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Author : Zamora Lykkegaard | Published On : 05 Mar 2025

Metallic glasses are a unique class of materials combining ultrahigh strength together with plastic-like processing ability. However, the currently used melt quenching route to obtain amorphous alloys has a high cost basis in terms of manufacturing and expensive constituent elements often necessary to achieve the glassy state, thus hindering widespread adoption. In contrast, multimaterial electrodeposition offers a low-cost and versatile alternative to obtain amorphous alloys. read more Here, we demonstrate multiscale manufacturing of a model binary amorphous system by a facile and scalable pulsed electrodeposition approach. The structural and mechanical characteristics of electrodeposited Ni-P metallic glasses are investigated by a combination of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. The property dependence on slight change in alloy chemistry is explained by the fraction of short-range-order clusters and geometrically unfavorable motifs. Bicapped square antiprism polyhedra clusters with two-atom connections result in more homogeneous deformation for Ni90P10 metallic glass, whereas a relatively higher fraction of three-atom connections in Ni85P15 metallic glass leads to higher strength, albeit localized and relatively brittle failure. The practicality of our approach is likely to stimulate the use of amorphous alloys in simple chemistries for multiscale use with systematic property optimization for specific applications.Conventional aromatic compounds tend to exhibit the formation of sandwich-shaped excimers and exciplexes between their excited and ground states at high concentrations or in their aggregated states, causing their fluorescence to weaken or disappear due to the aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect. This limits their applications in concentrated solutions or solid materials. Herein, for the first time, ACQ-based pyrene (Py) units are covalently connected to the surface of polyethylene/polypropylene nonwoven fabric (PE/PP NWF) via electron beam preradiation-induced graft polymerization followed by chemical modification. The matrix can be considered a solid solvent and Py units as a solid solute, such that the amount of Py units can be controlled by varying the reaction time. The obtained fluorescent fabric not only exhibits remarkable fluorescence properties with high fluorescence intensity, high quantum yield (>90%), and excellent fluorescence stability after laundering or in harsh chemical environments, but the fluorescence color and intensity, quantum yield, and lifetime can also be regulated by employing the ACQ effect. Additionally, the as-prepared fluorescent fabric can effectively distinguish common monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via a simple fluorescence response test.Alterations in lipid metabolites in coronary artery tissues are phenotypic changes in the progression of atherosclerosis (AS). A full picture of the spatiotemporal distribution of lipid metabolites in coronary AS is needed for a deeper understanding of its pathology and the identification of potential biomarkers of disease progression. In this work, the changes in species, quantity, and distribution of lipid metabolites at different stages of AS, which were standardized by the disease areas, were analyzed through the high spatial resolution- and high sensitivity-time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) under delayed extraction mode. Based on high lateral resolution imaging, we further analyzed the ToF-SIMS data extracted from the subregions of AS lesion tissues at different disease progression stages by semiquantitative comparison, clustering analysis (t-stochastic neighbor embedding and HCA), and KEGG enrichment. Thus, a much-detailed description of lipids' features in coronary AS was achieved. We constructed a ToF-SIMS mass spectrometry database of coronary AS lipids. 40 specific lipid metabolites with distinctive patterns between different pathological stages were obtained. Chemical imaging unveiled further details regarding the spatial distribution of lipids. Moreover, linoleic acid and arachidonic acid metabolic pathway were predicted to be critical in AS progression.In an effort to develop durable, corrosion-resistant catalyst support materials for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, modified polymer-assisted deposition method was used to synthesize tungsten carbide (WC, WC1-x), which was later used as a support material for Pt-based oxygen reduction reaction catalyst, as an alternative for the corrosion-susceptible, carbon supports. The Pt-deposited tungsten carbide's corrosion-resistance, oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis, and durability were studied and compared to that of Pt/C. Bulk free carbon was found to be absent from the ceramic matrix which had particle size in the range of 2-25 nm. Tungsten carbide support appears to enhance the oxygen reduction activity on Pt, showing an increase in mass activity (nearly 2-fold at 0.85 V vs RHE) and specific activity (more than 7 times higher), alongside decrease in overpotential, in comparison to Pt/C. A significant increase in durability was also observed with the tungsten carbide-based system.Here, we described a novel swing arm location-controllable DNA walker based on the DNA tetrahedral nanostructures (DTNs) for nucleic acid detection using the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) microcrystals (TAPE-Pe MCs) consisting of the nonplanar molecular tetrakis(4-aminophenyl)ethene (TAPE) and planar molecular perylene (Pe) as electrochemiluminescence (ECL) luminophores. Specifically, the swing arm strands and track strands were fixed simultaneously on the DTNs to obtain the location-controllable DNA walker, which possessed an improved reaction efficiency compared to that of a fixed swing arm-based DNA walker due to the quantitative and orderly swing arm on the DTNs. On the other hand, the Pe microcrystals doped by TAPE molecules could decrease the π-π stacking of Pe molecules for the ECL efficiency enhancement, achieving a blue-shifted and intense ECL emission. Therefore, we defined this enhanced and blue-shifted ECL phenomenon as "inhibition of conjugation-driven ECL (IC-ECL)". To prove these principles, a location-controllable DNA walker-based ECL biosensor was developed with microRNA let-7a as target molecules.