Publications by authors named "Ruihan Wu"

Background: Cardiovascular disease with multimorbidity imposes substantial long-term financial burdens. Financial toxicity, the financial burden associated with healthcare, is increasingly recognized as a psychosocial stressor affecting health outcomes among chronically ill populations. However, its psychological heterogeneity in non-cancer patients is understudied.

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Inorganic CsPbI perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) have attracted great attention in photovoltaic research in recent years. Thermal annealing treatment is important for device optimization of the pero-SCs, nevertheless, traditional annealing process leads to residual strain owing to the difference of thermal expansion coefficients between perovskite active layer and SnO electron transporting layer (ETL) in n-i-p pero-SCs. Additionally, abundant defects and mismatched energy levels restrict the application of SnO as ETL in the CsPbI n-i-p pero-SCs.

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Digital picture-book (DPB) with animated elements can enhance children's engagement, but irrelevant animations may interfere with their comprehension. To determine the effect of the relevance of animated elements on preschoolers' comprehension, an experimental study was conducted. Thirtythree preschoolers between the aged 4-5 years engaged with DPB in three conditions: high- and lowrelevant animations and a static control while listening to the story; their eye movements were recorded simultaneously.

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  • Chemical additives, particularly carboxylic acids, are essential in improving the crystallization and film quality of perovskite solar cells, influencing their performance and durability.
  • Directly adding carboxylic acids can slow down crystallization during film formation, prompting a need for alternative methods.
  • A new approach using Bis-PEG4-NHS ester in the antisolvent allows for a transformation to carboxylic acids during annealing, enhancing structural integrity and defect passivation, leading to highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells with a certified efficiency of 25.47%.
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  • The study addresses non-radiative recombination losses and moisture degradation in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs), which hinder their efficiency and stability due to poor perovskite quality.* -
  • To combat these issues, researchers combined thermally stable perovskite layers with covalent organic frameworks (COFs) that improve perovskite quality and reduce defects through a unique interaction with lead ions.* -
  • COF-doped PSCs achieved power conversion efficiencies of up to 25.64% and demonstrated remarkable stability, retaining 81% of their initial efficiency after 978 hours at elevated temperatures and performing well under moisture and light conditions.*
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Plant diseases caused by fungal pathogens pose a great threat to crop production. Conidiation of fungi is critical for disease epidemics and serves as a promising drug target. Here, we show that deacetylation of the FolTFIIS transcription elongation factor is indispensable for Fusarium oxysporum f.

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Fullerene (C) crystals have attracted considerable attention in the field of optoelectronic devices owing to their excellent performance as n-type semiconductor material. However, a challenge still remains unbeaten as to the continuous crystallization of non-solvated C single-crystal films with high coverage and uniform alignment using low-cost solution techniques. Here, a facile bar coating method is used to prepare ribbon-shaped non-solvated C crystals with a large area (up to centimeters) and high coverage (>95%) by precisely controlling the crystallization process from specific solvents.

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  • Co-based catalysts, particularly CoO/Al-SBA-15, are promising for propane dehydrogenation (PDH) due to their eco-friendliness and affordability.
  • The study prepared these catalysts using a one-step organometallic complexation method, resulting in improved features like worm-like morphology and high surface area, which enhance CoO dispersion and reactant transfer.
  • The optimized 10CSOC catalyst shows significant performance, achieving 43% propane conversion and 83% propylene selectivity under ideal conditions, thanks to its smaller CoO nanoparticles and favorable properties.
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Iron-binding protein (Ibp) has protective effect on pathogen exposed to HO in defense response of plants. Ibp in Botrytis cinerea (BcIbp) is related to its virulence. Bcibp mutation lead to virulence deficiencies in B.

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One promising account for autism is implicit mentalizing difficulties. However, this account and even the existence of implicit mentalizing have been challenged because the replication results are mixed. Those unsuccessful replications may be due to the task contexts not being sufficiently evaluative.

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Autistic adults struggle to reliably differentiate genuine and posed smiles. Intergroup bias is a promising factor that may modulate smile discrimination performance, which has been shown in neurotypical adults, and which could highlight ways to make social interactions easier. However, it is not clear whether this bias also exists in autistic people.

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Controlling the perovskite morphology and defects at the buried perovskite-substrate interface is challenging for inverted perovskite solar cells. In this work, we report an amphiphilic molecular hole transporter, (2-(4-(bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amino)phenyl)-1-cyanovinyl)phosphonic acid, that features a multifunctional cyanovinyl phosphonic acid group and forms a superwetting underlayer for perovskite deposition, which enables high-quality perovskite films with minimized defects at the buried interface. The resulting perovskite film has a photoluminescence quantum yield of 17% and a Shockley-Read-Hall lifetime of nearly 7 microseconds and achieved a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.

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Lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation (Khib) is a newly discovered post-translational modification in recent years, which has been identified in several species and is associated with diverse cellular functions. Botrytis cinerea, as a broad host pathogen, is very destructive and causes serious losses to agricultural economy. Argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS, citrulline-aspartate ligase) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the catalytic arginine synthesis pathway.

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Jasmonates induce the protein-protein interaction between the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1 (COI1) and jasmonate ZIM-domain proteins (JAZs) in the presence of inositol phosphate, which made the degradation of JAZs and the release of the JAZ-repressed transcription factors. They are involved in the regulation of a wide range of physiology process, including plant growth, development and stress response. Coronatine-O-methyloxime (COR-MO) prevents the binding of COI1-JAZ, acting as an antagonist for jasmonate signaling pathway, while the understanding on the molecular basis of its action as an antagonist is still lacking at atomic level.

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ConspectusSingle crystals of organic semiconductors (OSCs) are believed to have both high mobility and intrinsic flexibility, making them promising candidates for flexible electronic/optoelectronic applications and being consistently pursued by researchers. The van der Waals force in OSC enables low-temperature solution processing of single crystals, but the relatively weak binding energy brings challenges in forming large, uniform, and defect-free single crystals. To promote the study on OSC single crystals, a generalized method that grows high-quality crystals in an easy-to-handle, time/resource-saving, and repeatable manner is apparently necessary.

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Barley Limit dextrinase (Hordeum vulgare HvLD) is the unique endogenous starch-debranching enzyme, determining the production of a high degree of fermentation. The activity of HvLD is regulated by an endogenous LD inhibitor protein (LDI). In beer production, free LD is easy to inactivate in mashing process under the condition of high temperature.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of leonurine (YMJ) on inflammation and intestinal microflora in colonic tissues of a dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced ulcerative colitis (UC) mouse model. Mice were randomly divided into control (n=5), DSS (n=5, treated with DSS) and DSS+YMJ (n=5, treated with DSS and YMJ) groups.

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Image-like data from quantum systems promises to offer greater insight into the physics of correlated quantum matter. However, the traditional framework of condensed matter physics lacks principled approaches for analyzing such data. Machine learning models are a powerful theoretical tool for analyzing image-like data including many-body snapshots from quantum simulators.

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The singlet fission (SF) process converts one high-energy singlet exciton to two low-energy triplet excitons after absorbing one photon. Organic photovoltaic devices based on the SF process have shown great potential in solar energy conversion to exceed Shockley-Queisser limit. The key to SF photovoltaic devices requires efficient electron transfer (ET) from triplet exciton after SF, which is yet to be thoroughly investigated.

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BACKGROUND Vitamin D3 (VD3) is a commonly used supplement in clinical practice. Cytochrome P450 3A11 (CYP3A11) is the most important monomeric enzyme involved in metabolism of drugs. This study aimed to investigate effects of vitamin D3 (VD3) on CYP3A11 activity.

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Organic heterojunctions are widely used in organic electronics and they are composed of semiconductors interfaced together. Good ordering in the molecular packing inside the heterojunctions is highly desired but it is still challenging to interface organic single crystals to form single-crystalline heterojunctions. Here, we describe how organic heterojunctions are formed by interfacing two single crystals from a droplet of a mixed solution containing two semiconductors.

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Modulating the structure and property of hole-transporting organic semiconductors is of paramount importance for high-efficiency and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). This work reports a low-cost peri-xanthenoxanthene based small-molecule P1, which is prepared at a total yield of 82 % using a three-step synthetic route from the low-cost starting material 2-naphthol. P1 molecules stack in one-dimensional columnar arrangement characteristic of strong intermolecular π-π interactions, contributing to the formation of a solution-processed, semicrystalline thin-film exhibiting one order of magnitude higher hole mobility than the amorphous one based on the state-of-the art hole-transporter, 2,2-7,7-tetrakis(N,N'-di-paramethoxy-phenylamine 9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD).

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Immune modulation of the scaffolds not only reduces the host immunological rejection response, but also improves the regenerative cell migration into the scaffolds. Herein a convenient immune modulation of poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) scaffold is applied with macrophages of different phenotypes to evaluate its influence on the migration behavior of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). With pro-inflammatory macrophages (M1) pre-loading, BMSCs migrate significantly faster into the PLGA scaffold, compared with those in the control scaffold or pre-seeded with inactivated macrophages (M0).

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The aim of the study was to investigate the clinical effect of radiofrequency (RF) ablation combined with digital subtraction angiography (DSA)-guided anhydrous ethanol injection sclerotherapy in the treatment of high-return flow venous malformation (VM). Forty-one patients who were diagnosed as high-return flow VM with clinical and radiographic evidence were divided into the observation group (n=19) and control group (n=22) by random number table. All the patients received DSA-guided anhydrous ethanol injection sclerotherapy while the patients in the observation group were given RF ablation in addition.

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