The influence of heating conditions, heating temperature, and heating time on the formation of a thin carbonate-containing hydroxyapatite (CA) film onto partially stabilized zirconia using a molecular precursor method was evaluated. The molecular pre...
The Ag-nanoparticles (Ag-NP)/TiO2 composite thin films with various amounts of Ag (10 mol% ≤ n ≤ 80 mol%) were examined as a potential photocatalyst by decoloration reaction of methylene blue (MB) in an aqueous solution. These composite thin films of...
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a versatile and inexpensive semiconductor with a wide direct band gap that has applicability in several scientific and technological fields. In this work, we report the synthesis of ZnO thin films via two simple and low-cost synth...
Tissue responses to zirconia-coated implants treated with molecular precursor method were evaluated. The zirconia film was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (ED...
The photocatalytic efficacy of metallic silver nanoparticle/zinc oxide (Ag-NPs/ZnO) composite thin films, COMP-Agx, with varying silver concentrations (0 mol% ≤ x ≤ 100 mol%), is investigated for the degradation of methyl orange (MO). The films...
It is known that precursor clusters appear in solution prior to protein crystallization. For proteinase K, as it was found by SAXS, such clusters are dimers, but the accuracy of the method did not allow for determining its type. In this work, the beh...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a vapor-phase deposition technique that has attracted increasing attention from both experimentalists and theoreticians in the last few decades. ALD is well-known to produce conformal, uniform, and pinhole-free thin f...
Titania precursor films were electrosprayed on a quartz glass substrate, which was pre-modified with an ultra-thin film obtained by spin-coating a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) dispersed solution. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the thin fi...
Deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light-transparent conductive composite thin films, consisting of dispersed multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and SiO2 matrix composites, were fabricated on a quartz glass substrate. Transparent and well-adhered amorphous th...
A single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT)-silica composite thin film on a quartz glass was formed by ultraviolet irradiation (20–40 °C) onto a spin-coated precursor film. With 7.4 mass% SWCNTs, the electrical resistivity reached 7.7 × 1...
Dilithium manganese oxide (LMO) thin film was newly fabricated as an active material on a fluorinated-tin-oxide pre-coated glass electrode by a wet process. A stable LMO precursor solution was developed through the reaction of lithium and manganese a...
The osseointegration of zirconia (ZrO2) implants is still controversial. In this study, we aimed to make clear the influence of surface chemical composition, Ti or ZrO2, to osseointegration. First, a roughened Ti surface was prepared with a combinati...
Molecular doping is a method to dope semiconductors based on the use of liquid solutions as precursors of the dopant. The molecules are deposited on the material, forming a self-ordered monolayer that conforms to the surfaces, whether they are planar...
In this work, isotropic pitch precursors are synthesized by the bromination-debromination method with ethylene bottom oil (EO) as the raw material and bromine as the initiator for pitch formation and condensation reactions. The aggregation structure,...
Polymers prepared by controlled radical polymerization (CRP) can be employed in subsequent chain-end joining reactions, yet accurately assessing the extent of coupling in mechanistically unique paths is not straightforward. Precisely known mixtures o...
Sol-gel processing is a soft-chemistry method to obtain ceramic materials at low temperatures starting from molecular precursors in solution. [...]
Extraordinary low-temperature vapor-phase synthesis of SnS thin films from single molecular precursors is attractive over conventional high-temperature solid-state methods. Molecular-level processing of functional materials is accompanied by several...
To verify the priming effects of Maillard reaction precursors on the microbial decomposition of rice straw at different incubation temperatures, the method of indoor incubation at a constant temperature was adopted. In the process, the addition of gl...
It is known that protein dimers form in a solution before proteinase K crystallization. Simulations of the dimer, i.e., a precursor cluster of the proteinase K crystal, at different temperatures, show that molecular dynamics methods make it possible...
Anthocyanins are water-soluble phenolic pigments. However, their poor solubility in lipidic media limits their use. This hurdle can be overcome with the lipophilization of anthocyanins, which consists of adding an aliphatic chain to a hydrophilic com...
Volatile coordination compounds are widely used as precursors for the gas phase synthesis of functional materials. However, such complexes are still very rare for alkali metals, especially for heavy representatives of this family (potassium, rubidium...
The possibility of generating organically modified hollow TiO2 microspheres via a simple sol-gel synthesis was demonstrated for the first time in this work. A mixture of titania precursors, including an organically modified precursor, was used to obt...
With the rapid development of society, more and more unknown halogenated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) enter into drinking water and pose potential risks to humans. To explore the unknown halogenated DBPs in tap water, a selectively nontargeted anal...
The on-surface synthesis of boroxine-containing molecules can be a convenient method of introducing specific functionalities. Here, we show the validity of a previously described synthesis protocol on the Au (111) surface by applying it to a differen...
Sol-Gel is a low cost, well-established and flexible synthetic route to produce a wide range of micro- and nanostructures. Small variations in pH, temperature, precursors, time, pressure, atmosphere, among others, can lead to a wide family of compoun...
Chiral and helical polymers possess special helical structures and optical property, and may find applications in chiral catalysis and optical devices. This work presents the preparation and formation process of helical phenolic resins through a sol-...
Cardiac involvement has a profound effect on the prognosis of patients with systemic amyloidosis. Therapeutic methods for suppressing the production of causative proteins have been developed for ATTR amyloidosis and AL amyloidosis, which show cardiac...
Lignocellulose is a major biopolymer in plant biomass with a complex structure and composition. It consists of a significant amount of high molecular aromatic compounds, particularly vanillin, syringeal, ferulic acid, and muconic acid, that could be...
The sol-gel method is an attractive synthetic approach in the design of advanced catalytic formulations that are based on metal and metal oxide with high degree of structural and compositional homogeneity. Nowadays, though it originated with the hydr...
In-depth insights into the oligomers of carbon dots (CDs) prepared from small-molecule precursors are important in the study of the carbonization mechanism of CDs and for our knowledge of their complex structure. Herein, citric acid (CA) and ethylene...
Shotgun lipidomics has evolved into a myriad of multi-dimensional strategies for molecular lipid characterization, including bioinformatics tools for mass spectrum interpretation and quantitative measurements to study systems-lipidomics in complex bi...
In the present work, a series of single-source precursors were prepared via a one-pot synthesis strategy using transition metal chlorides, acetylacetone, and hydroquinone as raw materials. The molecular structure, cross-linking behavior, and polymer-...
Circular RNA (circRNA) vaccines have attracted increasing attention due to their stable closed-loop structures and persistent protein expression ability. During the synthesis process, nicked circRNAs with similar molecular weights to those of circRNA...
Aerogels (AGs) are highly porous, low-density, disordered, ultralight macroscopic materials with immense surface areas. Traditionally synthesized using aqueous sol–gel chemistry, starting by molecular precursors, the nanoparticles (NPs) dispers...
Bacteriophages have been a model system to study assembly processes for over half a century. Formation of infectious phage particles involves specific protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, as well as large conformational changes of a...
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extremely poor prognosis due to the lack of methods or biomarkers for early diagnosis and its resistance to conventional treatment modalities, targeted therapies, and immunotherapies. PDACs are a heterog...
Hair color change by dye application is a common procedure among women. Hair dyes are classified, according to color resistance, into temporary, semipermanent, demipermanent and permanent. The first two are based on molecules which are already colore...
Formamidine lead iodide (FAPbI3) perovskite material is very suitable for solar photovoltaic devices because of its ideal low band gap, theoretically high efficiency, and wide range of solar spectral absorption, coupled with its good thermal stabilit...
Background/Objectives: Cervical cancer (CC), a highly prevalent female neoplasia, has been prevented through repeated cervicovaginal cytology, the so-called Pap test, across women’s lifespans. The now undebatable role of Human Papillomaviruses...
Intermediate volatility organic compounds (IVOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) have recently been proposed as important precursors of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). In the present work, 97 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and 80 int...
The aim of this work was to determine Fulvic Acids (FAs) in sediments to better know their composition at the molecular level and to propose substructures and structures of organic precursors. The sediment samples were obtained from a priority area f...
Natural products are the precursors of many medicinal substances. Peppers (Piper, Capsicum, Pimienta) are a rich source of compounds with potential multidirectional biological activity. One of the studied directions is antitumor activity. Little rese...
The secondary metabolite Tyrian purple, also known as shellfish purple and royal purple, is a dye with historical importance for humans. The biosynthetic origin of Tyrian purple in Muricidae molluscs is not currently known. A possible role for symbio...
The objective of the present study was to investigate the putative correlation between the saliva concentration and free serum concentration for 10 uremic toxins (UTs; eight protein-bound solutes: 3-carboxy-4-methyl-5-propyl-2-furanpropanoic acid (CM...
We developed a new category of porous silica and organosilicas nanostructures in a facile method based on weakly acidic aqueous-ethanol media by utilizing two different pentablock copolymer templates of type PLGA-PEO-PPO-PEO-PLGA. Pluronic block temp...
Due to their chemical inertness and low friction coefficient, fluoropolymers are today widely employed in sectors of activity as diverse and distinct as the textile industry, architectural sector, and medicine. However, their low surface energy resul...
Carbon dots (CDs) have generated much interest because of their significant fluorescence (FL) properties, extraordinary photophysical attributes, and long-term colloidal stability. CDs have been regarded as a prospective carbon nanomaterial for vario...
Progress in non-covalent/self-assembled immobilization methods on (photo)electrode materials for molecular catalysts could broaden the scope of attainable systems. While covalent linkage (though considered more stable) necessitates functional groups...
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The development of immobilized photocatalyst as a strategy for problematic electronics wastewater reuse is described in this study. The strategy was to perform separate rinsing, mostly consisting of low molecular weight compounds, and to decompose th...
Chitosan nanoparticles (CNPs) are known to have great utility in many fields (pharmaceutical, agricultural, food industry, wastewater treatment, etc.). In this study we aimed to synthesize sub-100 nm CNPs as a precursor of new biopolymer-based virus...
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