Antibacterial TaN-Ag coatings on titanium dental implants

HL Huang, YY Chang, MC Lai, CR Lin, CH Lai… - Surface and coatings …, 2010 - Elsevier
Titanium-based materials have been used for dental implants due to their excellent
biological compatibility, superior mechanical strength and high corrosion resistance. The …

Crystal structures of dimeric and heptameric mtHsp60 reveal the mechanism of chaperonin inactivation

MC Lai, HY Cheng, SH Lew, YA Chen… - Life Science …, 2023 - life-science-alliance.org
Mitochondrial Hsp60 (mtHsp60) plays a crucial role in maintaining the proper folding of
proteins in the mitochondria. mtHsp60 self-assembles into a ring-shaped heptamer, which can …

Tunable, graded band-gap TiO2 thin film solar cell deposited by HIPIMS on flexible substrate

YH Chen, SK Chiu, MC Lai, PY Hsieh, JL He - Surface and Coatings …, 2024 - Elsevier
Among various types of thin-film solar cell (TFSC), the amorphous silicon type exhibits low
and unstable conversion efficiency. Compound solar cells, on the other hand, are with a …

[HTML][HTML] Featuring COVID-19 cases via screening symptomatic patients with epidemiologic link during flu season in a medical center of central Taiwan

…, CY Chen, LY Leong, N Tien, HC Lai, YC Lai… - Journal of Microbiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CO-V-2), was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei province, China …

[HTML][HTML] The gut microbiota in liver transplantation recipients during the perioperative period

Z Lai, Z Chen, A Zhang, Z Niu, M Cheng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Chronic liver disease is a global problem, and an increasing number of patients
receive a liver transplant yearly. The characteristics of intestinal microbial communities …

[HTML][HTML] Younger adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 exhibited more prevalent olfactory dysfunction in Taiwan

MY Cheng, WH Hsih, MW Ho, YC Lai, WC Liao… - Journal of Microbiology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly transmitted from person to
person, causing global pandemic since December 2019. Instantly detecting COVID-19 is …

Environmental risks and sphingolipid signatures in adult asthma and its phenotypic clusters: a multicentre study

…, WY Chung, CC Sheu, YH Yang, MY Cheng, RS Lai… - Thorax, 2023 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Adult asthma is phenotypically heterogeneous with unclear aetiology. We aimed
to evaluate the potential contribution of environmental exposure and its ensuing response …

Impact of age on outcome of rifapentine-based weekly therapy for latent tuberculosis infection

…, PL Lu, CK Huang, CC Sheu, PC Lai… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Weekly rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP) is gaining popularity for latent
tuberculosis infection treatment because of its short course and high completion rate. Prior to …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their clinical impact on patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan

HC Su, ZL Lai, YC Chang, MY Cheng… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We read with great interest the article by Kang et al. that described how health care workers
infected with the Omicron BA. 5 variant had more severe and systemic symptoms and a …

Diindolotriazatruxene-based hole-transporting materials for high-efficiency planar perovskite solar cells

…, T Cheng, YT Gong, J Min, R Zhu, WY Lai… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A novel set of hole-transporting materials (HTMs) based on π-extended diindolotriazatruxene
(DIT) core structure with electron-rich methoxy-engineered functional groups were …