Bioinspired Flexible Epidermal Electronics with Superior Gas Permeability and Unidirectional Water Transport Capability.

Epidermal electronics are extensively used in human-machine interfaces and wearable sensors. However, managing sweat and gas permeability at the skin-device interface to ensure comfort and prevent skin damage during prolonged use remains a key challenge. Inspired by the fog collection mechanism of cactus spines and trichomes, this work develops a biomimetic, flexible epidermal electronic device with high gas permeability and unidirectional water transport capability.

How does working time impact perceived mental disorders? New insights into the U-shaped relationship.

Based on a large-scale nationally representative survey in China, this paper uses the exogenous impact of automation on working hours as the instrumental variable to examine working time's impact on perceived mental disorders, on the basis of dealing with endogeneity. Different from existing literature, it is found that the impact of working time on perceived mental disorders is U-shaped, rather than linear. Mental disorders firstly decrease with working hours.

Impacts of workplace automation on energy poverty: The new challenge of achieving SDG 7 in the context of technological revolution.

This paper systematically examines how workplace automation impacts energy poverty from a demand-side perspective, revealing a new challenge for Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) in the context of technological revolution. Our research demonstrates that workplace automation significantly increases household energy poverty. This finding is robust when using the instrumental variable approach to tackle endogeneity, as well as employing different automation and energy poverty measures, placebo tests, and machine learning methods for robustness checks.

The Nonlinear Relationship Between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Perceived Depression in the Chinese Population.

Purpose: Existing studies on the association between BMI and depression report conflicting results with some demonstrating a positive relationship, while others a negative link or insignificant correlation. Very limited research on the nonlinear relationship between BMI and depression has yet to clarify the reliability and robustness of the potential nonlinearity and whether a more complex association exists. This paper aims to systematically investigate the nonlinear relationship between the two factors applying rigorous statistical methods, as well as explore the heterogeneity of their association.

Facile one-step synthesis of 3D honeycomb-like porous chitosan bead inlaid with MnFe bimetallic oxide nanoparticles for enhanced degradation of dye pollutant.

Developing a sustainable, efficient and recyclable heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst is important to wastewater treatment. Herein, well-dispersed MnO and FeO nanoparticles inlaid in chitosan beads (MnO-FeO/CH) was firstly fabricated and employed in the degradation of methylene blue (MB). The bead was prepared via a facile one-step method by dropwise addition of chitosan-metal salt solution into alkaline solution.

Valorization of humin as a glucose derivative to fabricate a porous carbon catalyst for esterification and hydroxyalkylation/alkylation.

A challenge of today's industry is to transform low-value side products into more value-added materials. The acid-catalyzed conversion of hemi(cellulose) to platform chemicals in green chemical/fuel production and biorefinery yields large formation of insoluble byproduct called humin. Herein, humin obtained from dehydration of glucose was transformed into a novel class of effective carbonaceous solid acid catalyst for the first time via low-temperature pyrolysis followed by sulfonation.