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Bioinspired Double-stranded Yarn with Alternating Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Patterns for High-efficiency Fog Collection
Efforts to develop innovative water harvesting strategies offer powerful solutions to alleviate the water crisis, especially in remote and arid areas. Inspired by the hydrophobic/hydrophilic pattern of desert ...
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Hydrophobic long-chain two-dimensional perovskite scintillators for underwater X-ray imaging
The underwater X-ray imaging technology development is significant to subaqueous target reconnaissance/detection/identification, subfluvial archaeology, submerged resource exploration, etc. As the core of X-ra...
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Three-dimensional architecture using hollow Cu/C nanofiber interpenetrated with MXenes for high-rate lithium-ion batteries
Improving the electron/ion transport ability and alleviating expansion during charging/discharging processes are vital for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In this work, a three-dimensional anode was fabricated u...
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Okra-Like Multichannel TiO@NC Fibers Membrane with Spatial and Chemical Restriction on Shuttle-Effect for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
It is especially important to coordinately design the structure and composition of the host in lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) for improving its physicochemical adsorption and conversion of lithium polysulfide...
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Progress of Fabrication and Applications of Electrospun Hierarchically Porous Nanofibers
In recent years, electrospun nanofibers have attracted great attention for their facile adjustable structure, morphology feature and chemical composition. Especially, significant interest has been devoted to t...
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Electrospinning Janus Nanofibrous Membrane for Unidirectional Liquid Penetration and Its Applications
Janus membrane with opposite wettability on its two sides has witnessed an explosion of interest in the field of liquid spontaneous and directional transport for their promising prospect. The advances in fabric.....
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Bioinspired membranes for multi-phase liquid and molecule separation
Water pollution is a serious problem around the world. It causes the lack of clean drinking water and brings risks to human health. Membrane technology has become a competitive candidate to treat the contamina...
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Open AccessBioinspired graphene membrane with temperature tunable channels for water gating and molecular separation
Smart regulation of substance permeability through porous membranes is highly desirable for membrane applications. Inspired by the stomatal closure feature of plant leaves at relatively high temperature, here ...
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Open AccessSeparation of organic liquid mixture by flexible nanofibrous membranes with precisely tunable wettability
Separation of liquid mixtures, especially organic liquid mixtures, is widely used in industrial processes but still faces challenges with respect to separation in a high-efficiency, low-energy mode. In this wo...
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Open AccessOxyR-regulated catalase CatB promotes the virulence in rice via detoxifying hydrogen peroxide in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
To facilitate infection, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the bacterial blight pathogen of rice, needs to degrade hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generated by the host defense response via a mechanism that is mediat...
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Electrospun Superhydrophobic Self-Cleaning Materials
In this chapter, we introduce the wettability of electrospinning products. Especially, we concentrate on the fabrication, characteristics, and applications of the electrospun self-cleaning materials. Self-clea...
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Open AccessBiaxial stress controlled three-dimensional helical cracks
Cracks are Janus-faced, which cause material failure on one hand and serve as a powerful approach for material processing on the other. To predict cracks and control them in a desired manner, foundational frac...
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Bioinspired synthesis and preparation of multilevel micro/nanostructured materials
In this review, some living organisms with multilevel hierarchical micro/nanostructures and related special properties are briefly introduced. The unique properties of organisms are mostly related to their spe...
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Enhancement of pulmonary metastasis formation and γ-glutamyltranspeptidase activity in B16 melanoma induced by differentiation in vitro
B16 melanoma sublines (B16-F10-BL6 and B16-Fl) exhibited elevated adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels when cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) in comparison to cells in RPMI-16...
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Thymidylate synthase as a target enzyme for the melanoma-specific toxicity of 4-S-cysteaminylphenol andN-acetyl-4-S-cysteaminylphenol
The rationale for melanoma-specific antitumor agents containing phenolic amines is based in part on the ability of the enzyme tyrosinase to oxidize these prodrugs to toxic intermediates. The phenolic amine com...
