sj-docx-1-dli-10.1177_23969415241245096 - Supplemental material for Empowering Hong Kong Chinese families with autism: A preliminary study of the online Hanen More Than Words Program

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-dli-10.1177_23969415241245096 for Empowering Hong Kong Chinese families with autism: A preliminary study of the online Hanen More Than Words Program by Xin Qi, Qiwei Zhao and Carol K. S. To in Autism & Developmental Language Impairments</p

Bio-Based, Self-Healing, Recyclable, Reconfigurable Multifunctional Polymers with Both One-Way and Two-Way Shape Memory Properties

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing properties, recyclability, solid-state plasticity, and reversible shape-switching ability are necessary but can rarely be satisfied in one material. Herein, we report multifunctional SMPs by constructing a dynamic boronic ester bond cross-linking network using sustainable Eucommia ulmoides gum as a raw material. Thanks to the crystallization and wide melting temperature range, these kinds of SMPs have thermal-triggered one-way shape memory performance and show two-way shape memory properties, whether under constant stress or stress-free conditions. Owing to the dynamic nature of the boronic ester bond, it exhibits good self-healing properties (near 100% at 80 °C), shape reconfigurability, and chemical recyclability. In addition, by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes, the formed composite is responsive to 808 nm near-infrared light. Its applications are further exploited, including photoresponsive actuators, vascular stents, and light-driven switches. This paper provides a simple way for fabricating multifunctional SMPs, and the as-prepared materials have potential applications in diverse fields, such as biomedicine, intelligent sensing, and soft robotics

Solvent Effects on Molecular Adsorption on Ag Surfaces: Polyvinylpyrrolidone Oligomers

The solution-phase adsorption of solutes on solid surfaces is important in a number of applications that are currently being researched. However, most theoretical approaches describing this phenomenon fall short of accurately describing the solution environment. Herein, we use classical molecular dynamics simulations based on an accurate many-body force field to quantify vacuum and solution-phase (ethylene glycol) adsorption free energies of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) oligomers on Ag surfacesa system studied experimentally for solution-phase nanocrystal growth. We find a favorable free-energy change when PVP adsorbs to Ag surfaces in the presence of solvent. However, the binding free energy for a PVP molecule in solution is significantly smaller than that for a PVP molecule in vacuum. In vacuum, the adsorbates lose considerable entropy upon adsorption to a solid surface because of a loss in their configurational degrees of freedom. In solution, adsorption entropies are a result of a solvent–solute exchange process, in which the entropy loss of PVP solute is counterbalanced by the gain in entropy of the displaced solvent, so that the solution-phase system exhibits zero or slightly positive changes in entropy upon PVP adsorption. Solvent layering near solid surfaces can create free-energy minima near the surface, as well as free-energy barriers to adsorption. Our study underscores the importance of using explicit solvent, as well as extensive configurational sampling to quantify the thermodynamics of solution-phase adsorption. Such insight will be important in efforts to understand technologically relevant phenomena, such as crystal growth in solution, (electro)­catalysis, and molecular sensing

Bio-Based, Self-Healing, Recyclable, Reconfigurable Multifunctional Polymers with Both One-Way and Two-Way Shape Memory Properties

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing properties, recyclability, solid-state plasticity, and reversible shape-switching ability are necessary but can rarely be satisfied in one material. Herein, we report multifunctional SMPs by constructing a dynamic boronic ester bond cross-linking network using sustainable Eucommia ulmoides gum as a raw material. Thanks to the crystallization and wide melting temperature range, these kinds of SMPs have thermal-triggered one-way shape memory performance and show two-way shape memory properties, whether under constant stress or stress-free conditions. Owing to the dynamic nature of the boronic ester bond, it exhibits good self-healing properties (near 100% at 80 °C), shape reconfigurability, and chemical recyclability. In addition, by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes, the formed composite is responsive to 808 nm near-infrared light. Its applications are further exploited, including photoresponsive actuators, vascular stents, and light-driven switches. This paper provides a simple way for fabricating multifunctional SMPs, and the as-prepared materials have potential applications in diverse fields, such as biomedicine, intelligent sensing, and soft robotics

Bio-Based, Self-Healing, Recyclable, Reconfigurable Multifunctional Polymers with Both One-Way and Two-Way Shape Memory Properties

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing properties, recyclability, solid-state plasticity, and reversible shape-switching ability are necessary but can rarely be satisfied in one material. Herein, we report multifunctional SMPs by constructing a dynamic boronic ester bond cross-linking network using sustainable Eucommia ulmoides gum as a raw material. Thanks to the crystallization and wide melting temperature range, these kinds of SMPs have thermal-triggered one-way shape memory performance and show two-way shape memory properties, whether under constant stress or stress-free conditions. Owing to the dynamic nature of the boronic ester bond, it exhibits good self-healing properties (near 100% at 80 °C), shape reconfigurability, and chemical recyclability. In addition, by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes, the formed composite is responsive to 808 nm near-infrared light. Its applications are further exploited, including photoresponsive actuators, vascular stents, and light-driven switches. This paper provides a simple way for fabricating multifunctional SMPs, and the as-prepared materials have potential applications in diverse fields, such as biomedicine, intelligent sensing, and soft robotics

Bio-Based, Self-Healing, Recyclable, Reconfigurable Multifunctional Polymers with Both One-Way and Two-Way Shape Memory Properties

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing properties, recyclability, solid-state plasticity, and reversible shape-switching ability are necessary but can rarely be satisfied in one material. Herein, we report multifunctional SMPs by constructing a dynamic boronic ester bond cross-linking network using sustainable Eucommia ulmoides gum as a raw material. Thanks to the crystallization and wide melting temperature range, these kinds of SMPs have thermal-triggered one-way shape memory performance and show two-way shape memory properties, whether under constant stress or stress-free conditions. Owing to the dynamic nature of the boronic ester bond, it exhibits good self-healing properties (near 100% at 80 °C), shape reconfigurability, and chemical recyclability. In addition, by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes, the formed composite is responsive to 808 nm near-infrared light. Its applications are further exploited, including photoresponsive actuators, vascular stents, and light-driven switches. This paper provides a simple way for fabricating multifunctional SMPs, and the as-prepared materials have potential applications in diverse fields, such as biomedicine, intelligent sensing, and soft robotics

Bio-Based, Self-Healing, Recyclable, Reconfigurable Multifunctional Polymers with Both One-Way and Two-Way Shape Memory Properties

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing properties, recyclability, solid-state plasticity, and reversible shape-switching ability are necessary but can rarely be satisfied in one material. Herein, we report multifunctional SMPs by constructing a dynamic boronic ester bond cross-linking network using sustainable Eucommia ulmoides gum as a raw material. Thanks to the crystallization and wide melting temperature range, these kinds of SMPs have thermal-triggered one-way shape memory performance and show two-way shape memory properties, whether under constant stress or stress-free conditions. Owing to the dynamic nature of the boronic ester bond, it exhibits good self-healing properties (near 100% at 80 °C), shape reconfigurability, and chemical recyclability. In addition, by incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes, the formed composite is responsive to 808 nm near-infrared light. Its applications are further exploited, including photoresponsive actuators, vascular stents, and light-driven switches. This paper provides a simple way for fabricating multifunctional SMPs, and the as-prepared materials have potential applications in diverse fields, such as biomedicine, intelligent sensing, and soft robotics

Immunofluorescence staining of cortical MTs in roots.

<p>The cortical MTs of root epidermal cells visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy. A, WT. The cortical MTs were transverse arranged. B. OE11; C, OE25. The cortical MTs in OE11 and OE25 were mostly organized into oblique or longitudinal MT arrays. Bar = 10 µm from A to C.</p

Analysis of <i>SBgLR</i> expression in different transgenic lines.

<p>A, Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis. The cDNAs reverse transcribed using RNA extracted from 7-day-old seedlings of different transgenic lines were used. The tobacco actin gene was used as a reference gene. B, Immunoblotting analysis of SBgLR accumulation in the stem (S), root (R), cotyledon (C), hypocotyl (H), anther (A) and pollen (P) of transgenic tobacco. The actin protein was detected as a loading control.</p