Publications by authors named "Qiankun Yao"

Hydrogen detection is crucial for the forthcoming hydrogen economy. Here, we present a visual, ultrasensitive, optical hydrogen sensor based on a tunable Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonator, which can fully release the volume expansion of palladium during hydrogenation and transfer this volume expansion into an optical signal. The FP resonator consists of a suspended polymethylmethacrylate/palladium (PMMA/Pd) bilayer on a gold (Au) square-hole array.

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Hydrogen sensing is extremely essential for hydrogen-related applications due to the explosibility of hydrogen gas (H). Here, we first present a high-contrast and fast optical hydrogen sensor, which is a partially suspended Pd/PMMA bilayer on a PDMS substrate with a microgroove array on the surface. The suspended structure reduces constraints from the substrate on the Pd film, leading to a large wrinkling amplitude and fast response rate during hydrogenation.

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Background: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe mental illness with high heritability. This study aimed to explore the correlation between MAD1L1, TSNARE polymorphisms and SCZ susceptibility.

Methods: A total of 493 SCZ patients and 493 healthy controls were included.

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Background: Schizophrenia (SZ) is a serious hereditary mental disease with a low recovery rate, especially due to the lack of understanding about the cause of the disease. VRK2 is considered to be related to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. In this study, we analyzed the correlation between VRK2, rs4380187 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), and schizophrenia.

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Background: Schizophrenia is a complex mental disease whose cause is still unknown. Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been implicated in various neurological disorders, including schizophrenia. The previous reports have shown that CHRNA polymorphisms were involved in schizophrenia.

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