Study on the Formation Mechanism of a Core-Shell Structure during Graphitization of Anthracite.

Graphite is a revolutionary material, and the development of synthetic graphite could potentially solve the shortage of natural graphite in the future. In this paper, the formation of core-shell-structured synthetic graphite prepared from an anthracite-FeO mixture was systematically investigated by a two-step method. First, heat treatment was performed on a layer of almandine (3FeO·AlO·3SiO) particles to obtain a large quantity of uniform-sized glass-phase spheroids.

Complete chloroplast genome of (Sterculiaceae), an endemic wild tree from South China.

(Sterculiaceae), a wild endangered tree that grows in South China, is an economically important species. There is scant information available on the chloroplast (cp) genome of this species. The present study is the first to analyze the cp genome of using genome skimming.