Publications by authors named "X S Yao"
Natural materials with highly oriented heterogeneous structures are often lightweight but strong, stiff but tough and durable. Such an integration of diverse incompatible mechanical properties is highly desired for man-made materials, especially weak hydrogels which are lack of high-precision structural design. Herein, we demonstrate the fabrication of hierarchically aligned heterogeneous hydrogels consisting of a compactly crosslinked sheath and an aligned porous core with alignments of nanofibrils at multi-scales by a sequential self-assembly assisted salting out method.
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- Enhancing transport and mechanical properties in cathode composites is essential for solid-state battery performance.
- The FAST electrode features vertically aligned carbon nanotubes in a polymer electrolyte, improving ionic and electronic conductivity while reinforcing the electrode.
- This innovative design leads to excellent electrochemical performance, achieving a capacity of 148.2 mAh/g at 0.2 C over 100 cycles, indicating progress in solid-state lithium metal battery technology.
Microtubule assembly takes place at the centrosome and noncentrosomal microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs). However, the mechanisms controlling the activity of noncentrosomal MTOCs are poorly understood. Here, using the fission yeast as a model organism, we demonstrate that the kinesin-14 motor Klp2 interacts with the J-domain Hsp70/Ssa1 cochaperone Rsp1, an inhibitory factor of microtubule assembly, and that Klp2 is required for the proper localization of Rsp1 to microtubules.
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