Publications by authors named "Sun Kuo"

The recycling of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has been dogged by air pollutants containing fluoride (e.g. HF, PF, POF).

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Electrochemical semi-hydrogenation of alkynols to produce high-value alkenols is a green and sustainable approach. Although Pd can exhibit excellent semi-hydrogenation properties, its intrinsic mechanism still lacks in-depth study. Herein, a proton ionic liquid (PIL)-modified Pd metallene (Pdene@PIL) is synthesized for the electrocatalytic semi-hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBY) to 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBE).

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LiMnFePO/C is characterized by excellent multiplicative performance and high operating voltage, and as a type of cathode material, it has a high electronic conductivity and thus has received much attention. In this paper, carbon-coated LiMnFePO/C was synthesized using glucose + PEG2000 as the carbon source by wet sanding and spray-drying. The experimental results show that the use of sanding and the spray-drying method can make the particle size distribution of LiMnFePO/C powder more uniform.

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  • Forward osmosis (FO) membrane processes can treat wastewater efficiently without relying on hydraulic pressure, which reduces fouling and improves performance.
  • Researchers developed a thin-film nanocomposite ceramic-based FO membrane enhanced by an in situ Zr-MOF interlayer, achieving increased water flux and lower salt reversibility.
  • The new ceramic-based membranes show excellent performance across varying pH levels and effectively reject contaminants in industrial wastewater, making them promising for challenging water treatment applications.
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Potassium-ion battery is rich in resources and cheap in price, in the era of lithium-ion battery commercialization, potassium-ion battery is the most likely to replace it. Based on the classification and summary of electrode materials for potassium-ion batteries, this paper focuses on the introduction of manganese-based oxide KMnO. The layered KMnO has a large layer spacing and can be embedded with large size potassium-ions.

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Background: Catheter ablation failure poses a clinical challenge for epicardial or intramural ventricular arrhythmia (VA); however, guidewire ablation within the coronary venous system (CVS) may be effective and safe for targeting VAs.

Methods: The ex vivo phase included four steps. In step 1, the steam pop incidence rates during guidewire ablation at power settings of 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 W were analyzed using 10 mm- and 20 mm-tip guidewires.

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Background: Predicting relationships between plant functional traits and environmental effects in their habitats is a central issue in terms of classic ecological theories. Yet, only weak correlation with functional trait composition of local plant communities may occur, implying that some essential information might be ignored. In this study, to address this uncertainty, the objective of the study is to test whether and how the consistency of trait relationships occurs by analyzing broad variation in eight traits related to leaf morphological structure, nutrition status and physiological activity, within a large number of plant species in two distinctive but comparable harsh habitats (high-cold alpine fir forest vs.

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are effective for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). This method of embedding partial differential equations and their initial boundary conditions into the loss functions of neural networks has successfully solved forward and inverse PDE problems. In this study, we considered a parametric light wave equation, discretized it using the central difference, and, through this difference scheme, constructed a new neural network structure named the second-order neural network structure.

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The mole cricket is an evolutionarily, medicinal, and agriculturally significant insect that inhabits underground environments and is distributed globally. This study measured genome size by flow cytometry and k-mer based on low-coverage sequencing, and nuclear repetitive elements were also identified. The haploid genome size estimate is 3.

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Osteoporotic fractures, also known as fragility fractures, are prevalent in the elderly and bring tremendous social burdens. Poor bone quality, weak repair capacity, instability, and high failure rate of internal fixation are main characteristics of osteoporotic fractures. Osteoporotic bone defects are common and need to be repaired by appropriate materials.

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Rational design of high-performance stable metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes is challenging, especially for the sustainable treatment of hypersaline waters to address critical global environmental issues. Herein, a molecular-level intra-crystalline defect strategy combined with a selective layer thinning protocol is proposed to fabricate robust ultrathin missing-linker UiO-66 (ML-UiO-66) membrane to enable fast water permeation. Besides almost complete salt rejection, high and stable water flux is achieved even under long-term pervaporation operation in hash environments, which effectively addresses challenging stability issues.

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While membrane-based oil-water separation has been widely explored, using conventional membranes to treat oily wastewaters remains practically challenging especially when such wastewaters contain more stable nano-sized oil droplets and are of high oil content, and harsh chemical conditions. Herein, we report a novel protocol of efficiently separating both synthetic and real oil nano-emulsions via specially designed robust zirconia membranes. The best-performing zirconia membrane, fabricated at low sintering temperature, has relatively uniform sub-100 nm pores and is underwater superoleophobic.

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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a joint degenerative disease commonly seen in the elderly. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-exosomes (BMSC-exosomes) are closely associated with the progression of OA. Here, we investigated whether BMSC-exosomes can affect OA development by regulating mitophagy.

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Fieber, 1852 (Orthoptera: Acrididae), is a grasshopper genus comprising approximately 170 species, all of which prefer dry environments such as deserts, steppes, and stony benchlands. In this study, we aimed to examine the adaptation of grasshopper species to arid environments. The genome size of was estimated using flow cytometry, and the first high-quality full-length transcriptome of this species was produced.

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True sea snakes (Hydrophiini) are among the last and most successful clades of vertebrates that show secondary marine adaptation, exhibiting diverse phenotypic traits and lethal venom systems. To better understand their evolution, we generated the first chromosome-level genomes of two representative Hydrophiini snakes, Hydrophis cyanocinctus and H. curtus.

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is an excellent mangrove plant. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of , a salt tolerant plant of Acanthaceae, was generated. The length of chloroplast genome is 150,758 bp, in which the large-single copy region (LSC) is 82,963 bp, the small-single copy (SSC) region is 17,191 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat (IRa and IRb) regions is 25,302 bp.

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TNFR2 is aberrantly expressed on various cancer cells and highly immunosuppressive regulatory T cells (T) accumulated in tumor microenvironment. As an oncoprotein and a stimulator of the immune checkpoint T that promote cancer cell survival and tumor growth, TNFR2 is considered to be a prospective target for cancer immunotherapy with the blockers developed to simultaneously inhibit abundant TNFR2 tumor-associated T and directly kill TNFR2-expressing tumors. The soluble ectodomain of TNFR2 has also been successfully applied in clinical treatment for TNF-related autoimmune diseases.

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Patients with severe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can likely develop comorbidities, which can lead to irreversible organ damage and, eventually, death. However, early indicators of disease progression remain unclear. This study aimed to identify early indicators of disease progression to provide a basis for improved prognostic prediction and disease management.

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Biopeptides derived from marine species have garnered significant research interest owing to their anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anticancer activities. In our previous study, Hydrostatin-SN1, a bioactive peptide extracted from the venom gland T7 phage display library, demonstrated anti-inflammatory activity in a dextran sulfate sodium-induced murine colitis model. In this study, we investigated the anti-inflammatory activity and the underlying mechanism of Hydrostatin-SN1 in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced bone marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM) cells and interleukin (IL)-10 knockout mice.

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The ecological model we developed can simulate the state of wetlands and predict ecosystem development by varying both parameter settings and forcing functions. The newly created wetland resulting from large-scale coal mining is a distinct type of wetland, but existing ecological models for this wetland type are limited in number and scope. The Yanzhou coalfield, located in Shandong Province in China, contains a typical newly created wetland that came into being after coal mining subsidence.

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Baculoviral IAP repeat containing 7 (BIRC7/Livin/ML-IAP/KIAP; referred to as Livin throughout the present study) and placental growth factor (PlGF) are not detectable in the majority of normal differentiated tissues, but are present in a number of types of cancer, including hepatocellular carcinoma, ovarian cancer and renal cell carcinoma. The aim of the present study was to assess the expression levels of Livin and PlGF in human osteosarcoma specimens and cell lines, and to analyze the functions of Livin and PIGF in the prognosis of osteosarcoma. The expression levels of Livin and PlGF in 48 osteosarcoma specimens and three osteosarcoma cells were determined using immunohistochemistry and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

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Rationale: Popliteal cyst developing in the sheath of a peripheral nerve or joint capsule may cause compression neuropathy. Although popliteal cyst is very common lesion, it seldom causes serious complications. Common peroneal nerve compression is rarely caused by an extraneural popliteal cyst.

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Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are widely used in a variety of products used in daily life. However, their impact on human health has not been completely elucidated. This study was designed to investigate the cytotoxicity associated with ZnO NPs, the role of dissolution in the toxicity of ZnO NPs, the molecular mechanisms and mode of cell death induced by ZnO NPs in human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs), and the protective effects of the antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (LA).

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Post-traumatic arthritis is a secondary complication to severe joint trauma. With the disease progression, it may eventually lead to osteoarthritis in patients whose age is considerably younger than patients with traditional bone arthritis. The main objective of this study was to explore the feasibility of using lentiviral-mediated RNA interference silencing of IL-1β and TNF-α to treat post-traumatic arthritis in rabbits.

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Two-step reset behaviors in the resistance switching properties of the top Al/TiOx/bottom Cu structure were studied. During the electroforming and set steps, two types of conducting filaments composed of Cu and oxygen vacancies (Cu-CF and V(O)-CF) were simultaneously (or sequentially) formed when Al was negatively biased. In the subsequent reset step with the opposite bias polarity, the Cu-CFs ruptured first at ~0.

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