The impact of thermal remediation on soil function has drawn increasing attention.So far,as the most active fraction of soil organic matter,the evolution of dissolved organic matter(DOM)during the thermal remediation ...The impact of thermal remediation on soil function has drawn increasing attention.So far,as the most active fraction of soil organic matter,the evolution of dissolved organic matter(DOM)during the thermal remediation lacks in-depth investigation,especially for the temperatures value below 100℃.In this study,a series of soil thermal treatment experiments was conducted at 30,60,and 90℃ during a 90-d period,where soil DOM concentration increased with heating temperature and duration.The molecular weight,functional groups content and aromaticity of DOM all decreased during the thermal treatment.The excitation-emission matrices(EEM)results suggested that humic acid-like substances transformed into fulvic acid-like substances(FIII/FV increased from 0.27 to 0.44)during the heating process,and five DOM components were further identified by EEM-PARAFAC.The change of DOM structures and components indicated the decline of DOM stability and hydrophilicity,and can potentially change the bioavailability and mobility.Elevated temperature also resulted in the decline of DOM complexation ability,which may be caused by the loss of binding sites due to the decrease of polar function groups,aromatic structures and hydrophilic components.This study provides valuable information about the evolution of DOM during thermal remediation,which would potentially change the fate of metal ions and the effectiveness of the post-treatment technologies in the treated region.展开更多
A series of laboratory investigations are conducted to analyze the effect of flocculant type on the spatial morphology and microstructural characteristics of flocs during the flocculation and settling of tailings.Four...A series of laboratory investigations are conducted to analyze the effect of flocculant type on the spatial morphology and microstructural characteristics of flocs during the flocculation and settling of tailings.Four flocculant types(i.e.,ZYZ,JYC-2,ZYD,and JYC-1)are considered in this study.The fractal characteristics and internal structures of tailings flocs with different flocculant types and settlement heights are analyzed by conducting scanning electron microscopy and X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning experiments based on the fractal theory.Results show that unclassified tailings flocs are irregular clusters with fractal characteristics,and the flocculation effect of the four flocculant types has the following trend:ZYZ>JYC-2>ZYD>JYC-1.The size and average grayscale value of tailings flocs decrease with the increase in settlement height.The average grayscale values at the top and bottom are 144 and 103,respectively.The settlement height remarkably affects the pore distribution pattern,as reflected in the constructed three-dimensional pore model of tailings flocs.The top part of flocs has relatively good penetration,whereas the bottom part of flocs has mostly dispersed pores.The number of pores increases exponentially with the increase in settlement height.By contrast,the size of pores initially increases and subsequently decreases with the increase in settlement height.展开更多
An efficient method that utilizes simple techniques,easy operation,and low-cost production to create flexible graphene-based materials is a worthy practical challenge.A rapid strategy for preparing flexible,functional...An efficient method that utilizes simple techniques,easy operation,and low-cost production to create flexible graphene-based materials is a worthy practical challenge.A rapid strategy for preparing flexible,functional graphene oxide(GO)is introduced using GO-ethanol dispersion filtration.The filtration process is highly efficient and drying time is significantly reduced by employing ethanol as solvent,due to the fact that ethanol is a volatile liquid.Freestanding GO papers can be harvested with ultralarge size(700 cm2),color variety,and writable characteristics.After reduction,N-doped graphene(NDG)papers still maintain good foldability with improved electric conductivity and porous structure.When used as an electrode for a supercapacitor,the flexible NDG paper device demonstrates good electrochemical performance even with size expansion and extreme double folding.Moreover,this NDG paper capacitor device shows a good electrosorption performance for capacitive deionization of sulfate and chromate in groundwater system.These flexible GO and NDG papers promise potential to facilitate the production of graphene-based materials for practical applications in energy and environmental related fields.展开更多
Microbial communities in sediment are an important indicator linking to environmental pollution in urban river systems.However,how the diversity and structure of bacterial communities in sediments from an urban river ...Microbial communities in sediment are an important indicator linking to environmental pollution in urban river systems.However,how the diversity and structure of bacterial communities in sediments from an urban river network respond to different environmental factors has not been well studied.The goal of this study was to understand the patterns of bacterial communities in sediments from a highly dense urbanized river network in the lower Yangtze River Delta by Illumina MiSeq sequencing.The correlations between bacterial communities,the environmental gradient and geographical distance were analyzed by redundancy analysis(RDA)and network methods.The diversity and richness of bacterial community in sediments increased from upstream to downstream consistently with the accumulation of nutrient in the urban river network.Bacterial community composition and structure showed obvious spatial changes,leading to two distinct groups,which were significantly related to the characteristics of nutrient and heavy metal in sediments.Humic substance,available nitrogen,available phosphorus,Zn,Cu,Hg and As were selected as the key environmental factors shaping the bacterial community in sediments based on RDA.The co-occurrence patterns of bacterial networks showed that positive interaction between bacterial communities increased but the connectivity among bacterial genera and stability of sediment ecosystem reduced under a higher content of nutrient and heavy metal in average.The sensitive and ubiquitous taxa with an overproportional response to key environmental factors were detected as indicator species,which provided a novel method for the prediction of the pollution risk of sediment in an urban river network.展开更多
Organic solar cells(OSCs)have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years due to their remarkable improvement in power conversion efficiency(PCE).However,the Golden Triangle(the balan...Organic solar cells(OSCs)have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years due to their remarkable improvement in power conversion efficiency(PCE).However,the Golden Triangle(the balance of efficiency-stability-cost)required for large-scale industrialization of OSCs still remains a great challenge.Here,a new nonfused-ring electron acceptor(NFREA)BF and its polymerized counterpart PBF were designed and synthesized,and their photovoltaic performance,storage stability and material cost were systematically investigated.When blended with a widely-used polymer donor PBDB-T,the PBFbased all-polymer solar cell(all-PSC)displayed a record high PCE of 12.61%for polymerized NFREAs(PNFREAs)with an excellent stability(95.2%of initial PCE after 800 h storage),superior to the BF counterpart.Impressively,PBF-based allPSC possesses the highest industrial figure-of-merit(i-FOM)value of 0.309 based on an efficiency-stability-cost evaluation,in comparison to several representative OSC systems(such as PM6:Y6 and PBDB-T:PZ1).This work provides an insight into the balance of efficiency,stability,and cost,and also indicates that the PNFREAs are promising materials toward the commercial application of OSCs.展开更多
The amygdala is an important hub for regulating emotions and is involved in the pathophysiology of many mental diseases,such as depression and anxiety.Meanwhile,the endocannabinoid system plays a crucial role in regul...The amygdala is an important hub for regulating emotions and is involved in the pathophysiology of many mental diseases,such as depression and anxiety.Meanwhile,the endocannabinoid system plays a crucial role in regulating emotions and mainly functions through the cannabinoid type-1 receptor(CB1R),which is strongly expressed in the amygdala of non-human primates(NHPs).However,it remains largely unknown how the CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs regulate mental diseases.Here,we investigated the role of CB1R by knocking down the cannabinoid receptor 1(CNR1)gene encoding CB1R in the amygdala of adult marmosets through regional delivery of AAV-SaCas9-gRNA.We found that CB1R knockdown in the amygdala induced anxiety-like behaviors,including disrupted night sleep,agitated psychomotor activity in new environments,and reduced social desire.Moreover,marmosets with CB1R-knockdown had up-regulated plasma cortisol levels.These results indicate that the knockdown of CB1Rs in the amygdala induces anxiety-like behaviors in marmosets,and this may be the mechanism underlying the regulation of anxiety by CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs.展开更多
The catalytic ozonation treatment of secondary biochemical effluent for papermaking wastewater by Ag-doped nickel ferrite was investigated.Ag-doped catalysts prepared by sol-gel method were characterized,illustrating ...The catalytic ozonation treatment of secondary biochemical effluent for papermaking wastewater by Ag-doped nickel ferrite was investigated.Ag-doped catalysts prepared by sol-gel method were characterized,illustrating that Ag entirely entered the crystalline of Ni Fe2O4 and changed the surface properties.The addition of catalyst enhanced the removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon.The results of gas chromatography-mass spectrometer,ultraviolet light absorbance at 254 nm and threedimensional fluorescence excitation-emission matrix suggested that aromatic compounds were efficiently degraded and toxic substances,such as dibutyl phthalate.In addition,the radical scavenging experiments confirmed the hydroxyl radicals acted as the main reactive oxygen species and the surface properties of catalysts played an important role in the reaction.Overall,this work validated potential applications of Ag-doped Ni Fe2O4 catalyzed ozonation process of biologically recalcitrant wastewater.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42077171).
文摘The impact of thermal remediation on soil function has drawn increasing attention.So far,as the most active fraction of soil organic matter,the evolution of dissolved organic matter(DOM)during the thermal remediation lacks in-depth investigation,especially for the temperatures value below 100℃.In this study,a series of soil thermal treatment experiments was conducted at 30,60,and 90℃ during a 90-d period,where soil DOM concentration increased with heating temperature and duration.The molecular weight,functional groups content and aromaticity of DOM all decreased during the thermal treatment.The excitation-emission matrices(EEM)results suggested that humic acid-like substances transformed into fulvic acid-like substances(FIII/FV increased from 0.27 to 0.44)during the heating process,and five DOM components were further identified by EEM-PARAFAC.The change of DOM structures and components indicated the decline of DOM stability and hydrophilicity,and can potentially change the bioavailability and mobility.Elevated temperature also resulted in the decline of DOM complexation ability,which may be caused by the loss of binding sites due to the decrease of polar function groups,aromatic structures and hydrophilic components.This study provides valuable information about the evolution of DOM during thermal remediation,which would potentially change the fate of metal ions and the effectiveness of the post-treatment technologies in the treated region.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51974012 and 51804017)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC0604602)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.FRF-BD-19-005A)the Opening Fund of State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics(No.LNM202009).
文摘A series of laboratory investigations are conducted to analyze the effect of flocculant type on the spatial morphology and microstructural characteristics of flocs during the flocculation and settling of tailings.Four flocculant types(i.e.,ZYZ,JYC-2,ZYD,and JYC-1)are considered in this study.The fractal characteristics and internal structures of tailings flocs with different flocculant types and settlement heights are analyzed by conducting scanning electron microscopy and X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning experiments based on the fractal theory.Results show that unclassified tailings flocs are irregular clusters with fractal characteristics,and the flocculation effect of the four flocculant types has the following trend:ZYZ>JYC-2>ZYD>JYC-1.The size and average grayscale value of tailings flocs decrease with the increase in settlement height.The average grayscale values at the top and bottom are 144 and 103,respectively.The settlement height remarkably affects the pore distribution pattern,as reflected in the constructed three-dimensional pore model of tailings flocs.The top part of flocs has relatively good penetration,whereas the bottom part of flocs has mostly dispersed pores.The number of pores increases exponentially with the increase in settlement height.By contrast,the size of pores initially increases and subsequently decreases with the increase in settlement height.
基金This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFE0102000)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41672236,41807184)Fang Zhang also acknowledges the support of Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST(2015QNRC001).
文摘An efficient method that utilizes simple techniques,easy operation,and low-cost production to create flexible graphene-based materials is a worthy practical challenge.A rapid strategy for preparing flexible,functional graphene oxide(GO)is introduced using GO-ethanol dispersion filtration.The filtration process is highly efficient and drying time is significantly reduced by employing ethanol as solvent,due to the fact that ethanol is a volatile liquid.Freestanding GO papers can be harvested with ultralarge size(700 cm2),color variety,and writable characteristics.After reduction,N-doped graphene(NDG)papers still maintain good foldability with improved electric conductivity and porous structure.When used as an electrode for a supercapacitor,the flexible NDG paper device demonstrates good electrochemical performance even with size expansion and extreme double folding.Moreover,this NDG paper capacitor device shows a good electrosorption performance for capacitive deionization of sulfate and chromate in groundwater system.These flexible GO and NDG papers promise potential to facilitate the production of graphene-based materials for practical applications in energy and environmental related fields.
基金the National Water Pollution Control and Treatment Science and Technology Major Project of China(No.2017ZX07205)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2017M620801)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41702262)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LY17D060004).
文摘Microbial communities in sediment are an important indicator linking to environmental pollution in urban river systems.However,how the diversity and structure of bacterial communities in sediments from an urban river network respond to different environmental factors has not been well studied.The goal of this study was to understand the patterns of bacterial communities in sediments from a highly dense urbanized river network in the lower Yangtze River Delta by Illumina MiSeq sequencing.The correlations between bacterial communities,the environmental gradient and geographical distance were analyzed by redundancy analysis(RDA)and network methods.The diversity and richness of bacterial community in sediments increased from upstream to downstream consistently with the accumulation of nutrient in the urban river network.Bacterial community composition and structure showed obvious spatial changes,leading to two distinct groups,which were significantly related to the characteristics of nutrient and heavy metal in sediments.Humic substance,available nitrogen,available phosphorus,Zn,Cu,Hg and As were selected as the key environmental factors shaping the bacterial community in sediments based on RDA.The co-occurrence patterns of bacterial networks showed that positive interaction between bacterial communities increased but the connectivity among bacterial genera and stability of sediment ecosystem reduced under a higher content of nutrient and heavy metal in average.The sensitive and ubiquitous taxa with an overproportional response to key environmental factors were detected as indicator species,which provided a novel method for the prediction of the pollution risk of sediment in an urban river network.
基金NSFC,Grant/Award Numbers:52120105006,52103352,51925306National Key R&D Program of China,Grant/Award Number:2018FYA 0305800Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant/Award Number:2022165。
文摘Organic solar cells(OSCs)have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years due to their remarkable improvement in power conversion efficiency(PCE).However,the Golden Triangle(the balance of efficiency-stability-cost)required for large-scale industrialization of OSCs still remains a great challenge.Here,a new nonfused-ring electron acceptor(NFREA)BF and its polymerized counterpart PBF were designed and synthesized,and their photovoltaic performance,storage stability and material cost were systematically investigated.When blended with a widely-used polymer donor PBDB-T,the PBFbased all-polymer solar cell(all-PSC)displayed a record high PCE of 12.61%for polymerized NFREAs(PNFREAs)with an excellent stability(95.2%of initial PCE after 800 h storage),superior to the BF counterpart.Impressively,PBF-based allPSC possesses the highest industrial figure-of-merit(i-FOM)value of 0.309 based on an efficiency-stability-cost evaluation,in comparison to several representative OSC systems(such as PM6:Y6 and PBDB-T:PZ1).This work provides an insight into the balance of efficiency,stability,and cost,and also indicates that the PNFREAs are promising materials toward the commercial application of OSCs.
基金supported by the Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation of China(LD22H090003)Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B030335001 and 2018B030334001)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871070,82090031,32071097,31871056,and 32170991)the Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province(2020C03009)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2021FZZX001-37)the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-057).
文摘The amygdala is an important hub for regulating emotions and is involved in the pathophysiology of many mental diseases,such as depression and anxiety.Meanwhile,the endocannabinoid system plays a crucial role in regulating emotions and mainly functions through the cannabinoid type-1 receptor(CB1R),which is strongly expressed in the amygdala of non-human primates(NHPs).However,it remains largely unknown how the CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs regulate mental diseases.Here,we investigated the role of CB1R by knocking down the cannabinoid receptor 1(CNR1)gene encoding CB1R in the amygdala of adult marmosets through regional delivery of AAV-SaCas9-gRNA.We found that CB1R knockdown in the amygdala induced anxiety-like behaviors,including disrupted night sleep,agitated psychomotor activity in new environments,and reduced social desire.Moreover,marmosets with CB1R-knockdown had up-regulated plasma cortisol levels.These results indicate that the knockdown of CB1Rs in the amygdala induces anxiety-like behaviors in marmosets,and this may be the mechanism underlying the regulation of anxiety by CB1Rs in the amygdala of NHPs.
基金supported by National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFC0406300)the operation for central university of Hohai University(No.2013/B18020148)A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions。
文摘The catalytic ozonation treatment of secondary biochemical effluent for papermaking wastewater by Ag-doped nickel ferrite was investigated.Ag-doped catalysts prepared by sol-gel method were characterized,illustrating that Ag entirely entered the crystalline of Ni Fe2O4 and changed the surface properties.The addition of catalyst enhanced the removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon.The results of gas chromatography-mass spectrometer,ultraviolet light absorbance at 254 nm and threedimensional fluorescence excitation-emission matrix suggested that aromatic compounds were efficiently degraded and toxic substances,such as dibutyl phthalate.In addition,the radical scavenging experiments confirmed the hydroxyl radicals acted as the main reactive oxygen species and the surface properties of catalysts played an important role in the reaction.Overall,this work validated potential applications of Ag-doped Ni Fe2O4 catalyzed ozonation process of biologically recalcitrant wastewater.
