Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2105: Development of Water-in-Oil Emulsions as Delivery Vehicles and Testing with a Natural Antimicrobial Extract Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092105 Authors: Giovana Colucci Arantzazu Santamaria-Echart Samara C. Silva Isabel P. M. Fernandes Caroline C. Sipoli Maria F. Barreiro Water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions have high potential for several industrial areas as delivery systems of hydrophilic compounds. In general, they are less studied than...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2102: Functionalized Carbon Nanostructures Versus Drug Resistance: Promising Scenarios in Cancer Treatment Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092102 Authors: Manuela Curcio Annafranca Farfalla Federica Saletta Emanuele Valli Elvira Pantuso Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta Francesca Iemma Orazio Vittorio Giuseppe Cirillo Carbon nanostructures (CN) are emerging valuable materials for the assembly of highly engineered multifunctional nanovehicles...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2103: Evaluation of the Antibacterial Activity and Efflux Pump Reversal of Thymol and Carvacrol against Staphylococcus aureus and Their Toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092103 Authors: Zildene de Sousa Silveira Nair Silva Macêdo Joycy Francely Sampaio dos Santos Thiago Sampaio de Freitas Cristina Rodrigues dos Santos Barbosa Dárcio Luiz de Sousa Júnior Débora Feitosa Muniz Lígia Claudia Castro de Oliveira José...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2100: Effects of Exercise Training on Renal Carnitine Biosynthesis and Uptake in the High-Fat and High-Sugar-Fed Mouse Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092100 Authors: Aman Upadhyay Layla Al-Nakkash Tom L. Broderick (1) Background: Diet-induced obesity inhibits hepatic carnitine biosynthesis. Herein, the effects of high-fat (HF) and high-sugar (HFHS) feeding and exercise training (ET) on renal carnitine biosynthesis and uptake were determined. (2) Methods:...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2099: Intake of Alpha-Linolenic Acid-Rich Perilla frutescens Leaf Powder Decreases Home Blood Pressure and Serum Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein in Japanese Adults Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092099 Authors: Michio Hashimoto Yoko Tanabe Shahdat Hossain Kentaro Matsuzaki Miho Ohno Setsushi Kato Masanori Katakura Osamu Shido Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL) is known to be highly atherogenic. Thus, decreasing the blood levels...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2101: Synthesis and Catalytic Application of Two Mononuclear Complexes Bearing Diethylenetriamine Derivative Ligand Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092101 Authors: Chao Liu Zhao Yang Hao Guo Yu-Cai Zhao Two mononuclear zero-dimensional Ni(II) and Zn(II) complexes bearing diethylenetriamine derivative ligand, namely [NiL(CH3COO)2(H2O)] (1) and [ZnL(CH3COO)2] (2) [L = N, N’-bis(2-hydroxybenzyl)diethylenetriamine], were synthesized under reflux...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2097: PbS Nanoparticles Prepared Using 1, 10-Phenanthroline Adduct of Lead(II) Bis(N-alkyl-N-phenyl dithiocarbamate) as Single Source Precursors Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092097 Authors: Jerry O. Adeyemi Damian C. Onwudiwe Dithiocarbamate complexes have remained prominent as single source precursors for the synthesis of clean metal sulfide nanoparticles. This study reports the synthesis of lead sulfide (PbS) nanoparticles using some novel complexes...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2096: Bioanalytical HPLC Applications of In-Tube Solid Phase Microextraction: A Two-Decade Overview Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092096 Authors: Natalia Manousi Paraskevas D. Tzanavaras Constantinos K. Zacharis In-tube solid phase microextraction is a cutting-edge sample treatment technique offering significant advantages in terms of miniaturization, green character, automation, and preconcentration prior to analysis. During the past years, there...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2098: From the Kinetic Theory of Gases to the Kinetics of Rate Processes: On the Verge of the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Limits Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092098 Authors: Valter H. Carvalho-Silva Nayara D. Coutinho Vincenzo Aquilanti A variety of current experiments and molecular dynamics computations are expanding our understanding of rate processes occurring in extreme environments, especially at low temperatures, where deviations from linearity...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2095: Recent Advances and the Potential for Clinical Use of Autofluorescence Detection of Extra-Ophthalmic Tissues Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092095 Authors: Jonas Wizenty Teresa Schumann Donna Theil Martin Stockmann Johann Pratschke Frank Tacke Felix Aigner Tilo Wuensch The autofluorescence (AF) characteristics of endogenous fluorophores allow the label-free assessment and visualization of cells and tissues of the human body. While...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2092: Chemical Profiling and Cholinesterase Inhibitory Activity of Five Phaedranassa Herb. (Amaryllidaceae) Species from Ecuador Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092092 Authors: Raúl Moreno Luciana R. Tallini Cristina Salazar Edison H. Osorio Evelin Montero Jaume Bastida Nora H. Oleas Karen Acosta León It is estimated that 50 million people in the world live with dementia, 60–70% of whom suffer from Alzheimer’s disease...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2094: Guanine Radicals Generated in Telomeric G-Quadruplexes by Direct Absorption of Low-Energy UV Photons: Effect of Potassium Ions Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092094 Authors: Evangelos Balanikas Akos Banyasz Gérard Baldacchino Dimitra Markovitsi The study deals with the primary species, ejected electrons, and guanine radicals, leading to oxidative damage, that is generated in four-stranded DNA structures (guanine quadruplexes) following photo-ionization...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2093: Cell Death Effects Induced by Sulforaphane and Allyl Isothiocyanate on P-Glycoprotein Positive and Negative Variants in L1210 Cells Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25092093 Authors: Szilvia Kontar Denisa Imrichova Anna Bertova Katarina Mackova Alexandra Poturnayova Zdena Sulova Albert Breier Variants of L1210 leukemia cells-namely, parental P-glycoprotein-negative S cells and R and T cells expressing P-glycoprotein, due to selection with...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 881: Ionic Liquids-Containing Silica Microcapsules: A Potential Tunable Platform for Shaping-Up Epoxy-Based Composite Materials? Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050881 Authors: Shi Livi Duchet Gérard In this work, silica microcapsules containing phosphonium ionic liquid (IL), denoted SiO2@IL, were successfully synthesized for the first time using the one step sol-gel method in IL/H20 emulsion. The morphologies of the obtained micron-size microcapsules,...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 882: Synthesis of TiO2/WO3 Composite Nanofibers by a Water-Based Electrospinning Process and Their Application in Photocatalysis Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050882 Authors: Odhiambo Ongarbayeva Kéri Simon Szilágyi TiO2/WO3 nanofibers were prepared in a one-step process by electrospinning. Titanium(IV) bis(ammonium lactato)dihydroxide (TiBALDH) and ammonium metatungstate (AMT) were used as water-soluble Ti and W precursors, respectively....
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 880: Effect of Gold Electronic State on the Catalytic Performance of Nano Gold Catalysts in n-Octanol Oxidation Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050880 Authors: Pakrieva Kolobova Kotolevich Pascual Carabineiro Kharlanov Pichugina Nikitina German Partida Vazquez Farías Bogdanchikova Cortés Corberán Pestryakov This study aims to identify the role of the various electronic states of gold in the catalytic...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 879: XPS Modeling of Immobilized Recombinant Angiogenin and Apoliprotein A1 on Biodegradable Nanofibers Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050879 Authors: Anton Manakhov Elizaveta Permyakova Sergey Ershov Svetlana Miroshnichenko Mariya Pykhtina Anatoly Beklemishev Andrey Kovalskii Anastasiya Solovieva The immobilization of viable proteins is an important step in engineering efficient scaffolds for regenerative medicine. For example, angiogenin,...
Sat May 02, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 878: Filtering Characteristics of Phonon Polaritons Waves Based on Dielectric-h-BN-Dielectric Structure in Mid-Infrared Band Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050878 Authors: Ming Cai Shulong Wang Zhihong Liu Yindi Wang Tao Han Hongxia Liu Hyperbolic materials can be used to excite hyperbolic phonon polaritons in specific frequency bands, which causes abrupt interfaces with fluctuations of permittivity and different transmission characteristics...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 877: Scalable Fabrication of Modified Graphene Nanoplatelets as an Effective Additive for Engine Lubricant Oil Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050877 Authors: Duong Duc La Tuan Ngoc Truong Thuan Q. Pham Hoang Tung Vo Nam The Tran Tuan Anh Nguyen Ashok Kumar Nadda Thanh Tung Nguyen S. Woong Chang W. Jin Chung D. Duc Nguyen The use of nano-additives is widely recognized as a cheap and effective pathway to improve the performance...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 876: Fitting Biochars and Activated Carbons from Residues of the Olive Oil Industry as Supports of Fe- Catalysts for the Heterogeneous Fenton-Like Treatment of Simulated Olive Mill Wastewater Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050876 Authors: Bruno M. Esteves Sergio Morales-Torres Francisco J. Maldonado-Hódar Luis M. Madeira A series of biochars and activated carbons (ACs) was prepared combining carbonization and physical or chemical activation of...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 875: Bone Diseases: Current Approach and Future Perspectives in Drug Delivery Systems for Bone Targeted Therapeutics Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050875 Authors: Giulia Chindamo Simona Sapino Elena Peira Daniela Chirio Mónica Cristina Gonzalez Marina Gallarate Bone diseases include a wide group of skeletal-related disorders that cause mobility limitations and mortality. In some cases, e.g., in osteosarcoma (OS) and metastatic bone cancer,...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 874: Bactericidal Silver Nanoparticles by Atmospheric Pressure Solution Plasma Processing Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050874 Authors: Janith Weerasinghe Wenshao Li Rusen Zhou Renwu Zhou Alexander Gissibl Prashant Sonar Robert Speight Krasimir Vasilev Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov Silver nanoparticles have applications in plasmonics, medicine, catalysis and electronics. We report a simple, cost-effective, facile and reproducible technique...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 873: Black-Si as a Photoelectrode Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050873 Authors: Denver P. Linklater Fatima Haydous Cheng Xi Daniele Pergolesi Jingwen Hu Elena P. Ivanova Saulius Juodkazis Thomas Lippert Jurga Juodkazytė The fabrication and characterization of photoanodes based on black-Si (b-Si) are presented using a photoelectrochemical cell in NaOH solution. B-Si was fabricated by maskless dry plasma etching and was conformally...
Fri May 01, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 870: Chitosan Nanoparticles for Therapy and Theranostics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and Liver-Targeting Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050870 Authors: Maria Cristina Bonferoni Elisabetta Gavini Giovanna Rassu Marcello Maestri Paolo Giunchedi Chitosan nanoparticles are well-known delivery systems widely used as polymeric carriers in the field of nanomedicine. Chitosan is a carbohydrate of natural origin: it is a biodegradable, biocompatible,...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 872: Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050872 Authors: Zahra Rezay Marand Ahmad Kermanpur Fathallah Karimzadeh Eva M. Barea Ehsan Hassanabadi Elham Halvani Anaraki Beatriz Julián-López Sofia Masi Iván Mora-Seró Inorganic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for stable and cheap inverted perovskite-based solar cells are...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 866: Preparation and Application of Bismuth/MXene Nano-Composite as Electrochemical Sensor for Heavy Metal Ions Detection Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050866 Authors: Ying He Li Ma Liya Zhou Guanhua Liu Yanjun Jiang Jing Gao A nano-form composite of MXenes (Ti3C2Tx, Tx = -O, -OH, -F) was synthesized through depositing bismuth-nanoparticle (BiNPs) onto Ti3C2Tx sheets. Because of the preventive effect of the two-dimensional layered structure...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 869: Efficient Hydrolysis of Chitin in a Deep Eutectic Solvent Synergism for Production of Chitin Nanocrystals Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050869 Authors: Shu Hong Yang Yuan Kaitao Zhang Hailan Lian Henrikki Liimatainen A deep eutectic solvent (DES) derived from ferric chloride hexahydrate and betaine chloride (molar ratio of 1:1) was used as hydrolytic media for production of chitin nanocrystals (ChNCs) with a high yield (up to 88.5%)....
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 868: Sn-Doping and Li2SnO3 Nano-Coating Layer Co-Modified LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 with Improved Cycle Stability at 4.6 V Cut-off Voltage Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050868 Authors: Huali Zhu Rui Shen Yiwei Tang Xiaoyan Yan Jun Liu Liubin Song Zhiqiang Fan Shilin Zheng Zhaoyong Chen Nickel-rich layered LiNi1-x-yCoxMnyO2 (LiMO2) is widely investigated as a promising cathode material for advanced lithium-ion batteries used in electric...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 867: Local Structure and Magnetism of Fe2O3 Maghemite Nanocrystals: The Role of Crystal Dimension Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050867 Authors: Mauro Coduri Paolo Masala Lucia Del Bianco Federico Spizzo Davide Ceresoli Carlo Castellano Serena Cappelli Cesare Oliva Stefano Checchia Mattia Allieta Dorothee-Vinga Szabo Sabine Schlabach Michael Hagelstein Claudio Ferrero Marco Scavini Here we report on the impact...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 871: Performance and Mechanism of Photoelectrocatalytic Activity of MoSx/WO3 Heterostructures Obtained by Reactive Pulsed Laser Deposition for Water Splitting Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050871 Authors: Vyacheslav Fominski Roman Romanov Dmitry Fominski Alexey Soloviev Oxana Rubinkovskaya Maxim Demin Ksenia Maksimova Pavel Shvets Aleksandr Goikhman This work studies the factors that affect the efficiency of the photoelectrochemical...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 864: Ultrafast Laser Processing of Nanostructured Patterns for the Control of Cell Adhesion and Migration on Titanium Alloy Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050864 Authors: Antoine Klos Xxx Sedao Tatiana E. Itina Clémentine Helfenstein-Didier Christophe Donnet Sylvie Peyroche Laurence Vico Alain Guignandon Virginie Dumas Femtosecond laser texturing is a promising surface functionalization technology to improve the integration and...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 865: Study of Physico-Chemical Changes of CdTe QDs after Their Exposure to Environmental Conditions Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050865 Authors: Bozena Hosnedlova Michaela Vsetickova Martina Stankova Dagmar Uhlirova Branislav Ruttkay-Nedecky Augustine Ofomaja Carlos Fernandez Marta Kepinska Mojmir Baron Bach Duong Ngoc Hoai Viet Nguyen Ha Pham Thi Thu Jiri Sochor Rene Kizek The irradiance of ultraviolet (UV) radiation...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 863: Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Colloidal Nanocrystals Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050863 Authors: Owen Kendall Pierce Wainer Steven Barrow Joel van Embden Enrico Della Gaspera Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) is one of the most studied and established materials for transparent electrode applications. However, the syntheses for FTO nanocrystals are currently very limited, especially for stable and well-dispersed colloids. Here, we present the...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 862: Iron-Based Superconducting Nanowires: Electric Transport and Voltage-Noise Properties Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050862 Authors: Pagano Martucciello Enrico Monticone Iida Barone The discovery of iron-based superconductors paved the way for advanced possible applications, mostly in high magnetic fields, but also in electronics. Among superconductive devices, nanowire detectors have raised a large interest in recent years, due...
Thu Apr 30, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1306: Validation of Malnutrition Screening Tools in Liver Cirrhosis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051306 Authors: Julia Traub Ina Bergheim Angela Horvath Vanessa Stadlbauer Malnutrition in liver cirrhosis is frequently underestimated. To determine if a patient is at risk of malnutrition, several screening tools have been established. However, most of them are not validated for patients with liver cirrhosis. Therefore, we compared the RFH-NPT (Royal Free...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1305: Obesity, Bioactive Lipids, and Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Insulin Resistance Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051305 Authors: Iwona Kojta Marta Chacińska Agnieszka Błachnio-Zabielska Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The exact mechanism by which adipose tissue induces insulin resistance is still unclear. It has been demonstrated that obesity is associated with the adipocyte dysfunction, macrophage...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1304: Does Eating Addiction Favor a More Varied Diet or Contribute to Obesity?—The Case of Polish Adults Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051304 Authors: Marzena Jezewska-Zychowicz Aleksandra Małachowska Marta Plichta Rapidly increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity indicates a need to search for their main causes. Addictive-like eating and associated eating patterns might result in overconsumption, leading to weight gain. The aim of the study was to...
Sat May 02, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1303: Performance of the Front-of-Pack Nutrition Label Nutri-Score to Discriminate the Nutritional Quality of Foods Products: A Comparative Study across 8 European Countries Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051303 Authors: Dréano-Trécant Egnell Hercberg Galan Soudon Fialon Touvier Kesse-Guyot Julia Abstract: In Europe, discussions are currently ongoing to harmonize front-of-pack nutritional labelling, while some countries have adopted...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1302: Walnut Oil Alleviates Intestinal Inflammation and Restores Intestinal Barrier Function in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051302 Authors: Bartoszek Makaro Bartoszek Kordek Fichna Salaga Ulcerative colitis belongs to inflammatory bowel diseases, which is a group of chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a debilitating condition with a wide range of symptoms including rectal bleeding, diarrhea, and visceral pain. Current...
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