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Preparation of asymmetric Janus hollow silica microparticle and its application on oily wastewaters

Janus nanoparticles have aroused the interest of scholars because of their highly efficient emulsification of spilled oils in wastewater. In this work, interfacially active Janus hollow glass microparticles (J...

Hailong Zhang, Ting Qu, Hairong Wang, Weixing Wu, Fangfang Lu… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

Extreme weather events threaten food security, yet global assessments of impacts caused by crop waterlogging are rare. Here we first develop a paradigm that distils common stress patterns across environments, ...

Ke Liu, Matthew Tom Harrison, Haoliang Yan, De Li Liu… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Author Correction: NLR surveillance of pathogen interference with hormone receptors induces immunity

**g Chen, Yanxiao Zhao, Xuanjie Luo, Hao Hong, Tongqing Yang, Shen Huang… in Nature (2023)

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A new model for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus based on rhythm regulations under the framework of psychosomatic medicine: a real-world study

We aimed to explore a new treatment model for type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) based on rhythm regulation under the framework of psychosomatic medicine. Using psychotropics as rhythm regulators, 178 patients with...

Wenjiao Min, Xueli Sun, Nie Tang, Yaoyin Zhang, Fang Luo, Min Zhu… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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A gradient oxy-thiophosphate-coated Ni-rich layered oxide cathode for stable all-solid-state Li-ion batteries

High-energy Ni-rich layered oxide cathode materials such as LiNi_0.8Mn_0.1Co_0.1O₂ (NMC811) suffer from detrimental side reactions and interfacial structural instability when coupled with sulfide solid-state electro...

Jianwen Liang, Yuanmin Zhu, **aona Li, **g Luo, Sixu Deng… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Ordovician–Silurian true polar wander as a mechanism for severe glaciation and mass extinction

The Ordovician–Silurian transition experienced severe, but enigmatic, glaciation, as well as a paradoxical combination of mass extinction and species origination. Here we report a large and fast true polar wan...

**anqing **g, Zhenyu Yang, Ross N. Mitchell, Yabo Tong, Min Zhu… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Recurrent neural network based high-precision position compensation control of magnetic levitation system

For improving the dynamic quality and steady-state performance, the hybrid controller based on recurrent neural network (RNN) is designed to implement the position control of the magnetic levitation ball syste...

Zhiwen Huang, Jianmin Zhu, Jiajie Shao, Zhouxiang Wei, Jiawei Tang in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Achieving low-power single-wavelength-pair nanoscopy with NIR-II continuous-wave laser for multi-chromatic probes

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is a powerful diffraction-unlimited technique for fluorescence imaging. Despite its rapid evolution, STED fundamentally suffers from high-intensity light illumin...

**n Guo, Rui Pu, Zhimin Zhu, Shuqian Qiao, Yusen Liang… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Distributed adaptive fixed-time neural networks control for nonaffine nonlinear multiagent systems

This paper, with the adaptive backstep** technique, presents a novel fixed-time neural networks leader–follower consensus tracking control scheme for a class of nonaffine nonlinear multiagent systems. The ex...

Yang Li, Quanmin Zhu, Jianhua Zhang in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Dual functions of microRNA-17 in maintaining cartilage homeostasis and protection against osteoarthritis

Damaged hyaline cartilage has no capacity for self-healing, making osteoarthritis (OA) “difficult-to-treat”. Cartilage destruction is central to OA patho-etiology and is mediated by matrix degrading enzymes. H...

Yun Zhang, Shuaijun Li, Peisheng **, Ting Shang, Ruizhu Sun… in Nature Communications (2022)

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The rapid evolution of lungfish durophagy

Innovations relating to the consumption of hard prey are implicated in ecological shifts in marine ecosystems as early as the mid-Paleozoic. Lungfishes represent the first and longest-ranging lineage of duroph...

**ndong Cui, Matt Friedman, Tuo Qiao, Yilun Yu, Min Zhu in Nature Communications (2022)

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A fully automatic AI system for tooth and alveolar bone segmentation from cone-beam CT images

Accurate delineation of individual teeth and alveolar bones from dental cone-beam CT (CBCT) images is an essential step in digital dentistry for precision dental healthcare. In this paper, we present an AI sys...

Zhiming Cui, Yu Fang, Lanzhuju Mei, Bojun Zhang, Bo Yu… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Construction and validation of a nomogram for non small cell lung cancer patients with liver metastases based on a population analysis

Lung cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the United States, and the common metastatic sites in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are bone, brain, adrenal gland, and liver, respectively, ...

Ruhan Zhao, Yunnan Dai, **nyang Li, Cuimin Zhu in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Isolation of rhizosheath and analysis of microbial community structure around roots of Stipa grandis

Root zone microbial structure is particularly complex in plants with rhizosheaths, and greater understanding of the rhizosheath may play an important role in the future development of sustainable agricultural ...

Ai-Min Zhu, Qian Wu, Hai-Li Liu, Hai-Lian Sun, Guo-Dong Han in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Neural network compensation control of magnetic levitation ball position based on fuzzy inference

Aiming at the problem of poor transient performance of the control system caused by the control uncertainty of the undertrained neural network, a neural network compensation control method based on fuzzy infer...

Jiawei Tang, Zhiwen Huang, Yidan Zhu, Jianmin Zhu in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Complete model-free sliding mode control (CMFSMC)

This study presents a complete model-free sliding mode control (CMFSMC) framework for the control of continuous-time non-affine nonlinear dynamic systems with unknown models. The novelty lies in the introducti...

Quanmin Zhu in Scientific Reports (2021)

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mTOR-mediated phosphorylation of VAMP8 and SCFD1 regulates autophagosome maturation

The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTORC1) has been shown to regulate autophagy at different steps. However, how mTORC1 regulates the N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive protein receptor (SNARE) complex remains elusive...

Hong Huang, Qinqin Ouyang, Min Zhu, Haijia Yu, Kunrong Mei… in Nature Communications (2021)

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A new opportunity for the emerging tellurium semiconductor: making resistive switching devices

The development of the resistive switching cross-point array as the next-generation platform for high-density storage, in-memory computing and neuromorphic computing heavily relies on the improvement of the tw...

Yifei Yang, Mingkun Xu, Shu**g Jia, Bolun Wang, Lujie Xu… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Avalanches and edge-of-chaos learning in neuromorphic nanowire networks

The brain’s efficient information processing is enabled by the interplay between its neuro-synaptic elements and complex network structure. This work reports on the neuromorphic dynamics of nanowire networks (...

Joel Hochstetter, Ruomin Zhu, Alon Loeffler, Adrian Diaz-Alvarez… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Information dynamics in neuromorphic nanowire networks

Neuromorphic systems comprised of self-assembled nanowires exhibit a range of neural-like dynamics arising from the interplay of their synapse-like electrical junctions and their complex network topology. Addi...

Ruomin Zhu, Joel Hochstetter, Alon Loeffler, Adrian Diaz-Alvarez… in Scientific Reports (2021)