Bladder cancer has become the most common malignant urinary carcinoma. Studies have shown that significant antioxidant and bladder cancer-fighting properties of several plant-based diets like Psidium guajava, ginger and amomum, are associated with their high kaempferol content. In this paper, we evaluated the antioxidant and anticancer activities of kaempferol and its mechanism of induction to apoptosis on bladder cancer cells. Our findings demonstrated that kaempferol showed an obvious radical scavenging activity in erythrocytes damaged by oxygen. Kaempferol promoted antioxidant enzymes, inhibited ROS generation and lipid peroxidation and finally prevented the occurrence of hemolysis. Additionally, kaempferol exhibited a strong inhibitory effect on bladder cancer cells and high safety on normal bladder cells. At the molecular level, kaempferol suppressed EJ bladder cancer cell proliferation by inhibiting the function of phosphorylated AKT (p-AKT), CyclinD1, CDK4, Bid, Mcl-1 and Bcl-xL, and promoting p-BRCA1, p-ATM, p53, p21, p38, Bax and Bid expression, and finally triggering apoptosis and S phase arrest. We found that Kaempferol exhibited strong anti-oxidant activity on erythrocyte and inhibitory effects on the growth of cancerous bladder cells through inducing apoptosis and S phase arrest. These findings suggested that kaempferol might be regarded as a bioactive food ingredient to prevent oxidative damage and treat bladder cancer.

The glass-forming region of the BiO1.5–CuO–Ca0.5Sr0.5O system has been determined by melting 5 g batches. Glass rods 4 mm in diameter and 75 mm long have been made. The glass transition temperatures (TG) and the onset crystallization temperatures (Tx) are around 390 °C and 440 °C, respectively. Densities of these glasses range from 5.5 to 7.0 g/cm3. The glass structure consists of the [BiO3] and [BiO6] units, and the conversion between these two polyhedra mainly depends on the Ca0.5Sr0.5O amount. The molecular volume of the glasses indicated that increasing Ca0.5Sr0.5O caused loose glass structures.

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van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) overcoming the lattice and processing limitations of conventional heterostructures provide an opportunity to develop high-performance 2D vdWH solar cells and photodiodes. However, it is challenging to improve the sensitivity and response speed of 2D vdWH photovoltaic devices due to the low light absorption efficiency and electron/hole traps in heterointerfaces. Here, we design a PbS/ MoS 2 /WSe 2 heterostructure photodiode in which a light-sensitive PbS quantum dot (QD) layer combined with a MoS 2 /WSe 2 heterostructure significantly enhances the photovoltaic response. The electron current in the heterostructure is increased by the effective collection of photogenerated electrons induced by PbS QDs. The device exhibits a broadband photovoltaic response from 405 to 1064 nm with a maximum responsivity of 0.76 A/W and a specific detectivity of 5.15 × 10 11 Jones. In particular, the response speed is not limited by multiple electron traps in the PbS QDs/2D material heterointerface, and a fast rising/ decaying time of 43/48 μs and a −3 dB cutoff frequency of over 10 kHz are achieved. The negative differential capacitance and frequency dependence of capacitance demonstrate the presence of interface states in the MoS 2 /WSe 2 heterointerface that hamper the improvement of the response speed. The scheme to enhance photovoltaic performance without sacrificing response speed provides opportunities for the development of high-performance 2D vdWH optoelectronic devices.

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