Publications by authors named "Zelin Zhu"

A new aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminogen is obtained by dimerizing acridin-9(10H)-one (Ac), an aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect monomer via an N─N bond and forming 9H,9'H-[10,10'-biacridine]-9,9'-dione (DiAc) with D symmetry. The quenching of DiAc in solution is ascribed to the enhanced basicity promoting hydrogen bonding and then a hydrogen abstraction (HA) reaction and/or an unallowed transition in frontier orbitals with the same symmetry facilitating intersystem crossing. It is found that emissive Ac is one product of the non-emissive DiAc solution in the HA reaction activated by UV irradiation.

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Background: The emergence of dengue fever has prompted significant public health responses, highlighting the need for a comprehensive understanding of One Health in addressing vector-borne diseases. China's experience in dengue control and prevention programs offers valuable insights into the successful integration of multidisciplinary strategies.

Aims: The review aims to: (1) systematically analyze lessons from China's dengue control and prevention programs, focusing on the integration of these efforts with the One Health approach; (2) underscore the reasons of optimizing the dengue control and prevention program; (3) highlight the alignment of China's dengue control strategies with the One Health framework; (4) contribute to global efforts in combating dengue, providing scientific evidence and strategic recommendations for other regions facing similar challenges.

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  • - Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a significant disease in central and western China, transmitted by sandflies and affecting both people and animals.
  • - Recent findings reveal VL hotspots in several border areas and a rapid increase in mountain zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (MT-ZVL) in multiple provinces from 2011 to 2022, with 671 cases reported in historically affected areas.
  • - To combat the spread of MT-ZVL, public health recommendations include implementing One Health strategies, enhancing surveillance for sandflies and infected dogs, and ensuring timely diagnosis and treatment for patients.
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Solar-driven CO reduction to yield high-value chemicals presents an appealing avenue for combating climate change, yet achieving selective production of specific products remains a significant challenge. We showcase two osmium complexes, przpOs, and trzpOs, as CO reduction catalysts for selective CO-to-methane conversion. Kinetically, the przpOs and trzpOs exhibit high CO reduction catalytic rate constants of 0.

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Deep-blue multi-resonance (MR) emitters with stable and narrow full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) are of great importance for widening the color gamut of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, most planar MR emitters are vulnerable to intermolecular interactions from both the host and guest, causing spectral broadening and exciton quenching in thin films. Their emission in the solid state is environmentally sensitive, and the color purity is often inferior to that in solutions.

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  • Tissue-engineered PLLA scaffolds are commonly used for bone defect treatment but struggle with poor biological activity.
  • A new strategy involves creating a drug-free 3D-printed PLLA scaffold enhanced with copper-doped layered double hydroxides (Cu-LDHs) to combat this issue.
  • The scaffold offers a triple effect: preventing infections through photothermal therapy, promoting blood vessel and bone cell growth, and releasing beneficial ions for enhanced healing, making it a promising option for clinical applications in bone repair.
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Purpose: Orbital [Tc]TcDTPA orbital single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT is an important method for assessing inflammatory activity in patients with Graves' orbitopathy (GO). However, interpreting the results requires substantial physician workload. We aim to propose an automated method called GO-Net to detect inflammatory activity in patients with GO.

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Rationally tuning the emission position and narrowing the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of an emitter is of great importance for many applications. By synergistically improving rigidity, strengthening the resonant strength, inhibiting molecular bending and rocking, and destabilizing the HOMO energy level, a deep-blue emitter (CZ2CO) with a peak wavelength of 440 nm and an ultranarrow spectral FWHM of 16 nm (0.10 eV) was developed via intramolecular cyclization in a carbonyl/N resonant core (QAO).

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We develop a kind of photocurable liquid crystal hydrogels with bone extracellular matrix (ECM)-like liquid crystal state and viscoelasticity, as well as different chargeability. First, positively charged chitin whiskers (CHWs) and negatively charged maleic anhydride chitin whiskers (mCHWs) were prepared, which further self-assemble to form chiral nematic liquid crystals under ultrasonic treatment, respectively. Subsequently, poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) and photo initiator were added, and then two kinds of liquid crystal hydrogels with bone ECM-like viscoelasticity and different chargeability were prepared under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation.

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Simultaneously realizing improved carrier mobility and good photoluminescence (PL) efficiency in red thermally activated delayed-fluorescence (TADF) emitters remains challenging but important. Herein, two isomeric orange-red TADF emitters, PDM and PDM, with the same basic donor-acceptor backbone but a pyrimidine () attachment at different positions are designed and synthesized. The two emitters show similarly good PL properties, including narrow singlet-triplet energy offsets (0.

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Current artificial periostea mainly focus on osteogenic activity but overlook structural and mechanical anisotropy, as well as the importance of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Here, inspired by the anisotropic structure of wood, the delignified wood (named white wood, WW) with a porous and highly oriented cellulose fiber skeleton was obtained, which was further filled with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogel loaded with curcumin (Cur) and phytic acid (PA). The prepared wood-derived hydrogel composite membranes can not only exhibit an obvious anisotropic structure and good mechanical properties but also sustainably release loaded drugs to obtain long-term biological activities.

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The development of photoinduced luminescent radicals with dynamic emission color is still challenging. Herein we report a novel molecular radical system (TBIQ) that shows photo-controllable luminescence, leading to a wide range of ratiometric color changes via light excitation. The conjugated skeleton of TBIQ is decorated with steric-demanding tertiary butyl groups that enable appropriate intermolecular interaction to make dynamic intermolecular coupling possible for controllable behaviors.

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a deadly viral infection spreading rapidly around the world since its outbreak in 2019. In the worst case a patient's organ may fail leading to death. Therefore, early diagnosis is crucial to provide patients with adequate and effective treatment.

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Four blue-emissive iridium(III) complexes bearing a 3,3'-(1,3-phenylene)bis[1-isopropyl-6-(trifluoromethyl)-3-imidazo[4,5-]pyridin-2-ylidene]-based pincer chelate, which are derived from PX·H(PF), where = 1-4, and a cyclometalating chelate given from 9-[6-[5-(trifluoromethyl)-2λ-pyrazol-3-yl]pyridin-2-yl]-9-carbazole [(PzpyCz)H], were successfully synthesized and employed as both an emissive dopant and a sensitizer in the fabrication of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices. These functional chelates around a Ir atom occupied two mutually orthogonal coordination arrangements and adopted the so-called bis-tridentate architectures. Theoretical studies confirmed the dominance of the electronic transition by the pincer chelates, while the dianionic PzpyCz chelate was only acting as a spectator group.

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What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Mountain-type zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (MT-ZVL) cases in China have increased significantly between 2015 and 2020. A total of 25 regions had re-emerged yielding 88 MT-ZVL indigenous cases, while the total number of visceral leishmaniasis cases declined.

What Is Added By This Report?: The transmission risk of MT-ZVL showed a trend of patchy dissemination centered on major endemic areas and medium-high risk occurrence areas of with discrete foci.

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Three multi-dentate coordinated chelates LH ( = 1, 2, and 3), comprising a linked 1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylbenzene and one pyrazolyl pyridine unit and showing either tridentate or tetradentate coordination modes, are successfully designed and synthesized. Dinuclear Ir(III) complexes [Ir(κ-L)(μ-Cl)] bearing tetradentate coordinated κ-L chelate (, = 1; , = 2; , = 3) were next obtained en route from the respective intermediate [Ir(κ-LH)Cl(μ-Cl)] bearing the tridentate coordinated κ-LH chelate (, = 1; , = 2; , = 3). Next, mononuclear Ir(III) complexes Ir(-L)(thd) (, = 1; , = 2; , = 3) with the tetradentate chelate were obtained upon treatment of with 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedione (thd)H in the presence of KCO.

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To achieve high-efficiency deep-blue electroluminescence satisfying Rec.2020 standard blue gamut, two thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters are developed: 5-(2,12-di-tert-butyl-5,9-dioxa-13b-boranaphtho[3,2,1-de]anthracen-7-yl)-10,10-diphenyl-5,10-dihydrodibenzo[b,e][1,4]azasiline (TDBA-PAS) and 10-(2,12-di-tert-butyl-5,9-dioxa-13b-boranaphtho[3,2,1-de]anthracen-7-yl)-9,9-diphenyl-9,10-dihydroacridine (TDBA-DPAC). Inheriting from their parented organoboron multi-resonance core, both emitters show very promising deep-blue emissions with relatively narrow full width at half-maximum (FWHM, ≈50 nm in solution), high photoluminescence quantum yield (up to 92.

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Upon fusing the pyrazinyl pyrazole entity in giving pyrazolo[3,4-f]quinoxaline chelate, the corresponding Os(II) based NIR emitter exhibited "invisible" and efficient electroluminescence with a peak maximum at 811 nm. A maximum external quantum efficiency of 0.97 % and a suppressed efficiency roll-off till a current density of 300 mA cm was also exhibited.

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In this work, we report a series of bis-tridentate Ir(III) metal complexes, comprising a dianionic pyrazole-pyridine-phenyl tridentate chelate and a monoanionic chelate bearing a peripheral carbene and carboline coordination fragment that is linked to the central phenyl group. All these Ir(III) complexes were synthesized with an efficient one-pot and two-step method, and their emission hue was fine-tuned by variation of the substituent at the central coordination entity (i.e.

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Enhancing the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process of thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters is an effective approach to realize efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with low efficiency roll-off. In this work, we designed two novel TADF emitters, SAT-DAC and SATX-DAC, via a spiro architecture. Efficient maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of 22.

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  • Morbidity and prevalence of major parasitic diseases in China are decreasing, emphasizing the need for accurate diagnoses and timely treatments to enhance public health.
  • A 2019 national competition revealed that participants had an overall accuracy of 80.44% in theoretical knowledge and 66.87% in slide interpretation for parasitic diseases, with notable accuracy differences based on endemic status.
  • The findings aim to guide policymakers and health managers in identifying diagnostic gaps, strengthening capabilities, and improving control program quality for parasitic diseases.
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Resonance interaction between a molecular transition and a confined electromagnetic field can lead to weak or strong light-matter coupling. Considering the substantial exciton-phonon coupling in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, it is thus interesting to explore whether weak light-matter coupling can be used to redistribute optical density of states and to change the rate of radiative decay. Here, we demonstrate that the emission distribution of TADF emitters can be reshaped and narrowed in a top-emitting organic light-emitting device (OLED) with a weakly coupled microcavity.

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  • Parasitic diseases have been prevalent in China for a long time, but significant efforts over the past 70 years have reduced their impact, although challenges still remain.
  • The surveillance-response system is essential for tracking public health issues, understanding patterns of disease spread, identifying outbreaks, and assessing the effectiveness of interventions.
  • The article reviews the advancements in the surveillance system for parasitic diseases, highlighting the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD)’s role and offering suggestions for improving the system to better control or eliminate these diseases.
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