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and its allies are important edible and medicinal mushrooms in China. They are usually called Jiner () and have been cultivated on a commercial scale. However, due to the lack of DNA sequences from the holotype of , the taxonomic issues of the species complex are unresolved.
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Extreme Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea; Korea Institute of Science and Technology - Sungkyunkwan University Carbon-Neutral Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea; School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
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Department of Civil Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, A1B3X5. Electronic address:
Decanted oily wastewater is the generated stream associated with vessel-based skimming operations during offshore oil spill response. It contains a large amount of persistent, bio-accumulative, carcinogenic, and mutagenic oil contaminants, so it is critical to find effective ways to treat it. This study targets the decanted oily wastewater treatment by developing an integrated sand and activated carbon-based filtration approach.
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Extreme Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, 02792, Republic of Korea.
Floating microplastics (MPs) have recently become a major concern in marine pollution; however, current filter-based technology is hardly effective for directly removing such MPs from the water surface because of specific mesh size and clogging issues. This paper introduces a new skimming concept for removing floating MPs utilizing capillary force mediated by the elevation of a hydrophilic ratchet at the air-water interface. MPs floating near the ratchet surface are spontaneously forced toward the ratchet with a concave water meniscus, driven by the Cheerios effect.
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Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Birds commonly exploit environmental features such as columns of rising air and vertical windspeed gradients to lower the cost of flight. These environmental subsidies may be especially important for birds that forage via continuous flight, as seen in black skimmers. These birds forage through a unique behavior, called skimming, where they fly above the water surface with their mandible lowered into the water, catching fish on contact.
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