Spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emission intensity and the driving effect of green technology innovation: Evidence from China.

The "double carbon" goal has proposed new "green" requirements for China's low-carbon economic development, and green technology innovation (GTI) has become an important way to coordinate economic and sustainable development. The study explores the spatial-temporal evolution of carbon emission intensity (CEI) of Chinese prefecture-level cities, analyses the nonlinear impact of GTI on the CEI by constructing a panel quantile model, and draws the following conclusions. First, CEI shows a decreasing trend from 2006 to 2019 and a spatial distribution pattern of "high in the north and low in the south, high in the west and low in the east".

Few-layer InPSe nanoflakes for high detectivity photodetectors.

Metal phosphorus trichalcogenides (MPX) have attracted extensive attention as promising two-dimensional (2D) layered materials in future electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here, for the first time, few-layer InPSe nanoflakes have been successfully exfoliated from home-made high-quality single crystals. The InPSe crystal belongs to the R3 space group, and possesses a weak van der Waals force between the adjacent layers and a direct bandgap of 1.

Expression and Characteristics of an Endoglucanase from Trichoderma atroviride (TaEGII) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Endoglucanase secreted by the fungus Trichoderma atroviride is a kind of cellulase. An endoglucanase gene egII was cloned from T. atroviride AS3.

A new torsion control mechanism induced by blood circulation in dragonfly wings.

A new mechanism to generate the torque of flapping dragonfly wings is disclosed in this paper. The concept is inspired by blood circulation in insect wings. The blood flowing in veins induces Coriolis forces in the flapping wings.

Effects of blood in veins of dragonfly wing on the vibration characteristics.

How the blood in veins of dragonfly wing affects its vibration characteristics is investigated. Based on the experimental results of the wing's morphology and microstructures, including the veins, the membranes and the pterostigma, accurate three-dimensional finite element models of the dragonfly forewing are developed. Considering the blood in veins, the total mass, mass distribution and the moments of inertia of the wing are studied.

Understanding the formation of CuS concave superstructures with peroxidase-like activity.

Copper sulfide (CuS) concave polyhedral superstructures (CPSs) have been successfully prepared in an ethanolic solution by a simple solvothermal reaction without the use of surfactants or templates. Two typical well defined, high symmetry CuS concave polyhedrons, forming a concave truncated cuboctahedron and icosahedron were prepared. The effect of the reaction time, temperature and different Cu ion and sulfur sources on the formation of CuS CPSs were investigated and a possible formation mechanism was proposed and discussed based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Assembly modes of dragonfly wings.

The assembly modes of dragonfly wings are observed through FEG-ESEM. Different from airplane wings, dragonfly wings are found to be assembled through smooth transition mode and global package mode. First, at the vein/membrane conjunctive site, the membrane is divided into upper and lower portions from the center layer and transited smoothly to the vein.