Publications by authors named "Zhengzheng Liu"

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a heterogeneous histiocytosis with various pulmonary manifestations and imaging. We aim to evaluate the pulmonary response of LCH by high resolution chest computed tomography (HRCT) through continuous follow-up.We conducted a retrospective analysis of 73 adult LCH patients with pulmonary involvement.

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Introduction: Cancer remains a leading cause of death globally, with patients frequently experiencing malnutrition due to both the disease and its treatment, which negatively affects their quality of life and treatment outcomes. Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) provide a noninvasive solution to improve nutritional status, but poor patient adherence limits their effectiveness. Studies on ONS adherence vary in their definitions and assessment tools, creating inconsistencies.

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Extensive research has been conducted on generating THz waves using Smith-Purcell radiation, yet a portion of the electron bunch's interaction energy with the gratings is confined to the metal gratings' surface, leading to a low THz radiation power. This paper experimentally demonstrates that metal gratings with a dielectric substrate can emit the resonant modes in surface waves when excited by relativistic femtosecond electron bunches. The observed spectra of the resonant THz waves align well with the theoretical estimations derived from the configuration's dispersion relation and 3D simulations.

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Purpose: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare and highly heterogeneous histiocytosis. There are currently few studies examining the correlation between molecular profiling and clinical phenotype or outcomes in adult patients with LCH. The objective of this study was to characterize the genomic landscape of adult LCH and correlate molecular findings with clinical features and patient outcomes.

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  • Recent interest in volatile solid additives for organic solar cells (OSCs) has shown they can enhance efficiency while maintaining stability.
  • A novel solid additive, 1,4-diphenoxybenzene (DPB), was introduced to improve the active layer's morphology in OSCs, and various methods were used to analyze its effects.
  • The findings indicate that DPB interacts with the acceptor Y6, leading to better molecular arrangement and achieving a peak power conversion efficiency of 19.04%, highlighting its potential for creating efficient OSCs.
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The optimal treatment strategy for adult Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) remains unclear. Our previous study demonstrated the remarkable efficacy of combined methotrexate and cytarabine (Ara-C) [MA] therapy in patients newly diagnosed with LCH, with a median follow-up of 2 years. The present article reports long-term follow-up data spanning a median of 78 months (6.

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  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare condition involving the growth of Langerhans cells, with digestive tract involvement noted in about 2.80% of cases; this study looks at 13 adult patients confirmed to have gastrointestinal LCH (LCH-GI).
  • Of the patients, 53.8% had unifocal lesions while 46.2% had multisystem disease; symptoms varied, with some having no gastrointestinal symptoms at diagnosis, and the stomach was the most commonly affected organ.
  • Genetic analysis revealed BRAF mutations in 62.5% of patients, and those with certain types of lesions had better progression-free survival; the study underscores the need for end
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  • Coherent dispersive wave emission plays a key role in soliton dynamics across various nonlinear optics platforms, but generating efficient, ultra-broad bandwidth waves has been challenging due to resonance limitations.
  • This study reveals a new approach where the dispersive wave emission process is strongly coupled with the driving pulse's dynamics, leading to high-efficiency coherent dispersive wave generation in the ultraviolet range.
  • The process also produces a temporally-delayed ultrashort pulse that overlaps with the dispersive wave, resulting in significant spectrum broadening, which is valuable for applications like time-resolved spectroscopy and ultrafast electron microscopy.
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Volatile solid additive is an effective and simple strategy for morphology control in organic solar cells (OSCs). The development of environmentally friendly new additives which can also be easily removed without high-temperature thermal annealing treatment is currently a trend, and the working mechanism needs to be further studied. Herein, a highly volatile and non-halogenated solid additive 1-benzothiophene (BBT) is reported to regulate molecular aggregation and stacking of active layer components.

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Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites (OLHPs) have demonstrated exceptional properties in high-performance photoelectric devices. However, the impact of A-site cations, specifically formamidinium and methylammonium (MA), on the optoelectronic properties of OLHPs, particularly in the context of hot carrier utilization, remains a topic of debate. In this study, we propose a method for characterizing hot carrier transportation by measuring the hot carrier mobility and momentum-dependent transient photocurrent influenced by A-site cations in OLHPs.

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Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) perovskites promise next-generation gain media for laser devices. However, most RP perovskite lasers are still suffering from inferior performance characteristics, such as inadequate energy transfer, unstable emission, and short lifetime. To address the above problems, high crystalline quality, compact, and smooth PEAFAPbBr films with uniform phase distribution were successfully prepared by ionic liquid (IL) methylammonium acetate (MAAc) in an air environment.

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  • Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare condition without a standardized treatment, prompting a study at Peking Union Medical College involving 23 patients to assess effectiveness of lenalidomide and dexamethasone.
  • The study found a high overall response rate of 87%, with significant reductions in inflammatory markers IL-6 and TNF-α, suggesting treatment effectiveness.
  • After a median follow-up of 26 months, survival rates were promising, with no deaths but some relapses; the safety profile was good, lacking severe adverse events.
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A high-nuclear Co-added polyoxometalate (CoAP) was synthesized via a hydrothermal reaction: HKNa-{[Co(μ-OH)(μ-OH)(HO)(Co(HO)GeWO)(-α-GeWO)][BO(OH)][Co(μ-OH)(μ-OH)(HO)(Co(HO)GeWO)(GeWO)(-α-GeWO)]}·46HO (). The polyoxoanion of contains a large Co cluster gathered by lacunary GeWO and GeWO subunits. represents a one-dimensional (1D) chain formed by adjacent polyoxoanions coupling through a CoO double bridge, showing the first example of a high-nuclear CoAP-based inorganic chain.

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Though long recognized as synthetic precursors to other poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), most poly- and perfluoroalkyl sulfonyl halides (PASXs) cannot be directly measured and have generally received minimal attention. Inspired by the redox reaction between sulfonyl halide groups and -toluenethiol in organic chemistry, we developed a novel nontarget analysis strategy for PASXs by intergrating derivatization and specific fragment-based liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry screening for / 82.961 [SOF] and / 95.

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Perovskite nanoplatelets (NPLs) show great potential for high-color-purity light-emitting diodes (LEDs) due to their narrow line width and high exciton binding energy. However, the performance of perovskite NPL LEDs lags far behind perovskite quantum dot-/film-based LEDs, owing to their material instability and poor carrier transport. Here, we achieved efficient and stable pure blue-emitting CsPbBr NPLs with outstanding optical and electrical properties by using an aromatic ligand, 4-bromothiophene-2-carboxaldehyde (BTC).

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  • Researchers studied how Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) affects the heart over time by looking at patients diagnosed between 2010 and 2023.
  • They found that many patients had heart issues like fluid around the heart, and most showed some improvement with treatment.
  • The study suggests that using specific medications can help heart health in ECD patients, and there is a link between reducing heart fluid and better heart function overall.
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The electrochemical CO reduction reaction by copper-based catalysts features a promising approach to generate value-added multicarbon (C) products. However, due to the unfavored formation of oxygenate intermediates on the catalyst surface, the selectivity of C alcohols like ethanol remains unsatisfactory compared to that of ethylene. The bifurcation point (i.

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The most frequent primary brain tumor in adults is glioma, yet no effective curative treatments are currently available. Our previous study demonstrated the enhancing effects of JARID2 on glioma sensitivity to TMZ treatment. In this study, miR-155 is predicted to target JARID2.

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent significant stress to organisms and are known to disrupt microbial community structure and function. Nevertheless, a detailed knowledge of the soil microbial community responding to PFAS stress at the metabolism level is required. Here we integrated UPLC-HRMS-based metabolomics data with 16S rRNA and ITS amplicon data across soil samples collected adjacent to a fluoropolymer production facility to directly identify the biochemical intermediates in microbial metabolic pathways and the interactions with microbial community structure under PFAS stress.

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The application of X-ray imaging in military, industrial flaw detection, and medical examination is inseparable from the wide application of scintillator materials. In order to substitute for lead, lower costs, and reduce self-absorption, organic-inorganic hybrid lead-free perovskite scintillators are emerging as a new option. In this work, novel (TEA)ZrTeCl perovskite microcrystals (MCs) were successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method, with Te doping, which leads to yellow triplet-state self-trapped excitons emission.

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Wavelength conversion based on hybrid inorganic-organic sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is promising for applications such as photovoltaics, light-emitting-diodes, photocatalysis, additive manufacturing, and bioimaging. The efficiency of TTA-UC depends on the population of triplet excitons involved in triplet energy transfer (TET), the driving force in TET, and the coupling strength between the donor and acceptor. Consequently, achieving highly efficient TTA-UC necessitates the precise control of the electronic states of inorganic donors.

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Antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) spread in anthropogenic polluted soils is believed to be accelerated by the incidental inputs of antibiotics via fertilizing and irrigation, and endangering food and human health. However, due to the complex nature of substrates and uncertain microbial responses, the primary drivers of ARG dissemination remain unclear. To address this concern, the effects of antibiotic inputs on soil microbes and antibiotic resistance under simulated natural conditions was investigated in this study.

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Electroreduction of CO to multi-carbon (C ) products is a promising approach for utilization of renewable energy, in which the interfacial water quantity is critical for both the C product selectivity and the stability of Cu-based electrocatalytic sites. Functionalization of long-chain alkyl molecules on a catalyst surface can help to increase its stability, while it also tends to block the transport of water, thus inhibiting the C product formation. Herein, we demonstrate the fine tuning of interfacial water by surface assembly of toluene on Cu nanosheets, allowing for sustained and enriched CO supply but retarded water transfer to catalytic surface.

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Great research efforts are devoted to exploring the miniaturization of chip-scale coherent light sources possessing excellent lasing performance. Despite the indispensable role in Si photonics, SiO is generally considered not contributing to the starting up and operation of integrated lasers. Here, this work demonstrates an extraordinary-performance subwavelength-scale perovskite vertical cavity laser with all-transparent SiO cavity, whose cavity is ultra-simple and composed of only two parallel SiO plates.

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Miniaturized coherent light sources on the nanoscale are highly desired for on-chip photonics integration. However, when approaching the diffraction limit, the sub-wavelength-scale all-dielectric lasers are difficult to realize due to the trade-off between lasing performance and physical size. Especially for a thin-film laser, usually an externally complex cavity is required to provide the necessary optical feedback.

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