Yi, Peiyun Zhang, Weixin Bi, Feifei Peng, Linfa Lai, Xinmin
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ACS applied materials & interfaces
Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells are one kind of renewable and clean energy conversion device, whose metallic bipolar plates are one of the key components. However, high interfacial contact resistance and poor corrosion resistance are still great challenges for the commercialization of metallic bipolar plates. In this study, we demonstrated a no...
Xi, Xia Liu, Jing-Mei Guo, Jun-Ying
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International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
Background: The balance between T helper 17 (Th17) and regulatory T cells (Treg) is a new paradigm in asthma pathogenesis, but no therapeutic targets could modulate the Th17/Treg balance specifically for asthma. Since previous studies have shown the programmed cell death-1(PD-1)/PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1) pathway is critical to immune homeostasis in this ...
Gregg, L. Parker Tio, Maria Clarissa Li, Xilong Adams-Huet, Beverley de Lemos, James A. Hedayati, S. Susan
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American Journal of Nephrology
Background: Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a marker of inflammation and monocyte recruitment to atherosclerotic plaques, is associated with cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Although plasma levels are elevated in chronic kidney disease (CKD), associations with reduced kidney function or outcomes in...
Lin, Yujia Jia, Junya Guo, Yipeng He, Dandan Zhang, Yaru Wang, Fuzhen Yan, Tiekun Liu, Youxia Lin, Shan
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American Journal of Nephrology
Background: IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a common chronic glomerular disease that, in most patients, slowly progresses to end-stage kidney disease. The therapy with corticosteroid in IgAN is still a worldwide problem that is confusing the clinicians. Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and article reference lists were searched for randomiz...
Chen, Wenwei Zhuang, Yixi Wang, Le Lv, Ying Liu, Jianbin Zhou, Tian-Liang Xie, Rong-Jun
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ACS applied materials & interfaces
Luminescent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) (typically dye-encapsulated MOFs) are considered as one kind of interesting downconversion materials for white-light-emitting diodes (LEDs), but their quantum efficiency (QE) is not sufficient and thus needs to be significantly enhanced for practical applications. In this study, we successfully synthesize...
Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Wenfei Lin, Chao-Nan Ren, Pengpeng Lu, Ying-Jie Shan, Chongxin Yu, Siu Fung
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ACS applied materials & interfaces
Room-temperature upconversion emission up to eight-photon absorption is demonstrated from diamond single crystals under femtosecond laser excitation for the first time. The low concentration of defects and impurities is attributed to the support of free excitons emission at 235 nm. Nonlinear optical properties are also investigated by using an open...
Peng, Yao Lei, Jian Qiu, Renhua Peng, Lingteng Au, Chak-Tong Yin, Shuang-Feng
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Organic & biomolecular chemistry
A protocol for the chelation-assisted C-N cross-coupling of phosphinamides and aryl boronic acids with copper powder under an oxygen atmosphere is reported. This reaction proceeds efficiently to afford fully substituted unsymmetrical N-arylation phosphinamides at room temperature in excellent yields. Diverse unstable functional groups on the benzen...
Ma, Qin-Ge Wei, Rong-Rui Yang, Ming Huang, Xiao-Ying Wang, Fang Sang, Zhi-Pei Liu, Wen-Min Yu, Qing
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Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
Cucumis bisexualis (Cucurbitaceae) is known as "mapao egg" or "muskmelon egg", which has been widely used as a wild melon in Chinese folk. Nine new coumarin derivatives (1-9), named 7-hydroxy-3-(4',6'-dihydroxy-5'-isopropyl-3″,3″-dimethyl-2 H-chromen)-6-prenyl-2 H-chro-men-2-one (1), 7-hydroxy-3-(5'-prenyl-3″,3″-dimethyl-2 H-chromen)-6-prenyl-2 H-c...
Rangnoi, Kuntalee Choowongkomon, Kiattawee O'Kennedy, Richard Rüker, Florian Yamabhai, Montarop
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Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
A human antiaflatoxin B1 (AFB1) scFv antibody (yAFB1-c3), selected from a naı̈ve human phage-displayed scFv library, was used as a template for improving and analysis of antibody-ligand interactions using the chain-shuffling technique. The variable-heavy and variable-light (VH/VL)-shuffled library was constructed from the VH of 25 preselected clone...
He, Changfei Shi, Shaowei Wu, Xuefei Russell, Thomas P Wang, Dong
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
The interfacial broadening between two different epoxy networks having different moduli was nanomechanically mapped. The interfacial broadening of the two networks produced an interfacial zone having a gradient in the concentration and, hence, properties of the original two networks. This interfacial broadening of the networks leads to the generati...
