All-inorganic lead halide perovskites have attracted significant attention in artificial light-harvesting systems (ALHSs) due to their superior emission tunability and high light-absorption coefficients. However, their relatively low photoluminescence quantum yield...
IIn vivo synthesis of toxic drugs against tumors based on the specific features of tumor microenvironment is critical to ensuring specific antitumor efficacy. However, how to achieve in situ high-yield...
l-3,4-Dihydroxy-phenylalanine (l-DOPA) is the
most effective drug for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease,
which plays a very important role in clinical and neurochemistry.
However, how to achieve high-sensitivity recognition of l-DOPA still faces challenges. Here, a facile strategy is presented
to construct nitrogen-doped chiral CuO/CoO nanofibers (N-CuO/CoO NFs)
with nanozyme activity and electrochemiluminescence property, in which
CuO/CoO NFs are used as the catalytic activity center and chiral cysteine
(Cys) is used as the inducer of chiral recognition, for enantioselective
catalysis and sensitive recognition of DOPA enantiomers. Notably,
N doping not only enhances the enzyme-mimic activity of CuO/CoO NFs
but also amplifies their electrochemiluminescence (ECL) signals in
the presence of luminol. More importantly, in the presence of DOPA
enantiomers, the d-cysteine (d-Cys)-modified N-CuO/CoO
NFs exhibit different ECL performances; thus, d-Cys@N-CuO/CoO
NFs could selectively distinguish and sensitively detect l-DOPA through ECL signals, and the detection limit is 0.29 nM for l-DOPA. In addition, it also showed good sensing performance
for the determination of l-DOPA in fetal bovine serum. This
is the first report on the detection of DOPA enantiomers based on
an enhanced ECL strategy, providing a robust pathway for chiral discrimination
and detection of chiral molecules.
Quantitative detection of cancer cells using portable devices is promising for the development of simple, fast, and pointof-care cancer diagnostic techniques. However, how to further amplify the detection signal to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of detecting cancer cells by portable devices remains a challenge. To solve the problem, we, for the first time, synthesized folic-acidconjugated Au nanoframes (FA-Au NFs) with amplification of pressure and temperature signals for highly sensitive and accurate detection of cancer cells by portable pressure meters and thermometers. The resulting Au NFs exhibit excellent near-infrared (NIR) photothermal performance and catalase activity, which can promote the decomposition of NH 4 HCO 3 and H 2 O 2 to generate corresponding gases (CO 2 , NH 3 , and O 2 ), thereby synergistically amplifying pressure signals in a closed reaction vessel. At the same time, Au NFs with excellent peroxidase-like activity can catalyze the oxidation of 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to produce TMB oxide (oxTMB) with a strong photothermal effect, thereby cooperating with Au NFs to amplify the photothermal signal. In the presence of cancer cells with overexpressing folate receptors (FRs), the molecular recognition signals between FA and FR can be converted into amplified pressure and temperature signals, which can be easily read by portable pressure meters and thermometers, respectively. The detection limits for cancer cells using pressure meters and thermometers are 6 and 5 cells/mL, respectively, which are better than other reported methods. Moreover, such Au NFs can improve tumor hypoxia by catalyzing the decomposition of H 2 O 2 to produce O 2 and perform photothermal therapy of cancer. Together, our work provides new insight into the application of Au NFs to develop a dual-signal sensing platform with amplification of pressure and temperature signals for portable and ultrasensitive detection of cancer cells as well as personalized cancer therapy.
Dual‐interface modulation including buried interface as well as the top surface has recently been proven to be crucial for obtaining high photovoltaic performance in lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, for the first time, the strategy of using functional covalent organic frameworks (COFs), namely HS‐COFs for dual‐interface modulation, is reported to further understand its intrinsic mechanisms in optimizing the bottom and top surfaces. Specifically, the buried HS‐COFs layer can enhance the resistance against ultraviolet radiation, and more importantly, release the tensile strain, which is beneficial for enhancing device stability and improving the order of perovskite crystal growth. Furthermore, the detailed characterization results reveal that the HS‐COFs on the top surface can effectively passivate the surface defects and suppress non‐radiation recombination, as well as optimize the crystallization and growth of the perovskite film. Benefiting from the synergistic effects, the dual‐interface modified devices deliver champion efficiencies of 24.26% and 21.30% for 0.0725 cm2 and 1 cm2‐sized devices, respectively. Moreover, they retain 88% and 84% of their initial efficiencies after aging for 2000 h under the ambient conditions (25 °C, relative humidity: 35–45%) and a nitrogen atmosphere with heating at 65 °C, respectively.
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