An Artificial Autonomic Nervous System That Implements Heart and Pupil as Controlled by Artificial Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nerves

The autonomic nervous system maintains homeostasis in organisms through complex neural pathways and responds adaptively to changes in the external and internal environment. The fabrication of an artificial autonomic nervous system is reported that replicates combined effects of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves on cardiac activity and pupillary control, to mimic the regulation of autonomic nervous system to external changes. The artificial autonomic nerve-controlled pupil contraction and relaxation, modulating the rate of heartbeats for normal cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia as reflected by blink rates of a signal indicator. These functions are switched by using a parallel-channeled synaptic transistor with a special n-i-p heterostructure that has a 2D h-BN insulator in the middle to provide barrier against ion injection into the 2D MoS₂ bottom n-channel and enable short-term plasticity as induced by acetylcholine, and the electrochemical doping reaction occurred at the P3HT nanowire p-channels on top to enable relatively long-term plasticity as induced by noradrenaline. Low-energy consumption down to femtojoule and an ultrahigh paired-pulse facilitation index up to ≈455% are demonstrated. An artificial neural network based on device characteristics achieves a high recognition accuracy for electrocardiogram patterns. This study extends insights into artificial nerves-inspired biological signal processing and recognition.     

Origin of Hole-Trapping States in Solution-Processed Copper(I) Thiocyanate and Defect-Healing by I2 Doping

Solution-processed copper(I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) typically exhibits low crystallinity with short-range order; the defects result in a high density of trap states that limit the device's performance. Despite the extensive electronic applications of CuSCN, its defect properties are not understood in detail. Through X-ray absorption spectroscopy, pristine CuSCN prepared from the standard diethyl sulfide-based recipe is found to contain under-coordinated Cu atoms, pointing to the presence of SCN⁻ vacancies. A defect passivation strategy is introduced by adding solid I₂ to the processing solution. At small concentrations, the iodine is found to exist as I⁻ which can substitute for the missing SCN⁻ ligand, effectively healing the defective sites and restoring the coordination around Cu. Computational study results also verify this point. Applying I₂-doped CuSCN as a p-channel in thin-film transistors shows that the hole mobility increases by more than five times at the optimal doping concentration of 0.5 mol.%. Importantly, the on/off current ratio and the subthreshold characteristics also improve as the I₂ doping method leads to the defect-healing effect while avoiding the creation of detrimental impurity states. An analysis of the capacitance-voltage characteristics corroborates that the trap state density is reduced upon I₂ addition.     

Biomolecules-Incorporated Metal-Organic Frameworks Gated Light-Sensitive Organic Photoelectrochemical Transistor for Biodetection

Incorporating biomolecules into metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as exoskeletons to form biomolecules-MOFs biohybrids has attracted great attention as an emerging class of advanced materials. Organic devices have been shown as powerful platforms for next-generation bioelectronics, such as wearable biosensors, tissue engineering constructs, and neural interfaces. Herein, biomolecules-incorporated MOFs as innovative gating module is realized for the first time, which is exemplified by biocatalytic precipitation (BCP)-oriented horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-embedded zeolitic imidazolate framework-90 (HRP@ZIF-90)/CdIn₂S₄ gated organic photoelectrochemical transistor under light illumination. In connection to a sandwich immunocomplexing targeting the model analyte human IgG, the IgG-dependent generation of H₂O₂ and the tandem HRP-triggered BCP reaction can cause the in situ blocking of the pore network of ZIF-90, leading to variant gating effect with corresponding responses of the device. This representative biodetection achieved good analytical performance with a wide linear range and a low detection limit of 100 fg mL⁻¹. In the view of the plentiful biomolecule-MOF complexes and their potential interactions with organic systems, this study provides a proof-of-concept study for the generic development of biomolecules-MOFs-gated electronics and beyond.     

Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films Grown on Functionalized Graphene as Solid-State Ion-Gated FETs

The unique properties of 2D-materials like graphene are exploited in various electronic devices. In sensor applications, graphene shows a very high sensitivity, but only a low specificity. This shortcoming can be mastered by using heterostructures, where graphene is combined with materials exhibiting high analyte selectivities. Herein, this study demonstrates the precise deposition of nanoporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on graphene, yielding bilayers with excellent specificity while the sensitivity remains large. The key for the successful layer-by-layer deposition of the MOF films (SURMOFs) is the use of planar polyaromatic anchors. Then, the MOF pores are loaded with ionic liquid (IL). For functioning sensor devices, the IL@MOF films are grown on graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs). Adding a top-gate electrode yields an ion-gated GFET. Analysis of the transistor characteristics reveals a clear Dirac point at low gate voltages, good on-off ratios, and decent charge mobilities and densities in the graphene channel. The GFET-sensor reveals a strong and selective response. Compared to other ion-gated-FET devices, the IL@MOF material is relatively hard, allowing the manufacturing of ultrathin devices. The new MOF-anchoring strategy offers a novel approach generally applicable for the functionalization of 2D-materials, where MOF/2D-material hetero-bilayers carry a huge potential for a wide variety of applications.     

Wearable Organic Electrochemical Transistor Array for Skin-Surface Electrocardiogram Mapping Above a Human Heart

Electrocardiogram (ECG) mapping can provide vital information in sports training and cardiac disease diagnosis. However, most electronic devices for monitoring ECG signals need to use multiple long wires, which limit their wearability and conformability in practical applications, while wearable ECG mapping based on integrated sensor arrays has been rarely reported. Herein, ultra-flexible organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) arrays used for wearable ECG mapping on the skin surface above a human heart are presented. QRS complexes of ECG signals at different recording distances and directions relative to the heart are obtained. Furthermore, the ECG signals are successfully analyzed by the devices before and after exercise, indicating potential applications in some sports training and fitness scenarios. The OECT arrays that can conveniently monitor spacial ECG signals in the heart region may find niche applications in wearable electronics and healthcare products in the future.     

SRI-Net: Similarity retrieval-based inference network for light field salient object detection

The cutting-edge RGB saliency models are prone to fail for some complex scenes, while RGB-D saliency models are often affected by inaccurate depth maps. Fortunately, light field images can provide a sufficient spatial layout depiction of 3D scenes. Therefore, this paper focuses on salient object detection of light field images, where a Similarity Retrieval-based Inference Network (SRI-Net) is proposed. Due to various focus points, not all focal slices extracted from light field images are beneficial for salient object detection, thus, the key point of our model lies in that we attempt to select the most valuable focal slice, which can contribute more complementary information for the RGB image. Specifically, firstly, we design a focal slice retrieval module (FSRM) to choose an appropriate focal slice by measuring the foreground similarity between the focal slice and RGB image. Secondly, in order to combine the original RGB image and the selected focal slice, we design a U-shaped saliency inference module (SIM), where the two-stream encoder is used to extract multi-level features, and the decoder is employed to aggregate multi-level deep features. Extensive experiments are conducted on two widely used light field datasets, and the results firmly demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed SRI-Net.     

石墨烯及石墨烯场效应管的辐照效应研究进展

石墨烯由于高迁移率、高导热性、柔韧性好和机械强度高等优异性能使其成为构筑新型纳米电子器件的重要材料,已成为电子信息、生物医学、显示等领域的研究热点。当石墨烯材料及其电子器件放置于含有辐照因素的场景中时,会因为与高能光子和带电粒子等相互作用而改变晶格结构或积累电荷,使石墨烯材料及电子器件的性能发生变化。本文主要综述了典型辐照因素对石墨烯及器件的主要效应及研究进展,旨在总结不同辐照在石墨烯及其电子器件中引发的物理效应,归纳其微观-宏观性质变化,为加深石墨烯材料及器件的辐照效应的理解,推动其在辐照场景中的实际应用奠定基础。     

聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯形态结构的光散射研究

在不同结晶条件下,聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯样品出现了三种不同的光散射图形(正常球晶、异常球晶和混合球晶散射图形)。并假定正常球晶的光轴方向与半径垂直;异常球晶的光轴方向与半径夹+45°角或-45°角;混合球晶则是正常球晶与异常球晶叠加的结果。基于这些假定,按照Clough的计算公式,用二维球晶模型分别对具有上述各种光轴取向的球晶进行了计算。结果表明,计算出的H_v、V_v散射图形与实验所得的散射图形符合得很好。偏光显微镜的观察结果也进一步证实了这些模型的假定。     

等离子体聚萘薄膜作发光层的蓝色发光二极管

等离子体聚萘薄膜作发光层的蓝色发光二极管马於光，唐建国，张海峰，沈家骢，刘式墉，刘晓东（吉林大学分子光谱与分子结构开放实验室，集成光电子学国家重点实验室，长春，１３００２３）（白求恩医科大学）关键词等离子体聚合物，蓝光，发光二极管Ｂｕｒｒｏｕｇｈｅｓ...     

聚电解质-磺化聚砜溶液的光散射

本文采用激光小角光散射法,测定了聚电解质-磺化聚砜(钠盐),在分别舍有NaNO_3、LiNO_3、LiCl、NaBr和NaI的DMF中各试样的表现分子量。结果表明,在含有0.07N NaNO_3的DMF中,磺化聚砜的表观分子量接近于试样的真实分子量。