Thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline palladium sulfide

10.1039/C8RA01613E

2018-04-09

Measurement of the electrical, thermal, and structural properties of palladium sulfide (PdS) has been conducted in order to investigate its thermoelectric performance. A tetragonal structure with the space group P42/m for PdS was determined from X-ray diffrac...

The effect of sintering process on lithium ionic conductivity of Li6.4Al0.2La3Zr2O12 garnet produced by solid-state synthesis

10.1039/C8RA01329B

2018-04-09

Recently, solid-state electrolyte lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide garnet (Li7La3Zr2O12, LLZO) has attracted great attention due to its high room temperature conductivity of lithium ions and stability against lithium metal electrodes. The Al-doped cubic garn...

Magnetic surface molecularly imprinted poly(3-aminophenylboronic acid) for selective capture and determination of diethylstilbestrol

10.1039/C8RA01250D

2018-04-09

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is considered a representative example of an exogenous endocrine disrupting compound (EDC). It can retard development in infants, lead to serious metabolic regulation disorders, and even result in distortion and cancer in the reproduc...

An optimized procedure for direct access to 1H-indazole-3-carboxaldehyde derivatives by nitrosation of indoles

10.1039/C8RA01546E

2018-04-09

Indazole derivatives are currently drawing more and more attention in medicinal chemistry as kinase inhibitors. 1H-indazole-3-carboxaldehydes are key intermediates to access to a variety of polyfunctionalized 3-substituted indazoles. We report here a general ...

Weavable asymmetric carbon nanotube yarn supercapacitor for electronic textiles

10.1039/C8RA01384E

2018-04-09

Asymmetric supercapacitors are receiving much research interests due to their wide operating potential window and high energy density. In this study, we report the fabrication of asymmetrically configured yarn based supercapacitor by using liquid-state biscro...

Synergistic regulation mechanism of iperoxo and LY2119620 for muscarinic acetylcholine M2 receptor

10.1039/C8RA01545G

2018-04-09

Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are GPCRs that regulate the activity of a diverse array of central and peripheral functions in the human body, including the parasympathetic actions of acetylcholine. The M2 muscarinic receptor subtype plays a key role in mo...

Rational design of a new cytarabine-based prodrug for highly efficient oral delivery of cytarabine

10.1039/C8RA01225C

2018-04-09

Because of the drawbacks of cytarabine (Ara-C) such as poor lipid solubility, deamination inactivation and low oral bioavailability limiting its application by oral administration, herein we propose a novel amphiphilic low molecular weight cytarabine prodrug ...

Temperature-tuned ferromagnetism in hydrogenated multilayer graphene

10.1039/C8RA02648C

2018-04-09

Improving the ferromagnetism properties of pure carbon-based materials is extremely important for their application in spintronics. Hydrogenation of graphene is an effective way to induce magnetic moment into graphene with the advantage of reversibility. Howe...

Impact of inkjet printed ZnO electron transport layer on the characteristics of polymer solar cells

10.1039/C8RA01481G

2018-04-09

In this paper, we demonstrate that zinc oxide (ZnO) layers deposited by inkjet printing (IJP) can be successfully applied to the low-temperature fabrication of efficient inverted polymer solar cells (i-PSCs). The effects of ZnO layers deposited by IJP as elec...

Angelica gigas ameliorates the destruction of gingival tissues via inhibition of MMP-9 activity

10.1039/C7RA12531C

2018-04-09

Angelica gigas (AG) has been used for periodontal diseases in traditional Korean medicine. However, the effects of AG on periodontitis have not been clarified yet. In this study, we investigated the ameliorative effects of AG against ligature-induced periodon...