Combustion properties and pollutant analysis of coal-blended bio-heavy oil fuel.

Excessive carbon-dioxide emissions drive global climate change and environmental challenges. Integrating renewable biomass fuels with coal in power units is crucial for achieving low-carbon emission reductions. Coal blending with bio-heavy oil enhances the combustion calorific value of the fuel, improves combustion characteristics, and decreases pollutant emissions.

Fabricating a type II heterojunction by growing lead-free perovskite CsAgBiBr on graphite-like g-CN nanosheets for enhanced photocatalytic CO reduction.

Perovskite-based photocatalysts have received significant attention for converting CO into fuels, such as CO, CH or long alkyl chains. However, the use of these catalysts is plagued by several limitations, such as poor stability, lead toxicity, and inadequate conversion efficiency due to the rapid recombination of carriers. Herein, a g-CN@CsAgBiBr (CABB) type II heterojunction photocatalyst has been prepared by growing lead-free CABB nanocrystals (10-14 nm) on the graphite-like carbon nitride (g-CN) nanosheet using the crystallization method.

Imaging Vital and Non-vital Brain Pericytes in Brain Slices following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Pericytes are crucial mural cells situated within cerebral microcirculation, pivotal in actively modulating cerebral blood flow via contractility adjustments. Conventionally, their contractility is gauged by observing morphological shifts and nearby capillary diameter changes under specific circumstances. Yet, post-tissue fixation, evaluating vitality and ensuing pericyte contractility of imaged brain pericytes becomes compromised.

Design and Performance Evaluation of Integrating the Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) for a Silicon Arc Furnace with Plasma Gasification for Medical Waste.

A hybrid scheme integrating the current waste heat recovery system (WHRS) for a silicon arc furnace with plasma gasification for medical waste is proposed. Combustible syngas converted from medical waste is used to drive the gas turbine for power generation, and waste heat is recovered from the raw syngas and exhaust gas from the gas turbine for auxiliary heating of steam and feed water in the WHRS. Meanwhile, the plasma gasifier can also achieve a harmless disposal of the hazardous fine silica particles generated in polysilicon production.

Label-Free and Template-Free Chemiluminescent Biosensor for Sensitive Detection of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Genomic DNA.

5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is a modified base present at low levels in various mammalian cells, and it plays essential roles in gene expression, DNA demethylation, and genomic reprogramming. Herein, we develop a label-free and template-free chemiluminescent biosensor for sensitive detection of 5hmC in genomic DNAs based on 5hmC-specific glucosylation, periodate (IO) oxidation, biotinylation, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-assisted isothermal amplification strategy, which we term hmC-GLIB-IAS. This hmC-GLIB-IAS exhibits distinct advantages of bisulfite-free, improved sensitivity, and genome-wide analysis of 5hmC at constant reaction temperature without the involvement of either specially labeled nucleic acid probes or specific templates for signal amplification.