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Quan Tao

University of Pittsburgh
Verified email at pitt.edu
Cited by 282

What is driving China's decline in energy intensity?

K Fisher-Vanden, GH Jefferson, H Liu, Q Tao - Resource and Energy …, 2004 - Elsevier
While energy intensity in China has fallen almost continuously since the onset of economic
reform in the late 1970s, beginning in 1996 the data show a striking decline in China’s …

Advancements in multi-material additive manufacturing of advanced ceramics: A review of strategies, techniques and equipment

…, B Zou, X Wang, W Chen, G Zhang, T Quan… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ceramics possess notable attributes including excellent wear resistance, exceptional high-temperature
strength, superior hardness, and outstanding biocompatibility, rendering them …

Environmentally sound destruction of obsolete pesticides in developing countries using cement kilns

…, PH Viet, ND Tuan, DT Toi, NH Hung, TM Quan… - environmental science & …, 2006 - Elsevier
The accumulation and inadequate management of obsolete pesticides and other hazardous
chemicals constitutes a threat for health and environment, locally, regionally and globally. …

[HTML][HTML] Low-frequency magnetic field therapy for glioblastoma: Current advances, mechanisms, challenges and future perspectives

Y Liu, Q Tang, Q Tao, H Dong, Z Shi, L Zhou - Journal of Advanced …, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant tumour of the central
nervous system. Despite recent advances in multimodal GBM therapy incorporating surgery, …

Accelerated proton dissociation in an excited state induces superacidic microenvironments around graphene quantum dots

Y Li, S Yang, W Bao, Q Tao, X Jiang, J Li, P He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Investigating proton transport at the interface in an excited state facilitates the mechanistic
investigation and utilization of nanomaterials. However, there is a lack of suitable tools for in-…

Direct endovascular treatment: an alternative for bridging therapy in anterior circulation large‐vessel occlusion stroke

…, X Huang, W Wang, H Xu, T Quan… - European journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Whether intravenous thrombolysis prior to endovascular treatment
in patients with anterior circulation large‐vessel occlusion ( LVO ) is indispensable remains …

Comparison of drug-eluting stent with bare-metal stent in patients with symptomatic high-grade intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: a randomized clinical trial

…, B Wang, W Gong, T Liu, G Li, X Su, T Quan… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In-stent restenosis (ISR) is the primary reason for stroke recurrence after intracranial
stenting in patients who were treated with a standard bare-metal stent (BMS). Whether a …

Enhancing the performance of planar organo-lead halide perovskite solar cells by using a mixed halide source

M Jiang, J Wu, F Lan, Q Tao, D Gao, G Li - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Cl incorporation has been reported to be able to significantly increase the diffusion length of
carriers in organo-lead halide perovskite thin films. However, due to the low solubility of …

The machine learning for combinatorial optimization competition (ml4co): Results and insights

…, S Shao, Y Zhu, D Zhang, T Quan… - NeurIPS 2021 …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Combinatorial optimization is a well-established area in operations research and computer
science. Until recently, its methods have focused on solving problem instances in isolation, …

Enhancing the magnetic relaxivity of MRI contrast agents via the localized superacid microenvironment of graphene quantum dots

Y Li, H Dong, Q Tao, C Ye, M Yu, J Li, H Zhou, S Yang… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
The design of contrast agents (CAs) with high magnetic relaxivities is a key issue in the field
of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The traditional strategy employed is aimed at …