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Transfer Printing and Reconfiguration of Soft Electronics Using Digital Microfluidics and Laser Machining

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen, Chi Cong Nguyen, Tran Bach Dang, Phuoc Thien Phan, Jordan Thorpe, Michael Listyawan, Nhat Minh Doan, Sinuo Zhao, Hongru Chen, Trung Thien Hoang, Mingsheng Xu, Jisheng Han, Thanh Nho Do, Adam Hill, Timothée Mouterde, Hoang‐Phuong Phan   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shape-dependent cellular toxicity on renal epithelial cells and stone risk of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals

Scientific Reports, 2017
Renal epithelial cell injury causes crystal retention and leads to renal stone formation. However, the effects of crystal shape on cell injury and stone risk remain unclear.
Xin-Yuan Sun, Jian-Ming Ouyang, Kai Yu
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PbrMYB169 positively regulates lignification of stone cells in pear fruit

Journal of Experimental Botany, 2019
Abstract Stone cells negatively affect fruit quality because of their firm and lignified cell walls, so are targets for reduction in pear breeding programmes. However, there is only limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of stone cells.
Cheng, Xue, Jia-Long, Yao, Yong-Song, Xue, Guan-Qing, Su, Liang, Wang, Li-Kun, Lin, Andrew C, Allan, Shao-Ling, Zhang, Jun, Wu   +8 more
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Orbital Geometry‐Governed Response of Pressure‐Tunable Quantum Defects in hBN

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Defects in hBN act as ultrasensitive quantum manometers when the energy of the intradefect optical transitions is modified by lattice compression. The orbital geometry of the electron wave functions governs how electron hopping and Coulomb interactions react uniquely to the reduction of the van der Waals gap and in‐plane compression, leading to robust ...
Magdalena Grzeszczyk, Danis I. Badrtdinov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Cyrus E. Dreyer, Malte Rösner, Maciej Koperski   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptochrome-mediated blue light regulates cell lignification via PbbHLH195 activation of the PbNSC in pear fruits

Molecular Horticulture
The presence of stone cells in pear fruit, caused by lignified secondary cell walls (SCWs), leads to a grainy texture in the fruit flesh, thereby compromising its overall quality.
Qi Wang, Xinyi Wu, Mei Ren, Fanghang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yueyang Wang, Wen Li, Zhihua Xie, Kaijie Qi, Shaoling Zhang, Katsuhiro Shiratake, Yingying Niu, Shutian Tao   +12 more
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Comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) laccase gene (PbLAC) family and functional identification of PbLAC1 involved in lignin biosynthesis.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The content and size of stone cell clusters affects the quality of pear fruit, and monolignol polymerization and deposition in the cell walls constitute a required step for stone cell formation.
Xi Cheng, Guohui Li, Chenhui Ma, Muhammad Abdullah, Jinyun Zhang, Hai Zhao, Qing Jin, Yongping Cai, Yi Lin   +8 more
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Quantitative prediction of stone fragility from routine single and dual energy CT: proof of feasibility

, 2016
Rationale and Objectives Previous studies have demonstrated a qualitative relationship between stone fragility and internal stone morphology. The goal of this study was to quantify morphological features from dual-energy CT images and assess their ...
Huang, Alice E., McCollough, Cynthia H., Enders, Felicity T., Montoya, Juan C., Williams, James C., Vaughan, Lisa E., McKeag, Ian O., Ferrero, Andrea   +7 more
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Tuning Separator Chemistry: Improving Zn Anode Compatibility via Functionalized Chitin Nanofibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanochitin derived from waste shrimp shells is used to fabricate separators for aqueous zinc batteries. By tuning the density of amine and carboxylic surface groups, water mobility at the separator interface is controlled, promoting uniform zinc deposition, suppressing dendrite growth, and enabling exceptional cycling stability exceeding 2000 h ...
Ibrahim Al Kathemi, Vishnu Arumughan, Mohamed Zbiri, Marcel Kröger, Ira Smal, Eero Kontturi, Roza Bouchal   +6 more
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Graded‐Interface Dual‐Environment Hydrogel‐Polymer Electrolyte for Stabilized Anode and Sustained Cathode Kinetics in Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A graded‐interface hydrogel‐polymer electrolyte decouples water activity to simultaneously stabilize the Zn anode and sustain cathode kinetics. The flexible design supports dendrite‐free cycling over 1600 h, high capacity in both MnO2 and V2O5 full cells, and stable pouch‐cell performance under bending, resolving the fundamental water conflict in ...
Shuyun Wang, Shengmei Chen, Xinyu Wang, Haipeng Wang, Jinsong Zhou, Ka Kiu Keith Cheung, Yiran Ying, Longtao Ma, Juan Antonio Zapien   +8 more
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Cell wall stress depolarizes cell growth via hyperactivation of RHO1 [PDF]

, 1999
Cells sense and physiologically respond to environmental stress via signaling pathways. Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells respond to cell wall stress by transiently depolarizing the actin cytoskeleton.
Hall, M. N., Delley, P. A., Pierre-Alain Delley, Michael N. Hall   +3 more
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