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J Colloid Interface Sci 2021 Mar 15;597:325-333. Epub 2021 Mar 15.

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China. Electronic address:

Hypothesis: Distinguishing substituted aromatic isomers is a challenging task because of the great similarity of their physicochemical properties. Considering xylene isomers have drastically different geometrical shapes, we predict this would show great impact on the self-assembling behavior of various xylene isomer@cyclodextrin inclusion complex.

Experiments: Through host-guest crystalline self-assembly, among three isomers, only ortho-xylene is capable to form hydrogels with α-cyclodextrin. Read More

Psychiatry Res 2021 Apr 9;300:113930. Epub 2021 Apr 9.

Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, Systems Medicine Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Italy.

Transition to the adult age represents a rather challenging period of life for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and for their families. Given the actual lack of integrated healthcare systems for autistic young-adults, enhancing parental skills could represent a feasible program to improve skills preparatory for transition in adult life. The online approach, providing easy access to services which otherwise would burden a daily family organization, already strenuous for a family with an autistic person, can represent an innovative way of delivering intervention. Read More

Nanoscale 2021 Apr 1;13(14):6780-6785. Epub 2021 Apr 1.

State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, P. R. China.

Plasmonic nanolasers based on the spatial localization of surface plasmons (SPs) have attracted considerable interest in nanophotonics, particularly in the desired application of optoelectronic and photonic integration, even breaking the diffraction limit. Effectively confining the mode field is still a basic, critical and challenging approach to improve optical gain and reduce loss for achieving high performance of a nanolaser. Here, we designed and fabricated a semiconductor/metal (ZnO/Al) core-shell nanocavity without an insulator spacer by simple magnetron sputtering. Read More

Sociol Health Illn 2021 Apr 22. Epub 2021 Apr 22.

Sociology and Anthropology Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Nurses and nurse's aides at geriatric facilities face demanding patients and challenging situations that trigger undesired emotions. The psychological implications of care workers' emotional labour have been extensively researched, but not so their emotional experiences and the regulation of these emotions aimed at normalizing the extraordinary situations that arise in the course of geriatric care. The present study is based on data collected in interviews with 36 nurses and nurse's aides, and nine health professionals and management-level employees, on participant observations, and on field notes collected over a period of 14 months at two geriatric institutions in Israel. Read More

Nature 2021 Apr 21;592(7855):541-544. Epub 2021 Apr 21.

Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Single-molecule imaging is challenging but highly beneficial for investigating intermolecular interactions at the molecular level. Van der Waals interactions at the sub-nanometre scale strongly influence various molecular behaviours under confinement conditions. Inspired by the traditional compass, here we use a para-xylene molecule as a rotating pointer to detect the host-guest van der Waals interactions in the straight channel of the MFI-type zeolite framework. Read More