Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have witnessed an unprecedentedly rapid development, especially in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE). However, the …
Continue reading “Dual Metal-Assisted Defect Engineering towards High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Highly branched gold (Au) nanostructures with sharp tips are considered excellent substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based sensing technologies. Here, …
Continue reading “A Versatile Synthetic Pathway for Producing Mesostructured Plasmonic Nanostructures”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
The electrochemical study of 2-Sulfanylidene-1,3-thiazolidin-4-one (rhodanine, R) was performed on a glassy carbon working electrode by using three methods: differential …
Continue reading “Electrochemical and spectral studies of rhodanine in view of heavy metals determination”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Lignin is an abundant biopolymer deriving from industrial pulping processes of lignocellulosic biomass. Despite the huge amount of yearly produced …
Continue reading “Kraft Lignin: From Pulping Waste to Bio-Based Dielectric Polymer for Organic Field-Effect Transistors”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Protein lysine methyltransferases have important regulatory functions in cells, but mechanisms determining their activity and specificity are incompletely understood. Naturally, …
Continue reading “Mechanistic basis of the increased methylation activity of the SETD2 protein lysine methyltransferase towards a designed super-substrate peptide”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Soft colloidal macromolecular structures with programmable chemical functionalities, size, and shape are important building blocks for the fabrication of catalyst …
Continue reading “Anisotropic Microgels by Supramolecular Assembly and Precipitation Polymerization of Pyrazole-Modified Monomers”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Nanocolloids that are cumulatively referred to as nanocarbons, attracted significant attention during the last decade because of facile synthesis methods, …
Continue reading “Hydrothermal synthesis of chiral carbon dots”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Neuraminidase (NA) of human influenza H3N2 virus has evolved rapidly and been accumulating mutations for more than half-century. However, biophysical …
Continue reading “Prevalence and mechanisms of evolutionary contingency in human influenza H3N2 neuraminidase”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
TRP channels sense temperatures ranging from noxious cold to noxious heat. Whether specialized TRP thermosensor modules exist and how they …
Continue reading “The human TRPA1 intrinsic cold and heat sensitivity involves separate channel structures beyond the N-ARD domain”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
In this work, hybrid nanocomposites of CuS QDs @ ZnO photocatalysts are fabricated through a facile microwave-assisted (MW) hydrothermal method …
Continue reading “Copper sulfide and zinc oxide hybrid nanocomposite for wastewater decontamination of pharmaceuticals and pesticides”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
The rapid increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to many commonly used antimicrobial agents and their global …
Continue reading “Investigation of bactericidal effect of a mid-infrared free electron laser on Escherichia coli”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
The formation of advanced glycation end products is associated with aging and diabetic complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy, and nephropathy. …
Continue reading “Lignin, an active component in the corn silk water extract, inhibits glycation”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Upconversion materials (UCMs) have been developed to convert tissue-penetrating near-infrared (NIR) light into visible light. However, the low energy conversion …
Continue reading “Controlled afterglow luminescent particles for photochemical tissue bonding”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
Photodynamic therapy is a clinically approved anticancer modality that employs a light-activated agent (photosensitizer) to generate cytotoxic reactive oxygen species …
Continue reading “Site-selected thionated benzothioxanthene chromophores as heavy-atom-free small-molecule photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022
The polymerization/depolymerization dynamics of FtsZ play a pivotal role in cell division in the majority of the bacteria. Deinococcus radiodurans, …
Continue reading “FtsZ phosphorylation brings about growth arrest upon DNA damage in Deinococcus radiodurans”
Carlos Morillo
November 1, 2022