The discipline of protein evolution aims to understand the principles and driving forces whereby new protein-coding genes, protein structures, and biological functions emerge due to …
Molecular anions with a polar neutral core that has a dipole moment larger than 2.5 D could support a diffuse dipole-bound state below its detachment …
Neutral molecules possessing large enough dipole moments can weakly bind an excess electron in a diffuse orbital by the charge-dipole interaction and support a dipole-bound …
Gas-phase X-ray scattering of free molecules offers a unique advantage in advancing molecular dynamics research due to its intrinsic signal, specific to the target molecule. …
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have garnered a significant amount of research effort for not only scientific advances but also a range of technological applications including …
Orientational relaxation significantly slows down when a macroscopically isotropic (disordered) liquid crystal system is near the transition point to the nematic (orien- tationally ordered) phase. …
Many naturally occurring peptides and depsipeptides have attracted the interest of medicinal chemists in recent decades due to their broad spectra of bioactivities, such as …
The search for efficient catalysts is essential in promoting sustainable chemistry that features greener reaction conditions, lower energy consumption, and higher reaction efficiency. Nanoparticles are …
Parasites have developed a variety of strategies for invading hosts and escaping their immune response. A common mechanism by which parasites escape nitric oxide (NO) …
Protein homeostasis is the dynamic process of balancing the constitution of the entire proteome of a living organism. One of the most critical components in …
Over the past century, the massive consumption of the fossil fuels has caused dramatic increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration. And naturally caused a series …
The rational synthesis and tuning of nanoparticles (NPs) and nanocomposites plays pivotal role in broad applications of nanomaterials in various fields. The organic solution based …
Monodisperse FePt NPs are synthetically controlled from chemically disordered face centered cubic (fcc) structure to ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) structure. The NP’s electrocatalytic efficiency …
In the past two decades, the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) has been intensively explored for both fundamental scientific research and industrial applications. Different from …
The complicated ways in which electrons interact in many-body systems such as most molecules and materials have long been studied without accounting for the effects …
Despite their utility in everyday life, petroleum-based materials present an enormous environmental challenge due to their large production volume (365 MTonnes per year) and slow …
The self-assembly of nanocrystals into ordered superlattices (SLs) is a powerful strategy for fabricating functional nanomaterials. While much progress has been made assembling nanocrystals with …
Recent studies have demonstrated that any exposure to oxygen during the first hours of life can upregulate oxidative stress and put premature infants at an …
Recently mechanochemical synthesis has attracted our attention since it avoids the use of bulky organic solvents and simplifies reaction processes through grinding or milling. Mechanochemical …
Lithium enolates are used pervasively throughout organic synthesis as versatile carbon nucleophiles to introduce substituents alpha to the carbonyl group in ketones, esters, aldehydes, and …