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Sensors that can accurately assess oxygen (O) concentrations in real time are crucial for a wide range of applications spanning personal health monitoring, environmental protection, and industrial process development. Here a high-performance chemiresistive sensor that allows for the rapid detection of O at room temperature under visible light illumination is described. Inspired by the operating principles of dye-sensitized solar cells, the chemiresistor is based on a single-walled carbon nanotube-titania hybrid (SWCNT-TiO) bearing a molecular Re-based photosensitizer [(bpy)(CO)ReBr] (bpy = 4,4'-[P(O)(OH)]-2,2'-bipyridine). The resulting SWCNT-TiO-Re composite undergoes photoinduced charge transfer that is sensitive to ppb levels of O, thereby yielding a rapid and reversible chemiresistive response. Owing to its unique mode of operation and robust components, the sensor shows a high degree of selectivity for O over a range of interferants, humidity tolerance, and multimonth benchtop stability. The approach presented herein demonstrates the translatability of concepts in light harvesting to the development of robust, rapid, and low-power sensing technologies.
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Integr Environ Assess Manag
September 2025
Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
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September 2025
College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200235, China.
Euglena sanguinea (Ehrenberg 1831) is one of the earliest reported species within the genus Euglena. Its prolific proliferation leading to red algal bloom has garnered significant scientific attention due to its ecological and environmental impacts. Despite this, research on E.
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September 2025
Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Multivalent protein-protein interactions play essential roles in mediating liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) that drives biomolecular condensate formation. Here, we systematically investigate how the spatial distribution and relative size of protein binding domains (PBDs) would influence LLPS in a mixture of spherical proteins and RNA single strands by using a patchy-particle polymer model, wherein each protein contains a fixed number of PBDs on the surface distributed closely or sparsely. Intriguingly, we find that LLPS behavior exhibits a nontrivial dependence on the cooperative interplay between PBD distribution and protein size: while sparsely distributed PBDs are more favorable to LLPS for small proteins, closely packed PBDs facilitate LLPS for larger counterparts.
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September 2025
Department of Applied Sciences, National Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi 110036, India.
The degradation of colorless tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH), a widely used antibiotic, is a significant environmental concern due to its persistence in aquatic systems. The zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanoparticle fabricated melamine-formaldehyde polymer (MFP)-based nanocomposite (ZnS-MFP) was prepared via a hydrothermal polymerization method, followed by surface modification through a simple precipitation route. The degradation of TCH through photocatalysis adheres to pseudo-first-order kinetics with a significantly faster rate under natural sunlight than under artificial bulb light.
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September 2025
OOO Diagnosticheskij tsentr Zreniye, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Objective: This study evaluated the effect of sequential therapy with different dosages of Mexidol on the stabilization of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).
Material And Methods: The study included 80 patients (160 eyes) with stage II and III POAG, randomized into three groups comparable by age, gender, and distribution of glaucoma stage. All patients received sequential therapy with Mexidol (14 days parenterally followed by 90 days orally).