Most previously reported Dirac valley degeneracies in continuous phononic crystal plates originate from Bragg scattering of the structures and generally have only single-band elastic-wave topological edge states. In present work, a pair triangular prisms is used construction hexagonal-lattice to mimic dual-band elastic Hall effect. Based on spatial inversion symmetry conditions, which are related intrinsic frequencies resonators, degeneracies, nontrivial bandgaps, energy band characteristics...

Inflammation plays a pivotal role in ischemia-induced retinal neovascularization. Targeting microglia/macrophage-based neuroinflammation presents promising therapeutic strategy. Ferulic acid (FA), natural and active ingredient plants, exerts favorable anti-oxidative anti-inflammatory activities. In this study, we investigated the inhibitory effect of FA against hypoxia-induced angiogenesis using cultured vascular endothelial cells an oxygen-induced retinopathy mouse (OIR) model. The...

Purpose: Nattokinase (NK), an active ingredient extracted from traditional food Natto, has been studied for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases due to various vasoprotective effects, including fibrinolytic, antihypertensive, anti-atherosclerotic, antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory activities. Here, we reported antineovascular effect NK against experimental retinal neovascularization. Methods: The inhibitory neovascularization was evaluated using oxygen-induced retinopathy murine...

Abstract Background Retinal degeneration is often accompanied by microglia-mediated neuroinflammation. Ferulic acid (FA), an active ingredient of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), has been reported to have anti-inflammatory effects. This study explores the impact FA on neuroinflammation and associated retinal in rd10 mice. Methods Rd10 mice received different concentrations every day from postnatal (P)4 P24. On P25, visual function was evaluated electroretinogram, retinae were collected...

Polyphenols such as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg) may have roles in preventing some chronic diseases when they are ingested components of plant-based foods and beverages. Human serum albumin (HSA) is a multi-domain protein that binds various ligands aids their transport, distribution, metabolism the circulatory system. In present study, HSA-EGCg interaction absence or presence fatty acid has been investigated. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) was used to determine inter-...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most lethal cancer around world, with poor survival rate and high metastasis in patients. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to modulate initiation development of liver cancer. We aimed investigate role lncRNA MAGI2-AS3 HCC underlying mechanisms.The expression levels plasma patients control participants were measured by qPCR. Hep3B MHCC97-H cells transfected ROCK2 vectors. Cell migration invasion vectors investigated transwell assay....

Abstract Using phononic crystals (PnCs) to enhance the electrical output performance of piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) devices and broaden frequency range is crucial solving self-energy low-power such as wireless sensors. In this work, an ultra-wide full-band gap crystal (PnC) was designed. The concept a PnC with incomplete line defect proposed. localization PnCs traditional point were studied by finite element analysis (FEA). results show that compared defect, electric power...

Phononic crystals are a kind of artificial acoustic metamaterial whose mass density and elastic modulus periodically arranged. The precise efficient design phononic with specific bandgap characteristics has attracted increasing attention in past decades. In this paper, an improved adaptive genetic algorithm is proposed for the reverse customization two-dimensional designed to maximize relative bandwidth at low frequencies. energy band dispersion relation transmission loss optimal structure...

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of drug-eluting bead-transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) using 100-300 μm versus 300-500 CalliSpheres microspheres (CSMs) for treating multiple hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with largest nodule measuring between 5 10 cm.Eighty-one advanced-stage HCC patients treated by DEB-TACE January 2017 March 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. There 48 in group 33 group. Treatment response, liver function tests, complications compared two groups.At 6...

A consistent theoretical model that can be applied in a wide range of densities and temperatures is necessary for understanding the variation material's properties during compression heating. Taking argon as an example, we show combination self-consistent fluid variational theory linear response promising route studying warm dense matter. Following this route, compositions, equations state, transport plasma are calculated (0.001-20 g/cm(3)) (5-100 kK). The obtained state electrical...

Using a linear mixture rule in which electron–electron, electron–atom and electron–ion interactions are considered, we calculate the electrical conductivity of iron nickel plasmas from expanded fluid domain to warm dense matter regime. The plasma composition is obtained by nonideal Saha equation. A nonmetal–metal transition predicted present model takes places moderate-density region relatively lower-temperature region. effect on total evaluated average momentum transport cross-section...

Elastic scattering of electrons in a plasma is studied for its pivotal role relating transport properties to composition. A unified effective potential model developed describe the interactions between and atoms/ions plasma. It not only contains static Coulomb, polarization, exchange interaction but also considers environment effects with Muffin-tin based on Roothaan–Hartree–Fock atomic wave functions. For electron–electron electron–ion interactions, dynamical screening effect considered by...

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This work presents a high-sensitivity solution sensor based on phoxonic crystal nanobeam with lateral fins. The fins improve the stability of suspended and its detection performance is unaffected. Acoustic–optic dual-mode cross-detection improves accuracy over single-mode method. acoustic optical energies are concentrated in defect slot regions due to combination gradient cavity slot, which enhances acoustic–optic interaction object be measured, improving sensitivity. Using mode bandgaps...

A vibration isolator for a floating slab track, based on locally resonant phononic crystal, has been designed to suppress vibrations caused by the wheel-rail interaction. In this isolator, circular vibrator is connected connector through rubber layer uniformly embedded in holes. The finite element method utilized compute energy band structure and transmission loss of while mechanism bandgap elucidated analysis modes. static stiffness dynamic are calculated, which proves that meets...

The recent discovery of MoB2 with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) up to 32 K at 100 GPa provides new insights into the metallization and subsequently high-Tc superconductivity diborides, highlighting potential metals in these compounds. We herein re-evaluated structure, mechanical, properties IrB4 under pressure 300 using first-principles. Our calculations reveal that P21/c phase exhibiting hardness 15.75 surpasses stability C2/m structure identified through particle swarm...

To broaden the bandwidth, a sandwich acoustic metamaterial with periodically rib-stiffened cores is presented by incorporating strip masses. The normal sound transmission loss of structure predicted using finite element method. Results indicate that two attenuation peaks are coupled, which validated impedance tube experiment. primary mechanism coupled-resonance attributed to continuous non-zero effective dynamic surface mass density between anti-resonances. conditions for generating derived...

The high electrical output performance of the phononic crystal (PnC)–based piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) system is great research value in self-powered applications. This work presents effect incomplete line defect size on elastic wave localization and harvesting. results show that for a given 7 × 5 supercell when reaches second to sixth layer, changing trend first increasing then decreasing; 4th, 5th, 3rd, 2nd, 6th layers supercell, respectively, PEH systems shows from large small....