Introduction: Weeds seriously affect crop yield in global agricultural production. Paraquat (PQ), as one of low cost and highly effective herbicide, is forbidden or severely restricted in production and sales owing to its lethal toxicity to humans. Creating an efficient and bio-friendly PQ formulation is crucial to facilitate the open use of PQ in world's agriculture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper explores the development of elastic LiDAR technology, focusing specifically on key components relevant to solid target scanning applications. By analyzing its fundamentals and working mechanisms, the advantages of elastic LiDAR for precise measurement and environmental sensing are demonstrated. This paper emphasizes innovative advances in emitters and scanning systems, and examines the impact of optical design on performance and cost.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWelded cable composed of nickel-chromium (Ni-Cr) alloy and copper is a crucial component in the resistance heating technology used for heavy oil production. Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding was employed to join the copper and Ni-Cr alloy using copper filler wire, and the stability of the welded joint was analyzed under high-temperature service conditions. We examined the changes in the microstructure and properties of the welded joint after postweld heat treatment (PWHT) at 600 °C for 3, 6, and 12 days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, the safety issues of high-speed railways have remained severe. The intrusion of personnel or obstacles into the perimeter has often occurred in the past, causing derailment or parking, especially in the case of bad weather such as fog, haze, rain, etc. According to previous research, it is difficult for a single sensor to meet the application needs of all scenario, all weather, and all time domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe reaction rate of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) oxidation is controlled by the rate-limiting step in the total reaction process. This study proposes a novel strategy, by which the rate-limiting step of acetone oxidation is accelerated by enhanced chemical bond interaction with more electrons transfer through Al-substituted CeO loaded Pt (Pt/Al-CeO). Results indicate that the rate-limiting step in the process of acetone oxidation is the decomposition of acetic acid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeripheral sensory neurons widely innervate various tissues to continuously monitor and respond to environmental stimuli. Whether peripheral sensory neurons innervate the spleen and modulate splenic immune response remains poorly defined. Here, we demonstrate that nociceptive sensory nerve fibers extensively innervate the spleen along blood vessels and reach B cell zones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a generally existing component in industrial streams, HO usually inhibits the catalytic degradation efficiency of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) greatly. Here, we propose a novel strategy that accelerates the HO dissociation and facilitates positive feedbacks during VOC oxidation by fabricating citric acid (CA)-assisted Pt(K)-MnO/SiO (Pt-Mn/KS-CA). Results reveal that the complexation of carboxyl groups of citric acid with Mn cations leads to the formation of small MnO (4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough alternatives to mercury (Hg) are available in most products and industrial activities, Hg continues to be an ingredient in some products, including fluorescent lamps and electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). In this work, low-cost passive air samplers (PASs) were used to investigate the atmospheric Hg pollution in Zhongshan, a large industrial city and major hub of mercury-added product manufacturing in South China. The GEM concentrations in the atmosphere were measured for two weeks during the summer of 2019 at a total of 144 sites across Zhongshan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to enhance the catalytic activity and improve the stability of Mn-Al oxides in acetone oxidation, it is interesting to have found that modulating and accelerating the rate-limiting step by Al substitution rather than just mixing of Mn and Al is crucial for hydrocarbon efficient catalytic destruction. Here, a series of Mn-Al oxides with different Al substitution ratios were prepared by a scalable and facile hydrothermal-redox strategy. The reaction rate, selectivity, and stability of the representative α-MnO catalyst in acetone oxidation can be remarkably promoted by simple replacing of the partial framework Mn with Al, which changes the rate-limiting step from acetic acid dissociation to ethanol decomposition accelerated by HO molecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to enhance the role of Al in the materials, Al-substituted MnAlO catalysts were synthesized via the hydrothermal-redox method at different calcination temperatures for acetone oxidation. There were Al-substituted α-MnO and amorphous aluminum oxide existed with homogeneous dispersion of elements in the catalysts. The surface property, reaction rate, CO yield and water resistance of MnAlO catalysts were greatly affected by calcination temperatures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) is a high precision inertial navigation device, and it is necessary to ensure its reliability for effective use. However, the extracted fault features are easily distorted due to the interference of vibrations when the FOG is in operation. In order to minimize the influence of vibrations to the greatest extent, a fusion diagnosis method was proposed in this paper.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs one of the key components for active compliance control and human-robot collaboration, a six-axis force sensor is often used for a robot to obtain contact forces. However, a significant problem is the distortion between the contact forces and the data conveyed by the six-axis force sensor because of its zero drift, system error, and gravity of robot end-effector. To eliminate the above disturbances, an integrated compensation method is proposed, which uses a deep learning network and the least squares method to realize the zero-point prediction and tool load identification, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study explored the effects of varying the time of pulsed ultrasound (PUS) treatment on the physicochemical and textural properties of chicken myofibrillar protein (CMP) gel. The solubility rapidly increased at ≤ 6 min and then steadily decreased, while the particle size showed the opposite trend. At longer PUS treatment times, the total sulfhydryl(-SH)and reactive SH content of CMP gel all decreased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPoly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors offer a significant clinical benefit for triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) with BRCA1/2 mutation. However, the narrow clinical indication limits the development of PARP inhibitors. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibition sensitizes BRCA-proficient TNBC to PARP inhibition, which broadens the indication of PARP inhibitors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFabricating of economical transitional metal oxide-based materials with satisfied low-temperature catalytic performance and application perspective is still a challenge in deep degradation of VOCs. Here, Mn-Cu bimetallic oxides were facilely prepared by one-step hydrothermal-redox method, which displayed much higher catalytic activity in toluene oxidation than those synthesized by hydrolysis-driven redox-precipitation or co-precipitation approach. It is shown that the lattice defect and oxygen vacancy concentration over prepared materials can be tuned by controlling Cu/Mn molar ratio.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough already eliminated in most industrial processes, mercury, as an essential ingredient in all energy-efficient lighting technologies, is still used in fluorescent lamp manufacturing. This study was conducted to investigate the atmospheric pollution caused by fluorescent lamp production and assess the associated public health risk in a large industrial and commercial city of south China, Zhongshan, which is a major production hub of lighting products. Concentrations of total gaseous mercury (TGM) in the atmosphere were measured over a total of 342 sites in the industrial, commercial, and residential areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe high phase coherence between ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrahigh-stable optical frequency combs (OFCs) is of both scientific and technological relevance for telecommunication, timekeeping, astronomy, and metrology. Here, a photoelectric phase-locked loop (PLL) model with ultralow phase noise based on the optical-microwave phase detector technique has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A detailed mathematical model for tight, real-time phase synchronization of OFCs and microwaves is developed to investigate the feasibility and analyze the characteristics of the phase-coherent system.
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