The development of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has witnessed remarkable progress in material design and device architecture. Recent advancements, particularly in the fourth generation of OLEDs, have introduced groundbreaking innovations such as hyperfluorescence and multiresonance (MR) thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MRTADF) emitters. Carbazole has emerged as a versatile scaffold, playing a pivotal role in conventional fluorescence, TADF, roomtemperature phosphorescence (RTP), and MRTADF systems.
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February 2022
Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts, is one of the economically important quarantine pests that mainly feeds on food grain and proteinaceous materials. Its total development time lasts approximately 40-45 d under favorable environmental conditions. Extreme temperatures, high relative humidity (RH), high larval densities, or low food quality can induce a larval diapause, where the insect can survive for up to a few years, occasionally feeding and molting.
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September 2019
In this work, a new anthracene Schiff base derivative (AS) was successfully synthesized and characterized by pivotal analytical techniques. Based on the contented results, the AS molecule was employed for photophysical investigation using UV-Visible absorption, steady state and time resolved fluorescence techniques. The photophysical studies reveal that the AS possesses modest molar absorption coefficient (10) and weak fluorescence (ϕ = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStretching activated strips of airway smooth muscle (ASM) significantly affects both active force and stiffness due to a temporary reduction of the proportion of cycling myosin cross bridges that are bound to their actin binding sites. For the same reason, stretch applied to ASM in situ by a deep inflation (DI) of the lungs is one of the most potent means of reversing bronchoconstriction. When the DI is sufficiently large, however, and is applied while bronchoconstriction is in the process of developing, the subsequent depression in airway resistance is more persistent than can be attributed simply to temporary detachment of ASM cross bridges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possibility that stem cells might be used to regenerate tissue is now being investigated for a variety of organs, but these investigations are still essentially exploratory and have few predictive tools available to guide experimentation. We propose, in this study, that the field of lung tissue regeneration might be better served by predictive tools that treat stem cells as agents that obey certain rules of behavior governed by both their phenotype and their environment. Sufficient knowledge of these rules of behavior would then, in principle, allow lung tissue development to be simulated computationally.
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