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We have facilely synthesized orange emissive carbon nanodots (O-CDs) via a hydrothermal method using citric acid and 5-aminosalicylic acid. The obtained O-CDs show the excellent characteristics of excitation independence, low toxicity, fabulous photostability and superior biocompatibility. Based on these captivating properties, as-prepared O-CDs have been successfully implemented as a multi-functional sensing platform for fluorescent and colorimetric bimodal recognition of Cu2+ and pH. Upon adding Cu2+, the orange fluorescence of the O-CDs is evidently quenched with a linear range of 0 μM-300 μM, and a detection limit of 28 nM. Additionally, as the pH increases from 7.0 to 10.2, the O-CDs manifest an obvious decrease in orange fluorescence, which shows a pKa value of 8.73 and excellent linearity in the pH range of 8.0-9.2. Appealingly, the laser confocal imaging of O-CD-stained cells demonstrates that the fluctuations of Cu2+ and pH can be visualized in living cells.Salt metathesis reactions between a low-valent rhenium(i) complex, Na[Re(η5-Cp)(BDI)] (BDI = N,N'-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3,5-dimethyl-β-diketiminate), and a series of amidinate-supported tetrylenes of the form ECl[PhC(NtBu)2] (E = Si, Ge, Sn) led to rhenium metallotetrylenes Re(E[PhC(NtBu)2])(η5-Cp)(BDI) (E = Si (1a), Ge (2), Sn (4)) with varying extents of Re-E multiple bonding. Whereas the rhenium-stannylene 4 adopts a σ-metallotetrylene arrangement featuring a Re-E single bond, the rhenium-silylene (1a) and -germylene (2) both engage in π-interactions to form short Re-E multiple bonds. Temperature was found to play a crucial role in reactions between Na[Re(η5-Cp)(BDI)] and SiCl[PhC(NtBu)2], as manipulation of reaction conditions led to isolation of an unusual rhenium-silane, (BDI)Re(μ-η5η1-C5H4)(SiH[PhC(NtBu)2]) (1b) and a dinitrogen bridged rhenium-silylene, (η5-Cp)(BDI)Re(μ-N2)Si[PhC(NtBu)2] (1c), in addition to 1a. Finally, the reaction of Na[Re(η5-Cp)(BDI)] with GeCl2·dioxane led to a rare μ2-tetrelido complex, μ2-Ge[Re(η5-Cp)(BDI)]2 (3). Bonding interactions within these complexes are discussed through the lens of various spectroscopic, structural, and computational investigations.Metallic materials are widely used to prepare implants for both short-term and long-term use in the human body. The performance of these implants is greatly influenced by their surface characteristics, which has motivated the development of several surface modification techniques. Surface severe plastic deformation (S2PD) techniques have emerged as promising strategies to enhance the performance of metallic biomaterials. They do not involve chemical modification of the surface and impart minimal changes to the surface topography. S2PD processes are based on the principle of generating nanocrystals at the surface, which can improve performance metrics, such as fatigue, wear, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility through various mechanisms, such as surface hardening and alterations to the surface oxide layer. This review presents the state of the art on the development of different S2PD processes and their applications on metallic biomaterials. Brief descriptions of the different processes have been provided, followed by a discussion on the microstructural changes induced by these processes for different generations of biomaterials. The effect of S2PD on surface and bulk characteristics of the biomaterials and their performance is critically reviewed. As an emerging class of surface engineering techniques in biomaterials science, more work is needed to fully leverage their potential in this field, and these opportunities are discussed in this review.CD3ε is expressed on T lymphocytes as a part of the T cell receptor (TCR)-CD3 complex. Together with other CD3 molecules, CD3ε is responsible for the activation of T cells via transducing the event of antigen recognition by the TCR into intracellular signaling cascades. The present study first aims to identify a novel peptide ligand that binds to human CD3ε in a specific manner and to perform an initial evaluation of its biological efficacy on the human T cell line, Jurkat cells. We screened a phage-display peptide library against human CD3ε using a subtractive biopanning process, from which we identified 13 phage clones displaying unique peptide sequences. One dominant phage clone displaying the 7 amino acid sequence of WSLGYTG, which occupied 90% of tested plaques (18 out of 20) after the 5th round of biopanning, demonstrated a superior binding behavior to other clones in the binding assays against recombinant CD3ε on microbeads or Jurkat cells. The synthesized peptide also showed specific binding to Jurkat cells in a dose-dependent manner but not to B cell lymphoma line, 2PK3 cells. Molecular modeling and docking simulation confirmed that the selected peptide ligand in an energetically stable conformation binds to a pocket of CD3ε that is not hidden by either CD3γ or CD3δ. Lastly, magnetic microbeads conjugated with the synthesized peptide ligands showed a weak but specific association with Jurkat cells and induced the calcium flux, a hallmark indication of proximal T cell receptor signaling, which gave rise to an enhancement of IL-2 section and cell proliferation. The novel peptide ligand and its various multivalent forms have a great potential in applications related to T cell biology and T cell immunotherapy.The simultaneous near-infrared (NIR)-absorbed photodynamic therapy (PDT)/photothermal therapy (PTT) has proved to be a promising approach to increase the antitumor efficiency due to their synergistic effect. Herein, a boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-based photosensitizer was designed and synthesized for the enhanced synergistic NIR-absorbed PDT/PTT therapy upon NIR light irradiation. In this strategy, a three-dimensional rigid polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) block was introduced into the Br-BODIPY molecule to alleviate the aggregation of the photosensitizer. The POSS hybrid BODIPY (Br-BODIPY-POSS) was further functionalized with a biocompatible amphiphilic PEG via a facile thiol-ene "click" reaction, affording Br-BODIPY-POSS-PEG2000 (BBPP). BBPP can self-assemble into nanoparticles, which maintain a competitive photothermal conversion efficiency (ηBBPP = 30.2%) with its counterpart Br-BODIPY-PEG (BBP, ηBBP = 34.5%). selleckchem Significantly, BBPP exhibited a relatively higher oxygen quantum yield (ΦBBPP = 0.405) than BBP (ΦBBP = 0.