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Open AccessVariant allele frequency in circulating tumor DNA correlated with tumor disease burden and predicted outcomes in patients with advanced breast cancer
In patients with first-line advanced breast cancer (ABC), the correlation between ctDNA variant allele frequency (VAF) and tumor disease burden, and its prognostic value remains poorly investigated.
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Open AccessEfficacy and safety of PEG-rhG-CSF versus rhG-CSF in preventing chemotherapy-induced-neutropenia in early-stage breast cancer patients
To compare the clinical value of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) and pegylated rhG-CSF(PEG-rhG-CSF) in early-stage breast cancer (EBC) patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy...
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Tunable hydrogen evolution activity of black antimony–phosphorus monolayers via strain engineering: a first-principles calculation
The HER activity and related electronic properties of monolayer binary V–V compound SbP under the biaxial strains are discussed by employing the first-principles calculations based on DFT. It is found that dif...
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Effect of S Vacancy and Interlayer Interaction on the Electronic and Optical Properties of MoS2/WSe2 Heterostructure
The van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructure retains some excellent properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and has a significant improvement in performance, which is anticipated to play a...
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Giant Rashba Spin Splitting in Sb/Bi2Se3/Sb and Sb/Sb2Te3 /Sb Heterojunctions
Exploring semiconductor materials with huge Rashba spin splitting is of great significance for spintronic devices without a magnetic field. In this work, the structural and electronic properties of Sb/Bi2Se3/Sb (...
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Open AccessIdentification of mutation patterns and circulating tumour DNA-derived prognostic markers in advanced breast cancer patients
The correlations between circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA)-derived genomic markers and treatment response and survival outcome in Chinese patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC) have not been extensively chara...
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Periodic oscillation of quantum diffusion in coupled one-dimensional systems
We analytically show that quantum diffusion in the coupled system composed of two identical chains exhibits a well-defined periodic oscillation in both transverse and longitudinal directions with a frequency d...
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Robust transport of charge carriers in in-plane 1T′-2H MoTe2 homojunctions with ohmic contact
Metal-semiconductor ohmic contacts are required to reduce the energy dissipation for two-dimensional (2D) electronic devices, and phase engineering of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is a promising...
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Methylation silencing and reactivation of exogenous genes in lentivirus-mediated transgenic mice
Taking advantage of their ability to integrate their genomes into the host genome, lentiviruses have been used to rapidly produce transgenic mice in biomedical research. In most cases, transgenes delivered by ...
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Geometries and Electronic Properties of Black Phosphorus/MoS2 Heterostructure with P Atom Vacancies: First Principles Calculations
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, vertically assembled by two kinds of two-dimensional layered materials with extraordinary electronic and optical properties, has emerged as an interesting candidate in the ...
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Photoelectrochemical water oxidation in α-Fe2O3 thin films enhanced by a controllable wet-chemical Ti-do** strategy and Co–Pi co-catalyst modification
The poor electrical conductivity, short hole diffusion length, and slow water oxidation reaction kinetics have severely limited the photoelectrochemical performance of the hematite (α-Fe2O3) photoanodes. In this ...
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Effect of sulphur pressure on properties of ZnS thin film prepared by chemical bath deposition technique
Zinc sulfide (ZnS) thin films have been prepared by chemical bath deposition followed by thermal annealing. The influence of sulphur (S) pressure on the morphological, structural and optical properties of the ...
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Facile hydrothermally synthesis of hexagon tin disulfide nanosheets for high-performance photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Tin disulfide (SnS2) has been attracted intensive attention in the field of photoelectric conversion due to its appropriate band gap and glorious electronic mobility. The hexagon SnS2 nanosheets has been successf...
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Photoresponse improvement in liquid-exfoliated SnSe nanosheets by reduced graphene oxide hybridization
The SnSe/reduced graphene oxide (SnSe/RGO) hybrid was synthesized by a simple hydrothermal reduction method using tin selenide (SnSe) nanosheets (NSs) and graphene oxide (GO), in which the two-dimensional SnSe...
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Open AccessEffect of hydrogen passivation on the decoupling of graphene on SiC(0001) substrate: First-principles calculations
Intercalation of hydrogen is important for understanding the decoupling of graphene from SiC(0001) substrate. Employing first-principles calculations, we have systematically studied the decoupling of graphene ...
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Open AccessFive low energy phosphorene allotropes constructed through gene segments recombination
Based on the crystal structures of the previously proposed low energy η -P and θ -P, five new phosphorene allotropes were predicted through gene segments recombination method. These five new phosphorene allotrope...
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Open AccessLattice thermal conductivity of borophene from first principle calculation
The phonon transport property is a foundation of understanding a material and predicting the potential application in mirco/nano devices. In this paper, the thermal transport property of borophene is investiga...
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Electrodeposition of Cu–Ga precursor layer for CuGaS2 solar energy thin film from alcohol solution
CuGaS2 thin film is fabricated with electrochemical deposition of Cu–Ga alloys from alcohol solution to eliminate the interference of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The process involves electrodeposition of C...
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Thermally oxidation synthesis of CuO nanoneedles on Cu foam and its enhanced lithium storage performance
In this work, CuO nanoneedles have been in situ grown on Cu foam through simple thermal oxidation in the air. The morphologies and microstructures of as-prepared sample were characterized by using X-ray diffra...
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Hydrothermal synthesis of NiSe2 nanosheets on carbon cloths for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation
Two-dimensional NiSe2 nanosheets arrange on three-dimensional carbon cloths (CC) have been synthesized through a facile two-step hydrothermal process. The as-prepared NiSe2/CC photoelectrode demonstrates outstand...
