Jiangang Liu

All‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) are of interest owing to their unique advantages, including remarkably improved device stability and exceptional mechanical stretchability. Over recent years, there has been a notable increase in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of all‐PSCs, largely attributed to advancements in the morphology control of the...

Pseudo‐planar heterojunction (PPHJ) structure using sequential deposition is an effective method for achieving high‐efficiency organic photovoltaics (OPVs). The crystallization and phase separation behavior during film‐forming process is intricately related to morphology with PPHJ structure. Despite this, the relationship between these two factors...

Ternary organic solar cells (T‐OSCs) based on energy transfer can significantly boost the light absorption efficiency, thereby improving their power conversion efficiency (PCE). However, the uncontrolled distribution of the third component in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) device often results in low energy transfer efficiency (EFRET), and also tends to...

As organic solar cells (OSCs) achieve notable advancements, a significant consensus has been highlighted that the device performance is intricately linked to the active layer morphology. With conjugated molecules being widely employed, intermolecular interactions exert substantial influence over the aggregation state and morphology formation, resul...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are regarded as the most promising new generation of green energy technology due to their outstanding device performance and simple processing technology. Traditional processing methods, such as thermal annealing and thermal evaporation, face significant challenges in further enhancing device performance and stability....

Organic solar cells (OSCs) achieved performance booming benefiting from the emerging of non‐fullerene acceptors, while inadequate device stability hampers their further application. At present, the prevalent belief attributes the inevitable thermal degradation of OSC device to morphological instability caused by excessive phase separation and cryst...

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have attracted widespread attention and became an important member of clean energy. Recently, their power conversion efficiency (PCE) has surpassed 19%. As is well known, the morphology of the active layer in OPVs crucially influences the PCE. In consideration of the intricate interactions between the donor molecules an...

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have received widespread attention due to light weight, low cost, semitransparency and ease of solution processing. By continuously improving materials design, active layer morphology, and device fabrication techniques, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs have exceeded 20%. The morphology of the active layer, wh...

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have received widespread attention due to their light weight, low cost, semitransparency, and ease‐of‐solution processing. By continuously improving materials design, active layer morphology, and device fabrication techniques, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs have exceeded 20%. The morphology of the active la...

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are considered as a promising new generation of clean energy. Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) structure has been widely employed in the active layer of efficient OSCs. However, precise regulation of morphology in BHJ is still challenging due to the competitive coupling between crystallization and phase separation. Recently, a n...

Ternary organic solar cells (T‐OSCs) have attracted significant attention as high‐performance devices. In recent years, T‐OSCs have achieved remarkable progress with power conversion efficiency (PCE) exceeding 19%. However, the introduction of the third component complicates the intermolecular interaction compared to the binary blend, resulting in...

Due to the unique blue‐light properties, wide excited emission interval and so on, polyfluorenes (PFs) are among the most promising blue‐light polymers that are widely used in organic lasers and organic light‐emitting diodes. Usually, PFs exhibit two different phases: α‐phase and β‐phase, and the β‐phase has higher photoluminescence efficiency and...

This study aims to discriminate between leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) antibody encephalitis and gamma-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB) receptor antibody encephalitis using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. A total of 81 patients were recruited for this study. ResNet18, VGG16, and ResNet50 were trained and tested separately using 382...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are regarded as the most promising new generation of green energy technology due to their outstanding device performance and simple processing technology. The strain in the active layer of PSCs is primarily caused by lower interionic and intercrystal forces, leading to an increase in defect density and high recombinati...

There is a great individual difference in people's face recognition ability (FRA). This study aimed to reveal the neural mechanism underlying such individual differences. Elastic-net regression models were constructed to predict FRA based on the white matter (WM) microstructural properties. We found that FRA can be accurately predicted by the WM mi...

Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) lead the continuous development of organic solar cells (OSCs) with competitive efficiency over 19%. Design and synthesis of novel photovoltaic materials are effective methods to improve the OSCs performance, which can regulate the optoelectric properties, such as energy level, absorption spectra, charge transport, and...

Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are considered to be the most promising generation of green energy technology due to their outstanding device performance and simple processing technology. The morphology of the active layer of OPVs is the key to its device performance and stability. So for, various strategies have been propose...

To examine the difference in the topological properties of brain functional network between the children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and healthy controls, and to explore the relationships between these properties and cognitive scores of OSA children. Twenty-four OSA children (6.5 ± 2.8 years, 15 males) and 26 healthy controls (8.0 ± 2.9 year...

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are a kind of device that can convert light energy into electrical energy, they possess the advantages of being lightweight, flexible, processable printing, and large-area production, and they are an effective way to alleviate energy deficiency and environmental pollution [...]

The molecular orientation has a profound influence on the performance of organic solar cells. Both donor and acceptor adopt face‐on orientation guarantees efficient exciton dissociation and charge transport, which is a key to achieving high device performance. However, the molecules usually adopt edge‐on orientation in some blend systems, take smal...

Purpose Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge. (Danshen, DS) and Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. (Chuanxiong, CX) have been widely used in traditional Chinese medicine to prevent and treat myocardial ischemia and renal insufficiency, and their extracts (Guanxinning injection, GXN) have been reported to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-ischemia-reperf...

Objective This study aims to detect the invisible metabolic abnormality in PET images of patients with anti-leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) encephalitis using a multivariate cross-classification method. Methods Participants were divided into two groups, namely, the training cohort and the testing cohort. The training cohort included 17 he...

In all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), the domain size is critical for device performance. In highly crystalline polymer blends, however, precisely adjusting the domain size remains a significant challenge due to the simultaneous crystallization of both components. Herein, a strategy that promotes acceptor and donor to crystallize separately was pr...

Objective To investigate the impacts of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on white matter (WM) integrity and cognitive functions of pediatric patients with different levels of OSA severity. Methods Fifty-eight children with OSA and thirty-four healthy controls (HC) were recruited. All participants underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) examination,...

Long coherence lengths (CLs) of crystals and proper intermixed phase amount guarantee charge transport and exciton dissociate efficiently, which is crucial for organic solar cells (OSCs) to achieve high device performance. However, extending CLs usually reduces the intermixed phase, leading to an insufficient interface for exciton dissociation. Her...

Solution–processed organic solar cells (OSC) have been explored widely due to their low cost and convenience, and impressive power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) which have surpassed 18%. In particular, the optimization of film morphology, including the phase separation structure and crystallinity degree of donor and acceptor domains, is crucially...

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have unique advantages of low-cost solution processing, light weight, flexibility, and semitransparency, which is a promising photovoltaic technology. The intermixed phase plays a key role in determining the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of OSCs. The intermixed phase is an amorphous region, where the donor and accep...

In crystalline/crystalline polymer blend systems, complex competition and coupling of crystallization and morphology usually happen due to the different crystal nucleation and growth processes of polymers, making the morphology and crystallization behavior difficult to control. Herein, we probe the crystallization sequence during the film formation...

Objective To explore the neural difference between children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and healthy controls, together with the relation between this difference and cognitive dysfunction of children with OSA. Methods Twenty children with OSA (7.2 ± 3.1 years, apnea hypopnea index (AHI): 16.5 ± 16.6 events/h) and 29 healthy controls (7.7 ± 2...

Objectives To investigate alterations in neurocognitive, attention, paediatric sleep questionnaire (PSQ) scores and whole brain white matter (WM) integrity between children with mild and severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) according to sex and whether these changes are associated with OSA severity. Methods Fifty-seven children (36 males and 21 f...

The morphology of active layer in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells is decisive to the device performance. Previous works have shown that the solvent engineering is an effective method to optimize the morphology of active layer. However, screening the proper solvent is a tedious task, and we know very little about how to select a proper...

Proper domain size of the active layer plays a key role in determining the exciton dissociation and charge transport in all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). However, fine-tuning the domain size remains challenging due to low glass transition temperature and negligible mixing entropy in polymer blends. Herein, we systematically studied the influence...

Background An increasing number of studies have reported that some Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) such as the Chinese formula Yueju antidepressant can help patients suffering from primary depression. Several clinical studies have reported the clinical efficiency of Yueju antidepressant, with fewer reported side effects than commonly...

Myocardial fibrosis is implicated as a leading risk factor for heart failure, arrhythmia, and sudden death after cardiac injury, as the excessive interstitial extracellular matrix impedes heart contraction and electrical conduction. Complicated mechanisms involving oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokine families, NLRP3 inflammasome...

In the three-phase (pure donor, pure acceptor, and mixed phases) morphologies of organic solar cells, the mixed phases produce an energy cascade that promotes the generation of free carriers. However, how to optimize the content of the mixed phases is a challenging problem. The authors proposed to control different content of mixed phases in DRTB-T...

It is important to arrange the donor and acceptor phases and molecules within those phases in a way that optimizes relevant optoelectronic processes required for efficient operation of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). 7,7′-(4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-silolo[3,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl)bis(6-fluoro-4(5′-hexyl-[2,2′-bithiophe...

In terms of the solution processing conjugated polymer blends, having a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between crystallization and phase separation is significant to optimize their performance. However, crystal nucleation and crystal growth are usually coupled during the process of the film formation process, and it is sometimes di...

Ginsenoside Re, an herbal ingredient from ginseng, has been demonstrated to protect the heart from various cardiovascular diseases. In the present study, we investigated the protective effects and mechanisms of ginsenoside Re (Gin-Re) on cardiac function and left ventricular remodeling in a rat model of myocardial infarction (MI). After ligating th...

The rational design of the morphology of ternary all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) having broadened photon harvesting is crucial to achieve high device performance. However, multi-component blends often illustrated unfavorable morphology such as large-sized phase separation due to their complicated interaction. Herein, we proposed to solve these p...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential diagnostic benefit of SPM-based semi-quantitative FDG-PET analysis in autoimmune encephalitis (AE) compared with visual analysis by experienced neuroradiologists using a larger sample size. Methods: This observational retrospective case series study was conducted from a tertiary epil...

The intermixed phase is important in effective charge separation due to the formation of cascaded energy landscape between intermixed phase and pure phases in polymer/fullerene solar cells. However, the quantitative relationship between the charge separation and the content of intermixed phase has not been investigated clearly so far. Here, we prop...

Conjugated polymer single crystals and nanowires show advantages for the study of intrinsic charge transport in conjugated polymers and achieve high device performance. However, preparation of conjugated polymer single crystals and nanowires, especially donor‐acceptor (D‐A) conjugated polymers, is challenging. In this review, the structural feature...

The morphology with the interpenetrating network and optimized vertical phase separation plays a key role in determining the charge transport and collection in polymer:nonfullerene small molecular acceptors (SMAs) solar cells. However, the crystallization of polymer and SMAs usually occurs simultaneously during film‐forming, thus interfering with t...

Background/aims: Previous studies in rat models of myocardial ischemia showed that Panax quinquefolium saponins (PQS) could attenuate ischemic/reperfusion injury, increase vessel density and improve cardiac function. In the current study, we examined whether PQS could attenuate myocardial dysfunction in a swine model of chronic myocardial ischemia...

The microstructure of conjugated polymers film is strongly dependent on factors such as the conformation and the film formation processing. In this article, we show how to induce more planarization conformation of conjugated polymer backbone during film formation processing and finally leading to the fibrils formation of the cast film. The conjugat...

The nanoscale interpenetrating network of active layer plays a key role in determining the exciton dissociation and charge transport in all small-molecule nonfullerene solar cells (AS-NFSCs). However, fabricating interpenetrating networks in all small-molecule blends remains a critical hurdle due to the uncontrolled crystallization behavior of smal...

The ordered aggregation of non-fullerene small molecular acceptors (SMAs) plays a key role in determining the charge transport and bimolecular recombination in polymer/SMAs solar cells. However, due to the asymmetric phase separation in many polymer/SMAs systems, the polymers are prone to form network first, which inhibits the molecular diffusion o...

Human cardiovascular activities are important indicators of a variety of physiological and psychological activities in human neuroscience research. The present proof-of-concept study aimed to reveal the spatiotemporal patterns of cardiovascular activities from the dynamic changes in hemoglobin concentrations in the face. We first recorded the dynam...

The morphology of perovskite film plays a key role in determining photoabsorption, carrier transport and ambient stability in perovskite solar cells. However, due to the fast crystallization kinetics, the perovskite film fabricated by solution-processing technique usually suffers from low crystallinity and poor orientation. Here, both the morpholog...

Own-race faces are recognized more effectively than other-race faces. This phenomenon is referred to as other-race effect (ORE). Existing behavioral evidence suggests that one of the possible causes of ORE is that own-race faces are processed more holistically than other-race faces. However, little is known about whether such differences in process...

The nanowire of conjugated polymer with higher density is desirable for its improved charge transport. However, at a higher solution concentration, the conjugated polymer chain entanglement is severe and not beneficial for the nucleation to grow nanowires. In this paper, we control the equilibrium of entanglement ↔ disentanglement ↔ nucleation and...

Understanding the nucleation process is very important in growing polymer nanowires as it plays a decisive role in determining the crystal structure and size distribution. Polymer chain conformation determines whether the polymer chains could assemble to nuclei or not. Here, chain conformation and the nucleation process were controlled to grow 3,6-...

Nanoscale interpenetrating networks play a key role in determining the optoelectrical properties of functional blends. However, phase separated large domain size could be probably observed in the pristine films composed of two crystalline components. For example, p-DTS(FBTTh2)2/P(NDI2OD-T2) 3/2 blend films with interpenetrating networks was obtaine...

The photovoltaic performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) is deeply dependent on the morphology of the perovskite film and the amount of lead iodide (PbI2) residue. However, the morphology of perovskite film fabricated through two-step sequential deposition method usually suffers from poor film coverage and low crystallinity due...

Controlling interfacial composition between the electrodes and the photoactive layer is significant for adjusting the work function and improving the device performance of organic solar cells. Herein, an authigenic buffer layer is generated at the polymer blends surface of poly[4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophe-ne-a...

Interpenetrating bulk-heterojunction structure with domain size of 10-20 nm is the ideal morphology for carrier generation, separation and transportation in organic solar cells. However, depending on the blend composition, phase-separation behavior of crystalline small molecule blend of donor 7,7’-(4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-silolo[3,2-b:4,5-b’]dithi...

The preparation of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymer nanowires seems very difficult, probably due to the fact that the nanowires length direction is along the main chain not the π-π direction. For the nanowires whose length direction is along the main chain, the probability of the short nanowires to meet the ends of other molecules to grow longer...

The current understanding of the active layer morphology in ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) is superficial owing to more variables and complexity compared to that of binary OSCs. The PTB7-Th:PF12TBT:PC71BM ternary system with complementary polymer absorption spectra and efficient energy transfer from PF12TBT to PTB7-Th was anticipated to have an...

Broadening the absorption spectrum and efficiently harvesting photogenerated excitons are crucial tasks to realize high-efficiency polymer solar cells (PSCs). Recently, ternary PSCs with complementary absorptions into a single junction device have been emerging as a promising strategy to enhance the absorption of binary PSCs. However, the effect of...

The macroscopic alignment of conjugated polymers with few grain boundaries is essential for carrier transport. It is well known that molecular conformation has a big role in achieving macroscopic alignment. Therefore, in this paper, a series of isoindigo-based conjugated polymers, the copolymer of isoindigo and thieno-[3,2-b]thiophene (IID–TT), iso...

A critical requirement of small molecule non-fullerene acceptor-based solar cells for efficient charge separation and collection is the formation of interconnected phase-separated domains of 10-20 nm. The phase-separation behavior of small molecule donor 7,7′-(4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-silolo[3,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl)bis(6-fluoro-4-(5′-hexy...

The macroscopic alignment of conjugated polymers with low grain boundary is essential to carrier transport. We investigated the formation mechanism of the aligned films of the donor−acceptor copolymer of 3,6-bis(thiophen-2-yl)-N,N′-bis(2-octyl-1-dodecyl)-1,4-dioxo-pyrrolo [3,4-c]pyrrole and thieno- [3,2-b]thiophene (PDBT-TT) by solvent vapor enhanc...

The proper crystallinity and a balance between H-aggregation and J-aggregation are both necessary for the best performance of small molecule organic solar cells. It is well known that J-aggregation is favorable to form more excitons due to its narrower bad-gap, leading to a high photocurrent. While H-aggregation has a higher lowest excited level wh...

Numerous developmental studies have suggested that other-race effect (ORE) in face recognition emerges as early as in infancy and develops steadily throughout childhood. However, there is very limited research on the neural mechanisms underlying this developmental ORE. The present study used Granger causality analysis (GCA) to examine the developme...

Designing polymeric bulk heterojunction (BHJ) morphology with good exciton separation efficiency is one of the key factors in obtaining high-efficiency polymer solar cells (PSCs). Cascaded energy formed by the energy level difference (ΔE) between aggregated phase and the mixed phase is thought to encourage spatial separation of the geminate charge...

The selection of sensitizer and its existence in the blend films are important to the performance of all-polymer ternary solar cells. Herein, all-polymer ternary solar cell devices, which used poly[4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′] dithiophene-alt-3-fluorothieno[3,4-b]thiophene-2-carboxy-late] (PTB7-Th) as donor, poly[[N,N-b...

The close π–π stacking and the high J-aggregation during the formation of fibrillar morphology in films of the poly[[2,5-bis(2-octyldodecyl)−2,3,5,6-tetrahydro-3,6-dioxopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-diyl]-alt–[[2,2′-(2,5-thiophene)bis-thieno[3,2-b]thiophen]-5,5′-diyl]] (PDPPTT-T) are demonstrated via blending with polystyrene (PS). The hydrodynamic rad...

Polymer materials have the ability of controllable morphology and porosity ratio, adherence to the flexible substrate, and ease of large-area processing. This chapter explains a fundamental theory and the influencing factors on dewetting in thin polymer film and phase separation in thin polymer blend film are introduced. It discusses the control of...

The polymer regioregularity has a dramatic effect on device performance of organic photovoltaics in terms of material crystallinity and phase separated morphology. In this study, we investigated the molecular regioregularity induced morphological evolution of P3HT and PF12TBT blend thin films processed by solvents with different solubility and boil...

The morphology of the active layer is at the heart of perovskite solar cells. It is deeply related to charge transport and extraction, which depend on coverage ratio, crystallinity, crystal size and perhaps crystal orientation. However, the crystallization process in a solution-processed perovskite film is ungovernable and there is no clear guideli...

The correlated donor/acceptor (D/A) molecular orientation plays a crucial role in solution-processed all-polymer solar cells in term of photovoltaic performance. For the conjugated polymers PTB7-th and P(NDI2OD-T2), the preferential molecular orientation of neat PTB7-th films kept face-on regardless of the properties of processing solvents. However...

The orientation transition and self-epitaxial crystallization of all-conjugated diblock copolymers poly(p-phenylene)-block-(3-hexylthiophene) (PPP-b-P3HT) were systematically investigated by in situ temperature-resolved two-dimensional grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (2D GIXD) in step-by-step heating and cooling process. B39T18 was selected; th...

The content and ratio of two stacking styles, namely H-aggregation and J-aggregation, of 5,5’-bis{(4-(7-hexylthiophen-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl)-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine}-3,3’-di-2-ethylhexylsilylene-2,2’-bithiophene, DTS(PTTh2)2 had a profound influence on performance of solar cells based on DTS(PTTh2)2/[6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester...

The objective of this study is to investigate the interaction of Panax quinquefolius saponin (PQS) and dual antiplatelets (aspirin and clopidogrel) on antiplatelet activity and vascular endothelial function in rats with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Forty-eight male SD rats were randomly designed into sham group, model group, dual antiplatelet...

We examined whether Asian individuals would show differential sensitivity to configural vs. featural changes to own- and other-race faces and whether such sensitivity would depend on whether the changes occurred in the upper vs. lower regions of the faces. We systematically varied the size of key facial features (eyes and mouth) of own-race Asian f...

Bicontinuous phase structure in Poly(3,3 -didodecylquaterthiophene) (PQT-12)/[6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) blend films was formed by using thiophene as solvent to suppress the compatibility between PC71BM and side chains of PQT-12. The interaction between PQT-12 chains was enhanced and the interaction between PC71BM and PQT-12...

Control over polymeric bulk heterojunction (BHJ) morphology is one of the key factors in obtaining high-efficiency devices. The domain size influence on device performance is widely considered critical. In this paper, the fibril width of 3,6-bis-(thiophen-2-yl)-N,N′-bis(2-octyl-1-dodecyl)-1,4-dioxo-pyrrolo[3,4-clpyrrole and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (...

An organic photovoltaic (OPV) device based on a carbazole-derived copolymer poly[N-9′-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4′,7′-di-2-thienyl-2′,1′,3′-benzothiadiazole)] (PCDTBT) and N,N′-bis(1-ethylpropyl)-perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (EP-PDI) was fabricated by incorporating alcohol-soluble phosphate group-containing perylene diimide d...

In this study, we systematically investigated the morphological evolution of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly{2,7-(9,9-didodecyl-fluorene)-alt-5,5-[4′,7′-bis(2-thienyl)-2′,1′,3′-benzothiadiazole]} (PF12TBT) blend thin films cast from o-dichlorobenzene (oDCB) solution and its effect on photovoltaic performance. Blend ratio and film drying time...

Organic donor-acceptor cocrystal with ambipolar transporting property was constructed based on N,N’-bis(1-ethylpropyl)-perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (EP-PDI) and 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexakis-(hexyloxy)-triphenylene (H6TP). Cocrystal with alternating stacking of H6TP and EP-PDI molecules was formed through both drop-casting and spin-coating pro...

A control over both molecular order and long-range alignment order in films of the donor-acceptor copolymer of 3,6-bis-(thiophen-2-yl)-N,N'-bis(2-octyl-1-dodecyl)-1, 4-dioxo-pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (PDBT-TT) was demonstrated via off-centre spin-coating (OCSC) from its blend solution with polystyrene (PS). It was found the d...

We have investigated the effect of solvent–polymer interaction on the morphology, crystallinity, and device performance of poly-(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly{2,7-(9,9-didodecyl-fluorene)-alt-5,5-[4′,7′-bis(2-thienyl)-2′,1′,3′-benzothia-diaole]} (PF12TBT) blend system. 3-Hexylthiophene (3-HT), which had the similar structural units with both do...

Herein, balanced intermixed and pure crystalline phases in N,N′-bis(1-ethylpropyl)-perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (EP-PDI)-based non-fullerene organic solar cells (OSCs) were achieved via selective solvent additives (SAs). Poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3...

SINI TANG (SNT) IS A TRADITIONAL CHINESE HERBAL FORMULA CONSISTING OF FOUR DIFFERENT HERBS: the root of Aconitum carmichaelii, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, the rhizome of Zingiber officinale, and the root of Glycyrrhiza uralensis. This study aims to evaluate the improvement of early ventricular remodeling and cardiac function in myocardial infarc...

We sought to evaluate the reparative effects of panax quinquefolius saponin(PQS) on gastric mucosal lesions induced by dual antiplatelet drugs. Sprague-Dawley(SD) rats(n=36) were randomly divided into two groups(n=12),the acute myocardial infarction(AMI) model group and the dual antiplatelet plus PQS group. The other 12 rats served as sham-operated...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory profiling of the Chinese herbal formula Sini Tang (SNT) in myocardial infarction (MI) rats. SNT, a decoction consisting of four herbs: Aconitum carmichaelii, Cinnamomum cassia, Zingiber officinale, and Glycyrrhiza uralensis, was characterized as a remedy to treat syndromes corresponding to...

Behavioral research has suggested a trade-off relationship between individual recognition and race categorization of own- and other-race faces, which is an important behavioral marker of face processing expertise. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying this trade-off. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) metho...