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Nanotheranostics and its role in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of COVID-19 纳米肿瘤学及其在COVID-19诊断、治疗和预防中的作用

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0611-y

Lipsa Leena Panigrahi, Banishree Sahoo, Manoranjan Arakha

{"title":"Nanotheranostics and its role in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of COVID-19","authors":"Lipsa Leena Panigrahi, Banishree Sahoo, Manoranjan Arakha","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0611-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0611-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Microbe-related, especially viral-related pandemics have currently paralyzed the world and such pathogenesis is expected to rise in the upcoming years. Although tremendous efforts are being made to develop antiviral drugs, very limited progress has been made in this direction. The nanotheranostic approach can be a highly potential rescue to combat this pandemic. Nanoparticles (NPs) due to their high specificity and biofunctionalization ability could be utilized efficiently for prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment against microbial infections. In this context, titanium oxide, silver, gold NPs, etc. have already been utilized against deadly viruses like influenza, Ebola, HIV, and HBV. The discovery of sophisticated nanovaccines is under investigation and of prime importance to induce reproducible and strong immune responses against difficult pathogens. This review focuses on highlighting the role of various nano-domain materials such as metallic NPs, magnetic NPs, and quantum dots in the biomedical applications to combat the deadly microbial infections. Further, it also discusses the nanovaccines those are already available for various microbial diseases or are in clinical trials. Finally, it gives a perspective on the various nanotechnologies presently employed for efficient diagnosis and therapy against disease causing microbial infections, and how advancement in this field can benefit the health sector remarkably.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40697914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bimetallic Ni-Mo nitride@C3N4 for highly active and stable water catalysis 双金属Ni-Mo nitride@C3N4高活性和稳定的水催化

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0613-9

Xinping Li, Min Zhou, Zhuoxun Yin, Xinzhi Ma, Yang Zhou

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SnO/SnO2 heterojunction: an alternative candidate for sensing NO2 with fast response at room temperature SnO/SnO2异质结：一种在室温下具有快速响应的NO2传感候选材料

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0609-5

Pengtao Wang, Wanyin Ge, Xiaohua Jia, Jingtao Huang, Xinmeng Zhang, Jing Lu

{"title":"SnO/SnO2 heterojunction: an alternative candidate for sensing NO2 with fast response at room temperature","authors":"Pengtao Wang, Wanyin Ge, Xiaohua Jia, Jingtao Huang, Xinmeng Zhang, Jing Lu","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0609-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0609-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div>The SnO2-based family is a traditional but important gas-sensitive material. However, the requirement for high working temperature limits its practical application. Much work has been done to explore ways to improve its gas-sensing performance at room temperature (RT). For this report, SnO2, SnO, and SnO/SnO2 heterojunction was successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal combined with subsequent calcination. Pure SnO2 requires a high operating temperature (145 °C), while SnO/SnO2 heterojunction exhibits an excellent performance for sensing NO2 at RT. Moreover, SnO/SnO2 exhibits a fast response, of 32 s, to 50 ppm NO2 at RT (27 °C), which is much faster than that of SnO (139 s). The superior sensing properties of SnO/SnO2 heterojunction are attributed to the unique hierarchical structures, large number of adsorption sites, and enhanced electron transport. Our results show that SnO/SnO2 heterojunction can be used as a promising high-performance NO2 sensitive material at RT.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49001967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Z-scheme mechanism for methylene blue degradation over Fe2O3/g-C3N4 nanocomposite prepared via one-pot exfoliation and magnetization of g-C3N4 g-C3N4磁化制备的Fe2O3/g-C3N4纳米复合材料降解亚甲基蓝的Z-scheme机制

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0612-x

Shemeena Mullakkattuthodi, Vijayasree Haridas, Sankaran Sugunan, Binitha N. Narayanan

{"title":"Z-scheme mechanism for methylene blue degradation over Fe2O3/g-C3N4 nanocomposite prepared via one-pot exfoliation and magnetization of g-C3N4","authors":"Shemeena Mullakkattuthodi, Vijayasree Haridas, Sankaran Sugunan, Binitha N. Narayanan","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0612-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0612-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>The low surface area, high recombination rate of photogenerated charge carriers, narrow visible range activity, and difficulty in the separation from cleaned solutions limit the wide application of g-C3N4 as a photocatalyst. Herein, we have succeeded in developing a one-pot strategy to overcome the above-mentioned difficulties of g-C3N4. The broadening of the visible-light response range and inducing magnetic nature to g-C3N4 was succeeded by preparing a nanocomposite with Fe2O3 via a facile solvothermal method. The preparation method additionally imparted layer exfoliation of g-C3N4 as evident from the XRD patterns and TEM images. The strong interaction between the components is revealed from the XPS analysis. The broadened visible-light absorbance of Fe2O3/g-C3N4 with a Z-scheme photocatalytic degradation mechanism is well evident from the UV—Vis DRS analysis and PL measurement of the composite with terephthalic acid. The active species of photocatalysis were further investigated using scavenging studies in methylene blue degradation that revealed hydroxyl radicals and holes as the major contributors to the activity of Fe2O3/g-C3N4.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45872474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Electroactive chitosan-aniline pentamer hydrogel for peripheral nerve regeneration 电活性壳聚糖-苯胺五聚体水凝胶用于周围神经再生

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0614-8

Deqiang Miao, Ya Li, Zhongbing Huang, Yulin Wang, Min Deng, Xiaohui Li

{"title":"Electroactive chitosan-aniline pentamer hydrogel for peripheral nerve regeneration","authors":"Deqiang Miao, Ya Li, Zhongbing Huang, Yulin Wang, Min Deng, Xiaohui Li","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0614-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0614-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Electroactive hydrogels could guide the regeneration of nerves and promote their functional recovery. An aniline pentamer-crosslinked chitosan (CS-AP) hydrogel with better electroactivity and degradation was fabricated by the carbodiimide method, and then injected into the repair site of sciatic nerve damage, with its gelation time, tensile strength, and conductivity reaching 35 min, 5.02–6.69 MPa, and from 2.97 × 10−4 to 3.25 × 10−4 S·cm−1, respectively, due to the cross-linkage and well-distribution of AP. There was better cytocompativility of CS-AP hydrogel on nerve cells. The results of the in vivo repair indicated that CS-AP10 hydrogel induced the capillaries formation and the repair of sciatic nerve defect, and re-innervated gastrocnemius muscle in the CS-AP10 group were obviously better than other experimental groups, due to the electroactivity of CS-AP and its degradation into fragments. These results indicated the potential application of CS-AP hydrogel in the regeneration and function recovery of peripheral nerve injury.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46042382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why is graphene an extraordinary material? A review based on a decade of research 为什么石墨烯是一种非凡的材料?一份基于十年研究的综述

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0603-y

Sachin Sharma Ashok Kumar, Shahid Bashir, Kasi Ramesh, Subramaniam Ramesh

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Bi/3DPG composite structure optimization realizes high specific capacity and rapid sodium-ion storage Bi/3DPG复合材料结构优化实现了高比容量和快速钠离子存储

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-07-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0605-9

Senrong Qiao, Huijun Li, Xiaoqin Cheng, Dongyu Bian, Xiaomin Wang

{"title":"Bi/3DPG composite structure optimization realizes high specific capacity and rapid sodium-ion storage","authors":"Senrong Qiao, Huijun Li, Xiaoqin Cheng, Dongyu Bian, Xiaomin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0605-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0605-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div>As an anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), bismuth (Bi) has attracted widespread attention due to its suitable voltage platform and high volumetric energy density. However, the severe volume expansion of Bi during charging and discharging leads to a rapid decline in battery capacity. Loading Bi on the graphene can relieve volume expansion and improve electrochemical performance. However, excessive loading of Bi on graphene will cause the porosity of the composite material to decrease, which leads to a decrease of the Na+ transmission rate. Herein, the Bi/three-dimensional porous graphene (Bi/3DPG) composite material was prepared and the pore structure was optimized to obtain the medium-load Bi/3DPG (Bi/3DPG-M) with better electrochemical performance. Bi/3DPG-M exhibited a fast kinetic process while maintaining a high specific capacity. The specific capacity still remained at 270 mA·h·g−1 (93.3%) after 500 cycles at a current density of 0.1 A·g−1. Even at 5 A·g−1, the specific capacity of Bi/3DPG-M could still reach 266.1 mA·h·g−1. This work can provide a reference for research on the use of alloy—graphene composite in the anode of SIBs.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4389431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sol—gel synthesis, properties and protein loading/delivery capacity of hollow bioactive glass nanospheres with large hollow cavity and mesoporous shell 大空腔介孔中空生物活性玻璃纳米球的溶胶-凝胶合成、性能及蛋白质负载/递送能力

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0608-6

Ahmed El-Fiqi

{"title":"Sol—gel synthesis, properties and protein loading/delivery capacity of hollow bioactive glass nanospheres with large hollow cavity and mesoporous shell","authors":"Ahmed El-Fiqi","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0608-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0608-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Hollow nanospheres exhibit unique properties and find a wide interest in several potential applications such as drug delivery. Herein, novel hollow bioactive glass nanospheres (HBGn) with large hollow cavity and large mesopores in their outer shells were synthesized by a simple and facile one-pot ultrasound assisted sol—gel method using PEG as the core soft-template. Interestingly, the produced HBGn exhibited large hollow cavity with ∼43 nm in diameter and mesoporous shell of ∼37 nm in thickness and 7 nm pore size along with nanosphere size around 117 nm. XPS confirmed the presence of Si and Ca elements at the surface of the HBGn outer shell. Notably, HBGn showed high protein loading capacity (∼570 mg of Cyto c per 1 g of HBGn) in addition to controlled protein release over 5 d. HBGn also demonstrated a good in vitro capability of releasing calcium (Ca2+: 170 ppm) and silicate (SiO44−: 78 ppm) ions in an aqueous medium over 2 weeks under physiological-like conditions. Excellent in vitro growth of bone-like hydroxyapatite nanocrystals was exhibited by HBGn during the soaking in SBF. A possible underlying mechanism involving the formation of spherical aggregates (coils) of PEG was proposed for the formation process of HBGn.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5158569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS coated Co3O4 nanoparticles as the anode for sodium-ion battery applications 导电聚合物PEDOT:PSS涂层Co3O4纳米颗粒作为钠离子电池负极的应用

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0601-0

Kevin Varghese, Dona Susan Baji, Shantikumar Nair, Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan

{"title":"Conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS coated Co3O4 nanoparticles as the anode for sodium-ion battery applications","authors":"Kevin Varghese, Dona Susan Baji, Shantikumar Nair, Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0601-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0601-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Metal oxides are considered as potential anodes for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Nevertheless, they suffer from poor cycling and rate capability. Here, we investigate conductive polymer coating on Co3O4 nanoparticles varying with different percentages. X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and surface chemical analysis were adopted to analyze coated and uncoated Co3O4 nanoparticles. Conducting polymer, poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), has been utilized for coating. Improved specific capacity and rate capability for an optimal coating of 0.5 wt.% were observed. The 0.5 wt.% coated sample outperformed the uncoated one in terms of capacity, rate capability and coulombic efficiency. It delivered a reversible capacity of 561 mAh·g−1 at 100 mA·g−1 and maintained a capacity of 318 mAh·g−1 at a high rate of 1 A·g−1. Increasing the PEDOT:PSS coating percentage led to lower performance due to the thicker coating induced kinetic issues. Ex-situ analysis of the 0.5 wt.% coated sample after 100 cycles at 1 A·g−1 was characterized for performance correlation. Such a simple, cost-effective and wet-chemical approach has not been employed before for Co3O4 as the SIB anode.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4794944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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High drug loading polymer micelle@ZIF-8 hybrid core—shell nanoparticles through donor—receptor coordination interaction for pH/H2O2-responsive drug release 高载药聚合物micelle@ZIF-8杂化核壳纳米粒子通过供体-受体配位相互作用实现pH/ h2o2反应性药物释放

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Frontiers of Materials Science Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11706-022-0600-1

Yikun Jiang, Zhentao Lei, Zaizai Tong

{"title":"High drug loading polymer micelle@ZIF-8 hybrid core—shell nanoparticles through donor—receptor coordination interaction for pH/H2O2-responsive drug release","authors":"Yikun Jiang, Zhentao Lei, Zaizai Tong","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0600-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11706-022-0600-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Smart drug delivery nanocarriers with high drug loading capacity are of great importance in the treatment of diseases, and can improve therapeutic effectiveness as well as alleviate side effects in patients. In this work, a pH and H2O2-responsive drug delivery platform with high doxorubicin (DOX) loading capacity has been established through coordination interaction between DOX and phenylboronic acid containing block polymer. A composited drug nanocarrier is further fabricated by growing a zeolitic imidazolate framework 8 (ZIF-8) on the surface of drug-loaded polymer micelles. The study verifies that ZIF-8 shell can act as intelligent “switch” to prevent DOX leaking from core-shell nanoparticles upon H2O2 stimulus. However, a burst drug release is detected upon pH and H2O2 stimuli due to the further disassociation of ZIF-8 in acid solution. Moreover, the in vitro anti-cancer experiments demonstrate that the DOX-loaded core—shell nanoparticles provide effective treatment towards cancer cells but have negligible effect on normal cells, which results from the high concentration of H2O2 and low pH in the microenvironment of tumor cells.</div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4793214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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