Mechanochemical Synthesis of Phase-Pure CsCuI and CsCuI Phosphors Regulated by Polar Solvents and Their Application in Tunable Chromaticity LEDs.

Lead halide perovskites have garnered interest in light-emitting diode (LED) applications due to their strong emission and tunable properties. However, conventional synthesis methods involve energy-intensive thermal processes and hazardous organic solvents, raising environmental concerns. In this study, we report a simple and eco-friendly mechanochemical approach that produces phase-pure blue-emitting CsCuI (emission at 440 nm) and yellow-emitting CsCuI (emission at 570 nm) phosphors through polarity modulation and control of grinding duration.

Pore-scale deformation characteristics of hydrate-bearing sediments with gas replacement.

Gas replacement method enables the simultaneous exploitation of natural gas and the realization of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Safe exploitation of hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS) has garnered significant attention, particularly concerning the engineering geological risks involved. Understanding deformation characteristics during shear after the replacement of HBS is crucial for safe and efficient exploitation.

Investigation on multi-parameter of hydrate-bearing synthetic sediment during hydrate replacement process: A in-situ X-ray computed tomography study.

Carbon sequestration can be achieved by carbon dioxide replacement in natural gas hydrate exploitation, which reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing an effective solution to address climate change, while simultaneously protecting the environment and promoting sustainable energy development. Gas replacement can achieve gas exploitation, gas storage, and stability enhancement simultaneously. However, time-varying microstructure evolution of the hydrate-bearing sediment (HBS) during this process remain a large amount of uncertainty.

Speckle wavemeter based on a multi-core fiber and compressive imaging.

Random speckle patterns contain valuable information about the incident light. Researchers have successfully constructed spectrometers and wavemeters by utilizing the speckles generated by inter-mode interferences of a multimode fiber (MMF). However, cameras were often employed to record the speckle data in previous reports.

Inverse design of polarization conversion metasurfaces by deep neural networks.

To address the problem of multiple solutions and improve the calculating speed, we construct a tandem architecture consisting of a forward modeling network and an inverse design network. Using this combined network, we inversely design the circular polarization converter and analyze the effect of different design parameters on the prediction accuracy of the polarization conversion rate. The average mean square error of the circular polarization converter is 0.

Fast Peel-Off Ultrathin, Transparent, and Free-Standing Films Assembled from Low-Dimensional Materials Using MXene Sacrificial Layers and Produced Bubbles.

Ultrathin, transparent, and free-standing films assembled from low-dimensional nanomaterials (LDMs) are promising for various applications, including transparent heaters and membranes. However, the intact separation of the assembled films, especially those with controlled ultrathin thickness from deposited substrates, is a tremendous challenge, particularly for fast peeling off via self-detaching. Herein, we propose a versatile method to rapidly peel off ultrathin assembled LDM films, including three types of carbon nanotubes, vermiculite, Ag nanowires, and carbon nanotube@graphene, by dissolving the MXene interlayer from the layer-by-layer filtered MXene/LDM Janus films using diluted H O .

Stepwise membrane binding of extended synaptotagmins revealed by optical tweezers.

Extended synaptotagmins (E-Syts) mediate lipid exchange between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the plasma membrane (PM). Anchored on the ER, E-Syts bind the PM via an array of C2 domains in a Ca- and lipid-dependent manner, drawing the two membranes close to facilitate lipid exchange. How these C2 domains bind the PM and regulate the ER-PM distance is not well understood.

Identification of a mimotope of an infectious bronchitis virus S1 protein.

The S1 protein of the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a major structural protein that induces the production of the virus-neutralization antibodies. The monoclonal antibody against the IBV M41 S1 protein was used as a target for biopanning. After three rounds of biopanning, randomly selected phages bound to the monoclonal antibody.

Mechanical behaviors of hydrate-bearing sediment with different cementation spatial distributions at microscales.

Unlike the conceptual models, the natural hydrate spatial distribution in sediments is multitype and presents different coalescence degrees. In this study, we present pore-scale triaxial test results for hydrate-bearing sediments with different hydrate spatial distributions for the first time. It shows that the specimen with a more dispersed hydrate distribution yields later and exhibits larger peak strength.

Induction of anti-Zearalenone immune response with mimotopes identified from a phage display peptide library.

Zearalenone (ZEN), a type of non-steroidal estrogenic mycotoxin, is mainly produced by several species of Fusarium molds. It is ubiquitous in contaminated grains and grain products all over the world, posing a serious threat to animal and human health. This study aims to screen the mimotopes of ZEN from a phage display random 12-mer peptide library and explore their immunogenicity.

Multi-source Seq2seq guided by knowledge for Chinese healthcare consultation.

Online healthcare consultation offers people a convenient way to consult doctors. In this paper, we aim at building a generative dialog system for Chinese healthcare consultation. As the original Seq2seq architecture tends to suffer the issue of generating low-quality responses, the multi-source Seq2seq architecture generating more informative responses is much more preferred in this task.

Personalized Body Constitution Inquiry Based on Machine Learning.

Background: Body constitution (BC) is the abstract concept indicating the state of a person's health in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The doctor identifies the body constitution of the patient through inspection and inquiry. Previous research simulates doctors to identify BC types according to a patient's objective physical indicators.

Cross domains adversarial learning for Chinese named entity recognition for online medical consultation.

Deep learning methods have been applied to Chinese named entity recognition for the online medical consultation. They require a large number of marked samples. However, no such database is available at present.

A microfocus x-ray computed tomography based gas hydrate triaxial testing apparatus.

Gas hydrate-bearing sediment shows complex mechanical characteristics. Its macroscopic deformation process involves many microstructural changes such as phase transformation, grain transport, and cementation failure. However, the conventional gas hydrate triaxial testing apparatus is not possible to obtain the microstructure in the samples.

Alveolar paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma mimicing epididymitis: Case report and literature review.

Rationale: Most patients with paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma may typically present as a unilateral, painless palpable scrotum mass. However, only a few cases of RMS presenting as painful edema of the scrotum mimicing epididymitis. We herein report an unusual case of alveolar paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma misdiagnosed as epididymitis.

Effects of aberrations on effective point spread function in STED microscopy.

Like other imaging techniques, stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy suffers from aberrations. While their effects on depletion patterns have been explicitly investigated, the study on how aberrations affect the effective point spread function (PSF) in STED microscopy is still missing. For STED researchers, however, this study is beneficial, as it directly bridges image qualities and aberrations.

Single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein-membrane interactions.

Many biological processes rely on protein-membrane interactions in the presence of mechanical forces, yet high resolution methods to quantify such interactions are lacking. Here, we describe a single-molecule force spectroscopy approach to quantify membrane binding of C2 domains in Synaptotagmin-1 (Syt1) and Extended Synaptotagmin-2 (E-Syt2). Syts and E-Syts bind the plasma membrane via multiple C2 domains, bridging the plasma membrane with synaptic vesicles or endoplasmic reticulum to regulate membrane fusion or lipid exchange, respectively.

[Study on the Preparation of Ba3Si6O9N4 : Eu(2+) Phosphor and the Characterization of Their Luminescence Properties].

Ba3Si6O9N4 : Eu(2+) phosphors were synthesized by two-step synthesis processes based on high temperature solid phase using BaSiO3 as a precursor. The influence mechanism of the Eu(2+) doping concentration to the luminescence properties of Ba3Si6O9N4 : Eu(2+) phosphors were mainly investigated. This paper made a comparison between the luminescence properties of Ba3Si6ON4 : Eu(2+) phosphors prepared by two-step processes and solid- state reaction method.

Hydrate-based heavy metal separation from aqueous solution.

A novel hydrate-based method is proposed for separating heavy metal ions from aqueous solution. We report the first batch of experiments and removal characteristics in this paper, the effectiveness and feasibility of which are verified by Raman spectroscopy analysis and cross-experiment. 88.

In-situ visual observation for the formation and dissociation of methane hydrates in porous media by magnetic resonance imaging.

In this work, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was employed to observe the in-situ formation and dissociation of methane hydrates in porous media. Methane hydrate was formed in a high-pressure cell with controlled temperature, and then the hydrate was dissociated by thermal injection. The process was photographed by the MRI, and the pressure was recorded.

Rugate notch filter fabricated by atomic layer deposition.

A Rugate notch filter is fabricated by atomic layer deposition. By regulating the thickness ratio of TiO2 and Al2O3 in a nanoscale layer, the refractive index is tailored between the refractive indices of the two materials. With the method of equivalent refractive index, the continuously variable refractive index of the designed Rugate filter is dispersed into several discrete ones, so that it can be realized by the refractive index tailoring.

Evanescent-wave-induced frequency shift for optical superresolution imaging.

We propose a method to enhance the resolution and break the diffraction limit. The superresolution imaging is realized by incorporating total internal reflection (TIR) illumination with a passive spatial frequency shift mechanism. Meanwhile, TIR supplies a surface field with a limited penetration depth, which demonstrates that the axial resolution can be improved simultaneously.

Continuous manipulation of doughnut focal spot in a large scale.

We theoretically demonstrate that the doughnut focal spot can continuously be manipulated by synthetically using various beam modulation techniques. Comparatively, a more evident effect can be expected by different orders of phase modulation, while accurate manipulation stems from changing the phase diversity between two arms in an image inverting interferometer (III). The size of central dark spot can thus be continuously adjusted in a theoretically infinite scale, although it may actually be limited by resolution of Spatial Light Modulator (SLM).

Manipulation of doughnut focal spot by image inverting interferometry.

Based on image inverting interference combined with phase modulation, we theoretically demonstrate that the doughnut focal spot can readily be manipulated, and either shrinkage or expansion of size of the central dark spot is possible in a large scale (peak-to-peak value: 0.555λ-0.830λ, or 93.