Tianjin University Research Articles

Assessing the Rationality and Walkability of Campus Layouts

Walking has become an indispensable and sustainable way of travel for college students in their daily lives and improving the walkability of the college campus will increase the convenience of student life. This paper develops a new campus walkability assessment tool, which optimizes the Walk Score method based on the frequency, variety, and distance of students’ walking to and from public facilities. The campus Walk Score is the product of four components. A preliminary score is calculated through 13 types of facility weight and 3 types of cure of time-decay, and the final score also factors in intersection density and block length. We examine the old and new campuses of Tianjin University to test the tool’s application and evaluate the rationality of facility layout and walkability, and to give suggestions for improvement. The results show that the old campus’ multi-center layout has a high degree of walkability, while the centralized layout of the new campus results in lower walkability. In addition, the diversified distribution of facilities surrounding the old campus promotes the walkability of peripheral places. This assessment tool can help urban planners and campus designers make decisions about how to adjust the facility layout of existing campuses in different regions or to evaluate the campus schemes based on the results of their walkability assessment.

SmartMat: Smart materials to Smart world

Over the course of human history, the ability to produce more sophisticated materials has underpinned tool development and led to the industrial revolution. With the rapid rise of “smart materials,” defined as materials programmed to sense, transduce, and respond to external stimuli to achieve a specific task, human beings will launch the fourth industrial revolution. For example, cyber–human interactions and various smart wearable devices are becoming integrated into every aspect of human life. Neuromorphic computing, quantum communication, and the fifth-generation wireless systems are ushering in a new era of the internet of things. Additionally, smart biomimetic robots even surpass the capabilities of natural organisms. History tells us that new materials are the footstone of human civilization and smart materials are no different in this regard. Multifunctional three-dimensional printing techniques can construct complex objects by the layer-by-layer printing of materials. Shape memory polymers and intelligent liquid metals can be transformed into arbitrary shapes, which is evoking the legends of shape-shifting robots. Flexible conductive polymers and smart carbon materials provide key enabling functionalities required for the post-Moore era. Smart materials can increasingly be designed and tailor-made with optimum performance for particular functions and applications. Moreover, smart DNA molecules and molecular machines open up a new pathway for harnessing chemical energy to produce mechanical work. Adhering to the theme of “smart materials for a smart world,” SmartMat came into being. As a flagship open-access journal, SmartMat was launched under the auspices of Tianjin University and Wiley. It aims to address the growing scientific interest in developing intelligent materials that can be programmed to change significantly in a controlled fashion by external stimuli across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. SmartMat is expected to make a mark in the field of materials science with ambitions of a high academic impact. The scope of SmartMat is intentionally broad and encompasses the multidisciplinary research of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science and engineering. It includes topics such as (opto-)electronic, biomedical, stimulus-responsive, self-healing and nanoscale materials for next-generation sensors, actuators, energy harvesting, wearable devices, drug delivery systems, and so forth. SmartMat is helping to shape the smart society with a new generation of smart materials.

Research on a forecasted load-and time delay-based model predictive control (MPC) district energy system model

District energy system is an underground network used to cool and heat buildings efficiently, which has the characteristics of large scale, multiple equipment, large lag, nonlinear and time-varying dynamics. The traditional feedback control strategies not only cause mismatch and hysteresis of energy supply and load demand in time series but also lead to high energy consumption. Therefore, a forecasted load-and time delay-based model predictive control district energy system model is proposed in this paper. Taking a district energy system in Tianjin University as a test case, the superiority of the proposed control model is ascertained. A TRNSYS and MATLAB co-simulation platform is developed as the test platform. The results show that the proposed control model can not only improve matching the extent of energy supply and load demand in time series, but can also reduce the energy peak and total energy consumption of the district energy system. Specifically, energy consumption is reduced by 9.56% and 5.30% in summer and 7.75% and 2.61% in winter compared with the control models based on the traditional feedback control and load feedforward fuzzy control strategies, respectively.

Critical Temperature of Deconfinement in a Constrained Space Using a Bag Model at Vanishing Baryon DensitySupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11547043 and 11705125), and the “Qinggu” Project of Tianjin University (Grant No. 1701).

The geometry of fireballs in relativistic heavy ion collisions is approximated by a static box, which is infinite in two directions while finite in the other direction. The critical temperature of deconfinement phase transition is calculated explicitly in the MIT bag model at vanishing baryon density. It is found that the critical temperature shifts to a value higher than that in an unconstrained space.

Catalysis: partnership between Clariant and Tianjin University

Catalysis: partnership between Clariant and Tianjin University

Significant higher airborne antibiotic resistance genes and the associated inhalation risk in the indoor than the outdoor.

Inhalation of airborne antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) can lead to antimicrobial resistance and potential health risk. In modern society, increasing individuals stay more indoors, however, studies regarding the exposure to airborne ARGs in indoor environments and the associated risks remain limited. Here, we compared the variance of aerosol-associated ARGs, bacterial microbiomes, and their daily intake (DI) burden in dormitory, office, and outdoor environments in a university in Tianjin. The results indicated that compared to outdoor aerosols, indoors exhibited significantly higher absolute abundance of both ARG subtypes and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) (1-7 orders of magnitude), 16S rRNA genes (2-3 orders), and total culturable bacteria (1-3 orders). Furthermore, we observed that significantly different airborne bacterial communities are the major drivers contributing to the variance of aerosol-associated ARGs in indoor and outdoor aerosols. Notably, the high abundances of total bacteria, potential pathogenic genera, and ARGs (particularly those harbored by pathogens) in indoor and outdoor aerosols, especially in indoors, may pose an increased exposure risk via inhalation. The successful isolation of human pathogens such as Elizabethkingia anopheles, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Delftia lacustris resistant to the "last-resort" antibiotics carbapenems and polymyxin B from indoor aerosols further indicated an increased exposure risk in indoors. Together, this study highlights the potential risks associated with ARGs and their inhalation to human health in indoor environments.

Preface

The previous 2019 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE 2019) was successfully taken place on October 18-20, 2019 in Chongqing, China. It was a great pleasure to welcome all the participants from different countries to the 2020 2nd International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Engineering (ICCAUE 2020) in Xi’an China during August 14–16. This three-day conference was hosted by Tianjin Port Engineering Institute Co., Ltd. of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd., presented by AEIC Academic Exchange Information Center. The conference is an international conference for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of civil, architecture and urban engineering. The conference brings together over 90 leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world.The conference model was divided into two sessions, including oral presentations and keynote speeches. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given 15 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. Then in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-45 minutes to hold their speeches.In this conference, we are greatly honored to have invited Prof. Aimin Liu from Tianjin Port Engineering Institute Co., Ltd. of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd., China to serve as our Conference Chairmen. During the conference, we were pleased to invite four distinguished experts to present their insightful speeches. The first keynote speaker, Prof. Wai Yuen SZETO, The University of Hong Kong, China, held a speech on Taxi Service Area Design. This study proposed a nonlinear mixed integer programming model to determine the service areas. The objective is to maximize social welfare. Prof. Yanlong Li from Xi’an University of Technology, China, talked about Research on the deterioration mechanism of concrete with initial damage under different load modes. His speech presented some current work on the relationship between internal damage and nonlinear creep of concrete, revealed the expansion law of crack morphology under the stress mode of hydraulic concrete. A. Prof. Zhuangzhuang Liu, Chang’an University, China, shared a speech on his specialty related to Research on snow self-melting asphalt pavement technology based on targeted heat conduction. This research designed a kind of high thermal conductivity asphalt concrete, studied the influence of key materials such as heating element, heat conductor and insulation on the heating effect of concrete, and verified the influence factors of environmental temperature, the amount of snow and working time on snow melting effect. As the last keynote speaker, Prof. Chenghua Wang from Tianjin University, China, made an insightful speech on A Three-dimensional Limit Equilibrium Method for Analysing the Basal Upheaval Stability of Deep Slender Foundation Pits. The conference provided a forum for discussing Civil, Architecture and Urban Engineering and in particular for promoting the interchange of novel ideas and the presentations of the latest developments in this field. This conference will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of the mentioned fields.We are glad to share with you that we received lots of submissions from the conference and we selected a bunch of high-quality papers and compiled them into the proceedings after rigorously reviewed them. These papers feature following topics but are not limited to: Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Engineering, Urban traffic management and other related topics. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.We are really grateful to the International/National advisory committee, keynote speakers, session chairs, organising committee members, student volunteers and administrative assistance of the management section of University, including accounts section, digital media and publication house. Also, we are thankful to all the authors for contributing a large number of papers in the conference, because of which the conference became a story of success. It was the quality of their presentations and their passion to communicate with the other participants that really make this conference series a great success.The Organizing Committee of ICCAUE 2020Committee member Chairs, Organizing Committees, Academic Committees are available in the pdf.

Multi-layered and multi-dimensional suitability evaluation of tubular daylight guidance systems

Aimed at the promotion of tubular daylight guidance systems, a set of multi-layered and multi-dimensional methods for suitability are explored in this paper. Among them, “Multi-layered” refers to the staged evaluation based on different types of influencing factors, and “multi-dimensional” refers to technology performance, economic benefit, and human satisfaction, considering different concerns of national standards, developers, and user groups. The three layers in this method are 1) preliminary evaluation based on the pre-requisites for technology application, 2) single-dimensional evaluation based on demand and 3) comprehensive evaluation based on multi-dimensional suitability. In layer 1, screening principles and screening methods are formulated; in layer 2, the weight of the evaluation index is obtained by the binary comparative analysis method based on the expert questionnaire, and the evaluation result is given by the scoring method; and in layer 3, the TOPSIS (Technique for Order reference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) is used to obtain the queueing index value, and the weights are calculated by combining subjective and objective methods. The final evaluation is obtained by the linear weighted sum method and exponential evaluation baseline method. The tubular daylight guidance systems in a teaching building of a university in Tianjin were taken as an analysis case to demonstrate the application of this method. The results indicate that the weighted final evaluation value of the case is 0.16 and the application of case is “relatively appropriate”. This approach achieves the multi-dimensional evaluation of the suitability of tubular daylight guidance systems and makes the evaluation more reasonable.

The clinical value of the changes of peripheral lymphocyte subsets absolute counts in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

IntroductionImmune function strongly influences the outcome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It's vital to understand the immune state of patients through detecting the percentage and number of lymphocyte subsets accurately, and helpful to evaluate conditions of prognosis and adjust treatment for patients.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study in First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China. The absolute counts and percentages of CD3+, CD3 + CD4+, CD3 + CD8+, B and NK cells were determined by single platform technologies. 172 patients received treatment including surgery or chemotherapy after surgery. The factors affecting disease progression were analyzed by Binary Logistic regression. Progression free survival (PFS) calculating survivals were with the method of Kaplan-Meier. The log-rank test and cox's proportional hazard regression (enter method) were used for univariable and multivariable analyses respectively.ResultsRelative to normal controls, patients with NSCLC at different stages showed decreased absolute lymphocyte count obviously, rather than lymphocyte percentages.Different treatments had unlike influence on the homeostasis of lymphocytes and the effects last for a long time. Logistic regression showed CD3 + CD4+ and CD3 + CD8+ could contribute to favorable prognosis. Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors of PFS showed CD3 + CD4+ cell was independent factor for predicting PFS.ConclusionsThe absolute count of CD3+, CD3 + CD4+, CD3 + CD8+, B and NK cells were better indication of the patient's immune state than percentages of each lymphocyte subsets. Immune function was impaired in patients with non-small cell lung. The high level of baseline absolute CD3 + CD4+ cells count contributed to longer progression free survival.Chinese Clinic Trial Registry number: ChiCTR-IOR-17014139; Registry date: 2017/12/25.

Improving Photocatalytic Energy Conversion via NAD(P)H

Wilm Jones received his PhD from Cardiff University; his research concerned photocatalytic hydrogen production using supported gold and gold alloy nanoparticles. He then worked at the UK Catalysis Hub on CO2 hydrogenation, followed by a research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, working on photocatalytic NADH regeneration. Currently Wilm works as a research associate for UCL at the Research Complex at Harwell on a project developing photocatalytic materials for the depollution of air. Joseph Burnett is a final year PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, where his research is focused on heterogeneous systems, utilizing both supported metal catalysts and photocatalysts for the regeneration of the biocofactor NADH. He obtained his BS in chemistry from Manchester Metropolitan University, where his initial curiosity for catalysis was sparked, and later went on to study an MS in catalysis at Cardiff University. Jiafu Shi is an associate professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tianjin University. He obtained his PhD in chemical technology from Tianjin University. After graduation, he joined the faculty of Tianjin University and started working at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley from 2016 to 2017. His research interests include biocatalysis, photo-biocatalysis, and hierarchically structured materials, which are related to energy and the environment. Russell Howe is a professor in materials chemistry at the University of Aberdeen. His research focuses on the use of spectroscopic methods to investigate catalysts and catalytic reaction mechanisms. Xiaodong Wang is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering at Lancaster University. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Aberdeen. He obtained his PhD at Heriot-Watt University and completed both MS and BE studies at Tianjin University. Xiaodong’s research interests are heterogeneous catalysis and reaction engineering; his recent work focuses on the innovative use of heterogeneous catalysts (e.g., supported metals) in enzymatic transformations via cofactor regeneration.

Fast heating dissociation of in heavy ion collisions at RHIC * *Supported by the NSFC (11547043, 11705125) and the “Qinggu” project (1701, 40110) of Tianjin University

By adopting the adiabatic assumption in the cooling process, we discuss a novel mechanism of suppression that occurs due to the fast heating process at the early stage of the fireball, instead of its finite decay width in a finite temperature medium generated by heavy ion collisions. We calculate the transition probability after the fast heating dissociation as a function of the temperature of the medium and the nuclear modification factor in central collisions and find that the suppression is not negligible at RHIC, even if the width of becomes zero.

Predicting the Catalytic Activity of Surface Oxidation Reactions by Ionization Energies

Developing a descriptor to understand the reactivity of a catalyst is critical in achieving the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts. Ideally, the descriptor should be simple, predictive, as ...

Emerging Nanomaterials for Light‐Driven Reactions: Past, Present, and Future

Emerging Nanomaterials for Light‐Driven Reactions: Past, Present, and Future

Preface

The 2020 2nd International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Informatics (EEI 2020) was planned to be held on July 17-19, 2020 in Lanzhou, China. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Electronic Engineering and Informatics, and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. But as you know by now, agencies around the world are now issuing restrictions on travel, gatherings, and meetings in an effort to limit and slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The health and safety of our participants and members of our research community is of top priority to the EEI 2020 Organizing Committee. However, many scholars and researchers wanted to attend this long-waited conference and have academic exchanges with their peers. Therefore, in order to actively respond the call of the government, and meet author’s request, the EEI 2020, which was planned to be held in Lanzhou, China, is changed to be held online through Zoom software. Through Zoom software, this approach not only reduces people gathering, but also meets their communication needs.The meeting will focus on the latest research fields of “electronics”, “electricity” and “computer application”. More than 100 participants attended the conference, they were from UK, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, India, China and more. EEI 2020 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Electronic Engineering and Informatics to a common forum. Like Prof. Ting Yang, the Conference Chairman, from School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, China. His main research interests include energy & power, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing. He performed a thought-provoking speech on Informatics and the Challenge of Technological Determinism. The Program Committee Chair, Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe, from National Chiao Tung University/Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Japan, who held his speech on Concept of Blockchained IoT and its application. The other Keynote Speakers, Prof. Philip T Moore, from School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China. He is mainly devoted to the teaching and research work of the Intelligent processing, Program, Intelligent Systems, Data structure development, talked about Informatics and the Challenge of Technological Determinism.The proceedings are a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. This book covers 3 chapters: electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.We are really grateful to the International/ National advisory committee, keynote speakers, session chairs, organising committee members. Also, we are thankful to all the authors for contributing a large number of papers in the conference, because of which the conference became a story of success. It was the quality of their presentations and their passion to communicate with the other participants that really make this conference series a great success.The Committee of EEI 2020The Committee member is available in this pdf.

Research on Low-Carbon Campus Based on Carbon Footprint Model

This paper uses the carbon footprint model to study the carbon emissions of low-carbon campuses. Based on the actual campus conditions, the campus carbon cycle is investigated through field surveys and interviews to discuss the school’s carbon balance and obtain the water, electricity and domestic waste of Tianjin University of Technology. The conclusion that the carbon emissions are large and the emissions of people and cars are small, carbon emissions governance needs to be greatly improved based on the carbon footprint model of low-carbon campus research.

Tongue features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional study

BackgroundTraditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely used in the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Tongue features should be referred for diagnosis and treatment of diseases in TCM. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the tongue features of the patients suffered from COVID-19. MethodsCOVID-19 Symptom Database (established by Evidence-based Medicine Center of Tianjin University of TCM) was searched for eligible tongue pictures. The tongue pictures were assessed by TCM experts to extract the data of tongue color, coating color, tongue body shape and coating proper feature. The relationship between tongue features and patient’s condition was analyzed. ResultsPatients diagnosed as mild and moderate COVID-19 commonly had light red tongue and white coating. Severe patients had purple tongue and yellow coating. The proportion of critical patients with tender tongue increased to 75%. Greasy coating was a significant characteristic of patients with COVID-19. The proportions of greasy coating were 53.3%, 73.3%, 83.6% and 87.5% in disease category of mild, moderate, severe and critical. In addition, the thick coating proportion increased from mild (24.9%) to critical (50.0%). ConclusionsTongue features have certain relationship with the category of COVID-19. Tongue features can serve as potential indicators for the evaluation of patient’s condition and prognosis. Further studies are needed to enhance the quantification of tongue features and develop standards.

Application Research of Computational Fluid Mechanics Based on CNKI Database

Based on the China Knowledge Network Database (CNKI), a literature measurement analysis of the domestic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application research was conducted. The results show that from 1973 to 2019, the number of articles published by CFD research has increased significantly year by year. The earliest literature on CFD published in the database was published in 1973, and more than 10 articles have been published annually since 2005. The text-issuing institutions are mainly well-known universities in China, among which Tianjin University has the most. Many masters and doctors in this university obtain degrees through researches related to computational fluid mechanics. CFD theory and software are mainly studied in Engineering technology and basic and applied basic research, and more research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation.

Preface

After successfully held for three times, the 2020 4th International Conference on Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering (ICEMCE 2020), supported by AEIC Academic Exchange Information Centre, was held on June 19, 2020 via online platform. Due to the worldwide travel restriction and the prevention and control of COVID-19, ICEMCE 2020 adopted the format of virtual conference through network technology to provide a forum for experts and scholars to share real-time information and discuss the state-of-the-art research on Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering. We learned that most participants still had enthusiasm to join this conference, that’s why we chose to adopted a novel way to hold this virtual conference instead of postponing it.We’ve recruited nearly forty scholars to join the committee of ICEMCE 2020 with Prof. Ting Yang from Tianjin University as the Conference Chairman.The conference model was divided into three parts, including oral presentations, keynote speeches and online discussion. In the first part, authors of excellent papers submitted to this conference were individually given 5-10 minutes to briefly present their research. Then in the second session, we invited Prof. David Siu-Yeung Cho, representing University of Nottingham Ningbo, to hold a 30-45 minutes keynote speech. He talked about Internet of Car with Blockchain and AI Technologies. This talk described his research and development work which is based on vehicle networking and blockchain technology, through distributed ledgering, consensus mechanism, smart contract and other underlying architectures, as well as using open and transparent value acquisition and an artificial intelligence-based allocation algorithm to achieve value realization of data on vehicle and driving behavior. All of the oral presentations and keynote speeches were conducted via Zoom, now the popular online collaboration tool. The last part was held through a communication group via WeChat, the instant communication application, for experts and scholars to discuss more about the talks and presentations. We are glad that the insightful talks triggered heated discussion on WeChat communication group. The WeChat discussion lasted for 30 minutes. We are pleased to have over 100 participants to join this special conference. In light of most participants are from different universities and institutes in different cities, who resides in their own city due to travel restriction, they participated in this conference from home via Zoom and WeChat.

Tongmai Yangxin pill reduces myocardial no-reflow by regulating apoptosis and activating PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway

Ethnopharmacological relevanceTongmai Yangxin pill (TMYX) is derived from the Zhigancao decoction recorded in Shang han lun by Zhang Zhongjing during the Han dynasty and was further improved by Professor Ruan Shiyi, a cardiovascular expert at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. TMYX is used for the clinical treatment of chest pain, heartache, and qi-yin-deficiency coronary heart disease and can improve vascular endothelial function in patients with angina pectoris or coronary heart disease by up-regulating nitric oxide activity and then regulating vascular tension. Whether TMYX can further improve myocardial no-reflow by up-regulating NO activity and then dilating blood vessels remains unclear. Aim of the studyThis study aimed to reveal whether TMYX can further improve myocardial NR by up-regulating NO activity and then dilating blood vessels. The mechanism underlying PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway activation and apoptosis regulation is also explored. Materials and methodsThe left anterior descending coronary arteries of healthy adult male SD rats were ligated to establish a NR model. The rats were assigned to 14 groups: control, sham, NR, TMYX (4.0 g/kg), sodium nitroprusside (SNP), Tongxinluo capsule (TXL), PI3K blocker (LY), TMYX + LY, SNP + LY, TXL + LY, eNOS blocker (L-NAME), TMYX + L-NAME, SNP + L-NAME, and TXL + L-NAME groups. Cardiac function was measured through echocardiography. Thioflavin S, Evans Blue, and TTC staining were adopted to evaluate NR and ischemic areas. Cell inflammation degree and edema were assessed by hematoxylin–eosin staining. Automated biochemical analyzer and kit were used to detect the activities of myocardial oxidants, including reactive oxygen species, super oxide dismutase, malonaldehyde, and NO. The expression levels of genes and proteins in the PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling pathway and apoptosis were detected via real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR and Western blot analysis, respectively. A microvascular tension sensor was adopted to detect coronary artery diastolic function in vitro. ResultsTMYX reduced NR and ischemic areas; suppressed LV-mass; enhanced EF, FS, LVOT peak, and LVSV; and improved cardiac structure and function. Moreover, it decreased creatine kinase (CK), CK-MB, and lactic dehydrogenase activities. TMYX increased NO and super oxide dismutase activities; inhibited malonaldehyde activity; reduced muscle fiber swelling and inflammatory cell infiltration; and improved vasodilation in vitro. In the NR myocardium, TMYX stimulated myocardial PI3K activities and PI3K (Tyr458) phosphorylation and enhanced Akt activities and Akt phosphorylation at Tyr315. TMYX increased the activities of eNOS and the phosphorylation of eNOS at Ser1177 in the NR myocardium and attenuated cardiomyocyte apoptosis by increasing the expression of Bcl-2 and decreasing that of caspase-3 and Bax. All these effects of TMYX were abolished by the specific inhibitors of PI3K (LY) and eNOS (L-NAME). ConclusionsTMYX attenuates myocardial NR after ischemia and reperfusion by activating the PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway and regulating apoptosis, further up-regulating NO activity and relaxing coronary microvessels.

Dealloyed Nanoporous Materials for Rechargeable Post-Lithium Batteries.

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Yi Ding at the Tianjin University of Technology. The image highlights the fast electron/ion transport in a bicontinuous open network of dealloyed nanoporous materials and describes their applications in several emerging post-lithium batteries, including Na, K, Mg, Zn, and Al batteries. The Minireview itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202001069.