Henan University

Thickness-dependent electronic transition and emergent edge states in few-layer SmTe(111) films

Two-dimensional rare-earth chalcogenides exhibit promising quantum phenomena for nanoelectronics. We synthesized non-van der Waals samarium telluride (SmTe) films on Ag(111) through ultrahigh vacuum co-deposition and characterized them using scanning tunneling microscopy. Our mea...

A Superstrong and Ultratough Stretchable Electronic Conductor With Ultradurable Strain‐Insensitive Electromechanical Performance

ABSTRACT Developing high‐performance stretchable electronic conductors (SECs) is vital for advancing soft electronics and robotics. However, existing SECs still suffer from limited mechanical robustness and vulnerable conductive pathways, undermining their electromechanical stabi...

Institutions and innovation performance nexus: a comparative study of SMEs in Ghana and South Korea

This paper examines the relationship between innovation activity and the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under contrasting institutional conditions in Ghana and South Korea. Using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) for Ghana and...

Blast-induced damage and residual performance assessment of steel box arch ribs under out-of-plane close-in explosions

Steel box arch ribs, as critical load-bearing components of arch bridges, may be subjected to explosion threats such as drone attacks during service. To evaluate the blast resistance and post-blast residual bearing capacity of steel box arch ribs under out-of-plane close-in explo...

Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Root volatiles mediate diverse belowground interactions among plants, microbes, and invertebrates, but biological and environmental conditions strongly influence their production, movement, perception, and ecological effects. This review synthesizes current knowledge through an i...

Adaptive background suppression-based plume identification, emission estimation, and ground validation of coal mine methane in Changzhi, Shanxi, China

This study developed a coal mine methane remote-sensing monitoring framework centered on adaptive background suppression using high-spatial-resolution multispectral data from Sentinel-2. The framework integrates methane column enhancement retrieval, automated plume detection, and...

KOH-Activated Iron-Modified Corn Straw Biochar for Nitrate Removal: Preparation, Adsorption Performance, and Mechanism

Nitrate contamination of groundwater requires low-cost adsorbents with strong affinity for anionic species. This study developed an iron-modified corn straw biochar (Fe-BC) by coupling KOH activation with FeCl3 impregnation and secondary pyrolysis, thereby integrating a porous ca...

New energy equality criteria of weak solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations

In this paper, we are concerned with the validity of energy equality for weak solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in the framework of anisotropic regularities. We present some new energy equality criteria which allow the velocity field to lie within the...

The transcriptional regulator CueR positively regulates the expression of the cueRA operon to maintain copper homeostasis in Pseudomonas chlororaphis zm-1

ABSTRACT Copper serves as an indispensable trace element in living organisms, playing pivotal roles in fundamental physiological processes including enzyme assembly, antioxidant defense, and metabolic regulation. However, excess copper can induce oxidative damage. MerR-family reg...

The relationship between digital health literacy and short-form video addiction among university students: the sequential mediating role of physical activity and self-control

This study examined the association between digital health literacy (DHL) and short-form video addiction (SVA) among university students. It also examined potential indirect associations through physical activity (PA) and self-control (SC). A cross-sectional survey design was ado...

Studying the failure mechanism in Li-metal electrode by a reversible fluorescence analysis methodology

Elucidating the failure mechanisms of Li metal electrodes is critical to accelerating the development of long cycle life Li metal batteries. However, it has not yet fully been realized so far due to the challenges associated with quantitative and qualitative characterization of s...

Melatonin modulates antioxidant-hormonal pathways to improve drought tolerance in cotton

Drought stress limits cotton growth and yield. Although exogenous melatonin (MT) can improve drought tolerance, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Optimal MT concentrations (100 µM for seed germination and 200 µM for seedlings) were identified in the cotton cultivar Zho...

Microalgae-based living hydrogels as engineered soil biogeochemical reactors: bridging synthetic microbiomes, climate resilience, and sustainable remediation

Microalgae-based living hydrogels represent an emerging class of engineered living materials (ELMs). They combine biological activity with the physicochemical properties of hydrated polymer networks to form a multifunctional platform that is potentially useful in soil remediation...

Workplace AI Usage, Intrinsic Motivation, and Job Burnout: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

Background: With the widespread application of artificial intelligence technology in organizational contexts, understanding its implications for employees’ motivation and well-being has become increasingly important. Yet, how employees’ AI usage is prospectively associated with i...

RegPathTopic: deterministic regulatory-path topic modeling with traceable regulatory vocabularies for single-cell annotation

Single-cell RNA sequencing annotation can achieve high label accuracy when suitable references are available, but assigned labels do not necessarily expose the regulatory features associated with cell identity or state. Existing regulator-activity methods address related biologic...

Exploring baryon semileptonic decays through polarization and entanglement

Abstract The unitarity of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix is a cornerstone of the standard model (SM). Precise tests of this unitarity require independent determinations of its elements, such as | V us |, which governs the transition between strange and up quarks. Curr...

Topological States and Nontrivial Properties in a Decorated Honeycomb Photonic Lattice

ABSTRACT Structural engineering offers a powerful way to control light in photonic lattices, but realizing multiple topological phases within a single lattice platform remains challenging. Here, we theoretically investigate decorated honeycomb photonic lattices (DHPLs), a hybrid...

Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Boolean Keyword Search with Negation for EHR Sharing

The growing volume of electronic health records (EHRs) has made cloud-assisted storage increasingly important, but outsourced records require both encrypted storage and controlled retrieval. Attribute-based keyword searchable encryption (ABKS) combines search with fine-grained au...

Functional Analysis of GhRNG1L Reveals Its Positive Role in Drought Tolerance Mediated by GhDREB2B in Cotton

Drought stress is a major abiotic factor limiting cotton yield and quality. RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligases play central regulatory roles in plant stress responses; however, the functions and regulatory networks of this gene family in cotton drought response remain largely unclear...

Rhizosphere-derived Pseudomonas putida EU-36 enhances growth and quality-related metabolite accumulation in Eucommia ulmoides leaves

Sustainable microbial strategies are needed to increase leaf biomass and enhance quality-related metabolite accumulation in Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., a woody medicinal and industrial plant. This study aimed to identify native rhizosphere bacteria, evaluate a selected strain in pot...