Publications by authors named "Li Hongbo"

Tuning the electrical transport behavior and reducing the Schottky barrier height of nanoelectronic devices remain a great challenge. To solve this issue, the electronic properties and Schottky barrier of the graphene/WSe heterostructure are investigated by the first-principles method under out-of-plane strain and an electric field. Our results show that the WSe monolayer and graphene could form a stable van der Waals heterostructure and the intrinsic electronic properties are well preserved.

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The effect of gold and silver plasmonic films on the photoluminescence and photostability of InP/ZnSe/ZnSeS/ZnS nanocrystals (quantum dots) is reported. Colloidal gold films promote the photostability enhancement of InP/ZnSe/ZnSeS/ZnS quantum dots (more durable emission properties in the presence of metal nanostructures) through reducing exciton lifetime. In contrast, silver decreases the photostability of InP/ZnSe/ZnSeS/ZnS quantum dots without changing the photoluminescence intensity and kinetics.

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Environmental air pollutants pose significant threats to public health, especially the toxicity and diseases caused by the atmospheric fine particulate matters (PM). Since the health risks vary with both the concentrations and compositions of PM which are determined by aerosol sources, how are their toxic effects relevant to the pollution level becomes an important issue, such as the haze episodes covering clean and polluted days. With the transition from non-pollution to pollution stage, daily PM samples were collected from both the urban and industrial areas of Nanjing city, eastern China, covering a typical haze event in autumn-winter.

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The membrane contact sites (MCSs) enable interorganelle communication by associating organelles at distances of tens of nanometers over extended membrane surfaces and serve to maintain cellular homeostasis through efficient exchange of metabolites, lipid, and calcium between organelles, organelle fission, and movement. Most MCSs and a growing number of tethering proteins especially those involved in mediating the junctions between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and other organelles have been extensively characterized in mammal and yeast. However, the studies of plant MCSs are still at stages of infancy, at least one reason might be due to the lack of bona fide markers for visualizing these membrane junctions in plant cells.

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We conducted a cross-sectional study with 395 completely matched student samples enrolled from a public primary school in Nanjing of eastern China, including questionnaires, blood samples, growth indexes and school performances, all of which were used for the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and general linear model (GLM). The results showed that factors, such as gender, age, parents' education, residential passive smoking and picky eaters, had significant impacts on the blood lead levels (BPbs). As for the linear and non-linear dose-response relationship between BPbs and erythrocyte parameters, we found a positive association between BPbs and red blood cell count (RBC count) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) but a negative association between BPbs and hemoglobin (HGB), hematocrit (HCT), mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH).

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Electrophysiological study that records the action potential of cardiomyocyte served as excellent tool to explore cardiology and neuroscience, disease investigation and pharmacological screening. Advances of micro/nanotechnologies promote the development of three-dimensional (3D) nanodevices to record high-quality intracellular recordings by various perforation approaches of cells, however, the complicated fabrication processes limited their large-scale manufacture. In this work, a unique nanobranched microelectrode array (NBMEA) platform is developed to achieve high-quality intracellular recording of cultured cardiomyocytes in a minimally invasive manner.

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Blue phosphorescent tetradentate pyridyl-carbolinyl Pt(II) complexes, Pt(ppzOclpy-Me), Pt(ppzOclpy-Pr), and Pt(ppzOclpy-mesi), were purposefully synthesized and investigated with their photophysical and luminescent properties. The complexes, incorporating with carbolinyl moieties, have twisted planar structure. X-ray crystallography revealed that the intraligand N···H-C hydrogen bond reversely turned the twisty pyridyl moiety back into the chelating plane.

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Aim: Acute lung injury (ALI) is the mild form of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) which is a common lung disease with a high incidence and mortality rate. Recent studies manifested that some circular RNAs were associated with ALI. In this study, we aimed to uncover the effect of circular RNA circ_0054633 on ALI initiation and progression and proposed a new mechanism related to ALI.

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Based on accumulating evidence, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for many diseases, including tumors. In this study, we consulted The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database to explore the functions and modulatory mechanisms of lncRNAs as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Asian patients and constructed a risk scoring system composed of four lncRNAs (SNHG1, STEAP3-AS1, RUSC1-AS1, and SNHG3) to predict the outcomes of Asian patients with HCC. The prognostic value of this risk model was validated in the internal validation cohort (n = 157).

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Arsenic-hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata is efficient in As absorption, reduction, and translocation. But the molecular mechanisms and locations of arsenate (AsV) reduction in P. vittata are still unclear.

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We establish the propagation model of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes carried by hollow vortex Gaussian (hvG) beams propagating in anisotropic atmospheric turbulence. Effects of light source parameters and atmospheric conditions on the OAM mode propagation performance are investigated in detail. The findings indicate the hvG beam with a smaller OAM quantum number, a larger beam order, or a longer source wavelength has more robust resistance to atmospheric turbulence interference.

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Lipid content is an important indicator of the edible and breeding value of seeds. Difference in origin will affect the lipid content of the inner kernel, and neither can be judged by appearance or morphology. Traditional chemical methods are small-scale, time-consuming, labor-intensive, costly, and laboratory-dependent.

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Patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS) have a dismal prognosis with few effective therapeutic options. A defect in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) pathway can accumulate DNA repair errors and gene mutations, which can lead to tumorigenesis. BRCAness describes tumors with an HRR deficiency (HRD) in the absence of a germline BRCA1/2 mutation.

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Background: This study aimed to investigate the value of inflammatory markers for the prediction of small bowel obstruction (SBO) following appendectomy.

Methods: We included cases of acute appendicitis that underwent laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) in the Qingdao Municipal Hospital between January 2017 and January 2019. The cases were divided into an SBO group and a non-SBO group depending on whether patients had or did not have SBO, and patients were followed up for at least 1 year.

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Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) function in the response of insects to abiotic stress; however, their role in response to biotic stress has been under-investigated. Mythimna separata, the oriental armyworm, is polyphenetic and exhibits gregarious and solitary phases in response to high and low population density, respectively. In this study, three genes were identified encoding sHsps, namely MsHsp19.

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The present study aimed to investigate the effect of carbachol on the intestinal tight-junction barrier in a rat model of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) without aggravating pancreatic injury, and to determine whether cell division cycle 42 (Cdc42)/F-actin could have a regulatory role. Rats were separated into a sham-operation (SO) group (n=10), SO + carbachol group (n=10), SAP group (n=60) and SAP + carbachol group (n=60). Sodium taurocholate (5%) was retrogradely injected into the biliopancreatic duct of rats to induce SAP.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy and is the fourth-leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. HCC is refractory to many standard cancer treatments and the prognosis is often poor, highlighting a pressing need to identify biomarkers of aggressiveness and potential targets for future treatments. Kinesin family member 2C (KIF2C) is reported to be highly expressed in several human tumors.

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Biosensors have been extensively studied in the areas of biology, electronics, chemistry, biotechnology, medicine, and various engineering fields. The interdisciplinarity creates an ideal platform for scientists to analyze biological species and chemical materials in a direct, efficient, and sensitive manner; this is expected to revolutionize the life sciences, basic medicine, and the healthcare industry. To carry out high-performance biosensing, nanoprobes - with specific nanoscale properties - have been proposed for ultrasensitive and in situ monitoring/detection of tracer biomolecules, cellular behavior, cellular microenvironments, and electrophysiological activity.

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Puerarin 6″-O-xyloside is a tumor suppressive derivate of Puerarin that is recently characterized as a lysine-specific demethylase 6B inhibitor. Here we investigated the effects of Puerarin 6″-O-xyloside in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines SMMC-7721 and HepG2. Cell viability, proliferation, stemness, protein expression, and autophagy were tested by CCK-8, colony formation, sphere formation, western blotting, and LC3B GFP puncta per cell, respectively.

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Since toxic gas leakage may cause ecological environmental problems and even life-threatening damage, effective monitoring of toxic gas is of great importance and subject to increasing demand. However, complicated environmental factors, as well as various coexisting interferences can easily affect the sensitivity and selectivity of gas sensors, hindering their performance. Recent reports have successfully demonstrated the development of hierarchical nanostructures with desirable self-cleaning properties, yet gas sensors that can resist contamination have rarely been realized.

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In this report, a solution-processable cohost system incorporating ,'-di(naphtalene-1-yl)-,'-diphenylbenzidine (NPB) and Csp-annulated phenylquinoline derivatives, including spiro[indeno[1,2-]quinoline-11,8'-indolo[3,2,1-de]acridine] (IAIQ), 10-phenyl-10H-spiro[acridine-9,11'-indeno[1,2-]quinoline] (PAIQ) and 3,3'-(11H-indeno[1,2-]quinoline-11,11-diyl)bis(-phenyl--(m-tolyl)aniline) (m-TPA-DPIQ), is developed for highly efficient saturated red phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). IAIQ, PAIQ, and m-TPA-DPIQ, designed with the increase of molecular flexibility, are systematically investigated. Solution-processable devices based on the efficient phosphorescent emitter bis[2-(3,5-dimethylphenyl)isoquinolinato](2,8-dimethyl-4,6-nonanedionato)Iridium [Ir(mpiq)divm] are successfully fabricated, and give electroluminescent peaks at 634-636 nm with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage coordinates of (0.

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Herein, we report the facile growth of three-dimensional CsPbBr perovskite supercrystals (PSCs) self-assembled from individual CsPbBr perovskite quantum dots (PQDs). By varying the carbon chain length of a surface-bound ligand molecule, 1-alkynyl acid, different morphologies of PSCs were obtained accompanied by an over 1000-fold photoluminescence improvement compared with that of PQDs. Systematic analyses have shown, for the first time, that under UV irradiation, CsBr, the byproduct formed during PQDs synthesis, could effectively catalyze the homocoupling reaction between two alkynyl groups, which further worked as a driving force to push forward the self-assembly of PQDs.

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Purpose: To examine the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic bronchial rupture in children at the Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Methods: The diagnosis and treatment of eight cases of traumatic bronchial rupture were analyzed retrospectively from January 2014 to December 2019 in our hospital.

Results: Diagnosis of the eight patients was clear after a chest CT with three-dimensional reconstruction techniques and fiberoptic bronchoscopy; six of the patients had a delay in diagnosis of at least 2 weeks.

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New materials can bring about tremendous progress in technology and applications. However, the commonly used trial-and-error method cannot meet the current need for new materials. Now, a newly proposed idea of using machine learning to explore new materials is becoming popular.

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Accumulation and oral bioavailability of nickel (Ni) were rarely assessed for staple crops grown in high geogenic Ni soils. To assess exposure risk of geogenic Ni, soil, wheat, and rice samples were collected from a naturally high background Ni area and measured for Ni oral relative bioavailability (RBA, relative to NiSO) using a newly developed mouse urinary Ni excretion bioassay. Results showed that soils were enriched with Ni (80.

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