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    Fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) mediated m6A modification of circFAM192A promoted gastric cancer proliferation by suppressing SLC7A5 decay

    Gastric cancer (GC) is a common malignant tumor worldwide, especially in East Asia, with high incidence and mortality rate. Epigenetic modifications have been reported to participate in the progression of gast...

    ** Wu, Yuan Fang, Yunru Gu, Haoyang Shen, Yangyue Xu, Tingting Xu in Molecular Biomedicine (2024)

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    Pressure driven rotational isomerism in 2D hybrid perovskites

    Multilayers consisting of alternating soft and hard layers offer enhanced toughness compared to all-hard structures. However, shear instability usually exists in physically sputtered multilayers because of def...

    Tingting Yin, He** Yan, Ibrahim Abdelwahab, Yulia Lekina in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Unlocking surface octahedral tilt in two-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites

    Molecularly soft organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are susceptible to dynamic instabilities of the lattice called octahedral tilt, which directly impacts their carrier transport and exciton-phonon coupling....

    Yan Shao, Wei Gao, He** Yan, Runlai Li, Ibrahim Abdelwahab in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Partitioning the interlayer space of covalent organic frameworks by embedding pseudorotaxanes in their backbones

    Mono- or few-layer sheets of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an attractive platform of two-dimensional materials that hold promise for tailor-made functionality and pores, through judicious design...

    **ng Li, Hai-Sen Xu, Kai Leng, See Wee Chee, **aoxu Zhao, Noopur Jain in Nature Chemistry (2020)

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    Electron tunneling at the molecularly thin 2D perovskite and graphene van der Waals interface

    Quasi-two-dimensional perovskites have emerged as a new material platform for optoelectronics on account of its intrinsic stability. A major bottleneck to device performance is the high charge injection barrie...

    Kai Leng, Lin Wang, Yan Shao, Ibrahim Abdelwahab, Gustavo Grinblat in Nature Communications (2020)

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    From bulk to molecularly thin hybrid perovskites

    Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites have been intensively researched in the past decade for their optoelectronic properties. The emergence of Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites, which have mixed dimensionality, ha...

    Kai Leng, Wei Fu, Yanpeng Liu, Manish Chhowalla, Kian ** Loh in Nature Reviews Materials (2020)

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    A solution-processable and ultra-permeable conjugated microporous thermoset for selective hydrogen separation

    The synthesis of a polymer that combines the processability of plastics with the extreme rigidity of cross-linked organic networks is highly attractive for molecular sieving applications. However, cross-linked...

    Wei Liu, Shu-Dong Jiang, Youguo Yan, Wensen Wang, **g Li in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Preparation of Ba2FeNbO6 double perovskite ceramics from molten-salt synthesized powders and their dielectric and magnetic properties

    Double perovskite Ba2FeNbO6 (BFN) ceramics were prepared from the molten-salt synthesized BFN powders. The BFN powders have a cubic structure with \( Fm\bar{3}m \)Fm3¯m space group, confirmed by X-ray diffraction...

    Yao Lu, Zhipeng Pei, Heng Wu, Kai Leng, Weiren **a in Journal of Materials Science (2020)

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    Single crystal of a one-dimensional metallo-covalent organic framework

    Although polymers have been studied for well over a century, there are few examples of covalently linked polymer crystals synthesised directly from solution. One-dimensional (1D) covalent polymers that are pac...

    Hai-Sen Xu, Yi Luo, **ng Li, Pei Zhen See, Zhongxin Chen in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Research Progress in Rare Earth-Doped Perovskite Manganite Oxide Nanostructures

    Perovskite manganites exhibit a broad range of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties, which are widely investigated since the discovery of the colossal magnetoresistance effect in 1994. As compared t...

    Weiren **a, Zhipeng Pei, Kai Leng, **nhua Zhu in Nanoscale Research Letters (2020)

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    Microstructural characterization and dielectric properties of single crystalline BaTi2O5 nanowires prepared by molten-salt method

    BaTi2O5 (BT2) nanowires were successfully prepared via molten-salt method. The effects of synthesized temperature, dwell time, and molten salt concentration on the formation of BT2 nanowires were studied. X-ray d...

    **anzhuo Wang, Kai Leng, Zhipeng Pei, Weiren **a, Heng Wu, Yao Lu in SN Applied Sciences (2019)

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    Molecularly thin two-dimensional hybrid perovskites with tunable optoelectronic properties due to reversible surface relaxation

    Due to their layered structure, two-dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites (RPPs), composed of multiple organic/inorganic quantum wells, can in principle be exfoliated down to few and single layers. These m...

    Kai Leng, Ibrahim Abdelwahab, Ivan Verzhbitskiy, Mykola Telychko in Nature Materials (2018)

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    Tuneable near white-emissive two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

    Most two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are non-fluorescent in the solid state even when they are constructed from emissive building blocks. The fluorescence quenching is usually attribute...

    **ng Li, Qiang Gao, Juefan Wang, Yifeng Chen, Zhi-Hui Chen in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Controllable deuteration of halogenated compounds by photocatalytic D2O splitting

    Deuterium labeling is of great value in organic synthesis and the pharmaceutical industry. However, the state-of-the-art C–H/C–D exchange using noble metal catalysts or strong bases/acids suffers from poor fun...

    Cuibo Liu, Zhongxin Chen, Chenliang Su, **aoxu Zhao, Qiang Gao in Nature Communications (2018)

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    A non-dispersion strategy for large-scale production of ultra-high concentration graphene slurries in water

    It is difficult to achieve high efficiency production of hydrophobic graphene by liquid phase exfoliation due to its poor dispersibility and the tendency of graphene sheets to undergo π−π stacking. Here, we re...

    Lei Dong, Zhongxin Chen, **aoxu Zhao, Jianhua Ma, Shan Lin in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Interface confined hydrogen evolution reaction in zero valent metal nanoparticles-intercalated molybdenum disulfide

    Interface confined reactions, which can modulate the bonding of reactants with catalytic centres and influence the rate of the mass transport from bulk solution, have emerged as a viable strategy for achieving...

    Zhongxin Chen, Kai Leng, **aoxu Zhao, Souradip Malkhandi, Wei Tang in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Functionalized graphene oxide based on p-phenylenediamine as spacers and nitrogen dopants for high performance supercapacitors

    p-Phenylenediamine (PPD) functionalized graphene oxide (GO) materials (PPDG) were prepared through a one-step solvothermal process and their application as supercapacitors (SCs) were studied. The...

    Yanhong Lu, Yi Huang, Fan Zhang, Long Zhang, ** Yang in Chinese Science Bulletin (2014)

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    Graphene-based Li-ion hybrid supercapacitors with ultrahigh performance

    There is a growing demand for hybrid supercapacitor systems to overcome the energy density limitation of existing-generation electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs), leading to next generation-II supercapacit...

    Kai Leng, Fan Zhang, Long Zhang, Tengfei Zhang, Yingpeng Wu, Yanhong Lu in Nano Research (2013)

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    Porous 3D graphene-based bulk materials with exceptional high surface area and excellent conductivity for supercapacitors

    Until now, few sp2 carbon materials simultaneously exhibit superior performance for specific surface area (SSA) and electrical conductivity at bulk state. Thus, it is extremely important to make such materials at...

    Long Zhang, Fan Zhang, ** Yang, Guankui Long, Yingpeng Wu in Scientific Reports (2013)