The construction of solid‐state fluorescent materials with high quantum yield and good processability is of vital importance in the preparation of organic light‐emitting devices. Herein, a series of tetraphenylethylene (TPE)‐based multicomponent emissive metallacages are prepared by the coordination‐driven self‐assembly of tetra‐(4‐pyridylphenyl)ethylene, cis‐Pt(PEt3)2(OTf)2 and tetracarboxylic ligands. These metallacages exhibit good emission both in solution and in the solid state because the coordination bonds and aggregation restrict the molecular motions of TPE synergistically, which suppresses the non‐radiative decay of these metallacages. Impressively, one of the metallacages achieves very high fluorescence quantum yield (ΦF=88.46 %) in the solid state, which is further used as the coatings of a blue LED bulb to achieve white‐light emission. The study not only provides a general method to the preparation of TPE‐based metallacages but also explores their applications as solid‐state fluorescent materials, which will promote the future design and applications of metallacages as useful emissive devices.

Advances in burn care have accelerated within the last 50 years. The principal modalities of and approaches to burn treatment include dressings, antimicrobials, fluid resuscitation, burn wound excision, skin grafting, and use of skin substitutes. This review presents a historical outline of these approaches, their current status, and prospects for the future of burn care.

BackgroundPercutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) could give rise to excellent outcomes and significant improvements in pain, analgesic requirements, function, cost, and incidence of serious complications for thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). But some studies showed the recurrent fracture of a previously operated vertebra or adjacent vertebral fracture after PVP or PKP. The purpose of this study was to compare minimally invasive pedicle screw fixation (MIPS) and PVP with PVP to evaluate its feasibility and safety for treating acute thoracolumbar osteoporotic VCF and preventing the secondary VCF after PVP.MethodsSixty-eight patients with a mean age of 74.5 years (ranging 65 ~ 87 years), who sustained thoracic or lumbar fresh osteoporotic VCFs without neurologic deficits underwent the procedure of PVP (group 1, n = 37) or MIPS combined with PVP (group 2, n = 31). Visual analog scale pain scores (VAS) were recorded and Cobb angles, central and anterior vertebral body height were measured on the lateral radiographs before surgery and immediately, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery.ResultsThe patients were followed for an average of 27 months (ranging 24–32 months). The VAS significantly decreased after surgery in both groups (P < 0.005). The central and anterior vertebral body height significantly increased (P < 0.005), and the Cobb angle significantly decreased (P < 0.05) immediately after surgery in both groups. No significant changes in both the Cobb angle correction and the vertebral body height gains obtained were observed at the end of the follow-up period in group 2. But the Cobb angle significantly increased (P < 0.005), and the central and anterior vertebral body height significantly decreased (P < 0.005) 2 years after surgery compared with those immediately after surgery in group 1, and there were five patients with new fracture of operated vertebrae and nine cases with fracture of adjacent vertebrae.ConclusionsMIPS combined with PVP is a good choice for the treatment of acute thoracolumbar osteoporotic VCF, which can prevent secondary VCF after PVP.

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The bed slope in the shallow-water equations reflects the bed topography. It is not a flow variable and cannot be determined in the solution to the flow equations. An immovable nonflat bed affects a flow as a force term, but the flow has no effect on it. Only when the bed term is correctly represented in a numerical method can it generate an accurate solution. In the enhanced lattice Boltzmann method for the shallow-water equations (eLABSWE), using an individual Chapman-Enskog analysis, it is found that such a correct representation can be achieved by retaining C(α)=2λ(α), in which C(α) is the coefficient for bed elevation in the lattice Boltzmann equation and λ(α) is that for the water depth in the local equilibrium distribution function. The finding has been validated through simulations of a water at rest in a dish-shaped lake, a wind-induced shallow flow in the same lake, and a steady flow over a two-dimensional bed hump.

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Anaberrant Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is frequently implicated in tumorigenesis. However, whether the Wnt/β-catenin pathway plays a role in resistance to antitumor chemotherapy drugs remains unknown. In the present study, the process of autophagy was assessed following overexpression of the autophagy-associated gene Beclin 1 in gemcitabine-induced MG63 human osteosarcoma cells. Autophagy-associated gene expression was measured following activation or inhibition of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway in gemcitabine-induced MG63 cells using reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction. In addition, the percentage of MG63 cell apoptosis was measured by flow cytometry following Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation or inhibition. The results demonstrated that Beclin 1 overexpression induced autophagy and reduced gemcitabine-induced apoptosis in MG63 human cell line. Furthermore, activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway attenuated autophagy and enhanced gemcitabine-induced apoptosis. Additionally, the expression of Beclin 1 was reduced following Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activation. The present study demonstrated that activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway may rescue chemotherapy drug resistance by downregulating the expression of Beclin 1.

We herein report the preparation of a series of hexaphenylbenzene (HPB)-based deep blue-emissive metallacages via multicomponent coordination-driven self-assembly. These metallacages feature prismatic structures with HPB derivatives as the faces and tetracarboxylic ligands as the pillars, as evidenced by NMR, mass spectrometry and X-ray diffraction analysis. Light-harvesting systems were further constructed by employing the metallacages as the donor and a naphthalimide derivative (NAP) as the acceptor, owing to their good spectral overlap. The judiciously chosen metallacage serves as the antenna, providing the suitable energy to excite the non-emissive NAP, and thus resulting in bright emission for NAP in the solid state. This study provides a type of HPB-based multicomponent emissive metallacage and explores their applications as energy donors to light up non-emissive fluorophores in the solid state, which will advance the development of emissive metallacages as useful luminescent materials.