Tuning wettability and electrical conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the modified Hummers method.

Partial oxidation of nanocarbon materials is one of the most straightforward methods to improve their compatibility with other materials, which widens its application potential. This work studied how the microstructure and properties of high crystallinity single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can be tailored by applying the modified Hummers method. The influence of temperature (0, 18, 40 °C), reaction time (0 min to 7 h), and the amount of KMnO oxidant was monitored.

Fluorometric and colorimetric detection of cerium(IV) ion using carbon dots and bathophenanthroline-disulfonate-ferrum(II) complex.

Cerium, an abundant lanthanide element, is widely used in human industry. The accumulation of Ce ion, however, will damage the environment and biological organism. Therefore, its facile detection is highly needed.

[The inaugural meeting of Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a milestone in the career of TCM in New China].

On 19 October, 1955, the Founding Congress of Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine was held at the Academy Hall located at Beixiange, Guang'anmen Nei, Beijing. The main issues of the Congress include: the report of Academy's preparatory process, speeches delivered by leading comrades, announcement of Academy's leading group, awards granting, and speeches of the guests. Nowadays, by reviewing the past 60 years, the high attention to the TCM career paid by the Party and people's government still can be sensed.

[The campaign of returning to the ancient in sphygmology in the Republican Period as viewed from Mai xue cong shu (Series of Pulse Taking)].

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the models of "master and apprentice" and "physician of long family tradition for generations" were the main ways for teaching medical knowledge. With the rapid amassment of medical books in the Due to the rapid transmission of western science and technology into China in the Republican period, the art of pulse taking had been treated as unscientific. Yao Xinyuan advocated the recovery of ancient pulse taking of the three-portion approach, i.