Zhaoyan Luo, Yixin Ouyang, Hao Zhang, Meiling Xiao et al.
Abstract Lacking strategies to simultaneously address the intrinsic activity, site density, electrical transport, and stability problems of chalcogels is restricting their application in catalytic hydrogen production. Herein, we resolve these challenges concurrently through chemically activating the...
Heidi Kreibich, Anne F. Van Loon, Kai Schröter, Philip J. Ward et al.
Abstract Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally 1,2 , yet their impacts are still increasing 3 . An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data 4,5 . On the basis of a global datase...
Norihiro Kato, CARDIo GRAMplusCD, LifeLines Cohort Study, Marie Loh et al.
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10−11 to 5.0 × 10−21). ...
Cindy Q. Tang, Tetsuya Matsui, Haruka Ohashi, Yi-Fei Dong et al.
Today East Asia harbors many "relict" plant species whose ranges were much larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. Here, we map the abundance and distribution patterns of relict species, showi...
Ziqian Xue, Yinle Li, Yawei Zhang, Wei Geng et al.
Abstract Exploring effective electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a crucial requirement of many energy storage and conversion systems, involving fuel cells, water splitting, and metal–air batteries. Herein, a heterogeneity metal‐organic framework (MOF) is prepared by the assemblin...
Fushuo Wu, Peiying Hu, Feiyue Hu, Zhihua Tian et al.
Abstract Two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXene) have emerged as promising candidates for microwave absorption (MA) materials. However, they also have some drawbacks, such as poor impedance matching, high self-stacking tendency, and high density. To tackle these challenges, MX...
Kuan Zhang, Chao‐Sheng Tang, Ning‐Jun Jiang, Xiaohua Pan et al.
The microbial‑induced carbonate precipitation (MICP), as an emerging biomineralization technology mediated by specific bacteria, has been a popular research focus for scientists and engineers through the previous two decades as an interdisciplinary approach. It provides cutting-edge solutions for va...
Meng Wang, Nan Zhang, Yingjie Tang, Heng Zhang et al.
A single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator (S-TENG) based on sponge-like porous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) thin films was developed.
Guiju Sun, S. Wang, Xu Hu, Jianjia Su et al.
Aflatoxins and fumonisins are ubiquitous foodborne toxicants and the co-occurrence of these mycotoxins in human foods represents a significant public health concern, which has been strongly associated with human aflatoxicosis, neural tube defects, as well as many types of primary cancers. In this st...
Chenhui Yang, Yi Tang, Yapeng Tian, Yangyang Luo et al.
Abstract The volumetric performance of supercapacitors (SCs), besides the gravimetric performance, is attracting an increasing attention due to the fast development of electric vehicles and smart devices. Here, a unique design of symmetric supercapacitor material is reported with a tight face‐to‐fac...
Meiling Su, Chaofei Chen, Shaoying Li, Musheng Li et al.
Platelets have emerged as key inflammatory cells implicated in the pathology of sepsis, but their contributions to rapid clinical deterioration and dysregulated inflammation have not been defined. Here, we show that the incidence of thrombocytopathy and inflammatory cytokine release was significantl...
Xincheng Jiang, Yisen Li, Xiaohui Tang, Junyi Jiang et al.
Biopolymer-based flocculants have become a potential substitute for inorganic coagulants and synthetic organic flocculants due to their wide natural reserves, environmental friendliness, easy natural degradation, and high material safety. In recent years, with more and more attention to clean techno...
Jian Ma, Puyang Ding, Jiajun Liu, Ting Li et al.
Key message A major and stably expressed QTL for spikelet number per spike identified in a 2-cM interval on chromosome arm 2DS was validated using two populations with different genetic backgrounds. Spikelet number per spike (SNS) plays a key role in wheat yield improvement. Numerous genetic and env...
Qing Lü, Haoran Li, Guoping Luo, Yi Wang et al.
Depression is proved to be associated with the dysfunction of prefrontal-limbic neural circuit, especially during emotion processing procedure. Related explorations have been undertaken from the aspects of abnormal activation and functional connectivity. However, the mechanism of the dysfunction of ...
Xu‐Min Cai, Yuting Lin, Ying Li, Xinfei Chen et al.
The exploration of artificial luminogens with bright emission has been fully developed with the advancement of synthetic chemistry. However, many of them face problems like weakened emission in the aggregated state as well as poor renewability and sustainability. Therefore, the development of renewa...
Yanchao Mao, Nan Zhang, Yingjie Tang, Meng Wang et al.
. In addition, the P-TENG possesses a natural advantage of being able to be integrated within a book, and thus can effectively convert mechanical energy from the action of turning book pages into electricity. When turning a book page, the output voltage and current of the P-TENG were obtained to be ...
Yuan Sun, Zhong Zhong, Tim Li, Lan Yi et al.
The response of tropical cyclone (TC) destructive potential to global warming is an open issue. A number of previous studies have ignored the effect of TC size change in the context of global warming, which resulted in a significant underestimation of the TC destructive potential. The lack of reliab...
Swades Pal, Sonali Kundu, Susanta Mahato
Groundwater crisis across the world is a thought-provoking issue and for resolving the problem, it is highly necessary to identify the potential groundwater zones and estimate water yield. The present work intends to identify potential groundwater zone based on ensemble modeling assembling advance m...
Jie Xu, Yibing Yuan, Yunbi Xu, Gengyun Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Drought stress is one of the major limiting factors for maize production. With the availability of maize B73 reference genome and whole-genome resequencing of 15 maize inbreds, common variants (CV) and clustering analyses were applied to identify non-synonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) and correspo...
Jian Ma, Yang Tu, Jing Zhu, Wei Luo et al.
Key message Major and environmentally stable QTL for flag leaf-related traits in wheat were identified and validated across ten environments using six populations with different genetic backgrounds. Flag leaf size and posture are two important factors of "ideotype" in wheat. Despite numerous studies...