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Redox-neutral electrochemical decontamination of hypersaline wastewater with high technology readiness level
Industrial hypersaline wastewaters contain diverse pollutants that harm the environment. Recovering clean water, alkali and acid from these wastewaters can promote circular economy and environmental protection...
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Open AccessA novel upregulated hsa_circ_0032746 regulates the oncogenesis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by regulating miR-4270/MCM3 axis
Circular RNAs (CircRNA) have emerged as an interest of research in recent years due to its regulatory role in various kinds of cancers of human body. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the maj...
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Open AccessLncRNA SNHG16 promotes development of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma by interacting with EIF4A3 and modulating RhoU mRNA stability
Numerous studies have revealed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are closely related to the development of many diseases and carcinogenesis. However, their specific biological function and molecular mechanism...
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A hybrid fuel cell for water purification and simultaneously electricity generation
The development of highly efficient energy conversion technologies to extract energy from wastewater is urgently needed, especially in facing of increasing energy and environment burdens. Here, we successfully...
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Efficient cleavage of strong hydrogen bonds in sugarcane bagasse by ternary acidic deep eutectic solvent and ultrasonication to facile fabrication of cellulose nanofibers
From the perspective of green chemistry, it is of great significance to produce cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) with more environmentally friendly and sustainable materials. This study investigated the efficient c...
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Open AccessArrayed Cobalt Phosphide Electrocatalyst Achieves Low Energy Consumption and Persistent H2 Liberation from Anodic Chemical Conversion
A template approach for the synthesis of porous cobalt phosphide nanoarrays (Co2P/CoP NAs) is reported, which exhibits superior electrocatalytic activity a...
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Ultrasound-Ionic Liquid Pretreatment Enhanced Conversion of the Sugary Food Waste to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Ionic Liquid/Solid Acid Catalyst System
The purpose of this study was to efficiently convert the sugary food waste (SFW) to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) by ultrasound-[Bmim]Cl pretreatment in ionic liquids (ILs)-ion exchange resin system. The eff...
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Investigating adsorption mechanism and surface complex formation modeling for aqueous sulfadiazine bonding on Fe/Mn binary oxides
In aquatic environment, the existence of antibiotics including sulfadiazine (SDZ) has gain a huge attention. It is suggested that hydrous metal oxides have large potential to remove contaminants in water. The ...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Vesicle Size Regulates Nanotube Formation in the Cell
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 24002; published online: 07 April 2016; updated: 09 February 2017 He Ren and Chuanmao Zhang were omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. This...
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Open AccessVesicle Size Regulates Nanotube Formation in the Cell
Intracellular membrane nanotube formation and its dynamics play important roles for cargo transportation and organelle biogenesis. Regarding the regulation mechanisms, while much attention has been paid on the...
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Open AccessThe conformational states of talin autoinhibition complex and its activation under forces
Talin is an integrin-binding protein located at focal adhesion site and serves as both an adapter and a force transmitter. Its integrin binding activity is regulated by the intramolecular autoinhibition intera...
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Compute 2D Stable and Unstable Manifolds of Nonlinear Maps
By using the fact that Jacobian transports derivative along the orbit of the invariant manifold, a new algorithm for computing 1D manifold is proposed first. The new mesh point is located with a Prediction-Cor...
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Efficient Approach of Image Quality Evaluation Based on Fuzzy Logic
The image quality evaluation is an important subject in image processing techniques. Aiming to improve the existing methods of image quality measurement, a new fuzzy logic-based image quality evaluation approa...
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Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase mediates ocular dominance shifts in cat visual cortex
Visual experience during a critical period early in postnatal development can change connections within mammalian visual cortex. In a kitten at the peak of the critical period (∼P28–42), brief monocular depriv...
