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J Colloid Interface Sci 2021 Feb 18;592:66-76. Epub 2021 Feb 18.

School of Chemical Engineering/Xi'an Key Laboratory of Special Energy Materials, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, PR China. Electronic address:

A twinned MnCdS (T-MCS) homojunction, consisting of wurtzite and zinc-blende MnCdS with different energy band structures, was fabricated using a facile hydrothermal method, resulting in the formation of a type-II bulk phase twinned homojunction. Furthermore, NiCoS nanoparticles were deposited on the surface of T-MCS to form a surface heterojunction. The activities of T-MCS and NiCoS/T-MCS were tested in the photocatalytic H evolution reaction. Read More

J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2021 Feb 18;1167:122581. Epub 2021 Feb 18.

School of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Electronic address:

The pharmaceutical importance of cannabis is growing due to the natural non-psychoactive and psychoactive cannabinoids. For medicinal and forensic purposes, the effective extraction and quantification are essential to fully utilise the natural cannabinoids. The supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) process has gained increasing interest due to its selective extraction, short processing time (partly due to the efficient solvent removal process - supercritical fluid to vapour - leaving a solvent free product), low running cost, and low impact on the environment, compared to that of most conventional extraction methods. Read More

Ann Surg Oncol 2021 Feb 26. Epub 2021 Feb 26.

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Background: To assess the impact of animation deformity on health-related quality of life, a content-specific, valid, and reliable patient-reported outcome measure is needed. This report describes the development and validation of the BREAST-Q Animation Deformity scale.

Methods: Women with breast cancer who had an implant-based reconstruction provided data. Read More

Steroids 2021 Feb 23:108812. Epub 2021 Feb 23.

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address:

Vitamin D status is routinely assessed by measuring circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD or 25OHD). However as deconjugation is not routinely incorporated into sample treatment prior to analysis, conjugated forms of 25OHD (particularly the more abundant 25OHD) are often not considered in determining serum concentrations of total 25OHD. Two major circulating conjugated forms of 25OHD are 25-hydroxyvitamin -3-sulfate (25OHD-S) and 25-hydroxyvitamin -3-glucuronide (25OHD-G). Read More

J Phys Chem B 2021 Feb 26. Epub 2021 Feb 26.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.

Ion-containing polymers have numerous potential applications as energy storage and conversion devices, water purification membranes, and gas separation membranes, to name a few. Given the low dielectric constant of the media, ions and charges on polymers in a molten state interact strongly producing large effects on chain statistics, thermodynamics, and diffusion properties. Here, we discuss recent research accomplishments on the effects of ionic correlation and dielectric heterogeneity on the phase behavior of ion-containing polymers. Read More