Publications by authors named "Pingfan Zhang"

Dysregulation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) signaling has prompted efforts to develop therapeutic agents, which is a carcinogenic driver of many cancers, including breast, prostate, bladder, and chronic myeloid leukemia. Despite significant progress in the development of potent and selective FGFR inhibitors, the long-term efficacy of these drugs in cancer therapy has been hampered by the rapid onset of acquired resistance. Therefore, more drug discovery strategies are needed to promote the development of FGFR-targeted drugs.

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It remains a challenging issue to achieve durably stable photocatalytic CO reduction over heterojunctions owing to their inherent structural assembly features. Herein, a unique partial encapsulation architecture is fabricated on the 3D/2D CoWO/CN heterojunction by embedding CoWO microspheres on CN nanosheets, which achieves efficient, durable, stable, and selective photocatalytic CO reduction. For the optimal 5%-CoWO/CN heterojunction, the yield of selective CO reduction to CO is 7.

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It has been a challenging issue to profoundly actuate the transfer and separation of photoinduced charge carriers by controlling the interface structure inside the heterojunction, owing to the molecular/subnanometric level interface region. Herein, a unique one-dimensional/two-dimensional (1D/2D) CoTe/PCN Z-scheme heterojunction is fabricated through the self-assembly of CoTe nanorods on the surface of polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) nanosheets. Significantly, in situ N-doping in the molecular/subnanometric surface oxidized layer of CoTe nanorods is achieved, effectively adjusting its chemical structure and element chemical states.

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Micro/nanostructure control of heterostructures is still a challenge for achieving high efficiency and selectivity of photocatalytic CO conversion. In this work, a new three-dimensiona/two-dimensional (3D/2D) heterostructure is fabricated by encapsulating RuS nanospheres in the interlayer of mesoporous polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) nanosheets based on an in situ growth and polymerization strategy. The unique microstructure of the obtained 3D/2D RuS/PCN heterojunction can effectively improve the transfer and separation efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers, reduce the mass transfer resistance of CO toward active sites, and provide a confined reaction space, thus propelling the photocatalytic CO reduction to CO with high selectivity.

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