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University of Science and Technology of China
Recent research
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive heterogeneous lung disease driving global illness and death, yet reliable biomarkers for its early diagnosis, molecular subtyping and prognosis are lacking. Here, we conduct targeted plasma metabolomic profiling in two...
- Engineering & Technology
Achieving precise drug delivery to the tumor site can minimize systemic side effects caused by off-target effects. As a therapy that depends on oxygen content, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is significantly constrained by the hypoxic nature of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Compa...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Effective tuning of the Schottky barrier, which determines charge transport across the metal‐semiconductor interface, is essential for optimizing the performance of electronics and optoelectronic devices. However, interfacial disorders and orbital overlap between metals...
- Engineering & Technology
Engineering Three‐Dimensional Current Collectors for Stable Sodium Metal Anodes
ABSTRACT Sodium metal batteries have emerged as promising candidates for next‐generation high‐energy‐density storage systems because of the abundant resources of sodium and the high theoretical capacity of sodium metal anodes (SMAs). However, the practical application of SMAs fac...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Reconfiguring handed shape-morphing and actuation in hydrogels via light-encoded rapid expansion
Reconfiguring handedness in synthetic systems with spatiotemporal control and reversible behavior remains a fundamental challenge in bioinspired robotics and materials science—especially in structurally homogeneous materials that lack intrinsic chirality. Here, we demonstrate hom...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The rapid growth of social media has greatly influenced political discourse, highlighting the need to understand individual political ideologies and their temporal dynamics. This task faces challenges such as data scarcity, abundant non-political content, costly and bias-prone ma...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
( Int J Gynaecol Obstet . 2026 Mar;172(3):1491–1500. doi:10.1002/ijgo.70421) A prospective observational study explored whether neurofilament light (NfL), a marker of neuronal injury, can be reliably measured in umbilical cord blood and whether it is associated with nonreassuring...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Structural brain changes during the earliest asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain poorly understood. Previous research in preclinical AD shows heterogeneous findings, reporting both subtle neuronal loss and paradoxical increases in grey matter (GM) v...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract High-safety, low-cost, and long-life aqueous hydrogen gas batteries (AHGBs) driven by hydrogen electrocatalysts are considered one of the most reliable systems in advanced aqueous batteries for large-scale energy storage. However, the rational design of low-loading and h...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Atomic clocks and gravitational waves as probes of non-metricity
Abstract Non-metricity provides a natural extension of Riemannian geometry, yet its experimental signatures remain largely unexplored. In this work we investigate how spacetime non-metricity can be probed through high-precision observations, focusing on atomic clocks and gravitat...
- Climate & Environment
Abstract Regolith-hosted rare earth element (REE) deposits are a critical resource, particularly for heavy REEs. Iron oxide minerals are one of the key REE carriers in these deposits, and elucidating the biogeochemical behaviors of carrier minerals and associated REEs is crucial...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Gate-imprinted memory and light-induced erasure of superconductivity at KTaO3-based interfaces
Realizing non-volatile control of superconductivity is a key step toward integrating memory and quantum functionality in future information technologies. KTaO₃-based heterostructures uniquely host interfacial two-dimensional superconductivity and quantum paraelectric lattice back...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
The translation of atomically precise metal nanoclusters into functional macroscopic devices is restricted by the difficulty of scaling manufacturing while preserving fragile quantum structures. Although two-photon lithography offers a route for micro-fabrication, the absence of...
- Engineering & Technology
A Wearable Electrochemical Patch for Sustained Local Oxygen Therapy of Chronic Wounds
ABSTRACT Wearable bioelectronics are dominated by low‐power sensing, whereas effective therapy requires sustained molecular fluxes that conventional soft devices rarely support. A central challenge is simultaneously maintaining solid–solid charge transport, hydration‐dependent io...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Organic fluorophores operating in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II, 900–1700 nm) are plagued by low quantum yields (QYs) and diminished brightness in aqueous media. To address this challenge, we proposed a strategy of regulating the activation energy for aggregate...
- Health & Medicine
Intraarterial Thrombolysis: Past, Present, Future
Suboptimal clinical outcomes are common after ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion despite current reperfusion treatment with intravenous thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy. Targeting residual distal arterial and microvascular occlusions with intraarterial thrombolys...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
ABSTRACT Solar hydrogen peroxide synthesis is a sustainable alternative to the anthraquinone process, yet its efficiency is limited by charge separation and transport in polymeric photocatalysts. Ionic carbon nitrides like poly(heptazine imide) (PHI) offer tunable structures and...
- Materials & Energy
Abstract Designing high-performance single-atom catalysts with a precisely designed configuration is important in extensive energy-conversion technologies, which presents enormous potentials to be extensively applied. Defect-enriched conjugated coordination polymer aerogels (d-CC...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Atomic-scale evidence for continuous surface dislocations in crystalline interfaces
In interfacial dislocation theory, misfit dislocations are conventionally perceived only as discrete arrays, derivable from the quantized Frank-Bilby equation (FBE), largely because experiments and atomistic simulations can usually resolve only well-separated, discrete dislocatio...
- BiologyOpen access
<title>Abstract</title> Background Soybeans are an important agricultural product, but they contain a significant amount of raffinose, which can cause flatulence when fermented by intestinal microorganisms. Invertase InvDz13 from <italic>Microbacterium trichothecenolyticum</itali...