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Nanocomposite Hydrogels as Functional Extracellular Matrices. Gels 2023; 9:gels9020153. [PMID: 36826323 PMCID: PMC9957407 DOI: 10.3390/gels9020153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Over recent years, nano-engineered materials have become an important component of artificial extracellular matrices. On one hand, these materials enable static enhancement of the bulk properties of cell scaffolds, for instance, they can alter mechanical properties or electrical conductivity, in order to better mimic the in vivo cell environment. Yet, many nanomaterials also exhibit dynamic, remotely tunable optical, electrical, magnetic, or acoustic properties, and therefore, can be used to non-invasively deliver localized, dynamic stimuli to cells cultured in artificial ECMs in three dimensions. Vice versa, the same, functional nanomaterials, can also report changing environmental conditions-whether or not, as a result of a dynamically applied stimulus-and as such provide means for wireless, long-term monitoring of the cell status inside the culture. In this review article, we present an overview of the technological advances regarding the incorporation of functional nanomaterials in artificial extracellular matrices, highlighting both passive and dynamically tunable nano-engineered components.
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Recent Advances in the Photoreactions Triggered by Porphyrin-Based Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Systems: Molecular Innovations and Nanoarchitectonics. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23148041. [PMID: 35887385 PMCID: PMC9323209 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23148041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is a very promising technology that could be used to convert low-energy photons to high-energy ones and has been proven to be of great value in various areas. Porphyrins have the characteristics of high molar absorbance, can form a complex with different metal ions and a high proportion of triplet states as well as tunable structures, and thus they are important sensitizers for TTA-UC. Porphyrin-based TTA-UC plays a pivotal role in the TTA-UC systems and has been widely used in many fields such as solar cells, sensing and circularly polarized luminescence. In recent years, applications of porphyrin-based TTA-UC systems for photoinduced reactions have emerged, but have been paid little attention. As a consequence, this review paid close attention to the recent advances in the photoreactions triggered by porphyrin-based TTA-UC systems. First of all, the photochemistry of porphyrin-based TTA-UC for chemical transformations, such as photoisomerization, photocatalytic synthesis, photopolymerization, photodegradation and photochemical/photoelectrochemical water splitting, was discussed in detail, which revealed the different mechanisms of TTA-UC and methods with which to carry out reasonable molecular innovations and nanoarchitectonics to solve the existing problems in practical application. Subsequently, photoreactions driven by porphyrin-based TTA-UC for biomedical applications were demonstrated. Finally, the future developments of porphyrin-based TTA-UC systems for photoreactions were briefly discussed.
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Vasilev A, Kostadinov A, Kandinska M, Landfester K, Baluschev S. Tetrathienothiophene Porphyrin as a Metal-Free Sensitizer for Room-Temperature Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion. Front Chem 2022; 10:809863. [PMID: 35559213 PMCID: PMC9086237 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.809863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Optically excited triplet states of organic molecules serve as an energy pool for the subsequent processes, either photon energy downhill, such as room temperature phosphorescence, or photon energy uphill process—the triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC). Manifestation of a high intersystem crossing coefficient is an unavoidable requirement for triplet state formation, following the absorption of a single photon. This requirement is even more inevitable if the excitation light is non-coherent, with moderate intensity and extremely low spectral power density, when compared with the light parameters of 1 Sun (1.5 AM). Coordination of a heavy atom increases substantially the probability of intersystem crossing. Nevertheless, having in mind the global shortage in precious and rare-earth metals, identification of metal-free organic moieties able to form triplet states becomes a prerequisite for environmental friendly optoelectronic technologies. This motivates us to synthesize a metal-free thienothiophene containing porphyrin, based on a condensation reaction between thienothiophene-2-carbaldehyde and pyrrole in an acidic medium by modified synthetic protocol. The upconversion couple tetrathienothiophene porphyrin/rubrene when excited at λ = 658 nm demonstrates bright, delayed fluorescence with a maximum emission at λ = 555 nm. This verifies our hypothesis that the ISC coefficient in thienothiophene porphyrin is efficient in order to create even at room temperature and low-intensity optical excitation densely populated organic triplet ensemble and is suitable for photon energy uphill processes, which makes this type of metal-free sensitizers even more important for optoelectronic applications.
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- Aleksey Vasilev
- University of Sofia “Saint Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
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- University of Sofia “Saint Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
- *Correspondence: Katharina Landfester, ; Stanislav Baluschev,
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
- University of Sofia “Saint Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria
- *Correspondence: Katharina Landfester, ; Stanislav Baluschev,
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Cao J, Hu TT, Wang D, Wang JX. High-Gravity-Assisted Intensified Preparation of Er-Doped and Yb/Er-Codoped CaF2 Upconversion Nanophosphors for Noncontact Temperature Measurement. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c04137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jing Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Organic−Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing Aerospace Petrochemical EC and EP Technology Corporation Limited, Beijing 100176, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic−Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
- Research Center of the Ministry of Education for High Gravity Engineering and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic−Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
- Research Center of the Ministry of Education for High Gravity Engineering and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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Li L, Zhang C, Xu L, Ye C, Chen S, Wang X, Song Y. Luminescence Ratiometric Nanothermometry Regulated by Tailoring Annihilators of Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Nanomicelles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202110830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Lin Li
- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Printing Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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Li L, Zhang C, Xu L, Ye C, Chen S, Wang X, Song Y. Luminescence Ratiometric Nanothermometry Regulated by Tailoring Annihilators of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Nanomicelles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:26725-26733. [PMID: 34623016 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202110830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) upconversion is a special non-linear photophysical process that converts low-energy photons into high-energy photons based on sensitizer/annihilator pairs. Here, we constructed a novel luminescence ratiometric nanothermometer based on TTA upconversion nanomicelles by encapsulating sensitizer/annihilator molecules into a temperature-sensitive amphiphilic triblock polymer and obtained good linear relationships between the luminescence ratio (integrated intensity ratio of upconverted luminescence peak to the downshifted phosphorescence peak) and the temperature. We also found chemical modification of annihilators would rule out the interference of the polymer concentration and stereochemical engineering of annihilators would readily regulate the thermal sensitivity.
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- Lin Li
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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Yin W, Yu T, Chen J, Hu R, Yang G, Zeng Y, Li Y. Thermally Activated Upconversion with Metal-Free Sensitizers Enabling Exceptional Anti-Stokes Shift and Anti-counterfeiting Application. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:57481-57488. [PMID: 34841866 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c19181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Photochemical upconversion (UC) via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) has attracted considerable attention for its potential applications in solar energy conversion, photocatalysis, and bioimaging. Achieving a large anti-Stokes shift in photochemical UC is appealing but still a great challenge, especially for purely organic sensitizers. Here, we develop solid-state TTA UC systems with metal- and heavy atom-free dyes as the sensitizers, which sensitize the 9,10-diphenylanthracene acceptor through thermally activated triplet-triplet energy transfer. Solid-state UC emission with remarkable anti-Stokes shifts up to 1.10 eV is achieved owing to an evident enthalpy gain by the endothermic sensitization. The solid upconverter shows air-stable UC emission and potentials in dual-mode anti-counterfeiting and encryption applications. The present UC approach involving thermally activated sensitization enabled by purely organic dyes provides a versatile strategy to develop TTA UC materials with large anti-Stokes shift, air-tolerant emission, and environmental compatibility, which would have promising applications in information encryption, photochemical conversion, and bioimaging.
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- Wenxia Yin
- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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Monteiro MJ, Cunningham MF. Polymer Colloids: Synthesis Fundamentals to Applications. Biomacromolecules 2021; 21:4377-4378. [PMID: 33161722 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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This special issue of Biomacromolecules highlights research from The International Polymer Colloid Group (IPCG), which was founded in 1972 as a forum for the exchange of ideas and emerging research activities for scientists and engineers from both academia and industry who study or use polymer colloids. The increasing relevance of polymeric structures with colloidal dimensions to biomacromolecules research provided the impetus for organizing this special issue. The IPCG is composed of over 120 researchers from over 20 countries who are elected to membership. Activities comprise annual symposia including a biennial International Polymer Colloid Group Research Conference and a semiannual newsletter that incorporates a summary of recent (including unpublished) research results from our members.
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- Michael J Monteiro
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kinston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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Ding L, Zhou J, Fu Q, Bao G, Liu Y, Jin D. Triplet Fusion Upconversion with Oxygen Resistance in Aqueous Media. Anal Chem 2021; 93:4641-4646. [PMID: 33667071 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Triplet fusion upconversion (also called triplet-triplet annihilation, TTA) arouses much attention due to its potential in the fields of biological imaging, optogenetics, and light harvesting. However, oxygen quenching remains a challenge ahead, restricting its applications in aqueous media. Previous efforts to realize aqueous TTA with oxygen resistance have been focused on core-shell structures and self-assembly, but tedious processes and complicated chemical modification are required. Here, we report a direct and efficient strategy to realize aqueous TTA by controlling the ionic equilibrium of the TTA dyad. We find that the ionized organic dyad in physiological buffers and electrolyte-based media shows a natural aerotolerance without any complicated structure engineering. In particular, the upconversion intensity of this aqueous TTA in Tris buffer under an air-saturated condition is more than twice that under the deaerated condition. We further demonstrate the TTA system for potential applications in pH and temperature sensing with reversible and sensitive performance. We anticipate this facile approach will inspire the development of practical aqueous TTA and broad applications in biological science.
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- Lei Ding
- Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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- Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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- Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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- Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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- Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia.,UTS-SUStech Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province 518055, China
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Ju D, Gao X, Zhang S, Li Y, Cui W, Yang Y, Luo M, Liu S. Temperature-dependent upconversion luminescence multicolor tuning and temperature sensing of multifunctional β-NaYF 4:Yb/Er@β-NaYF 4:Yb/Tm microcrystals. CrystEngComm 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1ce00123j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Multifunctional β-NaYF4:Yb/Er@β-NaYF4:Yb/Tm microcrystals with simultaneous white-light emission, temperature-dependent upconversion luminescence multicolor tuning and good temperature sensitivity.
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- Dandan Ju
- School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin Medical University
- Tianjin 300070
- China
- School of Science
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- School of Physics & The Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics
- Ministry of Education
- Nankai University
- Tianjin
- China
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- School of Science
- Tianjin Chengjian University
- Tianjin 300384
- China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin Medical University
- Tianjin 300070
- China
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- School of Science
- Tianjin Chengjian University
- Tianjin 300384
- China
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- School of Science
- Tianjin Chengjian University
- Tianjin 300384
- China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin Medical University
- Tianjin 300070
- China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- Tianjin Medical University
- Tianjin 300070
- China
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