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Gamage S, Manna S, Zajac M, Hancock S, Wang Q, Singh S, Ghafariasl M, Yao K, Tiwald TE, Park TJ, Landau DP, Wen H, Sankaranarayanan SKS, Darancet P, Ramanathan S, Abate Y. Infrared Nanoimaging of Hydrogenated Perovskite Nickelate Memristive Devices. ACS Nano 2024; 18:2105-2116. [PMID: 38198599 PMCID: PMC10811663 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c09281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
Abstract
Solid-state devices made from correlated oxides, such as perovskite nickelates, are promising for neuromorphic computing by mimicking biological synaptic function. However, comprehending dopant action at the nanoscale poses a formidable challenge to understanding the elementary mechanisms involved. Here, we perform operando infrared nanoimaging of hydrogen-doped correlated perovskite, neodymium nickel oxide (H-NdNiO3, H-NNO), devices and reveal how an applied field perturbs dopant distribution at the nanoscale. This perturbation leads to stripe phases of varying conductivity perpendicular to the applied field, which define the macroscale electrical characteristics of the devices. Hyperspectral nano-FTIR imaging in conjunction with density functional theory calculations unveils a real-space map of multiple vibrational states of H-NNO associated with OH stretching modes and their dependence on the dopant concentration. Moreover, the localization of excess charges induces an out-of-plane lattice expansion in NNO which was confirmed by in situ X-ray diffraction and creates a strain that acts as a barrier against further diffusion. Our results and the techniques presented here hold great potential for the rapidly growing field of memristors and neuromorphic devices wherein nanoscale ion motion is fundamentally responsible for function.
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- Sampath Gamage
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Center for
Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department
of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
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- Advanced
Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center
for
Simulational Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- School
of
Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- School
of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- J.A. Woollam
Co., Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska 68508, United States
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- School
of
Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Center
for
Simulational Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Advanced
Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Materials
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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R. S. Sankaranarayanan
- Center for
Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department
of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
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- Center for
Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Northwestern
Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- School
of
Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Zhou F, Liu H, Zajac M, Hwangbo K, Jiang Q, Chu JH, Xu X, Arslan I, Gage TE, Wen H. Ultrafast Nanoimaging of Spin-Mediated Shear Waves in an Acoustic Cavity. Nano Lett 2023; 23:10213-10220. [PMID: 37910440 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Strong spin-lattice coupling in van der Waals (vdW) magnets shows potential for innovative magneto-mechanical applications. Here, nanoscale and picosecond imaging by ultrafast electron microscopy reveal heterogeneous spin-mediated coherent acoustic phonon dynamics in a thin-film cavity of the vdW antiferromagnet FePS3. The harmonics of the interlayer shear acoustic modes are observed, in which the even and odd harmonics exhibit distinct nanoscopic dynamics. Corroborated by acoustic wave simulation, the role of defects in forming even harmonics is elucidated. Above the Néel temperature (TN), the interlayer shear acoustic harmonics are suppressed, while the in-plane traveling wave is predominantly excited. The dominant acoustic dynamics shifts from the out-of-plane shear to the in-plane traveling wave across TN, demonstrating that magnetic properties can influence phonon scattering pathways. The spatiotemporally resolved structural characterization provides valuable nanoscopic insights for interlayer-shear-mode-based acoustic cavities, opening up possibilities for magneto-mechanical applications of vdW magnets.
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- Faran Zhou
- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Yazdani N, Bodnarchuk MI, Bertolotti F, Masciocchi N, Fureraj I, Guzelturk B, Cotts BL, Zajac M, Rainò G, Jansen M, Boehme SC, Yarema M, Lin MF, Kozina M, Reid A, Shen X, Weathersby S, Wang X, Vauthey E, Guagliardi A, Kovalenko MV, Wood V, Lindenberg AM. Coupling to octahedral tilts in halide perovskite nanocrystals induces phonon-mediated attractive interactions between excitons. Nat Phys 2023; 20:47-53. [PMID: 38261834 PMCID: PMC10791581 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02253-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
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Understanding the origin of electron-phonon coupling in lead halide perovskites is key to interpreting and leveraging their optical and electronic properties. Here we show that photoexcitation drives a reduction of the lead-halide-lead bond angles, a result of deformation potential coupling to low-energy optical phonons. We accomplish this by performing femtosecond-resolved, optical-pump-electron-diffraction-probe measurements to quantify the lattice reorganization occurring as a result of photoexcitation in nanocrystals of FAPbBr3. Our results indicate a stronger coupling in FAPbBr3 than CsPbBr3. We attribute the enhanced coupling in FAPbBr3 to its disordered crystal structure, which persists down to cryogenic temperatures. We find the reorganizations induced by each exciton in a multi-excitonic state constructively interfere, giving rise to a coupling strength that scales quadratically with the exciton number. This superlinear scaling induces phonon-mediated attractive interactions between excitations in lead halide perovskites.
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- Nuri Yazdani
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Chemistry and Materials Design Group, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Istituto di Cristallografia & To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Como, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Department of Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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Kepka Z, Briksi A, Hubáček P, Zajac M, Dřevínek P. Characteristics of the ID-NOW™ test for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2. Epidemiol Mikrobiol Imunol 2023; 72:3-8. [PMID: 37185021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the Abbott ID-NOW™ test in the diagnosis of COVID-19. The test is based on the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 gene by isothermal amplification technology. METHODS From 303 individuals, two nasopharyngeal swabs and one oropharyngeal swab were collected to be tested in parallel by the ID-NOW™ test and PCR test (Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2 Assay). A subgroup of 107 individuals presented to the public collection point for covid-19 at the Motol University Hospital during the dominance of the Delta variant, and the others were tested via the Adult Emergency Admission Department during the dominance of the Omicron variant. RESULTS Of 297 valid samples, 43 were positive by the PCR assay and 33 were positive by the ID-NOW™ test (sensitivity 76.74%; 95% CI 61.37 to 88.24%). ID-NOW™ detected three samples as positive, but the positivity was not confirmed by PCR (specificity 98.82%; 95% CI 96.59 to 99.76%). A significant increase in sensitivity up to 100% is observed for samples with a higher viral load (with a PCR threshold cycle value below 30 or from patients with symptoms of COVID-19). The Delta or Omicron variant has no significant effect on the sensitivity of the test. CONCLUSION Due to its ease of use and speed of result, ID-NOW™ is a suitable diagnostic tool for prompt assessment of a patient's infectivity. If, despite the negative ID-NOW™ result, the patient has symptoms of COVID-19, it is advised to perform a classic PCR test for SARS-CoV-2.
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Park S, Wang B, Yang T, Kim J, Saremi S, Zhao W, Guzelturk B, Sood A, Nyby C, Zajac M, Shen X, Kozina M, Reid AH, Weathersby S, Wang X, Martin LW, Chen LQ, Lindenberg AM. Light-Driven Ultrafast Polarization Manipulation in a Relaxor Ferroelectric. Nano Lett 2022; 22:9275-9282. [PMID: 36450036 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Relaxor ferroelectrics have been intensely studied for decades based on their unique electromechanical responses which arise from local structural heterogeneity involving polar nanoregions or domains. Here, we report first studies of the ultrafast dynamics and reconfigurability of the polarization in freestanding films of the prototypical relaxor 0.68PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-0.32PbTiO3 (PMN-0.32PT) by probing its atomic-scale response via femtosecond-resolution, electron-scattering approaches. By combining these structural measurements with dynamic phase-field simulations, we show that femtosecond light pulses drive a change in both the magnitude and direction of the polarization vector within polar nanodomains on few-picosecond time scales. This study defines new opportunities for dynamic reconfigurable control of the polarization in nanoscale relaxor ferroelectrics.
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- Suji Park
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California94305, United States
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California94025, United States
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Zhou F, Hwangbo K, Zhang Q, Wang C, Shen L, Zhang J, Jiang Q, Zong A, Su Y, Zajac M, Ahn Y, Walko DA, Schaller RD, Chu JH, Gedik N, Xu X, Xiao D, Wen H. Dynamical criticality of spin-shear coupling in van der Waals antiferromagnets. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6598. [PMID: 36329063 PMCID: PMC9633802 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34376-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
The interplay between a multitude of electronic, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom underlies the complex phase diagrams of quantum materials. Layer stacking in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is responsible for exotic electronic and magnetic properties, which inspires stacking control of two-dimensional magnetism. Beyond the interplay between stacking order and interlayer magnetism, we discover a spin-shear coupling mechanism in which a subtle shear of the atomic layers can have a profound effect on the intralayer magnetic order in a family of vdW antiferromagnets. Using time-resolved X-ray diffraction and optical linear dichroism measurements, interlayer shear is identified as the primary structural degree of freedom that couples with magnetic order. The recovery times of both shear and magnetic order upon optical excitation diverge at the magnetic ordering temperature with the same critical exponent. The time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory shows that this concurrent critical slowing down arises from a linear coupling of the interlayer shear to the magnetic order, which is dictated by the broken mirror symmetry intrinsic to the monoclinic stacking. Our results highlight the importance of interlayer shear in ultrafast control of magnetic order via spin-mechanical coupling. Van der Waals materials are characterized by two dimensional layers weakly held together by interlayer van der Waals forces. Here, the authors study how shear motions between these layers influence the magnetic properties of the van der Waals antiferromagnets FePS3, MnPS3, and NiPS3. ‘
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- Faran Zhou
- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.,Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. .,Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
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Postel-Vinay S, Italiano A, Martin Romano P, Cassier P, Siu L, Lossos I, Hilton J, Mckean M, Strauss J, Falchook G, de Jonge M, Opdam F, Rasco D, Vermaat J, Crossman T, Zajac M, Hainline A, Kremer B, Barbash O, Gounder M. 456MO METEOR-1: A phase I study of the safety and efficacy of the protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) inhibitor GSK3326595 in advanced solid tumors. Ann Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.07.585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Fuljer F, Zajac M, Boertmann D, Szabóová D, Kautmanová I. Neohygrocybe pseudoingrata, a new grassland species from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Fungal Syst Evol 2022; 9:11-17. [PMID: 35978984 PMCID: PMC9355102 DOI: 10.3114/fuse.2022.09.02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
Abstract
Neohygrocybe pseudoingrata, a new waxcap species known from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, is characterised by its pale greyish coloured and often robust basidiomata (or sporocarps), nitrous smell, context without colour changes, hollow, contorted and compressed stipe and smooth or slightly fibrillose pileus surface. Based on morphology and DNA analysis of ITS and LSU sequences of the collected specimens, N. pseudoingrata belongs to Neohygrocybe sect. Neohygrocybe together with N. ovina, N. nitrata and N. ingrata. Collections of N. pseudoingrata form a well-supported clade in phylogenetic trees. Citation: Fuljer F, Zajac M, Boertmann D, Szabóová D, Kautmanová I (2022). Neohygrocybe pseudoingrata, a new grassland species from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Fungal Systematics and Evolution9: 11–17. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2022.09.02
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- F. Fuljer
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Révová 39, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Administration of Protected Landscape Area Kysuce, U Tomali č. 1511, 022 01 Čadca, Slovakia
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Slovak National Museum - Natural History Museum, Vajanského nábrežie 2, P.O. Box 13, 810 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Slovak National Museum - Natural History Museum, Vajanského nábrežie 2, P.O. Box 13, 810 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Muscher PK, Rehn DA, Sood A, Lim K, Luo D, Shen X, Zajac M, Lu F, Mehta A, Li Y, Wang X, Reed EJ, Chueh WC, Lindenberg AM. Highly Efficient Uniaxial In-Plane Stretching of a 2D Material via Ion Insertion. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2101875. [PMID: 34331368 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202101875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
On-chip dynamic strain engineering requires efficient micro-actuators that can generate large in-plane strains. Inorganic electrochemical actuators are unique in that they are driven by low voltages (≈1 V) and produce considerable strains (≈1%). However, actuation speed and efficiency are limited by mass transport of ions. Minimizing the number of ions required to actuate is thus key to enabling useful "straintronic" devices. Here, it is shown that the electrochemical intercalation of exceptionally few lithium ions into WTe2 causes large anisotropic in-plane strain: 5% in one in-plane direction and 0.1% in the other. This efficient stretching of the 2D WTe2 layers contrasts to intercalation-induced strains in related materials which are predominantly in the out-of-plane direction. The unusual actuation of Lix WTe2 is linked to the formation of a newly discovered crystallographic phase, referred to as Td', with an exotic atomic arrangement. On-chip low-voltage (<0.2 V) control is demonstrated over the transition to the novel phase and its composition. Within the Td'-Li0.5- δ WTe2 phase, a uniaxial in-plane strain of 1.4% is achieved with a change of δ of only 0.075. This makes the in-plane chemical expansion coefficient of Td'-Li0.5-δ WTe2 far greater than of any other single-phase material, enabling fast and efficient planar electrochemical actuation.
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- Philipp K Muscher
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Computational Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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Sood A, Shen X, Shi Y, Kumar S, Park SJ, Zajac M, Sun Y, Chen LQ, Ramanathan S, Wang X, Chueh WC, Lindenberg AM. Universal phase dynamics in VO 2 switches revealed by ultrafast operando diffraction. Science 2021; 373:352-355. [PMID: 34437156 DOI: 10.1126/science.abc0652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Understanding the pathways and time scales underlying electrically driven insulator-metal transitions is crucial for uncovering the fundamental limits of device operation. Using stroboscopic electron diffraction, we perform synchronized time-resolved measurements of atomic motions and electronic transport in operating vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches. We discover an electrically triggered, isostructural state that forms transiently on microsecond time scales, which is shown by phase-field simulations to be stabilized by local heterogeneities and interfacial interactions between the equilibrium phases. This metastable phase is similar to that formed under photoexcitation within picoseconds, suggesting a universal transformation pathway. Our results establish electrical excitation as a route for uncovering nonequilibrium and metastable phases in correlated materials, opening avenues for engineering dynamical behavior in nanoelectronics.
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- Aditya Sood
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. .,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. .,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Dřevínek P, Hurych J, Kepka Z, Briksi A, Kulich M, Zajac M, Hubáček P. The sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests in the view of large-scale testing. Epidemiol Mikrobiol Imunol 2021; 70:156-160. [PMID: 34641689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Antigen tests have emerged as an alternative to SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic PCR, thought to be valuable especially for the screening of bigger communities. To check appropriateness of the antigen based testing, we determined sensitivity of two point-of-care antigen tests when applied to a cohort of COVID-19 symptomatic, COVID-19 asymptomatic and healthy persons. METHODS We examined nasopharyngeal swabs with antigen test 1 (Panbio Covid-19 Ag Rapid Test, Abbott) and antigen test 2 (Standard F Covid-19 Ag FIA, SD Biosensor). An additional nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab of the same individual was checked with PCR (Allplex SARS-nCoV-2, Seegene). Within a 4-day period in October 2020, we collected specimens from 591 subjects. Of them, 290 had COVID-19 associated symptoms. RESULTS While PCR positivity was detected in 223 cases, antigen test 1 and antigen test 2 were found positive in 148 (sensitivity 0.664, 95%CI 0.599, 0.722) and 141 (sensitivity 0.623, 95%CI 0.558, 0.684) patients, respectively. When only symptomatic patients were analysed, sensitivity increased to 0.738 (95%CI 0.667, 0.799) for the antigen test 1 and to 0.685 (95%CI 0.611, 0.750) for the antigen test 2. The substantial drop in sensitivity to 12.9% (95%CI 0.067, 0.234) was observed for samples with the PCR threshold cycle above > 30. CONCLUSIONS Low sensitivity of antigen tests leads to the considerable risk of false negativity. It is advisable to implement repeated testing with high enough frequency if the antigen test is used as a frontline screening tool, and to follow with PCR if it is applied to vulnerable populations.
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Guzelturk B, Utterback JK, Coropceanu I, Kamysbayev V, Janke EM, Zajac M, Yazdani N, Cotts BL, Park S, Sood A, Lin MF, Reid AH, Kozina ME, Shen X, Weathersby SP, Wood V, Salleo A, Wang X, Talapin DV, Ginsberg NS, Lindenberg AM. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Colloidal Gold Nanocrystals Monitored by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Optical Scattering Microscopy. ACS Nano 2020; 14:4792-4804. [PMID: 32208676 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Metal nanocrystals exhibit important optoelectronic and photocatalytic functionalities in response to light. These dynamic energy conversion processes have been commonly studied by transient optical probes to date, but an understanding of the atomistic response following photoexcitation has remained elusive. Here, we use femtosecond resolution electron diffraction to investigate transient lattice responses in optically excited colloidal gold nanocrystals, revealing the effects of nanocrystal size and surface ligands on the electron-phonon coupling and thermal relaxation dynamics. First, we uncover a strong size effect on the electron-phonon coupling, which arises from reduced dielectric screening at the nanocrystal surfaces and prevails independent of the optical excitation mechanism (i.e., inter- and intraband). Second, we find that surface ligands act as a tuning parameter for hot carrier cooling. Particularly, gold nanocrystals with thiol-based ligands show significantly slower carrier cooling as compared to amine-based ligands under intraband optical excitation due to electronic coupling at the nanocrystal/ligand interfaces. Finally, we spatiotemporally resolve thermal transport and heat dissipation in photoexcited nanocrystal films by combining electron diffraction with stroboscopic elastic scattering microscopy. Taken together, we resolve the distinct thermal relaxation time scales ranging from 1 ps to 100 ns associated with the multiple interfaces through which heat flows at the nanoscale. Our findings provide insights into optimization of gold nanocrystals and their thin films for photocatalysis and thermoelectric applications.
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- Burak Guzelturk
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 United States
- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 United States
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025 United States
- The PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- Department of Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Martinez JC, Chicas-Sett R, Godoy J, Hernandez C, Morales-Orue I, Zajac M, Zafra J, Lloret M, Lara P. EP-1443 Real-time tumor tracking in pancreatic SBRT by percutaneous US-guide implantation of transponders. Radiother Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31863-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Gaubas E, Čeponis T, Meškauskaite D, Mickevičius J, Pavlov J, Rumbauskas V, Grigonis R, Zajac M, Kucharski R. Pulsed photo-ionization spectroscopy of traps in as-grown and neutron irradiated ammonothermally synthesized GaN. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1473. [PMID: 30728431 PMCID: PMC6365559 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38138-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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GaN-based structures are promising for production of radiation detectors and high-voltage high-frequency devices. Particle detectors made of GaN are beneficial as devices simultaneously generating of the optical and electrical signals. Photon-electron coupling cross-section is a parameter which relates radiation absorption and emission characteristics. On the other hand, photon-electron coupling cross-section together with photo-ionization energy are fingerprints of deep centres in material. In this work, the wafer fragments of the GaN grown by ammonothermal (AT) technology are studied to reveal the dominant defects introduced by growth procedures and reactor neutron irradiations in a wide range, 1012-1016 cm-2, of fluences. Several defects in the as-grown and irradiated material have been revealed by using the pulsed photo-ionization spectroscopy (PPIS) technique. The PPIS measurements were performed by combining femtosecond (40 fs) and nanosecond (4 ns) laser pulses emitted by optical parametric oscillators (OPO) to clarify the role of electron-phonon coupling. Variations of the operational characteristics of the tentative sensors, made of the AT GaN doped with Mg and Mn, under radiation damage by reactor neutrons have been considered.
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- E Gaubas
- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Laser centre, Vilnius University, Sauletekio av. 10, LT-10222, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Ammono-Lab, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Sokolowska 29/37, 01-142, Warsaw, Poland
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- Ammono-Lab, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Sokolowska 29/37, 01-142, Warsaw, Poland
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Walker J, Zajac M, Ye J, Scott M, Ratcliffe M, Scorer P, Barker C, Al-Masri H, Rebelatto M, Gupta A, Mukhopadhay P, Ferro S, Powles T, Williams J. Impact of different programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression algorithms on patient selection and durvalumab efficacy in urothelial carcinoma (UC). Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy283.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Jürgensmeyer N, Lier S, Schwede C, Zajac M. Digitale Transformation - schnelle, flexible Planung und Bewertung durch Planungsassistenzsysteme - ein Baustein zur modularen Prozessindustrie 4.0. CHEM-ING-TECH 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.201855355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- N. Jürgensmeyer
- Ruhr-Universität-Bochum; Lehrstuhl für Fluidverfahrenstechnik; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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- Ruhr-Universität-Bochum; Lehrstuhl für Fluidverfahrenstechnik; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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- Fraunhofer IML; Informationslogistik und Assistenzsysteme; Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Straße 2 - 4 44227 Dortmund Deutschland
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- Fraunhofer IML; Informationslogistik und Assistenzsysteme; Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Straße 2 - 4 44227 Dortmund Deutschland
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Sonntag C, Zajac M, Lier S, Hellenkamp T. LEGOLAS - Ein simulationsbasiertes Planungsassistenzsystem für modulare Industrie-4.0-Anlagen in der Prozessindustrie. CHEM-ING-TECH 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.201855191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- C. Sonntag
- INOSIM Consulting GmbH; Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 20 44227 Dortmund Deutschland
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- Fraunhofer-Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik; Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 2 - 4 44227 Dortmund Deutschland
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- Fachhochschule Südwestfalen; Lehrgebiet Logistik und Supply Chain Management; Sophienweg 3 59872 Meschede Deutschland
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- INOSIM Consulting GmbH; Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 20 44227 Dortmund Deutschland
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Zajac M, Boothman AM, Ben Y, Gupta A, Antal J, Jin X, Nielsen A, Manriquez G, Barker C, Wang P, Patil P, Schechter N, Rebelatto M, Walker J. Abstract 664: Analytical validation and clinical utility of an immunohistochemical PD-L1 diagnostic assay for treatment with durvalumab in urothelial carcinoma patients. Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2017-664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: A high quality programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) diagnostic may help to identify patients (pts) most likely to respond to anti-PD-L1/programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) therapy. Here we describe a PD-L1 immunohistochemical (IHC) diagnostic test developed for urothelial carcinoma (UC) pts treated with durvalumab.
Methods: The IHC assay uses an anti-human PD-L1 rabbit mAb optimized for detection of both tumor cell (TC) and tumor-associated immune cell (IC) PD-L1 expression with the OptiView DAB IHC Detection Kit on the automated VENTANA BenchMark ULTRA platform. The assay was validated for intended use in UC formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples in a series of studies that addressed sensitivity, specificity, robustness and precision and implemented in Study CD-ON-MEDI4736-1108 (NCT01693562). Pts were evaluated using the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay at a prespecified PD-L1 expression cut-off. Efficacy was analyzed in pts with PD-L1 low/negative (defined as TC <25% and IC <25%) UC and in pts with PD-L1 high (defined as TC ≥25% or IC ≥25%) UC.
Results: The VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay met all the predefined acceptance criteria (average positive agreement and average negative agreement >85%), showing analytical specificity, sensitivity and precision. It demonstrated ≥97% and ≥85% inter-reader precision agreement for TC and IC respectively. For intra-reader precision, it demonstrated >96% and >87% agreement for TC and IC respectively. For intra-day performance, the assay demonstrated ≥96% agreement for TC and IC and for inter-day performance, it demonstrated ≥98% and 100% agreement for TC and IC respectively. Precision studies for inter-antibody lot, inter-detection kit lot and intra-platform demonstrated >97% agreement for both TC and IC. Inter-laboratory testing was performed at 3 external laboratories and demonstrated an overall agreement rate of 92.3%. The VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay was implemented in Study CD-ON-MEDI4736-1108 and durvalumab demonstrated clinical activity and durability of response in both PD-L1 high and PD-L1 low/negative subgroups, yet with different response rates. In addition, given the high negative predictive value of the assay, it is especially helpful in evaluating the likelihood of response to durvalumab; pts who were classified as PD-L1 high with the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay tended to have a higher objective response rate per RECIST v1.1 than pts who were PD-L1 low/negative.
Conclusions: These data show that determination of PD-L1 expression in TC and IC in UC pts using the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay is precise and highly reproducible and highlight the utility of the assay in a clinical setting. The VENTANA SP263 Assay is especially helpful in informing pts and physicians on the likelihood of response to durvalumab, but not for the purpose of restricting treatment to only PD-L1 high pts.
Citation Format: M Zajac, A M. Boothman, Y Ben, A Gupta, J Antal, X Jin, A Nielsen, G Manriquez, C Barker, P Wang, P Patil, N Schechter, M Rebelatto, J Walker. Analytical validation and clinical utility of an immunohistochemical PD-L1 diagnostic assay for treatment with durvalumab in urothelial carcinoma patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 664. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-664
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- M Zajac
- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 4Ventana Medical Systems Inc., Tucson, AZ
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- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 4Ventana Medical Systems Inc., Tucson, AZ
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- 4Ventana Medical Systems Inc., Tucson, AZ
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- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Zajac M, Boothman AM, Ben Y, Gupta A, Jin X, Antal J, Sharpe A, Scott M, Rebelatto M, Walker J. Abstract 656: PD-L1 expression in primary lesions vs metastatic sites and by demographics in advanced urothelial carcinoma samples. Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2017-656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Determination of programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression levels in tumors may help physicians understand which patients (pts) are most likely to respond to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapies in urothelial carcinoma (UC). Understanding the impact of different sample types and demographics on PD-L1 expression is important to determine suitability of tumor biopsies for testing.
Methods: As of July 24, 2016, 363 pts screened in the UC cohort of Study CD-ON-MEDI4736-1108 (NCT01693562) had tissue available for analysis and 47 pts had provided paired primary and metastatic samples. FFPE samples were tested in a central laboratory with the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay using a BenchMark ULTRA instrument. Pts were classified as having either PD-L1 high (PD-L1 expression ≥25% either on tumour cells [TC] or immune cells [IC]) or PD-L1 low/negative (<25% on TC and IC) tumors. PD-L1 high prevalence was reported in primary vs metastatic sites, and by age, sex and race.
Results: PD-L1 status was evaluable for 332/363 (91.5%) pts (175/332 [52.7%] PD-L1 high and 157/332 [47.3%] PD-L1 low/negative) whose UC specimens were tested (intent to diagnose [ITD] population). Overall percentage agreement between paired primary and metastatic samples, based on combined TC/IC scoring ≥25%, was 74.5% (95% CI 59.7 - 86.1%). In the ITD population, using only the samples from which patient PD-L1 expression status was determined, PD-L1 high prevalence in primary and metastatic samples was 57.1% and 50.9% respectively (p=0.343, not significant). The proportion of pts with PD-L1 high status was not enriched in any demographic group (Table).
Conclusions: Initial data from UC pts in Study 1108 showed similar PD-L1 high prevalence in primary and metastatic lesions and good concordance between paired primary and metastatic samples. These results build optimism that samples obtained from either location could be used to determine PD-L1 status. Further data are needed to confirm these findings.
Patients screened for UC cohort with evaluable PD-L1 result - ITD population (n = 332)ParameterPD-L1 high, n (%)P valueAge, years<65 (n=131)73 (55.7%)0.438≥65 (n=201)102 (50.8%)SexMale (n=236)127 (53.8%)0.610Female (n=96)48 (50.0%)RaceAsian (n=52)23 (44.2%)Asian vs White: 0.406Black or African American (n=10)6 (60.0%)White (n=218)113 (51.8%)Other (n=9)4 (44.4%)
Citation Format: M Zajac, A M. Boothman, Y Ben, A Gupta, X Jin, J Antal, A Sharpe, M Scott, M Rebelatto, J Walker. PD-L1 expression in primary lesions vs metastatic sites and by demographics in advanced urothelial carcinoma samples [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 656. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-656
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- M Zajac
- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 3MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD
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- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Bader S, Zajac M, Friess T, Ruge E, Rieder N, Gierke B, Heubach Y, Thomas M, Pawlak M. Evaluation of multiple protein profiles from treated xenograft tumor models identifies a marker panel for FFPE tissue analysis with reverse phase protein arrays. Eur J Cancer 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(16)32933-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zajac M, Boothman A, Nielsen A, Manriques G, Barker C, Wang P, Patil P, Schechter N, Rebelatto M, Walker J. An immunohistochemical PD-L1 diagnostic assay for treatment with durvalumab in urothelial cancer patients. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw525.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Zajac M, Muszynska B, Kala K, Sikora A, Opoka W. Popular species of edible mushrooms as a good source of zinc to be released to artificial digestive juices. J Physiol Pharmacol 2015; 66:763-769. [PMID: 26579582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Because fruiting bodies of edible mushrooms accumulate elements very effectively, in this study for the first time we aimed at determining the degree of the release of zinc(II) ions to artificial digestive juices imitating the human gastrointestinal tract from freeze-dried popular edible mushroom fruiting bodies, such as Agaricus bisporus, Boletus badius and Cantharellus cibarius. For the analysis, anodic stripping voltammetry method was used. The amount of zinc released to artificial saliva within 1 minute ranged from 0.03 to 1.14 mg/100 g d.w. In gastric juice, the amounts were higher and ranged from 0.75 to 2.07 mg/100 g d.w. depending on the incubation time. After incubation of the freeze-dried edible mushroom fruiting bodies for 1 minute in artificial saliva, 15 in artificial gastric juice and then 150 minutes in artificial intestinal juice, it was found that the concentration of the released zinc in artificial intestinal juice was the highest and amounted to 6.44 mg/100 g d.w. The total average amount of zinc released from Boletus badius was the highest and this was estimated at 4.13 mg/100 g d.w. For the remaining two investigated species of A. bisporus and C. cibarius, the total amounts of zinc released into artificial digestive juices were only slightly lower and were estimated at 2.23 and 3.29 mg/100 g d.w. on average, respectively. It was demonstrated for the first time that mushrooms release zinc to artificial digestive juices imitating conditions in the human digestive tract and are a good source of this element.
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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Hubacek P, Hrdlickova A, Muzikova K, Briksi A, Zelezna I, Spacek M, Zajac M, Sedlacek P, Cetkovsky P, Stary J. Chromosomally integrated HHV-6 in healthy donor and patients treated for haematological malignancy. J Clin Virol 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.07.290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Krůtová M, Matějková J, Zajac M, Hubáček P, Nyč O. [Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infections: comparative study of two immuno enzyme assays with confirmation by PCR and culture followed by PCR ribotyping]. Epidemiol Mikrobiol Imunol 2014; 63:99-102. [PMID: 25025672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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STUDY OBJECTIVE Comparison of two commercially avail-able tests for the detection of Clostridium difficile Glutamate Dehydrogenase (GDH) and toxins A and B for their sensitivity and specificity. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighty-six stool samples from patients hospitalised in the Motol University Hospital were analysed. GDH and toxins A and B were assayed in parallel by two tests: C. difficile Quik Chek Complete® (Techlab, USA) and Liaison® C. difficile GDH and Toxins AαB (DiaSorin, USA). From the stool samples, nucleic acids were also isolated using the UltraClean® Fecal DNA kit (MoBio Laboratories, USA). The commercially available C. difficile Elite MGB® kit (Nanogen, Italy) was used for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Anaerobic culture on C. difficile selective medium (Oxoid) was performed for all positive samples at least in one test. Pure isolates were characterized by PCR ribotyping. RESULTS Thirty-six (42%) samples were GDH negative and toxin A/B negative by both tests. Twenty (23%) samples were GDH positive and toxin A/B positive by both tests. Nine (10%) samples were GDH positive and toxin negative by both tests, but were positive by PCR. Eleven (13%) samples that were GDH positive and toxin negative by both tests remained negative by PCR. Six (7%) samples only were GDH positive and toxin positive by the Liaison® test alone. Four (5%) samples were GDH-positive by theLiaison® test alone. Culture failure was observed in 11 (13%) samples, of which seven were positive by PCR. PCR was inhibited in five (6%) samples. The following toxigenic ribotypes: AI-3, 001, 002, 012,014, 017, 020, 049, 054, 078, 176, 203, and 413 and non-toxigenic ribotypes: AI-34, AI-61, 010, 485, 495, and 596 were identified. CONCLUSION The Liaison® test had seven percent higher sensitivity for the detection of toxins A/B. The two-step protocol of the tests is also cost-saving. The savings can be used e.g. for incorporating the PCR techniques into the diagnostic algorithm of the laboratory.
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Hubacek P, Mejstrikova E, Markova M, Kouba M, Kabickova E, Zajac M, Hornofova L, Keslova P, Sedlacek P, Cetkovsky P. Normalised EBV Quantity in Patients After Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – Benign Reactivation, Localised and Generalised EBV Lymphoproliferative Disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.12.427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bojar M, Zajac M, Meluzínova E, Houžvičková E, Libertinová J, Lišková P, Mat'oška V, Nyč O, Mináriková M. Treatment with azathioprine and cyclic methylprednisolone has little or no effect on bioactivity in anti-interferon beta antibody-positive patients with multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler 2010; 16:1529-30; author reply 1531-2. [DOI: 10.1177/1352458510382248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- M Bojar
- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic,
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, Hospital Na Homolce, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University Prague 2nd Medical School, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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Slezak T, Slezak M, Zajac M, Freindl K, Kozioł-Rachwał A, Matlak K, Spiridis N, Wilgocka-Slezak D, Partyka-Jankowska E, Rennhofer M, Chumakov AI, Stankov S, Rüffer R, Korecki J. Noncollinear magnetization structure at the thickness-driven spin-reorientation transition in epitaxial Fe films on W(110). Phys Rev Lett 2010; 105:027206. [PMID: 20867738 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.027206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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An in-plane spin-reorientation transition occurring during the growth of epitaxial Fe films on W(110) was studied in situ by using the nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation. The spin-reorientation transition originates at the Fe/W(110) interface and proceeds via a noncollinear spin structure resembling a planar domain wall that propagates towards the surface with increasing film thickness.
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- T Slezak
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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Tanic M, Zajac M, Rodriguez C, Andres R, Gomez G, Benitez J, Martinez-Delgado B. 683 MicroRNAs underexpressed in hereditary breast cancer target pathways involved in cell motility and proliferation. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)71480-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Zajac M, Tanic M, Gomez-Lopez G, Benitez J, Martinez-Delgado B. 37 Integration analysis between differentially expressed mRNA and miRNA induced by BRCA1 gene. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)70846-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Spacek M, Hubacek P, Markova J, Zajac M, Vernerova Z, Kozak T. Can we use EBV-DNA monitoring to predict disease relapse in EBV-positive hodgkin lymphoma patients? Acta Haematol 2010; 124:23-6. [PMID: 20606412 DOI: 10.1159/000313790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Accepted: 04/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Martin Spacek
- Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady and 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Hubacek P, Spacek M, Kamaradova K, Zajac M, Kabickova E, Mottl H, Markova J, Kozak T. PVIII-1 Detection of EBV DNA in patients with hodgkin lymphoma in the Czech Republic: frequency, quantity in plasma, whole blood and lymph node. J Clin Virol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1386-6532(09)70202-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Hubacek P, Boutolleau D, Deback C, Hrdlickova A, Conan F, Lelabousse B, Zajac M, Markova M, Keslova P, Agut H, Sedlacek P, Cetkovsky P. PIX-3 Cytomegalovirus (CMV) resistance to antivirals in children and adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients from the Czech Republic – a two centres experience. J Clin Virol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1386-6532(09)70208-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Stupakiewicz A, Maziewski A, Matlak K, Spiridis N, Slezak M, Slezak T, Zajac M, Korecki J. Tailoring of the perpendicular magnetization component in ferromagnetic films on a vicinal substrate. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 101:217202. [PMID: 19113447 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.217202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We have engineered the magnetic properties of 1-8 nm Co films epitaxially grown on an Au-buffered bifacial W(110)/W(540) single crystal. The surface of Au/W(110) was atomically flat, whereas the Au/W(540) followed the morphology of the vicinal W surface, showing a regular array of monoatomic steps. For Co grown on Au/W(540), the existence of the out-of-plane magnetization component extended strongly to a thickness d of about 8 nm, which was accompanied by an anomalous increase of the out-of-plane switching field with increasing d. In addition, the process of up-down magnetization switching could be realized with both a perpendicular and in-plane external magnetic field.
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- A Stupakiewicz
- Laboratory of Magnetism, University of Bialystok, Lipowa 41, 15-424 Bialystok, Poland
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Hubacek P, Hyncicova K, Muzikova K, Cinek O, Zajac M, Sedlacek P. Disappearance of pre-existing high HHV-6 DNA load in blood after allogeneic SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 2007; 40:805-6. [PMID: 17704794 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Slezak T, Łazewski J, Stankov S, Parlinski K, Reitinger R, Rennhofer M, Rüffer R, Sepiol B, Slezak M, Spiridis N, Zajac M, Chumakov AI, Korecki J. Phonons at the Fe(110) surface. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:066103. [PMID: 17930843 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.066103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The in-plane density of phonon states of clean Fe(110) surface was measured separately for the first, second, and further atomic monolayers using nuclear inelastic scattering of synchrotron radiation. The results show that atoms of the first layer vibrate with frequencies significantly lower and amplitudes much larger than those in the bulk, and that vibrational spectra along two perpendicular in-surface directions are different. The vibrations of the second layer are already very close to those of the bulk. The good agreement of the experimental results and the first-principles calculations allows for detailed understanding of the observed phenomena.
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- T Slezak
- Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Kraków, Poland
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Hubácek P, Cinek O, Kulich M, Zajac M, Keslová P, Formánková R, Starý J, Sedlácek P. [EBV quantification in children after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation]. Cas Lek Cesk 2006; 145:301-6. [PMID: 16639931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) are endangered by developing Epstein-Barr virus-related post-transplant lymfoprolipherative disease (EBV-LPD). The aims of the study were to retrospectively characterise the viral loads in four patients who died of this complication, and to test possible risk factors for EBV reactivation in a prospectively observed cohort of children after AHSCT. METHODS AND RESULTS Serial DNA samples extracted from whole blood from four patients who died of post-transplant EBV-LPD in year 2000 were retrospectively analysed for EBV load using quantitative real-time PCR. First detection of EBV activation preceded death by 24-91 days. All four patients exceeded a viral load of one million EBV copies per 100,000 human genome equivalents. A cohort of 72 children undergoing AHSCT between 2001-2004 was prospectively followed-on using the same quantification method from regularly obtained samples of whole blood, and clinical and laboratory data were recorded on a weekly basis, totalling at 3,896 person-weeks of observation. Approximately one half of the cohort experienced at least one episode of EBV reactivation during the first 100 days after AHSCT, four of the episodes being accompanied with viral loads higher than our provisional threshold of 10,000 copies per 100,000 human genome equivalents. Three of the four patients developed EBV-LPD and were successfully treated by intravenous administration of anti-CD20 antibody. Testing of possible clinical and laboratory predictors of EBV reactivation did not reveal any clinically useful association. CONCLUSIONS The cornerstone of predicting EBV-LPD in AHSCT is a regular monitoring of EBV viral load using quantitative methods. Using this strategy with a threshold of 10,000 EBV copies per 100,000 human genome equivalents was proved to be effective, as shown by no death of EBV for the study period, compared to four cases in the year before the quantitative monitoring.
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- P Hubácek
- Klinika dĕtské hematologie a onkologie 2, LF UK a FNM, Praha.
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This study sought to better estimate vernalisation in winter wheats, so that their early development and time of anthesis can be better predicted. For this, an accurate relationship between temperature and the effectiveness of vernalisation is required. Using previously published data, our study found that the relationship between temperature and effectiveness of vernalisation can be suitably described by a quadratic function. In contrast, most previous studies used linear interpolation functions to describe vernalising effectiveness. These consist of a series of linear functions of temperature over adjoining temperature ranges. An advantage of quadratic functions is that they allow effectiveness of vernalisation to be described in terms of underlying physiological processes, and require the estimation of fewer parameters to predict wheat development. Our study found the cardinal temperatures for vernalisation to be –3�C, 6.5�C, and 15.9�C, that is for the lower, optimum, and maximum temperatures respectively. To allow for different upper temperature limits for vernalisation, 2 quadratic temperature-vernalising effectiveness functions were used to predict accumulated daily vernalisation at 3 field sites. These predictions of daily vernalisation were compared with corresponding estimates produced with 3 previously proposed linear interpolation functions. Varying degrees of agreement were found between estimates produced by the 2 types of vernalising effectiveness functions. Equations that have been developed to predict floral initiation in winter wheats have not been previously evaluated in Australian field environments. These equations utilise the same underlying relationship between accumulated daily vernalisation and a measure of floral initiation, often the appearance of double ridges. Two of these equations were used to predict the appearance of double ridges for a field-grown Australian winter wheat, JF87%014. Neither equation could satisfactorily predict the timing of the double ridge development stage for this wheat, whatever vernalising effectiveness function was used to predict vernalisation in the field. Both equations had greatest difficulty in predicting the double ridge stage, in environments where vernalisation most delayed development. This finding suggests that equations currently predicting floral initiation in winter wheats do not utilise an accurate relationship between accumulated vernalisation and floral initiation. An alternative method of predicting anthesis in winter wheats is to predict final leaf number, but this approach has not been reliably applied in environments where vernalising temperatures vary.
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Zajac K, Zajac M, Ciacma A, Langie T, Golabek A. Multifactorial treatment of postdural puncture headache (PDPH) is more effective than monotherapy with caffeine or magnesium (DS24). Br J Anaesth 2002. [DOI: 10.1093/bja/89s10026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Zajac M, Zajac K. Effectiveness of intrathecally administered Ropivacaine vs Bupivacaine with morphine and/or adrenalin in elderly patients (DS25). Br J Anaesth 2002. [DOI: 10.1093/bja/89s10026a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Zajac M, Musiał W, Dederko A. Stability of cefodizime disodium in solid state. ACTA POLONIAE PHARMACEUTICA 2001; 58:245-8. [PMID: 11693727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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The stability of the lyophilized substance of cefodizime disodium was investigated. The test for the stability in solid state with and without presence of humidity was arried out by the HPLC method. Kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the decomposition reaction were calculated.
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- M Zajac
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Zajac M, Musiał W, Jelińska A, Stanisz B. Stability of cetirizine dihydrochloride in solid state. Acta Pol Pharm 2001; 58:21-3. [PMID: 11370282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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Influence of temperature and relative humidity on stability of cetirizine dihydrochloride in solid state was followed by HPLC method in this study.
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- M Zajac
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, 6 Grunwaldzka Str., 60-780 Poznań, Poland
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Zajac M, Musiał W, Pawłowski L. Stability of cefotaxime sodium in solid state. Pharmazie 2000; 55:917-8. [PMID: 11189867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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The influence of temperature and relative humidity on the stability of cefotaxime sodium in the solid state was investigated. Changes in the concentration of cefotaxime sodium were followed by a HPLC method with UV detection. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the decomposition reaction were calculated.
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- M Zajac
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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We argue that energy minimization can explain the pattern of cell movements in the morphogenetic process known as convergent extension provided that the cell-cell adhesive energy has a certain type of anisotropy, which we describe. This single simple property suffices to cause the cell elongation, cell alignment, and lengthening of a cellular array that characterize convergent extension. We show that the final aspect ratio of the array of cells depends on the anisotropy and is independent of the initial configuration and of the degree of cell elongation.
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- M Zajac
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
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Muszalska I, Zajac M, Wróbel G, Nogowska M. UV/VIS spectrophotometric methods for determination of caffeine and phenylephrine hydrochloride in complex pharmaceutical preparations. Validation of the methods. Acta Pol Pharm 2000; 57:247-52. [PMID: 11126610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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The contents of active substances were determined in a preparation TP-4 (tablets) containing paracetamol, ascorbic acid, caffeine and phenylephrine hydrochloride. For determination of caffeine and phenylephrine hydrochloride, UV/VIS spectrophotometric method was used. The VIS spectrophotometric method based on the reaction of phenylephrine with ninhydrine in sulphuric acid (1.127 kg/l). Validation of methods performed for model mixtures proved those methods were accurate, precise, repeatable and linear in the range from 50% to 150% of the amount declared in the preparation. The content of caffeine and phenylephrine hydrochloride in TP-4, Thompyrin, Panadol Extra, Ring N satisfies the FP V demands.
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- I Muszalska
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Science, 6 Grunwaldzka Str., 60-780 Poznań, Poland
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Zajac M, Engelhard K, Schuhmann R. [Spondylodiscitis with presacral abscesses caused by fistulization in Crohn's disease of the small intestine]. Rontgenpraxis 2000; 52:340-2. [PMID: 10803046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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- M Zajac
- Abteilung für diagnostische Radiologie des Krankenhauses Martha-Maria, Nürnberg
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Jelińska A, Stanisz B, Zajac M, Musiał W, Ostrowicz A. Determination of cetirizine dichloride in tablets by HPLC method. Acta Pol Pharm 2000; 57:171-3. [PMID: 11143704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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A HPLC method for the determination of the cetirizine dichloride in tablets was developed and validated. The determination was performed with a LiChrosorb RP-18 column, mobile phase of KH2PO4 (0.01 mol/l)--acetonitrile 65:35 (v/v), flow rate: 2 ml.min-1, UV detection at 230 nm and methyl paraben as an internal standard.
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- A Jelińska
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, 6 Grunwaldzka Str., 60-780 Poznań, Poland
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Muszalska I, Zajac M, Wróbel G, Nogowska M. Redox methods validation of paracetamol and ascorbic acid in pharmaceutical preparations. Acta Pol Pharm 2000; 57:27-32. [PMID: 10846794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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The contents of active substances were determined in a preparation TP-4 (tablets) containing paracetamol, ascorbic acid, caffeine and phenylephrine hydrochloride. For the determination of paracetamol and ascorbic acid a non-specific (cerometric and titration of 2,6-dichloroindophenol) method based on a redox reaction was used. Validation of the methods, performed on model mixtures, proved those methods to be accurate, precise, reproducible and linear within the range from 50% to 150% of the amount declared in the preparation. The content of paracetamol and ascorbic acid in TP-4, Thompayrin, Panadol Extra, Ring N, Polopiryna C, Efferalgan Vitamin C and Vitaminum C 0.2 satisfies the FP V demands (+/- 10% of the declared amount).
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- I Muszalska
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Zajac M, Siwek J, Muszalska I. The mechanism of ceftazidime degradation in aqueous solutions. Acta Pol Pharm 1998; 55:275-8. [PMID: 9821392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
Abstract
Degradation of ceftazidime in aqueous solutions was studied at 298 K in acidic, basic and neutral conditions. The subsequent stage of hydrolysis involved the hydrolysis of the group at C-3, opening of the beta-lactam ring, and epimerization at C-6 or C-7. The decomposition of ceftazidime and the formation and identification of product C (pyridine) was followed by HPLC.
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- M Zajac
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Dolf G, Schläpfer J, Parfitt C, Schelling C, Zajac M, Switonski M, Ladon D. Assignment of the canine microsatellite CanBern1 to canine chromosome 13q21. Anim Genet 1997; 28:156-7. [PMID: 9172324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- G Dolf
- Institute of Animal Breeding, University of Berne, Switzerland
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