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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39137323

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Carbonate-based electrolytes show distinct advantages in high-voltage cathodes but generate nonuniform and mechanically fragile solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) in lithium (Li) metal batteries. Herein, we propose a LiF-rich SEI incorporating an in situ polymerized poly(hexamethylene diisocyanate)-based gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) to improve the homogeneity and mechanical stability of SEI. Fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) as a fluorine-based additive for building LiF-rich SEI on Li metal electrodes. With this strategy, the assembled Li symmetric batteries cycled stably for 700 h, and the formation of byproducts on the Li electrode surface was significantly inhibited. The Li/LiFePO4 battery delivered significant capacity retention (91% retention after 800 cycles) at 1 C. With high-voltage LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 (NCM811) as cathode, the Li/GPE-FEC/NCM811 cell delivered a discharge capacity of 168.9 mAh g-1 with a capacity retention of 82% after 300 cycles at 0.5 C. From the above, the work could assist the rapid development of high-energy-density rechargeable Li metal batteries toward remarkable performance.

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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ; : e202407149, 2024 Jul 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38949229

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a concise, asymmetric and stereodivergent total synthesis of tacaman alkaloids. A key step in this synthesis is the biocatalytic Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone, which was developed to produce seven-membered lactones and establish the required stereochemistry at the C14 position (92 % yield, 99 % ee, 500 mg scale). Cis- and trans-tetracyclic indoloquinolizidine scaffolds were rapidly synthesized through an acid-triggered, tunable acyl-Pictet-Spengler type cyclization cascade, serving as the pivotal reaction for building the alkaloid skeleton. Computational results revealed that hydrogen bonding was crucial in stabilizing intermediates and inducing different addition reactions during the acyl-Pictet-Spengler cyclization cascade. By strategically using these two reactions and the late-stage diversification of the functionalized indoloquinolizidine core, the asymmetric total syntheses of eight tacaman alkaloids were achieved. This study may potentially advance research related to the medicinal chemistry of tacaman alkaloids.

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Adv Sci (Weinh) ; 11(32): e2403870, 2024 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38899831

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Guided nanowires grown on polymer surfaces facilitate their seamless integration as flexible devices without post-growth processing steps. However, this is challenging due to the inability of polymer films to provide the required lattice-matching effect. In this work, this challenge is addressed by replicating highly aligned nanogrooves from a compact disc (CD) onto a casted flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. Leveraging the replicated nanogrooves, copper hexadecafluorophthalocyanine (F16CuPc) and various metal phthalocyanines are guided into large-area, self-aligned nanowires. Subsequently, by employing specifically designed shadow masks during electrode deposition, these nanowires are seamlessly integrated as either a monolithic flexible photodetector with a large sensing area or on-chip flexible photodetector arrays. The resulting flexible photodetectors exhibit millisecond and long-term stable response to UV-vis-NIR light. Notably, they demonstrate exceptional bending stability, retaining stable and sensitive photoresponse even at a curvature radius as low as 0.5 cm and after enduring 1000 bending cycles. Furthermore, the photodetector array showcases consistent sensitivity and response speed across the entire array. This work not only proves the viability of guided nanowire growth on flexible polymer surfaces by replicating CD nanogrooves but also underscores the potential for large-scale monolithic integration of guided nanowires as flexible devices.

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J Neuroimmune Pharmacol ; 19(1): 31, 2024 Jun 18.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38886223

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Neuroinflammation is a key factor in cognitive dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), so inhibiting neuroinflammation is considered as a potential treatment for AD. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a polyhydroxyphenol of green tea, has been found to exhibit anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the inhibitory effect of EGCG on inflammation and its mechanism. In this study, BV2 cells were simultaneously exposed to lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and the amyloid-ß oligomer (AßO) to induce inflammatory microenvironments. Inflammatory cytokines and NLRP3 inflammasome-related molecules were detected by RT-PCR and Western Blot. The results show that EGCG inhibits LPS/AßO-induced inflammation in BV2 cells through regulating IL-1ß, IL-6, and TNF-α. Meanwhile, EGCG reduces the activation of the NOD-, LRR-, and pyrin domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome and levels of intracellular ROS in BV2 cells treated with LPS/AßO by affecting the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). Further research found that EGCG inhibited MMP through regulating thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) in LPS/AßO-induced neuroinflammation. In conclusion, EGCG may alleviate LPS/AßO-induced microglial neuroinflammation by suppressing the ROS/ TXNIP/ NLRP3 pathway. It may provide a potential mechanism underlying the anti-inflammatory properties of EGCG for alleviating AD.


Subject(s)
Amyloid beta-Peptides , Carrier Proteins , Catechin , Lipopolysaccharides , NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein , Neuroinflammatory Diseases , Reactive Oxygen Species , Signal Transduction , Catechin/analogs & derivatives , Catechin/pharmacology , NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein/metabolism , Lipopolysaccharides/toxicity , Animals , Amyloid beta-Peptides/toxicity , Mice , Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , Signal Transduction/drug effects , Neuroinflammatory Diseases/drug therapy , Neuroinflammatory Diseases/metabolism , Cell Line , Thioredoxins/metabolism , Microglia/drug effects , Microglia/metabolism
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Nat Commun ; 15(1): 1672, 2024 Feb 23.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38395923

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The practical applications of solar-driven water splitting pivot on significant advances that enable scalable production of robust photoactive films. Here, we propose a proof-of-concept for fabricating robust photoactive films by a particle-implanting technique (PiP) which embeds semiconductor photoabsorbers in the liquid metal. The strong semiconductor/metal interaction enables resulting films efficient collection of photogenerated charges and superior photoactivity. A photoanode of liquid-metal embraced BiVO4 can stably operate over 120 h and retain ~ 70% of activity when scaled from 1 to 64 cm2. Furthermore, a Z-scheme photocatalyst film of liquid-metal embraced BiVO4 and Rh-doped SrTiO3 particles can drive overall water splitting under visible light, delivering an activity 2.9 times higher than that of the control film with gold support and a 110 h stability. These results demonstrate the advantages of the PiP technique in constructing robust and efficient photoactive films for artificial photosynthesis.

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ACS Nano ; 18(8): 6413-6423, 2024 Feb 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38349943

ABSTRACT

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries emerge as a promising energy storage system with merits of high security, abundance, and being environmentally benign. But the low operating voltages of aqueous electrolytes restrict their energy densities. Previous reports have mostly focused on modifying the electrolytes to enlarge the operating voltages of aqueous zinc-ion batteries. However, either extra-expensive salts or potential safety hazards of organic additives are considered to be adverse for practical large-scale applications. Here, a proof-of-concept to enlarge the operating voltage of an aqueous zinc-ion battery by incorporating a well-designed semiconductor photocathode is proposed, which produces a photovoltage (Vph) across the semiconductor/liquid junction (SCLJ) interface to elevate the output voltage of zinc-ion battery under irradiation. The operating voltage of an aqueous zinc-ion battery can be markedly raised from 1.78 (thermodynamic limit) to 2.4 V when a BiOI nanoflake array photocathode with good surface modification is introduced, achieving a round-trip efficiency of 114.3% and a 34.8% increase of energy density compared to the theoretical value. The successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction modified surface effectively passivates surface trap defects of the BiOI photocathode and thus enlarges its Vph from 60 to 240 mV under irradiation. This study provides a design to enlarge the output voltages of aqueous zinc-ion batteries and other energy storage systems, providing insight into widening the voltage window, which is that the operating voltages are determined by photocathode under irradiation and not restricted by the electrochemical stability window of dilute aqueous electrolytes.

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Toxicology ; 502: 153717, 2024 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38160928

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Lead (Pb) is an environmental neurotoxic metal. Chronic Pb exposure causes behavioral changes in humans and rodents, such as dysfunctional learning and memory. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether Pb exposure disrupts the neural circuit. Thus, here we aim at investigating the effects the chronic Pb exposure on neural-behavioral and neural circuits in mice from prenatal to postnatal day (PND) 63. Pregnant mice and their male offspring were treated with Pb (150 ppm) until postnatal day 63. In this study, several behavior tests and Golgi-Cox staining methods were used to assess spatial memory ability and synaptogenesis. Virus-based tracing systems and immunohistochemistry assays were used to test the relevance of chronic Pb exposure with disrupted neural circuits. The behavioral experiments and Golgi-Cox staining results showed that Pb exposure impaired spatial memory and spine density in mice. The virus tracing results revealed that the Entorhinal cortex (EC) neurons could be directly projected to Cornuammonis 1 (CA1) and Dentate gyrus (DG), forming a critical circuit inhibited, in either a direct or indirect way, by Pb invasion. In addition, excitatory neural input from EC(labeled with CaMKII)to CA1 and DG was significantly attenuated by Pb exposure. In conclusion, our data indicated that Pb significantly impaired the excitatory connections from EC to the hippocampus (CA1 and DG), providing a novel neuro-circuitry basis for Pb neurotoxicity.


Subject(s)
Hippocampus , Lead , Pregnancy , Female , Humans , Mice , Animals , Male , Lead/toxicity , Nervous System , Spatial Memory , Neurons
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J Nutr ; 153(9): 2561-2570, 2023 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37543214

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: In early life, sialic acid (SA) plays a crucial role in neurodevelopment and neuronal function. However, it remains unclear whether and how SA supplementation in early life promotes behavioral response to stress in adolescence. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the effects and mechanisms of SA on the antistress capability under challenging situations. METHODS: In this study, C57BL/6 mice were daily supplemented with 1 µL SA solution/g body weight at the dose of 10 mg/kg/d from postnatal day (PND) 5-45. The antistress behaviors, including open field, elevated plus maze, forced swimming test, and tail suspension test, were performed at PND 46, PND 48, PND 50, and PND 52 to detect the antistress ability of SA, respectively. RESULTS: Our results showed that SA-treated mice were more active in facing challenging situations. The fiber photometry experiment showed that SA promoted the excitatory neuronal response in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), which was extensively interconnected to stress. Besides, electrophysiological results revealed SA enhanced synaptic transmission rather than neuronal excitability of mPFC excitatory neurons. It was also supported by the increasing spine density of mPFC excitatory neurons. At the molecular amount, the SA elevated the transmitter release-related proteins of mPFC, including Synapsin 1 and vesicular glutamate transporter 1 (VGlut 1). Furthermore, SA supplementation enhanced synaptic transmission mainly by altering the kinetics of synaptic transmission. CONCLUSIONS: The SA supplementation enhanced the response capability to stress under challenging situations, and the enhanced synaptic transmission of mPFC excitatory neurons may be the neurological basis of active response under challenging situations. In general, our findings suggested that SA supplementation in early life can promote stress resistance in adolescence.


Subject(s)
N-Acetylneuraminic Acid , Synaptic Transmission , Mice , Animals , N-Acetylneuraminic Acid/pharmacology , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Synaptic Transmission/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Prefrontal Cortex/physiology
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 15(28): 34303-34310, 2023 Jul 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37419496

ABSTRACT

Aqueous aluminum (Al) metal batteries (AMBs) have received much attention due to their high volumetric energy density, low cost, and high safety. However, the practical application of aqueous AMBs is limited by the electrochemical reversibility of the Al anode, which is often deteriorated by corrosion. Herein, we developed a dense passivation layer based on Mn/Ti/Zr compounds on the Al metal anode by a rapid surface passivation strategy. The passivation layer can effectively uniform Al deposition, increase corrosion resistance, and significantly enhance the cycling stability of Al anodes in both symmetric and full cells. Symmetric cells assembled with the treated Al electrodes exhibit stable cycling for over 300 cycles at 0.1 mA cm-2 and 0.05 mA h cm-2, and a 600-cycle life is achieved for a prototype full cell. This work provides a versatile remedy for the limited cycle life of Al metal anodes for rechargeable aqueous batteries.

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Food Chem Toxicol ; 178: 113821, 2023 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37269892

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Lead (Pb) is a pervasive heavy metal with multi-organ toxicity. However, the molecular mechanisms of Pb-induced neurotoxicity are not fully understood. The dynamics of N6-methylademine (m6A) is an emerging regulatory mechanism for gene expression, which is closely related to nervous system diseases. To elucidate the association between m6A modification and Pb-mediated neurotoxicity, primary hippocampal neurons exposed to 5 µM Pb for 48 h were used as the paradigm neurotoxic model in this study. According to the results, Pb exposure reprogrammed the transcription spectrum. Simultaneously, Pb exposure remodeled the transcriptome-wide distribution of m6A while disrupting the overall level of m6A in cellular transcripts. United analysis of MeRIP-Seq and RNA-Seq was applied to further identify the core genes whose expression levels are regulated by m6A in the process of lead-induced nerve injury. GO and KEGG analysis unveiled that the modified transcripts were overrepresented by the PI3K-AKT pathway. Mechanically, we elucidated the regulatory role of the methyltransferase like3 (METTL3) in the process of lead-induced neurotoxicity and the downregulation of the PI3K-AKT pathway. In conclusion, our novel findings shed new light on the functional roles of m6A modification in the expressional alternations of downstream transcripts caused by lead, providing an innovative molecular basis to explain Pb neurotoxicity.


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Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/genetics , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics , Lead/toxicity , Methyltransferases/metabolism , Neurons/metabolism
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Molecules ; 28(12)2023 Jun 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37375254

ABSTRACT

We provide a method to regulate intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) through distorting fragment dipole moments based on molecular planarity and intuitively investigate the physical mechanisms of one-photon absorption (OPA), two-photon absorption (TPA), and electron circular dichroism (ECD) properties of the multichain 1,3,5 triazine derivatives o-Br-TRZ, m-Br-TRZ, and p-Br-TRZ containing three bromobiphenyl units. As the position of the C-Br bond on the branch chain becomes farther away, the molecular planarity is weakened, with the position of charge transfer (CT) on the branch chain of bromobiphenyl changing. The excitation energy of the excited states decreases, which leads to the redshift of the OPA spectrum of 1,3,5-triazine derivatives. The decrease in molecular plane results in a change in the magnitude and direction of the molecular dipole moment on the bromobiphenyl branch chain, which weakens the intramolecular electrostatic interaction of bromobiphenyl branch chain 1,3,5-triazine derivatives and weakens the charge transfer excitation of the second step transition in TPA, leading to an increase in the enhanced absorption cross-section. Furthermore, molecular planarity can also induce and regulate chiral optical activity through changing the direction of the transition magnetic dipole moment. Our visualization method helps to reveal the physical mechanism of TPA cross-sections generated via third-order nonlinear optical materials in photoinduced CT, which is of great significance for the design of large TPA molecules.

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Math Biosci Eng ; 20(4): 6838-6852, 2023 02 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37161130

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak of December 2019 has become a serious threat to people around the world, creating a health crisis that infected millions of lives, as well as destroying the global economy. Early detection and diagnosis are essential to prevent further transmission. The detection of COVID-19 computed tomography images is one of the important approaches to rapid diagnosis. Many different branches of deep learning methods have played an important role in this area, including transfer learning, contrastive learning, ensemble strategy, etc. However, these works require a large number of samples of expensive manual labels, so in order to save costs, scholars adopted semi-supervised learning that applies only a few labels to classify COVID-19 CT images. Nevertheless, the existing semi-supervised methods focus primarily on class imbalance and pseudo-label filtering rather than on pseudo-label generation. Accordingly, in this paper, we organized a semi-supervised classification framework based on data augmentation to classify the CT images of COVID-19. We revised the classic teacher-student framework and introduced the popular data augmentation method Mixup, which widened the distribution of high confidence to improve the accuracy of selected pseudo-labels and ultimately obtain a model with better performance. For the COVID-CT dataset, our method makes precision, F1 score, accuracy and specificity 21.04%, 12.95%, 17.13% and 38.29% higher than average values for other methods respectively, For the SARS-COV-2 dataset, these increases were 8.40%, 7.59%, 9.35% and 12.80% respectively. For the Harvard Dataverse dataset, growth was 17.64%, 18.89%, 19.81% and 20.20% respectively. The codes are available at https://github.com/YutingBai99/COVID-19-SSL.


Subject(s)
COVID-19 , Humans , COVID-19/diagnostic imaging , COVID-19/epidemiology , SARS-CoV-2 , Databases, Factual , Disease Outbreaks , Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 665: 71-77, 2023 07 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37149985

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People of all ages could suffer from sleep disorders, which are increasingly recognized as common manifestations of neurologic disease. Acorus tatarinowii is a herb that has been used in traditional medicine to promote sleep. ß-asarone, as the main component of volatile oil obtained from Acorus tatarinowii, may be the main contributor to the sleeping-promoting efficacy of Acorus tatarinowii. In the study, adult male C57BL/6 mice were administered ß-asarone at 12.5 mg/kg, 25 mg/kg, and 50 mg/kg. Behavioral experiments showed that ß-asarone at 25 mg/kg could significantly improve sleep duration. It was also observed that the proportion of NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) sleep increased considerably after administration of ß-asarone. In the PVN (paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus) region of the hypothalamus, it was observed that the glutamate content decreased after ß-asarone treatment. At the same time, the expression of VGLUT2 (vesicular glutamate transporters 2) decreased while the expression of GAD65 (glutamic acid decarboxylase 65) and GABARAP (GABA Type A Receptor-Associated Protein) increased in the hypothalamus, suggesting that ß-asarone may suppress arousal by reducing glutamate and promoting transformation of glutamate to the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid). This study is the first to focus on the association between ß-asarone and sleep, shedding perspectives for pharmacological applications of ß-asarone and providing a new direction for future research.


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Glutamic Acid , Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus , Male , Mice , Animals , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Sleep , Anisoles/pharmacology , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
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IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform ; 20(3): 2254-2265, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37022218

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Clustering cells into subgroups plays a critical role in single cell-based analyses, which facilitates to reveal cell heterogeneity and diversity. Due to the ever-increasing scRNA-seq data and low RNA capture rate, it has become challenging to cluster high-dimensional and sparse scRNA-seq data. In this study, we propose a single-cell Multi-Constraint deep soft K-means Clustering(scMCKC) framework. Based on zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) model-based autoencoder, scMCKC constructs a novel cell-level compactness constraint by considering association between similar cell, to emphasize the compactness between clusters. Besides, scMCKC utilizes pairwise constraint encoded by prior information to guide clustering. Meanwhile, a weighted soft K-means algorithm is leveraged to determine the cell populations, which assigns the label based on affinity between data and clustering center. Experiments on eleven scRNA-seq datasets demonstrate that scMCKC is superior to the state-of-the-art methods and notably improves cluster performance. Moreover, we validate the robustness on human kidney dataset, which demonstrates that scMCKC exhibits comprehensively excellent performance on clustering analysis. The ablation study on eleven datasets proves that the novel cell-level compactness constraint is conductive to the clustering results.


Subject(s)
Algorithms , Single-Cell Gene Expression Analysis , Humans , Sequence Analysis, RNA/methods , RNA-Seq/methods , Cluster Analysis , Single-Cell Analysis/methods , Gene Expression Profiling/methods
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Small Methods ; 7(3): e2201611, 2023 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36605012

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BiVO4 as a promising semiconductor candidate of the photoanode for solar driven water oxidation always suffers from poor charge carrier transport property and photo-induced self-corrosion. Herein, by intentionally taking advantage of the photo-induced self-corrosion process, a controllable photochemical etching method is developed to rationally construct a photoanode of BiVO4 /BiOx asymmetric heterojunction from faceted BiVO4 crystal arrays. Compared with the BiVO4 photoanode, the resulting BiVO4 /BiOx photoanode gains over three times enhancement in short-circuit photocurrent density (≈3.2 mA cm-2 ) and ≈75 mV negative shift of photocurrent onset potential. This is due to the formation of the strong interacted homologous heterojunction, which promotes photo-carrier separation and enlarges photovoltage across the interface. Remarkably, the photocurrent density can remain at ≈2.0 mA cm-2 even after 12 h consecutive operation, while only ≈0.1 mA cm-2 is left for the control photoanode of BiVO4 . Moreover, the Faraday efficiency for water splitting is determined to be nearly 100% for the BiVO4 /BiOx photoanode. The controllable photochemical etching process may shed light on the construction of homologous heterojunction on other photoelectrode materials that have similar properties to BiVO4 .

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Sci Bull (Beijing) ; 67(23): 2420-2427, 2022 Dec 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36566065

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Semiconductor heterostructures mediated by electrical conductors are very promising for Z-scheme photocatalytic water splitting. In contrast to conventional particulate heterostructures, alternate TiO2 and Cu2O film stripes patterned parallel on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive substrate was fabricated as a model film photocatalyst to study the characteristics of the photogenerated charge transfer process. The Z-scheme transfer process with an effective transport distance of up to 5 µm occurs only in regions distant from the TiO2/Cu2O strip edges through the FTO substrate from the bottom. In contrast, the transfer of charge around their contact regions follows the conventional transfer process through the TiO2/Cu2O strip interface. These results indicate that the Z-scheme transfer process occurring in such a large region dominates the charge transfer processes in the TiO2/FTO/Cu2O pattern film heterostructure. Importantly, unlike the single component film, which is inactive for photocatalytic overall water splitting, the modified TiO2/Cu2O pattern film can induce photocatalytic overall water splitting at a stoichiometric H2/O2 ratio close to 2:1. These findings have significant implications in designing efficient heterostructures by employing a Z-scheme charge transfer process.

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Molecules ; 27(19)2022 Oct 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36235063

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Many novel physical properties of twisted bilayer graphene have been discovered and studied successively, but the physical mechanism of the chiral modulation of BLG by a twisted angle lacks theoretical research. In this work, the density functional theory, the wavefunction analysis of the excited state, and the quantum theory of atoms in molecules are used to calculate and analyze the anti-symmetric chiral characteristics of zigzag-edge twisted bilayer graphene quantum dots based on periodic complementary twisted angles. The analysis of the partial density of states shows that Moiré superlattices can effectively adjust the contribution of the atomic basis function of the fragment to the transition dipole moment. The topological analysis of electron density indicates that the Moiré superlattices structure can enhance the localization of the system, increasing the electron density of the Moiré central ring, reducing the electron surge capacity in general and inducing the reversed helical properties of the top and underlying graphene, which can be used as the origin of the chiral discrimination; it also reveals the mole in the superlattice chiral physical mechanism. On this basis, we will also study the nonlinear optical properties of twisted bilayer graphene based on a twisted angle.

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Nanoscale ; 14(41): 15269-15274, 2022 Oct 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36218176

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We demonstrated a method to increase the discharge voltages of zinc-iodine batteries by introducing a p-type semiconductor photocathode to trigger the photoelectrochemical reduction reaction of the cathode redox. Accordingly, the photogenerated voltage across the semiconductor/liquid junction interface would be added to the discharge voltages of zinc-iodine batteries, realizing a discharge voltage (1.49 V) exceeding the theoretical value (1.30 V) under illumination, which is equivalent to an energy density increase of 31% compared to that of zinc-iodine batteries under dark conditions.

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J Alzheimers Dis Rep ; 6(1): 195-206, 2022.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35591951

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Background: The number of people with diabetes is increasing, and many patients have significantly impaired cognitive function. For patients with diabetic encephalopathy (DE), simply lowering blood sugar does not improve learning and memory. Studies have shown that ß-asarone can significantly improve cognitive impairment in patients with DE, but the specific mechanism of action is unclear. Objective: This experiment hopes to use a variety of experimental methods to clarify the protective effect and mechanism of ß-asarone on brain neurons during the development of DE disease. Methods: A high-sugar and high-fat diet and streptozotocin injection-induced DE rat model was used. ß-asarone was administered for four weeks. The experiment used the Morris water maze test, biochemical index detection, and many methods to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of ß-asarone on DE rats from various aspects and understand its mechanism. Results: ß-asarone reduced neuronal cell damage and significantly improved the learning and memory ability of DE rats. In addition, ß-asarone can reduce the oxidative stress response and amyloid-ß accumulation in the brain of DE model rats and increase the content of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the brain tissue, thereby reducing neuronal cell apoptosis and playing a protective role. Conclusion: ß-asarone can reduce the accumulation of oxidative stress and amyloid-ß in the brain, increase the content of BDNF, reduce the apoptosis of neuronal cells, and exert neuronal protection, thereby improving the learning and memory ability of DE model rats.

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Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc ; 271: 120894, 2022 Apr 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35104743

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In this paper, one-photon absorption (OPA) spectrum and two-photon absorption (TPA) spectrum and its electronic excitation, charge transfer, partial density of states (PDOS) and magnetic induction current density of zigzag edge twisted bilayer graphene quantum dots (Z-TwBLG-QDs) with different twisted angles which were divide into two pattern of Moiré superlatrate (MS) are qualitativly and quantitativly analyed by using density functional theory (DFT), excited state wave function, single electron approximation, and gauge-invariant atomic orbital (GIAO) method. The inter-layer local excitation in the electronic transition and intra-layer charge transfer dominated by MS and anti-symmetric electron-hole pair density induced by PDOS are discussed. The twisted angle is decisive to the absorption spectrum, large twisted angle will lead to the red shift of the absorption spectrum. The two-photon transition shows that the twisted angle can regulate the TPA cross section and the boundary effect of Z-TwBLG-QDs in a specific wavelength range. The edge effect of two-step transition can be enhanced by MS with specific twisted angles. The physical mechanism of twisted angle regulating electron transition behavior is revealed by magnetic induction current density analysis.

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