Effective and safe hemodialysis is essential for patients with acute kidney injury and chronic renal failures. However, the development of effective anticoagulant agents with safe antidotes for use during hemodialysis has proven challenging. Here, we describe DNA origami-based assemblies that enable the inhibition of thrombin activity and thrombus formation. Two different thrombin-binding aptamers decorated DNA origami initiates protein recognition and inhibition, exhibiting enhanced anticoagulation in human plasma, fresh whole blood and a murine model. In a dialyzer-containing extracorporeal circuit that mimicked clinical hemodialysis, the origami-based aptamer nanoarray effectively prevented thrombosis formation. Oligonucleotides containing sequences complementary to the thrombin-binding aptamers can efficiently neutralize the anticoagulant effects. The nanoarray is safe and immunologically inert in healthy mice, eliciting no detectable changes in liver and kidney functions or serum cytokine concentration. This DNA origami-based nanoagent represents a promising anticoagulant platform for the hemodialysis treatment of renal diseases.

Mesoporous silica materials with a variety of morphologies, such as monodisperse microspheres, gigantic hollow structures comprising a thin shell with a hole, and gigantic hollow structures consisting of an outer thin shell and an inner layer composed of many small spheres, have been readily synthesized in mixed water-ethanol solvents at room temperature using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as the template. The obtained mesoporous silica generally shows a disordered mesostructure with typical average pore sizes ranging from 3.1 to 3.8 nm. The effects of the water-to-ethanol volume ratio (r), the volume content of tetraethyl orthosilicate TEOS (x), and the CTAB concentration in the solution on the final morphology of the mesoporous silica products have been investigated. The growth process of gigantic hollow shells of mesoporous silica through templating emulsion droplets of TEOS in mixed water-ethanol solution has been monitored directly with optical microscopy. Generally, the morphology of mesoporous silica can be regulated from microspheres through gigantic hollow structures composed of small spheres to gigantic hollow structures with a thin shell by increasing the water-to-ethanol volume ratio, increasing the TEOS volume content, or decreasing the CTAB concentration. A plausible mechanism for the morphological regulation of mesoporous silica by adjusting various experimental parameters has been put forward by considering the existing state of the unhydrolyzed and partially hydrolyzed TEOS in the synthesis system.

Although epitaxial growth is the fundamental method to realize lattice matched heterojunctions in electronics manufacturing, large-scale epitaxial single crystal layers based on solution-processing have rarely been reported. Here, cascade organic−inorganic hybrid perovskite single crystals with purity quotient over 99.9% consisting of chlorine, bromine, and iodine are fabricated by solution-processed epitaxial growth, in which the mismatch rate between adjacent layers is less than 1%. The area of solution-processed epitaxial growth is proved up to 4 cm 2 , and the speed reaches nearly 100 nm s −1 . The resulting high-quality interface effectively improves bonding between adjacent layers, and the average mobility is calculated to be over 200 cm 2 V −1 s −1 in samples with different structures. Based on a specific structure with n-type, p-type, and intrinsic layers, a 7.55 mm-thickness X-ray photodiode with sensitivity 1.58 μC mGy −1 cm −2 is fabricated. This work provides a different method for fabricating solution-processed based electronic devices and makes stable perovskite-based devices more accessible.