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- Beal, Jacob, et al.
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Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density
- 2020
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Ingår i: Communications Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2399-3642. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data.
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- Cai, Weidong, et al.
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Multicolor light emission and multifunctional applications in double perovskite-Cs 2 NaInCl 6 by Cu + /Sb 3+co-doping
- 2024
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Ingår i: Chemical Engineering Journal. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA. - 1385-8947 .- 1873-3212. ; 489
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Halide double perovskites managed by metal doping approach can exhibit dual emission colors, which have been considered as promising multicolor luminescent materials. However, an independent and stable emission at yellow region is missing owing to limited doping candidates, hindering the further commercialization of multicolor luminescence applications in double perovskites. In this work, we successfully obtain stable multicolor emission with PLQE (photoluminescence quantum yield) as high as 78% through developing the CuI doping strategy in Sb-Cs2NaInCl6. By introducing a high CuI feed ratio in airtight autoclave to compete the oxidization effect, the oxidization of CuI into CuII (detrimental factor for high PLQE due to serious quenching effect) is largely suppressed. With changing the CuI feed ratio, at least four distinct emission colors ranging from blue, purple, pink to yellow can be realized via changing the excitation wavelength. Depending on tunable multicolor emission, we further demonstrate the promise of our co-doped double perovskites in anti-counterfeiting technology and multicolor lighting devices. Our results open the way for enriching the optical applications of double perovskites based on multicolor emission.
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- Fan, Xiangyang, et al.
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Phosphine oxide modulator-ameliorated hole injection for blue perovskite light-emitting diodes
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. - : ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY. - 2050-7488 .- 2050-7496. ; 11:38, s. 20808-20815
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the enormous developments in perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) recently, obtaining efficient blue PeLEDs is still considered a critical challenge due to the non-radiative recombination and unbalanced charge injection caused by the unmatched carrier mobility and the deep hole-injection barrier between the hole-transport layer (HTL) and the emissive layer (EML). Herein, we incorporate tris(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)phosphine oxide (TMFPPO), obtained through a facile oxidation synthesis process, into poly(9-vinylcarbazole) (PVK). TMFPPO incorporation modulated the energy level and hole mobility of the binary-blend HTLs to eliminate the hole-injection barrier and balance the charge injection within the EML. Consequently, the blue PeLEDs with blended HTL presented an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 7.23% centred at 477 nm, which was much higher than the EQE of a PVK device (4.95%). Our results demonstrate that modulating the energy level and charge injection of the HTL in the device is a promising method for obtaining efficient blue PeLEDs. TMFPPO is developed and incorporated into PVK to modulate the hole mobility and energy level of the hole-transport layer, giving rise to a barrier-free blue perovskite light-emitting diode and an enhancement of the EQE from 4.95 to 7.23% at 477 nm.
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- Hart, Lucy J. F., et al.
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Understanding the Role of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation in Non-Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells
- 2023
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Ingår i: Advanced Energy Materials. - : WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH. - 1614-6832 .- 1614-6840. ; 13:36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have enabled power conversion efficiencies exceeding 19% in organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the open-circuit voltage of OSCs remains low relative to their optical gap due to excessive non-radiative recombination, and this now limits performance. Here, an important aspect of OSC design is considered, namely management of the triplet exciton population formed after non-geminate charge recombination. By comparing the blends PM6:Y11 and PM6:Y6, it is shown that the greater crystallinity of the NFA domains in PM6:Y11 leads to a higher rate of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA). This is attributed to the four times larger ground state dipole moment of Y11 versus Y6, which improves the long range NFA out-of-plane ordering. Since TTA converts a fraction of the non-emissive triplet states into bright singlet states, it has the potential to reduce non-radiative voltage losses. Through a kinetic analysis of the recombination processes under 1-Sun illumination, a framework is provided for determining the conditions under which TTA may improve OSC performance. If these could be satisfied, TTA has the potential to reduce non-radiative voltage losses by up to several tens of millivolts.
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- Ji, Xinyu, et al.
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Epigenetic–smoking interaction reveals histologically heterogeneous effects of TRIM27 DNA methylation on overall survival among early-stage NSCLC patients
- 2020
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Ingår i: Molecular Oncology. - : Wiley. - 1574-7891 .- 1878-0261. ; 14:11, s. 2759-2774
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tripartite motif containing 27 (TRIM27) is highly expressed in lung cancer, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we profiled DNA methylation of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) tumours from 613 early-stage NSCLC patients and evaluated associations between CpG methylation of TRIM27 and overall survival. Significant CpG probes were confirmed in 617 samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The methylation of the CpG probe cg05293407TRIM27 was significantly associated with overall survival in patients with LUSC (HR = 1.65, 95% CI: 1.30–2.09, P = 4.52 × 10−5), but not in patients with LUAD (HR = 1.08, 95% CI: 0.87–1.33, P = 0.493). As incidence of LUSC is associated with higher smoking intensity compared to LUAD, we investigated whether smoking intensity impacted on the prognostic effect of cg05293407TRIM27 methylation in NSCLC. LUSC patients had a higher average pack-year of smoking (37.49LUAD vs 54.79LUSC, P = 1.03 × 10−19) and included a higher proportion of current smokers than LUAD patients (28.24%LUAD vs 34.09%LUSC, P = 0.037). cg05293407TRIM27 was significantly associated with overall survival only in NSCLC patients with medium–high pack-year of smoking (HR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.26–1.96, P = 5.25 × 10−5). We conclude that cg05293407TRIM27 methylation is a potential predictor of LUSC prognosis, and smoking intensity may impact on its prognostic value across the various types of NSCLC.
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- Ji, Xinyu, et al.
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Epigenome-wide three-way interaction study identifies a complex pattern between TRIM27, KIAA0226, and smoking associated with overall survival of early-stage NSCLC
- 2022
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Ingår i: Molecular Oncology. - : Wiley. - 1574-7891 .- 1878-0261. ; 16:3, s. 717-731
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The interaction between DNA methylation of tripartite motif containing 27 (cg05293407TRIM27) and smoking has previously been identified to reveal histologically heterogeneous effects of TRIM27 DNA methylation on early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survival. However, to understand the complex mechanisms underlying NSCLC progression, we searched three-way interactions. A two-phase study was adopted to identify three-way interactions in the form of pack-year of smoking (number of cigarettes smoked per day × number of years smoked) × cg05293407TRIM27 × epigenome-wide DNA methylation CpG probe. Two CpG probes were identified with FDR-q ≤ 0.05 in the discovery phase and P ≤ 0.05 in the validation phase: cg00060500KIAA0226 and cg17479956EXT2. Compared to a prediction model with only clinical information, the model added 42 significant three-way interactions using a looser criterion (discovery: FDR-q ≤ 0.10, validation: P ≤ 0.05) had substantially improved the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of the prognostic prediction model for both 3-year and 5-year survival. Our research identified the complex interaction effects among multiple environment and epigenetic factors, and provided therapeutic target for NSCLC patients.
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- Ji, Xinyu, et al.
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Jet array impingement boiling in compact space for high heat flux cooling
- 2023
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Ingår i: Applied Thermal Engineering. - : Elsevier BV. - 1359-4311. ; 219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To achieve high heat flux cooling, a distributed confined jet array impingement boiling device was designed and tested by using HFE-7100 as working fluid. The experimental study on the heat transfer characteristics was conducted on smooth silicon surface and micro-pin-finned surfaces with mass flux ranging from 760 ∼ 3040 kg/m2·s under atmospheric pressure and an inlet subcooling of 40 K. The results indicated that with the increase of the jet velocity, nucleate boiling was suppressed, and the forced convection heat transfer was enhanced. The heat transfer was greatly intensified on micro-pin-finned surfaces with a maximum increase of the heat transfer coefficient of 220 % due to the increase in specific surface area and the number of nucleation sites. Moreover, the critical heat flux (CHF) can reach 280 W/cm2. The mechanism of CHF improvement was analyzed. The two-phase flow structure within the confinement space and capillary wicking effect of the micro-pin-finned surface are superimposed, resulting in two distinct CHF mechanisms. A new correlation with a mean absolute error of 3.5 % for predicting the heat transfer coefficient of the jet impingement boiling was proposed by considering the effect of micro-pin–fin structure on heat transfer.
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- Ji, Xinyu, et al.
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Two-phase flow characteristics and visualization of distributed confined array jet boiling
- 2024
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Ingår i: Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. - 2214-157X. ; 57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Confined array jet boiling can achieve high heat flux in a compact space and its flow resistance characteristics are critical to the design of cooling systems. The boiling images of distributed confined jet of HFE-7100 is recorded by a high-speed camera in this study. The effects of jet mass flux, jet height and surface structure of two-phase jet flow characteristics on micro-pin-finned surfaces are studied. A benefit from the distributed configuration of the jet array, in contrast to previous studies, is that the jet boiling pressure drop is independent of the heat flux, but only related to the jet mass flux. The effect of the surface structure on the pressure drop is negligible. Jet flow instability will be triggered by intermittently blockage of the jet inlet and outlet by large vapor masses in certain heated surfaces. Reducing the jet height can suppress two-phase flow instabilities while keeping the pressure drop almost constant and the CHF to slightly increase. The COP of distributed jet impingement boiling cooler proposed in this work can be up to 6 times higher than that of the conventional jet boiling cooler, and more than 2 times higher that of the microchannel heat sink.
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- Kristan, Matej, et al.
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The Ninth Visual Object Tracking VOT2021 Challenge Results
- 2021
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Ingår i: 2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021). - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 9781665401913 ; , s. 2711-2738
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2021 is the ninth annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of 71 trackers are presented; many are state-of-the-art trackers published at major computer vision conferences or in journals in recent years. The VOT2021 challenge was composed of four sub-challenges focusing on different tracking domains: (i) VOT-ST2021 challenge focused on short-term tracking in RGB, (ii) VOT-RT2021 challenge focused on "real-time" short-term tracking in RGB, (iii) VOT-LT2021 focused on long-term tracking, namely coping with target disappearance and reappearance and (iv) VOT-RGBD2021 challenge focused on long-term tracking in RGB and depth imagery. The VOT-ST2021 dataset was refreshed, while VOT-RGBD2021 introduces a training dataset and sequestered dataset for winner identification. The source code for most of the trackers, the datasets, the evaluation kit and the results along with the source code for most trackers are publicly available at the challenge website(1).
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- Li, Yuanji, et al.
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Experimental and numerical investigations on tilt filling design of metal foam in a heat storage tank
- 2023
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Ingår i: Renewable energy. - 0960-1481 .- 1879-0682. ; 217
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of metal foam as a filler in heat storage tanks proves advantageous in compensating for the low thermal conductivity of phase change materials. However, the filling of metal foam can impede natural convection within the tank. Partially filled metal foam enables both strong natural convection in the upper pure phase change material region and enhanced thermal conductivity of the metal foam. This paper proposes inclining the upper surface of the metal foam to further strengthen natural convection in the upper region. Following experimental verification, a series of heat storage tanks with different metal foam inclination forms for latent heat storage were numerically simulated and compared. The results indicate that complete melting time was shortest for the case 5 (ab-type model with a = 0, b = 91.8), at 5320s, which represents an 18.8% reduction compared to benchmark case 9. Furthermore, comparison of the cases with inclined upper surfaces indicated that the clockwise inclination pattern resulted in greater time savings than the counterclockwise pattern. The results of this study offer valuable insights for the design of partially filled heat storage tanks.
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