Pressure sensors have attracted tremendous attention because of their potential applications in the fields of health monitoring, human-machine interfaces, artificial intelligence, and so on. Improving pressure-sensing performances, especially the sensitivity and the detection limit, is of great importance to expand the related applications, however it is still an enormous challenge so far. Herein, highly sensitive piezoresistive pressure sensors are reported with novel light-boosting sensing performances. Rose petal-templated positive multiscale millimeter/micro/nanostructures combined with surface wrinkling nanopatterns endow the assembled pressure sensors with outstanding pressure sensing performance, e.g. an ultrahigh sensitivity (70 KPa −1 , <0.5 KPa), an ultralow detection limit (0.88 Pa), a wide pressure detect ion range (from 0.88 Pa to 32 KPa), and a fast response time (30 ms). Remarkably, simple light illumination further enhances the sensitivity to 120 KPa −1 (<0.5 KPa) and lowers the detection limit to 0.41 Pa. Furthermore, the flexible light illumination offers unprecedented capabilities to spatiotemporally control any target in multiplexed pressure sensors for optically enhanced/tailorable sensing performances. This light-control strategy coupled with the introduction of bioinspired multiscale structures is expected to help design next generation advanced wearable electronic devices for unprecedented smart applications.
Azobenzene-containing
polymers (azopolymers) can serve as building
blocks for an emerging class of soft photonics. Using their photoresponses
for the micro/nanofabrication of smart surface is a key but still
a challenging step. Here, we report a simple visible-light-illumination
strategy to trigger diverse configurations of surface wrinkling on
azopolymer-based film/substrate systems, which can be switched between
flat and wrinkled states by controlling the intensity of the incident
light. Different photoresponsive characteristics of azobenzene are
involved in driving the wrinkling/dewrinkling switch. For the first
time, we achieve the controlled wrinkling with an unexpected high
aspect ratio and surprisingly polarization-independent ordered orientation
by exploiting the unique photosoftening effect of azobenzene. Theoretical
analysis reveals that an in situ photoinduced reversible soft/hard-contrast
boundary determines the wrinkling orientation, which is used to fabricate
diverse on-demand hierarchical wrinkles. These photoresponsive systems
find broad photonic applications that are not easily accessible to
other systems, e.g., optically reversible smart display, information
security, and well-regulated optical devices.
Chronic neuroinflammation is a characteristic of Parkinson's disease (PD). Previous investigations have shown that Parkin gene mutations are related to the early-onset recessive form of PD and isolated juvenile-onset PD. Further, Parkin plays important roles in mitochondrial quality control and cytokine-induced cell death. However, whether Parkin regulates other cellular events is still largely unknown. In this study, we performed overexpression and knockout experiments and found that Parkin negatively regulates antiviral immune responses against RNA and DNA viruses. Mechanistically, we show that Parkin interacts with tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 3 (TRAF3) to regulate stability of TRAF3 protein by promoting Lys-linked ubiquitination. Our findings suggest that Parkin plays a novel role in innate immune signaling by targeting TRAF3 for degradation and maintaining the balance of innate antiviral immunity.
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