Sol-Flame Synthesis: A General Strategy To Decorate Nanowires with Metal Oxide/Noble Metal Nanoparticles

Feng, Yunzhe,Cho, In Sun,Rao, Pratap M.,Cai, Lili,Zheng, Xiaolin American Chemical Society 2013 Nano letters Vol.13 No.3

<P>The hybrid structure of nanoparticle-decorated nanowires (NP@NW) combines the merits of large specific surface areas for NPs and anisotropic properties for NWs and is a desirable structure for applications including batteries, dye-sensitized solar cells, photoelectrochemical water splitting, and catalysis. Here, we report a novel <I>sol-flame</I> method to synthesize the NP@NW hybrid structure with two unique characteristics: (1) large loading of NPs per NW with the morphology of NP chains fanning radially from the NW core and (2) intimate contact between NPs and NWs. Both features are advantageous for the above applications that involve both surface reactions and charge transport processes. Moreover, the sol-flame method is simple and general, with which we have successfully decorated various NWs with binary/ternary metal oxide and even noble metal NPs. The unique aspects of the sol-flame method arise from the ultrafast heating rate and the high temperature of flame, which enables rapid solvent evaporation and combustion, and the combustion gaseous products blow out NPs as they nucleate, forming the NP chains around NWs.</P><P><B>Graphic Abstract</B> <IMG SRC='http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/nalefd/2013/nalefd.2013.13.issue-3/nl300060b/production/images/medium/nl-2012-00060b_0002.gif'></P><P><A href='http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/nl300060b'>ACS Electronic Supporting Info</A></P>

Comparative effect of eldecalcitol and alfacalcidol on bone microstructure: A preliminary report of secondary analysis of a prospective trial

Xiaolin Ni,Juan Feng,Yan Jiang,Li Zhang,Wei Yu,Ou Wang,Mei Li,Xiaoping Xing,Toshio Matsumoto,Weibo Xia 대한골다공증학회 2021 Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia Vol.7 No.2

Objectives: To compare the effect of eldecalcitol and alfacalcidol on skeletal microstructure by highresolution peripheral QCT (HR-pQCT). Methods: This was a substudy of a randomized, double-blind, active comparator trial. Five female osteoporotic patients with 1-year 0.75 ㎍/day eldecalcitol and 5 with 1-year 1.0 ㎍/day alfacalcidol completed HR-pQCT scans before and after treatment were enrolled. Results: Total vBMD [1.67 ± 1.06% (mean ± SD), P = 0.043 versus baseline] and trabecular vBMD (2.91 ± 1.72%, P = 0.043) at the radius increased in eldecalcitol group, while total, trabecular, and cortical vBMD tended to decrease in alfacalcidol group, with a significant reduction in cortical vBMD at the tibia (0.88 ± 0.62%, P = 0.043). Cortical area (1.82 ± 1.92%, P = 0.043) at the radius and thickness (0.87 ± 1.12%, P = 0.043) at the tibia increased in eldecalcitol group, while these parameters decreased with alfacalcidol at the tibia (1.77 ± 1.72%, P ¼ 0.043 for cortical area; 1.40 ± 2.14%, P = 0.042 for cortical thickness). Trabecular thickness at the radius (1.97 ± 1.93%, P = 0.042) and number at the tibia (3.09 ± 3.04%, P = 0.043) increased by eldecalcitol but did not increase by alfacalcidol. Trabecular separation decreased by eldecalcitol (2.22 ± 2.43%, P = 0.043) but tended to increase by alfacalcidol at the tibia. Conclusions: Eldecalcitol has the greater potential to improve cortical and trabecular microstructure at the peripheral bone than alfacalcidol which needs further more studies.

In situ growth of hollow Cu2O spheres using anionic vesicles as soft templates

Xiaolin Luo,Zhe Pan,Fei Pei,Zhipeng Jin,Kangkang Miao,Pengfei Yang,Huaming Qian,Qiang Chen,Guodong Feng 한국공업화학회 2018 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.59 No.-

Geometrically optimizing anionic vesicles were fabricated using two types of anionic surfactants with antipodal molecular configuration. The influence of counterions on the anionic vesicles was systematically investigated to maintain electrostatic interaction between the anionic vesicles and the precursors, as well as to ensure the structural integrity of the vesicle templates. The transcription from vesicles to hollow Cu2O spheres was achieved through an in situ reduction approach. The obtained hollow Cu2O spheres were assembled by abundant nanoparticles around the vesicle interface and showed preferable adsorption capacity for methyl orange in the dark compared with the solid Cu2O spheres synthesized without any surfactants.

A Simple and Fast Anti-collision Protocol for Large-scale RFID Tags Identification

( Xiaolin Jia ),( Yuhao Feng ),( Yajun Gu ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2020 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.14 No.4

This paper proposes a novel anti-collision protocol for large-scale RFID tags identification, named Bi-response Collision Tree Protocol (BCT). In BCT, two group of tags answer the reader’s same query in two response-cycles respectively and independently according to the bi-response pattern. BCT improves the RFID tag identification performance significantly by decreasing the query cycles and the bits transmitted by the reader and tags during the identification. Computation and simulation results indicate that BCT improves the RFID tag identification performance effectively, e.g. the tag identification speed is improved more than 13.0%, 16.9%, and 22.9% compared to that of Collision Tree Protocol (CT), M-ary Collision Tree Protocol (MCT), and Dual Prefix Probe Scheme (DPPS) respectively when tags IDs are distributed uniformly.

Experimental Research on Hole Wall Integrity of TiBw/TC4 Based on Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Drilling

Yong Feng,Haoxiang Wang,Min Zhang,Zihao Zhu,Xiaoyu Wang,Binhui Jia,Xiaolin Jia 한국정밀공학회 2020 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Vol.21 No.5

Titanium Matrix Composites (TMCs) are widely used in aerospace because of their excellent mechanical properties, but itis accompanied by the diffi culty of machining. Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Drilling (UVAD) can eff ectively reduce theaxial force in the drilling process and improve the integrity of machined surface. In this paper, the discontinuous titaniummatrix composite TiBw/TC4 was developed by preparation method of in situ. In order to obtain the machining parameters ofTiBw/TC4 and guide the application of UVAD in TiBw/TC4, the contrast experiments between conventional drilling (CD)and UVAD were carried out to analyze the variation law of axial force. In this experiment, the frequency and amplitude ofultrasonic vibration were set as 35 kHz and 2.5 μm respectively, and the drilling conditions were that the spindle speed was(1500/1600/1700/1800/1900) r/min and the feed speed was (6/7/8/9/10) mm/min. The surface integrity of hole wall suchas roughness, residual stress and white layer was discussed. The experimental results show that the yield strength of TiBw/TC4 developed by in situ is 51% higher than that of pure TC4. Compared with CD, the axial force of TiBw/TC4 in UVADis signifi cantly reduced, and the formation of continuous chips and winding cutters is eff ectively reduced. Besides, the wearrate of the cutters is reduced. The number and size of hole wall defects, such as scratches, delamination and tearing, areobviously reduced. As well as the residual stress, white layer thickness and hole wall roughness are reduced by 4.67–16.31%,42.48% and 5.98–29.27% respectively. Within the limits of the experiment, when the spindle speed is 1700 r/min and thefeed speed is 8 mm/min, UVAD can obtain better hole wall surface integrity parameters.

An Improved Zero-knowledge Identification Scheme based on Quasi-Dyadic Codes

Mu Han,Xiaolin Feng,Shidian Ma 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Security and Its Applicat Vol.10 No.10

In this paper we present an improved version of the zero-knowledge identification scheme based on algebraic coding theory. Our protocol is related to the Véron’s identification scheme but permits a lower communication complexity by transferring two hash values in each round instead of three. And the protocol decreases the cheating probability to about 1/2 instead of 2/3 which reduces the rounds of the protocol. Furthermore, we construct the parity-check matrix in a quasi-dyadic form in order to dramatically reduce the matrix size. In sum, the new scheme has good properties of having a small matrix size, computation complexity, and for an overall communication cost of 22.8kb for authentication.

A Framework for measuring query privacy in Location-based Service

( Xuejun Zhang ),( Xiaolin Gui ),( Feng Tian ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2015 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.9 No.5

The widespread use of location-based services (LBSs), which allows untrusted service provider to collect large number of user request records, leads to serious privacy concerns. In response to these issues, a number of LBS privacy protection mechanisms (LPPMs) have been recently proposed. However, the evaluation of these LPPMs usually disregards the background knowledge that the adversary may possess about users` contextual information, which runs the risk of wrongly evaluating users` query privacy. In this paper, we address these issues by proposing a generic formal quantification framework,which comprehensively contemplate the various elements that influence the query privacy of users and explicitly states the knowledge that an adversary might have in the context of query privacy. Moreover, a way to model the adversary`s attack on query privacy is proposed, which allows us to show the insufficiency of the existing query privacy metrics, e.g., k-anonymity. Thus we propose two new metrics: entropy anonymity and mutual information anonymity. Lastly, we run a set of experiments on datasets generated by network based generator of moving objects proposed by Thomas Brinkhoff. The results show the effectiveness and efficient of our framework to measure the LPPM.

Multivalency-Driven Formation of Te-Based Monolayer Materials: A Combined First-Principles and Experimental study

Zhu, Zhili,Cai, Xiaolin,Yi, Seho,Chen, Jinglei,Dai, Yawei,Niu, Chunyao,Guo, Zhengxiao,Xie, Maohai,Liu, Feng,Cho, Jun-Hyung,Jia, Yu,Zhang, Zhenyu American Physical Society 2017 Physical Review Letters Vol.119 No.10

<P>Contemporary science is witnessing a rapid expansion of the two-dimensional (2D) materials family, each member possessing intriguing emergent properties of fundamental and practical importance. Using the particle-swarm optimization method in combination with first-principles density functional theory calculations, here we predict a new category of 2D monolayers named tellurene, composed of the metalloid element Te, with stable 1T-MoS2-like (alpha-Te), and metastable tetragonal (beta-Te) and 2H-MoS2-like (gamma-Te) structures. The underlying formation mechanism is inherently rooted in the multivalent nature of Te, with the central-layer Te behaving more metal-like (e.g., Mo), and the two outer layers more semiconductorlike (e.g., S). We also show that the alpha-Te phase can be spontaneously obtained from the magic thicknesses divisible by three layers truncated along the [ 001] direction of the trigonal structure of bulk Te, and both the alpha- and alpha-Te phases possess electron and hole mobilities much higher than MoS2. Furthermore, we present preliminary but convincing experimental evidence for the layering behavior of Te on HOPG substrates, and predict the importance of multivalency in the layering behavior of Se. These findings effectively extend the realm of 2D materials to group-VI elements.</P>

Identification a novel de novo RUNX2 frameshift mutation associated with cleidocranial dysplasia

Gong Lei,Odilov Bekzod,Han Feng,Liu Fuqiang,Sun Yujing,Zhang Ningxin,Zuo Xiaolin,Yang Jiaojiao,Wang Shouyu,Hou Xinguo,Ren Jianmin 한국유전학회 2022 Genes & Genomics Vol.44 No.6

Background: Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) is a rare genetic disorder affecting bone and cartilage development. Clinical features of CCD comprise short stature, delayed ossification of craniofacial structures with numerous Wormian bones, underdeveloped or aplastic clavicles and multiple dental anomalies. Several studies have revealed that CCD development is strongly linked with different mutations in runt-related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) gene. Objective: Identification and functional characterization of RUNX2 mutation associated with CCD. Methods: We performed genetic testing of a patient with CCD using whole exome sequencing and found a novel RUNX2 frameshift mutation: c.1550delT in a sporadic case. We also compared the functional activity of the mutant and wild-type RUNX2 through immunofluorescence microscopy and osteocalcin promoter luciferase assay. Results: We found a novel RUNX2 frameshift mutation, c.1550delT (p.Trp518Glyfs*60). Both mutant RUNX2 and wild-type RUNX2 protein were similarly confined in the nuclei. The novel mutation caused abrogative transactivation activity of RUNX2 on osteocalcin promoter. Conclusions: We explored a novel RUNX2 deletion/frameshift mutation in a sporadic CCD patient. This finding suggests that the VWRPY domain may play a key role in RUNX2 transactivation ability.

Two-Stage Cascaded High-Precision Early Warning of Wind Turbine Faults Based on Machine Learning and Data Graphization

Fu Yang,Wang Shuo,Jia Feng,Zhou Quan,Ge Xiaolin 대한전기학회 2024 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.19 No.3

Due to the limited accessibility of wind turbines (WTs) and the complexity of operation and maintenance (O&M), it is increasingly important to early warn the component faults of WTs, and the difculties lie in balancing the comprehensiveness and delicacy of early warning. In this paper, a two-stage cascaded high-precision fault early warning method based on machine learning (ML) and data graphization is proposed. The frst stage copes with the early warning of the main components, in which the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data are converted into Gramian Angular Field (GAF) images to establish the potential relationship of fault features at diferent time points, and the fault characteristics are extracted by convolutional neural network (CNN) to realize fault early warning for multiple main components simultaneously. The second stage focus on the fault subcomponents inside the main components further, in which the time generative adversarial network (TimeGAN) is adopted to enhance the fault code data samples, then the enhanced data in the form of grayscale images is input into the Vision Transformer (ViT) to train the subcomponent early warning model. The proposed method is validated with real SCADA data, the results show the efectiveness of the proposed method.