2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylicimide-Based Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Thin-Film Transistors and Polymer Solar Cells

Yu, Jianwei,Ornelas, Joshua Loroñ,a,Tang, Yumin,Uddin, Mohammad Afsar,Guo, Han,Yu, Simiao,Wang, Yulun,Woo, Han Young,Zhang, Shiming,Xing, Guichuan,Guo, Xugang,Huang, Wei American Chemical Society 2017 ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES Vol.9 No.48

<P>A series of polymer semiconductors incorporating 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylicimide (BTZI) as strong electron-withdrawing unit and an alkoxy-functionalized head-to-head linkage containing bithiophene or bithiazole as highly electron-rich co-unit are designed and synthesized. Because of the strong intramolecular charge transfer characteristics, all three polymers BTZI-TRTOR (P1), BTZI-BTOR (P2), and BTZI-BTzOR (P3) exhibit narrow bandgaps of 1.13, 1.05, and 0.92 eV, respectively, resulting in a very broad absorption ranging from 350 to 1400 nm. The highly electron-deficient 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylicimide and alkoxy-functionalized bithiophene (or thiazole) lead to polymers with low-lying lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (-3.96 to -4.28 eV) and high-lying highest occupied molecular orbitals (-5.01 to -5.20 eV). Hence, P1 and P3 show substantial and balanced ambipolar transport with electron mobilities/hole mobilities of up to 0.86/0.51 and 0.95/0.50 cm(2) V-1 s(-1), respectively, and polymer P2 containing the strongest donor unit exhibited unipolar p-type performance with an average hole mobility of 0.40 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) in top-gate/bottom-contact thin-film transistors with gold as the source and drain electrodes. When incorporated into bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells, the narrow bandgap (1.13 eV) polymer P1 shows an encouraging power conversion efficiency of 4.15% with a relatively large open-circuit voltage of 0.69 V, which corresponds to a remarkably small energy loss of 0.44 eV. The power conversion efficiency of P1 is among the highest reported to date with such a small energy loss in polymer:fullerene solar cells.</P>

Glioblastoma Multiforme with Subcutaneous Metastases, Case Report and Literature Review

Guo, Liemei,Qiu, Yongming,Ge, Jianwei,Zhou, Dongxue The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2012 Journal of Korean neurosurgical society Vol.52 No.5

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor and the most malignant astrocytoma in adults, with rare extra-cranial metastases, especially for subcutaneous metastases. It could be easily misdiagnosed as primary subcutaneous tumor. In this report, we describe a patient with pontine GBM who developed a subcutaneous swelling at the ipsilateral posterior cervical region 8 months after operation, and the pathological and immunocytochemical examination carry the same characteristics as the primary intracranial GBM cells, which defined it as subcutaneous metastasis. GBM with subcutaneous metastasis is extremely rare, and knowledge of a prior intracranial GBM, pathological examinations and immunocytochemical tests with markers typically expressed by GBM are of vital importance for the diagnosis of GBM metastasis. Surgical resection of subcutaneous swelling, followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, could be the best strategy of treatment for the patients with GBM subcutaneous metastasis.

(Semi)ladder-Type Bithiophene Imide-Based All-Acceptor Semiconductors: Synthesis, Structure-Property Correlations, and Unipolar n-Type Transistor Performance

Wang, Yingfeng,Guo, Han,Harbuzaru, Alexandra,Uddin, Mohammad Afsar,Arrechea-Marcos, Iratxe,Ling, Shaohua,Yu, Jianwei,Tang, Yumin,Sun, Huiliang,Ló,pez Navarrete, Juan Teodomiro,Ortiz, Rocio Ponce American Chemical Society 2018 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY - Vol.140 No.19

<P>Development of high-performance unipolar n-type organic semiconductors still remains as a great challenge. In this work, all-acceptor bithiophene imide-based ladder-type small molecules BTI<I>n</I> and semiladder-type homopolymers PBTI<I>n</I> (<I>n</I> = 1-5) were synthesized, and their structure-property correlations were studied in depth. It was found that Pd-catalyzed Stille coupling is superior to Ni-mediated Yamamoto coupling to produce polymers with higher molecular weight and improved polymer quality, thus leading to greatly increased electron mobility (μ<SUB>e</SUB>). Due to their all-acceptor backbone, these polymers all exhibit unipolar n-type transport in organic thin-film transistors, accompanied by low off-currents (10<SUP>-10</SUP>-10<SUP>-9</SUP> A), large on/off current ratios (10<SUP>6</SUP>), and small threshold voltages (∼15-25 V). The highest μ<SUB>e</SUB>, up to 3.71 cm<SUP>2</SUP> V<SUP>-1</SUP> s<SUP>-1</SUP>, is attained from PBTI1 with the shortest monomer unit. As the monomer size is extended, the μ<SUB>e</SUB> drops by 2 orders to 0.014 cm<SUP>2</SUP> V<SUP>-1</SUP> s<SUP>-1</SUP> for PBTI5. This monotonic decrease of μ<SUB>e</SUB> was also observed in their homologous BTI<I>n</I> small molecules. This trend of mobility decrease is in good agreement with the evolvement of disordered phases within the film, as revealed by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction measurements. The extension of the ladder-type building blocks appears to have a large impact on the motion freedom of the building blocks and the polymer chains during film formation, thus negatively affecting film morphology and charge carrier mobility. The result indicates that synthesizing building blocks with more extended ladder-type backbone does not necessarily lead to improved mobilities. This study marks a significant advance in the performance of all-acceptor-type polymers as unipolar electron transporting materials and provides useful guidelines for further development of (semi)ladder-type molecular and polymeric semiconductors for applications in organic electronics.</P> [FIG OMISSION]</BR>

Right Ventricular Mass: Thrombus or Tumor?

Zengfa Huang,Jianwei Xiao,Fen Yu,Shuang Guo,Xiang Wang 아시아심장혈관영상의학회 2023 Cardiovascular Imaging Asia Vol.7 No.1

Right ventricular (RV) thrombus is an infrequent and potentially underdiagnosed life-threatening condition. Current studies suggest that multiple non-invasive imaging modalities may be used to diagnose RV thrombus. We report a 51-year-old male patient admitted with fatigue. Transthoracic echocardiography clearly showed the location, shape, and movement of the mass. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging further delineated the relative signal intensity and enhancement of the RV thrombus.

Adaptive Decentralized Event-triggered Tracking Control for Large-scale Strongly Interconnected Nonlinear System with Global Performance

Wenjing Yang,Jianwei Xia,Xiaoxiao Guo,Miao Yu,Na Zhang 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2023 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.21 No.5

In this paper, an adaptive decentralized event-triggered global performance control of a class of largescale strongly interconnected nonlinear systems with external disturbances is investigated. Firstly, the original performance constrained large-scale nonlinear system is transformed into an equivalent unconstrained nonlinear largescale system by barrier function transformation. Secondly, the additional assumptions of interconnect terms such as upper bound function and matching conditions are eliminated by using the inherent properties of Gaussian function. In addition, an event-triggered mechanism is designed to reduce unnecessary transfers between the controller and the actuator for better resource efficiency. It is shown that the proposed control schemes guarantee that all signals of the closed-loop system are bounded, and the output tracking error is always kept within the given boundary. Finally, a numerical system and a mass-spring damping system are taken as examples to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method.

Dynamic Event-triggered Adaptive Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Switched Systems Based on MDADT Method

Xueliang Wang,Jianwei Xia,Na Zhang,Miao Yu,Xiaoxiao Guo 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2023 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.21 No.1

This article deals with the dynamic event-triggered tracking control problem for nonlinear switched systems with uncertain nonlinearities. By combining neural network control technology, mode-dependent average dwell time (MDADT) switching rule and dynamic event-triggered strategy, a valid adaptive control scheme is established, which guarantees the boundedness of all signals in the resulting closed-loop system and the tracking error eventually converges to a small neighborhood of the origin under a class of switching signals with MDADT property. Unlike the existing tracking control schemes, the proposed dynamic event-triggered strategy reduce some unnecessary transmissions from controller to actuator and thus saving network resources better. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control design is verified by a numerical simulation.

A New Dactylella Species from Orbilia alba

ZeFen Yu,,YanJie Kong,Ying Zhang,Min Qiao,JianWei Guo,Ke-Qin Zhang 한국미생물학회 2009 The journal of microbiology Vol.47 No.3

A new Dactylella species, Dactylella alba was isolated from the ascospores of Orbilia alba collected in Wen- shan County, Yunnan Province, China. Conidiophores were either not branched or occasionally branched, bearing divergent sterigmata on the tip with single conidium on each. Conidia were elongated ellipsoids, 1-2 septate, mostly 1 septate. By combining the ITS sequence with morphological characteristics, a new anamorphic species is described and illustrated together with its teleomorph.

1,4-Di(3-alkoxy-2-thienyl)-2,5-difluorophenylene: A Building Block Enabling High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors with Increased Open-Circuit Voltages

Chen, Jianhua,Yan, Zhenglong,Tang, Linjing,Uddin, Mohammad Afsar,Yu, Jianwei,Zhou, Xin,Yang, Kun,Tang, Yumin,Shin, Tae Joo,Woo, Han Young,Guo, Xugang American Chemical Society 2018 Macromolecules Vol.51 No.14

<P>A new building block, 1,4-di(3-alkoxy-2-thienyl)-2,5-difluorophenylene (DOTFP) with several desirable features such as high backbone planarity, suitably lying highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), and good solubility, was developed by inserting an electron-deficient difluorophenylene into the 3,3′-dialkoxy-2,2′-bithiophene (BTOR) unit. Three regioregular D-A<SUB>1</SUB>-D-A<SUB>2</SUB> type polymers based on DOTFP and benzothiadiazole (BT) derivatives were synthesized and characterized by comparing with a D-A type BTOR-based polymer. The content of highly electron-rich alkoxythiophene is reduced by half in the DOTFP-based polymers versus that of the BTOR-based polymer analogue, which results in a deeper HOMO level and benefits high open-circuit voltage (<I>V</I><SUB>oc</SUB>) in polymer solar cells (PSCs). Consequently, the DOTFP-ffBT-based solar cells exhibited a significantly improved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.7% and an increased <I>V</I><SUB>oc</SUB> of 0.84 V compared to the BTOR-ffBT-based solar cells with a PCE of 2.6% and a <I>V</I><SUB>oc</SUB> of 0.49 V. Additionally, the DOTFP-based polymers showed improved charge transport properties and film morphology than the BTOR-based polymer BTOR-ffBT, resulting in simultaneous enhancement of the short-circuit current (<I>J</I><SUB>sc</SUB>) and fill factor (FF) in PSCs. These results demonstrate the great promise of the DOTFP building block for the construction of high-performance photovoltaic polymer semiconductors with increased <I>V</I><SUB>oc</SUB>s.</P> [FIG OMISSION]</BR>

Impact of NR1I2, adenosine triphosphateebinding cassette transporters genetic polymorphisms on the pharmacokinetics of ginsenoside compound K in healthy Chinese volunteers

Luping Zhou,Lulu Chen,Yaqin Wang,Jie Huang,Guo Ping Yang,Zhi-Rong Tang,Yicheng Wang,Jianwei Liao,Gan Zhou,Kai-hua Wei,Zhenyu Li,Dongsheng Ouyang 고려인삼학회 2019 Journal of Ginseng Research Vol.43 No.3

Background: Ginsenoside compound K (CK) is a promising drug candidate for rheumatoid arthritis. Thisstudy examined the impact of polymorphisms in NR1I2, adenosine triphosphateebinding cassette (ABC)transporter genes on the pharmacokinetics of CK in healthy Chinese individuals. Methods: Forty-two targeted variants in seven genes were genotyped in 54 participants using SequenomMassARRAY system to investigate their association with major pharmacokinetic parameters of CK and itsmetabolite 20(S)-protopanaxadiol (PPD). Subsequently, molecular docking was simulated using theAutoDock Vina program. Results: ABCC4 rs1751034 TT and rs1189437 TT were associated with increased exposure of CK anddecreased exposure of 20(S)-PPD, whereas CFTR rs4148688 heterozygous carriers had the lowestmaximum concentration (Cmax) of CK. The area under the curve from zero to the time of the lastquantifiable concentration (AUClast) of CK was decreased in NR1I2 rs1464602 and rs2472682 homozygouscarriers, while Cmax was significantly reduced only in rs2472682. ABCC4 rs1151471 and CFTR rs2283054influenced the pharmacokinetics of 20(S)-PPD. In addition, several variations in ABCC2, ABCC4, CFTR, andNR1I2 had minor effects on the pharmacokinetics of CK. Quality of the best homology model of multidrugresistance protein 4 (MRP4) was assessed, and the ligand interaction plot showed the mode of interactionof CK with different MRP4 residues. Conlusion: ABCC4 rs1751034 and rs1189437 affected the pharmacokinetics of both CK and 20(S)-PPD. NR1I2 rs1464602 and rs2472682 were only associated with the pharmacokinetics of CK. Thus, thesehereditary variances could partly explain the interindividual differences in the pharmacokinetics of CK.

Effect of aberrantly methylated androgen receptor target gene PCDH7 on the development of androgen-independent prostate cancer cells

Siqi Xu,Xiaoyan Wu,Zhihua Tao,Hongsheng Li1,Chenliang Fan,Songjin Chen,Jianwei Guo,Yao Ning,Xuqi Hu 한국유전학회 2020 Genes & Genomics Vol.42 No.3

Background Androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) is an extremely malignant tumor developed from the androgen dependent (ADPC). However, the mechanism of transition process from ADPC to AIPC remains unknown. Objective Here we aimed to identify the androgen receptor (AR) target gene and its roles in AIPC. Methods Target genes of AR were identified by ChIP-seq in AIPC cells. AR target gene PCDH7 was detected by real time PCR and western blot. Methylation of PCDH7 was measured by bisulfite sequencing and bisulfite amplicon sequencing. Cell growth, invasion and apoptosis were measured by CCK-8, transwell and flow cytometry, respectively. Results AR was significantly enriched in the upstream of PCDH7 gene. The expression of PCDH7 was significantly decreased, while the methylation of PCDH7 was increased in the AIPC cells compared to the ADPC cells. DNA methyltransferase inhibitor significantly suppressed the methylation and increased the mRNA and protein level of PCDH7. Moreover, overexpression of DNMT1 remarkably reduced the mRNA and protein level of PCDH7. DNA methyltransferase inhibitor decreased the cell growth and invasion while promote the cell apoptosis in the AIPC cells. AR significantly target PCDH7, whose hypermethylation may repress cell growth and invasion, and promote apoptosis in AIPC. Conclusions This study might provide a novel potential target for the treatment of AIPC.