Ni 2 P nanoparticles grown on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) were successfully synthesized via the lowtemperature solid state reaction method and investigated as electrochemical pseudocapacitor materials for potential energy storage applications. The specific capacitance of the as-prepared Ni 2 P/rGO is 2266 F g 21 and the Ni 2 P/rGO composite also exhibits superior cycling performance when they are used as the capacitor materials. The as-prepared Ni 2 P/rGO sample demonstrates interesting supercapacitive properties with high capacitance and good cycling performance.
The peritoneum, especially the omentum, is a common site for gastric cancer (GC) metastasis. Our aim was to expound the role and mechanisms of Piezo1 on GC omentum metastasis. A series of functional assays were performed to examine cell proliferation, clone formation, apoptosis, Ca2+ influx, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and migration after overexpression or knockdown of Piezo1. A GC peritoneal implantation and metastasis model was conducted. After infection by si‐Piezo1, the number and growth of tumours were observed in abdominal cavity. Fibre and angiogenesis were tested in metastatic tumour tissues. Piezo1 had higher expression in GC tissues with omentum metastasis and metastatic lymph node tissues than in GC tissues among 110 patients. High Piezo1 expression was associated with lymph metastasis, TNM and distant metastasis. Overexpressed Piezo1 facilitated cell proliferation and suppressed cell apoptosis in GC cells. Moreover, Ca2+ influx was elevated after up‐regulation of Piezo1. Piezo1 promoted cell migration and Calpain1/2 expression via up‐regulation of HIF‐1α in GC cells. In vivo, Piezo1 knockdown significantly inhibited peritoneal metastasis of GC cells and blocked EMT process and angiogenesis. Our findings suggested that Piezo1 is a key component during GC omentum metastasis, which could be related to up‐regulation of HIF‐1α.
Highly crumpled graphene nanosheets (GNS) with a BET surface area as high as 1159 m(2) g(-1) was fabricated by a thermal exfoliation method. A systematic investigation was performed on the hydrogen sorption properties of MgH(2)-5 wt% GNS nanocomposites acquired by ball-milling. It was found that the as-synthesized GNS exhibited a superior catalytic effect on hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of MgH(2). Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and isothermal hydrogenation/dehydrogenation measurements indicated that both hydrogen sorption capacity and dehydrogenation/hydrogenation kinetics of the composites improved with increasing milling time. The composites MgH(2)-GNS milled for 20 h can absorb 6.6 wt% H(2) within 1 min at 300 °C and 6.3 wt% within 40 min at 200 °C, even at 150 °C, it can also absorb 6.0 wt% H(2) within 180 min. It was also demonstrated that MgH(2)-GNS-20 h could release 6.1 wt% H(2) at 300 °C within 40 min. In addition, microstructure measurements based on XRD, SEM, TEM as well as Raman spectra revealed that the grain size of thus-prepared MgH(2)-GNS nanocomposites decreased with increasing milling time, moreover, the graphene layers were broken into smaller graphene nanosheets in a disordered and irregular manner during milling. It was confirmed that these smaller graphene nanosheets on the composite surface, providing more edge sites and hydrogen diffusion channels, prevented the nanograins from sintering and agglomerating, thus, leading to promotion of the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation kinetics of MgH(2).
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