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Chemo‐phototherapy has emerged as a promising approach to complement traditional cancer treatment and enhance therapeutic effects. However, it still faces the challenges of drug efflux transporter‐mediated chemoresistance and heat shock proteins (HSPs)‐mediated phototherapy tolerance, which both depend on an excessive supply of adenosine triphosphate. Therefore, manipulating energy metabolism to impair the expression or function of P‐glycoprotein (P‐gp) and HSPs may be a prospective strategy to reverse cancer therapeutic resistance. Herein, a chondroitin sulfate (CS)‐functionalized zeolitic imidazolate framework‐8 (ZIF‐8) chemo‐phototherapy nanoplatform (CS/ZIF‐8@A780/DOX NPs) is rationally designed that is capable of manipulating energy metabolism against cancer therapeutic resistance by integrating the photosensitizer IR780 iodide (IR780)‐conjugated atovaquone (ATO) (A780) and the chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin (DOX). Mechanistically, ATO and zinc ions that are released in the acidic tumor microenvironment can lead to systematic energy exhaustion through disturbing mitochondrial electron transport and the glycolysis process, thus suppressing the activity of P‐gp and HSP70, respectively. In addition, CS is used on the surface of ZIF‐8@A780/DOX NPs to improve the targeting capability to tumor tissues. These data provide an efficient strategy for manipulating energy metabolism for cancer treatment, especially for overcoming cancer chemo‐phototherapy resistance.

The high-damping property of polyurethane elastomers and the low density of the hollow glass microspheres (HGM) were used to prepare the sound insulation materials in the present work. The transmission loss (TL) was measured to evaluate the HGM content on the sound insulation properties. The experimental results showed that the addition of HGM improved the hardness and compression modulus of the HGM-filled polyurethane composites, and the loss factor (tan δ) of polyurethane composites were greater than 0.9. The average transmission loss (ATL, from 63 to 6300 Hz) reached 37.32 dB when the content of HGM was 10 wt%. The ATL of the HGM-filled polyurethane composites with 15 wt% HGM in the damping control region and the mass control region were 31.94 and 46.78 dB, respectively. The synergistic effect of the microphase separation, the interfacial effect and the rigidity of polyurethane composites resulted in the improvement on sound insulation property. The polyurethane composite has a great potential application for the field of sound insulation materials.

Development of self-healing and shape memory elastomers is important for artificial smart materials. Here, a novel shape memory magnetic elastomer with high mechanical strength consisting of conventional polymer and Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles is reported. The elastomer exhibit superparamagnetism, and superior selfhealing performance at elevated temperature. The tensile strength of the healed elastomer can be up to 12.0 MPa, and almost equal to that of virginal sample. These materials are capable of remote controlling in shape memory process and actuating behavior, and can be used in many applications, ranging from wireless-controller to actuator or biomedical devices, and other remote shape memory systems.

In this paper, the corrosion mechanism and tensile properties of basalt fibers in sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution with various concentrations and temperatures were studied. The hydroxyl ions disrupt the –Si–O–Si– and –Si–O–Al– bonds leading to the formation of insoluble hydroxides. With the continuation of the hydration reaction, a hydration layer (corrosion shell) with high content of calcium, iron, manganese and titanium ions was formed on the fiber surface. The corrosion shell enabled an increase in the strength and elongation at break of basalt fibers, significantly. Results showed that the tensile strength of fibers was strongly dependent on temperature and concentration. After the basalt fibers were immersed in 1 mol/L NaOH solution at 50 °C for 1 h, 3 h, 6 h, 1 day and 3 days, their retention ratios of strength were 67.6%, 57.8%, 52.5%, 49.0%, 58.2%, respectively. Higher temperature accelerated the corrosion rate of basalt fibers, shortened the formation time of the corrosion shell and increased mass loss. From 25 to 70 °C, the mass loss of fibers increased from 2.4% to 33.8% for fibers immersed in 1 mol/L NaOH for 3 days. The experimental results from quantitative x-ray fluorescence (XRF) showed that the mass loss of basalt fibers was mainly due to the leaching of silicon, aluminum and potassium ions.

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