α-Cyanostyrenes bearing a planar pyrene unit and electron withdrawing trifluoromethyl units were designed and synthesized. The conformational restriction due to the presence of the cyano group on the double bond favors ...

The photothermal (PT) signal arises from slight changes of the index of refraction in a sample due to absorption of a heating light beam. Refractive index changes are measured with a second probing beam, usually of a ...

Gold- and silver-based plasmonic materials have emerged as game changers in the field of solar-driven small-molecule activation because of their enhanced and broadly tunable absorption cross sections. This review essays ...

Constructing an artificial photosynthetic assembly for efficient photocatalytic water-splitting is a key step in the pursuit for a solar-driven renewable energy economy; however, the paucity of an ideal combination of ...

Mitochondrion, the powerhouse of the cells, controls bioenergetics, biosynthesis, metabolism, and signaling. Consequently, it has become an unorthodox target for cancer therapeutics. However, specific targeting of mitochondria ...

Plasma membrane (PM) is the turntable of various reactions that regulate essential functionalities of cells. Among these reactions, the thiol disulfide exchange (TDE) reaction plays an important role in cellular processes. ...

In the present work, we correlate the CO-oxidation activity with the oxidation state of platinum with combined experimental and DFT calculations. XPS reveals that Pt supported La1−xSrxCoO3 (Pt/La1−xSrxCoO3) and Pt doped ...