Publications by authors named "Yonghuan Zhao"

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  • - Solid contact calcium ion-selective electrodes (Ca-ISEs) are useful for quick and easy water and body fluid analysis, but their performance is limited by potential drift over time, which affects stability.
  • - Researchers designed a flower-like copper sulfide (CuS-50) layer, modified with the surfactant CTAB, which shows improved performance with a near-Nernstian slope and minimal potential drift during stability tests.
  • - The study provided insights into the transduction mechanism involving lipophilic anions, which enhances the ion-electron transfer process, offering a new way to improve the design of redox materials used in these electrodes.
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Considerable progress has already been made in sweat sensors based on electrochemical methods to realize real-time monitoring of biomarkers. However, realizing long-term monitoring of multiple targets at the atomic level remains extremely challenging, in terms of designing stable solid contact (SC) interfaces and fully integrating multiple modules for large-scale applications of sweat sensors. Herein, a fully integrated wristwatch was designed using mass-manufactured sensor arrays based on hierarchical multilayer-pore cross-linked N-doped porous carbon coated by reduced graphene oxide (NPCs@rGO-950) microspheres with high hydrophobicity as core SC, and highly selective monitoring simultaneously for K, Na, and Ca ions in human sweat was achieved, exhibiting near-Nernst responses almost without forming an interfacial water layer.

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  • The study highlights the limitation of existing lead ion detection methods using nanomaterials, which often operate under acidic conditions and may not accurately measure lead in neutral water.
  • Researchers developed a new catalyst using platinum nanoclusters stabilized on a cobalt-doped g-CN substrate to enhance detection precision for lead ions and their hydroxide forms in neutral environments.
  • The innovative design allows for the parallel detection of both lead (Pb) and lead hydroxide (Pb(OH)), leveraging unique electron dynamics to enable rapid, sensitive measurements of total Pb(II) in real-world water samples.
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The high selectivity and fast ion response of all-solid sodium ion selective electrodes were widely applied in human sweat analysis. However, the potential drift due to insufficient interfacial capacitance leads to the deterioration of its stability and ultimately affects the potential accuracy of ion analysis. Designing a novel ion-electron transduction layer between the electrode and the ion selective membrane is an effective method to stabilize the interfacial potential.

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  • There has been limited research on highly sensitive and selective detection methods for cadmium (Cd(II)), despite advancements in nanomaterial adsorbability.
  • Doping cobalt phosphide (CoP) with iron (Fe) creates an efficient electron transfer pathway that allows for excellent electrochemical performance in detecting Cd(II), achieving a sensitivity of 109.75 μA μM.
  • This study provides insights into customizing sensors by using doping engineering to enhance electron configurations, as confirmed by experimental and theoretical analyses, allowing these sensors to effectively distinguish Cd(II) from other heavy metal ions.
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Although the enhanced intrinsic activities of some nano-metal oxides are obtained by manufacturing oxygen vacancies (OVs), the effect of multiple roles of OVs is ambiguous. Herein, an interface catalytic regulation electron rearrangement and hydroxyl radicals (˙OH) was proposed with the designed ZrO hollow sphere rich in OVs (V-rich ZrO). Surprisingly, it was shown that the catalytic ability of V-rich ZrO was 9.

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Traditional nanomodified electrodes have made great achievements in electrochemical stripping voltammetry of sensing materials for As(III) detection. Moreover, the intermediate states are complicated to probe because of the ultrashort lifetime and complex reaction conditions of the electron transfer process in electroanalysis, which seriously hinder the identification of the actual active site. Herein, the intrinsic interaction of highly sensitive analytical behavior of nanomaterials is elucidated from the perspective of electronic structure through density functional theory (DFT) and gradient boosting regression (GBR).

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Constructing high-effective electrode sensing interfaces has been considered an effective method for electrochemical detection toward heavy metal ions (HMIs). However, most research has been devoted to enhancing the stripping currents of HMIs by simply improving the adsorptive capacity and conductivity of the electrode modified materials, while lacking theoretical guidelines in fabricating catalytic sensing interfaces. Besides, the understanding of detection mechanisms is quite unscientific from the perspective of catalysis.

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The emergence of graphene-based polymer composite fibers provides a new opportunity to study the high-performance and functional chemical fibers. In this work, we have developed an efficient and convenient method with polydopamine (PDA) to functionalize and reduce graphene oxide (GO) simultaneously, and the modified graphene nanosheets can obtain uniform dispersion and strong interfacial bonding in nylon 6 (PA6). Furthermore, the reinforced PA6 composite fibers were prepared through mixing PDA-rGO into the PA6 polymer matrix and then melt spinning.

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Hypothesis: In general, microporous membranes with waterproofness, breathability, and oil-water separation performance are prepared from hydrophobic raw materials and demonstrated to exhibit an interconnected porous structure. Hence, constructing porous and gradient-structured composite membranes by integrating robust hydrophobic/lipophilic polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and breathable polyurethane (PU) microporous membranes could help realize a selective separation process.

Experiment: Here, novel polyvinylidene fluoride-carbon nanotube/polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride-carbon nanotube (PVDF-CNT/PU/PVDF-CNT) sandwich-structured microporous membranes were fabricated by sequential electrospinning.

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γ-Tocotrienol, a major component of the tocotrienol-rich fraction of palm oil, has been suggested to have antioxidant and anticancer activity as well as potent chemopreventive effects on tumor cells. In this study, the mechanisms underlying γ-tocotrienol-mediated growth inhibition of human carcinoma HT-29 cells were further investigated, especially in correlation with the involvement of β-catenin/T-cell factor (Tcf) signaling pathway. We found that γ-tocotrienol could strongly suppress the transcriptional activity of β-catenin/Tcf signaling pathway in HT-29 cells.

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The β-catenin gene is a critical component of Wnt signaling pathway. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling and subsequent upregulation of β-catenin is related to enhancing cell proliferation and developing colon polyps and colon cancer. In the present study, the effect of β-catenin knockdown on the growth and survival of the human colon cancer cell line HT-29 was investigated in vitro.

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Beta-sitosterol is an important phytosterol found in plant food. It has been shown to have antiproliferative effects on cancers of the colon, breast, and prostate, but its effect on stomach cancer cells in vitro is unknown. Proliferation, cytotoxicity, and apoptosis in SGC-7901 human stomach cancer cells were examined by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, clone formation, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage assay, acridine orange (AO)/ethidium bromide (EB) double staining, 4',6-diamidine-2'-phenylindole dihydrochloride (DAPI) staining, comet assay, and Western blotting.

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