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The self‐assembly of the π‐conjugated 1,4‐di(1H‐imidazol‐1‐yl)benzene (dib) and 4,4′‐di(1H‐imidazol‐1‐yl)‐1,1′‐biphenyl (dibp) ligands together with 4′‐(3,4‐ dicarboxylphenyloxy)‐4‐biphenylcarboxylic acid (H3L) reacts with metal Zn (II) salts to construct two new coordination polymers (CPs), namely [Zn (dib)(HL)(H2O)] (1) and [Zn (dibp)(HL)] (2). Fluorescence measurements reveal that 1 and 2 could display a highly sensitive fluorescence response toward Hg2+ and nitrofurazone (NFZ). Fluorescence investigations suggest that 1 and 2 are promising multi‐responsive sensing materials for detecting Hg2+ and NFZ through fluorescence quenching (turn‐off). The limits of detection toward Hg2+ ions are 0.221 μM and 0.124 μM, while the limits of detection toward NFZ are 0.757 μM and 0.960 for 1 and 2, respectively. Interestingly, these Hg2+ and NFZ selective sensing processes can even be completed by the reusable CPs detected by the naked eyes. Hirshfeld surfaces and fingerprint plots are extensively used to investigate intermolecular interactions, which play a crucial role in creating diverse supramolecular designs that can be compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supercapacitors are gaining popularity as potential energy‐storage devices due to their efficiency and environmentally sustainable features. Among the extensive range of 2D materials utilized in energy storage, graphene is particularly noteworthy for its exceptional physicochemical properties. Graphene aerogels (GAs) have great potential for supercapacitor application due to their porous structure and, as such, are widely researched. However, enhancing the capacity performance with easy and low‐energy processes is still facing challenges. Here, a facile, low‐cost, and environmentally friendly photoactivation method on GAs is proposed to address this problem. Nanoporous GA flowers with higher specific surface area are formed and the corresponding capacitance can be achieved to 264 F g−1. After 10 000 cycles at the current density of 10 A g−1, the measured electrode's cycle efficiency is found to be 80.9%, further emphasizing its remarkable performance. The unparalleled performance confirms the reliability of this method as compared to traditional activation methods while being cost‐effective and environmentally friendly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infrared (IR) technology plays a significant role in many application scenarios, such as satellite remote sensing, environmental monitoring, biomedical engineering, imaging, communications, and so on. Demands of the next generation IR photodetectors, including ease of fabricaation, low cost, high flexibility, and so on, greatly drive the development of colloidal IR quantum dots (QDs) as the most competitive candidate material for IR photodetectors. In this article, the progress of IR QD materials and photodetectors, the fundamentals of IR QDs, the integration of IR QDs with other materials for hybrid photodetectors, and the applications of the QD IR photodetectors are reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solar‐energy‐powered interfacial evaporation is the most meaningful strategy for energy utilization, water desalination, and mineral purification. It can achieve high efficiency, low‐density energy, and sustainable harvest and utilization. However, the microstructure and surface/interface design still lead to a balance between solar–thermal conversion, water conduction, and thermal management, which also determines the efficiency of photothermal interfacial evaporation. Here, a free‐standing, ultrathin carbon film with a tunable nanopore diameter is prepared and used as a blackbody layer for solar photothermal evaporation. By 3D reconstruction methods, the effect of pore structure on interfacial evaporation is systematically studied. Hierarchical porous carbon film with an average pore size of about 300 nm exhibits outstanding photothermal evaporation performance, reaching up to 1.96 kg m−2 h−1 with excellent stability. Ultra‐hydrophobic, optically enhanced absorption graphene array is constructed on the carbon film surface through femtosecond laser nanoprocessing, further increasing the evaporation rate to 2.12 kg m−2 h−1 (1 sun) and 5.55 kg m−2 h−1 (3 suns). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: As a heterogeneous hereditary connective tissue disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is clinically characterized by increased fracture susceptibility. Analysis of genetic pathogenic variants in patients with OI provides a basis for genetic counseling and prenatal diagnosis.Methods: In this study, 14 diagnosed OI patients from sporadic Chinese families were enrolled to be screened for potential mutations from these patients by next-generation sequencing technology.Results: 34 different variants were identified. 18 variants were from 4 OI-related genes including COL1A1, COL1A2, P3H1, and WNT1, and 10 variants are novel. Most OI patients (11 out of 14, 78%) harbor variants in type I collagen genes.Conclusions: Our results support previously established estimates of the distribution and prevalence of OI mutations and highlight both phenotype and genetic heterogeneity among and within families. We report several novel variants of OI, which expands the clinical spectrum of OI. In summary, our data provides disease-causing genes information for genetic counseling towards OI patients and families and also provides a reference for clinicians in the diagnosis of OI, also in prenatal diagnosis of this disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Photothermal interfacial evaporation based on micro‐nano porous materials is an effective and energy‐saving new strategy to utilize low‐density solar energy to achieve water purification, but there are still many challenges especially in preparing nanostructures toward enhanced performances. Here, a one‐step simple method is adopted by using nanosecond laser to process the surface of monolithic biomass carbon under ambient conditions. During the preparation process, the surface of biomass carbon is directly converted into patterned porous graphene under the action of nanosecond laser. This method not only provides a new way for the wide and easy preparation of graphene, but more importantly, it can be very convenient to prepare graphene‐biomass porous carbon composites with special textures and special microstructures with ultra‐broadband light absorption. The combination of the macroscopic porous feature in monolithic carbon revealed by synchrotron X‐ray ptychography together with the nanostructured surface of patterned porous graphene demonstrates ultrahigh solar thermal‐vapor conversion rate up to 98.7%. This work develops an effective way to fabricate porous graphene from biomass carbon, as well as an energy‐efficient water treatment technology toward wastewater containing complex contaminants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nanocarbon materials have great potential for sustainable energy harvest and energy utilizations, such as solar thermal stream generation, and interfacial evaporation. However, the evaporation rate is far too low for practical applications. The technologies are not ready yet for industries requiring rapid, energy‐efficient, and low‐cost evaporation processes such as distillation and sterilization. A flexible ultrathin graphene–carbon cloth (CC)‐based carbon–carbon composites is prepared by in situ electrochemical reduction of graphene oxide. The carbon–carbon composite materials demonstrate high performance in photothermal evaporation; more importantly, all carbon‐based devices can also be operated as low‐voltage Joule heating elements in wide temperature range up to 389 °C. Even when a very low voltage of 3 V is applied, the graphene–CC heater can reach a very high heating speed up to 112 °C s–1, and a steady‐state temperature up to 292 °C within 10 s only. The low‐voltage heater promises to be the most effective solution for high‐speed interfacial evaporation since its evaporation rate can reach up to 45.87 kg m−2 h−1, enhanced by one order of magnitude compared to the best solar power photothermal seawater desalination devices ever reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solar Cell Performances In article number 2300627, Wu, Zhang, and co‐workers introduced an innovative method of interface control for organic‐Si hybrid solar cells by precisely adjusting the power of oxygen‐plasma treatment. This groundbreaking approach has achieved a remarkable 409‐fold enhancement in power conversion efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Introduction: We have developed a rare disease center in China. Methods: In this study we analyzed how patients with periodic paralysis accessed centers in China vs. in the USA and UK. Results: A total of 116 patients with periodic paralysis were evaluated in Beijing and Hangzhou (2003-2012). These patients traveled long distances for outpatient specialist care without an appointment or physician referral. In contrast, at the University of Rochester in the USA, >90% of patients were referred from physicians throughout the country by identifying physician expertise or by referrals from a patient advocacy group. In the UK, a single center, supported by the National Health Service, provides assessment/genetic testing for all UK patients. Conclusions: Rare disease centers in China require: (1) establishing a center for clinical characterization of the disease (e.g., periodic paralysis); (2) establishing a genetic diagnostic platform; (3) placing the center at a major city hospital; and (4) facilitating patient access through internet websites. Muscle Nerve 49: 171-174, 2014 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoPP) is an autosomal dominant skeletal muscle ion channelopathy. Sex hormones are natural ion channel regulators. Different sex hormones have different effects on ion channels. A comparison of the penetrance and phenotype between males and females with HypoPP mutations should aid in proving that sex hormones play different roles in HypoPP and also provide the basis for the development of therapies against HypoPP. Methods: We identified all mutation carriers in 4 HypoPP families using PCR sequencing techniques. All patients underwent clinical investigation. Results: There were 8 men and 7 women mutation carriers in the 4 families. Male carriers had 100% penetrance, but female penetrance was only 28.57%. The highest attack frequency was 50-150 times/year for the men, whereas it was 30-50 times/year for the women. The attacks disappeared during pregnancy. Conclusions: The penetrance and attack frequency were lower in women than in men with HypoPP mutations. Muscle Nerve, 2013 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today rapidly growing economies depend more on the creation, acquisition, distribution, and use of knowledge. As such, strategies for enhancing research and innovation capabilities have come to occupy a more important position in many developing nations, including China. Already the leading production center, and often seen as China's economic locomotive, Shanghai is striving aggressively to retain its national preeminence and has launched concerted efforts to increase local innovative output. The primary purpose of this paper is to understand how state-led efforts have fared in promoting technology innovation. By situating the city in the national and global context, the paper shows that Shanghai has gained a substantial lead in developing an innovation environment with extensive global linkages and leading research institutions. Recent efforts in building up the research and innovation capacity of the enterprise sector have begun to show progress. Although firms are enthusiastic about its future as an innovation center, Shanghai continues to face challenges of inadequate protection of intellectual property, lack of venture capital investment, and the tightening supply of highly qualified knowledge workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study, based on data for delisted and active corporations in the Australian materials industry, is an attempt to develop a systematic way of selecting corporate failure-related features. We empirically tested the proposed procedure using three datasets. The first dataset contains 82 financial economic factors from the corporation's financial statement. The second dataset comprises 73 relevant financial ratios, which either directly or indirectly measure a corporation's propensity to fail, and are conciliated from the first dataset. The third dataset is a parsimonious dataset obtained from the application of combining a filter and a wrapper to preprocess the first dataset. The robustness of this preprocessed dataset is tested by comparing its performance with the first and second datasets in two statistical (logistic regression and naïve-Bayes) and two machine learning (decision tree, neural network) classes of prediction models. Tests for prediction accuracies and reliabilities, using the computational (ROC curve, AUC) and the statistical (Cochran's Q statistic) criteria show that the third dataset outperforms the other two datasets in all four predicting models, achieving various accuracies ranges from 81 per cent to 84 per cent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the number 1803266, Fenghua Liu, Binyuan Zhao, Weiping Wu, and co‐workers set a new record water vapor rate (7.55 kg m−2 h−1) for solar‐powered steam generation, by using low cost, robust, and environment friendly macroporous geopolymer with biomass‐derived mesoporous carbon. These results are critical towards low‐cost, easy‐to‐manufacture, scalable materials for sustainable solar and wind energy harvest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High‐efficiency, environment friendly, renewable energy‐based methods of desalination represent attractive and potentially very powerful solutions to the long‐standing problem of global water shortage. Many new laboratory‐scale materials have been developed for photothermal desalination but the development of low‐cost, easy‐to‐manufacture, and scalable materials and systems that can convert solar irradiation into exploitable thermal energy in this context is still a significant challenge. This paper presents work on a geopolymer–biomass mesoporous carbon composite (GBMCC) device with mesoporous and macroporous structures for harvesting solar energy, which is then used in a device to generate water vapor with high efficiency using negative pressure, wind‐driven, steam generation. The GBMCC device gives water evaporation rates of 1.58 and 2.71 kg m−2 h−1 under 1 and 3 suns illumination, with the solar thermal conversion efficiency up to 84.95% and 67.6%, respectively. A remarkable, record high water vapor generation rate of 7.55 kg m−2 h−1 is achieved under 1 sun solar intensity at the wind speed of 3 m s−1. This is a key step forward todays efficient, sustainable and economical production of clean water from seawater or common wastewater with free solar energy. Geopolymer–biomass mesoporous carbon composites enable low cost, robust, environmentally friendly, and efficient solar steam generation. A remarkable, record high water vapor generation rate up to 7.55 kg m−2 h−1 is achieved under 1 sun solar intensity at the wind speed of 3 m s−1. This is 15 folders that of natural water evaporation rate (0.502 kg m−2 h−1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented which is concerned with a case of overlooked myasthenia gravis in an 84 year old male patient.

The` article focuses on a study that highlights geochemical characteristics and tectonic significance of the Kecun Dyke Swarm in the Jiuhuashan geopark in China. The study mentions that the Kecun alkali-feldspar granite porphyry is characterized by high silicon and alkali, and low magnesium and iron contents. Also the study reveals that granite of Jiuhuashan and Kecun intrusions was formed with a post orogenic extensional tectonic setting.

The article focuses on a study that highlights geochemical characteristics of Houmachang granitoid in Suixi, China and its significance. It mentions that the Houmachang granitoid has high magnesium, chromium and nickel contents which indicate the feature of mantle-derived magma. Also it reports that the granitoid has the characteristics of adakite.