Pressure-Induced Molding of Black Phosphorus@TiCT Composite Electrode and Its Implications on the Lithium Storage.

For the first time, an innovative pressure quenching technique is used to create the integrated electrode of the black phosphorus (BP) @TiCT composite material, doing away with the requirement for adhesive additives and simplifying time-consuming processes. Through the formation of Ti-O-P bonds with BP, TiCT MXenes can function as conductive additives and affect the interlayer gap. Additionally, we have found that there is a critical synthetic pressure threshold (300 kN) at which the performance of BP@TiCT-integrated electrodes can be improved: too high of a pressure prevents lithium-ion transport because of mesopore reduction; too low of a pressure prevents Ti-O-P chemical bond formation between the two components; and suboptimal pressure does not allow for density enhancement for better electron conduction.

The Relationship between the Permanent Trigeminal Artery and Cerebrovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis.

Background: We aimed to analyze the variability of the permanent trigeminal artery (PTA) and its relationship with cerebrovascular disease.

Methods: To analyze the variability of the PTA and its relationship with cerebrovascular disease by using the terms "primitive trigeminal artery", "persistent primitive trigeminal artery", " persistent trigeminal artery variant", "PPTA", "PTAV", "carotid- basilar anastomoses", "carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomoses", "persisting embryonic vessels" were used as keywords, and the English-language literature related to PTA and cerebrovascular diseases published in PubMed, EMBAS, and Web of Science databases from 2000 to 2022 were searched by using "subject terms + free words". A meta-analysis of the collected data was performed using stata14.

Pressure-Engineered TiCT MXene with Enhanced Conductivity and Accelerated Reaction Kinetics of Lithium Storage.

We studied the structure-function relationship of compressed TiCT MXene using high-pressure in situ synchrotron radiation, impedance spectroscopy, Hall effect measurements, and first-principles calculations. With increasing pressure, the conductivity of TiCT MXene increases along with its continued lattice shrinkage. A pressure range of 0.

Pseudo-Supervised Deep Subspace Clustering.

Auto-Encoder (AE)-based deep subspace clustering (DSC) methods have achieved impressive performance due to the powerful representation extracted using deep neural networks while prioritizing categorical separability. However, self-reconstruction loss of an AE ignores rich useful relation information and might lead to indiscriminative representation, which inevitably degrades the clustering performance. It is also challenging to learn high-level similarity without feeding semantic labels.

Prognostic value of plasma ghrelin in predicting the outcome of patients with chronic heart failure.

Background And Aims: Ghrelin is an endogenous ligand of the growth hormone (GH) secretagogue receptor and is closely associated with chronic heart failure (CHF). We undertook this study to investigate the relevance of ghrelin in CHF prognosis.

Methods: A total of 145 in-patients with CHF in NYHA class II, III or IV despite optimized therapy were prospectively included in the study, grouped according to NYHA class and compared with 55 healthy control subjects.