Cuticles protect plants from water loss and pathogen attack. We address here the functional significance of SlGRAS9, SlZHD17, and SlMBP3 in regulating cutin formation in tomato fruit. The study unveils the role of the multipartite "SlGRAS9-SlZHD17-SlMBP3-SlMIXTA-like" transcription factor module in cutin biosynthesis.
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January 2025
Solar-driven CO-to-methanol conversion provides an intriguing route for both solar energy storage and CO mitigation. For scalable applications, near-unity methanol selectivity is highly desirable to reduce the energy and cost endowed by low-value byproducts and complex separation processes, but so far has not been achieved. Here we demonstrate a molecule/nanocarbon hybrid catalyst composed of carbon nanotube-supported molecularly dispersed cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc/CNT), which synergistically integrates high photothermal conversion capability for affording an optimal reaction temperature with homogeneous and intrinsically-efficient active sites, to achieve a catalytic activity of 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping high-performance Si-based light-emitting devices is the key step to realizing all-Si-based optical telecommunication. Usually, silica (SiO) as the host matrix is used to passivate silicon nanocrystals, and a strong quantum confinement effect can be observed due to the large band offset between Si and SiO (~8.9 eV).
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February 2023
Developing a bifunctional electrocatalyst with remarkable performance viable for overall water splitting is increasingly essential for industrial-scale renewable energy conversion. However, the current electrocatalyst still requires a large cell voltage to drive water splitting due to the unsuitable adsorption/desorption capacity of reaction intermediates, which seriously hinders the practical application of water splitting. Herein, a unique SiO/Ru nanosheet (NS) material was proposed as a high-performance electrocatalyst for overall water splitting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudies on the carrier transport characteristics of semiconductor nanomaterials are the important and interesting issues which are helpful for developing the next generation of optoelectronic devices. In this work, we fabricate B-doped Si nanocrystals/SiOmultilayers by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition with subsequent high temperature annealing. The electronic transport behaviors are studied via Hall measurements within a wide temperature range (30-660 K).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking layered two-dimensional materials can improve the performance of materials and provide more applications. In our paper, six configurations of AlN/MoSvdW heterostructures were constructed, the most stable structure was obtained by calculating the binding energy. On this basis, the effect of external vertical strain on AlN/MoSheterostructure was analyzed, the calculated results show that the optimal interlayer distance was 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBlue phosphorene (BlueP) has been widely researched recently as a potential material for novel photocatalytic and electronic devices. In this letter, due to its similar in-plane hexagonal lattice structure to MoS, BlueP/MoS van der Waals heterostructures were built in six configurations. The II-stacking configuration was the most stable due to the lowest binding energy obtained from the calculation results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlkali-activated copper and nickel slag cementitious materials (ACNCMs) are composite cementitious materials with CNS (copper and nickel slag) as the main materials and GGBFS (ground-granulated blast-furnace slag) as a mineral admixture. In this paper, the activity indexes of CNS with different grinding times were studied using CNS to replace a portion of cement. NaOH, NaSO, and NaSiO activators were used to study the alkaline solution of the CNS glass phase.
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