Ru-TsDPEN confined in the nanocage with an amphiphilic microenvironment can be ten times more active than that with a hydrophobic one in the transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone in HCOONa-H(2)O, which is mainly due to the enhanced diffusion rates of reactants during the catalytic process.

The utilization of surface-active engineered protein nanocages as stabilizers for emulsions provides avenues the design new tailor-made functional materials in various fields including food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology. They can be used to codeliver bioactive molecules different polarities a tailored manner body, act platform screening cells or enzymes, function targeted drug delivery sys...

A gold nanocage and dye conjugate has been demonstrated for use with photoacoustic imaging and fluorescence detection of protease activity. The detection sensitivity could be maximized by using gold nanocages with a localized surface plasmon resonance peak away from the emission peak of the dye. These hybrids can be potentially used as multimodal contrast agents for molecular imaging.

The interaction of a nitrosyl hydride (HNO) molecule with B12N12 nanocage was explored by means of density functional calculations. It was found that HNO prefers to be adsorbing on a boron atom of the cage with adsorption energy of -0.65 eV. This adsorption process significantly shifts the HOMO-LUMO gap (Eg) of the cage to lower energies, thereby reducing Eg of the cage from 6.84 to 2.45 eV. Ti...

A polyoxometalate-based lanthanide-organic framework was achieved using the {[Ho(4)(dpdo)(8)(H(2)O)(16)BW(12)O(40)] (H(2)O)(2)}(7+) nanocage as a secondary building block for the heterogeneous catalysis of phosphodiester cleavage in an aqueous solution.

adsorption of cyanogen molecule on the surface of pristine and sc-doped b12n12 nanocage is scrutinized using at dft calculations to investigating its potential as chemical nanosensors. the results show that cyanogen is weakly adsorbed on the pristine b12n12 and consequently its electrical properties are changed insignificantly. in order to improve the properties of the nanocage sensor, sc dopin...