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Boosting the antimicrobial action of vancomycin formulated in shellac nanoparticles of dual-surface functionality (2019)
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Al-Obaidy, S. S., Halbus, A. F., Greenway, G. M., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Boosting the antimicrobial action of vancomycin formulated in shellac nanoparticles of dual-surface functionality. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 7(19), 3119-3133. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tb03102a

We report a strong amplification of the antimicrobial action of vancomycin (VCM) encapsulated in shellac nanoparticles (NPs) with dual surface functionalisation. These shellac nanocarriers for VCM were produced in two steps: (i) a pH drop from aqueou... Read More about Boosting the antimicrobial action of vancomycin formulated in shellac nanoparticles of dual-surface functionality.

Alkyl substituted 4-pyrrolidinopyridinium salts encapsulated in the cavity of cucurbit[10]uril (2019)
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Xu, W., Liu, M., Escaño, M. C., Redshaw, C., Bian, B., Fan, Y., Tao, Z., & Xiao, X. (in press). Alkyl substituted 4-pyrrolidinopyridinium salts encapsulated in the cavity of cucurbit[10]uril. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 43(18), 7028-7034. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nj01089k

The interaction between cucuribit[10]uril (Q[10]) and a series of 4-pyrrolidinopyridinium salts bearing aliphatic substituents at the pyridinium nitrogen, namely 4-(C4H8N)C5H5NRBr, where R = Et (g1), n-butyl (g2), n-pentyl (g3), n-hexyl (g4), n-octyl... Read More about Alkyl substituted 4-pyrrolidinopyridinium salts encapsulated in the cavity of cucurbit[10]uril.

Two-step numerical approach to predict ferrofluid droplet generation and manipulation inside multilaminar flow chambers (2019)
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Gómez-Pastora, J., Amiri Roodan, V., Karampelas, I. H., Alorabi, A. Q., Tarn, M. D., Iles, A., Bringas, E., Paunov, V. N., Pamme, N., Furlani, E. P., & Ortiz, I. (2019). Two-step numerical approach to predict ferrofluid droplet generation and manipulation inside multilaminar flow chambers. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 123(15), 10065-10080. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01393

Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society. In this study, a computational fluid dynamics approach is implemented to investigate the dynamic behavior of continuous-flow droplet microfluidics. The developed approach predicts both droplet generation an... Read More about Two-step numerical approach to predict ferrofluid droplet generation and manipulation inside multilaminar flow chambers.

Synthesis, structures and Lewis‐Acid‐Induced isomerization of 8‐Methoxy[2.2]metaparacyclophanes and a DFT study (2019)
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Islam, M. M., Feng, X., Rahman, S., Georghiou, P. E., Matsumoto, T., Tanaka, J., Alodhayb, A., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2019). Synthesis, structures and Lewis‐Acid‐Induced isomerization of 8‐Methoxy[2.2]metaparacyclophanes and a DFT study. ChemistrySelect, 4(13), 3630-3635. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201900190

Methyl substituted 8‐methoxy[2.2]MPCPs 8 a–b were obtained via thiacyclophane and its oxidized products. Lewis acid‐catalyzed (AlCl3‐MeNO2) reactions of 5‐tert‐butyl‐8‐methoxy‐12,13,15,16‐tetramethyl[2.2]MPCP 8 b under various conditions led to trans... Read More about Synthesis, structures and Lewis‐Acid‐Induced isomerization of 8‐Methoxy[2.2]metaparacyclophanes and a DFT study.

Hierarchically structured composites and porous materials from soft templates: fabrication and applications (2019)
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Thompson, B. R., Horozov, T. S., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (in press). Hierarchically structured composites and porous materials from soft templates: fabrication and applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(14), 8030-8049. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ta09750j

Recent experimental methods for fabrication of hierarchically porous and structured composites are reviewed. The main focus is on recent examples of how different soft templating materials, like emulsions, surfactant phases, breath figures, biologica... Read More about Hierarchically structured composites and porous materials from soft templates: fabrication and applications.

Strongly Enhanced Antibacterial Action of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles with Boronic Acid Surface Functionality (2019)
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Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Strongly Enhanced Antibacterial Action of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles with Boronic Acid Surface Functionality. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11(13), 12232-12243. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b21862

Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuONPs) have been widely recognized as good antimicrobial agents but are heavily regulated due to environmental concerns of their postuse. In this work, we have developed and tested a novel type of formulation for copper o... Read More about Strongly Enhanced Antibacterial Action of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles with Boronic Acid Surface Functionality.

Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens and their applications (2019)
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Islam, M. M., Hu, Z., Wang, Q., Redshaw, C., & Feng, X. (2019). Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens and their applications. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 3(5), 762-781. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9qm00090a

"Unity is force"-Aesop. It is a common phenomenon that traditional chromophores exhibit high fluorescence in dilute solutions, yet luminescence is quenched at high concentrations or in the aggregate state, i.e. "aggregation-caused quenching" (ACQ). T... Read More about Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens and their applications.

Cyclotrimerization of alkynes catalyzed by a self-supported cyclic tri-nuclear nickel(0) complex with α-diimine ligands (2019)
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Shen, L., Zhao, Y., Luo, Q., Li, Q. S., Liu, B., Redshaw, C., Wu, B., & Yang, X. J. (2019). Cyclotrimerization of alkynes catalyzed by a self-supported cyclic tri-nuclear nickel(0) complex with α-diimine ligands. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 48(14), 4643-4649. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt00819e

A cyclic tri-nuclear α-diimine nickel(0) complex [{Ni(μ-L Me-2,4 )} 3 ] (2) was synthesized from a “pre-organized”, trimerized trigonal LNiBr 2 -type precursor [Ni 3 (μ 2 -Br) 3 (μ 3 -Br) 2 (L Me-2,4 ) 3 ]·Br (1; L Me-2,4 = [(2,4-Me 2 C 6 H 3 )NC(Me)... Read More about Cyclotrimerization of alkynes catalyzed by a self-supported cyclic tri-nuclear nickel(0) complex with α-diimine ligands.

Octahedral chalcogenide rhenium cluster complexes with imidazole (2019)
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Konovalov, D. I., Ivanov, A. A., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Smolentsev, A. I., Eltsov, I. V., Efremova, O. A., Kitamura, N., Mironov, Y. V., & Shestopalov, M. A. (2019). Octahedral chalcogenide rhenium cluster complexes with imidazole. Polyhedron, 165, 79-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.03.007

Reactions of [{Re6Q8}Br6]4−/3− (Q = S, Se) with molten imidazole lead to the formation of two new neutral cluster complexes [{Re6Q8}(imzH)4(imz)2] (imzH = imidazole). The interaction of [{Re6Q8}(imzH)4(imz)2] with hydrohalic acids resulted in cationi... Read More about Octahedral chalcogenide rhenium cluster complexes with imidazole.

Monometallic and bimetallic catalysts based on Pd, Cu and Ni for hydrogen transfer deoxygenation of a prototypical fatty acid to diesel range hydrocarbons (2019)
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Cheah, K. W., Taylor, M. J., Osatiashtiani, A., Beaumont, S. K., Nowakowski, D. J., Yusup, S., Bridgwater, A. V., & Kyriakou, G. (in press). Monometallic and bimetallic catalysts based on Pd, Cu and Ni for hydrogen transfer deoxygenation of a prototypical fatty acid to diesel range hydrocarbons. Catalysis Today, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2019.03.017

Bimetallic PdxNi(100-x) and PdxCu(100-x) structures of a wide compositional range supported on activated carbon were synthesised via a simple, cheap and commercially relevant method. The surface and bulk properties of both the bimetallic structures a... Read More about Monometallic and bimetallic catalysts based on Pd, Cu and Ni for hydrogen transfer deoxygenation of a prototypical fatty acid to diesel range hydrocarbons.

N-cinnamoylanthranilates as human TRPA1 modulators: Structure-activity relationships and channel binding sites (2019)
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Chandrabalan, A., McPhillie, M. J., Morice, A. H., Boa, A. N., & Sadofsky, L. R. (2019). N-cinnamoylanthranilates as human TRPA1 modulators: Structure-activity relationships and channel binding sites. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 170, 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.02.074

The transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) channel is a non-selective cation channel, which detects noxious stimuli leading to pain, itch and cough. However, the mechanism(s) of channel modulation by many of the known, non-reactive modulators... Read More about N-cinnamoylanthranilates as human TRPA1 modulators: Structure-activity relationships and channel binding sites.

Robust measurement of flexoelectro-optic switching with different surface alignments (2019)
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Sandford O'Neill, J. J., Fells, J. A., Welch, C., Mehl, G., Yip, W. C., Wilkinson, T. D., Booth, M. J., Elston, S. J., & Morris, S. M. (2019). Robust measurement of flexoelectro-optic switching with different surface alignments. Journal of applied physics, 125(9), Article 093104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086241

The alignment of chiral nematic liquid crystals in the so-called uniform lying helix geometry allows for the observation and exploitation of the flexoelectro-optic effect. However, high-quality uniform lying helix alignment is difficult to achieve re... Read More about Robust measurement of flexoelectro-optic switching with different surface alignments.

Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads (2019)
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Hubin, T. J., Walker, A. N., Davilla, D. J., Carder Freeman, T. R. N., Epley, B. M., Hasley, T. R., Amoyaw, P. N., Jain, S., Archibald, S. J., Prior, T. J., Krause, J. A., Oliver, A. G., Tekwani, B. L., & Khan, M. O. F. (2019). Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads. Polyhedron, 163, 42-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.02.027

© 2019 A total of 44 bis-aryl-monocyclic polyamines, monoaryl-monocyclic polyamines and their transition metal complexes were prepared, chemically characterized, and screened in vitro against the Leishmania donovani promastigotes, axenic amastigotes... Read More about Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads.

The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart (2019)
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Onwuli, D. O., Samuel, S., Sfyri, P., Welham, K., Goddard, M., Abu-Omar, Y., Loubani, M., Rivero, F., Matsakas, A., Benoit, D. M., Wade, M., Greenman, J., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2019). The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart. International journal of cardiology, 282, 76-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.01.102

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The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is a gold standard cardiac biomarker and also an essential protein in cardiomyocyte excitation-contraction coupling. The interactions of cTnI with other proteins are fine-tuned by post-tra... Read More about The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart.

1H NMR study of molecular order and dynamics in the liquid crystal CB-C9-CB (2019)
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Aluculesei, A., Cachitas, H., Carvalho, J., Vaca Chavez, F., Figueirinhas, J. L., Sebastião, P. J., Cruz, C., Tamba, M. G., Kohlemeir, A., & Mehl, G. H. (2019). 1H NMR study of molecular order and dynamics in the liquid crystal CB-C9-CB. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 21(8), 4523-4537. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp06868b

© 2019 the Owner Societies. Molecular order and dynamics of the CB-C9-CB liquid crystalline dimer exhibiting the nematic (N) and the twist bend nematic (Ntb) phases were investigated by proton NMR spectroscopy, using fields of 0.78 T and 7.04 T, and... Read More about 1H NMR study of molecular order and dynamics in the liquid crystal CB-C9-CB.

Acetate as a model for aspartate-based CXCR4 chemokine receptor binding of cobalt and nickel complexes of cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycles (2019)
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Cain, A. N., Carder Freeman, T. N., Roewe, K. D., Cockriel, D. L., Hasley, T. R., Maples, R. D., Allbritton, E. M. A., D'Huys, T., van Loy, T., Burke, B. P., Prior, T. J., Schols, D., Archibald, S. J., & Hubin, T. J. (2019). Acetate as a model for aspartate-based CXCR4 chemokine receptor binding of cobalt and nickel complexes of cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycles. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 48(8), 2785-2801. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8dt04728f

A number of disease states including WHIM syndrome, HIV infection and cancer have been linked to the chemokine receptor CXCR4. High-affinity CXCR4 antagonist transition metal complexes of configurationally restricted bis-tetraazamacrocyclic ligands h... Read More about Acetate as a model for aspartate-based CXCR4 chemokine receptor binding of cobalt and nickel complexes of cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycles.

Pickering emulsion-enhanced interfacial biocatalysis: tailored alginate microparticles act as particulate emulsifier and enzyme carrier (2019)
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Yang, X., Wang, Y., Bai, R., Ma, H., Wang, W., Sun, H., Dong, Y., Qu, F., Tang, Q., Guo, T., Binks, B. P., & Meng, T. (2019). Pickering emulsion-enhanced interfacial biocatalysis: tailored alginate microparticles act as particulate emulsifier and enzyme carrier. Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC, 21(9), 2229-2233. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8gc03573c

A robust Pickering emulsion stabilized by lipase-immobilized alginate gel microparticles with a coating of silanized titania nanoparticles is developed for biphasic biocatalysis. The good recyclability and high stability of the proposed interfacial c... Read More about Pickering emulsion-enhanced interfacial biocatalysis: tailored alginate microparticles act as particulate emulsifier and enzyme carrier.

Stereolithographic 3D printing of extrinsically self-healing composites (2019)
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Sanders, P., Young, A. J., Qin, Y., Fancey, K. S., Reithofer, M. R., Guillet-Nicolas, R., Kleitz, F., Pamme, N., & Chin, J. M. (2019). Stereolithographic 3D printing of extrinsically self-healing composites. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36828-9

We demonstrate for the first time the direct stereolithographic 3D printing of an extrinsically self-healing composite, comprised of commercial photocurable resin modified with anisole and PMMA-filled microcapsules. The composites demonstrate solvent... Read More about Stereolithographic 3D printing of extrinsically self-healing composites.

Proton and Deuterium NMR study of the CBC9CB Dimer System (2019)
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Carvalho, J., Cruz, C., Figueirinhas, J. L., Tamba, M.-G., Kohlmeier, A., & Mehl, G. H. (2019). Proton and Deuterium NMR study of the CBC9CB Dimer System. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123(6), 1442-1451. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11526

Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society. Using proton and deuterium NMR spectroscopy, this work provides a description of the molecular orientational order of the mesogenic groups in both the N tb and the classical nematic phase (N) of the liquid... Read More about Proton and Deuterium NMR study of the CBC9CB Dimer System.

Pyrene-based blue emitters with aggregation-induced emission features for high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (2019)
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Feng, X., Xu, Z., Hu, Z., Qi, C., Luo, D., Zhao, X., Mu, Z., Lam, J. W. Y., Redshaw, C., Ma, D., & Tang, B. Z. (2019). Pyrene-based blue emitters with aggregation-induced emission features for high-performance organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7(8), 2283-2290. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc05547e

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Pyrene is a representative aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) chromophore. Herein, by introducing tetraphenylethylene or triphenylethylene with a typical aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristic at pyr... Read More about Pyrene-based blue emitters with aggregation-induced emission features for high-performance organic light-emitting diodes.