Publications by authors named "Yitong Sun"

The rotary direct drive electro-hydraulic servo valve (RDDPV) is extensively employed in hydraulic systems across aerospace, automotive, and various industrial sectors owing to its remarkable precision and rapid response characteristics. The investigation of the durability life of such devices, constituting intricate amalgamations of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic components, has perennially posed a formidable challenge. To address this challenge, our study proposes a methodology grounded in failure mechanisms to systematically quantify the durability life of RDDPV.

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With the continue emergence of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-modifying therapies, pinpointing the treatments that offer the greatest benefits to patients is increasingly critical. Complementary diagnostics are powerful tests that can provide crucial biomarker dynamics about the drug usage that can improve treatment outcomes by individualized pharmacotherapy. Herein, we exploited a robust near-infrared fluorescent probe, by attenuating the pre-twisting tendency and the twist intramolecular charge transfer effect, for sensing of Hcy in vitro and in vivo with high quantum yield, excellent selectivity, and remarkable sensitivity.

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Despite the recent breakthrough in structure determination and prediction of proteins, the structural investigation of carbohydrates remains a challenge. Here, we report the cryo-EM analysis of a glycofibril found in the freshwater in the Tsinghua Lotus Pond. The fibril, which we name TLP-4, is made of a linear chain of tetrapeptide repeats coated with >4 nm thick glycans.

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The utilization of lanthanide (Ln) complexes in the realm of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has garnered extensive interest, particularly in their role as luminescent materials or electron trappers. A series of gadolinium (Gd) complexes with energy levels of high HOMO/LUMO and different triplet state energies were designed and synthesized by introducing substituents with different electronic effects onto the pyrazolone derivative ligands. Subsequently, these complexes were precisely purified by vacuum sublimation and codoped into the light-emitting layer (EML) of the OLEDs.

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  • Superconductivity in 2D materials, especially monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides like NbSe, is important for advancing fundamental physics and exhibits unique properties such as Ising superconductivity due to certain symmetries and spin-orbit coupling.
  • The study utilized an organic cation intercalation method to increase the interlayer distance in NbSe, making it behave similarly to monolayer NbSe, with the distance doubling or tripling compared to its original state.
  • Results showed that the superconducting transition temperature of the intercalated NbSe remains comparable to pristine NbSe while its charge density wave transition temperature increases, indicating that this intercalation technique can effectively explore and manipulate superconducting properties in two-dimensional materials.
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  • The study investigated how nano-magnetite improves dissimilatory iron reduction (DIR) in sewage, specifically focusing on the formation of vivianite, a common product of DIR.
  • Incorporation of nano-magnetite increased the abundance of beneficial bacteria like Comamonas and Geobacter and significantly boosted microbial protein content during the DIR process.
  • The findings highlighted nano-magnetite's role in enhancing electron transfer by creating conductive pathways, promoting vivianite recovery, and advancing the understanding of mineral-microbe interactions in nutrient recovery.
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  • Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a durable engineering plastic used in bone substitutes, but its biological inertness requires enhancements for better clinical application.
  • This study introduced a method to graft bioactive glass (BAG) onto PEEK surfaces using a sulfonation reaction with concentrated sulfuric acid to increase bioactivity in bone scaffolds.
  • Results showed that the optimal conditions for modification led to scaffolds with improved properties like reduced cytotoxicity and enhanced biocompatibility, suggesting potential for better bone repair in clinical settings.
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Although brightness and efficiency have been continually improved, the inability to achieve superior efficiency, color stability, and low-efficiency roll-off simultaneously in white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) remains a knotty problem restricting the commercial application. In this paper, emission balance for two different horizontal orientation emitting molecules is maintained by using hole transport materials and bipolar host materials to control carriers' recombination and exciton diffusion. Impressively, the obtained devices exhibit extremely stable white emission with small chromaticity coordinates variation of (0.

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Redox-responsive homodimer prodrug nanoassemblies (RHPNs) have emerged as a significant technology for overcoming chemotherapeutical limitations due to their high drug-loading capacity, low excipient-associated toxicity, and straightforward preparation method. Previous studies indicated that α-position disulfide bond bridged RHPNs exhibited rapid drug release rates but unsatisfactory assembly stability. In contrast, γ-disulfide bond bridged RHPNs showed better assembly stability but low drug release rates.

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Environmental fluoride exposure has been linked to numerous cases of fluorosis worldwide. Previous studies have indicated that long-term exposure to fluoride can result in intellectual damage among children. However, a comprehensive health risk assessment of fluorosis-induced intellectual damage is still pending.

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Physical adversarial attacks have put a severe threat to DNN-based object detectors. To enhance security, a combination of visible and infrared sensors is deployed in various scenarios, which has proven effective in disabling existing single-modal physical attacks. To further demonstrate the potential risks in such cases, we design a unified adversarial patch that can perform cross-modal physical attacks, achieving evasion in both modalities simultaneously with a single patch.

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Triarylboranes-based pure organic room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials are rarely investigated because of their large steric hindrance and the electron defect of the boron atom. As a result, creating functional triarylborane RTP materials is difficult. Herein, we report the first photo-activated RTP materials with lifetimes/quantum yields ≤0.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma associated with chronic hepatitis B virus infection seriously affects human health. Present studies suggest that genetic susceptibility plays an important role in the mechanism of cancer development. Therefore, this study focused on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes associated with HBV-HCC.

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As intelligent probes, dynamic and controllable molecular switches are useful tools for probing and intervening in life processes. However, the types and properties of molecular switches are still relatively single and often can only make two actions: "off" and "on". Therefore, the development of novel molecular switches with multiple colors and multiple instructions is very challenging.

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A hallmark of the development of solid and hematological malignancies is the dysregulation of apoptosis, which leads to an imbalance between cell proliferation, cell survival and death. Halogenated boroxine [K (B O F OH)] (HB) is a derivative of cyclic anhydride of boronic acid, with reproducible anti-tumor and anti-proliferative effects in different cell models. Notably, these changes are observed to be more profound in tumor cells than in normal cells.

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Triarylphosphine-based pure organic long persistent luminescence materials are rarely investigated because of their poor stability and low photoluminescence quantum yield. Herein, we demonstrate that the introduction of a methoxy group (TPP--3OMe) at the position of triphenylphosphine (TPP) can essentially promote the n → π* transition and promote intersystem crossing to generate more triplet excitons. Simultaneously, generating abundant intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bonds to stable excited triplet excitons is beneficial, thereby causing high-efficiency phosphorescence emission (τ = 394.

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Exploring precious-metal-free catalysts for efficient photocatalytic H evolution is highly desirable but still challenging. Herein, a novel 2D/2D Co-ZIF-9/Ti C composite was fabricated by a facile electrostatic self-assembly strategy. Owing to higher flux of photogenerated electron-holes and lower rate of recombination, the resultant composite exhibited better photocatalytic H evolution compared to Co-ZIF-9.

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The area covered by Chinese-style solar greenhouses (CSGs) has been increasing rapidly. However, only a few pyranometers, which are fundamental for solar radiation sensing, have been installed inside CSGs. The lack of solar radiation sensing will bring negative effects in greenhouse cultivation such as over irrigation or under irrigation, and unnecessary power consumption.

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In bacteria, small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) could function in gene regulations under variable stress responses. DsrA is an ∼90-nucleotide Hfq-dependent sRNA found in Escherichia coli. It regulates the translation and degradation of multiple mRNAs, such as rpoS, hns, mreB and rbsD mRNAs.

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  • A study investigated the health impacts of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), specifically sulfate aerosol and black carbon exposure, using a controlled chamber system.
  • The exposure system produced stable concentrations of sulfate (74.19 μg/m3) and soot (11.54 μg/m3) particles, with specific size ranges for both types.
  • After two hours of exposure in young, healthy subjects, significant increases in fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) were observed, suggesting potential respiratory effects, and highlighting the need for further studies on air pollution's cardiovascular and respiratory impacts.
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Background: Particles in smaller size fractions, such as ultrafine particles (UFPs) (with diameter less than 100 nm), has become of significant cardiovascular health concerns. However, the biological plausibility underlying potential relationship between UFPs and cardiovascular outcomes is less studied.

Methods: Fifty-three subjects living in Shanghai with type-2 diabetes (T2D) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) were followed for autonomic dysfunctions with three repeated measurements in 2010.

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In 2013, the World Health Organization reported the first case of human infection with a new influenza A (H7N9) virus in China. This has caused damage and panic within certain areas in China. Therefore, analysis of this virus with bioinformatics technology is very necessary.

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The photon to current conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) can be significantly affected by dye sensitizers. The design of novel dye sensitizers with good performance in DSCs depend on the dye's information about electronic structures and optical properties. Here, the geometries, electronic structures, as well as the dipole moments and polarizabilities of organic dye sensitizers C343 and 20 kinds of NKX derivatives were calculated using density functional theory (DFT), and the computations of the time dependent DFT with different functionals were performed to explore the electronic absorption properties.

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The geometries, electronic structures and the electronic absorption spectra of three kinds of ruthenium complexes, which contain tridentate bipyridine-pyrazolate ancillary ligands, were studied using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT. The calculated results indicate that: (1) the strong conjugated effects are formed across the pyrazoalte-bipyridine groups; (2) the interfacial electron transfer between electrode and the dye sensitizers is an electron injection processes from the excited dyes to the conduction band of TiO2; (3) the absorption bands in visible region have a mixed character of metal-to-ligand charge transfer and ligand-to-ligand charge transfer, but the main character of absorption bands near UV region ascribe to π→π* transitions; (4) introducing pyrazolate and -NCS groups are favorable for intra-molecular charge transfer, and they are main chromophores that contribute to the sensitization of photon-to-current conversion processes, but introducing -Cl and the terminal group -CF3 are unfavorable to improve the dye performance in dye sensitized solar cells.

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