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Genome integration technology has markedly expedited the construction of cell factories. However, its application is currently limited by the inefficient integration of large DNA fragments. Here, we report a CRISPR/Cas9 based integration of large DNA fragments (CILF) method to efficiently integrate large DNA fragments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this approach, a fusion protein, Cas9‐Brex27‐FadR, was employed for the targeted delivery of donor plasmid to double‐strand breaks (DSBs), while simultaneously recruiting Rad51 to enhance the efficiency of homologous recombination (HR). Our findings demonstrate that this method can achieve an integration efficiency of 98% for 10 kb DNA fragments and nearly 80% for 40 kb DNA fragments at a single site, using donor plasmids with 1000 bp homology arms (HAs) and 12 FadR binding sites (BSs). The CILF technique significantly enriches the synthetic biology toolbox of S. cerevisiae, offering significant potential to propel advancements in both synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small cell cervical carcinoma (SCCC) is the most common neuroendocrine tumor in the female genital tract, with an unfavorable prognosis and lacking an evidence‐based therapeutic approach. Until now, the distinct subtypes and immune characteristics of SCCC combined with genome and transcriptome have not been described. We performed genomic (n = 18), HPV integration (n = 18), and transcriptomic sequencing (n = 19) of SCCC samples. We assessed differences in immune characteristics between SCCC and conventional cervical cancer, and other small cell neuroendocrine carcinomas, through bioinformatics analysis and immunohistochemical assays. We stratified SCCC patients through non‐negative matrix factorization and described the characteristics of these distinct types. We further validated it using multiplex immunofluorescence (n = 77) and investigated its clinical prognostic effect. We confirmed a high frequency of PIK3CA and TP53 alterations and HPV18 integrations in SCCC. SCCC and other small cell carcinoma had similar expression signatures and immune cell infiltration patterns. Comparing patients with SCCC to those with conventional cervical cancer, the former presented immune excluded or 'desert' infiltration. The number of CD8+ cells in the invasion margin of SCCC patients predicted favorable clinical outcomes. We identified three transcriptome subtypes: an inflamed phenotype with high‐level expression of genes related to the MHC‐II complex (CD74) and IFN‐α/β (SCCC‐I), and two neuroendocrine subtypes with high‐level expression of ASCL1 or NEUROD1, respectively. Combined with multiple technologies, we found that the neuroendocrine groups had more TP53 mutations and SCCC‐I had more PIK3CA mutations. Multiplex immunofluorescence validated these subtypes and SCCC‐I was an independent prognostic factor of overall survival. These results provide insights into SCCC tumor heterogeneity and potential therapies. © 2024 The Authors. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of online‐to‐offline (O2O) e‐commerce business has brought tremendous opportunities to the logistics industry. In the online‐to‐offline logistics business, it is essential to detect anomaly merchants with fraudulent shipping behaviours, such as sending other merchants' packages for profit with their low discounts. This can help reduce the financial losses of platforms and ensure a healthy environment. Existing anomaly detection studies have mainly focused on online fraud behaviour detection, such as fraudulent purchase and comment behaviours in e‐commerce. However, these methods are not suitable for anomaly merchant detection in logistics due to the more complex online and offline operation of package‐sending behaviours and the interpretable requirements of offline deployment in logistics. MultiDet, a semi‐supervised multi‐view fusion‐based Anomaly Detection framework in online‐to‐offline logistics is proposed, which consists of a basic version SemiDet and an attention‐enhanced multi‐view fusion model. In SemiDet, pair‐wise data augmentation is first conducted to promote model robustness and address the challenge of limited labelled anomaly instances. Then, SemiDet calculates the anomaly scoring of each merchant with an auto‐encoder framework. Considering the multi‐relationships among logistics merchants, a multi‐view attention fusion‐based anomaly detection network is further designed to capture merchants' mutual influences and improve the anomaly merchant detection performance. A post‐hoc perturbation‐based interpretation model is designed to output the importance of different views and ensure the trustworthiness of end‐to‐end anomaly detection. The framework based on an eight‐month real‐world dataset collected from one of the largest logistics platforms in China is evaluated, involving 6128 merchants and 16 million historical order consignor records in Beijing. Experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms other baselines in both AUC‐ROC and AUC‐PR metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a life-threatening disease caused by a novel bunyavirus (SFTSV), mainly transmitted by ticks. With no effective therapies or vaccines available, understanding the disease's mechanisms is crucial. Recent studies found increased expression of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) on dysfunctional T cells in SFTS patients. However, the role of the PD-1/programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) pathway in SFTS progression remains unclear. We investigated PD-1 blockade as a potential therapeutic strategy against SFTSV replication. Our study analyzed clinical samples and performed in vitro experiments, revealing elevated PD-1/PD-L1 expression in various immune cells following SFTSV infection. An anti-PD-1 nanobody, NbP45, effectively inhibited SFTSV infection in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), potentially achieved through the mitigation of apoptosis and the augmentation of T lymphocyte proliferation. Intriguingly, subcutaneous administration of NbP45 showed superior efficacy compared to a licensed anti-PD-1 antibody in an SFTSV-infected humanized mouse model. These findings highlight the involvement of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway during acute SFTSV infection and suggest its potential as a host target for immunotherapy interventions against SFTSV infection. Synopsis: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a life-threatening disease caused by infection with a novel bunyavirus (SFTSV). However, the existence of multiple SFTSV genotypes presents a significant challenge for developing therapeutic antibodies targeting SFTSV. We provided compelling evidence for the involvement of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in the acute infection caused by SFTSV, while demonstrating the potent inhibitory effect of our novel anti-PD1 nanobody, NbP45, against SFTSV infection in vitro and in SFTSV-infected NCG-HuPBL mouse model. During SFTSV infection, the expression of PD-1/PD-L1 in immune cells was significantly upregulated. Subcutaneous NbP45, a new nanobody developed by us, exhibited better protective efficacy than the anti-PD1 antibody drug with traditional format of whole IgG. PD-1/PD-L1 could serve as the conserved host targets for developing potential immunotherapy interventions to broadly treat SFTSV infection. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a life-threatening disease caused by infection with a novel bunyavirus (SFTSV). However, the existence of multiple SFTSV genotypes presents a significant challenge for developing therapeutic antibodies targeting SFTSV. We provided compelling evidence for the involvement of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in the acute infection caused by SFTSV, while demonstrating the potent inhibitory effect of our novel anti-PD1 nanobody, NbP45, against SFTSV infection in vitro and in SFTSV-infected NCG-HuPBL mouse model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High‐performance flexible photodetectors are urgently demanded for application in many emerging domains including flexible, wearable, portable, and stretchable optoelectronics. In this work, a highly efficient flexible photodetector made of a Ti3C2Tx MXene/pyramidal thin Si heterostructure is successfully fabricated. Thanks to the remarkable light trapping effect as confirmed by numerical modeling based on finite‐element method, the as‐constructed detector demonstrates excellent photoresponse performance in a broadband wavelength spectrum. The optimal responsivity, specific detectivity, and response speed reach ≈530 mA W−1, ≈1.21 × 1012 Jones and 30/14 µs, respectively, at zero bias under near‐infrared light illumination. Specifically, the responsivity is greatly enhanced by ≈2.65 times, as compared with a planar counterpart. In addition, the light detector can maintain its outstanding photoresponse properties upon 1000 cycles of bending test or at diverse bending radii of curvature, owing to its prominent mechanical flexibility and robust bending endurance. Finally, the capability of monitoring the heart rate of a person in a wideband wavelength spectrum and at various bending radii of curvature is presented. The above results imply the huge potential of the flexible light detector for use in some applications such as wearable health monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to solve the problem of complex inner‐loop control structure, difficult debugging of control parameters and poor anti‐interference ability in the double PI power conversion control method of array buoy type wave energy converter, this article proposes a power conversion control strategy in which the one step delay compensation model predictive current control strategy is proposed for the machine side rectifier and the three closed‐loop control structure with PI voltage outer‐loop, quasi‐proportional resonant (QPR) current inner‐loop and proportional capacitor current inner‐loop is proposed for the grid‐side LCL inverter. In addition, this article proposes a graded power generation scheme for a single oscillating buoy and two power generation branches, which aims to address the issue of a restricted safe working pressure range for the accumulator in the single buoy and single power generation branch mode. Based on the mathematical model of the system's key components, the MATLAB/Simulink program is applied for modeling and simulation. The results indicate that the recommended graded power generation scheme and power conversion control mechanism may accomplish stable operation of the system under three diverse wave conditions, showing the scheme's practicality. © 2023 Institute of Electrical Engineer of Japan and Wiley Periodicals LLC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To investigate the feasibility and accuracy of applying a computed tomography (CT) texture analysis model trained with deep‐learning reconstruction images to iterative reconstruction images for classifying pulmonary nodules. Materials and methods: CT images of 102 patients, with a total of 118 pulmonary nodules (52 benign, 66 malignant) were retrospectively reconstructed with a deep‐learning reconstruction (artificial intelligence iterative reconstruction [AIIR]) and a hybrid iterative reconstruction (HIR) technique. The AIIR data were divided into a training (n = 96) and a validation set (n = 22), and the HIR data were set as the test set (n = 118). Extracted texture features were compared using the Mann‐Whitney U test and t‐test. The diagnostic performance of the classification model was analyzed with the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC), the area under ROC (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Results: Among the obtained 68 texture features, 51 (75.0%) were not influenced by the change of reconstruction algorithm (p > 0.05). Forty‐four features were significantly different between benign and malignant nodules (p < 0.05) for the AIIR dataset, which were selected to build the classification model. The accuracy and AUC of the classification model were 92.3% and 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.74−0.90) with the validation set, which were 80.0% and 0.80 (95% CI, 0.68−0.86) with the test set. Conclusion: With the CT texture analysis model trained with deep‐learning reconstruction (AIIR) images showing favorable diagnostic accuracy in discriminating benign and malignant pulmonary nodules, it also has certain applicability to the iterative reconstruction (HIR) images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A synthetic strategy for the construction of 2,2‐disubstituted indolin‐3‐ones from 2‐alkynylnitroarenes and ketones has been described. The corresponding indolin‐3‐one derivatives were afforded in moderate to excellent product yields by using mild conditions. After a Wittig‐like process, the key intermediates 3H‐indol‐3‐ones were generated from 2‐alkynylnitroarenes, which could be further transformed to the desired products through a Mannich addition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of low molecular‐weight gelators for the construction of stimuli‐responsive gels is increasing attention because of the great application potential. In this work, we report the design and synthesis of two new naphthalimide derivatives, GSSN and GN, as supramolecular organogelators. GSSN contains a disulfide bond in the molecule, while GN contains no disulfide bond. As a result, only GSSN exhibited reduction responsiveness. A series of tests, including UV‐vis, temperature‐dependent 1H NMR, XRD, and SEM, were carried out to characterize the gelation capability and probe into the gelation mechanism. Results showed that GN can gelate more organic solvents than GSSN. Both hydrogen bonding and π stacking contribute to the gelation. Due to the difference in the assembly of the organogelator molecules, the organogels formed by GSSN and GN presented distinct morphologies. Moreover, strong hydrophobicity was found in the organogel films of GSSN and GN, suggesting potential application as hydrophobic coating materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The optical transitions and random walking dynamics of the three types of excitons, namely, free, donor‐bound, and acceptor‐like surface‐defect‐bound excitons, in both the graphene−GaN hybrid structure and bare GaN are comparatively examined using variable‐temperature steady‐state photoluminescence and time‐resolved photoluminescence. The results reveal that the effective suppression of surface defects may be realized by a graphene capping monolayer, evidenced by the strong reduction of the luminescence signal of the surface‐defect‐bound excitons and the simultaneous enhancement of the free exciton luminescence. More interestingly, the coupling strengths between all the three kinds of excitons and the longitudinal optical phonons tend to weaken, especially for the surface‐defect‐bound excitons, which exhibit a reduction of ≈40%. These findings indicate that capping GaN by graphene could be an effective way to passivate harmful surface defects and address the heating problem in GaN‐based devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spherical agglomeration technology can produce high‐performance spherical particles in a single crystallization unit, although it is still challenging to control the particle size and shape. To solve this issue, a two‐step bridging (TSB) mechanism containing a preconditioning period, size period, and shape period is proposed. The dynamic balance among the forces of adhesion, dispersion, and capillary action in the multi‐liquid phases plays a key role. This is fully considered to establish the TSB‐based thermodynamic size model and particle design framework by weighting the force action regions in multi‐liquid phases with dynamic composition. The spherical agglomerates of benzoic acid, celecoxib, and salicylic acid with narrow particle size distributions and tunable particle size ranges of 2000–5000, 800–3500, and 1500–4500 μm, respectively, were designed and prepared successfully, showing good correlation with the calculation, which is superior to the reported methods and indicates that the mechanism has certain universality and guiding significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe a novel one‐pot three‐step reaction of 2‐alkynyl arylazides through palladium‐catalyzed formation of 3‐hydroxy‐3‐phenylindolin‐2‐ones followed by hydrolysis of amide bonds and copper‐catalyzed decarboxylation to give 2‐aminobenzophenones. This synthetic method works well with various 2‐alkynyl arylazides and affords the products in moderate to good yields under mild reaction conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CdSe/CdS dot‐in‐rod (DiR) nanocrystals are an advantageous heterostructured semiconductor system with a quasi‐type‐II electronic band structure, which enables a rich diversity of optical manipulation of carrier excitations and interactions. Herein, the selective excitation of respective CdSe quantum dots (QDs) and CdS nanorods of the CdSe/CdS DiR nanostructure is reported, which results in the distinct presence of different types of carriers at the nanorod surface. The presence of only electrons at the surface upon CdSe QD excitation leads to photophysical interactions with ambient air, which is manifested as reversible photoluminescence (PL) of the CdSe QDs. The excitation of CdS nanorods produces holes at the surface, which induces photooxidation of the CdS surface and irreversible change in PL intensity and spectral lineshape. Benefitting from unambiguously relating carrier types to photophysical and photochemical interactions, this research also verifies that trap states at the CdS surface do not act as nonradiative recombination centers, which can be removed by photochemical reactions. Herein, distinct roles of electrons and holes in the photophysical and photochemical interactions with ambient air are identified, and a more precise understanding of the interacting mechanisms is achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Ebola virus is highly infectious and characterized by hemorrhagic fever, headache, and so on with a high mortality rate. Currently, there are neither therapeutic drugs or vaccines against the Ebola virus nor fast diagnostic methods for the detection of Ebola virus infection. This study reported the induction and isolation of two monoclonal antibodies that specifically recognized the glycoprotein (GP) and secreted glycoprotein (sGP) of the Ebola virus. Plasmids encoding either GP or sGP were constructed and immunized BALB/c mice, accordingly purified sGP was boosted. The antisera were analyzed for binding activity against sGP protein in enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and neutralization activity in a pseudotyped virus neutralization assay. A number of reactive clones were isolated and two monoclonal antibodies T231 and T242 were identified to react with both GP and sGP. Western blot and ELISA assays showed that the monoclonal antibodies could react with GP and sGP, respectively. Moreover, they could recognize Ebola pseudovirus by cellular immunochemistry assay. We labeled the monoclonal antibody T231 with biotin and analyzed the competitiveness of the two antibodies by the ELISA test. The results showed that the binding epitopes of the two monoclonal antibodies to sGP were partially overlapped. In summary, two GP‐specific mAbs were identified, which will be used to detect the Ebola virus or investigate GP. Highlights: Glycoprotein (GP) and secreted glycoprotein (sGP) were constructed.We combined DNA and protein immunization to induce two novel mAbs against Ebola GP/sGP.T231 and T242 can recognized linear and conformational epitopes of Ebola GP.The binding epitopes of the two monoclonal antibodies to sGP were partially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Background: As an oil production byproducts, the shell of Camellia oleifera Abel (SC) is usually discarded in the dump. However, previous investigations suggested that the SC could provide valuable bioactive materials. Objective: The objectives of this study were to examine the ability of SC extract to inhibit in vitro tyrosinase activity and the melanin inhibition effects of cosmetic formulations containing SC 1,3‐butanediol extract in human volunteers. Methods: The cell viability was determined using a WTT assay. A mushroom tyrosinase was used to evaluate the anti‐tyrosinase activity of the SC extract. The placebo (no extract) or test (SC 1,3‐butanediol extract) or positive control (kojic acid) cosmetic cream was applied on face of volunteers(30 female subjects) three times a day for 8 weeks. The active compounds in SC extract were screened using liquid chromatography‐high‐resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC‐QTOF). Results: The result showed that the cytotoxicity of SC extract is insignificant when the concentration of SC extract is below 160 µg/mL. In addition, SC extract dose dependently inhibited tyrosinase activity and SC 1,3‐butanediol extract possessed a stronger inhibitory activity than methanol extract and water extract. Clinical evaluations revealed that facial melanin levels of the volunteers receiving cosmetic formulations (containing SC 1,3‐butanediol extract) were decreased 59% from baseline in 6th weeks, whereas the placebo group showed no effect. SC 1,3‐butanediol extract was detected to contain 12 kaempferol compounds, significantly, kaempferol 3‐O‐[α‐rhamnopyranosyl‐(1→6)‐β‐glucopyranoside] and kaempferol‐3,7‐O‐α‐L‐dirhamnoside are the major compounds. Conclusion: These results indicate that SC extract can be used as a natural skin‐whitening agent in cosmetic products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1,5‐diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non‐5‐ene (DBN)‐catalyzed regioselective acylation of carbohydrates and diols in ethyl acetate has been developed. The hydroxyl groups can be selectively acylated by the corresponding anhydride in EtOAc in the presence of a catalytic amount (as low as 0.1 equiv.) of DBN at room temperature to 40 °C. This method avoids metal catalysts and toxic solvents, which makes it comparatively green and mild, and it uses less organic base compared with other selective acylation methods. Mechanism studies indicated that DBN could catalyze the selective acylation of hydroxyl moieties through a dual H‐bonding interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the negative influence of excessive exercise on immunity, substance and energy metabolism as well as gut microbiota in mice. Firstly, an overtraining model of Male Kunming mice was established by high‐intensity swimming exercise for 4 weeks. Then, a series of evaluation indicators, including the routine blood analysis, immune organ coefficient, digestive enzymes, and aquaporins expression levels of small intestine and colon tissue, histological examinations of liver, spleen, small intestine, and colon, were determined based on this model. Furthermore, 16S rRNA gene sequencing was also employed to measure the microbial composition in gut. The results found that immune parameters, substance and energy metabolism of all mice was altered and disturbed after high‐intensity swimming for 4 weeks, led to an atrophy of thymus and spleen as well as abnormal structural changes in liver when compared to non‐swimming mice. Besides, excessive swimming mice had lower microbial diversity compared to non‐swimming mice. However, there was no significant difference in gut microbial taxa between the two groups. The data indicated that excessive exercise exhibits negative impacts on immunity, substance and energy metabolism as well as gut microbial diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of all‐inorganic halide perovskite in optoelectronic devices. Ultrathin 2D CsPbBr3 nanosheets (NSs) with large lateral dimensions have demonstrated exceptional photophysical properties because of their analogous exciton electronic structure to quantum wells. Despite the incredible progress on device performance, the photophysics and carrier transportation parameters of quantum‐confined CsPbBr3 NSs are lacking, and the fundamental understanding of the exciton dissociation mechanism is far less developed. Here, a ligands rearrangement mechanism is proposed to explain why annealed NS films have an increased charge transfer rate and a decreased exciton binding energy and lifetime, prompting tunneling as a dominant way of exciton dissociation to separate photogenerated excitons between neighboring NSs. This facile but efficient method provides a new insight to manipulate perovskite nanocrystals coupling. Moreover, ultrathin 2D CsPbBr3 NS film is demonstrated to have a enhanced absorption cross section and high carrier mobility of 77.9 cm2 V−1 s−1, contributing to its high responsivity of 0.53 A W−1. The photodetector has a long‐term stability up to three months, which are responsible for reliable perovskite‐based device performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a simulation model to study real-world replication workflows for cloud storage systems. With this model, we present three new methods to maximize the storage space usage during replica creation, and two novel QoS aware greedy algorithms for replica placement optimization. By using a simulation method, our algorithms are evaluated, through a comparison with the existing placement algorithms, to show that (i) a more evenly distributed replicas for a data set can be achieved by using round-robin methods in replica creation phase and (ii) the two proposed greedy algorithms, named GS_QoS and GS_QoS_C1, not only have more economical results than those from Chen et al., but also guarantee the QoS for clients. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although deduplication can reduce data volume for backup, it pauses the running system for the purpose of data consistency. This problem becomes severe when the target data are Virtual Machine Image (VMI), the volume of which can scale up to several gigabytes. In this paper, we propose an online framework for VM image backup and recovery, called VMBackup, which comprises three major components: (1) Similarity Retrieval that indexes chunks' fingerprints by its segment id for fast identification, (2) one-level File-Index that efficiently tracks file id to its content chunks in a correct order, and (3) Adjacent Storage model that places adjacent chunks of an image in the same disk partition to maximize chunk locality. The experimental results show that (1) the images of one OS serial and the same custom can share high percentage of duplicated contents, (2) variable-length chunk partitioning is superior to fixed-length chunk partitioning for deduplication, and (3) VMBackup, in our environment, can provide 8M/s backup throughput and 9.5M/s recovery throughput, which are only 15% and 4% less than storage systems without deduplication. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vielseitige Schutzschicht: Kohlenstoffbeschichtete CdS ‐ Partikel sind durch ein Eintopf ‐ Solvothermalverfahren erhältlich. Die Nanokohlenstoffbeschichtung erfüllt mehrere Funktionen: Sie schützt die CdS ‐ Oberfläche, sie verstärkt die Absorption im sichtbaren Bereich, und sie erleichtert die Trennung photochemisch erzeugter Ladungen. Dadurch verfügen die CdS ‐ C ‐ Partikel über eine deutlich verbesserte Photostabilität und Photokatalyseaktivität. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from ynamides [(I), (VI), (VIII), and (XI), resp.], α-oxyenamides [(III), (V), (VII), or (IX), resp.] or N-acylsulfonamides [(X), (XII), or (XIII), resp.] are simply and efficiently synthesized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kohlenstoffbeschichtete CdS ‐ Partikel sind durch ein Eintopf ‐ Solvothermalverfahren erhältlich, wie Y. Hu, X. W. Lou et al. in der Zuschrift auf S. 5746 ff. beschreiben. Die Nanokohlenstoffbeschichtung erfüllt mehrere Funktionen: Sie schützt die CdS ‐ Oberfläche, sie verstärkt die Absorption im sichtbaren Bereich, und sie erleichtert die Trennung photochemisch erzeugter Ladungen. Dadurch verfügen die CdS ‐ C ‐ Partikel über eine deutlich verbesserte Photostabilität und Photokatalyseaktivität. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carbon‐coated CdS petalous nanostructures have been synthesized through a one‐pot solvothermal method, as described by Y. Hu, X. W. Lou, and co‐workers in their Communication on page 5636 ff. The carbon nanocoating serves multiple functions, including protection of the CdS surface, enhancement of visible‐light absorption, and facilitating the separation of photogenerated charges. As a result, this CdS–C nanohybrid photocatalyst exhibits significantly enhanced photostability and photocatalytic activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]