Genes (Basel)
July 2025
: Complete environmental adaptation requires both survival and reproductive success. The hypoxic Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (>3000 m) challenges reproduction in indigenous species. Tibetan sheep, a key plateau-adapted breed, possess remarkable hypoxic tolerance, yet the genetic basis of their reproductive success remains poorly understood.
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January 2025
Flexible supercapacitors offer significant potential for powering next-generation flexible electronics. However, the mechanical and electrochemical stability of flexible supercapacitors under different flexibility conditions is limited by the weak bonding between neighboring layers, posing a major obstacle to their practical application. In this paper, natural coniferous pulp cellulose was successfully modified with ethylenediamine and NiSe/Cell-NH/MoS cellulose flexible electrodes (NCMF) were fabricated by phase transfer and hydrothermal methods.
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August 2023
Mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is a DNA-binding protein that is encoded by nuclear genes, ultimately functions in mitochondria and can affect gene expression. By combining with mitochondrial nucleic acids, mTERF regulates the replication, transcription and translation of mitochondrial genes and plays an important role in the response of plants to abiotic stress. However, there are few studies on genes in tomato, which limits the in-depth study and utilization of mTERF family genes in tomato stress resistance regulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorous (BaCa)(ZrTi)O (BCZT) piezoelectric ceramics with an oriented directional hole structure were prepared by using the tertbutyl alcohol (TBA)-based freeze-casting method. The influences of sintering temperatures on the microstructure and piezoelectric properties of porous BCZT ceramics were investigated both perpendicular and parallel to the freezing direction. With the increase in sintering temperatures and the porosities decreased from 58% to 42%, the compressive strength increased from 14.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe demonstrate the tunable Raman femtosecond solitons generation with a record-breaking power of 1.2 W at 2.3 µm and an ever-reported highest Raman soliton energy conversion efficiency of 99% via precise seed-pulse management in the thulium-doped single-mode fiber amplifier.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe demonstrate a thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with ultra-broadband wavelength tunability for micro-strain sensing based on the multimode interference (MMI) effect in single-mode-multimode-single-mode (SMS) fiber configuration. The homemade SMS device with high performance is fusion spliced in the laser cavity, and the developed dispersion precisely managed the all-fiber structured mode-locked picosecond laser with a record-breaking wavelength tuning range from 1976 to 1916 nm while exerting axial strain on this SMS device. We experimentally explored the regularity between the strain and the central-wavelength shift of the mode-locked pulse, and for the first time to the best of the authors' knowledge, achieved the precise in-line axial strain measurement from 0 to 5385 µɛ by using the tunable ultrafast-laser-based sensor, and sensitivity is up to -11.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmyloid transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis is a widespread and fatal systemic amyloidosis characterized by the misfolding and amyloid aggregation of transthyretin (TTR). Studies suggest that dissociation of the TTR tetramer is the key step for its misfolding. Because of the importance of tetramer dissociation on ATTR amyloidosis, many TTR stabilizers have been discovered to stabilize the tetramer structure.
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November 2019
Material Point Method (MPM) mesoscale simulation was used to study the constitutive relation of a polymer bonded explosive (PBX) consisting of 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) and a fluorine polymer binder F. The stress-strain variations of the PBX were calculated for different temperatures and different porosities, and the results were found to be consistent with experimental observations. The stress-strain relations at different temperatures were used to develop the constitutive equation of the PBX by using numerical data fitting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA deactivation channel for laser-excited 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) was studied by semiclassical dynamics. Results indicate that the excited state resulting from an electronic transition from the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) to the lowest unoccupied molecular mrbital (LUMO) is deactivated via pyramidalization of the activated N atom in a nitro group, with a lifetime of 2.4 ps.
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