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    ARID1B maintains mesenchymal stem cell quiescence via inhibition of BCL11B-mediated non-canonical Activin signaling

    ARID1B haploinsufficiency in humans causes Coffin-Siris syndrome, associated with developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, and intellectual disability. The role of ARID1B has been widely studied in neuronal devel...

    Mingyi Zhang, Tingwei Guo, Fei Pei, Jifan Feng, Junjun **g in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Green moisture-electric generator based on supramolecular hydrogel with tens of milliamp electricity toward practical applications

    Moisture-electric generators (MEGs) has emerged as promising green technology to achieve carbon neutrality in next-generation energy suppliers, especially combined with ecofriendly materials. Hitherto, challen...

    Su Yang, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Mao, Jianmiao Guo, Yang Chai in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Two-dimensional semiconducting SnP2Se6 with giant second-harmonic-generation for monolithic on-chip electronic-photonic integration

    Two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconductors with nonlinear optical (NLO) properties hold great promise to address the growing demand of multifunction integration in electronic-photonic integrated circuits (EPI...

    Cheng-Yi Zhu, Zimeng Zhang, **g-Kai Qin, Zi Wang, Cong Wang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Sensory nerve niche regulates mesenchymal stem cell homeostasis via FGF/mTOR/autophagy axis

    Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) reside in microenvironments, referred to as niches, which provide structural support and molecular signals. Sensory nerves are niche components in the homeostasis of tissues such ...

    Fei Pei, Li Ma, Junjun **g, Jifan Feng, Yuan Yuan, Tingwei Guo in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Room-temperature valley transistors for low-power neuromorphic computing

    Valley pseudospin is an electronic degree of freedom that promises highly efficient information processing applications. However, valley-polarized excitons usually have short pico-second lifetimes, which limit...

    Jiewei Chen, Yue Zhou, Jianmin Yan, Jidong Liu, Lin Xu in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Spatiotemporal single-cell regulatory atlas reveals neural crest lineage diversification and cellular function during tooth morphogenesis

    Cranial neural crest cells are an evolutionary innovation of vertebrates for craniofacial development and function, yet the mechanisms that govern the cell fate decisions of postmigratory cranial neural crest ...

    Junjun **g, Jifan Feng, Yuan Yuan, Tingwei Guo, Jie Lei, Fei Pei in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Scalable production of ultrafine polyaniline fibres for tactile organic electrochemical transistors

    The development of continuous conducting polymer fibres is essential for applications ranging from advanced fibrous devices to frontier fabric electronics. The use of continuous conducting polymer fibres requi...

    Bo Fang, Jianmin Yan, Dan Chang, **li Piao, Kit Ming Ma, Qiao Gu in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Rational design of Al2O3/2D perovskite heterostructure dielectric for high performance MoS2 phototransistors

    Two-dimensional (2D) Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites are currently drawing significant attention as highly-stable photoactive materials for optoelectronic applications. However, the insulating nature of organic ...

    Jiayang Jiang, Xuming Zou, Yawei Lv, Yuan Liu, Weiting Xu in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Lattice oxygen activation enabled by high-valence metal sites for enhanced water oxidation

    Anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is recognized as kinetic bottleneck in water electrolysis. Transition metal sites with high valence states can accelerate the reaction kinetics to offer highly intrinsic ...

    Ning Zhang, **aobin Feng, Dewei Rao, ** Deng, Lejuan Cai in Nature Communications (2020)

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    A Pre-clinical Animal Model of Secondary Head and Neck Lymphedema

    Head and neck lymphedema (HNL) is a disfiguring disease affecting over 90% of patients treated for head and neck cancer. Animal models of lymphedema are used to test pharmacologic and microsurgical therapies; ...

    Giulia Daneshgaran, Andrea Y. Lo, Connie B. Paik, Michael N. Cooper in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Topical Fibronectin Improves Wound Healing of Irradiated Skin

    Wound healing is significantly delayed in irradiated skin. To better understand global changes in protein expression after radiation, we utilized a reverse phase protein array (RPPA) to identify significant ch...

    Maxwell B. Johnson, Brandon Pang, Daniel J. Gardner in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of WS2 Film by Laser Drilling to Produce Porous WS2/WO3 Heterostructure

    Methods and mechanisms for improvement of photocatalytic activity, are important and popular research topics for renewable energy production and waste water treatment. Here, we demonstrate a facile laser drill...

    Sainan Ma, Longlui Zeng, Lili Tao, Chun Yin Tang, Huiyu Yuan in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Nonstoichiometric acid–base reaction as reliable synthetic route to highly stable CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite film

    Perovskite solar cells have received worldwide interests due to swiftly improved efficiency but the poor stability of the perovskite component hampers the device fabrication under normal condition. Herein, we ...

    Mingzhu Long, Tiankai Zhang, Yang Chai, Chun-Fai Ng in Nature Communications (2016)

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    Direct TEM observations of growth mechanisms of two-dimensional MoS2 flakes

    A microscopic understanding of the growth mechanism of two-dimensional materials is of particular importance for controllable synthesis of functional nanostructures. Because of the lack of direct and insightfu...

    Linfeng Fei, Shui** Lei, Wei-Bing Zhang, Wei Lu, Ziyuan Lin in Nature Communications (2016)

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    High-responsivity UV-Vis Photodetector Based on Transferable WS2 Film Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering

    The two-dimensional layered semiconducting tungsten disulfide (WS2) film exhibits great promising prospects in the photoelectrical applications because of its unique photoelectrical conversion property. Herein, i...

    Longhui Zeng, Lili Tao, Chunyin Tang, Bo Zhou, Hui Long, Yang Chai in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Controllable Growth of Large–Size Crystalline MoS2 and Resist-Free Transfer Assisted with a Cu Thin Film

    Two-dimensional MoS2 is a promising material for future nanoelectronics and optoelectronics. It has remained a great challenge to grow large-size crystalline and high surface coverage monolayer MoS2. In this work...

    Ziyuan Lin, Yuda Zhao, Changjian Zhou, Ren Zhong, **nsheng Wang in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Tuneable complementary metamaterial structures based on graphene for single and multiple transparency windows

    Novel graphene-based tunable plasmonic metamaterials featuring single and multiple transparency windows are numerically studied in this paper. The designed structures consist of a graphene layer perforated wit...

    Jun Ding, Bayaner Arigong, Han Ren, Mi Zhou, ** Shao, Meng Lu in Scientific Reports (2014)