Zhengzhou University

Hydrogen Bond‐Engineered Dual‐Phase Cellulose‐Polyelectrolyte Ionogel for All‐Weather Health Monitoring and Human‐Machine Interaction

ABSTRACT Cellulose ionogels are highly attractive for next‐generation wearable and flexible electronics, sensing, and energy storage applications. However, synchronously enhancing mechanical and electronic performance without compromising environmental stability remains a signifi...

Liquid biopsy: current applications and future directions

Abstract This review starts with the historical background and biological features to classify mainly the liquid biopsy biomarkers, such as circulating tumor DNA, circulating tumor cells, extracellular vesicles, non-coding RNAs, tumor-educated platelets and tumor-associated antig...

Predictive value of perioperative hypothermia for postoperative muscular calf vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study

Abstract Objective To investigate the association between perioperative hypothermia and postoperative muscular calf vein thrombosis (MCVT) in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and to evaluate the predictive performance of perioperative core temperature indicators...

Application of targeted next-generation sequencing in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid testing for pathogen identification in pulmonary infections

Pulmonary infections remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, conventional microbiological tests (CMTs) frequently fail to identify the causative pathogens, owing to their limited sensitivity, prolonged turnaround times, and inherent inability to dete...

A hydrated HA/F127 biointerface for polyphenol release modulation and active–passive antibacterial protection on EGCG-loaded UHMWPE joint materials

Abstract Periprosthetic joint infection remains a major challenge for artificial joint materials, highlighting the need for antibacterial and anti-adhesive ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) surfaces. Here, a hydrated hyaluronic acid (HA)/Pluronic F127 biointerface...

Global distribution of lung cancer staging at diagnosis: a systematic review

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with stage at diagnosis significantly influencing survival outcomes. This systematic review evaluates global variations in lung cancer stage distribution at diagnosis and examines the associations of soc...

Thermal Shock Resistance Enhancement of Alumina-Based Castables by Incorporating Porous Alumina Spherical Aggregates

Chrome-containing corundum–spinel castables are the preferred materials for ladle purging plugs due to their excellent slag resistance, high mechanical strength, and good volume stability. However, their poor thermal shock resistance often leads to transverse cracking or thermal...

Operando X‐ray Spectroscopy Unveils Light‐Driven Redox Selectivity for Photo‐Assisted Li–S Batteries

ABSTRACT Photo‐assisted lithium‐sulfur batteries (PALSBs) can accelerate the sluggish redox kinetics of sulfur cathodes. However, the introduced light field inevitably complicates interfacial reactions, necessitating in situ evidence under realistic operating conditions. Here, we...

ASecurity-Enhanced Certificateless Aggregate Signature-Based Conditional Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for VANETs

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have become a vital component of intelligent transport systems, with their security concerns increasingly drawing attention. To safeguard user privacy and ensure data authenticity and integrity, researchers have devised numerous certificateless...

The Achilles’ Heel of Lithium‐Ion Batteries: Protonic Species

ABSTRACT Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) are central to the global energy transition, dominating the markets for electric vehicles and grid‐scale renewable energy storage. However, as LIBs are pushed toward their theoretical energy density limits to meet ever‐escalating performance...

A Skeleton-Line-Based Spiral Coverage Path Planning Method for UAV Inspection of Three-Dimensional Structures

UAV-based visual inspection has become an effective approach for acquiring surface information from three-dimensional building structures. However, existing coverage path planning methods usually treat viewpoint planning and path sequencing as two separate stages, which may intro...

Manganese Carbonyl-Based Peroxidase-like Nanoenzyme Cascading with Glucose Oxidase, Combined with Porphyrin-COFs-Based Phototherapy and CO-Mediated Immunomodulation for Diabetic Wound Repair

Abstract Diabetic wounds remain a global health challenge due to vascular insufficiency, bacterial infection, and persistent inflammation. Herein, we designed and prepared a triple-synergistic nanoenzyme platform with antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and angiogenesis-promoting e...

Solvent-Free Ball Milling Combined with Hot Pressing for Fabrication of PLA@LM Functional Composites with Hydrolytic Degradability

Abstract The integration of liquid metals (LM) into biodegradable polymer matrices offers a promising route toward functional sustainable composites, while it is often hindered by solvent residues, poor dispersion, and compromised mechanical properties. Herein, we report a solven...

Sub-monthly volumetric evolution of the supraglacial lakes in Northeastern Greenland based on the topographic depression method

Study region Supraglacial lakes on the northeastern Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) during the melt seasons (May–September) from 2018 to 2025. Study focus This study develops a multi-parameter inversion framework for supraglacial lakes by integrating multi-source remote sensing data a...

Dynamic Hippocampal–Striatal Information Flow Accompanies Behavioral Strategy Transitions During Sequential Learning in Pigeons: A Preliminary Study

Sequential decision-making requires animals to flexibly balance model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) strategies to adapt to changing environments. The hippocampus (Hp) and striatum (ST) are two important components of the broader neural networks supporting these processes; howeve...

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...

Progress on Artificial Muscles: Material Designs, Structural Engineering, and Actuation Strategies for Advanced Applications

ABSTRACT Artificial muscles represent compliant soft actuators capable of replicating biomimetic contraction, which fill the performance gap between rigid electromechanical equipment and biological tissues. This review systematically consolidates cutting‐edge progress across four...

Differential nodal topology in resting-state networks as a potential imaging marker for adolescent bipolar and depressive disorders

Overlapping clinical features and the absence of objective diagnostic markers frequently lead to the misdiagnosis of adolescent bipolar disorder (BD) as major depressive disorder (MDD). However, direct comparisons of functional brain network topology between adolescents with MDD...

From materials design to real-world performance in passive radiative cooling paints

Abstract Global warming arises from the net accumulation of solar energy within the Earth–atmosphere system. Passive radiative cooling paints (PRCPs) offer a scalable approach to mitigate this imbalance by reflecting solar radiation and emitting heat to outer space, thereby reduc...

Reprogramming pulmonary B cells by ANXA1 silencing halts lung metastatic niche formation in breast cancer

Lung metastasis remains a determinant of poor prognosis and survival in breast cancer and is understood to depend on a permissive pulmonary immune niche rather than tumor cell traits alone. Here, we developed a host-directed RNA interference strategy to modulate this niche by rep...