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Fibrinogen as a potential diagnostic marker for prediction and evaluation of postpartum hemorrhage: a retrospective study
To investigate whether prenatal fibrinogen (FIB) or other related factors could be utilized to evaluate the risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). A retrospective study was conducted in a database from January 2015 to December 2019. A total of 128 patients were enrolled and evaluated with FIB, in which 55 patients were assigned to low FIB and 73 in normal FIB. According to the volume of blood loss, the mean of the low FIB group ( Prenatal FIB was significantly related to thrombin time (TT), which may be an independent factor to predict the coagulation state of prenatal pregnancy.</p
Unique Domain Structure of Two-Dimensional α‑Mo<sub>2</sub>C Superconducting Crystals
The
properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and
monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are strongly influenced
by domain boundaries. Ultrathin transition metal carbides are a class
of newly emerging 2D materials that are superconducting and have many
potential applications such as in electrochemical energy storage,
catalysis, and thermoelectric energy conversion. However, little is
known about their domain structure and the influence of domain boundaries
on their properties. Here we use atomic-resolution scanning transmission
electron microscopy combined with large-scale diffraction-filtered
imaging to study the microstructure of chemical vapor deposited high-quality
2D α-Mo<sub>2</sub>C superconducting crystals of different regular
shapes including triangles, rectangles, hexagons, octagons, nonagons,
and dodecagons. The Mo atom sublattice in all these crystals has a
uniform hexagonal closely packed arrangement without any boundaries.
However, except for rectangular and octagonal crystals, the C atom
sublattices are composed of three or six domains with rotational-symmetry
and well-defined line-shaped domain boundaries because of the presence
of three equivalent off-center directions of interstitial carbon atoms
in Mo octahedra. We found that there is very small lattice shear strain
across the domain boundary. In contrast to the single sharp transition
observed in single-domain crystals, transport studies across domain
boundaries show a broad resistive superconducting transition with
two distinct transition processes due to the formation of localized
phase slip events within the boundaries, indicating a significant
influence of the boundary on 2D superconductivity. These findings
provide new understandings on not only the microstructure of 2D transition
metal carbides but also the intrinsic influence of domain boundaries
on 2D superconductivity