Thin-film electronics played an important role in flexible healthcare sensor *** common status of their constituent blocks are solid film and network ***,the solid film could only sustain bend in a narrow range due to...
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Thin-film electronics played an important role in flexible healthcare sensor *** common status of their constituent blocks are solid film and network ***,the solid film could only sustain bend in a narrow range due to cracks,and the network structure decreased the sensitivity of flexion sensors due to the strong interactions between *** materials and technologies are urgently required for flexible sensing electronics,to produce the reliable data for assessment of the human ***,we report on a novel three-dimensional(3D)carbon nanorods array(CNA)that is characterized as vertically aligned nanorods and self-cross-linked *** also demonstrate the CNA-based flexible healthcare sensors in monitoring the Parkinsonian *** with two-dimensional(2D)carbon nanotube networks and solid thin films,such self-cross-linked geometries are highly resistant to crack and fragmentation under *** the meantime,it shows high sensitivity and good stability(~10,000 times)to detect the *** CNA-based flexible devices are capable of recording low-frequency vibrations(<6 Hz)and make it excellent to monitor the rest tremor of the human body,which is an initial symptom of Parkinson’s *** 3D self-cross-linked CNA film shows great potential in the fabrication of cost-effective and durable flexible sensors for early diagnosis of disease by monitoring the health-related rest tremors.
Proton beam therapy is an advanced form of cancer radiotherapy that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver precise and targeted radiation to tumors. This helps to mit-igate unnecessary radiation exposure in healthy ...
Proton beam therapy is an advanced form of cancer radiotherapy that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver precise and targeted radiation to tumors. This helps to mit-igate unnecessary radiation exposure in healthy tissues. Real-time imaging of prompt gamma rays with Compton cameras has been suggested to improve therapy efficacy. However, the camera's non-zero time resolution leads to incorrect interaction classifications and noisy images that are insufficient for accurately assessing proton delivery in patients. To address the challenges posed by the Compton camera's image quality, machine learning techniques are employed to classify and refine the generated data. These machine-learning techniques include recurrent and feedforward neural networks. A PyTorch model was designed to improve the data captured by the Compton camera. This decision was driven by PyTorch's flexibility, powerful capabilities in handling sequential data, and enhanced G PU usage. This accelerates the model's computations on large-scale radiotherapy data. Through hyperparameter tuning, the validation accuracy of our PyTorch model has been improved from an initial 7 % to over 60 %. Moreover, the PyTorch Distributed Data Parallelism strategy was used to train the RNN models on multiple G PU s, which significantly reduced the training time with a minor impact on model accuracy.
ZrSiS-type materials represent a large material family with unusual coexistence of topological nonsymmorphic Dirac fermions and nodal-line fermions. As a special group of ZrSiS family, LnSbTe (Ln=lanthaniderare−earth)...
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ZrSiS-type materials represent a large material family with unusual coexistence of topological nonsymmorphic Dirac fermions and nodal-line fermions. As a special group of ZrSiS family, LnSbTe (Ln=lanthaniderare−earth) compounds provide a unique opportunity to explore new quantum phases due to the intrinsic magnetism induced by Ln. Here we report the single-crystal growth and characterization of NdSbTe, a previously unexplored LnSbTe compound. NdSbTe has an antiferromagnetic ground state with field-driven metamagnetic transitions similar to other known LnSbTe, but exhibits distinct enhanced electronic correlations characterized by large a Sommerfeld coefficient of 115mJ/molK2, which is the highest among the known LnSbTe compounds. Furthermore, our transport studies have revealed the coupling with magnetism and signatures of Kondo localization. All these findings establish NdSbTe as a platform for observing phenomena arising from the interplay between magnetism, topology, and electron correlations.
Eutectic solidification is a self-driven phase separation process that enables the straightforward synthesis of complex micro- and nanostructures in a single step. However, impurities incorporated into the phases duri...
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Eutectic solidification is a self-driven phase separation process that enables the straightforward synthesis of complex micro- and nanostructures in a single step. However, impurities incorporated into the phases during coupled growth can affect the material properties, posing challenges for its practical application. This study investigates the formation and incorporation of Au nanoparticles (NPs) within Si lamellae formed by the melting and solidification of Au-Si thin films. Our findings show that faster cooling rates of the eutectic melt increase the Au concentration in the Si lamellae beyond its solubility limit. We found a homogeneous distribution of Au NPs throughout the Si bulk, and additional bands of NPs, 2–3 times larger in size than in the bulk, aligned along Σ3 {111} twin boundaries (TBs). We present a theoretical model for Au NPs formation where Au clusters nucleate during solidification in the near-surface liquid layer on the solidification front (SF), serving as sinks for Au atoms and forming the NPs. The advancing SF traps these NPs within the solid Si, creating the homogeneous particle distribution inside the Si lamellae. Au diffusion in defect-free solid Si is slow, even at the eutectic temperature, making Au NPs coarsening in the bulk negligible. However, the activation energy for Au diffusion along TBs is lower than in the bulk, accelerating growth and coarsening along the TBs, producing bands of larger NPs. This study provides a new understanding of the mechanisms governing the formation and incorporation of low-soluble impurity NPs in eutectic microstructures and their evolution along TBs.
Implant-associated infections are generally difficult to cure owing to the bacterial antibiotic resistance which is attributed to the widespread usage of *** the global threat and increasing influence of antibiotic re...
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Implant-associated infections are generally difficult to cure owing to the bacterial antibiotic resistance which is attributed to the widespread usage of *** the global threat and increasing influence of antibiotic resistance,there is an urgent demand to explore novel antibacterial strategies other than using ***,using a certain surface topography to provide a more persistent antibacterial solution attracts more and more ***,the clinical application of biomimetic nano-pillar array is not satisfactory,mainly because its antibacterial ability against Gram-positive strain is not good ***,the pillar array should be equipped with other antibacterial agents to fulfill the bacteriostatic and bactericidal requirements of clinical ***,we designed a novel model substrate which was a combination of periodic micro/nano-pillar array and TiO2 for basically understanding the topographical bacteriostatic effects of periodic micro/nano-pillar array and the photocatalytic bactericidal activity of *** innovation may potentially exert the synergistic effects by integrating the persistent topographical antibacterial activity and the non-invasive X-ray induced photocatalytic antibacterial property of TiO2 to combat against antibiotic-resistant implant-associated ***,to separately verify the topographical antibacterial activity of TiO2 periodic micro/nano-pillar array,we systematically investigated its effects on bacterial adhesion,growth,proliferation,and viability in the dark without involving the photocatalysis of *** pillar array with sub-micron motif size can significantly inhibit the adhesion,growth,and proliferation of Staphylococcus aureus(***)and Escherichia coli(***).Such antibacterial ability is mainly attributed to a spatial confinement size-effect and limited contact area availability generated by the special topography of pillar ***,the pillar array is not lethal to S
The high penetration depth of sonodynamic therapy (SDT) and the instantaneous opening of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) due to ultrasound stimulation make SDT superior for treating gliomas. Here, we construct amphiphi...
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