Instruction via a mobile social media app, in conjunction with regular instruction, increases subjective measures of adequacy of bowel preparation. Use of the app significantly increased the proportion of patients with successful cecal intubation and in whom adenomas were detected, indicating increased quality of colonoscopy. ClinicalTrials.gov number: NCT02140827.

TRE about the details of bowel preparation on the day before colonoscopy significantly improved the quality of bowel preparation and PDR.

piperidine-3-carboxylic acid), with intrinsic proton conductivity has been synthesized and characterized.Structure analysis shows that compound 1 possesses protonated tertiary amines as proton carriers and hydrogen-bonding chains served as proton-conducting pathways. Further, MOF-polymer composite membranes have been fabricated via assembling polymer PVP with different contents of rod-like 1 submicrometer crystals. Interestingly, the proton conductivity of this composite membrane containing 50 wt% 1 is rapidly increased, compared with that of pure submicrometer crystals at 298 K and $53% RH. Therefore, it is feasible to introduce humidification of PVP into composite membranes to enhance low-humidity proton conductivity; and humidified PVP with adsorbed water molecules plays an important role in proton conduction indicated by the results of water physical sorption and TG/DTG analyses. This study may offer a facile strategy to prepare a variety of solid electrolyte materials with distinctive proton-conducting properties under a low humidity.

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We report a microfluidic approach for one-step fabrication of polyelectrolyte microcapsules in aqueous conditions. Using two immiscible aqueous polymer solutions, we generate transient water-in-water-in-water double emulsion droplets and use them as templates to fabricate polyelectrolyte microcapsules. The capsule shell is formed by the complexation of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes at the immiscible interface. We find that attractive electrostatic interactions can significantly prolong the release of charged molecules. Moreover, we demonstrate the application of these microcapsules in encapsulation and release of proteins without impairing their biological activities. Our platform should benefit a wide range of applications that require encapsulation and sustained release of molecules in aqueous environments.

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