Additional file 4: Table S2. of Shuang-Huang-Lian prevents basophilic granulocyte activation to suppress Th2 immunity

Raw data for Fig. 2. (DOCX 18 kb

Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Shuang-Huang-Lian prevents basophilic granulocyte activation to suppress Th2 immunity

Schedule for the preparation of the ST-sensitized mice. (DOCX 115 kb

Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Shuang-Huang-Lian prevents basophilic granulocyte activation to suppress Th2 immunity

Proportion of basophils in the splenocytes separated by a MACS system using a FACSCalibur flow cytometer. (DOCX 174 kb

Additional file 6: Figure S3. of Shuang-Huang-Lian prevents basophilic granulocyte activation to suppress Th2 immunity

Effect of SHL on the viability of basophil-rich splenocytes. The cells were treated with SHL at the indicated concentrations for 24 h. Cell viability was assessed using an MTS assay. (DOCX 84 kb

Coral-Shaped MoS₂ Decorated with Graphene Quantum Dots Performing as a Highly Active Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

We report a new CVD method to prepare coral-shaped monolayer MoS₂ with a large amount of exposed edge sites for catalyzing hydrogen evolution reaction. The electrocatalytic activities of the coral-shaped MoS₂ can be further enhanced by electronic band engineering via decorated with graphene quantum dot (GQD) decoration. Generally, GQDs improve the electrical conductivity of the MoS₂ electrocatalyst. First-principles calculations suggest that the coral MoS₂@GQD is a zero-gap material. The high electric conductivity and pronounced catalytically active sites give the hybrid catalyst outstanding electrocatalytic performance with a small onset overpotential of 95 mV and a low Tafel slope of 40 mV/dec as well as excellent long-term electrocatalytic stability. The present work provides a potential way to design two-dimensional hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts through controlling the shape and modulating the electric conductivity

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Hierarchically Structured Thermoelectric Materials in Quaternary System Cu–Zn–Sn–S Featuring a Mosaic-type Nanostructure

Multinary chalcogenide semiconductors in the Cu–Zn–Sn–S system have numerous potential applications in the fields of energy production, photocatalysis and nonlinear optics, but characterization and control of their microstructures remains a challenge because of the complexity resulting from the many mutually soluble metallic elements. Here, using state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, first-principles calculations and classical molecular dynamics simulations, we characterize the structures of promising thermoelectric materials Cu₂(Zn,Sn)­S₃ at different length scales to gain a better understanding of how the various components influence the thermoelectric behavior. We report the discovery of a mosaic-type domain nanostructure in the matrix grains comprising well-defined cation-disordered domains (the “tesserae”) coherently bonded to a surrounding network phase with semiordered cations. The network phase is found to have composition Cu_4+<i>x</i>Zn_<i>x</i>Sn₂S₇, a previously unknown phase in the Cu–Zn–Sn–S system, while the tesserae have compositions closer to that of the nominal composition. This nanostructure represents a new kind of phonon-glass electron-crystal, the cation-disordered tesserae and the abrupt domain walls damping the thermal conductivity while the cation-(semi)­ordered network phase supports a high electronic conductivity. Optimization of the hierarchical architecture of these materials represents a new strategy for designing environmentally benign, low-cost thermoelectrics with high figures of merit