Biomolecular damage induced by ionizing radiation: the direct and indirect effects of low-energy electrons on DNA

E Alizadeh, TM Orlando, L Sanche - Annual review of physical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Many experimental and theoretical advances have recently allowed the study of direct and
indirect effects of low-energy electrons (LEEs) on DNA damage. In an effort to explain how …

Ru (II) dyads derived from α-oligothiophenes: A new class of potent and versatile photosensitizers for PDT

G Shi, S Monro, R Hennigar, J Colpitts, J Fong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ru (II) dyads derived from organic units that impart low-lying 3 IL excited states combine the
most attractive features of organic photosensitizers with those of coordination complexes …

Catalyst-free, highly selective synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and water by a plasma electrolytic system

R Hawtof, S Ghosh, E Guarr, C Xu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
There is a growing need for scalable ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions that relies on
renewable sources of energy and feedstocks to replace the Haber-Bosch process …

Microhydration prevents fragmentation of uracil and thymine by low-energy electrons

J Kocisek, A Pysanenko, M Fárník… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
When ionizing radiation passes biological matter, a large number of secondary electrons
with very low energies (< 3 eV) is produced. It is known that such electrons cause an efficient …

Low-energy electron damage to condensed-phase DNA and its constituents

Y Gao, Y Zheng, L Sanche - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The complex physical and chemical reactions between the large number of low-energy (0–
30 eV) electrons (LEEs) released by high energy radiation interacting with genetic material …

Antioxidant induces DNA damage, cell death and mutagenicity in human lung and skin normal cells

LY Lu, N Ou, QB Lu - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Clinical trials have shown that antioxidant supplementation increased the risk of lung and
skin cancers, but the underlying molecular mechanism is unknown. Here, we show that …

Novel and facile synthesis of Ba-doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles and enhancement of their magnetic and photocatalytic activities for complete degradation of benzene in …

T Soltani, BK Lee - Journal of hazardous materials, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, Bi 1-x Ba x FeO 3 (x= 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 mol%) multiferroic materials as visible-
light photocatalysts were successfully synthesized via a simple and rapid sol-gel method, at …

Suppressing the radiation-induced corrosion of bismuth nanoparticles for enhanced synergistic cancer radiophototherapy

R Zhou, X Liu, Y Wu, H Xiang, J Cao, Y Li, W Yin… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The level of tumor killing by bismuth nanoparticles (BiNPs) as radiosensitizers depends
strongly on the powerful particle–matter interaction. However, this same radiation leads to …

Attosecond photoionization delays in the vicinity of molecular Feshbach resonances

VJ Borràs, J González-Vázquez, L Argenti, F Martín - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Temporal delays extracted from photoionization phases are currently determined with
attosecond resolution by using interferometric methods. Such methods require special care …

The quantum chemistry of attosecond molecular science

A Palacios, F Martín - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of attosecond light pulses at the beginning of this century, the possibility to
perform real‐time observations of electron motion in molecules has spurred impressive …