to be about 26 nmthick and consisted of Pt nanoparticle aggregates. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) was employed to evaluate the electrocataly...

In this paper we demonstrated a novel type of electrochemical Hg2+ biosensor based on a DNA-modified electrode. Ferrocenyl-modified T-rich DNA (DNA-Fc) molecules were synthesized for use as electrochemical probes. We then fixed these DNA-Fc probes on...

Organic semiconductors are charge carrier-transporting molecular solids with π-orbital channels. Organic semiconductors are π-systems that can be created via the molecular engineering of π-orbitals. In this review, we present a pattern in physical or...

Significant data sets of crystallographic van der Waals radii for the noble gases, the non-metal elements, and the metal elements that have appeared within the last seven decades are summarized and examined systematically. From the most useful sets a...

Recent advances in hybrid molecular materials based organoimido-substituted polyoxometalates (POMs) are reviewed. Related imidoylation and C-C coupling reactions developed in our group are highlighted.

In this review, we summarize a newly discovered one-pot process for the synthesis of aromatic oli amide and oli hydrazide macrocycles. A mechanism for these highly efficient one-pot macrocyclization reactions is presented and discussed. The unprecede...

Two new compounds, Sr6Sb4Co3O14(OH)10 (SSC) and Sr6Sb4Mn3O14(OH)10 (SSM), were synthesized under hydrothermal conditions in an alkaline medium. Their structures were determined by powder X-ray diffraction using Rietveld analysis, and the topology of ...

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly method for the resolution of racemic 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol (BINOL) was developed by inclusion complexation with the cheap and readily accessible (R)/(S)-N,N,N-trimethyl-1-hydroxyl-3-methyl-2-butanaminiumio...

The molecule-ion interaction between a sugar and a salt is important and significant in biophysics and biochemistry. In this paper, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) technology was used to examine the molecule-ion adducts of a series of inorganic salts...

We investigated the self-assembly behavior of bolaamphiphilic tetraethyl ester-di-L-glutamic acid-N,N'-hexadecanedioic amide (L-HDGE) and its enantiomer D-HDGE at the air/water interface. The self-assembled structures of the HDGE (L-HDGE or D-HDGE) m...

The interaction between [1,1'-binaphthalene]-2,2'-diols (BINOL) and a solid supported bilayer lipid membrane (s-BLM) was studied by cyclic voltammetry and alternating current (AC) impedance measurements. Results indicate that BINOL interacts with s-B...

The hydrothermal synthesis of ordered mesoporous materials with high stability at high temperatures is currently a hot topic in the materials field. This review covers recent developments in the synthesis of ordered mesoporous silicas, titanosilicate...

A mesoporous SiO2@Fe3O4 nanocomposite was prepared by the sol-gel method. The nanocomposite was modified with a thiol and then a long carbon chain oxime carbapalladacycle complex as grafted by a—SCH2— linkage. The catalyst was characterized by transm...

A series of Al2O3-doped (0.5%-3.0%, molar fraction) sulfated tin oxide catalysts were prepared by a co-precipitation method. The structures and textural properties of these catalysts were characterized by N2 adsorption, thermogravimetric (TG) analysi...

Magnetic sulfonated carbon-based solid acid catalysts (Fe/C-SO3H) were prepared by the pyrolysis of cellulose and subsequent sulfonation. The catalyst samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy ...

MoOx supported on pure monoclinic zirconia (m-ZrO2) and tetra nal zirconia (t-ZrO2) with different Mo surface densities were prepared and their structures were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and temperature-programmed reductio...

Carbon/alumina (titania) composites have unique physicochemical properties and have been widely used in adsorption and catalysis. Carbon in these composites greatly influences the sintering and phase transformation behavior of the oxides. Calcining c...

Fullerene has been extensively used in functional devices requiring electron transfer between fullerene and functional molecules. The investigation of multi-component assembly structures of fullerene and functional molecules on electrode surfaces wil...

We added 2,4,6-tris[bis(methoxymethyl)-amino]-1,3,5-triazine as a crosslinking agent and diphenyliodonium hexafluorophosphate as an acid generator to phenolic resin, which is a thermosensitive polymer. A topographically patterned polydimethylsiloxane...

Photodissociation dynamics of n-C3H7I and i-C3H7I at 266 nm were investigated using an ion imaging technique combined with resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI). Information on energy disposal and a nonadiabatic transition between the dis...

To determine the origin of the radiolytic product singlet state of hydrocarbons, the effect of water on the γ-radiolysis and pulse radiolysis of cyclohexane (C6H12)-tributylphosphate (TBP) solution was studied. In the γ-radiolysis of C6H12-TBP soluti...

We measured the non-coincidence effect (NCE) in the Raman spectrum of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) in aqueous methanol at -13 ℃ (below the lower critical solution temperature, LCST). This was done to investigate the solubility of PINPAM in aq...

The silylation of thin-film glass sheets with hexamethyl disilazane results in hydrophobic glass surfaces with water contact angles larger than 90°. The adsorption behavior of Rhodamine 6G (R6G) and methylene blue (MB) molecules on the hydrophobic gl...

Aggregation induced fluorescence blue-shift of the newly synthesized zinc bis (8-hydroxyquinoline) modified with cholesteryl (Zn(ChQ)2) is studied by static and picosecond transient emission spectroscopy. Fast solvent-induced charge transfer is found...

A monomer of diarylfluorene containing triphenylamine and dialkylfluorene groups at the 9-position and its copolymers, TPAFF-co-F and TPAFF-co-P, were successfully synthesized by a Suzuki cross-coupling polycondensation to obtain stable and highly ef...

Problems associated with intrinsically destructive sensing mechanisms of organic field-effect transistors constitute one of the main obstacles to using them for the practical applications in sensing and switching. Here we report a smart system, in wh...

We have previously studied molecular fuzzy symmetry and mainly focused on the fuzzy point group symmetry and less on the fuzzy space group symmetry. As a kind of one-dimensional linear fuzzy periodic molecule, polyynes have been studied by us. Althou...

The ion-pairs of the anionic surfactants (dodecyl sulfonate, dodecyl carboxylate) and the cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+) were optimized using density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LY/6-31G level and the interaction between the surfactants and ions were...

Methyl arachidonyl fluorophosphonate (MAFP) is an inhibitor of the fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). We studied the phosphonylation reaction of the serine241 (Ser241)-serine217 (Ser217)-lysine142 (Lys142) catalytic triad of FAAH by MAFP, which leads...

Over the last half century, the overwhelming advances in biological sciences have been greatly aided by the physical and technological innovations, such as X-ray diffraction methods, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectroscopy, etc. In rec...

Protein-protein interactions (PPI) play essential roles in biological processes. Understanding PPI from a structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic point of view gives us a better understanding about these building blocks of living systems. This review ...

The slow dynamics of hydration water has long been recognized as a major determinant of protein stability, function, and folding. However, an atomic level mechanism is still lacking on the origin of the slow dynamics of hydration water and how it is ...

Many in vitro techniques have been employed to elucidate the interaction between DNA and protein. However, one of the most significant differences between in vitro and in vivo studies is that DNA fragments used for in vitro experiments are usually mu...

The amyloid fibrillization of proteins and peptides is related to many human diseases including Alzheimer's disease. Currently there is no effective therapy for these diseases, because the mechanism of the amyloid fibrillization is still not clear. U...

Purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium (Tch.) tepidum is a moderate thermophile growing in an optimal temperature range of 48-50℃. Its light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) possesses heterogeneous compositions of apoprotein and carotenoid (Car),...

Luminescent nanoparticles (dav=35 nm) of Eu(tta)3dpbt (dpbt= 2-(N,N-diethylanilin-4-yl)-4,6-bis (3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)-1,3,5-triazine, tta=thenoyltrifluoroacetonato) protected by bovine serum albumin (BSA) were prepared by a precipitation method....

We report the controlled fabrication of Ni nanotube and nanowire arrays by electrodeposition using anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) as a template. Ni nanotube arrays or nanowire arrays were obtained by changing the concentration of the electrolyte and the...

Using tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) as a silicon source and tetrapropylammonium hydroxide (TPAOH) as a structure-directing agent, we prepared highly b-oriented silicalite-1 thin films with smooth surfaces and excellent continuity by optimizing the p...

We successfully prepared ZnO thin films through spin-coating a mixture of zinc acetate dihydrate, poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and deionized H2O. Smooth and pure ZnOthin films were obtained by using PEO, because of its low thermal decomposition tempera...

N-carboxyl propionyl chitosan sodium (CPCS) was used to reinforce chitosan (CS) rods by an in-situ precipitation method. Fourier transforminfrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, scanning electron micros...