Electrocatalytic systems for low-concentration CO2 reduction still face significant challenges in the mass transport and electronic modulation of catalyst active sites. This study developed a gas-molecular shear strategy for constructing nickel single atoms (Ni SAs) and nanocluster (NC)-doped carbon nanofiber catalysts (Ni/TCNFS-10CA; CA = cyanuric acid) featuring carbon vacancy defect engineering and hierarchical porous channels, which created a microenvironment that enhances CO2 adsorption and enrichment. Density functional theory (DFT) and experimental analysis revealed the effects of carbon vacancy defect-engineered Ni NCs on Ni SAs: (1) The introduction of carbon defects can regulate the local electronic structure and pore size, thereby achieving efficient enrichment and adsorption of CO2. (2) Carbon vacancy defects can optimize the key *COOH adsorption and reduce the desorption energy of *CO. The resulting catalyst achieved a near-unity Faradaic efficiency (FE) for CO (FECO ≈100%) over a broad potential window. Notably, it maintained a high FECO of 88.2% under a 20% CO2 atmosphere. The catalyst exhibited durability exceeding 306 h (1102 cycles) in a Zn-CO2 battery and over 80 h (288 cycles) in a Zn-CO2 (20% CO2) battery. This work proposes a high-activity carbon vacancy defect engineering strategy, delivering an innovative approach for efficient ECO2RR and the direct conversion of industrial flue gases.
用于低浓度CO2还原的电催化系统在催化剂活性位点的质量传输和电子调制方面仍然面临重大挑战。本研究开发了一种气体-分子剪切策略来构建镍单原子(Ni SAs)和纳米簇(NC)掺杂的碳纳米纤维催化剂(Ni/TCNFS-10CA; CA =氰脲酸),该策略具有碳空位缺陷工程和分层多孔通道,创造了一个增强CO2吸附和富集的微环境。密度泛函理论(DFT)和实验分析揭示了碳空位缺陷工程Ni NCs对Ni SAs的影响:(1)碳空位缺陷的引入可以调节局部电子结构和孔径,从而实现对CO2的高效富集和吸附。(2)碳空位缺陷可以优化*COOH的关键吸附,降低*CO的解吸能。所得到的催化剂在较宽的电位窗口内获得了CO的接近统一的法拉第效率(FE) (FECO≈100%)。值得注意的是,在20%的二氧化碳气氛下,它保持了88.2%的高FECO。该催化剂在Zn-CO2电池中表现出超过306小时(1102次循环)的耐久性,在Zn-CO2 (20% CO2)电池中表现出超过80小时(288次循环)的耐久性。这项工作提出了一种高活性碳空位缺陷工程策略,为高效的ECO2RR和工业烟气的直接转化提供了一种创新方法。
{"title":"Gas-Molecular-Shearing Carbon Vacancy Defect Networks on Ni-Doped Carbon Fibers for High-Efficiency Low-Concentration CO2 Enrichment and Electrocatalytic Reduction","authors":"Jinsheng Lai,Youpeng Xiong,Aerman Habadati,Meng Li,Mei Zhang,Tianwen Fang,Ke Yi,Yuzhu Ding,Xinghuan Liu,Xin Jia","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c08111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c08111","url":null,"abstract":"Electrocatalytic systems for low-concentration CO2 reduction still face significant challenges in the mass transport and electronic modulation of catalyst active sites. This study developed a gas-molecular shear strategy for constructing nickel single atoms (Ni SAs) and nanocluster (NC)-doped carbon nanofiber catalysts (Ni/TCNFS-10CA; CA = cyanuric acid) featuring carbon vacancy defect engineering and hierarchical porous channels, which created a microenvironment that enhances CO2 adsorption and enrichment. Density functional theory (DFT) and experimental analysis revealed the effects of carbon vacancy defect-engineered Ni NCs on Ni SAs: (1) The introduction of carbon defects can regulate the local electronic structure and pore size, thereby achieving efficient enrichment and adsorption of CO2. (2) Carbon vacancy defects can optimize the key *COOH adsorption and reduce the desorption energy of *CO. The resulting catalyst achieved a near-unity Faradaic efficiency (FE) for CO (FECO ≈100%) over a broad potential window. Notably, it maintained a high FECO of 88.2% under a 20% CO2 atmosphere. The catalyst exhibited durability exceeding 306 h (1102 cycles) in a Zn-CO2 battery and over 80 h (288 cycles) in a Zn-CO2 (20% CO2) battery. This work proposes a high-activity carbon vacancy defect engineering strategy, delivering an innovative approach for efficient ECO2RR and the direct conversion of industrial flue gases.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"211 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular chirality is significantly important for drug synthesis, material design, and other life activities. Thus, developing an efficient, convenient, and rapid technique for chiral recognition is of great industrial and physiological significance. Here, we demonstrate an electrochemical method for the sensitive real-time recognition of chiral molecules by using high-density chiral nanochannels. The chiral porphyrins direct the self-assembly of porphyrin-cored star homopolymers (p-HP) into ordered helical porphyrin arrays, providing chiral-selective nanochannels with enantioselective recognition capabilities. This well-defined assembly enables dual functionality of osmotic energy conversion and chiral molecule recognition, which is combined with a self-powered nanosensor for chiral molecule recognition. This work bridges the gap between molecular chirality and macroscopic membrane engineering, offering a sustainable platform for convenient chiral molecule recognition.
{"title":"Self-Assembled Chiral Nanochannel Arrays with Amplified Signal for Self-Powered Enantiomer Discrimination","authors":"Hua Yang,Yichen Hou,Chao Li,Lei Jiang","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c18501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c18501","url":null,"abstract":"Molecular chirality is significantly important for drug synthesis, material design, and other life activities. Thus, developing an efficient, convenient, and rapid technique for chiral recognition is of great industrial and physiological significance. Here, we demonstrate an electrochemical method for the sensitive real-time recognition of chiral molecules by using high-density chiral nanochannels. The chiral porphyrins direct the self-assembly of porphyrin-cored star homopolymers (p-HP) into ordered helical porphyrin arrays, providing chiral-selective nanochannels with enantioselective recognition capabilities. This well-defined assembly enables dual functionality of osmotic energy conversion and chiral molecule recognition, which is combined with a self-powered nanosensor for chiral molecule recognition. This work bridges the gap between molecular chirality and macroscopic membrane engineering, offering a sustainable platform for convenient chiral molecule recognition.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) is still largely driven by chemists’ literature-informed intuition and iterative trial-and-error, which can be difficult to scale and reproduce. Here we present a chemist-guided human–AI workflow that digitizes this reasoning loop─search, hypothesis formation, and iteration─by coupling a structured literature knowledge base with retrieval-augmented large language models and experiment-aware updates. We first construct a COF synthesis knowledge base containing 2709 protocols extracted from over 800 publications. Given an unseen linker combination, the workflow retrieves a Top-K neighborhood and assembles evidence through stratified sampling and context permutation, generating a range-type synthesis prior over solvent system, catalyst, temperature, time, and stoichiometry. A diagnosis module then interprets macroscopic observations together with powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) files using a failure taxonomy and proposes targeted updates and next-round experiments. In leave-one-out benchmarks on 60 held-out COFs, the best context-assembly and self-consensus settings improve solvent–catalyst hit rates from baseline levels to up to 0.83, supporting robust transfer beyond individual case studies. We demonstrate the workflow by synthesizing two fluorinated COFs, TAPPy-4F and TAPPy-8F, both exhibiting crystallinity and permanent porosity. By simulating the chemist’s reasoning loop, this human-AI system integrates expert knowledge with model-driven exploration, offering a generalizable and scalable paradigm for the rational design of complex reticular materials.
{"title":"Chemist-Guided Human–AI Workflow for Covalent Organic Framework Synthesis","authors":"Lihan Chen,Zhen Lu,Lin Chen,Linxi Hou,Dong Zhang","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c20068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c20068","url":null,"abstract":"The synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) is still largely driven by chemists’ literature-informed intuition and iterative trial-and-error, which can be difficult to scale and reproduce. Here we present a chemist-guided human–AI workflow that digitizes this reasoning loop─search, hypothesis formation, and iteration─by coupling a structured literature knowledge base with retrieval-augmented large language models and experiment-aware updates. We first construct a COF synthesis knowledge base containing 2709 protocols extracted from over 800 publications. Given an unseen linker combination, the workflow retrieves a Top-K neighborhood and assembles evidence through stratified sampling and context permutation, generating a range-type synthesis prior over solvent system, catalyst, temperature, time, and stoichiometry. A diagnosis module then interprets macroscopic observations together with powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) files using a failure taxonomy and proposes targeted updates and next-round experiments. In leave-one-out benchmarks on 60 held-out COFs, the best context-assembly and self-consensus settings improve solvent–catalyst hit rates from baseline levels to up to 0.83, supporting robust transfer beyond individual case studies. We demonstrate the workflow by synthesizing two fluorinated COFs, TAPPy-4F and TAPPy-8F, both exhibiting crystallinity and permanent porosity. By simulating the chemist’s reasoning loop, this human-AI system integrates expert knowledge with model-driven exploration, offering a generalizable and scalable paradigm for the rational design of complex reticular materials.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"177 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The heterogenization of molecular catalysts to be compatible with industrialization demands still faces great challenges. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that the activity of a molecular catalyst is unrestricted when installed in nanostructured coordination polymers (CPs). CPs that can be used to obtain ultrafine nanowires by ultrasound exfoliation are extremely limited. We illustrate that chain-like CPs can be designed using electrostatic ligand-capped low-coordination-number metal ions and electropositive ligands as building blocks. This guides the preparation of the three-dimensional (3D) chain-like CPs from chloride ion-capped Cu-based chromophores and 1,1’-(1,4-phenylenebis(methylene))bis(3-carboxy quinolin-1-ium) chloride; subsequently, ultrafine sub-1 nm nanowires were obtained via ultrasound exfoliation. The formed ultrafine sub-1 nm CP nanowires demonstrate high activity enhancement for functionalization of C(sp3)−H bonds with conversion being significantly increased for alkylation, thiolation, and oxidation of C(sp3)−H bonds after exposure to external surfaces of the flexible nanowires. Therefore, the observed activity increases in the order CuCl2 < bulk CP crystals < CP nanowires in functionalization of C(sp3)−H bonds. This work not only provides a strategy for constructing chain-like CPs and their ultrafine nanowires but also paves the way for expanding the diversity of the ultrafine 1D CP nanowires.
{"title":"Ultrafine Sub-1 nm One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Nanowires for Boosting Photocatalytic Functionalization of Inert C(sp3)–H Bonds","authors":"Songtao Liu,Guanfeng Ji,Yefei Wang,Liang Zhao,Cheng He,Chunhong Liu,Chunying Duan","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c21627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c21627","url":null,"abstract":"The heterogenization of molecular catalysts to be compatible with industrialization demands still faces great challenges. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that the activity of a molecular catalyst is unrestricted when installed in nanostructured coordination polymers (CPs). CPs that can be used to obtain ultrafine nanowires by ultrasound exfoliation are extremely limited. We illustrate that chain-like CPs can be designed using electrostatic ligand-capped low-coordination-number metal ions and electropositive ligands as building blocks. This guides the preparation of the three-dimensional (3D) chain-like CPs from chloride ion-capped Cu-based chromophores and 1,1’-(1,4-phenylenebis(methylene))bis(3-carboxy quinolin-1-ium) chloride; subsequently, ultrafine sub-1 nm nanowires were obtained via ultrasound exfoliation. The formed ultrafine sub-1 nm CP nanowires demonstrate high activity enhancement for functionalization of C(sp3)−H bonds with conversion being significantly increased for alkylation, thiolation, and oxidation of C(sp3)−H bonds after exposure to external surfaces of the flexible nanowires. Therefore, the observed activity increases in the order CuCl2 < bulk CP crystals < CP nanowires in functionalization of C(sp3)−H bonds. This work not only provides a strategy for constructing chain-like CPs and their ultrafine nanowires but also paves the way for expanding the diversity of the ultrafine 1D CP nanowires.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-11DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6c00128
Lei Zhao,Chungui Xue,Caijin Lei,Jie Tang,Wei Hu,Mengya Wan,Chuan Xiao,Guangbin Cheng,Hongwei Yang
This study reports the synthesis of three novel heterocycle triazolopyrimidine compounds with vicinal amino-nitro groups by introducing dinitropyrazole, nitrooxadiazole, and trinitromethyl groups into the fused-ring framework, respectively. Target compounds 3, 6, and 9 were obtained by subjecting substrates 1, 4, and 7, respectively, to a nucleophilic substitution cyclization reaction with 3,3-diethoxypropionitrile, followed by a nitration step. Among them, 2-(4,5-dinitro-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-6-nitro-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (3) and 6-nitro-2-(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (6) exhibited moderate detonation performance (Dv = 7769 m·s–1and P = 25.1 GPa ; Dv = 8258 m·s–1 and P = 29.4 GPa), low sensitivity (IS = 30 and 24 J; FS = 288 and 240 N) and high thermal stability (Td = 277 and 263 °C). Even more outstanding is 6-nitro-2-(trinitromethyl)-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (9), which exhibits detonation performance (Dv = 8716 m·s–1) close to that of the classic explosive cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX: Dv = 8795 m·s–1, IS = 7.5 J, FS = 120 N), but exhibiting lower sensitivity (IS = 16 J, FS = 168 N), making it highly promising as a novel high-energy, low-sensitivity energetic material. This work expands their potential applications as high-energy, low-sensitivity explosives.
{"title":"Construction of Heterocyclic-Triazolopyrimidine Framework for Energetic Compounds: High-Energy, Low-Sensitivity Explosives","authors":"Lei Zhao,Chungui Xue,Caijin Lei,Jie Tang,Wei Hu,Mengya Wan,Chuan Xiao,Guangbin Cheng,Hongwei Yang","doi":"10.1021/acs.orglett.6c00128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c00128","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports the synthesis of three novel heterocycle triazolopyrimidine compounds with vicinal amino-nitro groups by introducing dinitropyrazole, nitrooxadiazole, and trinitromethyl groups into the fused-ring framework, respectively. Target compounds 3, 6, and 9 were obtained by subjecting substrates 1, 4, and 7, respectively, to a nucleophilic substitution cyclization reaction with 3,3-diethoxypropionitrile, followed by a nitration step. Among them, 2-(4,5-dinitro-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-6-nitro-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (3) and 6-nitro-2-(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (6) exhibited moderate detonation performance (Dv = 7769 m·s–1and P = 25.1 GPa ; Dv = 8258 m·s–1 and P = 29.4 GPa), low sensitivity (IS = 30 and 24 J; FS = 288 and 240 N) and high thermal stability (Td = 277 and 263 °C). Even more outstanding is 6-nitro-2-(trinitromethyl)-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-amine (9), which exhibits detonation performance (Dv = 8716 m·s–1) close to that of the classic explosive cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX: Dv = 8795 m·s–1, IS = 7.5 J, FS = 120 N), but exhibiting lower sensitivity (IS = 16 J, FS = 168 N), making it highly promising as a novel high-energy, low-sensitivity energetic material. This work expands their potential applications as high-energy, low-sensitivity explosives.","PeriodicalId":54,"journal":{"name":"Organic Letters","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monoclonal antibodies are the cornerstone biopharmaceuticals whose safety and efficacy critically depend on their higher-order structure (HOS). Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has emerged as a promising tool for HOS evaluation, yet its application has largely relied on fingerprinting approaches without residue-level interpretation. Here, we report site-specific assignments of methyl resonances in the Fc region of human IgG1, established through amino acid-selective labeling and correlation with backbone resonances using scalar coupling and NOE connectivities, further supported by mutagenesis. These assignments allowed us to identify glycoform-dependent spectral variations, including distinct signatures of core fucosylation and terminal galactosylation, as well as an Fc-specific amino acid substitution. Importantly, these spectral probes were detectable even in antibodies at natural isotopic abundance, enabling practical applications to therapeutic products without isotopic labeling. Furthermore, dynamic filtering highlighted methyl resonances from hinge and receptor-binding residues with elevated mobility, providing localized insights into functional sites. Collectively, our results establish unlabeled methyl NMR as a robust platform for sensitive and practical HOS assessment of therapeutic antibodies. This approach is broadly applicable to monitor glycosylation heterogeneity, chemical modifications, and batch-to-batch consistency, thereby offering a valuable framework for development and quality control of both innovative biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars.
{"title":"Unlabeled NMR Approach with Site-Specific Methyl Assignments for Structural Evaluation of the IgG1 Fc Region","authors":"Saeko Yanaka,Yuuki Koseki,Yohei Miyanoiri,Toshio Yamazaki,Tsutomu Terauchi,Daichi Kaneko,Yukiko Isono,Kohei Tomita,Sachiko Kondo,Masayoshi Onitsuka,Maho Yagi-Utsumi,Hirokazu Yagi,Akiko Ishii-Watabe,Koichi Kato","doi":"10.1021/jacs.5c18997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c18997","url":null,"abstract":"Monoclonal antibodies are the cornerstone biopharmaceuticals whose safety and efficacy critically depend on their higher-order structure (HOS). Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has emerged as a promising tool for HOS evaluation, yet its application has largely relied on fingerprinting approaches without residue-level interpretation. Here, we report site-specific assignments of methyl resonances in the Fc region of human IgG1, established through amino acid-selective labeling and correlation with backbone resonances using scalar coupling and NOE connectivities, further supported by mutagenesis. These assignments allowed us to identify glycoform-dependent spectral variations, including distinct signatures of core fucosylation and terminal galactosylation, as well as an Fc-specific amino acid substitution. Importantly, these spectral probes were detectable even in antibodies at natural isotopic abundance, enabling practical applications to therapeutic products without isotopic labeling. Furthermore, dynamic filtering highlighted methyl resonances from hinge and receptor-binding residues with elevated mobility, providing localized insights into functional sites. Collectively, our results establish unlabeled methyl NMR as a robust platform for sensitive and practical HOS assessment of therapeutic antibodies. This approach is broadly applicable to monitor glycosylation heterogeneity, chemical modifications, and batch-to-batch consistency, thereby offering a valuable framework for development and quality control of both innovative biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars.","PeriodicalId":49,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Chemical Society","volume":"242 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-11DOI: 10.1007/s00216-026-06389-2
A F Roig-Navarro, F Soria-Prieto, E Pitarch, R García-Cubedo
The increasing use of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation raises concerns about the environmental accumulation of persistent contaminants, including gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs). These compounds, widely used in medical imaging, are excreted unmetabolized and poorly removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants, leading to their release into aquatic environments and potential accumulation in soils and crops. In this study, a method was developed, validated, and applied-for the first time-for the determination of three commonly used GBCAs-gadoteric acid, gadoteridol, and gadobutrol-in clay soil. Quantification was achieved by ion chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). Suitable separation was accurately optimized using a mobile phase containing 30 mM EDTA and 20 mM NH4NO3 at pH 9.8. Elution of all target species was achieved within 7.5 min. The method was evaluated using real clay soil samples from an agricultural field in Castelló (Spain) fortified with selected GBCAs at various concentrations. Mild extraction with NH4NO3 yielded recoveries below 50%, which allows assessment of the bioavailable fraction. To achieve quantitative recovery, a more severe alkaline extraction protocol using KOH was subsequently developed. The optimized procedure demonstrated excellent analytical performance, with LOD and LOQ below 2 and 5 ng g-1, respectively. This methodology enabled the first quantitative determination of GBCAs in soil samples collected from municipal parks irrigated with reclaimed water. Furthermore, the KOH-based extraction was extended to the quantification of gadoteric acid in peat substrates from greenhouse-scale cultivation trials, yielding a mean recovery of 80% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 12%. The application of this method confirmed the accumulation of the contrast agent in peat irrigated with fortified tap water. These findings underscore the necessity for robust, matrix-specific analytical workflows to monitor the environmental fate of GBCAs and to accurately assess their potential transfer into the food chain.
越来越多地使用再生水用于农业灌溉,引起了人们对持久性污染物(包括钆基造影剂(gbca))在环境中积累的担忧。这些广泛用于医学成像的化合物未经代谢就被排出体外,传统的废水处理厂也很难去除它们,导致它们释放到水生环境中,并可能在土壤和作物中积累。在这项研究中,首次开发、验证并应用了一种方法来测定粘土中常用的三种gbcas——gadoteracid, gadoteridol和gadobutrol。定量采用离子色谱-电感耦合等离子体质谱法(IC-ICP-MS)。采用含30 mM EDTA和20 mM NH4NO3的流动相,pH为9.8,精确优化了最佳分离条件。所有目标物种的洗脱在7.5 min内完成。该方法使用来自Castelló(西班牙)农田的真实粘土样品进行了评估,这些样品中添加了不同浓度的选定的gbca。用NH4NO3进行温和萃取,回收率低于50%,从而可以评估生物可利用部分。为了实现定量回收,随后开发了一种使用KOH的更严格的碱性提取方案。优化后的方法具有良好的分析性能,LOD和LOQ分别小于2和5 ng g-1。该方法首次实现了再生水灌溉市政公园土壤样品中gbca的定量测定。此外,将该方法扩展到温室栽培试验中泥炭基质中钆的定量提取,平均回收率为80%,相对标准偏差(RSD)为12%。该方法的应用证实了用强化自来水灌溉泥炭时造影剂的积累。这些发现强调了建立强大的、针对特定基质的分析工作流程的必要性,以监测gbca的环境命运,并准确评估它们进入食物链的可能性。
{"title":"Determination of selected gadolinium-based contrast agents in soil: method validation and application.","authors":"A F Roig-Navarro, F Soria-Prieto, E Pitarch, R García-Cubedo","doi":"10.1007/s00216-026-06389-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-026-06389-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing use of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation raises concerns about the environmental accumulation of persistent contaminants, including gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs). These compounds, widely used in medical imaging, are excreted unmetabolized and poorly removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants, leading to their release into aquatic environments and potential accumulation in soils and crops. In this study, a method was developed, validated, and applied-for the first time-for the determination of three commonly used GBCAs-gadoteric acid, gadoteridol, and gadobutrol-in clay soil. Quantification was achieved by ion chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). Suitable separation was accurately optimized using a mobile phase containing 30 mM EDTA and 20 mM NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> at pH 9.8. Elution of all target species was achieved within 7.5 min. The method was evaluated using real clay soil samples from an agricultural field in Castelló (Spain) fortified with selected GBCAs at various concentrations. Mild extraction with NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> yielded recoveries below 50%, which allows assessment of the bioavailable fraction. To achieve quantitative recovery, a more severe alkaline extraction protocol using KOH was subsequently developed. The optimized procedure demonstrated excellent analytical performance, with LOD and LOQ below 2 and 5 ng g<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. This methodology enabled the first quantitative determination of GBCAs in soil samples collected from municipal parks irrigated with reclaimed water. Furthermore, the KOH-based extraction was extended to the quantification of gadoteric acid in peat substrates from greenhouse-scale cultivation trials, yielding a mean recovery of 80% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 12%. The application of this method confirmed the accumulation of the contrast agent in peat irrigated with fortified tap water. These findings underscore the necessity for robust, matrix-specific analytical workflows to monitor the environmental fate of GBCAs and to accurately assess their potential transfer into the food chain.</p>","PeriodicalId":462,"journal":{"name":"Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146155703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The clinical translation of cancer nanomedicine is significantly impeded by biological barriers, including rapid immune clearance, the heterogeneous tumor microenvironment (TME), and the limited efficacy of passive targeting. While single-source cell membrane coatings offer partial solutions, they are often constrained by functional incompleteness. The emergence of hybrid membrane-camouflaged nanomedicines (HMCNs), fabricated by fusing membranes from distinct cell types, represents a paradigm shift. This biomimetic strategy ingeniously engineers bio-interfaces that synergistically integrate multifunctional properties, such as prolonged circulation, active targeting, and TME modulation, thereby overcoming the limitations of single-membrane systems. This review systematically deconstructs the rational design principles governing HMCNs, emphasizing source cell selection based on functional complementarity to avoid signal conflict. We further delve into mechanism-driven engineering, exploring advanced fusion methodologies and characterization techniques essential for ensuring structural and functional fidelity. The functional diversification of HMCNs is highlighted through their application in multimodal synergistic therapies (e.g., photothermal-immunotherapy, chemo-gene therapy) and intelligent theranostic platforms. Finally, we critically discuss prevailing challenges in batch consistency and scalable production, and envision future directions, including smart stimulus-responsive systems, AI-aided design, and patient-specific nanoplatforms. By bridging biology, chemistry, and materials science, HMCNs establish a versatile and potent paradigm for next-generation cancer therapeutics.
{"title":"Hybrid membrane-camouflaged nanomedicines for precision oncology: rational design, mechanism innovation, and diversified applications","authors":"Shuyao Cai, Zhenghui Chen, Yaoyao Lv, Dongdong Xu, Yang Li, Shouchun Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.ccr.2026.217681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2026.217681","url":null,"abstract":"The clinical translation of cancer nanomedicine is significantly impeded by biological barriers, including rapid immune clearance, the heterogeneous tumor microenvironment (TME), and the limited efficacy of passive targeting. While single-source cell membrane coatings offer partial solutions, they are often constrained by functional incompleteness. The emergence of hybrid membrane-camouflaged nanomedicines (HMCNs), fabricated by fusing membranes from distinct cell types, represents a paradigm shift. This biomimetic strategy ingeniously engineers bio-interfaces that synergistically integrate multifunctional properties, such as prolonged circulation, active targeting, and TME modulation, thereby overcoming the limitations of single-membrane systems. This review systematically deconstructs the rational design principles governing HMCNs, emphasizing source cell selection based on functional complementarity to avoid signal conflict. We further delve into mechanism-driven engineering, exploring advanced fusion methodologies and characterization techniques essential for ensuring structural and functional fidelity. The functional diversification of HMCNs is highlighted through their application in multimodal synergistic therapies (e.g., photothermal-immunotherapy, chemo-gene therapy) and intelligent theranostic platforms. Finally, we critically discuss prevailing challenges in batch consistency and scalable production, and envision future directions, including smart stimulus-responsive systems, AI-aided design, and patient-specific nanoplatforms. By bridging biology, chemistry, and materials science, HMCNs establish a versatile and potent paradigm for next-generation cancer therapeutics.","PeriodicalId":289,"journal":{"name":"Coordination Chemistry Reviews","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2026.345229
Xiaoyuan Ma, Xi Ma, Muxi Zhang, Jinchi Han, Zhouping Wang
Background
As one of the most common mycotoxins, Zearalenone (ZEN) not only contaminates cereal crops but also exists in processed grain products for its chemical stability. After entering human body through the food chain, ZEN exhibits remarkable bioaccumulation properties, which poses varying degrees of harmful effects to human health. The traditional chromatography instrumental methods require expensive equipment and complex experimental procedures. The aim of this manuscript is to develop a facile and accurate method for ZEN detection in food samples.
Results
Here, a SERS platform was developed for ZEN detection using COF and noble metal nanomaterial with nitroreductase (NTR)-like activity. First, magnetic COF loaded with gold nanoparticles (MCOF-Au) were synthesized as SERS enhancement substrates with partial NTR activity. Simultaneously, palladium-loaded dumbbell-shaped gold nanorods (AuNR/Pd) were prepared and served as the primary NTR in the 4-NTP/NaBH4 system, significantly enhancing both catalytic activity and SERS signal. After nucleic acid functionalization, the two components assembled. The addition of ZEN regulated the assemble of AuNR/Pd on MCOF-Au. Following magnetic separation, the catalytic and SERS activities changed in the precipitate. Using the Raman peak of the output product 4-ATP at 390 cm-1 as the quantitative marker, the method showed a linear range in 0.001 μg/kg-1000 μg/kg. The LOD was calculated as 1.88×10-4 μg/kg, and spiked recoveries in wheat flour and corn ranged from 88.91% to 115.78%, demonstrating high sensitivity and reliability for real-sample detection.
Significance
This aptasensor integrates the high sensitivity of Raman signals with the selectivity of aptamers, providing a robust and efficient tool for accurate ZEN detection in food. COF based nanocomposites are proved to have remarkable NTR activity and the catalytic product 4-ATP exhibits prominent Raman signal, making it suitable for quantitative detection. This design offers a versatile platform for food safety monitoring and public health protection.
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Chi Duan, Jiaqi Zhao, Run Shi, Jinjia Liu, Li-Ping Zhang, Li-Zhu Wu, Zhenhua Li, Tierui Zhang
Photocatalytic propane dehydrogenation (PDH) offers a promising route for propylene production under mild conditions despite the unsatisfactory propylene yield at present. Herein, we have introduced several second metals into Pt/ZnO catalyst to modulate the electronic structure of Pt by forming PtM alloys. Among all these catalysts, PtPb alloys/ZnO catalyst (PtPb/ZnO) exhibits the optimum photocatalytic PDH activity. Both experiments and density functional theory calculations reveals that PtPb alloys significantly increases the electron density of Pt, weakening the interaction between Pt and propylene. This facilitates the desorption of the produced propylene during photocatalytic PDH, thus helping to release Pt active sites for reactant conversion. A 3.6-fold increase on propylene yield of photocatalytic PDH has been achieved over PtPb/ZnO with a propylene production rate of 5.4 mmol g−1 h−1. Our findings highlight the critical relationship between the electronic structure of Pt active sites and performance, marking product desorption modulation an effective strategy to boost photocatalytic PDH.
{"title":"Enhancing Photocatalytic Propane Dehydrogenation via Electronic Structure Modulation of Platinum Sites Over Platinum-Based Alloys","authors":"Chi Duan, Jiaqi Zhao, Run Shi, Jinjia Liu, Li-Ping Zhang, Li-Zhu Wu, Zhenhua Li, Tierui Zhang","doi":"10.1002/anie.202524711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202524711","url":null,"abstract":"Photocatalytic propane dehydrogenation (PDH) offers a promising route for propylene production under mild conditions despite the unsatisfactory propylene yield at present. Herein, we have introduced several second metals into Pt/ZnO catalyst to modulate the electronic structure of Pt by forming PtM alloys. Among all these catalysts, PtPb alloys/ZnO catalyst (PtPb/ZnO) exhibits the optimum photocatalytic PDH activity. Both experiments and density functional theory calculations reveals that PtPb alloys significantly increases the electron density of Pt, weakening the interaction between Pt and propylene. This facilitates the desorption of the produced propylene during photocatalytic PDH, thus helping to release Pt active sites for reactant conversion. A 3.6-fold increase on propylene yield of photocatalytic PDH has been achieved over PtPb/ZnO with a propylene production rate of 5.4 mmol g<sup>−1</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>. Our findings highlight the critical relationship between the electronic structure of Pt active sites and performance, marking product desorption modulation an effective strategy to boost photocatalytic PDH.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}