Xinmei Wang, Kangmin He, Xue-Yang Luo, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Jindian Xu, Yu Gu, Qianqian Ji, Yan Xia, Bin Xu, Li-Hao Huang, Jiaxi Wang
{"title":"Integrated Diagnostic and Mechanistic Profiling of Moyamoya and Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease via Serum Metabolic Fingerprinting Based on SCs-ZIF-8@Au Nanomaterials","authors":"Xinmei Wang, Kangmin He, Xue-Yang Luo, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Jindian Xu, Yu Gu, Qianqian Ji, Yan Xia, Bin Xu, Li-Hao Huang, Jiaxi Wang","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c13089","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c13089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accurate differentiation between moyamoya disease (MMD) and intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) remains clinically challenging yet crucial for guiding effective therapeutic strategies. Here, we developed a novel nanomaterial platform (SCs-ZIF-8@Au) to perform high-resolution serum metabolic fingerprinting using nanoparticle-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. By integrating machine learning algorithms with metabolic profiling, we established a robust diagnostic model that accurately distinguished MMD from ICAD and healthy controls (HCs). In a cohort comprising 178 MMD patients, 75 ICAD patients, and 103 HCs, our classifier achieved area under the curve (AUC) values of 0.97 (MMD vs HCs), 0.98 (ICAD vs HCs), and 0.88 (MMD vs ICAD). Beyond diagnostics, mechanistic exploration of key metabolic biomarkers revealed that reduced mevalonic acid in MMD impairs endothelial tube formation and migration by disrupting tight junction integrity, attenuating VEGF signaling, and altering calcium homeostasis in human endothelial cells. These findings link dysregulated mevalonate metabolism to pathological angiogenesis in MMD and support its role in endothelial dysfunction. Together, our study provides a clinically applicable, noninvasive diagnostic tool for MMD and ICAD, while uncovering a previously unrecognized pathogenic mechanism that connects systemic metabolic alterations to cerebrovascular remodeling in MMD.</p>","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"55874–55890"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149126074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying the Heterointerface Contribution in a Cu7S4/CuCo2S4 Cathode with LiCl-All-Phenyl Complex Electrolyte for High-Performance Magnesium/Lithium Hybrid-Ion Batteries","authors":"Xuehui Wang, Guangwu Zhang, Kaifeng Huang, Xiang Fang, Cheng Wang, Haojun Xu, Chenchen Zhang, Xiaoya Wang, Qiye Zheng, Jinyun Liu","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c16394","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c16394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heterostructured cathodes are widely credited with accelerating conversion kinetics in magnesium/lithium hybrid-ion batteries (MLHBs). Here, we construct a Cu<sub>7</sub>S<sub>4</sub>/CuCo<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub> heterostructure in a single hydrothermal process, in which the two phases sharing a common Cu–S sublattice form a coherent interface within individual particles. By fixing the phase ratio independently through Rietveld refinement and benchmarking against both phase-pure constituents under identical conditions, we show that the composite exceeds the composition-weighted rule-of-mixtures prediction by a factor of 3.4 at 0.3 A g<sup>–1</sup>. Because the constituents exhibit closely comparable charge–discharge profiles, the redox chemistry itself is unchanged, and this strongly super-additive response can primarily originate from the interface rather than from composition. Elemental mapping and surface-sensitive XPS, together with the coexistence of Li<sub>2</sub>S and MgS in in situ XRD, further reveal that storage is spatially partitioned: Li<sup>+</sup> converts the particle interior while Mg<sup>2+</sup> reacts predominantly in the near-surface region, so that the two carriers occupy complementary regions of the same particle. Comparing APC-LiCl with APC-LiTFSI at matched salt concentration, and identical in every other respect, localizes the electrolyte effect to the electrode interface, where the chloride-containing system suppresses the progressive Mg-surface passivation that drives continuous overpotential growth in the TFSI<sup>–</sup> system. The resulting cell delivers 400 mAh g<sup>–1</sup> at 0.3 A g<sup>–1</sup> and retains 152.56 mAh g<sup>–1</sup> after 330 cycles at 1.0 A g<sup>–1</sup> at ∼100% Coulombic efficiency. DFT calculations indicate increased states near the Fermi level and a localized interfacial electrostatic gradient consistent with the measured kinetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"56223–56235"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149126116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Near Infrared-Activatable Methylene Blue Polypeptide Codelivery of the NO Prodrug via π–π Stacking for Cascade Reactive Oxygen Species Amplification-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy”","authors":"Yu Zhang, Peng Zhao, Xiaoai Chen, Chang Xu, Jingzhe Guo, Xiongwei Qu, Xiuli Hu, Hui Gao, Pingsheng Huang, Jimin Zhang","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c19623","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c19623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"56920–56924"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149147215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tandra Ghoshal, Sajan Singh, Hazel Neill, Farzan Gity, Joy Roy, Fernando Q. Borbon, Francisco Servando Aguirre-Tostado, Paul K. Hurley, Robert M. Wallace, Michael A. Morris
{"title":"Addition and Correction to “Polymer Brush-Assisted Fabrication of Layered Metal Oxide Heterostructures for Future Electronic Device Applications”","authors":"Tandra Ghoshal, Sajan Singh, Hazel Neill, Farzan Gity, Joy Roy, Fernando Q. Borbon, Francisco Servando Aguirre-Tostado, Paul K. Hurley, Robert M. Wallace, Michael A. Morris","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c19445","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c19445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"56914–56915"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149147238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shakil N. Afraj, Xingnan Qi, Yu-Qi Li, Mohanapriya Subramani, Vishal Yeddu, Yameen Ahmed, Mohammed Misbah Uddin, Praveen B. Managutti, Bor Kae Chang, Ming-Chou Chen, Sergey Dayneko, Antoine Pavesic Junior, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Ahmed L. Abdelhady
{"title":"Triaryl Imidazoles as a Hole-Transporting Interfacial Modifying Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells","authors":"Shakil N. Afraj, Xingnan Qi, Yu-Qi Li, Mohanapriya Subramani, Vishal Yeddu, Yameen Ahmed, Mohammed Misbah Uddin, Praveen B. Managutti, Bor Kae Chang, Ming-Chou Chen, Sergey Dayneko, Antoine Pavesic Junior, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Ahmed L. Abdelhady","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c17763","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c17763","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The integration of hole-transporting organic interfacial modifying layers (OIMLs) into perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has attracted significant interest due to their ability to improve performance and stability. However, the development of cost-effective and straightforward methods for synthesizing OIMLs remains underexplored. In this work, we present the design and synthesis of two novel bromoaryl-substituted, imidazole-derived OIMLs: 2,4,5-tris(4-bromophenyl)-1<em>H</em>-imidazole (<strong>TPIM-Br</strong>) and 4,5-bis(4-bromophenyl)–2-(5-bromothiophen-2-yl)-1<em>H</em>-imidazole (<strong>DPIM-TBr</strong>). We investigated the thermal, optical, and electrochemical properties of the molecules, confirming their potential as OIMLs in PSCs. The computed energy levels and electrostatic surface potentials (ESPs) of these molecules were examined to elucidate the charge distribution and electron density within <strong>TPIM-Br</strong> and <strong>DPIM-TBr</strong>. Comprehensive characterization demonstrated that incorporation of the OIMLs enabled more efficient charge extraction and improved perovskite crystallinity. The champion device yielded <strong>25.85%</strong> power conversion efficiency for <strong>TPIM-Br</strong>, compared to the control's <strong>23.32%</strong>. This work presents a strategy to enhance the performance of inverted PSCs by incorporating OIMLs, offering a promising pathway for future developments in PSC technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"56256–56265"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu Zhou, Min Ju, Kaining Shen, Chenxi Xu, Mei Hong, Shihe Yang
{"title":"Locally Controllable Catalytic Environment Constructed by Lewis Acids Enables Highly Efficient and Stable Water Splitting","authors":"Yu Zhou, Min Ju, Kaining Shen, Chenxi Xu, Mei Hong, Shihe Yang","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c16471","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsami.6c16471","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Green hydrogen production from seawater electrolysis offers a promising route to harness intermittent renewable energy, particularly in resource-rich coastal regions. However, Cl<sup>–</sup> in seawater triggers parasitic side reactions and corrosion, which degrade both the activity and durability of electrocatalysts and thus hinder the practical deployment of this technology. Here, a hard Lewis acid overlayer was constructed on the catalyst surface to promote water dissociation and accumulate in-situ generated OH<sup>–</sup> in the vicinity of the active sites. Such locally generated alkalinity suppresses chlorine chemistry at the catalyst surface. Moreover, the strong affinity between the Lewis acid layer and OH<sup>–</sup> limits the capture of hydroxide by Mg<sup>2+</sup> and Ca<sup>2+</sup> in bulk seawater, thereby alleviating precipitate formation. The Cr<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>(30)-NiMoO<sub>4</sub>(10) catalyst exhibits exceptional hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction activity, with overpotentials of 56 mV and 220 mV at 10 mA cm<sup>–</sup><sup>2</sup>. The overall water splitting based on the catalysts for both electrodes reaches a low voltage of 1.72 [email protected] A cm<sup>–</sup><sup>2</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"18 41","pages":"56236–56245"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Alfonso-González,Raúl Peño,Jonathan Perry,Juan M. Coronado,Alicia Bayon,Alberto de la Calle
{"title":"Electrically Enabled Isothermal CeO2 Thermochemical Water Splitting below 900 °C","authors":"Elena Alfonso-González,Raúl Peño,Jonathan Perry,Juan M. Coronado,Alicia Bayon,Alberto de la Calle","doi":"10.1021/acsenergylett.6c02430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c02430","url":null,"abstract":"Ceria-based thermochemical cycles offer a promising route to solar hydrogen, but require reduction above 1400 °C and large temperature swings. Here, building on electrically assisted CeO2 reduction, we demonstrate repeated isothermal CeO2-based water-splitting cycles at 700–900 °C and 0.5–2.0 V. Porous CeO2−YSZ bilayer pellets with different composition ratios undergo electrically assisted reduction and steam re-oxidation at the same temperature, producing O2 and H2 in separate steps without thermal cycling. The process reaches H2/O2 ratios up to 1.9, reproducible H2 productivity over 10 cycles, and H2 yields up to 49 ± 2 μmol gCeO2−1 cycle−1 after only 20 min of electrically assisted reduction. Extended-reduction experiments show that the best composition remains only ∼0.10 V below the applied bias on an equivalent thermodynamic-voltage basis. Reactor-scale projections based on gas utilization in an existing ceria reactor give a solar-to-H2 efficiency of 5.6% without assuming improvements to the CeO2−YSZ architecture.","PeriodicalId":16,"journal":{"name":"ACS Energy Letters ","volume":"153 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre‑Embedded Intramolecular Donor–Acceptor Engineering in Isoreticular Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution","authors":"Xiang-Hao Han,Shun-Feng Li,Ya Lu,Mengyao Su,Jun Lin,Meimei Zhang,Kian Ping Loh,Yubin Fu,Kai Leng","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79158","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike conventional intermolecular donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks (COFs) assembled from independent donor and acceptor monomers, pre-embedded intramolecular donor–acceptor engineering covalently locks donor and acceptor units within a single building block. The resulting framework facilitates exciton conversion, utilization of photogenerated charge, and electron transfer to the platium (Pt) cocatalyst, enabling a 150-fold enhancement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gisang Park,Raj Kumar Bera,Joon Yong Park,Yuna Hwang,Hosik Lee,Ki Min Nam
{"title":"Contrasting Oxygen and Chlorine Evolution Selectivity in Tunnel and Layered MnO2 Electrocatalysts","authors":"Gisang Park,Raj Kumar Bera,Joon Yong Park,Yuna Hwang,Hosik Lee,Ki Min Nam","doi":"10.1021/acsami.6c17410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6c17410","url":null,"abstract":"Controlling competing oxygen and chlorine evolution is a key challenge in chloride-containing electrolysis, particularly under neutral saline conditions relevant to seawater electrolysis. Here, two phase-pure MnO2 polymorphs with contrasting crystallographic frameworks, α-MnO2 and δ-MnO2, were synthesized through surfactant-free routes and evaluated under comparable conditions. Tetragonal α-MnO2 with a 2 × 2 tunnel framework preferentially promoted oxygen evolution, whereas layered δ-MnO2 favored chlorine evolution. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed no detectable chlorine signal for α-MnO2 after chlorine evolution, while δ-MnO2 exhibited pronounced chloride-associated surface modification. Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations further revealed distinct defect characteristics and substantially different oxygen-vacancy formation tendencies between the two frameworks. These observations suggest that framework-dependent defect formation influences chloride-associated surface chemistry and contributes to the contrasting oxygen and chlorine evolution selectivity. Importantly, the selectivity trend was retained when the MnO2 phases were integrated onto iridium-ruthenium-based dimensionally stable anodes. These results demonstrate that contrasting crystallographic frameworks and their associated defect characteristics can markedly alter anodic selectivity and provide a structural basis for designing selective electrodes for chloride-containing electrochemical systems.","PeriodicalId":5,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}