The shuttling of polysulfide intermediates (Li2Sn, 2 < n ≤ 8) and the dendrite growth on Li-metal surface have blocked practical applications lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. Functionalizing separator provides a straightforward approach to address these issues. Herein, we demonstrate multifunctional MIL-125(Ti)-modified polypropylene/polyethylene for advanced Li–S MIL-125(Ti), Ti-containing metal–organic framework (MOF), features an open-skeleton construction, high intrinsic microporosity...

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have attracted increased interest because of the high theoretical energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness. Conducting polymers (CPs), as one most promising materials used in Li–S batteries, can not only facilitate electron transfer buffer large volumetric change sulfur benefiting from their porous structure excellent flexibility, but also enable stronger physical/chemical adsorption capacity toward polysulfides (LiPSs) when doped with abundant...

Abstract Lithium‐metal batteries suffer from short cycle life and poor safety due to uncontrolled dendrite growth at Li anodes. An advanced solid‐electrolyte interphase (SEI) with homogeneous chemical composition physical structure holds great promise address the issues. Herein, a new surface bromination approach is proposed for stabilizing SEI of anode via scalable dip‐coating method. A lithium bromide‐enriched readily created on metal passivation by bromooctane. In‐situ optical microscopy...

NH4F/Bi2WO6 powders were prepared by a simple one-step microwave hydrothermal method at different reaction temperatures, using Bi(NO3)3·5H2O and Na2WO4·2H2O as raw materials NH4F an additive agent. Their photoelectric activities also investigated via the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB). The results indicate that when temperature increases to 220 240 °C, orthorhombic Bi2WO6 phase with space group Pca21 cubic Bi2O3 Pn3̅m appear. Raman spectroscopy, SEM, TEM, XPS confirm existence...

Self-supported porous carbon nanofibers containing lithiophilic Li 5 Sn 2 alloy were constructed using in situ electrochemical reactions for inducing uniform lithium nucleation deposition.

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are involved in a variety of diseases. However, the roles circRNAs traumatic brain injury (TBI) remain unknown. In this study, circRNA microarray was used to profile altered rat hippocampus following TBI. A total 192 were observed be differentially expressed (fold change [FC] ≥1.5 and p < 0.05) after TBI, including 98 upregulated 94 downregulated. Gene ontology (GO) Kyoto Encyclopedia Genes Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis indicated that many messenger (mRNAs)...

A novel kind of spherical g-C3N4/tz-Bi0.92Gd0.08VO4 heterojuctions are prepared via a simple microwave hydrothermal method. The sphere self-assembled mechanism and the heterojunction photocatalytic mainly studied in this article. results show that added g-C3N4 sheets first anchor on ms-BiVO4 surfaces then polymerize to form coating layers, generating steric effect which is competing with Gd3+ induction affect crystal transformation (from tz-BiVO4) its growth during those processes....

Posttraumatic hypothermia prevents cell death and promotes functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, little is known regarding the effect of on dendrite degeneration spine loss severe TBI. In present study, we used thy1-GFP transgenic mice to investigate dendrites spines in layer V/VI ipsilateral cortex We found that (33 °C) dramatically prevented 1 7 days CCI. The Morris water maze test revealed preserved learning memory functions Hypothermia significantly increased...

With tens of thousands Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites covering Earth, LEO satellite networks can provide coverage and services that are otherwise not possible using terrestrial communication systems. The regular dense constellation also provides new opportunities challenges for network architecture protocol design. In this paper, we propose a routing strategy named Directed Percolation Routing (DPR), aiming to Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) over long distances. Given the...

With the rapid development of automatic vehicles (AVs), have become important intelligent objects in Smart City. Vehicles bring huge amounts data for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), and at same time, they also put forward new application requirements. However, it is difficult to obtain analyze massive provide accurate services AVs. In today's society traffic explosion, how plan route has a hot issue. order solve this problem, we introduced content-data-friendly information-center...

A self-assembled MoO₃-decorated carbon nanofiber interlayer is effectively integrated into the Li–S battery with high performance.

This article proposes a novel scheme, SupRTE, to suppress backdoor injection in federated learning via robust trust evaluation, which effectively prevents malicious updates from infiltrating the model aggregation process. The evaluation process SupRTE consists of two components: 1) behavior representation extractor, creating individual profiles for each client through multidimensional information; 2) scorer, measuring discrepancies between and benign clients as scores by utilizing grading...

Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor B4 (LILRB4) plays a significant role in regulating immune responses. LILRB4 microglia might influence the infiltration of peripheral T cells. However, whether and how expression aggravates brain damage after acute ischemic stroke remains unclear. This study investigates modulating response its potential protective effects against injury mice. Microglia-specific conditional knockout (LILRB4-KO) overexpression transgenic (LILRB4-TG) mice were constructed...

In this paper, the pH-sensitive targeting functional material NGR-poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline)-cholesteryl methyl carbonate (NGR-PEtOz-CHMC, NPC) modified quercetin (QUE) liposomes (NPC-QUE-L) was constructed. The structure of NPC confirmed by infrared spectroscopy (IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance hydrogen spectrum (1H-NMR). Pharmacokinetic results showed that accumulation QUE in plasma NPC-QUE-L group 1.28 times 2.43 Solution QUE-L groups, respectively. release amount an acidic environment...

The impact mitigation against false data injection attacks (FDIAs) has become a prevailing topic in enhancing the cyber resilience of microgrids. In particular, primary FDIA (PFDIA) injecting biases into sensor channel controller can fake real physical states and result devastating control commands to power conversion device. Nevertheless, existing schemes cannot handle PFDIA due control's strict real-time requirement. Therefore, this paper proposes time- cost-efficient scheme by alternately...

Introduction: Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor B4 (LILRB4) is a crucial regulator of immune responses, particularly within microglia, where it may influence the infiltration peripheral T cells into brain. However, specific role LILRB4 in modulating brain damage after acute ischemic stroke remains unclear. This study aims to investigate response and its potential protective effects against injury mice. Methods: Microglia-specific conditional knockout (LILRB4-KO) overexpression...

Introduction: Ischemic stroke (IS) significantly alters brain cellular composition and gene expression, particularly in glial cells like astrocytes (ASTs), oligodendrocytes (OLs), oligodendrocyte precursor (OPCs). While these cells' roles neural repair are recognized, the precise molecular mechanisms remain unclear. This study aims to elucidate IS-induced transcriptomic changes ASTs, OLs, OPCs using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of human tissues. We hypothesize that IS triggers...

Introduction: The gut-brain axis is pivotal in recovery after stroke, with the gut microbiome playing a significant role neurological outcomes. Akkermansia muciniphila (AKK), beneficial bacterium, has shown promise metabolic conditions. We hypothesize that AKK and its exosomes (AKK-Exo) can enhance stroke by modulating interactions. Methods: Human study: fecal samples from 88 ischemic (IS) patients 23 healthy elderly were analyzed using 16S rDNA sequencing. Animal 6-8 months old male mice...

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology offers significant potential for high-bandwidth, low-latency communication industrial applications. However, mmWave faces several challenges, such as limited range, susceptibility to blockage, and slow beam alignment. For this, access points (APs) are often deployed at high densities, which leads increased costs. In this paper, we introduce mmProjector, the first cost-effective reflector, is non-reconfigurable with a static structure but can serve mobile...