I am a lecturer at China Three Gorges University. I got my doctor degree in Sichuan International Studies University. I am a member of the Chinese Association of Cognitive Poetics and Cognitive Literary Studies. My research interests include cognitive poetics, cognitive literary studies, cognitive approaches to Shakespeare.
Cognitive poetics and cognitive literary studies are two main literary paradigms originated from ... more Cognitive poetics and cognitive literary studies are two main literary paradigms originated from the age of Cognitive Science, which aim to color the traditional discourse of literary criticism with concepts, theories and methods from cognitive studies and to explore new topics and fields of literary studies through the adjustment of perspective. Cognitive Literary Studies are currently facing some challenges theoretically and practically, but the extensive interdisciplinary background has been providing a steady stream of fresh blood for its flourishment, thus enables cognitive literary scholars to reveal new connotations of literary works, reshape the overall map of literary studies, and enhance the significance of literary research by resetting the focus on human mind. As the most correlated realm between traditional literary research and cognitive studies, affective literary studies is expected to be the next academic growth point of cognitive approaches to literature.
Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2020
The “truth universally acknowledged” and the abnormal arrangement of main characters in Austen's ... more The “truth universally acknowledged” and the abnormal arrangement of main characters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice exhibit an implicit relation with the following plot development． To explore this kind of relationship，Palmer's“Middlemarch mind” was borrowed and the close reading method was employed．A social cognitive analysis of Pride and Prejudice finds that a kind of group mind，the Longbourn mind，is constructed in the earlier chapters． The Longbourn mind provides a cognitive ecology for Darcy's assumed pride and Elizabeth's prejudice on Darcy． The wrong judgment that“Darcy is pride”is caused by the bind Longbourn Mind，and then accepted by Elizabeth under her family members and friends' intentional or unintentional emphasis． Elizabeth's prejudice on Darcy is also formed and reinforced by the Longbourn Mind and the Longbourn individuals．The happy ending of Pride and Prejudice shows that only by stepping out of the Longbourn village and getting rid of the bondage of the Longbourn Mind can Elizabeth truly know what kind of person Darcy is and marry him．
Recently, the rapid development in Cognitive Literary Studies has bring about anxieties and skept... more Recently, the rapid development in Cognitive Literary Studies has bring about anxieties and skepticism among scholars both at home and abroad. Some scholars abroad scold cognitive literary studies for its blindness to tradition, the potential backfires of eclecticism, new essentialism, and reductionist teleological thinking; while some domestic scholars also adopt a skeptical attitude to the"Cognitive Turn". Their anxieties and skepticism can be attributed to two aspects: for one thing, due to the gaps or contradictions between the two cultures of humanities and sciences, some people know little about Cognitive Science and Cognitive Literary Studies, thus have a prejudice against this area; for another, Cognitive Literary Studies exhibits some temporary flaws in the early stage of its development, which leads to some scholars' skepticism. The analysis shows that their skepticism towards Cognitive Literary Studies is, in fact, excessive anxieties on newborn things. Cognitive Literary Studies drawing insights and methods from Cognitive Science aims to answer literary questions and solve literary problems. It approaches literature from "cognition" and promotes traditional literary studies. The "cognitive turn" in literary studies provides a new road for literary studies out of the "post-theory" dilemma, rather than makes literature "literarinessless".
Anderson, Miranda, Douglas Cairns, and Mark Sprevak, eds. Distributed
Cognition in Classical Ant... more Anderson, Miranda, Douglas Cairns, and Mark Sprevak, eds. Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 294pp. Patrick Colm Hogan announced in 2002 that “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles have come to dominate what are arguably the most intellectually exciting academic fields today” (1). Today, what dominates those “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles” is likely to be Distributed Cognition. The term was initially addressed by Edwin Hutchin in Cognition in the Wild (1995) and currently has been developed to encompass an intertwined group of theories including embodied cognition, embedded cognition, extended cognition, and enactive cognition (together also called “4E Cognition”). The distributed views of cognition generally hold that mind is “spread out over the brain, the non-neural body and an environment consisting of objects, tools other artefacts, texts, individuals, groups and/or social/institutional structures” (Hutchin 2). Over the past two decades, the notion has become a key tenet of cognitive studies in the humanities and has been practiced by an ever-increasing number of scholars such as Karin Kukkonen, who applies theories of distributed cognition to literature in 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet (2019). In spite of that, there is so far no work comparable to The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition series, ambitiously edited by Miranda Anderson and Douglas Cairns, who solicit “scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to track the notions of distributed cognition in a wide range of historical, cultural and literary contexts from antiquity through to the twentieth century” (x). The series is composed of 4 volumes: Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, and Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism.
Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds., Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Cul... more Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds., Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, xii+364 pp.,£125.00 hardback.
This paper reports a novel amphoteric aliphatic polycarbonate bearing both amine and carboxyl gro... more This paper reports a novel amphoteric aliphatic polycarbonate bearing both amine and carboxyl groups. In the absence of protection-deprotection chemistry, the multi-functionalized copolymer is synthesized by one-step enzymatic copolymerization. The influences of the reaction conditions including monomer feed ratio and polymerization time are explored. The simultaneous incorporation of amine and carboxyl functionalities provides the copolymer with a pH-tunable self-aggregation feature, leading to various aggregation states including precipitated agglomerate, well-dispersed positively or negatively charged nanoparticles in a controlled manner. The copolymer displays minimal cytotoxicity to 293T and HeLa cells.
This paper reports a drug nanovehicle self-assembled from an amine-functionalized block copolymer... more This paper reports a drug nanovehicle self-assembled from an amine-functionalized block copolymer poly(6,14-dimethyl-1,3,9,11-tetraoxa-6,14-diaza-cyclohexadecane-2,10-dione)-block-poly(1,3-dioxepan-2-one) (PADMC-b-PTeMC), which is prepared by controlable ring-opening block copolymerization attractively in a "one-shot feeding" pathway. The copolymers display high cell-biocompatibility with no apparent cytotoxicities detected in 293T and HeLa cells. Due to their amphiphilic nature, PADMC-b-PTeMC copolymers can self-assemble into nanosized micelles capable of loading anticancer drugs such as camptothecin (CPT) and doxorubicin (DOX). In particular, the outer PADMC shell endows the PADMC-b-PTeMC nanomicelles with pH-dependent control over the micellar morphology, cell uptake efficiency, and the drug release pattern. Confocal inspection reveals the remarkably enhanced cellular internalization of drug loaded micelles by cancerous HeLa cells at relatively lower pH 5.8 simulating the mildly acid microenvironment in tumors. Along with the acidity-triggered volume expansion of micelles, an accelerated CPT release in vitro occurs. The obtained results adumbrate the possibility of completely biodegradable PADMC-b-PTeMC as pH-sensitive drug carriers for tumor chemotherapy.
ABSTRACTDetection of cytosolic nucleic acids by pattern recognition receptors leads to the induct... more ABSTRACTDetection of cytosolic nucleic acids by pattern recognition receptors leads to the induction of type I interferons (IFNs) and elicits the innate immune response. We report here the identification of RIOK3 as a novel adaptor protein that is essential for the cytosolic nucleic acid-induced type I IFN production and for the antiviral response to gammaherpesvirus through two independent kinome-wide RNA interference screens. RIOK3 knockdown blocks both cytosolic double-stranded B-form DNA and double-stranded RNA-induced IRF3 activation and IFN-β production. In contrast, the overexpression of RIOK3 activates IRF3 and induces IFN-β. RIOK3 functions downstream of TBK1 and upstream of IRF3 activation. Furthermore, RIOK3 physically interacts with both IRF3 and TBK1 and is necessary for the interaction between TBK1 and IRF3. In addition, global transcriptome analysis shows that the expression of many gene involved antiviral responses is dependent on RIOK3. Thus, knockdown of RIOK3 inhi...
How cellular factors regulate gammaherpesvirus lytic replication is not well understood. Here, th... more How cellular factors regulate gammaherpesvirus lytic replication is not well understood. Here, through functional screening of a cellular kinase expression library, we identified mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 8 (MAP3K8/Tpl2) as a positive regulator of murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68 or gammaHV-68) lytic gene expression and replication. Tpl2 enhances MHV-68 lytic replication by upregulating lytic gene expression and promoter activities of viral lytic genes, including RTA and open reading frame 57 (ORF57). By screening a cellular transcription factor library, we identified the Fos AP-1 transcription factor as a downstream factor that is both necessary and sufficient for mediating the enhancement of MHV-68 lytic replication by Tpl2. In addition, Tpl2 stimulates the promoter activities of key viral lytic genes, including RTA and ORF57, in an AP-1-dependent manner. We identified an AP-1-responsive element on the MHV-68 RTA promoter as the cis element mediating the upregulation of RTA promoter activity by Tpl2. MHV-68 lytic infection upregulates Fos expression, AP-1 activity, and RTA promoter activity in a Tpl2-dependent manner. We constructed a mutant MHV-68 virus that abolished this AP-1-responsive element. This mutant virus exhibited attenuated lytic replication kinetics, indicative of a critical role of this AP-1-responsive element during lytic replication. Moreover, Tpl2 knockdown inhibited the lytic replication of wild-type MHV-68 (MHV-68-WT) but not that of the MHV-68 mutant virus, indicating that endogenous Tpl2 promotes efficient virus lytic replication through AP-1-dependent upregulation of RTA expression. In summary, through tandem functional screens, we identified the Tpl2/AP-1 signaling transduction pathway as a positive regulator of MHV-68 lytic replication.
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 2009
Fabrication of annular photonic crystals by atomic layer deposition and sacrificial etching. [Jou... more Fabrication of annular photonic crystals by atomic layer deposition and sacrificial etching. [Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 27, 568 (2009)]. Junbo Feng, Yao Chen, John ...
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid... more Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils caused by a point mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) gene. TTR amyloidosis is linked to a vast number of mutations with varying phenotype and tissue distribution. Several Chinese kindred with FAP type 1 have been reported in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Here, histopathological features and TTR gene polymorphism were analyzed by using autopsy and blood specimens from a Chinese proband of a family with FAP. This proband is a 34-year old man with FAP type 1 who developed motor, sensory and autonomic impairments with neuropathy, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and orthostatic hypotension. Genetic findings of TTR revealed a T to C transition in codon 30 causing the mutation TTR Ala30. This patient died of respiratory and circulatory failure 7 years after onset. Autopsy showed heavy amyloid deposition in the peripheral nerves, liver, testes, thyroid, pancreas and muscles. There was moderate deposition in the heart, kidneys, bladder, gastrointestinal tract, tongue, lung, blood vessels, and gall bladder. The spleen showed only slight deposition, and none was observed in the central nervous system. TTR amyloidosis was confirmed by immunochemical staining with a specific TTR antibody. These results indicate that the distribution of amyloid deposition, (i.e., heavy in the liver, testes and slight in the spleen), is a characteristic feature and reflects the severity of FAP with TTR Val30Ala.
Cognitive poetics and cognitive literary studies are two main literary paradigms originated from ... more Cognitive poetics and cognitive literary studies are two main literary paradigms originated from the age of Cognitive Science, which aim to color the traditional discourse of literary criticism with concepts, theories and methods from cognitive studies and to explore new topics and fields of literary studies through the adjustment of perspective. Cognitive Literary Studies are currently facing some challenges theoretically and practically, but the extensive interdisciplinary background has been providing a steady stream of fresh blood for its flourishment, thus enables cognitive literary scholars to reveal new connotations of literary works, reshape the overall map of literary studies, and enhance the significance of literary research by resetting the focus on human mind. As the most correlated realm between traditional literary research and cognitive studies, affective literary studies is expected to be the next academic growth point of cognitive approaches to literature.
Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2020
The “truth universally acknowledged” and the abnormal arrangement of main characters in Austen's ... more The “truth universally acknowledged” and the abnormal arrangement of main characters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice exhibit an implicit relation with the following plot development． To explore this kind of relationship，Palmer's“Middlemarch mind” was borrowed and the close reading method was employed．A social cognitive analysis of Pride and Prejudice finds that a kind of group mind，the Longbourn mind，is constructed in the earlier chapters． The Longbourn mind provides a cognitive ecology for Darcy's assumed pride and Elizabeth's prejudice on Darcy． The wrong judgment that“Darcy is pride”is caused by the bind Longbourn Mind，and then accepted by Elizabeth under her family members and friends' intentional or unintentional emphasis． Elizabeth's prejudice on Darcy is also formed and reinforced by the Longbourn Mind and the Longbourn individuals．The happy ending of Pride and Prejudice shows that only by stepping out of the Longbourn village and getting rid of the bondage of the Longbourn Mind can Elizabeth truly know what kind of person Darcy is and marry him．
Recently, the rapid development in Cognitive Literary Studies has bring about anxieties and skept... more Recently, the rapid development in Cognitive Literary Studies has bring about anxieties and skepticism among scholars both at home and abroad. Some scholars abroad scold cognitive literary studies for its blindness to tradition, the potential backfires of eclecticism, new essentialism, and reductionist teleological thinking; while some domestic scholars also adopt a skeptical attitude to the"Cognitive Turn". Their anxieties and skepticism can be attributed to two aspects: for one thing, due to the gaps or contradictions between the two cultures of humanities and sciences, some people know little about Cognitive Science and Cognitive Literary Studies, thus have a prejudice against this area; for another, Cognitive Literary Studies exhibits some temporary flaws in the early stage of its development, which leads to some scholars' skepticism. The analysis shows that their skepticism towards Cognitive Literary Studies is, in fact, excessive anxieties on newborn things. Cognitive Literary Studies drawing insights and methods from Cognitive Science aims to answer literary questions and solve literary problems. It approaches literature from "cognition" and promotes traditional literary studies. The "cognitive turn" in literary studies provides a new road for literary studies out of the "post-theory" dilemma, rather than makes literature "literarinessless".
Anderson, Miranda, Douglas Cairns, and Mark Sprevak, eds. Distributed
Cognition in Classical Ant... more Anderson, Miranda, Douglas Cairns, and Mark Sprevak, eds. Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 294pp. Patrick Colm Hogan announced in 2002 that “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles have come to dominate what are arguably the most intellectually exciting academic fields today” (1). Today, what dominates those “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles” is likely to be Distributed Cognition. The term was initially addressed by Edwin Hutchin in Cognition in the Wild (1995) and currently has been developed to encompass an intertwined group of theories including embodied cognition, embedded cognition, extended cognition, and enactive cognition (together also called “4E Cognition”). The distributed views of cognition generally hold that mind is “spread out over the brain, the non-neural body and an environment consisting of objects, tools other artefacts, texts, individuals, groups and/or social/institutional structures” (Hutchin 2). Over the past two decades, the notion has become a key tenet of cognitive studies in the humanities and has been practiced by an ever-increasing number of scholars such as Karin Kukkonen, who applies theories of distributed cognition to literature in 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet (2019). In spite of that, there is so far no work comparable to The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition series, ambitiously edited by Miranda Anderson and Douglas Cairns, who solicit “scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to track the notions of distributed cognition in a wide range of historical, cultural and literary contexts from antiquity through to the twentieth century” (x). The series is composed of 4 volumes: Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, and Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism.
Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds., Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Cul... more Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds., Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, xii+364 pp.,£125.00 hardback.
This paper reports a novel amphoteric aliphatic polycarbonate bearing both amine and carboxyl gro... more This paper reports a novel amphoteric aliphatic polycarbonate bearing both amine and carboxyl groups. In the absence of protection-deprotection chemistry, the multi-functionalized copolymer is synthesized by one-step enzymatic copolymerization. The influences of the reaction conditions including monomer feed ratio and polymerization time are explored. The simultaneous incorporation of amine and carboxyl functionalities provides the copolymer with a pH-tunable self-aggregation feature, leading to various aggregation states including precipitated agglomerate, well-dispersed positively or negatively charged nanoparticles in a controlled manner. The copolymer displays minimal cytotoxicity to 293T and HeLa cells.
This paper reports a drug nanovehicle self-assembled from an amine-functionalized block copolymer... more This paper reports a drug nanovehicle self-assembled from an amine-functionalized block copolymer poly(6,14-dimethyl-1,3,9,11-tetraoxa-6,14-diaza-cyclohexadecane-2,10-dione)-block-poly(1,3-dioxepan-2-one) (PADMC-b-PTeMC), which is prepared by controlable ring-opening block copolymerization attractively in a "one-shot feeding" pathway. The copolymers display high cell-biocompatibility with no apparent cytotoxicities detected in 293T and HeLa cells. Due to their amphiphilic nature, PADMC-b-PTeMC copolymers can self-assemble into nanosized micelles capable of loading anticancer drugs such as camptothecin (CPT) and doxorubicin (DOX). In particular, the outer PADMC shell endows the PADMC-b-PTeMC nanomicelles with pH-dependent control over the micellar morphology, cell uptake efficiency, and the drug release pattern. Confocal inspection reveals the remarkably enhanced cellular internalization of drug loaded micelles by cancerous HeLa cells at relatively lower pH 5.8 simulating the mildly acid microenvironment in tumors. Along with the acidity-triggered volume expansion of micelles, an accelerated CPT release in vitro occurs. The obtained results adumbrate the possibility of completely biodegradable PADMC-b-PTeMC as pH-sensitive drug carriers for tumor chemotherapy.
ABSTRACTDetection of cytosolic nucleic acids by pattern recognition receptors leads to the induct... more ABSTRACTDetection of cytosolic nucleic acids by pattern recognition receptors leads to the induction of type I interferons (IFNs) and elicits the innate immune response. We report here the identification of RIOK3 as a novel adaptor protein that is essential for the cytosolic nucleic acid-induced type I IFN production and for the antiviral response to gammaherpesvirus through two independent kinome-wide RNA interference screens. RIOK3 knockdown blocks both cytosolic double-stranded B-form DNA and double-stranded RNA-induced IRF3 activation and IFN-β production. In contrast, the overexpression of RIOK3 activates IRF3 and induces IFN-β. RIOK3 functions downstream of TBK1 and upstream of IRF3 activation. Furthermore, RIOK3 physically interacts with both IRF3 and TBK1 and is necessary for the interaction between TBK1 and IRF3. In addition, global transcriptome analysis shows that the expression of many gene involved antiviral responses is dependent on RIOK3. Thus, knockdown of RIOK3 inhi...
How cellular factors regulate gammaherpesvirus lytic replication is not well understood. Here, th... more How cellular factors regulate gammaherpesvirus lytic replication is not well understood. Here, through functional screening of a cellular kinase expression library, we identified mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 8 (MAP3K8/Tpl2) as a positive regulator of murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68 or gammaHV-68) lytic gene expression and replication. Tpl2 enhances MHV-68 lytic replication by upregulating lytic gene expression and promoter activities of viral lytic genes, including RTA and open reading frame 57 (ORF57). By screening a cellular transcription factor library, we identified the Fos AP-1 transcription factor as a downstream factor that is both necessary and sufficient for mediating the enhancement of MHV-68 lytic replication by Tpl2. In addition, Tpl2 stimulates the promoter activities of key viral lytic genes, including RTA and ORF57, in an AP-1-dependent manner. We identified an AP-1-responsive element on the MHV-68 RTA promoter as the cis element mediating the upregulation of RTA promoter activity by Tpl2. MHV-68 lytic infection upregulates Fos expression, AP-1 activity, and RTA promoter activity in a Tpl2-dependent manner. We constructed a mutant MHV-68 virus that abolished this AP-1-responsive element. This mutant virus exhibited attenuated lytic replication kinetics, indicative of a critical role of this AP-1-responsive element during lytic replication. Moreover, Tpl2 knockdown inhibited the lytic replication of wild-type MHV-68 (MHV-68-WT) but not that of the MHV-68 mutant virus, indicating that endogenous Tpl2 promotes efficient virus lytic replication through AP-1-dependent upregulation of RTA expression. In summary, through tandem functional screens, we identified the Tpl2/AP-1 signaling transduction pathway as a positive regulator of MHV-68 lytic replication.
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 2009
Fabrication of annular photonic crystals by atomic layer deposition and sacrificial etching. [Jou... more Fabrication of annular photonic crystals by atomic layer deposition and sacrificial etching. [Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 27, 568 (2009)]. Junbo Feng, Yao Chen, John ...
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid... more Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils caused by a point mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) gene. TTR amyloidosis is linked to a vast number of mutations with varying phenotype and tissue distribution. Several Chinese kindred with FAP type 1 have been reported in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Here, histopathological features and TTR gene polymorphism were analyzed by using autopsy and blood specimens from a Chinese proband of a family with FAP. This proband is a 34-year old man with FAP type 1 who developed motor, sensory and autonomic impairments with neuropathy, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and orthostatic hypotension. Genetic findings of TTR revealed a T to C transition in codon 30 causing the mutation TTR Ala30. This patient died of respiratory and circulatory failure 7 years after onset. Autopsy showed heavy amyloid deposition in the peripheral nerves, liver, testes, thyroid, pancreas and muscles. There was moderate deposition in the heart, kidneys, bladder, gastrointestinal tract, tongue, lung, blood vessels, and gall bladder. The spleen showed only slight deposition, and none was observed in the central nervous system. TTR amyloidosis was confirmed by immunochemical staining with a specific TTR antibody. These results indicate that the distribution of amyloid deposition, (i.e., heavy in the liver, testes and slight in the spleen), is a characteristic feature and reflects the severity of FAP with TTR Val30Ala.
Thermoelectric has long been recognized as a potentially transformative energy conversion technol... more Thermoelectric has long been recognized as a potentially transformative energy conversion technology due to its ability to convert heat directly into electricity. However, how to optimize the three interdependent thermoelectric parameters (i.e., electrical conductivity σ, Seebeck coefficient S, and thermal conductivity κ) for improving thermoelectric properties is still challenging. Here, we put forward for the first time the semiconductor-superionic conductor phase transition as a new and effective way to selectively optimize the thermoelectric power factor based on the modulation of the electric transport property across the phase transition. Ultra low value of thermal conductivity was successfully retained over the whole investigated temperature range through the reduction of grain size. As a result, taking monodisperse Ag(2)Se nanocrystals for an example, the maximized ZT value can be achieved around the temperature of phase transition. Furthermore, along with the effective scattering of short-wavelength phonons by atomic defects created by alloying, the alloyed ternary silver chalcogenide compounds, monodisperse Ag(4)SeS nanocrystals, show better ZT value around phase transition temperature, which is cooperatively contributed by superionic phase transition and alloying at nanoscale.
With the rapid development of portable electronics, such as e-paper and other flexible devices, p... more With the rapid development of portable electronics, such as e-paper and other flexible devices, practical power sources with ultrathin geometries become an important prerequisite, in which supercapacitors with in-plane configurations are recently emerging as a favorable and competitive candidate. As is known, electrode materials with two-dimensional (2D) permeable channels, high-conductivity structural scaffolds, and high specific surface areas are the indispensible requirements for the development of in-plane supercapacitors with superior performance, while it is difficult for the presently available inorganic materials to make the best in all aspects. In this sense, vanadium disulfide (VS(2)) presents an ideal material platform due to its synergic properties of metallic nature and exfoliative characteristic brought by the conducting S-V-S layers stacked up by weak van der Waals interlayer interactions, offering great potential as high-performance in-plane supercapacitor electrodes. Herein, we developed a unique ammonia-assisted strategy to exfoliate bulk VS(2) flakes into ultrathin VS(2) nanosheets stacked with less than five S-V-S single layers, representing a brand new two-dimensional material having metallic behavior aside from graphene. Moreover, highly conductive VS(2) thin films were successfully assembled for constructing the electrodes of in-plane supercapacitors. As is expected, a specific capacitance of 4760 μF/cm(2) was realized here in a 150 nm in-plane configuration, of which no obvious degradation was observed even after 1000 charge/discharge cycles, offering as a new in-plane supercapacitor with high performance based on quasi-two-dimensional materials.
The existence of lots of similar characters is a key factor affecting classification performance ... more The existence of lots of similar characters is a key factor affecting classification performance of off-line handwritten Chinese characters recognition. This paper studies on handwritten similar Chinese characters recognition problem based on support vector machines. The features of normalized Chinese character are extracted by the method of wavelet transform and elastic meshing. The classification performances of similar Chinese characters are
A polymerizable monomer, diphenylamine (DPAn), is reported to act as a safety electrolyte additiv... more A polymerizable monomer, diphenylamine (DPAn), is reported to act as a safety electrolyte additive for overcharge protection of 3.6V-class lithium ion batteries. The experimental results demonstrated that the DPAn monomer could be electro-polymerized to form a conductive polymer bridging between the cathode and anode of the battery, and to produce an internal current bypass to prevent the batteries from voltage
Dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP) was selected and tested as a non-flammable solvent for primary... more Dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP) was selected and tested as a non-flammable solvent for primary and secondary lithium batteries, because of its non-flammability, good solvency of lithium salts and appropriate liquidus properties. Experimental results demonstrated that DMMP can solvate considerable amount of commonly used lithium salts to form non-flammable and Li+-conducting electrolyte, which has very wide electrochemical window (>5V vs. Li)
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Cognition in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 294pp.
Patrick Colm Hogan announced in 2002 that “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles have come to dominate what are arguably
the most intellectually exciting academic fields today” (1). Today, what
dominates those “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles” is likely
to be Distributed Cognition. The term was initially addressed by Edwin
Hutchin in Cognition in the Wild (1995) and currently has been developed
to encompass an intertwined group of theories including embodied cognition, embedded cognition, extended cognition, and enactive cognition
(together also called “4E Cognition”). The distributed views of cognition
generally hold that mind is “spread out over the brain, the non-neural
body and an environment consisting of objects, tools other artefacts, texts,
individuals, groups and/or social/institutional structures” (Hutchin 2).
Over the past two decades, the notion has become a key tenet of cognitive
studies in the humanities and has been practiced by an ever-increasing
number of scholars such as Karin Kukkonen, who applies theories of
distributed cognition to literature in 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century
Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet (2019). In spite of that, there is so far
no work comparable to The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition
series, ambitiously edited by Miranda Anderson and Douglas Cairns,
who solicit “scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to track the
notions of distributed cognition in a wide range of historical, cultural and
literary contexts from antiquity through to the twentieth century” (x). The
series is composed of 4 volumes: Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, and Distributed Cognition
in Victorian Culture and Modernism.
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Cognition in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 294pp.
Patrick Colm Hogan announced in 2002 that “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles have come to dominate what are arguably
the most intellectually exciting academic fields today” (1). Today, what
dominates those “cognitivist methods, topics, and principles” is likely
to be Distributed Cognition. The term was initially addressed by Edwin
Hutchin in Cognition in the Wild (1995) and currently has been developed
to encompass an intertwined group of theories including embodied cognition, embedded cognition, extended cognition, and enactive cognition
(together also called “4E Cognition”). The distributed views of cognition
generally hold that mind is “spread out over the brain, the non-neural
body and an environment consisting of objects, tools other artefacts, texts,
individuals, groups and/or social/institutional structures” (Hutchin 2).
Over the past two decades, the notion has become a key tenet of cognitive
studies in the humanities and has been practiced by an ever-increasing
number of scholars such as Karin Kukkonen, who applies theories of
distributed cognition to literature in 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century
Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet (2019). In spite of that, there is so far
no work comparable to The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition
series, ambitiously edited by Miranda Anderson and Douglas Cairns,
who solicit “scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to track the
notions of distributed cognition in a wide range of historical, cultural and
literary contexts from antiquity through to the twentieth century” (x). The
series is composed of 4 volumes: Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, and Distributed Cognition
in Victorian Culture and Modernism.