Publications by authors named "Xujie Zhu"

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  • Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a serious CNS infection that is difficult to diagnose due to inadequate detection methods, leading this study to evaluate current clinical practices.
  • A cohort of 514 patients from 2018 to 2020 was analyzed, revealing TBM and neurosyphilis as the most common CNS infections, with a significant percentage showing signs of CNS inflammation in their Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) analysis.
  • The study found that metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) had high sensitivity for detecting TBM, while combining GeneXpert and microbial cultures provided a useful and cost-effective alternative for diagnosis.
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Cove-edged zigzag graphene nanoribbons are predicted to show metallic, topological, or trivial semiconducting band structures, which are precisely determined by their cove offset positions at both edges as well as the ribbon width. However, due to the challenge of introducing coves into zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons, only a few cove-edged graphene nanoribbons with trivial semiconducting bandgaps have been realized experimentally. Here, we report that the topological band structure can be realized in cove-edged graphene nanoribbons by embedding periodic pentagon rings on the cove edges through on-surface synthesis.

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Coronoids as polycyclic aromatic macrocycles enclosing a cavity have attracted a lot of attention due to their distinctive molecular and electronic structures. They can be also regarded as nanoporous graphene molecules whose electronic properties are critically dependent on the size and topology of their outer and inner peripheries. However, because of their synthetic challenges, the extended hexagonal coronoids with zigzag outer edges have not been reported yet.

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