Microstructures, Mechanical Properties and Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Performance of Porous SiC Ceramics by Direct Foaming Combined with Direct-Ink-Writing-Based 3D Printing.

Direct-ink-writing (DIW)-based 3D-printing technology combined with the direct-foaming method provides a new strategy for the fabrication of porous materials. We herein report a novel method of preparing porous SiC ceramics using the DIW process and investigate their mechanical and wave absorption properties. We investigated the effects of nozzle diameter on the macroscopic shape and microstructure of the DIW SiC green bodies.

Additive Manufacturing of Bioceramic Implants for Restoration Bone Engineering: Technologies, Advances, and Future Perspectives.

Treating bone defects is highly challenging because they do not heal on their own inside the patients, so implants are needed to assist in the reconstruction of the bone. Bioceramic implants based on additive manufacturing (AM) are currently emerging as promising treatment options for restoration bone engineering. On the one hand, additively manufactured bioceramic implants have excellent mechanical properties and biocompatibility, which are suitable for bone regeneration.

An Innovative Auxetic Honeycomb Sandwich Tube: Fabrication and Mechanical Properties.

In this study, based on the free-rolling mechanism of the auxetic honeycomb, a honeycomb cylindrical shell was successfully prepared to overcome the fracture problem of the hexagonal honeycomb during rolling. Auxetic honeycomb sandwich tubes (AHSTs) with a variable Poisson's ratio were fabricated by molding and bonding. A Poisson's ratio model of the auxetic honeycomb core was developed based on the strain increment ratio of the deformed honeycomb and validated using computed tomography (CT).

Proteomic analysis of skeletal muscle in Chinese hamsters with type 2 diabetes mellitus reveals that OPLAH downregulation affects insulin resistance and impaired glucose uptake.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disease controlled by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The Chinese hamster, as a novel animal model of spontaneous T2DM with high phenotypic similarity to human disease, is of great value in identifying potential therapeutic targets for T2DM. Here, we used tandem mass tag (TMT) quantitative proteomics based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to assess the skeletal muscles of a Chinese hamster diabetes model.

Dynamic Responses of Blast-Loaded Shallow Buried Concrete Arches Strengthened with BFRP Bars.

This paper proposes a prefabricated basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars reinforcement of a concrete arch structure with superior performance in the field of protection engineering. To study the anti-blast performance of the shallow-buried BFRP bars concrete arch (BBCA), a multi-parameter comparative analysis was conducted employing the LS-DYNA numerical method, which was verified by the results of the field explosion experiments. By analyzing the pressure, displacement, acceleration of the arch, and the strain of the BFRP bars, the dynamic response of the arch was obtained.

Responses of microbial community to different concentration of perchlorate in the Qingyi River.

Perchlorate is a refractory and mobile contaminant that is wildly distributed in surface water, and due to its tremendous inhibitory effect on mammalian thyroid function, it has gained much attention in recent years. Numerous studies have focused on environmental detection of perchlorate, especially in water. However, less attention has been paid to the effects of perchlorate on the composition of the microbial community in rivers.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus inhibits exogenous Type I IFN signaling pathway through its NSs invitro.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease caused by a novel bunyavirus (SFTS virus, SFTSV). At present there is still no specific antiviral treatment for SFTSV; To understand which cells support SFTSV life cycle and whether SFTSV infection activates host innate immunity, four different cell lines (Vero, Hela, Huh7.5.

Nonstructural protein (NS1) of human parvovirus B19 stimulates host innate immunity and blunts the exogenous type I interferon signaling in vitro.

B19 virus is a non-enveloped DNA virus and belongs to the family of parvoviridae. There are two large open reading frames (ORFs), nonstructural protein (NS1) and two capsid proteins (VP1 and VP2). Host innate immune responses form the first line of defense against many pathogen invasion.