Bio-inspired design of NiFeP nanoparticles embedded in (N,P) co-doped carbon for boosting overall water splitting.

The design and synthesis of cost-effective and stable bifunctional electrocatalysts for water splitting a green and sustainable fabrication way remain a challenging problem. Herein, a bio-inspired method was used to synthesize NiFeP nanoparticles embedded in (N,P) co-doped carbon with the added carbon nanotubes. The obtained NiFeP-C catalyst displayed excellent hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performances in both alkaline and alkaline simulated seawater solutions.

Inversion Method Characterization of Graphene-Based Coordination Absorbers Incorporating Periodically Patterned Metal Ring Metasurfaces.

In this paper, we propose a tunable coordinated multi-band absorber that combines graphene with metal-dielectric-metal structures for the realization of multiple toward perfect absorption. The parametric inversion method is used to extract the equivalent impedance and explain the phenomena of multiple-peak absorption. With the change of the Fermi level, equivalent impedances were extracted, and the peculiarities of the individual multiple absorption peaks to change were determined.

Coordinated multi-band angle insensitive selection absorber based on graphene metamaterials.

In this paper, we propose a tunable, multi-band, selective absorber composed of multiple layers. Each layer consisted of SiO/graphene/SiC, and a layer of silver was used as the ground plane of the entire structure. Simulation results show that we can passively and actively coordinate the resonant frequency of the perfect absorption peak by changing the geometric parameters of the array and the Fermi level of the graphene.

Calibration of Linear Time-Varying Frequency Errors for Distributed ISAR Imaging Based on the Entropy Minimization Principle.

The inevitable frequency errors owing to the frequency mismatch of a transmitter and receiver oscillators could seriously deteriorate the imaging performance in distributed inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) system. In this paper, for this issue, a novel method is proposed to calibrate the linear time-varying frequency errors (LTFE) between the transmitting node and the receiving node. The cost function is constructed based on the entropy minimization principle and the problem of LTFE calibration is transformed into cost function optimization.

Association between the functional polymorphism Ile31Phe in the gene and susceptibility of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B virus carriers.

Aurora kinase A (AURKA) is a serine threonine kinase which affects chromosomal separation and mitotic spindle stability through interaction with the centrosome during mitosis. Two functional nonsynonymous polymorphisms of the gene (Ile31Phe and Val57Ile) have been reported recently. We analyzed the association between the two polymorphisms and risk of the occurrence of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the Guangxi population consisting of 348 patients with HCC and 359 control subjects, and then validated the significant association in the Guangdong population consisting of 440 cases and 456 controls.

Genome-wide association study identifies 8p21.3 associated with persistent hepatitis B virus infection among Chinese.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common infectious disease. Here we perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) among Chinese populations to identify novel genetic loci involved in persistent HBV infection. GWAS scan is performed in 1,251 persistently HBV infected subjects (PIs, cases) and 1,057 spontaneously recovered subjects (SRs, controls), followed by replications in four independent populations totally consisting of 3,905 PIs and 3,356 SRs.