Publications by authors named "Zhaochen Li"

Electromagnetic (EM) wave pollution and thermal damage pose serious hazards to delicate instruments. Functional aerogels offer a promising solution by mitigating EM interference and isolating heat. However, most of these materials struggle to balance thermal protection with microwave absorption (MA) efficiency due to a previously unidentified conflict between the optimizing strategies of the two properties.

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Multifunctional materials integrated with electromagnetic wave absorption (EWA), thermal insulation, and lightweight properties are urgently indispensable for the flourishing advancement of space technology, which can simultaneously prevent electromagnetic detection and resist aerodynamic heating. To achieve excellent synergistic EWA and thermal insulation performance, the elaborate regulate the microstructure and dimension of nanomaterials has emerged as a captivating research direction. However, comprehending the structure-property relationships between microstructure, electromagnetic response, and thermal insulation mechanisms remains a significant challenge.

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  • Chinese medicinal fungi known as "Sanghuang" have a long history of recognized medicinal properties, but similar-looking fungi have often been mistakenly used in traditional medicine.
  • A study highlights the limitations of previous taxonomic methods for differentiating true Sanghuang fungi from Sanghuang-like fungi in the genera Porodaedalea, Phellinus, and Inonotus.
  • Utilizing mitogenomes, the research demonstrates distinct genetic characteristics that help classify these fungi more accurately, supporting the reclassification of Phellinus gilvus S12 as Sanghuangporus vaninii and providing tools for further research on these species.
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Creating specific noble metal/metal-organic framework (MOF) heterojunction nanostructures represents an effective strategy to promote water electrolysis but remains rather challenging. Herein, a heterojunction electrocatalyst is developed by growing Ir nanoparticles on ultrathin NiFe-MOF nanosheets supported by nickel foam (NF) via a readily accessible solvothermal approach and subsequent redox strategy. Because of the electronic interactions between Ir nanoparticles and NiFe-MOF nanosheets, the optimized Ir@NiFe-MOF/NF catalyst exhibits exceptional bifunctional performance for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) (η = 15 mV, η denotes the overpotential) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) (η = 213 mV) in 1.

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Mushrooms have been utilized by humans for thousands of years due to their medicinal and nutritional properties. They are a crucial natural source of bioactive secondary metabolites, and recent advancements have led to the isolation of several alkynyl-containing compounds with potential medicinal uses. Despite their relatively low abundance, naturally occurring alkynyl compounds have attracted considerable attention due to their high reactivity.

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  • - The study focuses on bird's nest fungi, a group of mushrooms with medicinal properties in Chinese medicine, and conducts the first comprehensive analysis of their mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes).
  • - Researchers analyzed five species with circular mitogenomes ranging in size, revealing both structural similarities within the family and genetic diversity across related groups.
  • - Phylogenetic analyses provided insights into evolutionary relationships and the genetic uniqueness of these fungi, contributing to a better understanding of fungal mitogenomes overall.
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species are among the filamentous fungi with the most pronounced impact on agricultural production and human health. The mycotoxins produced by pathogenic not only attack various plants including crops, causing various plant diseases that lead to reduced yields and even death, but also penetrate into the food chain of humans and animals to cause food poisoning and consequent health hazards. Although sporadic studies have revealed some of the biosynthetic pathways of toxins, they are insufficient to satisfy the need for a comprehensive understanding of toxin production.

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Background: The six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 3 (STEAP3) is a metalloreductase, which is essential for iron uptake. Existing literature has shown that STEAP3 may perform an important role in the onset and progression of tumors. Nonetheless, a complete pan-cancer investigation of the prognostic significance and immune properties of STEAP3 is currently unavailable.

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Prostate cancer metastasizes to the bone with the highest frequency and exhibits high resistance to Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) radioligand therapy. Little is known about bone metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) resistance to radiation. We filtered the metastatic eRNA using RNA-seq, MeRIP-seq, RT-qPCR and bioinformation.

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Up to 20% of patients treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors suffered from thyroid dysfunctions, yet the mediators associated with their occurrence remain unclear. The increasing coincidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) and the high vulnerability of thyroid to immunotherapy motivated us to discover the similarities and their underlying transcriptomic basis. Clinical characteristics analysis of 468 PTC patients from two independent cohorts and meta-analysis of 22,155 PTC patients unveiled a strong negative association between HT and recurrence in PTC patients.

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Trions, quasiparticles composed of an electron-hole pair bound to a second electron and/or hole, are many-body states with potential applications in optoelectronics. Trions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors have attracted recent interest due to their valley/spin polarization, strong binding energy, and tunability through external gate control. However, low materials quality (, high defect density) has hindered efforts to understand the intrinsic properties of trions.

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Accurate estimations of the aboveground biomass (AGB) of rare and endangered species are particularly important for protecting forest ecosystems and endangered species and for providing useful information to analyze the influence of past and future climate change on forest AGB. We investigated the feasibility of using three developed and two widely used models, including a generalized regression neural network (GRNN), a group method of data handling (GMDH), an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), an artificial neural network (ANN) and a support vector machine (SVM), to estimate the AGB of Dacrydium pierrei (D. pierrei) in natural forests of China.

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In this study, mesoporous carbon hollow microspheres (PCHMs) with tunable textural properties have been prepared through a facile hard template etching method. The PCHMs were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, Raman spectra, and nitrogen adsorption and desorption systems. Uniform PCHMs with shell thickness ranging from 23 nm to 55 nm are realized.

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