Phosphate ions are responsible for eutrophication in drinking and wastewater, so it is necessary to limit the phosphate concentration in water bodies to limit the eutrophication problem. Porous magnesium oxide (MgO) nanosheets are synthesized at room temperature by simple precipitation and calcination. The synthesized material is characterized by various techniques. The sheet‐like MgO and commercial MgO are evaluated by the batch adsorption test. The synthesized material has an efficient adsorption efficiency of 95% at pH 5 as compared with commercial MgO, having a removal efficiency of 24% under the same investigated conditions. The synthesized MgO can be an efficient adsorbent material to overcome the eutrophication problem of the waste/domestic water. The decrease of phosphate in water bodies is an effective way to control the eutrophication process and reduce the algae growth in lakes and river.It is essential to limit the phosphate concentration in water bodies before discharge. In order to reduce the eutrophication process, different methods such as biological,The purpose of this study is to utilize the magnesium salt to synthesize porous MgO at room temperature. Magnesium salts are widely available from the mineral sources extracted by the mining industry with high purity.22.1FigureFigureFigureTable2 g−1 for MgO‐12, and pore size also varied from 24.28 to 22.97 nm for MgO‐5 and MgO‐12, respectively. A decrease in pore size is due to the blockage of some pores due to aggregate formation. From the above results, the BET surface area is high due to the more reaction time with aggregation ratio at room temperature for MgO‐12 as compared to hydrothermal treatment. These results show that the synthesis conditions played an important role in the formation and properties of MgO.2.22.2.1FigureMicro/nanostructures materials are very important for water treatment due to appropriate surface area and pore size which make them good adsorbent materials.2.2.2Figure Figure−1 respectively 2.8H2O (JCPDS 33‐0877) and in 42–80°/2Θ belong to the Mg3(PO4)2.8H2O (JCPDS 33‐0329). These results show the chemical adsorption of phosphate along with the physical adsorption. Similar results were concluded from the kinetic data. Figure In order to understand the adsorption mechanism of phosphate, X‐ray diffraction and elemental mapping were done to confirm the adsorption process. 3−1. Due to high efficiency of this material toward phosphate adsorption, MgO nanosheets are attractive adsorbent for water remediation to overcome the sustainable problems.In summary, we used a simple approach for the synthesis of porous 2D nanosheets of MgO by precipitation of magnesium nitrate using ammonium carbonate as a precipitating agent. This template‐free synthesis way provides low‐cost route to synthesize material exhibiting controlled morphology at room temperature. This highly porous material was proved to be efficient for the adsorption of phosphate as compared with the commercial MgO with removal efficiency of 95% along with the removal capacity of 255.1 mg g4Synthesis of MgO: Magnesium oxide was prepared by following two steps: 1) magnesium nitrate (0.2 mol L−1) and ammonium bicarbonate (1 mol L−1) were dissolved in 200 mL water separately through stirring. These solutions were mixed and continuously stirred in a beaker. After 5 min, half of the clear solution was transformed into a stainless steel autoclave and put in preheated oven at 120 °C for 6 h. After hydrothermal treatment, it was cooled down to room temperature and washed with deionized water several times, and dried at 80 °C for 12 h. This sample was marked as MgO‐5 in rest of the study. The remaining half solution was continuously stirred for 12 h, and white precipitates formed in solution were washed several times and this sample was marked as MgO‐12. These samples’ names were marked according to the stirring time while commercial MgO used in the adsorption of phosphate was marked as MgO‐C, 2) these dried samples were calcinated at 400 °C in air atmosphere for 4 h with a heating rate of 2 °C min−1.Batch Adsorption Experiment: In order to investigate the effect of thermostat temperature on adsorption capacity towards phosphate anions on MgO surface, NaH2PO4 −1) was prepared by dissolving the 0.2077 g of NaH2PO4.2H2O in 250 mL water.−1) that were placed in thermostat shaker for 12 h with shaking speed of 180 ± 5 rpm while pH was adjusted by the dropwise addition of 0.1 m NaOH/0.1 m HCl. Samples were collected at different time intervals and filtered by microfiltration membrane (0.45 µm) for the estimation of phosphate adsorption by molybdenum blue method.V is the volume of solution in L, Co is the initial concentration while Ct is the concentration at any time t, and m is mass of MgO added.In this study, solutions pH of 4–8 was studied by using conical flasks containing 100 mL of phosphate solution  is the distribution coefficient and ΔGo (KJ mol−1) is Gibb's free energy. All the experiments were repeated twice; an average of two are presented in this work.The thermodynamics study was done at three different temperatures  at the concentration of 50 mg LCharacterization: Powder X‐ray diffraction patterns were recorded on (SHIMADZU XRD‐6000) X‐ray diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation operated at 40 KV from 3° to 70°/2theta with the scanning rate of 10°/2theta min−1. Zeiss Supra55 SEM was used to study the morphology of MgO. Low‐temperature N2 adsorption–desorption experiments were performed after a degassed treatment at 200 °C for 8 h on a Micrometrics (ASAP 2460) analyzer. Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) method was used for the surface area while the pore volume and the pore size distribution were analyzed using the density functional theory method. The molybdenum blue method was used for quantitative determination of phosphate anions in aqueous solution by using UV–vis spectrophotometer Shimadzu (UV‐2501 PC).The authors declare no conflict of interest.


The activation energy for quenching changes with temperature, attributed to relative shifts of the two potential energy curves involved. The splitting of the Ce3+ 5d1 state into two levels separated by 4925 cm−1 is accounted for by a first principles calculation using the crystal structure data of I. The NO2− energy levels and spectra were investigated also in Cs2NaLa(NO2)6 and modelled by hybrid DFT. The vibrational and electronic spectral properties have been thoroughly investigated and rationalized at temperatures down to 10 K. A comparison of Stokes shifts with other Ce-O systems emphasizes the dependence upon the coordination number of Ce3+.The Ce It was unexpected2 that the analogous complexes of lanthanide ions (Ln3+) exhibit a different coordination geometry, with the ligand oxygen rather than nitrogen being coordinated to Ln3+. The [Ln(NO2)6]3− moiety has the 12-coordinated Ln3+ situated at a site of the novel Th point group symmetry5. The magnetic properties6 of this series showed some similarities, but also unique differences, from those of the elpasolite series, LnCl63−. Since the Ln3+ ion is situated at a centrosymmetric site, pure and forced electric dipole allowed transitions are forbidden in the 4fN – 4fN optical spectra of hexanitritolanthanates. The electronic emission and absorption spectra comprise zero phonon lines enabled by the magnetic dipole mechanism together with sidebands of ungerade vibrations. Bünzli et al.7 made the first comprehensive study of the electronic spectra of these complexes at room and low temperatures, for Eu(NO2)63−, and found the long lifetime of 10.9 ms for the 5D0 state at 4.2 K. Analysis of the quenching of emission at higher temperatures yielded the activation energy of 2250 cm−1. The quenching of 5D0 emission is unusual because the energy gap below this state is more than 11000 cm−1. A subsequent investigation focused upon the rich vibronic structure of the NO2− ion in the Ln(NO2)63− series by recording the ultraviolet absorption spectra8. The lowest energy zero phonon line of NO2−  is due to the spin-forbidden 1A1 → 3B1 (C2v) (S0 → T1) transition9. The first dipole allowed transition, S0 → S1: 1A1 → 1B2 of the NO2− ion is at 384.9 nm in NaNO29.Hexanitrito complexes of transition metals, such as −1} (where I(T) denotes the counts at temperature T) against reciprocal temperature may be employed to estimate the activation energy of the quenching process. In the present case, the use of emission counts or excitation counts for several different samples gives linear plots of intensity versus temperature in the range from 20–100 K /I(T)]−1} versus 1/T are not linear 6 so that the Stokes shift of 8715 cm−1 is the maximum reported for cerium coordinated to oxygen in the literature. The progression-forming mode is most likely the totally-symmetric Ce-O stretch, which has a magnitude near 240 cm−1 ) and emission (5d1(1) → 4f1 2F5/2,7/2)33. The shift represents the interactions taking place within the CeO12 cluster, although the embedding effect of this cluster is also important. Contrary to the traditional depiction in many textbooks, the excitation of the Ce3+ 4f electron to the first 5d state often involves a bond length contraction, not expansion35. In fact, in solution, this contraction can lead to the expulsion of a ligand36. The great change in equilibrium bond distance between the ground and excited states gives the possibility that the potential energy curves overlap  zero phonon line can be roughly estimated from the midway point of the band maxima or band onsets in Fig. −1) because vibrational relaxation to the electronic ground state is much faster than the crossover rate. Hence the crossover, Fig. 1 Ce3+ or to possibly to the NO2− singlet state potential energy curve. In fact, just as for Cs2NaLa(NO2)6, room temperature singlet state emission is also observed for Cs2NaCe(NO2)6  and 514 nm (emission spectrum) in Fig. m−1 Fig. . Techniclap Fig. 37. Hence2)6 Fig. . The cha41 include materials with Ce3+ ions occupying several sites in the crystal lattice, such as the hosts Lu4AI2O9, LaLuO3, Ba3Gd(BO3)3 and Mg2Y8(SiO4)6O2. We have excluded these more complex materials, which may not be sufficiently-well characterized, from Table 3+ ions with higher coordination number showing that Ce3+ ions with larger ionic radii (i.e. from Ce3+(VI) 101 pm to Ce3+(XII) 134 pm) can contract more when transiting from 4 f to 5d. Plots of Stokes shift against mean or minimum Ce-O distance indicate that other factors, such as formal charge, vibrational frequency, thermal population of excited states and change in excited state geometry also play a role 6, with 12-coordinated Ce3+ situated at a site of Th symmetry, exhibits a very large energy shift between the peak maxima in absorption and emission. The 4f1 ground state and 5d1 potential surfaces are displaced so much along the configuration coordinate that overlap takes place above the 5d1 minimum, leading to thermal quenching of emission at a low temperature. The features due to NO2− and Ce3+ ions in the electronic spectra have been rationalized by theory.In summary, the hexanitrito complex CsSupplementary Information


However, fluorescent probes for this species remain limited in their ability to detect the small perturbations induced during successful treatments. We report a fluorescent sensor based upon human peroxiredoxin-2, which acts as the natural indicator of small H2O2 fluctuations in human cells. The new probe reveals peroxide-induced oxidation in human cells below the detection limit of current probes, as well as peroxiredoxin-2 oxidation caused by two different redox cancer therapeutics in living cells. This capability will be useful in elucidating the mechanism of current redox-based therapeutics and in developing new ones.Redox cancer therapeutics target the increased reliance on intracellular antioxidant systems and enhanced susceptibility to oxidant-induced stress of some cancer cells compared to normal cells. Many of these therapeutics are thought to perturb intracellular levels of the oxidant hydrogen peroxide (H 2O2 are not sensitive enough to detect all biologically relevant H2O2 fluctuations. Here the authors develop a peroxiredoxin-2-based FRET probe that is sensitive enough to measure changes in H2O2 concentration in response to the cancer therapeutic piperlongumine.Current sensors for intracellular H Many cancer cells are thought to have much higher rates of production of H2O2 compared to normal cells due to a combination of both aberrant metabolism and genetic mutations7. As a result of this additional H2O2 production, many of these cells are thought to have higher susceptibility to H2O2-induced apoptosis compared to normal cells12. In order to combat this increase in oxidant production, cancer cells also upregulate key antioxidant species in order to remove this oxidant from the cell and ensure their survival8. Redox cancer therapeutics target cancer cells’ increased dependence on intracellular antioxidant systems and enhanced susceptibility to H2O2-induced stress through inhibition of these antioxidant systems that detoxify the cell, resulting in elevation of oxidants within the cell12. Several small molecule cancer therapeutics, such as piperlongumine13, are thought to result in elevated intracellular H2O2 that is central to their toxicity mechanisms; however, due to the small perturbations produced in response to several of these drugs, it remains difficult to detect H2O2 fluctuations in response to these treatments14.Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2 levels are controlled by a powerful network of specific reductive reactions primarily accomplished by peroxiredoxins (Prxs), thioredoxin (Trx), and thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), with reducing equivalents supplied by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)16. Winterbourn et al.2 noted that human Prxs should scavenge the majority of H2O2 in human cells on the basis of their second-order rate coefficients for reaction with H2O2 (on the order of 1 × 107 M−1s−1)17 and abundance in the cytosol of mammalian cells (on the order of 1 × 10−4 M)18. Further analysis of this pathway with detailed kinetic models revealed that H2O2 clearance models that only consider H2O2 consumption by Prxs and neglect all other antioxidants produce the same clearance curves for all reasonable levels of H2O2 as those predicted by a full metabolic model of H2O2 clearance16. One abundant isoform, Prx2, achieves this high reaction rate via the exceptionally reactive thiol group of a cysteine residue near the N-terminus of the protein known as the catalytic cysteine20. When the catalytic cysteine is oxidized to a sulfenic acid, it forms a disulfide bond with a second cysteine residue, known as the resolving cysteine, of an adjacent Prx2 monomer. This process involves a conformational change and results in a covalently-linked dimer species. After dimer formation, Trx reduces the disulfide bond between the two Prx2 monomers and regenerates the original proteins, while TrxR reduces oxidized Trx using electrons from NADPH20. This set of reactions maintains a large amount of reduced Prx2 in the cytosol of cells16, poised to respond to very small changes in cytosolic H2O2 fluxes. This feature of the system suggests that Prx2 oxidation could serve as an indicator for fluctuations in physiological levels of H2O2, and that human Prx2 fused with one or more fluorescent proteins could serve as the basis of a specific and sensitive sensor for H2O2.In human cells, cytosolic H2O2-induced Prx2 oxidation is through non-reducing gel-electrophoresis followed by western blot for Prx2 monomers and dimers21. While this approach has proven useful in many studies, it requires laborious gel electrophoresis procedures, pooled cell lysate samples, and often results in a large amount of variability from sample to sample. For ultrasensitive H2O2 detection, several groups have designed genetically-encoded fluorescent probes for H2O2-induced peroxiredoxin oxidation; this approach has yielded success in yeast22, where the designed probe was more sensitive than the current genetically-encoded sensors HyPer and roGFP2-Orp1, as well as plants25, but has not been applied to human cells, where HyPer and roGFP2-Orp1 are state-of-the-art tools. In this work, we created a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probe based upon the reactivity of human Prx2 for ultrasensitive detection of H2O2 in human cells. In order to maximize the fluorescence change in the two fluorophores upon dimerization of the reactive domain of the probe, we chose the fluorescent proteins Clover and mRuby2 as a FRET pair, which were previously shown to have a higher dynamic range than conventional cerulean-yellow fluorescent protein FRET pairs and insensitivity to changes in pH26. In order to validate this new tool, we purified the fluorescent probe and quantified its fluorescent signal in response to various oxidants and buffers in order to determine its selectivity and pH sensitivity. Additionally, we expressed the probe in human epithelial cells and quantified its fluorescent signal in response to various perturbations chosen to assess sensitivity towards H2O2. Following these detailed characterization and validation studies, we were able to detect and track low levels of H2O2-induced Prx2 oxidation when malignant cells were treated with the cancer therapeutics auranofin and piperlongumine. Even though the small elevation of H2O2 in response to piperlongumine treatment was sufficient to cause apoptosis14, the H2O2 level was below the lower detection limit of HyPer, which highlights the unique ability of the probe developed in this work to detect small, yet relevant, changes in intracellular H2O2 levels using a responsive domain that is of broad interest in many biological processes29.Currently, the most common way to measure H2O2 probe, the genes corresponding to the three domains of the probe  were inserted into pcDNA3.1+ via the Gibson assembly method. Additionally, between each fluorescent protein and the central Prx2 domain, a short flexible amino acid linker was inserted to promote proper folding of the fluorescent protein domains  significantly increased the emission ratio of the fluorescent protein, consistent with previous measurements with fluorescent peroxiredoxin-based constructs22. In addition to these experiments, the probe was also subjected to two different treatments to determine the sensitivity of peroxynitrite; in the first experiment, purified protein was exposed to the peroxynitrite generator compound linsidomine (SIN-1), whereas in the second, HeLa cells expressing the probe were exposed to a solution with nitric oxide, which diffuses into cells and rapidly reacts with superoxide to form peroxynitrite  followed by immunoblots for Prx2, and quantified the fraction of dimerized Prx2 in each sample , which has been previously used to produce continuous, tunable amounts of H2O2 within mammalian cells37. We expressed this enzyme in HeLa cells that contained either the Prx2-based probe or HyPer, a genetically-encoded H2O2 probed based upon the bacterial transcription factor OxyR, which is known to react with H2O2 with a second order rate constant nearly two orders of magnitude slower than Prx238. Upon expression of DAAO in cell lines with the fluorescent probes, we supplied cells with various amounts of D-alanine, a substrate of DAAO, which resulted in steady production of H2O2 over a 4.5-h time period  in the reduced form at pH 7.4 is greater than its excitation ratio in the fully oxidized form at pH 7.2, and pH controls are always necessary. Supplementary Fig. Our experiments with different pH buffers suggest that the Prx FRET probe has better pH stability than HyPer, as a result of the choice of fluorophores rather than the choice of H2O2 indicate that the fluorescent Prx2-based probe has a responsive range similar to that of the native, unmodified protein. Reactivity with H2O2 does not appear to be altered by fusion with two fluorescent protein domains. Moreover, the relatively low cell-to-cell variability of the probe’s signal (approximately 5% of the maximum fold change in these experiments) allowed us to visualize very small differences in external H2O2. Based on bolus addition experiments, the probe reached saturation upon exposure to approximately 30 fmol H2O2 per cell. Given that peroxiredoxin does not become hyperoxidized21 at this concentration , and expression of the probe in the cytosol did not significantly affect the observed amount of oxidized endogenous Prx2 dimers upon treatment with H2O2, although we anticipate that much higher expression levels of the probe may impact the activity of the endogenous protein. Currently, it is not known whether recombinant peroxiredoxin constructs assemble into high-molecular weight oligomers upon expression in mammalian cells50 in a similar fashion to analogous probes in yeast22. While we did see evidence of high molecular weight oligomers of endogenous Prx2 in our native gel electrophoresis experiments in samples probed with an antibody specific to human Prx2 , we did not see any significant formation of high molecular weight oligomers in samples probed with antibody against GFP, which suggests that the probe does not form these oligomeric complexes under the conditions we used and does not require them to function in these cells.Given that the concentration of endogenous Prxs is on the order of 1 × 102O2 generation. Most current genetically-encoded H2O2 sensors  are based on protein domains that react with H2O2 with a relatively low rate coefficient (on the order of 1 × 105 M−1s−1)38. In contrast, Prx2 reacts with H2O2 with a rate coefficient nearly two orders of magnitude higher (on the order of 1 × 107 M−1s−1)17. In combination with the abundance of Prx2 in the cytosol of human cells (on the order of 1 × 10−4M)18 and reduction by Trx, Prx2 kinetically outcompetes other potential reaction partners for H2O2 in the cell, which allows it to respond to very small fluctuations in the H2O2 level before other proteins that contain less reactive cysteines can react with H2O2. In our experiments with the cytosolic H2O2 generator DAAO, cells expressing the Prx2-based probe responded to lower amounts of the D-alanine compared to cells expressing HyPer over the timescale of hours . pcDNA3.1-Clover-mRuby2 was a gift from Kurt Beam (Addgene plasmid # 49089); pQTEV- PRDX2 was a gift from Konrad Buessow (Addgene plasmid # 31338). Next, splice overlap extension PCR reactions were used to add 30-40 nucleotide sequences to the 3’ of the Clover gene and the 5’ end of the mRuby2 gene. These oligonucleotides contained the sequences for the linker sequences between the fluorescent protein and Prx2 domain and also an overlap region between the fluorophore and the Prx2 domain for the Gibson assembly reaction. Next, a second round of splice overlap extension PCR reactions were used to add vector overlap sequences to the 5’ end of the Clover gene and the 3’ end of the mRuby2 gene. In order to create the final fusion product, the three gene fragments were assembled into a linearized vector via Gibson assembly. In order to obtain the linearized vector for the Gibson assembly reaction, the pcDNA3.1(+) mammalian expression vector (ThermoFisher Scientific) was digested with EcoRI/XhoI (New England Biolabs) for 15 min at 37 °C. The three gene fragments were then co-incubated with the linearized vector and Gibson assembly master mix (New England Biolabs) at 60 °C for 60 min.® CCL-2) and HEK-293 cells (ATCC® CRL-1573) lines were cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Essential Medium  with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum  at 37 °C, 95% air and 5% CO2. Cell lines obtained directly from ATCC were not authenticated or tested for mycoplasma. Media in the culture dish was replaced with fresh media every 2–3 days, and the cells were passaged every 4–5 days. In order to create a cell line with stable expression of the fusion construct, the fluorescent protein was constitutively expressed under control of the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter with the pLJM1 lentiviral vector; the original plasmid, pLJM1-EGFP, was a gift from David Sabatini (Addgene plasmid # 19319). A HEK 293FT cell culture was first transfected with the plasmid of interest along with lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) in Opti-MEM media (ThermoFisher Scientific) via the manufacturer’s instructions. 24 h after transfection, the media in the HEK culture was replaced with DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS; after an additional 24 h of incubation, the media in the HEK culture was collected and the supernatant containing the lentiviral particles was isolated. The lentiviral particles were added to a separate HeLa cell culture along with 6 μg/mL polybrene and the cells were incubated for approximately 72 h. The HeLa cell were then removed from the dish with 0.25% Trypsin-EDTA (ThermoFisher Scientific) and re-plated onto a 10 cm dish with 8 mL of DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS and 6 μg mL−1 puromycin. Cells were grown in this selective media for a period of 4-5 days before the cell stocks were prepared.Hela cells (ATCC5 cells or 3.5 × 105 cells were seeded into a single well of a 6-well plate (Corning) with approximately 9.5 cm2 of available growth area. After either 24 h or 48 h of incubation, respectively, cells were transiently transfected with 1.5 μg of the plasmid of interest with Lipofectamine 2000 according to the manufacturer’s instructions. After 24 h of incubation, cells were washed once with 1 mL of phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (1×) and then placed in 1 mL of Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI) 1640 media with no phenol red (ThermoFisher Scientific). For each data set, baseline signal was acquired for 2.5 min; once 2.5 min had elapsed, 1 mL of RPMI 1640 medium with 40 μM H2O2 was added to the cells in each well to reach a final concentration of 20 μM H2O2 in a total volume of 2 mL a final cell density of 3.5 × 108 cells L−1. Approximate values for mols H2O2 per cell were calculated by dividing the concentration of H2O2 (in units of mols L−1) by the cell density (expressed in cells L−1).Prior to the experiment, either 1.75 × 105 cells or 3.5 × 105 cells stably expressing the fluorescent Prx2 probe were seeded onto each well of a 6-well plate with approximately 9.5 cm2 of available growth area. The day of the experiment, cells were washed with 1 mL of PBS (1×) and then placed in 1 mL of RPMI 1640 media with no phenol red. For each data set, baseline signal was acquired for 2.5 min. After 2.5 min had elapsed, 1 mL of RPMI 1640 medium with an H2O2 concentration of 40, 20, 10, 2, or 0 μM H2O2 was added to the cell culture to reach final H2O2 concentrations of 20, 10, 5, 1, and 0 μM H2O2, in a total volume of 2 mL along with a final cell density of 3.5 × 108 cells L−1. Fluorescent images were acquired in the same manner as described as above. As before, approximate values for the mol H2O2 per cell were calculated by dividing the concentration of H2O2 (in units of mol L−1) by the cell density (expressed in cells L−1).Prior to the experiment, either 1.75 × 102O2 in the cytosol of HeLa cells, DAAO, which we previously14 cloned into the pLJM1-EGFP construct (Addgene plasmid # 19319), was stably expressed under control of the CMV promoter in the cytosol of HeLa cells containing either the Prx2-based probe or HyPer with the procedure described above. Cells were grown in the selective media for a period of 2 days before the cells were passaged again. The day before the experiment, 3.5 × 105 cells were seeded onto the surface of a 6-well plate. The day of the experiment, cells were washed once with PBS (1×) and supplemented with 1 mL of RPMI 1640 (1×) containing 5 μM flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). Before addition of D-alanine (the DAAO substrate) to the wells, images in each fluorescent channel were acquired for each well. After these images were acquired, D-alanine (dissolved in RPMI 1640) was added to the wells to reach final D-alanine concentrations of 50, 25, 15, and 7.5 mM in a total volume 2 mL; as a control, an equivalent volume of RPMI 1640 with no D-alanine was added to a separate cell sample. Images were acquired in each fluorescent channel in each well after 1, 2, and 4.5 h.In order to continuously produce HFor experiments that involved the TrxR inhibitor auranofin , solid auranofin was dissolved in sterile-filtered DMSO to make a 32 mM stock solution the day of the experiment. The auranofin stock solution was then added to culture medium comprised of DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS to reach final auranofin concentrations of 32, 16, 8, 4, and 1 μM in a total volume of 2 mL culture medium. Pure dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was used as a control. Cells were then incubated at 37 °C for a period of 90 min. After incubation, the signal in each fluorescent channel was acquired in three different regions of each well. For experiments that involved the cancer therapeutic piperlongumine, solid piperlongumine  was dissolved in DMSO to make 30 mM stock solution the day of the experiment. Before addition of the piperlongumine to the cell culture, images in each fluorescent channel were acquired for each well. After these images were acquired, the piperlongumine stock solution was then added to the media to reach a final piperlongumine concentration of 10 μM in a total volume 2.5 mL; as a control, an equivalent volume of DMSO was added to a separate cell sample. Images were acquired in each fluorescent channel in each well every 2 h for a period of 10 h.Immediately after treatment with auranofin, cells were washed twice with PBS (1×) on ice then treated with 100 µL of 1% Triton x-100 supplemented with 1x HALT protease cocktail (ThermoFisher Scientific) to lyse the cells. The lysed cells were then re-pelleted at 12,000 g for 10 min. The supernatant of the solutions was then collected and the protein content in the solution was assessed via the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay. 40 μg of protein were then added to a solution containing 400 μM NADPH (VWR) and 800 μM selenocystine (ThermoFisher Scientific). The absorbance of the solution at 340 nm was then measured every 2 min for a period of 90 min.2O2 was used, the liquid in each well was replaced with 1 mL of PBS and the H2O2 was added to the wells in the same manner as above. After approximately 30 s, the liquid in each well was aspirated and replaced with 2 mL of 100 mM methyl methanethiolsulfonate (MMTS) in order to block any free thiol groups as described previously. The plates were then incubated on ice for a period of 20-30 min, and washed twice with 1 mL PBS. Next, 100 µL of 1% Triton x-100 supplemented with 1x HALT protease cocktail was added to lyse the cells. The lysed cells were then re-pelleted at 12,000 g for 10 min. The supernatant of the solutions was then collected and the protein content in the solution was assessed via the BCA assay. 25 μg of protein was then loading into a tris-tricine acrylamide gel and subjected to SDS-PAGE under non-reducing conditions (i.e. with no β-mercaptoethanol in sample buffer). After the separated lysates were transferred to a PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad) (1 h at 100V), the blot was blocked and incubated with either goat primary antibody for Prx2  (at a dilution of 1:800) or goat primary antibody for GFP  at 4 °C overnight and then with donkey anti-goat IR 688 (Licor)  for 1 h at approximately 22 °C. The tagged proteins were then visualized on the Odyssey CLx Infrared Imaging System. GAPDH was used as a loading control for all blots. Uncropped version of all blots in main text shown in Supplementary Figure 22.For each experiment in which western blots were used, the adherent cells were first washed twice with PBS (1×). For experiments in which HAdherent cells were imaged with an inverted Olympus IX81 widefield microscope with an Olympus plan fluorite 10x dry objective (NA = 0.30). A 200 W metal-arc lamp (Prior) was used as a power source. For ratiometric FRET measurements, two different filter sets were used: for Clover fluorescence measurements, a 488/6 nm excitation filter (Semrock) was used with a 525/40 nm emission filter (Semrock); for Clover-mRuby2 FRET fluorescence measurements, a 488/6 nm excitation filter was used with a 625/40 nm emission filter (Semrock). A 1000 ms exposure time at 25% lamp intensity was used to acquire images in both fluorescent channels. For image analysis, 16-bit.tif images were exported to ImageJ and regions-of-interest (ROIs) were then drawn around cells to be analyzed. In order to calculate the raw emission ratio in each ROI at each time point, the background-subtracted FRET fluorescence intensity was divided by the background-subtracted Clover fluorescence intensity in ImageJ.For experiments in which the fluorescent probe HyPer was used, the following two filter sets were used: for short wavelength HyPer excitation, a 415/6 nm excitation filter (Semrock) with a 525/40 nm emission filter (Semrock); for long wavelength HyPer excitation, a 488/6 nm excitation filter with a 525/40 nm emission filter (Semrock). A 250 ms exposure time at 10% lamp intensity was used to acquire the images in both channels. ROIs were determined in images from both fluorescent channels as above. In order to calculate the ratiometric HyPer signal  in each ROI at each time point, the background-subtracted fluorescence intensity from the 488 nm excitation channel was divided by the background-subtracted fluorescence intensity from the 415 nm excitation channel in ImageJ.For all images, background-subtraction was performed in ImageJ with the rolling ball algorithm. In order to create the emission ratio image, the background-subtracted 16-bit.tif images for each fluorescent channel were imported into MATLAB and divided pixel-by-pixel.σNFC, σFC, and σFC(control) are the uncertainties in the normalized fold change, the peak fold change value, and the peak fold change value of the control sample , respectively. NFC, FC, and FC (control) are the normalized fold change value, the peak fold change value, and the peak fold change value of the control sample, respectively.All experimental emission ratio values are reported as the mean value ± S.E.M. In order to calculate the mean raw emission ratio value for each sample, the raw emission ratio was calculated for the designated number of cells from the background-subtracted images for each timepoint; these values were then averaged to obtain the raw emission ratio values for these cells. Neither the brightest cells nor the dimmest cells were used for probe characterization. Probe fold change values are reported as mean value ± S.E.M.; mean probe fold change values were determined in a similar manner to the raw emission ratios. The normalized fold change values were determined from the average fold change values from the control and experimental samples. The error associated with these average ratios was propagated according to the following expression:σFC, σR(t=0), and σR(t=10) are the uncertainties in the fold change, the raw emission ratio at 0 h, and the raw emission ratio at 10 h, respectively. FC, R(t = 0), and R(t = 10) are the fold change value, the raw emission ratio value at 0 h, and the raw emission ratio value at 10 h, respectively. In order to assess the significance of differences in the probe’s fold-change values in all experiments, a two-tailed student’s t-test was used at a significance level of p = 0.02.For the piperlongumine experiment, the final probe fold change values were determined from the average raw emission ratios at the final and initial time points. The error associated with these average ratios was propagated according to the following expression:The authors declare that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper and its supplementary information files. All constructs created in this study are available upon request.Supplementary InformationDescription of Additional Supplementary FilesSupplementary Data 1


CA) results in a metabolic injury is broadly accepted, yet patients never receive this diagnosis. We sought to find evidence of metabolic injuries after CA by measuring O2 consumption and CO2 production (VCO2) in a rodent model. In addition, we tested the effect of inspired 100% O2 on the metabolism.The concept that resuscitation from cardiac arrest (2 (CA–fraction of inspired O2 [FIO2] 1.0), with 30% O2 (CA‐FIO2 0.3), and sham with 30% O2 (sham‐FIO2 0.3). Animals were resuscitated with manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The volume of extracted O2 (VO2) and VCO2 were measured for a 2‐hour period after resuscitation. The respiratory quotient (RQ) was RQ=VCO2/VO2. VCO2 was elevated in CA‐FIO2 1.0 and CA‐FIO2 0.3 when compared with sham‐FIO2 0.3 in minutes 5 to 40 after resuscitation , and then returned to normal. VO2 in CA‐FIO2 1.0 and CA‐FIO2 0.3 increased gradually and was significantly higher than sham‐FIO2 0.3 2 hours after resuscitation . The RQ of CA animals persistently decreased .Rats were anesthetized and randomized into 3 groups: resuscitation from 10‐minute asphyxia with inhaled 100% OCA altered cellular metabolism resulting in increased VO2 with normal VCO2. Normal VCO2 suggests that the postresuscitation Krebs cycle is operating at a presumably healthy rate. Increased VO2 in the face of normal VCO2 suggests a significant alteration in O2 utilization in postresuscitation. Several RQ values fell well outside the normally cited range of 0.7 to 1.0. Higher FIO2 may increase VO2, leading to even lower RQ values. There are promising clinical treatments, such as therapeutic hypothermia, ischemic postconditioning, and controlled reperfusion, which improve survival in preclinical studies and are hypothesized to address postresuscitation metabolic disorders.2 and CO2 production (VCO2) in mitochondrial energy metabolism, and the evidence that mitochondrial function is altered after resuscitation from CA,2 and VCO2. While ex vivo results suggest that VO2 will decrease, we have purposefully left our hypothesis open because the conditions used in ex vivo experimentation do not reflect the postresuscitation cellular milieu. In order to test our hypothesis, we developed a novel system for the measurement of VO2 and VCO2 in intubated rats, and measured the VO2 and VCO2 to enable the calculation of the respiratory quotient (RQ) in a rat model of severe CA. VO2 and VCO2 were measured after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) at an inspired O2 concentration of 30% and were compared with the results from animals that received a sham surgery. In addition, we tested whether the supplementation of inspired 100% O2 gas affected the VO2, VCO2, or RQ in survivors of CA and compared results from animals receiving 100% O2 with animals receiving 30% O2 or the sham surgery. We tested the effect of supplemental O2 on aerobic respiration after CA to determine whether the toxic effects of supplemental O2 found in other injury modelsBecause of the central role of VOThe Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the University of Pennsylvania, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research approved the study protocol. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.2 values were within a range of 35 to 45 mm Hg during preparation. Anesthesia was maintained with isoflurane 2% and fraction of inspired O2 (FIO2) 0.3. The left femoral artery was cannulated (sterile polyethylene‐50 catheter inserted for 20 mm) for continuous arterial pressure monitoring . A temperature probe  was placed in the esophagus for continuous temperature monitoring. The core temperature was maintained at 36.5±0.5°C during the surgical procedure. The left femoral vein was cannulated with a polyethylene‐50 catheter, which was advanced into the inferior vena cava for drug infusion. This catheter was flushed with 150 U of heparin . At the end of the preparation, a blood sample (0.5 mL) was collected from the arterial catheter line and a blood gas analysis  was performed.We performed all instrumentation according to the previously described protocol.2: CA‐FIO2 1.0 group (n=12); (2) successful resuscitation from 10‐minute asphyxia arrest treated with inhaled 30% O2: CA‐FIO2 0.3 group (n=10); and (3) surgical sham control treated with inhaled 30% O2: sham‐FIO2 0.3 group (n=12)  was delivered to all CA animals. Isoflurane inhalation was discontinued after the induction of asphyxia and was not given to CA animals after successful resuscitation. Chest compressions were performed with 2 fingers over the sternum at a rate of 260 to 300 per minute. Immediately after beginning CPR, a 20 μg/kg bolus of epinephrine was given to animals through the venous catheter. Following ROSC, defined as systolic blood pressure >60 mm Hg, CPR was discontinued. If ROSC did not occur by 5 minutes of CPR, resuscitation was terminated. Ten minutes after CPR started, FIO2 was switched back to 0.3 in the CA‐FIO2 0.3 group, while it was kept at 1.0 in the CA‐FIO2 1.0 group. We monitored animal physiology, VO2, and VCO2 for 120 minutes after resuscitation. For animals in the sham‐FIO2 0.3 group, the same surgical procedures were performed, including vecuronium and epinephrine injections, without asphyxia or CPR. The animals were consistently anesthetized with 2% inhaled isoflurane/30% O2 during the entire series of measurements  successful resuscitation from 10‐minute asphyxia arrest treated with inhaled 100% O successf2. O2 was measured inline in the exhalation or inhalation branch of the ventilator circuit  were used for calibrating the O2 sensor. We used 20.9% as a low reference and 100.0% as a high reference. We used medical air (0% CO2) and industrial CO2  for calibrating the CO2 sensor. Gas humidity was measured inline with a hygrometer . The calibration was completed at a humidity of 0%. A temperature probe  and a pressure probe  were placed inline  and a fluorometer  were used to measure the gas concentration of O2 concentration every 100 ms. The fluorometer performed a windowed average of these measurements, and exported a value every second. The time constant for the fluorometer is about 300 ms. Given the ventilation rate, this sensor is too slow to perform mainstream O2 concentration measurements in the endotracheal tube. For this reason, the O2 sensor was placed in the middle of a ventilator tubing arm ≈100 cm from the endotracheal tube  or in the fraction of expired O2 arm (FEO2) by swapping which ventilator circuit arm was connected to the in and out port of the ventilator. Given enough equilibration time after switching ventilator port connections, this setup provided relatively constant O2 concentrations for measurement. The differences between the alveolar and tracheal O2 concentrations lead to a concentration gradient in the expiratory arm of the ventilator circuit. However, the relatively large volume of our ventilator circuit (≈15 mL) compared with our tidal volume (≈4 mL) allowed sufficient time for gas diffusion, which significantly decreased the O2 concentration gradients in the expiratory arm of the circuit. After the experiments, the exported O2 concentrations were averaged every minute, and measurements made in the inspiratory arm are reported as FIO2 and measurements made in the expiratory arm are reported as FEO2. Figure 2 1.0 group. Sensors were calibrated before each experiment. Animal preparation was completed within 40 minutes after successful intubation. Baseline FIO2 was measured during surgical preparation. FEO2 was then measured by swapping the in/out ports in the ventilator circuit  was connected to the circuit. FIO2 was measured with the test lung while the animal was in asphyxia. After 10 minutes of asphyxia, the animal was reconnected to the ventilator circuit, the ventilator circuit was adjusted to measure FEO2, and CPR was initiated.The fluorometer measures O2 concentration using a side‐stream breath‐by‐breath method, we used a slightly different calculation for fractional concentration of CO2 in exhaled gas (FECO2). To estimate FECO2, we quantitated % concentration of CO2 from the capnograph waveform , noted as phase Ι in Figure 2, labeled phase ΙΙ. The end of expiration at phase ΙΙΙ is defined as end‐tidal PCO2. Capnograph data were extracted every 10 ms. We calculated the first derivative of the capnograph to detect the beginning of phase I and the end of phase III. The interval starting from the beginning of phase I to the end of phase III is considered the expiratory phase of the ventilation. Using this method, we segmented the capnograph into inspiratory and expiratory phases. Using only the expiratory phases of the capnograph, we averaged 1 minute worth of FECO2 measurements. The CO2 sensor is affected by changes in the O2 concentration in the sampled gas. Therefore, we corrected CO2 measurements empirically based on our sensor calibration experiments, described below.Because we measured COm Figure .27 The sE), we used an inverted, water‐sealed 500 mL cylinder that was filled with water. Exhaled gas displaced the water in the cylinder during volume measurements. Exhaled gas was collected for 2 minutes and the MV volume was calculated. The resolution of the measurement was 2.5 mL/min. VE measurements were performed twice in each experiment before and after a 2‐hour period of metabolic measurement . This shows that the CA injury model had no observable effect on our VE measurements.To measure volume of exhaled gas  were prepared. The accuracy of O2 and CO2 measurements was tested using these mixtures. The error of our O2 measurements was ±0.7% at a range from 20.9% to 100%. Because we swapped the in/out ports and used 1 sensor for measuring FIO2 and FEO2, the error (uncertainty) of FIO2 and FEO2 were dependent. Since the propagation of uncertainty for subtraction of FIO2−FEO2 keeps the covariance, σFIO2·FEO2, in its calculation the error of O2 extraction rate, FIO2−FEO2, is calculated as ±0.7% at a range from 20.9% to 100%.Four different 4% CO2 concentrations on our CO2 sensor under humid conditions. Deionized pure water was poured into Tygon tubing (Saint‐Gobain) and it was warmed to 50°C by a hot water bath. The gas mixture was passed through the tubing and the CO2 concentration was measured for each mixture. In order to reduce CO2 measurement errors caused by changes in O2 concentrations, we measured the effect of different O2 concentrations on the CO2 sensor and created an equation to correct the CO2 errors, as shown in Figure 2 concentration measurement decreased linearly as the O2 concentration increased. Humidity was 92.8±3.5% at a gas temperature of 21.3±0.6°C. Based on this result, we derived the following empirical equation:2 is the estimated concentration, mCO2 is the measured value, O2 is the concentration of O2 (%).We tested the effect of different O2 was measured and it increased by 0.01°C when FEO2 was measured. Even though exhaled gas from animals is warmer than inhaled gas supplied from a mechanical ventilator, it did not make a significant impact on our measurements because the water bath system controls the temperature. The pressure inside the circuit was 5.62±0.42 mm Hg when FIO2 was measured and it decreased by 0.19 mm Hg when FEO2 was measured.Temperature and pressure are the major components that affect the volume measure of a gas. Therefore, we tested whether there were differences in temperature and/or pressure between inhaled and exhaled gases before and after swapping the in/out ports. Data were obtained 1 minute before and after swapping the in/out ports of the ventilator circuit. As can be seen in Table 2 <0.6.2 of 1.0. Therefore, we performed an experiment to measure the effect of CO2 production and O2 consumption on the difference between VI and VE, where VI and VE are MV volumes of the mechanical ventilation in the inhaled and exhaled gases, respectively. Before conducting the experiment, the ventilator and ventilator circuit were leak tested. The first part of the experiment was the determination of VI. The volume of gas exiting the ventilator per minute was measured in the presence of a test lung. Because the system was leak tested, and there was no gas exchange in the test lung, the volume of gas exiting the ventilator is equivalent to the volume of gas entering the test lung, which is VI. This measurement was made in triplicate. Then, an animal was anesthetized and intubated. The side‐stream capnography measurement was omitted and the port sealed so that no ventilation volume was lost. The volume of gas exiting the ventilator was then measured in triplicate. In this setting, the measured volume is VE. Next, the animal was euthanized by stopping mechanical ventilation under a surgical plane of anesthesia and neuromuscular blockade. This resulted in asphyxia and CA. VE was measured in triplicate 15 and 45 minutes after euthanasia. Because the animal was euthanized, the ventilations also resulted in no gas exchange with the animal. The results of these experiments are reported in Table I measured using the rubber‐test lung was 177.5 mL/min. As can be seen in the Table E and VI in the animal. The data support discarding the Haldane transformation in favor of the assumption that VI equals VE in animals, particularly for high FIO2 values. However, it is possible that the difference between VI and VE is smaller than the resolution of our volume measurement. The resolution of our volume measurement was 2.5 mL/min and so it was ≈1.4% of an MV of 180 mL/min. This number indicates that VI can be 1.4% more or less than VE.The estimation of inspiration volume by the Haldane transformation2 and VCO2 are calculated by the following equationsVO2 is assumed to be zero since the inhaled gas did not contain CO2. It was not appropriate to use the Haldane transformationI from VE because we used inhaled O2 concentrations of 100% in the CA‐FIO2 1.0 group.I equals VE for this experimental setup; this assumption results in the following calculation of VO2:In our calculation, FICO2 and VCO2 could be calculated at standard temperature and pressure. The RQ was calculated by the following equation:Room temperature and atmospheric pressure were measured in each experiment so that VO2 settings affect errors in VO2 caused by the assumption that VI equals VE. In order to evaluate errors in VO2 of our study, we calculated %error from the following equation:Different FIO2 was calculated by equation (2), approximate VO2 was calculated by equation (4), and equation (6) is transformed to:Exact VOE measurement was 2.5 mL/min and it was 1.4% of the MV volume (180 mL/min). We assumed that VI equals VE but exact VI might be either more or less than VE (±1.4%). Therefore, the %error of our measurements is:The resolution of our V2 is used and it becomes smaller when the animal's O2 extraction rate, FIO2−FEO2, is high. In our injured animal model, the average of O2 extraction rate was 7.5% when inhaled O2 was 30%, where it was 9.3% when inhaled O2 was 100%. Therefore, the %error of our VO2 measurements was estimated as ±5.6% in the CA‐FIO2 0.3 group and ±15.1% in the CA‐FIO2 1.0 group.The %error becomes greater when higher inhaled O2, VCO2, and RQ were compared within the 3 different test groups  at each time point. We used Fisher exact test for comparison of categorical outcomes and log‐rank test for comparison of survival curves among groups. A 2‐tailed P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. All calculations were performed with SPSS Statistics version 22 for Mac (IBM).We reported continuous data as mean and SD. Group comparisons were made with ANOVA, and Scheffé multiple comparison procedure was used for post hoc analyses. The numbers of VO2 pressures for the 3 groups are shown as a function of time in Figure 2 values were within a range of 35 to 45 mm Hg during surgical preparation. Mean PaO2 remained significantly higher in the CA‐FIO2 1.0 group compared with the CA‐FIO2 0.3 and the sham‐FIO2 0.3 groups. The %difference of PaO2 from baseline decreased by 11% in the CA‐FIO2 0.3 group at 60 and 120 minutes from CPR. There were no statistical differences between the CA‐FIO2 0.3 group and the sham‐FIO2 0.3 group  using log‐rank test. Using Fisher exact test, the survival rates of CA‐FIO2 1.0 versus CA‐FIO2 0.3 at each time point  were 67% (8/12) versus 100% , 42% (5/12) versus 80% , 33% (4/12) versus 70% , and 25% (3/12) versus 40% , respectively. No animal died in the sham‐FIO2 0.3 group.No significant differences in basal characteristics were found between the groups Table . Arteriap Figure . The %dit Figure . Seventy2 was significantly greater in both CA groups compared with the sham group 25 minutes after ROSC . VCO2 in the CA groups returned to normal 45 minutes after ROSC . As a result, the RQ was significantly and persistently lower in the CA groups than in the sham group over the 2‐hour measurement period  in the CA‐FIO2 0.3 group, and 0% (0/12) in the sham‐FIO2 0.3 group.VCOC Figure A. As can1 Figure C). The p2 value increased by 50% when the FIO2 was 0.3. When the FIO2 value was 1.0, the VO2 increased by 80%.In our CA injury model, the VO2 values, and similar VCO2 values, relative to their pre‐arrest values. The amount of O2 consumed in the post‐arrest period was dependent on the inhaled O2 concentration. These results confirm our contention that resuscitation from CA causes significant metabolic injury to the animal. What was not expected, and what has previously been considered impossible, is that rats resuscitated from CA could exhibit RQs significantly lower than 0.7. Our expectations had been that resuscitated animals would exhibit classical hypermetabolism or hypometabolism, eg, their RQ would remain unchanged, but they would exhibit either increased or decreased metabolic rate.The experiments reported here demonstrate that animals resuscitated from CA have reduced RQs, increased VO2 measured using 3 distinct methods. In that article, nearly 25% of collected data were excluded from analysis because the measured RQ was <0.6 or >1.2. An increase in the metabolic rate, eg, hypermetabolism, has been reported in patients with burns,2 and therefore it is possible that a shift in O2 metabolism, such as the one described here, was interpreted as hypermetabolism. In all, our results suggest that our finding of an RQ <0.7 may be more prevalent than previously suspected. Furthermore, our finding that changes in VO2 are not always linked to changes in VCO2 clarifies that claims of increased or decreased metabolic rate cannot be supported without measuring both VO2 and VCO2.This study substantially improves our understanding of the use of indirect calorimetry as a real‐time metabolic monitor to track injury severity after resuscitation. One of our most important findings is that a resuscitated rat can sustain RQs outside of the commonly cited range of 0.7 to 1.0. RQ values <0.7 are often considered to be in error.2 after CA using the Fick method in rats,2 was either comparable to or lower than the baseline measurements or reference values in those studies. However, none of these studies measured VCO2, thus the RQ values remain unknown. Hensel and Kox2 measured by indirect calorimetry was higher than that by the Fick method in patients with lung infection. It was inferred that the injured lung itself might have measurable VO2.There are some studies that report VO2 utilization manifested in these experiments. Under normal aerobic respiration, nearly 95% of O2 is consumed as the terminal electron accepter within the mitochondria's electron transport chain  in rats with sham surgery, which matches our measured VO2 range of 16 to 18 mL/kg per hour in our sham group animals. Yamaoka et al2 was 14 to 20 mL/min per kg (10–14 mL/min per kg0.75) at sleep and 25 to 31 mL/min per kg (18–22 mL/min per kg0.75) at normal activity. Musch et al2 was 20 mL/min per kg at rest and 67 to 72 mL/min per kg at maximal exercise. VCO2 in our sham group animals was 14 to 16 mL/min per kg. This number is close to that of sleeping animals but less than animals at normal activity or rest. VCO2 of the baseline and the sham surgery animals were measured under anesthesia and it is reasonable that the number we reported was close or less than those of nonanesthetized animals. We interpret this congruence with reported values as evidence that our system provides reasonable measurements.There are no commercially available methods to measure VO2 and VCO2. The first is that cytochrome c oxidase is consuming the additional O2 with extra reducing equivalents being provided by processes that do not generate CO2, eg, processes other than the Krebs cycle such as glycerol‐phosphate shuttle and/or the malate‐aspartate shuttle pathways providing the electron transport chain with FADH2 and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, respectively.2 being consumed by oxidases and oxygenases other than cytochrome c oxidase has increased. Nonmitochondrial VO2 has been described . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.Saeki is an employee of Nihon Kohden Innovation Center, INC. There are no products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all of the Journal's policies on sharing data and materials. Shinozaki, Lampe, and Becker own intellectual property in metabolic measurements in critically ill patients. Shinozaki has grant/research support from Nihon Kohden Corp. Lampe has grant/research support from Zoll Medical Corp., Philips Healthcare, Nihon Kohden Corp., and the National Institutes of Health, and owns intellectual property in resuscitation devices. Becker has grant/research support from Philips Healthcare, the National Institutes of Health, Nihon Kohden Corp., BeneChill Inc., Zoll Medical Corp, and Medtronic Foundation, and patents in the areas of hypothermia induction and perfusion therapies. 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It is found that the catalytic activity of these oxides not only depends on the amounts of oxygen vacancies and metastable cations but also shows a significant influence from the local environment of the active sites, in particular, the symmetry of the oxygen vacancies. Based on the recent progress in the relevant fields, an “asymmetric oxygen vacancy site” is introduced, which indicates an oxygen vacancy with an asymmetric coordination of cations, making oxygen “easy come, easy go,” i.e., more reactive in redox reactions. The establishment of this new mechanism would shed light on the future investigation of the intrinsic active sites in oxide and oxide supported catalysts.To identify the intrinsic active sites in oxides or oxide supported catalysts is a research frontier in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and material science. In particular, the role of oxygen vacancies on the redox properties of oxide catalysts is still not fully understood. Herein, some relevant research dealing with M Asymmetric oxygen vacancies in metal oxide catalysts act as intrinsic catalytic active sites for redox reactions by making oxygen species easy come, easy go. Some relevant work focused on the active sites with asymmetric bonding situations in doped oxides, in oxide stabilized single‐atom catalysts, and at metal/oxide interface is reviewed. Herein, we highlight some recent researches focused on the intrinsic active sites with asymmetric bonding situations in mixed metal oxide catalysts and oxide stabilized single‐atom catalysts (SACs), as well as on the interfacial active sites in between oxide and metal. We will see that the local environment of oxygen vacancies is crucial to the catalytic performance of oxide catalysts. In particular, asymmetric oxygen/vacancy sites can often improve the catalytic performance. We expect this short review may shed light on future identification of intrinsic active sites in oxide and oxide supported catalysts, and microstructural tailoring of active sites for various reactions.22.12, oxygen anions are tetrahedrally coordinated by four Ce4+ cations. A simple method to break down the site symmetry of oxygen/vacancy is to substitute one of the cerium cations, forming an asymmetric site M–O(–Ce)3 or M–□(–Ce)3, where □ represents an oxygen vacancy  doped CeO2 materials using extended X‐ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and X‐ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy, suggesting that oxygen vacancies introduced by doping were located around both Ce and dopant ions. When the concentration of the dopant is low, guest cations were separated, which was also detected by Moog et al.3+ doped CeO2. With an increase of doping level in CeO2, the Ce—O, Y—O and Gd—O bond lengths decreased, suggesting the formation of clusters containing two dopant ions and one oxygen vacancy and/or four dopant ions and two oxygen vacancies.Although it is challenging to provide direct proof of the existence of asymmetric oxygen vacancies in mixed oxides through electron microscopy, some spectral characterizations can give some indirect evidences. Matsui and co‐workers2 using high‐resolution 89Y and 17O ssNMR spectroscopy. It was found, based on the 89Y spectra, that the average coordination number (CN) of Y was smaller than that of Ce, suggesting a strong association between oxygen vacancies and the dopant cations. The 17O NMR characterization of Y‐doped CeO2 indicated the existence of oxygen atoms bonding with four Ce cations, three Ce and one Y cations, and two Ce and two Y cations. The similar results are also found in 17O ssNMR study of La doped CeO22.2 catalysts have been extensively investigated in the recent years and a further discussion on more details of these mixed oxides is given below.The local structure of mixed oxides can also be investigated by solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) techniques. Kim and Stebbins2.32 is one of the most popular rare earth oxides and has been widely investigated as catalysts or catalyst carriers for redox reactions.2‐based mixed oxides have been reported as efficient catalysts for various reaction systems and their catalytically active sites been discussed. It is of great interest to review the formation of asymmetric oxygen vacancies in CeO2 and their role in the catalytic performances.CeO2 solid solution materials, when an octacoordinated Ce4+ is replaced by a hexacoordinated Bi3+, the asymmetrical oxygen vacancies, Bi–□(–Ce)3, will be created neighboring the Bi3+, which is favorable to Bi3+ as concerning the stabilized coordination number. On the other hand, these oxygen vacancies prefer to be filled by adsorbed oxygen species if a local charge balance and the most stable coordination of Ce4+ are considered. Therefore, compared with symmetric Ce–□(–Ce)3 site in which the oxygen vacancy is easily oxygenated but difficult to release oxygen, the asymmetric bonding situation of Bi–□(–Ce)3 or Bi–O(–Ce)3 makes oxygen “easy come, easy go” 2 and Bi–□–Ce clusters. All these clusters offer the sites that can easily adsorb and desorb oxygen‐containing chemical species. With increasing the Bi‐doping, some Bi‐rich clusters will form according to the “like with like” tendency in solid solutions.2 decreased with increasing the Bi doping, in pace with an increase of the concentration of oxygen vacancies.When the doping level is low , the dopant cations will evenly distribute in the structure, i.e., not forming Bi–O–Bi bonding. All the oxygen vacancies associating with Bi are asymmetric Bi–□(–Ce)2 by other trivalent cations would also generate asymmetric oxygen vacancies. For example, Reddy et al.0.8La0.2O2−δ solid solution and used it as a catalyst for CO oxidation. It was proposed that the oxidation of CO took place via the MvK mechanism, i.e., CO took one lattice oxygen away, leaving a vacancy, which would then be filled by oxygen. Oxygen on the particle surface coordinated by mixed cations, such as La–O(–Ce)3, La–O(–Ce)2 and La–O–Ce, would be much easier to be removed by CO, when charge balance at La3+ and its stable coordination of six oxygen are considered. On the other hand, the oxygen vacancies would be easily filled by oxygen when stabilities of 4+ charge and eight coordination at Ce cations are considered. Unfortunately, Reddy et al. only produced one composition of Ce0.8La0.2O2−δ and only compared catalytic activity of this solid solution with Zr doped ceria. The latter had much less oxygen vacancies due to the 4+ charge of Zr and showed a lower activity. The authors attributed the improvement of catalytic activity of Ce0.8La0.2O2−δ to reduced particle size, increased surface area, and increased oxygen vacancies. If a study of catalytic performance as a function of the La content was carried out, the effect of the asymmetric oxygen vacancies would be probably revealed. From these examples, it can be concluded that the relatively stable CN of the cations plays a crucial role in promoting catalytic activity of asymmetric oxygen vacancies. The cations with relatively higher stable CN prefer to adsorb oxygen and the cations with relatively lower stable CN tend to release oxygen from these sites.Obviously, substitution of Ce in CeOxCe1−xO2−δ, TM = Mn, Ni, Co or Fe, and studied catalytic properties of the solid solutions using MnxCe1−xO2−δ as an example. The low‐charged Mn2+ can generate relatively stable oxygen vacancies. The number of the vacancies should increase with the doping level of Mn2+. The solid solutions exhibited improved catalytic activity for CO oxidation compared with pure ceria. However, such an improvement of catalytic properties did not change monotonically with the doping level. As detected by the authors, the catalytic activity of CO oxidation increased from pure ceria to Ce0.92Mn0.08O2−δ, but reduced with further increase of the Mn2+ doping, e.g., Ce0.82Mn0.18O2−δ. The phenomenon is similar to the Bi‐doped ceria catalysts for aerobic oxidation reactions.2+ are well separated and form asymmetric oxygen vacancies, e.g., Mn–O(–Ce)3. Because the difference between Mn2+ and Ce4+ cations is much more significant than that between Bi3+ and Ce4+, in the solid solution of MnxCe1−xO2−δ, oxygen vacancies with multiple Mn coordination would form more easily.Oxygen vacancies in ceria can also be generated by many other low charged cations. Lee et al.3+ with a constant oxidation state, Mn often exists in a mixed oxidation state in ceria, which can reduce the symmetry of the vacancy sites at different levels. Ramana et al.0.7Mn0.3O2−δ solid solution shows superior vanillyl alcohol oxidation activity in comparison with Ce0.8Mn0.2O2−δ. With an even higher Mn doping, Ce0.5Mn0.5O2‐δ was found to have a very high catalytic activity for CO oxidation.δ+–Oγ− or Ceδ+–Oγ−, making oxygen more reactive. When the symmetry of the oxygen sites is considered, the relatively higher asymmetry of the sites would indeed allow oxygen to be removed easily, but more difficult to be adsorbed. We believe this is why high O2 pressure was applied to re‐fill the vacancies in that work.It is noticed that determination of the local structures around the dopant cations in the Mn‐doped ceria is often difficult, since the oxidation state of Mn varies from 4+ to 3+, and to 2+, especially when the concentration of Mn is high. Unlike Bi3 perovskitesd‐electron count of M cations and the vacancy formation energy, i.e., the reactivity of lattice oxygen. The M cations with larger d‐electron count exhibit higher reactivity of lattice oxygen in M—O bonds. Moreover, the energy band structure of oxides determines the extent of electron delocalization from the oxygen vacancies,In addition, the electronic structure of cations in asymmetric oxygen vacancy sites is also regarded as a key factor to determine the reactivity of the oxygen in these sites. A recent DFT calculation for SrMO2O ↔ CO2 + H2). It was found that nonmetallic Au or Pt species strongly associated with surface Ce—O groups, i.e., forming Au–O–Ce or Pt–O–Ce linkage, are responsible for the activity by creating additional oxygen vacancies on the surface of ceria, while metallic Au or Pt nanoparticles do not participate in the reaction. The principal oxidation states of the guest cations are Au+ and Pt2+. More importantly, the authors pointed out that the oxygen vacancies would be generated if Au or Pt occupied Ce sites in ceria. It is not surprising because the oxygen vacancies associated with Au or Pt cations are asymmetric and the oxygen species occupying these sites will be significantly activated.Doping ceria with noble metal cations, such as Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, and Ru ions, can more efficiently increase the reactivity of oxygen near the dopant cations. Fu et al.2 (111) surface doped with Au, Ag, or Cu, and found that oxygen associated with the dopant can be activated.Eov, e.g., −0.36 eV for Au doped CeO2) in comparison with undoped CeO2 (+3.01 eV) can be achieved. It is interesting to read the authors' argument: to be a good catalyst for the CO oxidation, a doped oxide must achieve a balance between two conflicting requirements, that is the adsorption and desorption of oxygen. It must make surface oxygen reactive but not so much that it will hinder the healing of the oxygen vacancies created by the oxidation reaction.2 on the CeO2(111) can offer such active centers. Pt doping into CeO2 can also activate its neighboring surface oxygen atoms, making them more chemically reactive toward methane oxidation. Moreover, the catalyst is more active as it contains more ionic Pt.3+ and La3+, etc.Shapovalov and Metiu performed DFT calculations for the CeO1−xAuxO2−δ solid solutions for CO oxidation, which occurred on the oxygen vacancy sites next to Au3+ and Ce3+  The adsorption of O2 molecule at this oxygen vacancy site, leading to the reoxidation of Ce3+ to Ce4+. (III) The adsorbed O2 molecule dissociates and leaves one oxygen atom at the active site. Finally, the step (I) is repeated, making a cycle. The similar three‐step catalytic cycle was also proposed by Chen for CO oxidation on Ru‐doped CeO2 (111) surface by means of first‐principles calculations.Besides the experimental investigation, the catalytic cycle process of asymmetric oxygen vacancy active sites in redox reactions was also studied by computational methods. Camellone and Fabris2.42+ doped Co3O4 nanowires exhibited notably improved catalytic activity for CO oxidation compared with pure Co3O4.3+–O–Cu2+ compared with Co3+–O–Co2+, implying the higher reactivity of oxygen in the former.Besides the ceria based solid solutions, the asymmetrical oxygen vacancy sites also exist in many other solid solution oxide catalysts. For example, Cu2+‐doped MnOx materials 4+–O(–Mn4+)2 clusters, the oxygen atoms in asymmetric M3+–O(–Mn4+)2 clusters are more favorable to participate in the oxidation reaction by reducing the active sites to M2+–□(–Mn3+)2, in which the oxygen vacancies can be easily filled by O2 adsorption and dissociation. Consequently, active oxygen in these asymmetric active sites can be “easy come, easy go.”The asymmetric bonding enhanced active lattice oxygen ions were also observed in divalent metal cation M1–O–M2 and M1–□–M2 like active sites were proposed,2O3/γ‐Al2O3 system were evenly distributed at the γ‐Al2O3 surface and occupied the octahedral vacant sites of Al.2O3 were not mixed, symmetric clusters Cu–O–Cu in CuO/γ‐Al2O3 and Mn–O–Mn in Mn2O3/γ‐Al2O3 showed very low activities in reduction of NO with CO. When mixed CuO and Mn2O3 were loaded on γ‐Al2O3, the formation of asymmetric oxygen sites coordinated by both Cu and Mn, denoted as Cu–O–Mn, greatly improved the catalytic activity. The CuO‐MnOx/TiO2 showed a similar behavior.xDong and co‐workers reported a series of CuO‐based mixed oxide catalysts for NO reduction by CO and the M3In mixed oxides, the asymmetric oxygen vacancy sites disperse throughout the oxides. The sites located in the interior of the oxides would improve the mobility of the lattice oxygen and benefit their redox property. However, only those located in the surface region can directly participate in catalytic reactions. Therefore, constructing asymmetric active sites at oxide surface should be a more atom‐economic strategy to fabricate highly efficient catalysts.Figure2+/CeO2 catalysts can effectively create active surface lattice oxygen species for low‐temperature CO oxidation  that are derived from the substitution of Pt2+ for Ce4+ by the dissociative H2O adsorption. The principle of enhancement of catalytic activity is similar to that in doped CeO2 as discussed above. The relatively low oxidation state and low favorable coordination number of Pt stabilize the vacancies in the asymmetric sites of Pt–□–Ce or activate oxygen atoms in Pt–O–Ce. The beauty of this material is that almost all Pt atoms are at oxide surface and each Pt can activate two or more surrounding oxygen atoms.SACs have recently received much attention and become a new frontier in the heterogeneous catalysis field,1/CeO2 catalyst exhibited notably increased turnover frequency values for aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohol compared with CeO2 supported Au nanocatalyst, which is mainly attributed to much more activated lattice oxygen atoms generated by highly dispersed Au single‐atoms. In addition, this catalyst was of excellent reusability and no aggregation of Au atoms occurred in the recycling test.Similarly, Li et al.4FigureRecently, the interfacial active sites on oxide‐supported metal catalysts or oxide‐on‐metal catalysts are considered as a hot topic in heterogeneous catalysis field.1−x/Pt(111)] as catalysts for CO oxidation and found that the interface‐confined coordinatively unsaturated ferrous sites and neighboring Pt atoms, that is, Fe2+–O–Ptδ+ sites, are the active centers for O2 activation with low adsorption energy for O2 molecules and low reaction barrier for O2 dissociation to atomic O. From this work, we see that active asymmetric oxygen vacancy sites can be achieved not only in surface layers of a doped metal oxide or in SACs, but also in metal/oxide interface, forming a M1–O–M2 or M1–□–M2 bridge‐like structure. The oxygen atoms at these sites are much more active than the lattice oxygen in metal oxide, in particular, the oxygen sites with lower CN at the edges of metal/oxide interface. But the oxygen sites underneath the supported nanocluster might be deactivated even though they are asymmetric.Bao and co‐workersδ−–□–Ti3+, on Ni@TiO2−x catalyst for WGS reaction. The redox mechanism on these active sites was proposed  was notably lower than those on the metallic Ni(111) surface (≈0.87 eV) and on the symmetric Ti–□–Ti sites on TiO2−x(101) surface (≈0.42 eV).Xu et al.2 interfacial perimeter, in a form of Cu+–□–Ce3+, for the low‐temperature WGS reaction were directly identified based on a combined microscopic and spectroscopic studies , Ni@TiO2−x and Cu/CeO2 catalysts, the active oxygen sites are at the interface between the metal and oxide, and at the edge of supported nanoparticles. These sites normally have only two coordination with a metal atom on one side and a cation in the oxide on the other. Since the oxygen is not at a center of a regular polyhedral coordination, site distortion is not relevant and the space of the sites is quite flexible. The effect of asymmetry of the sites is mainly from the different properties of the two coordinated atoms. For example, in Niδ−–□–Ti3+ and Niδ+–O–Ti4+ bridges mentioned above, the change of oxidation state of ions is commonly acceptable. The local charge at Ni is the key factor to influence the activity of the sites, but is difficult to be detected.In the above discussed FeO5Oxygen vacancies in metal oxide catalysts are often considered as intrinsic active centers for many important redox reactions. People normally believe that the catalytic activity on these vacancies is a function of the concentrations of the vacancies and the surrounding reduced cations. Recent researches indicate that the activity of the oxygen vacancies also depends on the local environment of the sites. Based on the relevant advances in this field, the concept of “asymmetric oxygen vacancy site” has been proposed, which has two conflicting influences from at least two different surrounding cations. One cation can promote the adsorption of oxygen and another favors a vacancy. These different functions can be made from different sizes, electronic structure, oxidation states, relatively stable coordination numbers of the cations. The strength of these influences can be adjusted to suit different chemical reactions, in principle, to make a balance of adsorption and desorption of oxygen species.It is interesting to find that asymmetric oxygen vacancies exist not only in mixed oxides, but also in oxide supported SACs, and even at metal/oxide interfaces. More experiments will have to be performed before the mechanisms of the improvement of catalytic activity with asymmetric oxygen vacancies can be fully understood. Future work will also focus on the influence of asymmetric oxygen vacancies on charge transfer in catalysts, in particular, in between metal nanoparticles and mixed oxide substrates. More accurate computational calculation and the characterization at atomic level of the microstructures of the asymmetric oxygen vacancies are also challenging targets.The authors declare no conflict of interest.


Unexpectedly, in some of the core@shell nanostructures presence of substantial exchange-bias was observed in spite of the non-magnetic nature of CdS QDs which is clearly an “optically-active” and “magnetically-inactive” material. Presence of “exchange-bias” was confirmed by the change in “magnetic-anisotropy” as well as shift in susceptibility derivative. Finally, successful formulation of stable and efficient core@shell nanostructures achieved, which shows no exchange-bias and shift. Current findings suggest that these magneto-fluorescent nanostructures can be used in spintronics; and drug delivery-diagnosis-imaging applications in nanomedicine field.The selected and controlled preparation of core@shell nanostructures, which unite the multiple functions of ferromagnetic Ni-Zn ferrite core and CdS shell in a single material with tuneable fluorescence and magnetic properties, have been proposed by the seed mediated aqueous growth process. The shell particle thickness and core of nanostructures were precisely tuned. Current work exhibits the comparative study of core@shell multifunctional nanostructures where core being annealed at two different temperatures. The core@shell nanostructure formation was confirmed by complementary structural, elemental, optical, magnetic and IR measurements. Optical and magnetic characterizations were performed to study elaborative effects of different structural combinations of core@shell nanostructures to achieve best configuration with high-luminescence and magnetic outcomes. The interface of magnetic/nonmagnetic NiZnFe Core@shell nanostructures have been a dynamic area of research for their tailored multifunctional properties arising as a result of the existence of two or more nanostructure phases of different materials with one forming the shell on the surface of the other7. In the current work we have studied the core@shell nanostructure of NiZnFe2O4/CdS, which is a ferromagnetic/diamagnetic core@shell system. The core material chosen was NiZnFe2O4 which is a soft ferrite. The reason to opt soft ferrite is there properties such as high resistivity which means “low eddy current loss” and “high usable frequency” ranges, ‘high magnetic permeability” which means high induction in smallest space, adaptability of shape of the core which persuade magnetic requirements in nominal space and their light-weight and low-cost relative to other materials. In our core@shell system the well-controlled interface between the two components give rise to exciting properties due to the presence of two different components at the surface. This ferromagnetic/diamagnetic system of core@shell nanostructures has been studied using various methods.Nanostructures are found to be of great magnitude for the reason that of their vital properties, such as, large surface/volume ratio and the engineered characteristic’s such as, permeability, stability, and porosity8”. These magneto-fluorescent nanostructures can be used in various applications such as spintronics; as-well-as for drug delivery-diagnosis-imaging applications in the field of nanomedicine11.Magnetic properties of the core and the interface in core@shell nanostructure have been studied using vibrating sample magnetometry measurements (VSM) at room temperature. Optical studies were performed using UV-visible spectroscopy and Photoluminescence spectroscopy at room temperature. HRTEM images give the straightforward proof for the formation of core@shell nanostructure and the formation of sharp interface between two components. “The coherency strain, which allows the shell substantial at the interface to fine-tune the lattice parameters of the core, can play an important role in such core@shell nanostructure systems2O4 core, CdS QDs shell and core@shell nanostructures of NiZnFe2O4/CdS with core being annealed at two different temperature 900 °C and 1100 °C respectively as presented in Fig. 2O4 annealed at 900 °C  and difference between observed and calculated profile (represented by the coloured line) have also been shown in Fig. a’) obtained from Rietveld refinement in case of pure ferrite and in core@shell structure are in agreement with the experimental results and the values are close to the some of the previously reported values19. However, ‘a’ in case of pure CdS is found to be larger in comparison to core/shell structures this is because of the tensile stress present in pure CdS but as we grow CdS QDs on ferrite core there will be generation of compressive strain that gives the ‘a’ near to standard values. The experimental data (colour spectra) is well matched with the refined data points (black spectra) for the cubic CdS QDs, spinel cubic phase of NiZnFe2O4 and the two mixed phases of core@shell nanostructures, with the space group of F-43m for CdS QDs and Fd-3m for NiZnFe2O4. The value of goodness of fit for all the samples was found to be near 1 which indicates toward the good fitting of data points. Rietveld refinement analysis ruled out the presence of any type of impurity in the nanostructures except in core/shell nanostructure where core has been annealed at 900 °C, have an extra peak which is found to be of ZnS. Therefore the Rietveld parameters found weaker in this specific sample in comparison to other nanostructures specifically in comparison to other core@shell structure. In case of core@shell nanostructures mixed cubic faces of core and shell have been achieved. Summary of results obtained by Rietveld refinement analysis were collected in Fig. The observed XRD spectra were refined by employing Rietveld refinement technique using the Full Prof software2O4, CdS QDs and their core@shell nanostructures have been recorded in order to study the optical behaviour of prepared structures  shows a shift in absorption toward lower wavelength side in case of core@shell nanostructures with NiZnFe2O4 being annealed at 900 °C  uses either first or higher derivative of absorbance with reference to wavelength for qualitative analysis and quantification. “The impression of derivative spectra data was presented first in the 1950s, when it was revealed to have many advantagesst order derivative is calculated as the rate of change of absorbance with respect to wavelength it begins and ends at zero. The main trait of the even-order derivatives is a “strong negative” or “positive band” with maximum or minimum at the same wavelength as λmax, of the absorbance band. An important point to note is that the numbers of bands observed in spectra are always equal to the derivative order plus one. Figure 2O4, CdS QDs and their core@shell nanostructures. In the double derivative graphs three peaks are clearly seen in each case, which is the clear indication of second order derivation where the bands observed are equal to derivative order plus one. In case of NiZnFe2O4 Fig. 2O4 loading   and NiZnFe2O4/CdS (1100 °C) bands positioned similarly (no shifting) and also presenting no presence of extra peak.Iing Fig.  some exting Fig.  some tra g) Fig.  where al2O4/CdS were recorded by dispersing the 0.02 mg/ml sample in the water and are shown in Fig. 2O4/CdS2 core@shell nanostructures and CdS2 QDs have been recorded with the excitation wavelength of 290 nm. Corresponding emission wavelengths and intensities of the peaks observed in PL for all the nanostructures have been summarized in Table 2O4/CdS nanostructures with different loading of NiZnFe2O4 core, in case of core@shell nanostructures with 0.2 g ferrite  loading  and of NiZnFe2O4 (1100 °C) with minimal ferrite loadings. The results revealed that the core@shell nanostructure prepared with 900 °C  are being presented in Fig. . The sto °C Fig.  annealed °C Fig.  annealed2O4 loading in the cases where core being annealed at 900 °C and 1100 °C. Figure 2O4, as compared to 900 °C annealed NiZnFe2O4 core. These sharp interfaces are due to the stability of core at high temperatures, which restricts the intermixing at the interface and we can see the clear black coloured core surrounded by the grey colour shell. Inset shows the zoomed image of core@shell nanostructures. The particle size distribution of core/shell nanostructures is also shown in Fig. 2O4 being annealed at two different temperatures. Both the patterns are showing the ring formation made up of small spots, every spot occurred from Bragg’s reflection from a single crystallite which is the clear indication of poly-nanocrystalline nature of core@shell nanostructures.HR-TEM analysis has been used to analyse the shape and size of the synthesized core@shell nanostructures. Investigation of the core@shell nanostructures is done with samples containing minimal NiZnFe2O4 annealed at two different temperatures 900 °C and 1100 °C and NiZnFe2O4/CdS core@shell nanoparticles have been measured. The magnetic hysteresis loop for core and core@shell nanostructures is illustrated in Fig. s), retentivity (Mr), coercivity (Hc),) magnetic anisotropy (K) and the magnetic moment (μB) are listed in Table s) of NiZnFe2O4 core annealed at two different temperatures 900 °C  and CdS QDs (shell) from Rietveld analysis shows the reduced fraction of core ferrite and this is in the coordination with decay in saturation magnetization with core@shell formation and is another proof of the core@shell formation. In spite of the decrease in magnetic nature of core@shell in NiZnFe2O4/CdS, the well preserved coercivity in the core@shell nanostructure is an excellent sign for their bio-applications26. From the Table 2O4 to NiZnFe2O4/CdS core@shell nanostructure this indicates about the intact core surface even after CdS QDs shell formation as if there is any increase in anisotropy it could result from the alloying of core@shell interface and can introduce adverse changes in the magnetic as well as optical properties of core@shell nanostructures. Moreover, Magnetic moment is calculated using the formula, μB = (MW × MS)/5585, where Mw is the molecular weight of compound and, MS is the magnetic saturation of respective sample. Variation of magnetic moment is tabulated in Table 27. Moreover, the core@shell nanostructures prepared using NiZnFe2O4 core annealed at 1100 °C which is the higher temperature is more stable and demonstrates the better suitability in terms of physical and chemical stability as seed material and hence possessing low anisotropy values. The coercivity values tend to decrease on increasing core ferrite loading, while the anisotropy values are decreasing with the increase of NiZnFe2O4 loading in the core@shell nanostructures prepared using NiZnFe2O4 (1100 °C) as core with varying CdS QD layers.In case of core@shell nanostructures with shell of CdS1, CdS2 and CdS4 at the room temperature the saturation magnetization was found to be in the range of 2.65 emu/g~0.48 emu/g respectively Fig. . The satFrom the graphs Fig. 2O4 there are major changes as compared to the 1100 °C  during the CdS QDs synthesis. The shell formation reaction which was employed in our synthesis mechanism consists of CdCl2, NH4Cl, and thiourea in molar ratio of 1:1.5:3. Firstly, salts of ammonium chloride and cadmium chloride were added in 50 ml of double distilled water with continuous stirring and heating. After that as the temperature reaches 70 °C ± 5 °C, ammonia solution was added drop wise to maintain the pH of solution 7.5, next as prepared NiZnFe2O4 was added and immediately after that thiourea and 2-mercaptoethanol were added. The reaction was continued for 3 hours with constant heating and stirring. Thereafter samples were cleaned and collected for further characterization. In the first set of samples we have synthesised the core@shell nanostructures with core annealed at 900 °C and in the second set of samples core annealed at 1100 °C. The core loading was 0.02 g, 0.1 g and 0.05 g and the different sized particle shell formed using 2-mercaptoethanol solution in different amount as CdS1, CdS2, and CdS4 are the CdS QDs prepared by adding 1 ml, 2 ml and 4 ml of 5% 2-mercaptoethanol solution in the process of CdS growth.We have employed the “seed growth method” to synthesise the core@shell nanostructure where NiZnFeα radiation within the scan range from 10°–80° with a scan speed of 2 degree/minute, operated at “40 kV and 30 mA”. Rietvel refinement has been performed to study the crystal structure using FULLPROF A. Absorption spectra have been recorded in the wavelength range 200 nm to 800 nm, using “Perkin Elmer Lambda 750 spectrophotometer”. “LS-55 spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)” has been used to record “photoluminescence (PL) “spectra in the range 350–550 nm at an excitation-wavelength of 290 nm at room temperature. Magnetic measurements have been obtained using “PAR-155 vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM)” in the range “−10 KOe to +10 KOe” at room temperature. High resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) were carried by using “FP 5022/22-Tecnai G2 20 S-TWIN model”. FT-IR analysis is done through “RX-IFTIR Perkin Elmer”.X-ray diffraction studies have been carried out using “Shimadzu 6000 diffractometer” equipped with Cu-KSupplemetary Data