Transition metal sulfide is considered as a kind of promising noble metal-free material for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, most of conventional sulfurization methods require high temperature and/or long r...
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Transition metal sulfide is considered as a kind of promising noble metal-free material for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, most of conventional sulfurization methods require high temperature and/or long reaction time. Herein, a sulfurization strategy at room temperature (25 degrees C) by using Na2S in aqueous solution is applied to sulfurize nickel foam-supported nickel-cobalt carbonate hydroxide nanowire array, during which amorphous sulfide gradually forms on the surface of nanowire and finally replaces the nanowire completely. It is found that the electrode sulfurized for 5 min in which only a thin sulfide layer is formed presents nearly identical catalytic performance for HER with the electrode that is sufficiently sulfurized for 120 min. The electrode sulfurized at 25 degrees C for 5 min only needs an overpotential of 100 mV to achieve hydrogen evolution current at 10 mA cm(-2) in 1 M KOH, and negligible loss of activity is observed after working at a current density of 20 mA cm(-2) for 25 h. The interface between carbonate hydroxide and sulfide is considered to play an important role in the catalysis of HER. The observation in this work can provide new insights into the sulfurization process and the role of sulfide in the process of HER. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
As non-renewable natural resources, minerals are essential in a broad range of biological and technological applications. The surface interactions of mineral particles with other objects (e.g., solids, bubbles, reagen...
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As non-renewable natural resources, minerals are essential in a broad range of biological and technological applications. The surface interactions of mineral particles with other objects (e.g., solids, bubbles, reagents) in aqueous suspensions play a critical role in mediating many interfacial phenomena involved in mineral flotation. In this work, we have reviewed the fundamentals of surface forces and quantitative surface property-force relationship of minerals, and the advances in the quantitative measurements of interaction forces of mineral-mineral, bubble-mineral and mineral-reagent using nanomechanical tools such as surface forces apparatus (SFA) and atomic force microscope (AFM). The quantitative correlation between surface properties of minerals at the solid/water interface and their surface interaction mechanisms with other objects in complex aqueous media at the nanoscale has been established. The existing challenges in mineral flotation such as characterization of anisotropic crystal plane or heterogeneous surface, low recovery of fine particle flotation, and in-situ electrochemical characterization of collectorless flotation as well as the future work to resolve the challenges based on the understanding and modulation of surface forces of minerals have also been discussed. This review provides useful insights into the fundamental understanding of the intermolecular and surface interaction mechanisms involved in mineral processing, with implications for precisely modulating related interfacial interactions towards the development of highly efficient industrial processes and chemical additives.
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), an important process for converting fixed nitrogen to N-2, plays an important role in the present-day marine nitrogen cycle. However, little is known about anammox activities in...
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Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), an important process for converting fixed nitrogen to N-2, plays an important role in the present-day marine nitrogen cycle. However, little is known about anammox activities in the past, especially in regions that were strongly affected by human activities, evidenced by eutrophication and hypoxia, which promote anammox bacteria growth. In this study, ladderanes have been measured in a sediment core and suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the East China Sea (ECS), to reconstruct the anammox record and to evaluate its responses to eutrophication and hypoxia. The detection and distribution of different ladderane lipids in SPM provide additional evidence that ladderanes were mostly produced in the water column and could reflect anammox activities. Summed ladderane content from the core varied between 11 and 300 ng/g dry weight (dw) sediment, with C20-[5]-ladderane fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) as the predominant compound (5-150 ng/g dw), followed by C20-[3]-ladderane FAME (1-110 ng/g dw), C18-[3]-ladderane FAME (1-32 ng/g dw) and 08 -[5]-ladderane FAME (3-11 ng/g dw). The detection of ladderanes over the last century indicate the existence of anammox in the past. The rapidly increasing trend of ladderanes since the 1960s correlates with an increase in phytoplankton biomarkers (2 Sigma(B + D + A), brassicasterol (B), dinosterol (D) and C-37 alkenones (A)), indicating that eutrophication exacerbated anammox growth. The co-variation between our ladderane record and published records of low-oxygen tolerant foraminiferal microfossils and hypoxia events over the past 60 years suggested that sediment ladderanes are a useful indicator for past changes of oxygen depletion or hypoxia in the ECS. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Benefiting from the recent advantages of genomic sequencing, detecting genomic mutations becomes a routine work in precise diagnoses and treatments for cancers. In clinical practices, many factors, such as tumor purit...
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(纸本)9781728118673
Benefiting from the recent advantages of genomic sequencing, detecting genomic mutations becomes a routine work in precise diagnoses and treatments for cancers. In clinical practices, many factors, such as tumor purity, clonal structure, etc., interfere the performance of calling mutations. The computational pipelines prefer to sensitively report the candidate calls, while a filter is applied for removing the false-positive calls. The existing filters rely on the whole genome/exome sequencing data, which can provide sufficient samples for training the filters. However, the gene-panel sequencing is more popular in clinical practices, but there is no practical filter for limited training samples. In light of this, we develop a semi-learning filter for gene-panel sequencing data, FilterLAP, which implemented via a label propagation framework. Given few labeled samples with a set of unlabeled ones, its basic idea is to predict the label information of unlabeled nodes from the label information of labeled nodes, and establishes a complete graph model by using the relationship between samples, by combining transductive inference with label propagation algorithm. For each node in the network, tags are propagated to adjacent nodes according to similarity and the probability distribution of similar nodes tends to be similar and can be divided into a class. We perform multiple sets of experiments on gene-panel sequencing data captured from Illumina platform. FilterLAP outperforms on both SNV and INDEL filtering, where the AUCs reach 0.90-0.97, and the average accuracies on overall mutation calls are over 90%. Comparing to GATK hard filters, FilterLAP present a 5% improvement on accuracy. These results demonstrate that the proposed method can better reduce the false positive mutation calls on gene-panel sequencing data. In addition, it is stable and efficient, which can be used as a practical tool for mutation call filtering for gene-panel sequencing data.
The rapid postoperative recurrence and short survival time of glioblastoma (GBM) patients necessitate immediate and effective postoperative treatment. Herein, an immediate and mild postoperative local treatment strate...
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The rapid postoperative recurrence and short survival time of glioblastoma (GBM) patients necessitate immediate and effective postoperative treatment. Herein, an immediate and mild postoperative local treatment strategy is developed that regulates the postoperative microenvironment and delays GBM recurrence. Briefly, an injectable hydrogel system (imGEL) loaded with Zn(II)(2)-AMD3100 (AMD-Zn) and CpG oligonucleotide nanoparticles (CpG NPs) is injected into the operation cavity, with long-term function to block the recruitment of microglia/ macrophages and activate cytotoxic T cells. The finding indicated that the imGEL can regulate the immune microenvironment, inhibit GBM recurrence, and gain valuable time for subsequent adjuvant clinical chemotherapy.
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