Recent progress in upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicals via photo-, electro- and photoelectro-catalytic strategies
May 2025
Massive production but inadequate end-of-life management of plastics cause environment pollution and carbon resource wasting. It is desirable to develop sustainable approaches to transform plastic wastes...
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Apigenin alleviates osteoporosis by orchestrating SIRT1/HIF1α signaling in mesenchymal stem cells
May 2025
Osteoporosis (OP) is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by reduced bone mass and a degenerative bone microarchitecture. Apigenin (API), a flavonoid derived mainly from celery, has been reported...
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Atmospheric impacts and regulation framework of shipping emissions: Achievements, challenges and frontiers
May 2025
Currently, over 80% of the international trade volume is carried by sea. Marked by persistent growth, evident atmospheric impacts, intricate mitigation challenges, international shipping has been recognized...
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Lenalidomide promotes melarsoprol-activated cGAS-STING-mediated immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma via attenuating TNF-α activity
May 2025
Current immunotherapy has limited efficacy in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) due to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). The activation of the cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine...
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Engineered bacteria: Strategies and applications in cancer immunotherapy
May 2025
Cancer therapy remains a critical medical challenge. Immunotherapy is an emerging approach to regulating the immune system to fight cancer and has shown therapeutic potential. Due to their immunogenicity,...
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Unexpected d–p orbital covalent interaction between the non-d-block main-group metal tellurium and fluorine at high pressure
May 2025
•A pressure-induced d–p orbital covalent interaction in Te-F compound.•The F ligand field affects the valence orbital energies of the central metal atom.•High pressure is an effective method to regulate...
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Chemical recycling of waste plastics: Current challenges and perspectives
May 2025
Waste plastics offer valuable feedstock for refining facilities. Their well-structured molecular compositions and functional groups make them ideal candidates for conversion into high-value chemicals...
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Investigating the central place theory using trajectory big data
May 2025
The human settlement system is central to land use, infrastructure development, and environmental impacts. Although central place theory (CPT) was proposed about 90 years ago and has been extensively...
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A tetramethylpyrazine releasing hydrogel can potentiate CAR-T cell therapy against triple negative breast cancer by reprogramming tumor vasculatures
May 2025
Irregular vasculature of solid tumors has proven to be a pivotal factor restricting their response to chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy because it is tightly associated with hypoxia and...
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Nanozymes: An emerging arsenal for the treatment of Candida albicans infection
May 2025
Candida albicans infections, exacerbated by the emergence of drug resistance and biofilm formation, pose a significant threat to human health and challenge current treatment options. Therefore, it is...
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Chemically recyclable polythioesters prepared by ring-opening polymerization of dithiolactone and monothiodilactone monomers
May 2025
Developing polymers that can be chemically recycled signifies a considerable prospect to polymer scientists to tackle the increasing plastic crises but is still plagued with certain limitations in architecture/performance...
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EcoImprove: Revealing aquatic ecological effects of micropollutant discharge from municipal wastewater treatment plants
May 2025
Micropollutants (MPs) discharged from municipal wastewater treatment plants are of great environmental concern due to their toxicities to aquatic organisms. Given the knowledge gaps on how MPs affect...
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SOGO-SOFI, light-modulated super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging using only 20 raw frames for high-fidelity reconstruction
May 2025
Taking advantage of the stochastic photoswitching of genetically encodable reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent proteins (RSFPs), super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI) and its variant...
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Single-cell transcriptome atlas of spontaneous dry age-related macular degeneration in macaques
May 2025
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment in the elderly. It manifests in two forms, wet and dry. However, the mechanisms underlying spontaneous dry age-related...
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Engineered in-situ-forming biomimetic hydrogel with self-regulated immunostimulatory capacity promotes postoperative tumor treatment
May 2025
Post-resection tumors with microscopic foci and immunosuppressive microenvironments have high risk of recurrence and metastasis but respond poorly to various therapies. Herein, we propose a biomimetic...
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Plasma treated water with metal ions enhances Pak Choi growth, salinity tolerance and accumulation of primary metabolites
May 2025
•ME-CDBD used to prepare plasma-treated water (PTW) and PTW with metal ion (PTW+M).•PTW and PTW+M increased the salt tolerance in Pak Choi.•RNS and Ca2+ levels increased after PTW and PTW+M treatments...
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RetroV2X: A new vehicle-to-everything (V2X) paradigm with visible light backscatter networking
May 2025
The Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology has become essential with the increasing interest in intelligent transportation systems. It connects multiple vehicles and infrastructure by digitizing road...
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Emerging optoelectronic architectures in carbon nanotube photodetector technologies
May 2025
Photodetectors are the fundamental building blocks for many optoelectronic systems, including night vision, optical communications, biomedical imaging, security and motion detection. Carbon nanotubes...
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What can we learn from the 2008 financial crisis for global power decarbonization after COVID-19?
May 2025
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, power generation and the associated CO2 emissions in major countries have experienced a decline and rebound. Knowledge on how an economic crisis affects...
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Probabilistic energy flow analysis of the integrated electricity and gas system considering multiform uncertainties
May 2025
The coupling of electricity and gas systems has been ever-augmented with the wide deployment of gas-fired generators, which facilitates the conception of the integrated electricity and gas system (IEGS)....
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Elucidating the roles of oxygen defects-rich TiOxNy shell in Ti-based electrocatalyst for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction
May 2025
Ti-based materials are among the most widely studied catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, the actual roles of the catalytically active sites in N-doped Ti-based electrocatalysts...
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Influence of engine heat source conditions on a small-scale CO2 power generation system
May 2025
Employing a CO2 power generation system to recover waste heat from engines can reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by producing additional electric power. Nevertheless, the fluctuation in engine...
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