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In this study, we focused on the effect of pressure on the crystal structures of dioxides of group 14 elements, SiO, GeO, and CO. Systematic searches for their crystal structures using the artificial force induced reaction method generated 219 and 147, 102 and 63, and 148 and 76 structures for SiO, GeO, and CO, respectively, at 1 and 10 atm. At 1 atm, cristobalite-like, quartz, anatase-like, and stishovite were stable structures for SiO and GeO. At 10 atm, structures of stishovite and CaCl type were relatively stable for SiO and GeO. At 1 atm of CO, molecular crystals were the most stable, whereas, quartz-like and cristobalite-like structures were obtained as stable structures at 10 atm. We discuss these pressure dependent structural variations systematically using the obtained structural dataset.
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Sci Total Environ
August 2025
Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnerstr. 5b, 52062 Aachen, Germany. Electronic address:
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFWei Sheng Yan Jiu
July 2025
School of Basic Medicine, North China University of Science and Technology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Basic Medicine of Chronic Disease, Tangshan Key Laboratory of Clinical Basic Research on Chronic Diseases of the Elderly, Tangshan 063210, China.
Objective: To explore the relationship between heat shock protein 27(HSP27) and Janus kinase 2(JAK2), Recombinant signal transducer and activator of transcription 3(STAT3) related factors, To further explore the mechanism of silicosis fibrosis and potential therapeutic targets.
Methods: The gene expression profile microarray(GSE110147) of a patient with pulmonary fibrosis was obtained from the gene Expression Omnibus(GEO) database, and the HSP27 high expression was set and the genes related to apoptosis pathway were screened out. The STRING online database was used to construct the key gene target map, and the protein interaction network(PPI) was constructed by Cytoscape.
Nanomaterials (Basel)
June 2025
Department of Chemical Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1496969191, Iran.
Germanium/tin-containing silicon oxide [SiO-(GeO/SnO)] nanoclusters have been designed with different Si/Ge/Sn particles and characterized as electrodes for magnesium-ion batteries (MIBs) due to forming MgBe [SiO-GeO], MgBe [SiO-SnO], MgCa [SiO-GeO], and MgCa [SiO-SnO] complexes. In this work, alkaline earth metals of magnesium (Mg), beryllium (Be), and calcium (Ca) have been studied in hybrid Mg-, Be-, and Ca-ion batteries. An expanded investigation on H capture by MgBe [SiO-(GeO/SnO)] or MgCa [SiO-(GeO/SnO)] complexes was probed using computational approaches due to density state analysis of charge density differences (CDD), total density of states (TDOS), and electron localization function (ELF) for hydrogenated hybrid clusters of MgBe [SiO-GeO], MgBe [SiO-SnO], MgCa [SiO-GeO], and MgCa [SiO-SnO].
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Phys Condens Matter
June 2025
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China.
Pressure-induced tetrahedral-octahedral transitions have been one of the central topics in high-pressure research due to the importance of SiOand GeOglasses in condensed matter physics and geosciences. However, the existence and role of the fivefold coordinated structural unit remains elusive. While accurate determination of the different polyhedral structures in the glasses in high-pressure experiments is a formidable challenge, we have performed a comprehensivemolecular dynamics (AIMD) simulation and the results agree well with the local structure determined by HP-XAFS experiments.
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