Three-dimensional Network Structure of Conductive Composites by Hybrid Conductive Fillers of Silver/graphene

Xiao Min Zhang,Kun-yan Wang,Guo Zhao,Qi Long Li,Bin Wang 한국섬유공학회 2019 Fibers and polymers Vol.20 No.6

In order to explore new generations of interconnecting materials in electronic packaging industries, silvernanoparticles (Ag NPS) and graphene nanosheets (GNS) were introduced into matrix resin to prepare conductive composites. The electrical and mechanical of above electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) were investigated and characterized. It wasfound that the ECAs can be solidified through a chemical sintering in the air at 150 oC for 30 min. The results indicated thatthe percolation threshold of resistivity reaches 3.5×10-4 Ω·cm for ECAs filled with 65 wt.% Ag NPS, 0.5 wt.% GNS and theshear strength reaches 10.8 MPa, suggesting excellent electric conductivity and bonding strength.

Performance of fluidized bed electrode in a molten carbonate fuel cell anode

Jubing Zhang,Zhaoping Zhong,Jianmin Xiao,Zongming Fu,Jinxiao Zhao,Weiling Li,Min Yang 한국화학공학회 2011 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.28 No.8

A fluidized bed electrode could lower concentration polarization and activation polarization because of its high mass and heat transfer coefficient. The polarization characteristics of the fluidized bed electrode are systematically investigated in a molten carbonate fuel cell anode with an O_2/CO_2/gold reference electrode. The results show that polarization performance of the anode is improved by selecting proper flow rates of H_2, O_2 and CO_2, choosing suitable nickel particle content together with appropriate O_2/CO_2 ratio, and increasing reaction temperature as well as the area of the current collector. Limiting current density of 115.56 mA·cm^(−2) is achieved under optimum performance as follows:a cylindrically curved nickel plate current collector, nickel particle content of 7.89%, the reaction temperature of 923 K,H_2 flow rate of 275 mL·min^(−1), O_2/CO_2 flow rate of 10/20 mL·min−1 and O_2/CO_2 ratio of 1 : 2.

Soybean hull functionalized by phosphoric acid for sorption of copper from aqueous solution

Renmin Gong,Lingling Liu,Min Feng,Jiajing Zhao,Xingyan Liu,Shoujun Ni 한국화학공학회 2009 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.26 No.2

One kind of potentially biodegradable cationic sorbent, which bears hydroxyl groups of phosphoric acid as its functional groups, with high sorption capacity of copper was prepared by thermochemically esterifying phosphoric acid (PA) onto soybean hull. Sorption of Cu(Ⅱ) from aqueous solution onto modified soybean hull (MSH) was investigated in a batch system. The sorption experiments were performed under various conditions such as different initial pH, copper concentration, MSH dosage, and contact time. The maximum copper sorption was obtained when initial solution pH≥3.5. The isothermal data of copper sorption fitted the Langmuir model and the sorption process could be described by the pseudo-first-order kinetic model. The maximum sorption capacity (Qm) of MSH for Cu(Ⅱ) was 31.55 mg/g. For 100 mg/l of Cu(Ⅱ) solution, a sorption ratio above 91% could be achieved by 5.0 g/l of MSH. The equilibrium of Cu(Ⅱ) sorption was reached within 50 min. The foreign cation and chelator in Cu(Ⅱ) solution caused decline of Cu(Ⅱ) sorption.

Distinctive Roles of Wnt Signaling in Chondrogenic Differentiation of BMSCs under Coupling of Pressure and Platelet-Rich Fibrin

Cheng Baixiang,Feng Fan,Shi Fan,Huang Jinmei,Zhang Songbai,Quan Yue,Tu Teng,Liu Yanli,Wang Junjun,Zhao Ying,Zhang Min 한국조직공학과 재생의학회 2022 조직공학과 재생의학 Vol.19 No.4

BACKGROUND: Although newly formed constructs of feasible pressure-preadjusted bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) and platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) showed biomechanical flexibility and superior capacity for cartilage regeneration, it is still not very clear how BMSCs and seed cells feel mechanical stimuli and convert them into biological signals, and the difference in signal transduction underlying mechanical and chemical cues is also unclear. METHODS: To determine whether mechanical stimulation (hydrostatic pressure) and chemical cues (platelet-rich fibrin, PRF) activate canonical or noncanonical Wnt signaling in BMSCs, BMSCs cocultured with PRF were subjected to hydrostatic pressure loading, and the activation of the Wnt signaling molecules and expression of cartilage-associated proteins and genes were determined by western blotting and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Inhibitors of canonical or noncanonical Wnt signaling, XVX-939 or L690,330, were adopted to investigate the role of Wnt signaling molecules in mechanically promoted chondrogenic differentiation of BMSCs. RESULTS: Hydrostatic pressure of 120 kPa activated both Wnt/b-catenin signaling and Wnt/Ca2? signaling, with the the maximum promotion effect at 60 min. PRF exerted no synergistic effect on Wnt/b-catenin signaling activation. However, the growth factors released by PRF might reverse the promotion effects of pressure on Wnt/Ca2? signaling. Real-time PCR and Western blotting results showed that pressure could activate the expression of Col-II, Sox9, and aggrecan in BMSCs cocultured with PRF. Blocking experiment found a positive role of Wnt/b-catenin signaling, and a negative role of Wnt/ Ca2? signaling in chondrogenic differentiation of the BMSCs. Mutual inhibition exists between canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling in BMSCs under pressure. CONCLUSION: Wnt signaling participates in the pressure-promoted chondrogenesis of the BMSCs co-cultured with PRF, with canonical and noncanonical pathways playing distinct roles during the process.

Modelling of Acoustic Waves Propagating in Nesting Fibonacci Super-Lattice Phononic Crystal

Min Zhao,Hai-Feng Qi,Jia-Hui Xu,Ya-Zhuo Xie,Xing-Gan Zhang,Jian Gao 대한금속·재료학회 2014 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.20 No.4

Herein, we report construction of one kind of nesting-Fibonacci-super-lattice phononic crystal, in whichthe super-lattice cell is a well-defined Fibonacci generation sequence. We present a comparative study onband-gap structures of acoustic waves propagating in one-dimensional, nesting Fibonacci-periodic structureand simple-periodic structure. We find that there are more band gaps in nesting Fibonacci super-latticemodels, and that they present behavior different from the split-up of band gaps with different generationnumbers. With the increase of generation number, more band gaps split and occur. Additionally, whengeneration number becomes larger, Bragg scattering becomes more significant: the characteristic curvesbecome flatter and band gaps become wider. Furthermore, we study the effect of various parameters suchas density, thickness and defects on band-gap structures. Our work is significant both for understandingthe intrinsic physical properties of nesting Fibonacci sequences and for providing flexible choices to meetreal engineering requirements.

Diagnostic Accuracy of 18F-FDG-PET in Patients with Testicular Cancer: a Meta-analysis

Zhao, Jing-Yi,Ma, Xue-Lei,Li, Yan-Yan,Zhang, Bing-Lan,Li, Min-Min,Ma, Xue-Lei,Liu, Lei Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.8

Objective: Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) is a new technique for identifying different malignant tumors using different uptake values between tumor cells and normal tissues. Here we assessed the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG-PET in patients with testicular cancer by pooling data of existing trials in a meta-analysis. Methods: PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Central Trials databases were searched and studies published in English relating to the diagnostic value of FDG-PET for testicular cancer were collected. The summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve was used to examine the FDG-PET accuracy. Results: A total of 16 studies which included 957 examinations in 807 patients (median age, 31.1 years) were analyzed. A meta-analysis was performed to combine the sensitivity and specificity and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs), from diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), positive likelihood ratios (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR). SROC were derived to demonstrate the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET for testicular cancer. The pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.75 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.70-0.80) and 0.87 (95% CI, 0.84-0.89), respectively. The pooled DOR was 35.6 (95% CI, 12.9-98.3). The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.88. The pooled PLR and pooled NLR were 7.80 (95% CI, 3.73-16.3) and 0.31 (95% CI, 0.23-0.43), respectively. Conclusion: In patients with testicular cancer, 18F-FDG-PET demonstrated a high SROC area, and could be a potentially useful tool if combined with other imaging methods such as MRI and CT. Nevertheless, the literature focusing on the use of 18F-FDG-PET in this setting still remains limited.

Stability Analysis for Time-Varying Positive Linear Systems with Delays

Min-Min Zhao,Yuan-Gong Sun 제어로봇시스템학회 2016 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2016 No.10

This paper is focused on stability analysis for a class of time-varying positive linear systems with delays. Two kind of time-varying delays are taken into consideration. One is the time-varying state delay that can be unbounded. The other is the bounded distributed delay. By using a new method, a state-delay-independent and distribute-delay-dependent criterion for asymptotic stability of the system is established.

Identification of a Novel Human Zinc Finger Gene, ZNF438, with Transcription Inhibition Activity

( Zhao Min Zhong ),( Bo Wan ),( Yun Qiu ),( Jun Ni ),( Wen Wen Tang ),( Xin Ya Chen ),( Yun Yang ),( Su Qin Shen ),( Ying Wang ),( Mei Rong Bai ),( Qing Yu Lang ),( Long Yu ) 생화학분자생물학회 2007 BMB Reports Vol.40 No.4

A NOVEL RATE CONTROL ALGORITHM for H.264/AVC

Zhao Min,Takeshi Ikenaga,Satoshi Goto 대한전자공학회 2008 ITC-CSCC :International Technical Conference on Ci Vol.2008 No.7

Rate control has become an important part in the whole video coding scheme in order to get obtain consecutive and high quality pictures under a certain bandwidth. This paper presents a novel rate control algorithm for H.264/AVC. Instead of the traditional Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) linear prediction model, which is proposed JVT-G012, a new model is proposed including both temporal and spatial information of MAD. Because calculation complexity of the rate control part is not high comparing with other parts, such as motion estimation, this novel algorithm does not focus on reducing the calculation complexity.

Phylogeny and Evolution of Calcineurin B‑Like (CBL) Gene Family in Grass and Functional Analyses of Rice CBLs

Min Jiang,Changling Zhao,Mingfu Zhao,Yongzhong Li,Guosong Wen 한국식물학회 2020 Journal of Plant Biology Vol.63 No.2

Calcium signals play critical functions in regulating diverse arrays of plant growth and development and mediating a variety of biotic and abiotic stress responses as a second messenger. Calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins were involved with plantspecifc Ca2+signaling as calcium sensors. In this work, we retrieved 152 CBL gene members from 15 diferent grass species, surveyed their phylogenetic relationships and sequence features and also performed expression patterns and functional analyses of rice CBLs. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that grass CBLs fall into four diferent groups (Group A–D). Sequence analysis showed that CBL proteins harboring four conserved calcium-binding EF-hand have key amino acid residues Asp and Glu which had relatively high proportion in the average abundance. Molecular evolutionary analyses revealed that group A, B and C CBLs in their evolution process sufered the purifying selection, while group D CBLs were subjected to positive selection. Moreover, expression analyses showed signifcant divergent expression patterns of OsCBLs in various organs and under diferent hormones and abiotic stresses. Furthermore, tolerance analysis revealed that OsCBL3 and OsCBL8 overexpression transgenic rice seedlings improved salt tolerance and OsCBL5, OsCBL6 and OsCBL7 positively regulated drought stress. In general, the domain and base sequence of the CBL gene family is highly conserved in grasses. OsCBL genes had specifc gene expression profles and function in diferent stresses.