Cellular agriculture is an emerging branch of biotechnology that aims to address issues associated with the environmental impact, animal welfare and sustainability challenges of conventional animal farming for meat production. Cultured meat can be produced by applying current cell culture practices and biomanufacturing methods and utilizing mammalian cell lines and cell and gene therapy products to generate tissue or nutritional proteins for human consumption. However, significant improvements and modifications are needed for the process to be cost efficient and robust enough to be brought to production at scale for food supply. Here, we review the scientific and social challenges in transforming cultured meat into a viable commercial option, covering aspects from cell selection and medium optimization to biomaterials, tissue engineering, regulation and consumer acceptance.
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Additive engineering has become increasingly important for making high-quality perovskite solar cells (PSCs), with a recent example involving acid during fabrication of cesium-based perovskites. Lately, it has been suggested that this process would introduce dimethylammonium ((CH
3
)
2
NH
2
+
, DMA
+
) through hydrolysis of the organic solvent. However, material composition of the hydrolyzed product and its effect on the device performance remain to be understood. Here, we present an in-depth investigation of the hydrolysis-derived material (i.e., DMAPbI
3
) and detailed analysis of its role in producing high-quality PSCs. By varying the ratio of CsI/DMAPbI
3
in the precursor, we achieve high-quality Cs
x
DMA
1-x
PbI
3
perovskite films with uniform morphology, low density of trap states, and good stability, leading to optimized power conversion efficiency up to 14.3%, with over 85% of the initial efficiency retained after ∼20 days in air without encapsulation. Our findings offer new insights into producing high-quality Cs-based perovskite materials.
Early
detection of peptide aggregate intermediates is quite challenging
because of their variable and complex nature as well as due to lack
of reliable sensors for diagnosis. Herein, we report the detection
of monomers and oligomers using specified fluorescence and a magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) multimodal probe based on bovine-serum-albumin-capped
fluorine functionalized graphene quantum dots (BSA@FGQDs). This probe
enables in vitro fluorescence-based monitoring of
human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP), insulin, and amyloid β(1–42) (Aβ42) monomers and oligomers
during the fibrillogenesis dynamic. Up to 90% fluorescence quenching
of BSA@FGQDs probe upon addition of amyloid monomers/oligomers was
observed due to static quenching and nonradiative energy transfer.
Moreover, the BSA@FGQDs probe shows 10 times higher signals in detecting
amyloid intermediates and fibrils than that of conventional thioflavin
dye. A negative ΔG° value (−36.21
kJ/mol) indicates spontaneous interaction of probe with the peptide.
These interactions are hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic as proved
by thermodynamic parameters. Visual binding clues of BSA@FGQDs with
different morphological states of amyloid protein was achieved through
electron microscopy. Furthermore, intravenous and intracranial injection
of BSA@FGQDs probe in Alzheimer model mice brain enabled in
vivo detection of amyloid plaques in live mice brain by 19F MRI through contrast enhancement. Our proposed probe not
only effectively monitors in vitro fibrillation kinetics
of number of amyloid proteins with higher sensitivity and specificity
than thioflavin dye, but also, the presence of a 19F center
makes BSA@FGQDs an effective probe as a noninvasive and nonradiative in vivo detection probe for amyloid plaques.
Designing sensing materials with novel morphologies and compositions is eminently challenging to achieve high-performance gas sensor devices. Herein, an in situ oxidative polymerization approach is developed to construct three-dimensional (3D) hollow quasi-graphite capsules/polyaniline (GCs/PANI) hierarchical hybrids by decorating protonated PANI on the surface of GCs; as a result, an immensely active and sensitive material was developed for sensing ammonia gas at room temperature. Moreover, the GCs possessed a capsule-like hollow/open structure with partially graphitized walls, and PANI nanospheres were uniformly decorated on the GC surfaces. Furthermore, the inflexible and rigid 3D ordered chemistry of these materials provides the resulting hybrids with a large interfacial surface area, which not only allows for rapid adsorption and charge transfer but also provides the necessary structural stability. The 3D hollow GCs/PANI hybrids exhibit excellent performance; the GCs/PANI-3 hybrid is highly sensitive (with a response value of 1.30) toward 10 ppm NH 3 gas and has short response and recovery times of 34 and 42 s, respectively. The GCs/PANI-3 hybrid also demonstrates a good selectivity, repeatability, and long-term stability, which are attributed to the substantial synergistic effect of the GCs and PANI. The design of such a unique 3D ordered framework provides a promising pathway to achieve room-temperature gas sensors for commercial applications.
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