32 results on '"Jinwei Xu"'
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2. Isolate sets partition benefits community detection of parallel Louvain method
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Hang Qie, Shijie Li, Yong Dou, Jinwei Xu, Yunsheng Xiong, and Zikai Gao
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Community detection is a vital task in many fields, such as social networks, and financial analysis, to name a few. The Louvain method, the main workhorse of community detection, is a popular heuristic method based on modularity. But it is difficult for the sequential Louvain method to deal with large-scale graphs. In order to overcome the drawback, researchers have proposed several parallel Louvain methods (Parallel Louvain Method, PLM), which suffer two challenges: (1) latency in the information synchronization and (2) communities swap. To tackle these two challenges, we propose a graph partition algorithm for the parallel Louvain method. Different from existing graph partition algorithms, our graph partition algorithm divides the graph into subgraphs called isolate sets, in which vertices are relatively decoupled from others, and the PLM computes and synchronizes information without delay and communities swap. We first describe concepts and properties of isolate sets. In the second place, we propose an algorithm to divide the graph into isolate sets, which enjoys the same computation complexity as the breadth-first search. Finally, we propose the isolate-set-based parallel Louvain method, which calculates and updates vertices information without latency and communities swap. We implement our method with OpenMP on an 8-cores PC. Experiments on 18 graphs show that our parallel method achieves a maximum 4.62 $$\times $$ × speedup compared with the sequential method, and outputs higher modularity on 14 graphs.
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- 2022
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3. Activation of basolateral amygdala to anterior cingulate cortex circuit alleviates MK-801 induced social and cognitive deficits of schizophrenia
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Xin Huang, Yaohao Li, Haiying Liu, Jinwei Xu, Zehua Tan, Haoyang Dong, Biqing Tian, Shengxi Wu, and Wenting Wang
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MK-801 ,schizophrenia ,anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) ,basolateral amygdala (BLA) ,cognitive deficits ,social deficits ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
IntroductionSchizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a high prevalence worldwide, however, its pathogenesis remains poorly understood.Methods and resultsIn this study, we used the non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 to induce schizophrenia-like behaviors and confirmed that mice exhibited stereotypic rotational behavior and hyperlocomotion, social interaction defects and cognitive dysfunction, similar to the clinical symptoms in patients. Here, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) were involved in the schizophrenia-like behaviors induced by MK-801. Furthermore, we confirmed BLA sent glutamatergic projection to the ACC. Chemogenetic and optogenetic regulation of BLA-ACC projecting neurons affected social and cognitive deficits but not stereotypic rotational behavior in MK-801-treated mice.DiscussionOverall, our study revealed that the BLA-ACC circuit plays a major role and may be a potential target for treating schizophrenia-related symptoms.
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- 2022
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4. The effects and mechanism of environmental enrichment on MK-801 induced cognitive impairment in rodents with schizophrenia
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Jinwei Xu, Yaohao Li, Biqing Tian, Haiying Liu, Shengxi Wu, and Wenting Wang
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schizophrenia ,environmental enrichment ,MK-801 ,cognitive symptoms ,mechanism ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Cognitive symptoms are a kind of symptoms with high incidence and great impact on patients. There is no effective treatment in clinical practice. N-methyl-d-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor hypofunction may be an important cause of cognitive symptoms. MK-801 (also named Dizocilpine), a noncompetitive antagonist of NMDA receptor, is often used to construct a model of NMDA receptor dysfunction. In terms of treatment, environmental enrichment (EE) as an environmental intervention can effectively improve the symptoms of cognitive impairment in rodents. In this paper, we first briefly introduce the background of cognitive symptoms and EE in schizophrenia, and then investigate the manifestations of MK-801 induced cognitive impairment, the improvement of EE on these cognitive impairments based on the MK-801 induced schizophrenia rodent models, and the possible mechanism of EE in improving cognitive symptoms. This article reviews the literature in recent years, which provides an important reference for MK-801 to construct a cognitive symptom model of schizophrenia and the mechanism of EE in improving cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.
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- 2022
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5. A Simplified Speaker Recognition System Based on FPGA Platform
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Jinwei Xu, Shijie Li, Jingfei Jiang, and Yong Dou
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Speaker recognition ,1D convolution neural networks ,pyramid pipeline ,folding pipeline ,FPGA ,Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,TK1-9971 - Abstract
Speaker recognition is a crucial bio-identification technology, which is extensively used in our daily life. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are applied to speaker recognition tasks given their excellent performance. However, in real life, speaker recognition systems are frequently deployed on end-devices. Therefore, while obtaining recognition accuracy, the model of speaker recognition is expected to be as simple as possible. Inspired by 1-max pooling CNN and Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM-UBM), this study proposes a one dimension convolutional neural networks (1D CNN) on the basis of original 2D CNN. The proposed model reduces the computational complexity of ResNet20 by 64% and the amount of parameters by 53%. In comparison with the original ResNet20 models, the recognition accuracy will be reduced by about one percent on the 15s data set. Then, on the basis of the 1D CNN, we propose a pyramid layer-folding pipeline structure and implement it on the Xilinx VC709 platform. According to the time-dimension partition, the proposed pyramid pipeline structure can process speech data of various lengths. Moreover, our accelerator is 5.1× faster on 3s dataset and 6.8× quicker on 15s dataset than those of the CPU platform.
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- 2020
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6. Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets
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Guangmin Zhou, Ankun Yang, Yifei Wang, Guoping Gao, Allen Pei, Xiaoyun Yu, Yangying Zhu, Linqi Zong, Bofei Liu, Jinwei Xu, Nian Liu, Jinsong Zhang, Yanxi Li, Lin-Wang Wang, Harold Y. Hwang, Mark L. Brongersma, Steven Chu, and Yi Cui
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Science - Abstract
Manipulating liquids with tunable shape and optical functionalities in real time remains a great challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets in an electrochemical cell and tune its characteristics in a fast, repeatable, and controlled manner.
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- 2020
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7. Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model
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Haiying Liu, Xin Huang, Jinwei Xu, Honghui Mao, Yaohao Li, Keke Ren, Guaiguai Ma, Qian Xue, Huiren Tao, Shengxi Wu, and Wenting Wang
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Stereotyped self-grooming ,Anxiety ,Shank3 ,Restraint ,Inflammatory pain ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 ,Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,RC346-429 ,Neurophysiology and neuropsychology ,QP351-495 - Abstract
Self-grooming is an innate, cephalo-caudal progression of body cleaning behaviors that are found in normal rodents but exhibit repetitive and stereotyped patterns in several mouse models, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). It is also recognized as a marker of stress and anxiety. Mice with Shank3B gene knockout (KO) exhibit typical ASD-like behavioral abnormalities, including stereotyped self-grooming and increased levels of anxiety. However, the exact relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming in certain types of animal models is not clear. We selected three animal models with high anxiety to compare their self-grooming parameters. First, we confirmed that Shank3B KO mice (ASD model), acute restraint stress mouse model (stress model), and chronic inflammatory pain mouse model (pain model) all showed increased anxiety levels in the open field test (OFT) and elevated plus maze (EPM). We found that only the ASD model and the stress model produced increased total grooming duration. The pain model only exhibited an increasing trend of mean self-grooming duration. We used the grooming analysis algorithm to examine the self-grooming microstructure and assess the cephalo-caudal progression of grooming behavior. The results showed distinct self-grooming microstructures in these three models. The anxiolytic drug diazepam relieved the anxiety level and the total time of grooming in the ASD and stress models. The grooming microstructure was not restored in Shank3B KO mice but was partially relieved in the stress model, which suggested that anxiety aggravated stereotyped self-grooming duration but not the grooming microstructure in the ASD mouse model. Our results indicated that stereotyped behavior and anxiety may be shared by separate, but interacting, neural circuits in distinct disease models, which may be useful to understand the mechanisms and develop potential treatments for stereotyped behaviors and anxiety.
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- 2021
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8. Remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by asymmetrical alternating current electrochemistry
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Jinwei Xu, Chong Liu, Po-Chun Hsu, Jie Zhao, Tong Wu, Jing Tang, Kai Liu, and Yi Cui
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Science - Abstract
Soil pollution by heavy metals is a problem of global concern, requiring the development of remediation technologies. Here the authors report a method based on asymmetrical alternating current electrochemistry, which enables recycling of soil washing chemicals and eliminates secondary pollution.
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- 2019
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9. Fast lithium growth and short circuit induced by localized-temperature hotspots in lithium batteries
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Yangying Zhu, Jin Xie, Allen Pei, Bofei Liu, Yecun Wu, Dingchang Lin, Jun Li, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, Jinwei Xu, Ankun Yang, Chun-Lan Wu, Hongxia Wang, Wei Chen, and Yi Cui
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Science - Abstract
Operation of lithium batteries at high, non-uniform temperatures can lead to safety issues, but the effects of localized high temperatures are difficult to probe. Here the authors use micro-Raman spectroscopy to show that local-temperature hotspots can induce lithium metal growth and trigger circuit shorting.
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- 2019
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10. GBCNN: A Full GPU-Based Batch Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Networks
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Shijie Li, Yong Dou, Jinwei Xu, Ke Yang, and Rongchun Li
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CNN ,GPU ,face detection ,Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,TK1-9971 - Abstract
Recently, the face detection and alignment is so popular and widely used in many research and application fields. Many superior face detection algorithms such as multi-task cascade convolutional network have been presented. However, it has difficulty in predicting faces among the big scale images in real time due to its three stages cascade architecture with less optimization. In this paper, we propose a full GPU-based batch multi-task cascade convolutional network which is carefully designed and optimized in each step to gain a superior speed performance. In addition, we present a novel parallel memory allocation strategy, which further enables our algorithm to support the batch operation, so that the system throughput increases significantly. In the experiment, our method achieves up to 300fps, over 600% speedup with an equal accuracy over the state-of-the-art methods on the face detection benchmarks.
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- 2019
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11. Recurrent Neural Network Based Link Quality Prediction for Fluctuating Low Power Wireless Links
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Ming Xu, Wei Liu, Jinwei Xu, Yu Xia, Jing Mao, Cheng Xu, Shunren Hu, and Daqing Huang
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low power wireless links ,link quality prediction ,recurrent neural network ,link quality indicator ,time series ,temporal correlation ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
One of the main methods for link quality prediction is to predict the physical layer parameters first, and then evaluate the link quality based on the mapping models between such parameters and packet reception ratio (PRR). However, existing methods often ignore the temporal correlations of physical layer parameter series and rarely consider the influence of link fluctuations, which lead to more errors under moderate and sudden changed links with larger fluctuations. In view of these problems, this paper proposes a more effective link quality prediction method RNN-LQI, which adopts Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to predict the Link Quality Indicator (LQI) series, and then evaluates the link quality according to the fitting model of LQI and PRR. This method accurately mines the inner relationship among LQI series with the help of short-term memory characteristics of RNN and effectively deals with link fluctuations by taking advantage of the higher resolution of LQI in the transitional region. Compared with similar methods, RNN-LQI proves to be better under different link qualities. Especially under moderate and sudden changed links with larger fluctuations, the prediction error reduces at least by 14.51% and 13.37%, respectively. Therefore, the proposed method is more suitable for low power wireless links with more fluctuations.
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- 2022
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12. Core–Shell Nanofibrous Materials with High Particulate Matter Removal Efficiencies and Thermally Triggered Flame Retardant Properties
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Kai Liu, Chong Liu, Po-Chun Hsu, Jinwei Xu, Biao Kong, Tong Wu, Rufan Zhang, Guangmin Zhou, William Huang, Jie Sun, and Yi Cui
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Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Published
- 2018
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13. Publication Culture of Foreign Language Education Journals in China
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Shi, Ling, Wenyu, Wang, and Jinwei, Xu
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- 2005
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14. A Simplified Speaker Recognition System Based on FPGA Platform
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Yong Dou, Shijie Li, Jinwei Xu, and Jingfei Jiang
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General Computer Science ,Computer science ,Speech recognition ,Gaussian ,Pipeline (computing) ,1D convolution neural networks ,02 engineering and technology ,Convolutional neural network ,folding pipeline ,symbols.namesake ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,General Materials Science ,Pyramid (image processing) ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Field-programmable gate array ,FPGA ,business.industry ,Deep learning ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,General Engineering ,Speaker recognition ,symbols ,Artificial intelligence ,lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,business ,pyramid pipeline ,lcsh:TK1-9971 - Abstract
Speaker recognition is a crucial bio-identification technology, which is extensively used in our daily life. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are applied to speaker recognition tasks given their excellent performance. However, in real life, speaker recognition systems are frequently deployed on end-devices. Therefore, while obtaining recognition accuracy, the model of speaker recognition is expected to be as simple as possible. Inspired by 1-max pooling CNN and Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM-UBM), this study proposes a one dimension convolutional neural networks (1D CNN) on the basis of original 2D CNN. The proposed model reduces the computational complexity of ResNet20 by 64% and the amount of parameters by 53%. In comparison with the original ResNet20 models, the recognition accuracy will be reduced by about one percent on the 15s data set. Then, on the basis of the 1D CNN, we propose a pyramid layer-folding pipeline structure and implement it on the Xilinx VC709 platform. According to the time-dimension partition, the proposed pyramid pipeline structure can process speech data of various lengths. Moreover, our accelerator is 5.1× faster on 3s dataset and 6.8× quicker on 15s dataset than those of the CPU platform.
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- 2020
15. Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets
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Guoping Gao, Yanxi Li, Mark L. Brongersma, Allen Pei, Bofei Liu, Yifei Wang, Jinwei Xu, Xiaoyun Yu, Linqi Zong, Jinsong Zhang, Lin-Wang Wang, Ankun Yang, Harold Y. Hwang, Yangying Zhu, Steven Chu, Guangmin Zhou, Nian Liu, and Yi Cui
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Battery (electricity) ,Materials science ,Science ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Article ,Electrochemical cell ,Electrochemistry ,Optical materials and structures ,lcsh:Science ,Microlens ,Multidisciplinary ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Sulfur ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry ,Electrowetting ,Materials chemistry ,lcsh:Q ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
Manipulating liquids with tunable shape and optical functionalities in real time is important for electroactive flow devices and optoelectronic devices, but remains a great challenge. Here, we demonstrate electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets in an electrochemical cell. We observe electrowetting and merging of sulfur droplets under different potentiostatic conditions, and successfully control these processes via selective design of sulfiphilic/sulfiphobic substrates. Moreover, we employ the electrowetting phenomena to create a microlens based on the liquid sulfur microdroplets and tune its characteristics in real time through changing the shape of the liquid microdroplets in a fast, repeatable, and controlled manner. These studies demonstrate a powerful in situ optical battery platform for unraveling the complex reaction mechanism of sulfur chemistries and for exploring the rich material properties of the liquid sulfur, which shed light on the applications of liquid sulfur droplets in devices such as microlenses, and potentially other electrotunable and optoelectronic devices., Manipulating liquids with tunable shape and optical functionalities in real time remains a great challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets in an electrochemical cell and tune its characteristics in a fast, repeatable, and controlled manner.
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- 2020
16. Dissection of the relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming using the Shank3B mutant autistic model, acute stress model and chronic pain model
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Shengxi Wu, Yaohao Li, Qian Xue, Huang Xin, Huiren Tao, Guaiguai Ma, Wenting Wang, Haiying Liu, Jinwei Xu, Honghui Mao, and Keke Ren
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Neurophysiology and neuropsychology ,Elevated plus maze ,Stereotyped self-grooming ,Physiology ,Inflammatory pain ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Disease ,Anxiety ,Restraint ,Biochemistry ,Open field ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Endocrinology ,medicine ,Original Research Article ,RC346-429 ,Molecular Biology ,Endocrine and Autonomic Systems ,business.industry ,QP351-495 ,fungi ,Chronic pain ,medicine.disease ,Shank3 ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,Autism ,Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Diazepam ,Neuroscience ,human activities ,psychological phenomena and processes ,medicine.drug ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Self-grooming is an innate, cephalo-caudal progression of body cleaning behaviors that are found in normal rodents but exhibit repetitive and stereotyped patterns in several mouse models, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). It is also recognized as a marker of stress and anxiety. Mice with Shank3B gene knockout (KO) exhibit typical ASD-like behavioral abnormalities, including stereotyped self-grooming and increased levels of anxiety. However, the exact relationship between anxiety and stereotyped self-grooming in certain types of animal models is not clear. We selected three animal models with high anxiety to compare their self-grooming parameters. First, we confirmed that Shank3B KO mice (ASD model), acute restraint stress mouse model (stress model), and chronic inflammatory pain mouse model (pain model) all showed increased anxiety levels in the open field test (OFT) and elevated plus maze (EPM). We found that only the ASD model and the stress model produced increased total grooming duration. The pain model only exhibited an increasing trend of mean self-grooming duration. We used the grooming analysis algorithm to examine the self-grooming microstructure and assess the cephalo-caudal progression of grooming behavior. The results showed distinct self-grooming microstructures in these three models. The anxiolytic drug diazepam relieved the anxiety level and the total time of grooming in the ASD and stress models. The grooming microstructure was not restored in Shank3B KO mice but was partially relieved in the stress model, which suggested that anxiety aggravated stereotyped self-grooming duration but not the grooming microstructure in the ASD mouse model. Our results indicated that stereotyped behavior and anxiety may be shared by separate, but interacting, neural circuits in distinct disease models, which may be useful to understand the mechanisms and develop potential treatments for stereotyped behaviors and anxiety.
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- 2021
17. GBCNN: A Full GPU-Based Batch Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Networks
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Jinwei Xu, Yong Dou, Shijie Li, Ke Yang, and Rongchun Li
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Imagination ,Speedup ,General Computer Science ,Scale (ratio) ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Engineering ,GPU ,Search engine ,Task (computing) ,face detection ,Computer engineering ,Cascade ,General Materials Science ,lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,Face detection ,Throughput (business) ,lcsh:TK1-9971 ,CNN ,media_common - Abstract
Recently, the face detection and alignment is so popular and widely used in many research and application fields. Many superior face detection algorithms such as multi-task cascade convolutional network have been presented. However, it has difficulty in predicting faces among the big scale images in real time due to its three stages cascade architecture with less optimization. In this paper, we propose a full GPU-based batch multi-task cascade convolutional network which is carefully designed and optimized in each step to gain a superior speed performance. In addition, we present a novel parallel memory allocation strategy, which further enables our algorithm to support the batch operation, so that the system throughput increases significantly. In the experiment, our method achieves up to 300fps, over 600% speedup with an equal accuracy over the state-of-the-art methods on the face detection benchmarks.
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- 2019
18. Anti-apoptotic signal transduction mechanism of electroacupuncture in acute spinal cord injury
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Renfu, Quan, Rongliang, Chen, Mengxuan, Du, Liang, Zhang, Jinwei, Xu, Zongbao, Yang, and Disheng, Yang
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- 2014
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19. Effects of impurities on stability of TiC, TaC and ZrC particles in tungsten
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Yu-Wei You, Jinwei Xuan, Kui Hou, Li Wang, Rong Yan, Dongdong Li, X.S. Kong, Xuebang Wu, and C.S. Liu
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Plasma facing materials ,Tungsten ,Ab initio simulations ,Nuclear engineering. Atomic power ,TK9001-9401 - Abstract
Titanium carbide (TiC), tantalum carbide (TaC) and zirconium carbide (ZrC) in form of particles are widely added in W to improve its mechanical and anti-irradiation properties. However, TiC, TaC and ZrC particles are decomposed to Ti-C-O, Ta-C-O and Zr-C-O in W, respectively. To understand the micro-mechanisms, we carry out systematical simulations and find that the presence of impurities such as O, N, and P has great influence on the bond length and bond strength of Ti-C, Ta-C and Zr-C in W. The bond lengths of Ti-C, Ta-C and Zr-C are generally increased when O meets Ti-C, Ta-C and Zr-C. The bond strength of O to Ti-C, Ta-C and Zr-C is much larger than that of C to Ti-O, Ta-O and Zr-O. In contrast, N has little effect on the Ti-C bond, but has great influence on the Ta-C bond. P significantly increases Ta-C bond length, while its influence on Zr-C bond is negligible. The kinetics calculations elucidate that the diffusion barriers of C away from TiO are significantly increased by about 1 eV. It is very difficult for C to escape from TiO and ZrO, and it is also extremely difficult for O to escape from TiC, TaC and ZrC. This may be the reason why Ti-C-O, Ta-C-O, and Zr-C-O particles are found in W when TiC TaC and ZrC compounds are dispersed in W.
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- 2024
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20. Air-Filtering Masks for Respiratory Protection from PM2.5 and Pandemic Pathogens
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Jinwei Xu, Xin Xiao, Wenbo Zhang, Rong Xu, Sang Cheol Kim, Yi Cui, Tyler T. Howard, and Esther Wu
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Air filtration ,business.product_category ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Fine particulate ,air pollution ,Review ,PM2.5 ,law.invention ,law ,Pandemic ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Respirator ,Process engineering ,electrospinning ,Filtration ,General Environmental Science ,business.industry ,pandemic ,respirator ,air filtration ,Research opportunities ,meltblown ,mask ,Key factors ,Environmental science ,business - Abstract
Air-filtering masks, also known as respirators, protect wearers from inhaling fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in polluted air, as well as airborne pathogens during a pandemic, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Fibrous medium, used as the filtration layer, is the most essential component of an air-filtering mask. This article presents an overview of the development of fibrous media for air filtration. We first synthesize the literature on several key factors that affect the filtration performance of fibrous media. We then concentrate on two major techniques for fabricating fibrous media, namely, meltblown and electrospinning. In addition, we underscore the importance of electret filters by reviewing various methods for imparting electrostatic charge on fibrous media. Finally, this article concludes with a perspective on the emerging research opportunities amid the COVID-19 crisis., Considering that air pollution will continue to be a major health concern in newly industrialized countries and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may create lasting cultural shifts around the world to increase mask usages, the pursuit of more efficient and cost-effective masks will be a cornerstone to maintaining public health. This review provides a comprehensive picture of the historic development of air-filtering masks, identifies remaining knowledge gaps, and envisions emerging research opportunities amid the pressing challenges of air pollution and COVID-19.
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- 2020
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21. Accelerating Event Detection with DGCNN and FPGAs
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Jingfei Jiang, Zhe Han, Yong Dou, Zhigang Kan, Jinwei Xu, and Linbo Qiao
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accelerator ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer science ,Computation ,0206 medical engineering ,Graphics processing unit ,lcsh:TK7800-8360 ,02 engineering and technology ,Convolutional neural network ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,dilate gated convolutional neural network ,Field-programmable gate array ,FPGA ,Network model ,business.industry ,lcsh:Electronics ,Sigmoid function ,event detection ,Hardware and Architecture ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Signal Processing ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,business ,020602 bioinformatics ,Computer hardware ,Efficient energy use - Abstract
Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely used in natural language processing. However, DNNs are often computation-intensive and memory-expensive. Therefore, deploying DNNs in the real world is very difficult. In order to solve this problem, we proposed a network model based on the dilate gated convolutional neural network, which is very hardware-friendly. We further expanded the word representations and depth of the network to improve the performance of the model. We replaced the Sigmoid function to make it more friendly for hardware computation without loss, and we quantized the network weights and activations to compress the network size. We then proposed the first FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based event detection accelerator based on the proposed model. The accelerator significantly reduced the latency with the fully pipelined architecture. We implemented the accelerator on the Xilinx XCKU115 FPGA. The experimental results show that our model obtains the highest F1-score of 84.6% in the ACE 2005 corpus. Meanwhile, the accelerator achieved 95.2 giga operations (GOP)/s and 13.4 GOPS/W in performance and energy efficiency, which is 17/158 times higher than the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
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22. Core–Shell Nanofibrous Materials with High Particulate Matter Removal Efficiencies and Thermally Triggered Flame Retardant Properties
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Tong Wu, Kai Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Po-Chun Hsu, Biao Kong, Yi Cui, Chong Liu, Rufan Zhang, William Huang, Jie Sun, and Jinwei Xu
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Pressure drop ,Materials science ,Atmospheric pressure ,General Chemical Engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Particulates ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,Industrial waste ,0104 chemical sciences ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,law ,0210 nano-technology ,Dust explosion ,QD1-999 ,Filtration ,Fire retardant ,Triphenyl phosphate ,Research Article - Abstract
Dust filtration is a crucial process for industrial waste gas treatment. Great efforts have been devoted to improve the performance of dust filtration filters both in industrial and fundamental research. Conventional air-filtering materials are limited by three key issues: (1) Low filtration efficiency, especially for particulate matter (PM) below 1 μm; (2) large air pressure drops across the filter, which require a high energy input to overcome; and (3) safety hazards such as dust explosions and fires. Here, we have developed a “smart” multifunctional material which can capture PM with high efficiency and an extremely low pressure drop, while possessing a flame retardant design. This multifunctionality is achieved through a core–shell nanofiber design with the polar polymer Nylon-6 as the shell and the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (TPP) as the core. At 80% optical transmittance, the multifunctional materials showed capture efficiency of 99.00% for PM2.5 and >99.50% for PM10–2.5, with a pressure drop of only 0.25 kPa (0.2% of atmospheric pressure) at a flow rate of 0.5 m s–1. Moreover, during direct ignition tests, the multifunctional materials showed extraordinary flame retardation; the self-extinguishing time of the filtrate-contaminated filter is nearly instantaneous (0 s/g) compared to 150 s/g for unmodified Nylon-6., A “smart” air filter which can efficiently capture tiny particulate matters while possessing a flame retardant property is developed.
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- 2018
23. A Novel Memory-Scheduling Strategy for Large Convolutional Neural Network on Memory-Limited Devices
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Shice Ni, Xin Niu, Yong Dou, Jinwei Xu, Ke Yang, Xiaolong Shen, Shijie Li, and Qiang Wang
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General Computer Science ,Article Subject ,Computer science ,General Mathematics ,Wearable computer ,02 engineering and technology ,lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,Convolutional neural network ,Bottleneck ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Machine Learning ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Deep Learning ,Memory ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Field-programmable gate array ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Natural Language Processing ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Deep learning ,Process (computing) ,General Medicine ,Computer architecture ,Scalability ,lcsh:R858-859.7 ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,Neural Networks, Computer ,business ,Mobile device ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Algorithms ,Research Article - Abstract
Recently, machine learning, especially deep learning, has been a core algorithm to be widely used in many fields such as natural language processing, speech recognition, object recognition, and so on. At the same time, another trend is that more and more applications are moved to wearable and mobile devices. However, traditional deep learning methods such as convolutional neural network (CNN) and its variants consume a lot of memory resources. In this case, these powerful deep learning methods are difficult to apply on mobile memory-limited platforms. In order to solve this problem, we present a novel memory-management strategy called mmCNN in this paper. With the help of this method, we can easily deploy a trained large-size CNN on any memory size platform such as GPU, FPGA, or memory-limited mobile devices. In our experiments, we run a feed-forward CNN process in some extremely small memory sizes (as low as 5 MB) on a GPU platform. The result shows that our method saves more than 98% memory compared to a traditional CNN algorithm and further saves more than 90% compared to the state-of-the-art related work “vDNNs” (virtualized deep neural networks). Our work in this paper improves the computing scalability of lightweight applications and breaks the memory bottleneck of using deep learning method on memory-limited devices.
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- 2019
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24. Underpotential lithium plating on graphite anodes caused by temperature heterogeneity.
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Hansen Wang, Yangying Zhu, Sang Cheol Kim, Allen Pei, Yanbin Li, Boyle, David T., Hongxia Wang, Zewen Zhang, Yusheng Ye, Huang, William, Yayuan Liu, Jinwei Xu, Jun Li, Fang Liu, and Yi Cuia
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GRAPHITE ,LITHIUM-ion batteries ,TEMPERATURE distribution ,ANODES ,HETEROGENEITY ,PLATING - Abstract
Rechargeability and operational safety of commercial lithium (Li)- ion batteries demand further improvement. Plating of metallic Li on graphite anodes is a critical reason for Li-ion battery capacity decay and short circuit. It is generally believed that Li plating is caused by the slow kinetics of graphite intercalation, but in this paper, we demonstrate that thermodynamics also serves a crucial role. We show that a nonuniform temperature distribution within the battery can make local plating of Li above 0 V vs. Li0/Li+ (room temperature) thermodynamically favorable. This phenomenon is caused by temperature-dependent shifts of the equilibrium potential of Li0/Li+. Supported by simulation results, we confirm the likelihood of this failure mechanism during commercial Li-ion battery operation, including both slow and fast charging conditions. This work furthers the understanding of nonuniform Li plating and will inspire future studies to prolong the cycling lifetime of Li-ion batteries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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25. Direct/Alternating Current Electrochemical Method for Removing and Recovering Heavy Metal from Water Using Graphene Oxide Electrode.
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Chong Liu, Tong Wu, Po-Chun Hsu, Jin Xie, Jie Zhao, Kai Liu, Jie Sun, Jinwei Xu, Jing Tang, Ziwen Ye, Dingchang Lin, and Yi Cui
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- 2019
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26. A Brief Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medical Elongated Needle Therapy on Acute Spinal Cord Injury and Its Mechanism
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Liang Zhang, Renfu Quan, Rongliang Chen, Disheng Yang, Zhongbao Yang, Mengxuan Du, and Jinwei Xu
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Article Subject ,business.industry ,Therapy group ,lcsh:Other systems of medicine ,medicine.disease ,lcsh:RZ201-999 ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Mrna level ,Apoptosis ,Acupuncture therapy ,medicine ,Acute spinal cord injury ,Immunohistochemistry ,business ,Spinal cord injury ,Spinal injury ,Research Article - Abstract
Acute spinal cord injury is one of the most common and complicated diseases among human spinal injury. We aimed to explore the effect of point-through-point acupuncture therapy with elongated needles on acute spinal cord injury in rabbits and its possible mechanism. Adult rabbits were randomly divided into a model group, elongated needle therapy group, and blank group. Immunohistochemical staining showed that the protein levels of Fas and caspase-3 in the model group were significantly higher than those in the blank group at each time point (P<0.05) and significantly lower than those in the elongated needle therapy group on the 3rd and 5th days after operation (P<0.05). RT-PCR showed that Fas and caspase-3 mRNA levels in the model group and elongated needle therapy group were significantly higher than those in the blank group (P<0.05, 0.01). The mRNA levels of Fas and caspase-3 in the elongated needle therapy group were significantly lower than those in model group on the 3rd day (P<0.05, 0.01). Therefore, we confirmed that elongated needle therapy has an obvious effect on acute spinal cord injury in rabbits. Its mechanism is made possible by inhibiting the expression of the Fas→caspase-3 cascade, thereby inhibiting cell apoptosis after spinal cord injury.
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27. In Situ Investigation on the Nanoscale Capture and Evolution of Aerosols on Nanofibers.
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Rufan Zhang, Bofei Liu, Ankun Yang, Yangying Zhu, Chong Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Jie Sun, Po-Chun Hsu, Wenting Zhao, Dingchang Lin, Yayuan Liu, Pei, Allen, Jin Xie, Wei Chen, Jinwei Xu, Yang Jin, Tong Wu, Xuanyi Huang, and Yi Cui
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- 2018
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28. Thermal Management in Nanofiber-Based Face Mask.
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Ankun Yang, Lili Cai, Rufan Zhang, Jiangyan Wang, Po-Chun Hsu, Hongxia Wang, Guangmin Zhou, Jinwei Xu, and Yi Cui
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- 2017
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29. Roll-to-Roll Transfer of Electrospun Nanofiber Film for High-Efficiency Transparent Air Filter.
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Jinwei Xu, Chong Liu, Po-Chun Hsu, Kai Liu, Rufan Zhang, Yayuan Liu, and Yi Cui
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NANOFIBERS , *ELECTROSPINNING , *AIR filters , *PARTICULATE matter , *POLYMERS - Abstract
Particulate matter (PM) pollution in air has become a serious environmental issue calling for new type of filter technologies. Recently, we have demonstrated a highly efficient air filter by direct electrospinning of polymer fibers onto supporting mesh although its throughput is limited. Here, we demonstrate a high throughput method based on fast transfer of electrospun nanofiber film from roughed metal foil to a receiving mesh substrate. Compared with the direct electrospinning method, the transfer method is 10 times faster and has better filtration performance at the same transmittance, owing to the uniformity of transferred nanofiber film (>99.97% removal of PM2.5 at ~73% of transmittance). With these advantages, large area freestanding nanofiber film and roll-to-roll production of air filter are demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. FTrack: Infrastructure-free floor localization via mobile phone sensing.
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Haibo Ye, Tao Gu, Xiaorui Zhu, Jinwei Xu, Xianping Tao, Jian Lu, and Ning Jin
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Mobile phone localization plays a key role in the fast-growing Location Based Applications domain. Most of the existing localization schemes rely on infrastructure support such as GSM, WiFi or GPS. In this paper, we present FTrack, a novel floor localization system to identify the floor level in a multi-floor building on which a mobile user is located. FTrack uses the mobile phone's accelerometer only without any infrastructure support. It does not require any prior knowledge of the building such as floor height. By capturing user encounters and analyzing user trails, FTrack finds the mapping from the traveling time (when taking the elevator) or the step counts (when walking on the stairs) between any two floors to the number of floor levels. The mapping can then be used for mobile users to pinpoint their current floor levels. We conduct both simulation and field studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of FTrack. Our field trial in a 10-floor building shows that FTrack achieves an accuracy of over 90% after two hours in our experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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31. A Brief Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medical Elongated Needle Therapy on Acute Spinal Cord Injury and Its Mechanism.
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Mengxuan Du, Rongliang Chen, Renfu Quan, Liang Zhang, Jinwei Xu, Zhongbao Yang, and Disheng Yang
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SPINAL cord injuries ,THERAPEUTICS ,ACUPUNCTURE ,ANALYSIS of variance ,ANIMAL experimentation ,APOPTOSIS ,HYPODERMIC needles ,IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY ,CHINESE medicine ,NECROSIS ,POLYMERASE chain reaction ,RABBITS ,RESEARCH funding ,SPINAL cord ,STAINS & staining (Microscopy) ,REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction ,DATA analysis software - Abstract
Acute spinal cord injury is one of the most common and complicated diseases among human spinal injury. We aimed to explore the effect of point-through-point acupuncture therapy with elongated needles on acute spinal cord injury in rabbits and its possible mechanism. Adult rabbits were randomly divided into a model group, elongated needle therapy group, and blank group. Immunohistochemical staining showed that the protein levels of Fas and caspase-3 in the model group were significantly higher than those in the blank group at each time point (P < 0.05) and significantly lower than those in the elongated needle therapy group on the 3rd and 5th days after operation (P < 0.05). RT-PCR showed that Fas and caspase-3 mRNA levels in the model group and elongated needle therapy group were significantly higher than those in the blank group (P < 0.05, 0.01). The mRNA levels of Fas and caspase-3 in the elongated needle therapy group were significantly lower than those in model group on the 3rd day (P < 0.05, 0.01).Therefore, we confirmed that elongated needle therapy has an obvious effect on acute spinal cord injury in rabbits. Its mechanism is made possible by inhibiting the expression of the Fas→caspase-3 cascade, thereby inhibiting cell apoptosis after spinal cord injury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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32. Supercooled liquid sulfur maintained in three-dimensional current collector for high-performance Li-S batteries.
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Guangmin Zhou, Ankun Yang, Guoping Gao, Xiaoyun Yu, Jinwei Xu, Chenwei Liu, Yusheng Ye, Pei, Allen, Yecun Wu, Yucan Peng, Yanxi Li, Zheng Liang, Kai Liu, Lin-Wang Wang, and Yi Cui
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LITHIUM sulfur batteries , *SUPERCOOLED liquids , *LITHIUM cells , *MELAMINE , *XENOBIOTICS , *SULFUR , *MATERIALS science , *ELECTROCHEMICAL electrodes - Abstract
The article presents a study related to the supercooled liquid sulfur maintained in three-dimensional current collector for high-performance Lithium–sulfur battery (Li-S) batteries. It mentions about the role of the current collector in determining the physical state of sulfur and elucidates the correlation between sulfur state and battery performance, that will advance electrode designs in high-energy Li-S batteries.
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- 2020
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