Publications by authors named "Shuai Zhong"

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  • Spike-based neural networks are gaining popularity due to their energy efficiency and low power consumption, but converting analog signals to spikes is necessary for their full benefits.
  • Traditional conversion methods, like analog-to-digital converters, have high power and area costs, leading to a focus on developing artificial sensory neurons that mimic biological systems for better sensing and spike conversion.
  • This review lays out recent advancements in artificial sensory neurons, discusses their mechanisms, capabilities, and applications, and addresses the challenges and future directions in this field.
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Here, a unique crossbar architecture is designed and fabricated, incorporating vertically integrated self-assembled monolayers in electronic devices. This architecture is used to showcase 100 individual vertical molecular junctions on a single chip with a high yield of working junctions and high device uniformity. The study introduces a transfer approach for patterned liquid-metal eutectic alloy of gallium and indium top electrodes, enabling the creation of fully flexible molecular devices with electrical functionalities.

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Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) emerges as a promising cooling strategy with an attractive feature of no energy and refrigerant consumption. In the current study, for the purpose of achieving cost-efficient fabrication of a PDRC polymeric material, a microporous polymeric coating is prepared by a novel "inverse emulsion"-"breath figure" (Ie-BF) method using water droplets as pore-formation template, and the porous morphologies of both the surface and bulk layer can be dynamically manipulated by tuning the emulsion composition as well as environmental conditions. Therefore, the solar reflectivity of the Ie-BF coating can be efficiently tuned within a rather wide range (21-91%) by facile modulation of porosity and thickness.

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The Boltzmann Tyranny, set by thermionic statistics, dictates the lower limit of switching slope (SS) of a MOSFET to be 60 mV/dec, the fundamental barrier for low-dissipative electronics. The large SS leads to nonscalable voltage, significant leakage, and power consumption, particularly at short channels, making transistor scaling an intimidating challenge. In recent decades, an array of steep-slope transistors has been proposed; none is close to an ideal switch with ultimately abrupt switching (SS ∼ 0 mV/dec) between the binary logic states.

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Purpose: To determine the effect of different combinations of different exercise modalities with different training cycles on the improvement of quality of life and pain symptoms in breast cancer patients.

Methods: The databases PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Scopus were searched through a computer network with a search deadline of 23 August 2023. Two researchers independently screened the literature, extracted data and performed methodological quality assessment of the included literature, and then performed the corresponding statistical analyses and graphing using stata17.

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Synaptic plasticity plays a critical role in the expression power of brain neural networks. Among diverse plasticity rules, synaptic scaling presents indispensable effects on homeostasis maintenance and synaptic strength regulation. In the current modeling of brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNN), backpropagation through time is widely adopted because it can achieve high performance using a small number of time steps.

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Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) combined nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are characterized by metabolic disruptions. Liraglutide has been proved to be effective in T2DM. If LRG could regulate NAFLD combined T2DM has not been reported.

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Droughts have been implicated as the main driver behind recent vegetation die-off and are projected to drive greater mortality under future climate change. Understanding the coupling relationship between vegetation and drought has been of great global interest. Currently, the coupling relationship between vegetation and drought is mainly evaluated by correlation coefficients or regression slopes.

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Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare and highly aggressive type of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and the prognosis is poor. Currently, the most used prognostic models are the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group (IELSG) scores; however, their predictive effects are changing with increasing incidence and changing treatment regimens. A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that inflammatory and nutritional markers are factors that can determine tumor prognosis.

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  • The emergence of drug resistance in anti-infectives highlights the urgent need for new broad-spectrum treatments for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) caused by eukaryotic parasites, such as fungal infections.* -
  • Researchers modified the well-known antifungal drug fluconazole with organometallic groups, resulting in new compounds that not only enhance the drug's effectiveness but also broaden its application against various pathogens.* -
  • These new compounds demonstrated strong effectiveness against pathogenic fungal infections and parasitic worms, with mechanisms of action that differ from the original drug, making them promising candidates in the fight against drug-resistant infections and efforts to eliminate NTDs by 2030.*
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Purpose: This study aimed to identify prognostic factors associated with survival in patients with high-grade glioma (HGG) after leptomeningeal spread (LMS) and to clarify the behavior and treatment response.

Methods: This retrospective study included 114 patients with HGGs diagnosed with LMS from August 1, 2014, to July 30, 2021, at our institution. Clinical, radiological, pathological, and outcome data were collected.

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The recently unfolded ferroionic phenomena in 2D van der Waals (vdW) copper-indium-thiophosphate (CuInP S or CIPS) have received widespread interest as they allow for dynamic control of conductive switching properties, which are appealing in the paradigm-shift computing. The intricate couplings between ferroelectric polarization and ionic conduction in 2D vdW CIPS facilitate the manipulation and dynamic control of conductive behaviors. However, the complex interplays and underlying mechanisms are not yet fully explored and understood.

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Natural capital is a constraint on sustainable development goals. There are multiple methods available for natural capital accounting, many of which are inconsistent with each other in accounting items. Another common defect is an inability to represent both physical and monetary quantities.

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Diaminopimelic acid (DAP) is a unique component of the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria. It is also an important component of organic matter and is widely utilized by microbes in the world's oceans. However, neither DAP concentrations nor marine DAP-utilizing microbes have been investigated.

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Donkeys are indispensable livestock in China because they have transport function and medicinal value. With the popularization of artificial insemination on donkeys, semen cryopreservation technology has gradually become a research hotspot. Seminal plasma is a necessary medium for transporting sperm and provides energy and nutrition for sperm.

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Although many African countries have made significant progress towards universal access to water, energy, and food resources (WEF), assessing the ecological response to the increasing productivity of these resources is not well researched, which carries the risk of ecological deficit, resource degradation, and inefficient policy responses to resource management. This study seeks to assess the ecological sustainability response to the high increase demand for WEF resources in well-developed African countries. The study developed new measurement metrics for the WEF production system, including three indicators of ecological footprint (EF), ecological biocapacity (EBC), and eco-balance.

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The C-S bond formation from aryl halides and thiols has been well established under various catalytic systems. In this work, user-friendly sulfinates have been exploited as an efficient sulfenylating reagent in the C-S couplings through visible-light-induced photo/nickel dual catalysis under base- and external reductant-free conditions. A large number of aryl sulfide products were accessed with high selectivity and high tolerance of various functionalities.

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The compressive stress-strain behaviors of early-aged cementitious grout specimens were experimentally investigated, and the differences of characteristic parameters of the stress-strain curve and the energy evolution law of each specimen under uniaxial compression were discussed in this study. The results indicate that with an increase in the specimen age, the peak stress, peak strain, ultimate strain, elastic modulus, peak secant modulus, strain ductility coefficient, and energy-dissipation coefficient of the prism specimens gradually improved. Additionally, a comparison of the test results of cementitious grout specimens and concrete specimens with the same age reveals that the peak stress, peak strain, and ultimate strain of cementitious grout specimens were greater than that of concrete specimens, the elastic modulus and peak secant modulus of the specimens were less than that of concrete specimens, and the strain ductility coefficient and energy-dissipation coefficient show no consistent conclusions with respect to the material type.

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Metal- and additive-free photoredox cyclization of -arylacrylamides is herein reported that provides a concise access to the formation of dihydroquinolinones. In this protocol, sustainable visible light was used as the energy source, and the organic light-emitting molecule 4CzIPN served as the efficient photocatalyst. This reaction system features exclusive 6- cyclization selectivity with a generally good yield of a range of functionalized dihydroquinolinones and dihydrobenzoquinolinones.

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The transformation from silent to functional synapses is accompanied by the evolutionary process of human brain development and is essential to hardware implementation of the evolutionary artificial neural network but remains a challenge for mimicking silent to functional synapse activation. Here, we developed a simple approach to successfully realize activation of silent to functional synapses by controlled sulfurization of chemical vapor deposition-grown indium selenide crystals. The underlying mechanism is attributed to the migration of sulfur anions introduced by sulfurization.

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A mild transition-metal- and photosensitizer-free photoredox system based on the combination of NaI and PPh was found to enable highly selective reduction of nitroarenes. This protocol tolerates a broad range of reducible functional groups such as halogen (Cl, Br, and even I), aldehyde, ketone, carboxyl, and cyano. Moreover, the photoredox catalysis with NaI and stoichiometric PPh provides also an alternative entry to Cadogan-type reductive amination when -nitrobiarenes were used.

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Diabetes can cause bone metabolism disorders and osteoporosis. The occurrence of both diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis increases the disability and mortality of elderly individuals due to pathological fracture. Abnormal metabolism of nutrientsis considered to be one of the important mechanisms of diabetes mellitus-induced osteoporosis.

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Transient electronics is an emerging class of electronics that has attracted a lot of attention because of its potential as an environmental-friendly alternative to the existing end-of-life product disposal or treatments. However, the controlled degradation of transient electronics under environmentally benign conditions remains a challenge. In this work, the tunable degradation of transient electronics including passive resistor devices and active memory devices was realized by photodegradable thin polymer films comprising fullerene derivatives, [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl esters (PCBM).

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