50 Result(s)
within
**ngrui Zhang
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
-
Article
An on-line multi-parameter analyzing optical biosensor for real-time and non-invasive monitoring of plant stress responses in vivo
Photosynthetic dysfunction and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production are the common features of plant stress responses. Based on quantitative measurement of ROS production and delayed fluorescence (DF) emis...
-
Article
Open AccessSurface pollen assemblages of human-disturbed vegetation and their relationship with vegetation and climate in Northeast China
Pollen assemblages of 53 surface pollen samples from farmlands and wastelands in Northeast China were analyzed. Tree pollen percentages were usually higher than 30%, with Pinus (26.9%), Quercus (0.9%), Betula (0....
-
Article
Open AccessRationally designed porous polystyrene encapsulated zirconium phosphate nanocomposite for highly efficient fluoride uptake in waters
Fluoride pollution in waters has engulfed worldwide regions and an excess of fluoride intake always causes skeletal fluorosis. Herein, a novel hybrid nanomaterial ZrP-MPN was fabricated for fluoride retention ...
-
Article
Open AccessUltralight boron nitride aerogels via template-assisted chemical vapor deposition
Boron nitride (BN) aerogels are porous materials with a continuous three-dimensional network structure. They are attracting increasing attention for a wide range of applications. Here, we report the template-a...
-
Article
Open AccessEast Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation
The lack of a precisely-dated, unequivocal climate proxy from northern China, where precipitation variability is traditionally considered as an East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) indicator, impedes our understan...
-
Article
Open AccessReduced Graphene Oxide-Based Silver Nanoparticle-Containing Composite Hydrogel as Highly Efficient Dye Catalysts for Wastewater Treatment
New reduced graphene oxide-based silver nanoparticle-containing composite hydrogels were successfully prepared in situ through the simultaneous reduction of GO and noble metal precursors within the GO gel matrix....
-
Article
Open AccessAccelerated Sorption Diffusion for Cu(II) Retention by Anchorage of Nano-zirconium Dioxide onto Highly charged Polystyrene Material
The development of nanocomposite with strong adsorption ability exhibits great potential applications for environmental remediation. However, the pore blocking in preparation frequently constrains sorption dif...
-
Article
Open AccessFacile and Scalable Preparation of Graphene Oxide-Based Magnetic Hybrids for Fast and Highly Efficient Removal of Organic Dyes
This study reports the facile preparation and the dye removal efficiency of nanohybrids composed of graphene oxide (GO) and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with various geometrical structures. In comparison to previously rep...
-
Article
Open AccessQuantifying Molecular-Level Cell Adhesion on Electroactive Conducting Polymers using Electrochemical-Single Cell Force Spectroscopy
Single Cell Force Spectroscopy was combined with Electrochemical-AFM to quantify the adhesion between live single cells and conducting polymers whilst simultaneously applying a voltage to electrically switch t...
-
Article
Open AccessElectric Control of the Hall effect in Pt/Bi0.9La0.1FeO3 bilayers
Platinum metal, being nonmagnetic and with a strong spin-orbit coupling interaction, has been deposited on weak ferromagnetic Bi0.9La0.1FeO3 thin films. The Hall effect is studied as a function of the polarizatio...
-
Article
Open AccessDivergence and Conservation of the Major UPR Branch IRE1-bZIP Signaling Pathway across Eukaryotes
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is crucial to life by regulating the cellular response to the stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) imposed by abiotic and biotic cues such as heat shock and viral infect...
-
Article
Open AccessOptimizing the robustness of electrical power systems against cascading failures
Electrical power systems are one of the most important infrastructures that support our society. However, their vulnerabilities have raised great concern recently due to several large-scale blackouts around th...
-
Article
Open AccessA predictive nondestructive model for the covariation of tree height, diameter and stem volume scaling relationships
Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that the scaling exponents among plant height H, diameter D, and biomass M will covary across phyletically diverse species. However, the relationships between scaling exponen...
-
Article
Open AccessA Biomimetic Silk Fibroin/Sodium Alginate Composite Scaffold for Soft Tissue Engineering
A cytocompatible porous scaffold mimicking the properties of extracellular matrices (ECMs) has great potential in promoting cellular attachment and proliferation for tissue regeneration. A biomimetic scaffold ...
-
Article
Open AccessGenome-wide identification of the TIFY gene family in three cultivated Gossypium species and the expression of JAZ genes
TIFY proteins are plant-specific proteins containing TIFY, JAZ, PPD and ZML subfamilies. A total of 50, 54 and 28 members of the TIFY gene family in three cultivated cotton species—Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium b...
-
Article
Open AccessSymmetry mismatch-driven perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for perovskite/brownmillerite heterostructures
Grou** different transition metal oxides together by interface engineering is an important route toward emergent phenomenon. While most of the previous works focused on the interface effects in perovskite/pe...
-
Article
Open AccessHigh-throughput investigation of crystal-to-glass transformation of Ti–Ni–Cu ternary alloy
A high-throughput investigation of metallic glass formation via solid-state reaction was reported in this paper. Combinatorial multilayered thin-film chips covering the entire Ti–Ni–Cu ternary system were prep...
-
Article
Open AccessAptamer based high throughput colorimetric biosensor for detection of staphylococcus aureus
To develop a high throughput colorimetric biosensor for detection of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) based on specific aptamer and catalysis of dsDNA-SYBR Green I (SG I) complex. SA specific aptamer was immobilized on...
-
Article
Open AccessCoupling of H3K27me3 recognition with transcriptional repression through the BAH-PHD-CPL2 complex in Arabidopsis
Histone 3 Lys 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3)-mediated epigenetic silencing plays a critical role in multiple biological processes. However, the H3K27me3 recognition and transcriptional repression mechanisms are ...
-
Article
Open AccessSelective deletion of SHIP-1 in hematopoietic cells in mice leads to severe lung inflammation involving ILC2 cells
Src homology 2 domain–containing inositol 5-phosphatase 1 (SHIP-1) regulates the intracellular levels of phosphotidylinositol-3, 4, 5-trisphosphate, a phosphoinositide 3–kinase (PI3K) product. Emerging evidenc...
