Hui Zhao

Guangxi University · School of Light Industry and Food Engineering

A hybrid of halloysite nanotubes decorated with titanium dioxide nanoparticles (HNTs@TiO 2 ) was synthesized by the sol–gel method and then mixed with ultra‐high molecular polyethylene (UHMWPE) by melt compounding to enhance its wear resistance properties. The incorporation of HNTs@TiO 2 increased the crystallinity as well as the hardness of UHMWPE...

Fusarium oxysporum is a widespread plant pathogen that causes fusarium wilt and fusarium root rot in many economically significant crops. Here, a novel dsRNA virus tentatively named "Fusarium oxysporum virus 1" (FoV1) was identified in F. oxysporum strain 3S-18. The genome of FoV1 is 2,944 nucleotides (nt) in length and contains two non-overlapping...

Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs) can participate in the regulation of plant growth and development, immunity and signal transduction. Sesamum indicum, one of the most important oil crops, has a significant role in promoting human health. In this study, 175 SiLRR-RLK genes were identified in S. indicum, and they were subdivided i...

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are commonly incorporated in food packaging to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. In this work, three microstructures (spherical, hematocyte-like, and pie micromorphology) of AgNPs-polylactic acid (PLA) materials were fabricated on electrospun PLA-thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nanofiber film by electros...

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are an emerging class of energy harvesting devices with considerable potential across diverse applications, including wearable electronic devices and self-powered sensors. However, sustained contact, friction, and incidental scratches during operation can lead to a deterioration in the electrical output performa...

Fusarium oxysporum is a widespread plant pathogen that causes Fusarium wilt and Fusarium root rot in many economically significant crops. Here, a novel dsRNA virus tentatively named Fusarium oxysporum Virus 1 (FoV1) was identified from F. oxysporum strain 3S-18. The genome of FoV1 spans a length of 2,944 nucleotides (nt) and encompasses two distinc...

Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) is a renewable resource derived from lignocellulosic materials, known for its optical permeability, biocompatibility, and unique self‐assembly properties. Recent years have seen great progresses in cellulose nanocrystal‐based chiral photonic materials. However, due to its inherent brittleness, cellulose nanocrystal shows...

To improve the dispersion and interfacial interaction, surface-functionalized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was prepared by grafting sucrose and hyperbranched polysiloxane (HBPSi) with terminal amino groups. The morphology observation revealed that the surface functionalization improved the interfacial interaction and precluded the h-BN stacking,...

In response to the issues of foodborne microbial contamination and carbon neutrality goals, sustainable antimicrobial food packaging (SAFP) composed of renewable or biodegradable biopolymer matrices with ecofriendly antimicrobial agents has emerged. SAFP offers longer effectiveness, wider coverage, more controllability, and better environmental per...

The treatment of dye wastewater by combining metal-organic framework (MOF) and polymer adsorbent membranes has attracted extensive attention. However, most of the polymer/MOF composite will encounter problems such as the poor compatibility, the holes of MOF are easily blocked by polymer chains, moreover, the study about the self-healable and recycl...

Correction for 'Recent advances in self-healing polyurethane based on dynamic covalent bonds combined with other self-healing methods' by Ze-Wei An et al., Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 6505-6520, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR07110J.

Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC)-based chiral nematic structure is widely used in stimulus response and sensing. A popular area of research is enhancing the mechanical characteristics and environmental adaptability of chiral nematic materials. In this paper, a flexible photonic film with self-healing ability (FPFS) was prepared by combining waterborne p...

To meet more application requirements, improving mechanical properties and self-healing efficiency has become the focus of current research on self-healing PU. The competitive relationship between self-healing ability and mechanical properties cannot be avoided by a single self-healing method. To address this problem, a growing number of studies ha...

In this study, stable sodium chlorite solution and water-borne polyurethane (WPU) were mixed to prepare a novel antibacterial film with sustained-release properties via a solvent casting method. For the first time, carboxyl in WPU was used as the activator to react with ClO− to produce gaseous ClO2 under the trigger of moisture and without any othe...

Biodegradable polylactide (PLA) has been widely utilized in people’s daily lives. In order to improve the fire safety of PLA, ammonium polyphosphate (APP) was self-assembled onto the surface of serpentine Ni3Si2O5(OH)4 through the electrostatic method, followed by mixing with PLA by melt compounding. The APP-modified serpentine (serpentine@APP) dis...

Flexible strain wearable sensors have attracted considerable attention due to their advantages of low cost, lightweight, high sensitivity and good flexibility. However, the strain sensors are easy to be damaged in an extreme humidity environment or by the wearer’s sweat in the process of use, resulting in detection disorder or even a short circuit....

Infrared and heat shielding materials have a wide range of applications in military infrared invisibility and thermal insulation for energy saving, but mechanical damage during use may reduce the service life. In this study, waterborne polyurethanes/gallium tin oxide (WPU/GTO) composites with good infrared and thermal shielding capabilities were fa...

Silica (SiO 2 ) is one of the most promising inorganic nanofillers, and it has been widely used in the preparation of polymer nanocomposites due to its adjustable morphology, large specific surface area, and ease of functionalization. The surface modification, structural characteristics, and bonding mechanisms of SiO 2 are crucial in enhancing the...

A type of waterborne polyurethane (WPU) with excellent self-healing and recyclable properties was successfully prepared by introducing Diels–Alder (DA) reaction groups into it. FT-IR was used to verify the successful synthesis of samples and the retro-DA reaction in the WPU-DA films. It was found that the self-healing efficiency of the WPU-DA-4/4 f...

The advancement of the microelectronics industry necessitates the use of interlayer insulation materials with low dielectric constants and high mechanical properties. In this paper, a new type of copolymerized fluorinated polyimide (PI) was synthesized, and mixed with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) functionalized mesoporous silica (MCM...

Even though polyurethane (PU) has been widely applied, its superhydrophobicity is inadequate for certain applications. As such, the development of superhydrophobic polyurethane (SHPU) has recently attracted significant attention, with numerous motivating reports in recent years. However, a comprehensive review that summarizes these state-of-the-art...

A type of waterborne polyurethane with excellent self-healing and recyclable properties was successfully prepared by introducing Diels-Alder (DA) reaction groups into the polymer matrix. The results showed that all obtained waterborne polyurethane dispersions with a particle size of about 400 nm, had good dispersibility and storage stability, which...

Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) has been widely used to reinforce the mechanical properties of waterborne polyurethane (WPU). There are, however, few works that focus on structure, rheological behavior, and creep resistance of WPU/CNF composites. To fill this research gap, in this work, the m-CNF was obtained by γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane modification...

Transparent lignocellulose nanopaper (LNP) has been demonstrated to be a promising candidate light-management material for next-generation optical engineering applications. Similar to its role in plant cell walls, lignin serves as a vital functional component in LNP matrices. However, its intrinsic light absorption property renders LNP undesirable...

The microphase separation of polyurethane is the result of thermodynamic incompatibility between the hard and soft segments, which plays a significant role in its micro structure and performance. In recent years, many researches about the microphase separation of polyurethane have been reported. However, there is a gap in summarizing the recent adv...

Background Enzymatic browning and microbial decay are the primary concerns that limit the postharvest life of longan fruit. These factors can be effectively prevented by sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) fumigation; however, due to the safety and regulatory issues of SO 2 , other alternatives must be tested. In this study, antioxidant and antimicrobial activi...

Corynespora cassiicola is an important phytopathogenic fungus and it has severely impaired the production of crops. In this study, we report on the molecular characterization of a novel (+) ssRNA mycovirus, Corynespora cassiicola fusarivirus 1 (CcFV1) isolated from C. cassiicola strain 20200826-3-1. Excluding a poly (A) tail, the genome of the viru...

One victorivirus was detected in the isolate of Corynespora cassiicola strains 20180909-03, which was named Corynespora cassiicola victorivirus 1 (CcVV1). The whole-genome sequence of the virus was sequenced and identified. The CcVV1 genome is 5140 nt and contains 56.87%GC with two large open reading frames (ORFs) overlapping at the tetranucleotide...

Preparation of ternary nanoparticles using high amylose complex, stearic acid, and soy protein isolate as shell materials and their encapsulation of curcumin were studied. The effect of curcumin in ternary nanostructures, loading capacity of the nanoparticles, its solubility and sustained release behavior in vitro are discussed. The encapsulation e...

Penicillium sp. 44M-3, previously isolated from soil samples in Sanmenxia City (Henan Province, China), was identified as Penicillium aurantiogriseum Dierckx based on sequence analysis of ITS-rDNA, β-tubulin, and calmodulin. In co-culture assays against 14 pathogenic fungi, the inhibition ratios achieved by isolate 44M-3 ranged from 42.90% to 66.0%...

The purpose of the present study was to explore the control of Fusarium wilt of sesame caused by Fusarium oxysporum via Penicillium sp. 47M-1. Isolate 47M-1 was isolated from rhizosphere soil samples of tobacco and identified as Penicillium bilaiae based on morphological characteristics and ITS-rDNA, β-tubulin and calmodulin sequences. Isolate 47M-...

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) is a newly developed green solvent with low cost, easy preparation and regeneration. Because of its excellent solubility and swelling effect in lignocellulose, it has received widespread attention and recognition. In this study, choline-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs)—choline chloride-urea (CC-U), choline chloride-...

A novel hydrophobic cellulose-based organic/inorganic nanomaterial (cellulose/TS-POSS) was prepared by oxygen plasma treatment followed by condensation reaction with TriSilanollsobutyl-Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane. By careful design of cellulose film modified with TS-POSS by plasma etching, not only simply activated the hydroxyl groups on f...

A series of polyimide (PI)-based ultraviolet (UV) shielding nanocomposites were prepared with size-controlled polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles. Two typical sizes of 120 and 200 nm were chosen to mainly investigate the influence of PDA on the structures, thermal stability, mechanical performance, and UV shielding properties of PI nanocomposites. The...

Macrophomina phaseolina is an important necrotrophic phytopathogenic fungus and cause extensive damage in many oilseed crops. Twelve M. phaseolina isolates with diverse biological phenotypes were selected for a high-throughput sequencing-based metatranscriptomic and bioinformatics analysis to identify viruses infecting M. phaseolina. The analysis i...

Background: Sesame (sesamum indicum) charcoal rot, a destructive fungal disease caused by Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid (MP), is a great threat to the yield and quality of sesame. However, there is a lack of information revealing gene-for-gene relationship between sesame and MP, and the molecular mechanism in the interaction is not yet clear...

To maintain the quality of postharvest fruits continuously and meet the health requirements of consumers, a high barrier and long-lasting antibacterial polylactic acid film as packaging material was developed in this study. Polylactic acid-based antibacterial films incorporated with Cinnamaldehyde inclusions were used to achieve long-lasting antiba...

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) functionalized with an amine group was designed and prepared. Then it was applied as a physical cross-linker to prepare waterborne thermoplastic polyurethane (WTPU)/POSS nanocomposite. Results revealed that the POSS had a little influence on the viscosity and storage stability of the WTPU/POSS dispersions...

BACKGROUND Natural plant essential oils have antimicrobial properties; however, essential oils are difficult to maintain in a system because of their volatile nature. First, we prepared microcapsules from β‐cyclodextrin and oregano essential oil and characterized their properties. Second, the effect of microcapsules on the preservation of freshly c...

Curcumin is a plant‐derived polyphenolic active substance with broad‐spectrum antibacterial properties. Curcumin blocks bacterial growth owing to its structural characteristics and the generation of anti‐oxidation products. Curcumin can inhibit bacterial virulence factors, inhibit bacterial biofilm formation and prevent bacterial adhesion to host r...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a silicon oxide (SiO x) layer of approximately 100 nm thickness manufactured by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) as a protective coating for PLA-based films to reduce the corrosion and contaminant migration caused by food contact. The migration kinetics of plasticizer diethylene glycol dibe...

Recently, many video-on-demand (VoD) providers have begun storing multiple versions of the same video to offer multiple-quality video services with different bitrates to users, called multi-version VoD. To improve users’ quality of experience (QoE), it is a good idea to cache videos at edge servers in multi-version VoD systems. However, determining...

Macrophomina phaseolina is an important phytopathogenic fungus with a broad host range. Here, the complete genome sequence of a novel victorivirus, tentatively named Macrophomina phaseolina victorivirus 1 (MpV1), was identified from strain 2012-019 of M. phaseolina. The MpV1 genome is 5,128 nucleotides long with a predicted GC content of 62%. Seque...

Fluorinated hyperbranched polyimide (FHBPI), a spherical polymer with large space volumes, was developed to enhance fluorinated linear copolyimide (FPI) in terms of mechanical, UV-shielding, and hydrophobic properties via simple blend and thermal imidization methods. FPI possessed superior compatibility with FHBPI, and no obvious phase separation w...

One of the major obstacles for polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer, in commercial applications is its poor elongation at break (~3%). In this study, the effects of nanocellulose contents and their types, including cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) on the crystallization, thermal, and mech...

Production of pycnidia and pycnidiospores by Macrophomina phaseolina is not often seen in vitro. The objective of this study is to develop a simple and effective technique to obtain pycnidiospores of M. phaseolina isolates in vitro and to evaluate germination rates and pathogenicity of pycnidiospores. We found M. phaseolina isolates can produce pyc...

In this work, some multilayer coatings (two-layer, four-layer or six-layer) based on pullulan and chitosan for protecting papayas were prepared by the layer-by-layer technique. The papayas were coated by immersion and stored at 25 °C, 50% relative humidity or up to 14 days. Uncoated and monolayer-coated papayas were used as controls. The pullulan/c...

Macrophomina phaseolina is a pathogenic fungus of the family Botryosphaeriaceae that causes stem rot or leaf blight in many economically important plants. Mycoviruses exist widely in fungi, but there are only a limited number of reports on mycovirus infection in M. phaseolina. A novel dsRNA virus, tentatively named “Macrophomina phaseolina fusagrav...

Nowadays, video-on-demand (VoD) providers offer multiple-quality video streaming services to users, called as multi-version VoD. Unlike traditional VoD, multi-version VoD providers should consider to allocate bandwidth resource and transcoding computation resource simultaneously. However, most of existing resource allocation works only focused on c...

Mobile learning have a capacity to respond to educational needs of learners dispersed across vast regions and cultures. Among a wide variety of popular mobile platforms. Android has become one of the optimal mobile operating systems. In this paper, we investigate the challenges of the mobile learning and propose a framework of mobile learning syste...

WebRTC (Web Real-Time-Communications) enable blended learning in universities and support the “virtual universities”. A primary challenges of the traditional technologies such as IPv4/IPv6 and TCP is the reliability. Besides, there is no free, high-quality and complete solution available that enables communication by the Web browser. In this paper,...

Nowdays, VoD (video-on-demand) has become a wide-used technology in m-learning. In m-learning VoD systems, we need to allocate appropriate bandwidth for streaming media servers with the aim of optimizing the user experience and reducing the service cost. In this paper, a queue-based bandwidth allocation method for streaming media servers in m-learn...

A facile method was developed to synthesize a new type of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS). It contained a single amine group and seven aliphatic moieties on its corners. FT‐IR, ¹H‐NMR, ¹³C‐NMR, ¹³C‐¹H COSY, and ¹H‐¹H COSY confirmed that cages with eight corners were the main part of the product. This new POSS was used to modify the stru...

As social networks play an increasingly important role in people’s lives, people are more likely to discuss hot topics on social networks. Predicting the spread of hot topics, known as topic propagation prediction, is an important task. Due to the unpredictability of the users and topics in social networks, predicting the topic propagation trend is...

Environmentally friendly waterborne polyesters (WPEs) were obtained by copolymerization of diethylene glycol (DEG), isophthalic acid (IPA) and 5-sulfoisophthalic acid monosodium salt (5-SSIPA). The effects of the 5-SSIPA content on the properties of resultant materials were investigated. Those properties included dispersity, crystallinity, dynamic...

The shell thickness of core–shell microspheres with a rigid core and soft rubber shell has been accurately controlled through the emulsion polymerization. When the amount of BA monomer and SiO2 is fixed, the morphology of core–shell microspheres with SiO2 core (Φ = 280 nm) and poly (butyl acrylate) (PBA) shell varies along with the emulsifier conce...

Polycarboxylic superplasticiser (PS) and naphthalene-based superplasticiser (NBS) were used to achieve a denser structure of α-hemihydrate calcium sulfate and better mechanical properties. The hydration process was investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), which showed that the PS decelerated the whole hydration process of α-hemihydrate cal...

Environmentally friendly waterborne polyurethanes(WPU) are copolymerized with (3-(2-aminoethyl)aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (AATS) and terminated with 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (ATS). The ATS content was kept constent and the effects of AATS on the structures and properties were investigated in terms of crystallinity, thermal stability, mechanic...

To understand the role of molecular structure on the crystallization behavior of copolyester in thermoplastic poly(ether ester) elastomers (TPEEs), series of poly(butylene-co-1,4-cyclohexanedimethylene terephthalate) (P(BT-co-CT))-b-poly(tetramethylene glycol) (PTMG) are synthesized through molten polycondensation process. The effects of poly(cyclo...

A series of novel polyurethanes containing cross-linked siloxane in the side chain (SPU) were successfully synthesized through a sol-gel process. The SPU was composed of 0%–20% N-(n-butyl)-3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (HDI-T) modified hexamethylene diisocynate homopolymer. The effects of HDI-T content on both the structure and properties of SPU wer...

With the development of social networks, many recommendation systems recommend items to a group of users, known as group recommendation. However, it will not be an appropriate recommendation without user topical influence analysis. We proposed a new group recommendation based on user topical influence analysis. We firstly construct several topical...

MapReduce is a popular programming model in cloud computing to deal with high computational task, such as video transcoding. It splits the video (task) into multiple segments (sub-tasks) and transcodes them in parallel in cluster. Due to the complexity of video transcoding and the poor performance of heterogeneous MapReduce cluster, scheduling thes...

Multi-version VoD providers either store multiple versions of the same video or transcode video to multiple versions in real-time to offer multiple-bitrate streaming services to heterogeneous clients. However, this could incur tremendous storage cost or transcoding computation cost. There have been some works regarding trading-off between transcodi...

Adaptive streaming over Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) has been widely used for the transmission of video content. Most of the existing studies about HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) concentrate on improving resource efficiency, fairness among users, and quality of service for single-source videos. However, there is a growing number of live strea...

Epoxy asphalt curing system was prepared by sebacic acid compound with methyl-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride (MeTHPA) or Tung oil anhydride (TOA). Tensile strength, penetration, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis, torn section microscopy photographs and scanning electron microscope analysis were utilised to investi...

Recently, many Video-on-Demand (VoD) service providers try to attract as many users as possible by offering multi-bitrate video streaming services with differentiated qualities. Many researches focus on video layered coding (e.g., scalable video coding, SVC). However, SVC is not widely used in VoD industry. Another solution, multi-version videos, c...

Many recommendation systems recommend item (book, music, news, or restaurant) to a group of users with the help of social network services like micro-blogging, which are called as group recommendation systems. However, as the social network services always contain large amounts of information on different topics, and people have different influence...

The context-aware calculation method is applied to the model of recommendation system in this paper. Based on context of scenario analysis and inference, we can implement recommendation for user group. This paper makes use of the context of scenarios aware technology, which fuses multi-source data from smart phones, sensor networks and social netwo...

Social network greatly improve the social recommendation application, especially the study of group recommendation. The group recommendation, analyze the social factors of the group, such as social and trust relationship between users, as the factors for the prediction model established. In this paper, PageRank algorithm is introduced in the recomm...

To identify recruitment information in different domains, we propose a novel model of hierarchical tree-structured conditional random fields (HT-CRFs). In our approach, first, the concept of a Web object (WOB) is discussed for the description of special Web information. Second, in contrast to traditional methods, the Boolean model and multi-rule ar...

In this paper, a novel unified named entity recognition model was proposed for extracting recruitment information in Web pages. The model provides a simple statistical framework to incorporate a wide variety of linguistic knowledge and statistical models in a unified way. In our approach, firstly, in order to emphasize the specific semantics and te...

In this demonstration, a prototype of large-scale mobile learning system for heterogeneous clients is presented. The system evolves the following novel characteristics: (1) Firstly, the system can provide two-way interactive media as well as one-way live streaming at the same time by a two-tier system architecture based on service overlay network a...

Along with the fusion of mobile communication technology and embedded mobile devices, mobile learning (m-learning) has become an important and novel teaching method. A major challenge in designing such a system is how to simultaneously provide large-scale and robust interactive media for all kinds of clients, including the PCs, IPTVs, smart phones,...

A serious of epoxy-asphalts were prepared by active compatibilizer, flexible curing agent, pure asphalt and epoxy. The effects of curing agent on the compatibilities of epoxy-asphalt, torn section, mechanical properties and weather resistance performance were discussed in details. There were found, with the helping of curing agent, asphalt disperse...