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The group of Xinhe BAO at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has designed a series of graphene-complexed 3d transition metals such as manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel and copper as catalytic material. They found that a graphene-complexed single iron center can directly convert methane to C1 oxygenate at room temperature with hydrogen peroxide as oxidant. DFT […]
Eleven students from Egypt, Botswana, Namibia and other African countries are presently involved in a desertification prevention and ecological restoration training group at CAS Gansu Provincial Sand Research Institute. They study China’s technologies on desertification prevention, such as fixing sand transport and recovery of plants, systematic construction of oasis and trunk protection. Japan JST China […]
A team from the University of Nebraska-Linconl and from Huazhong Agricultural University has found that violet cress oil contains up to 50 % of two C-24 fatty acids as components of their seed oil. The two fatty acids were named nebraskanic acid and wuhanic acid. The fatty acids may be linked to one another through […]
The team of LI Dong isolated two cocci, Paracoccus denitrificans Y5 and Habitatella paracoccus versutus D6 which could grow heterotrophically on glucose and ammonia and autotrophically on biogas slurry (CO2 as inorganic carbon source and ammonia nitrogen) under conditions of providing reducing power. The protein contents of strains Y5 and D6 was 67 – 74 […]
The team of LIU Jian at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has designed a submicron reactor of eggshell structure, loaded with metal nanoparticles into a zinc oxide-microporous carbon core shell (Pd&ZnO@carbon) which showed high selectivity (> 99%) in the hydrogenation of phenylacetylene to styrene. Conversion and selectivity were much higher compared to Pd/ZnO (2.2 times) […]
The largest China-built amphibian airplane, built mainly for large fire extinguishment and marine rescue, after successful completion of the first flight on December 24, 2017, was now stationed in Hubei Provincial Jingmen Zhanghe Airport. Japan JST China news, August 28, 2018
China Seed Group Co. and others are promoting the spread of hybrid wheat into countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan and have gained support from local farmers, an excellent example of China’s expansion through modern agricultural high-tech achievements. Wheat is one of the most important grains of the Belt and Road countries, with an […]
According to the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau, China will complete afforestation of 73,000 km2 each year, and set the forest ratio nationwide to 26% by 2035. By 2020, 200 national „forest cities“ will be built, including six forest city clusters and 20,000 forest settlements. Cultivating high-quality seedlings will guarantee forest conservation and preservation rate. […]
The group of SUN Jibin at Tianjins Institute of Industrial Biotechnology rationally designed and experimentally engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum to serve as a methanol-dependent synthetic methylotroph. The cell growth of the methanol-dependent strain relies on co-utilization of methanol and xylose, and methanol is an indispensable carbon source. Due to the methanol-dependent characteristic, adaptive laboratory evolution was successfully […]
A team at Tianjin and Chongqing supported by CAE Academician QI Jiangxing presented a chip set consisting of a visible light optoelectronic front-end chip and a digital baseband chip. It can support high-speed transmission of Gbits per second, and is fully compatible with mainstream high-speed interface protocol standards. It can support indoor ultra-wideband information networks, […]