Publications by authors named "Kuang Cao"

Al-Mg alloys are widely used as important engineering structural materials in aerospace engineering, transportation systems, and structural constructions due to their low density, high specific strength, corrosion resistance, welding capability, fatigue strength, and cost-effectiveness. However, the conventional Al-Mg alloys can no longer fully satisfy the demands of practical production due to difficulties caused by many defects. The high strength of Al-Mg alloys as non-heat treatment precipitation-strengthened alloys is achieved primarily by solid solution strengthening along with work hardening rather than precipitation strengthening.

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In order to explain reasons why flue-gas CO (normally containing high CO) enhanced carbon fixation and lipids synthesis with increased photochemical electron production in microalgae cells. Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) was combined with proteomics and phosphorylation modification mics to clarify mechanisms of lipids synthesis at protein and organelle levels in Chlorella pyrenoidosa cells cultivated with high CO concentration (15 % v/v). The volumes of chloroplast and endoplasmic reticulum in subcellular organelles increased by 47 % and 306 %, respectively, compared with the control, which improved conversion efficiency of starch grains to lipids (lipid content increased by 57 %).

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To determine the optimal CO concentration for microalgal biomass cultivated with industrial flue gas and improve carbon fixation capacity and biomass production. Functional metabolism pathways of significantly regulated genes in Nannochloropsis oceanica (N. oceanica) with various nitrogen/phosphorus (N/P) nutrients for CO fixation were comprehensively clarified.

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In order to improve CO biofixation efficiency of microalgae cultivated with coal-chemical flue gas, CO gradient domestication was employed to improve high-concentration CO tolerance and photoautotrophic growth of acid-tolerant Euglena gracilis. The dried biomass yield of photoautotrophic growth of E.gracilis increased from 1.

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To clarify dynamic changes of organelle microstructures in Chlorella pyrenoidosa cells during photosynthetic growth with CO fixation, three-dimensional (3D) organelle microstructures in three growth periods of meristem, elongation, and maturity were quantitatively determined and comprehensively reconstructed with focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM). The single round-pancake mitochondria in each cell split into a dumbbell and then into a circular ring, while the barycenter distance of mitochondria to chloroplast and nucleus was reduced to 45.5% and 88.

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