Ecological purification in a reservoir is an important strategy to control the level of nutrients in water.The bacterial community of such a reservoir is the main agent for pollutant degradation,which has not been ful...Ecological purification in a reservoir is an important strategy to control the level of nutrients in water.The bacterial community of such a reservoir is the main agent for pollutant degradation,which has not been fully documented.Taking the Jinze Reservoir,a freshwater source for Shanghai,China as the case,its spatial distributions of water and sediment bacteria were determined using 16S rRNA gene-based Illumina MiSeq sequencing,and the environmental parameters were analyzed.The reservoir takes natural river water and functions as an ecological purification system,consisting of three functional zones,i.e.,pretreatment zone,ecological purification zone,and ecological sustaining zone.Results show that the concentrations of both total nitrogen(TN)and total phosphorus(TP)decreased considerably after the ecological treatment,and the concentration of dissolved oxygen(DO)in the ecological purification zone was boosted from that before pretreatment.In addition,patterns of bacterial communities in both water and sediment were similar and consisted of mainly Proteobacteria,Actinobacteria,and Bacteroidetes.However,difference in water bacterial composition was distinct in each functional zone,whereas the bacterial communities in sediment changed only slightly among sediment samples.Network analysis revealed nonrandom co-occurrence patterns of bacterial community composition in water and sediment,and Pseudomonas,unclassified Comamonadaceae,Variovorax,and Dechloromonas were the key taxa in the co-occurrence network.The bacterial taxa from the same module of the network had strong ecological connections,participated in C-cycles,and shared common trophic properties.PICRUSt analysis showed that bacteria were involved potentially in various essential processes;and the abundance of predicted xenobiotic biodegradation genes showed a decreasing trend in water samples from the inlet to the outlet of the reservoir.These results improve our current knowledge of the spatial distribution of bacteria in water and sediment in ecological purification reservoirs.展开更多
Integrating smart functions into one flexible electronic is vastly valuable in improving their working performances and broadening applications.Here,this work reports a ultraflexible,highly efficient electromagnetic i...Integrating smart functions into one flexible electronic is vastly valuable in improving their working performances and broadening applications.Here,this work reports a ultraflexible,highly efficient electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding,and self-healable triboelectric nanogenerator(TENG)that is assembled by modified Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) MXene(m-MXene)-based nanocomposite elastomers.Benefitting from the excellent electronegativity of m-MXene,the single-electrode mode-based TENG can generate high open-circuit voltage(V_(oc))oscillating between-65 and 245 V,high short-circuit current(I_(sc))of 29 μA,and an instantaneously maximum peak power density of 1150 mW m^(-2) that can power twenty light-emitting diodes(LEDs).Moreover,the resultant TENG possesses outstanding EMI shielding performance with the maximum shielding effectiveness of 48.1 dB in the X-band.The enhanced shielding capability is dominated by the electromagnetic absorption owning to high conduction loss in m-MXene network,multiple reflections between m-MXene sheets,and polarization effect on the surface of m-MXene sheets.Additionally,a self-powered wearable sensor is fabricated based on the as-prepared TENG.The sensor shows an intrinsic healing ability with healing efficiency of 98.2% and can accurately detect the human large-scale motions and delicate physical signal.This work provides an enhanced way to fabricate the wearable electronics integrated with smart functions,and the reported MXene-based TENG may have a broad prospect in the fields of aerospace,artificial intelligence,and healthcare systems.展开更多
The pollution caused by agricultural production poses a threat to the ecological integrity of river ecosystems,altering the structure and function of river ecosystems.Differences in microbial community structure provi...The pollution caused by agricultural production poses a threat to the ecological integrity of river ecosystems,altering the structure and function of river ecosystems.Differences in microbial community structure provide useful information about the impact of agricultural pollution on the biological integrity of ecosystems,but generally convey little information regarding ecosystem functions.In this study,using Illumina MiSeq sequencing technology based on the 16 S rRNA gene,river sediment samples associated with four different types of agricultural pollution were comprehensively analyzed.The results show that the total organic carbon(TOC)content was highest at the YZS site(animal husbandry sewage)among the assayed sites,but the species richness and uniformity were lowest at this site,which may have been caused by the high nutrient source of the sewage.Furthermore,in the three YZS samples affected by the long-term discharge of aquaculture tail-water,the unique genus Dechloromonas and the genus Candidatus-Competitor were observed,which are strongly correlated with phosphorus conversion.The formation of network modules may correspond to the coexistence of functional bacteria accustomed to multiple niche combinations under different agricultural pollution conditions in river sediments.According to the PICRUSt functional prediction,the bacterial community in the agricultural polluted river sediment primarily harbored 46 subfunctions,exhibiting richness of functions.Overall,our results provide a more comprehensive understanding of the structure and ecological processes associated with the aggregation of bacterial communities,which is beneficial for the management of river environments.展开更多
基金Supported by the Key Program in the Youth Elite Support Plan in Universities of Anhui Province(No.gxyqZD2020046)the Key Program in the Key University Science Research Project of Anhui Province(No.KJ2020A0716)the Key Research and Development Program of Anhui Province(No.202004i07020010)。
文摘Ecological purification in a reservoir is an important strategy to control the level of nutrients in water.The bacterial community of such a reservoir is the main agent for pollutant degradation,which has not been fully documented.Taking the Jinze Reservoir,a freshwater source for Shanghai,China as the case,its spatial distributions of water and sediment bacteria were determined using 16S rRNA gene-based Illumina MiSeq sequencing,and the environmental parameters were analyzed.The reservoir takes natural river water and functions as an ecological purification system,consisting of three functional zones,i.e.,pretreatment zone,ecological purification zone,and ecological sustaining zone.Results show that the concentrations of both total nitrogen(TN)and total phosphorus(TP)decreased considerably after the ecological treatment,and the concentration of dissolved oxygen(DO)in the ecological purification zone was boosted from that before pretreatment.In addition,patterns of bacterial communities in both water and sediment were similar and consisted of mainly Proteobacteria,Actinobacteria,and Bacteroidetes.However,difference in water bacterial composition was distinct in each functional zone,whereas the bacterial communities in sediment changed only slightly among sediment samples.Network analysis revealed nonrandom co-occurrence patterns of bacterial community composition in water and sediment,and Pseudomonas,unclassified Comamonadaceae,Variovorax,and Dechloromonas were the key taxa in the co-occurrence network.The bacterial taxa from the same module of the network had strong ecological connections,participated in C-cycles,and shared common trophic properties.PICRUSt analysis showed that bacteria were involved potentially in various essential processes;and the abundance of predicted xenobiotic biodegradation genes showed a decreasing trend in water samples from the inlet to the outlet of the reservoir.These results improve our current knowledge of the spatial distribution of bacteria in water and sediment in ecological purification reservoirs.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21909230)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(No.2018BSHEDZZ208)+1 种基金the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2017M623235)the Analytical&Testing Center of Northwestern Polytechnical University for SEM and TEM characterizations and the Open Teat Foundation(No.2020T022)。
文摘Integrating smart functions into one flexible electronic is vastly valuable in improving their working performances and broadening applications.Here,this work reports a ultraflexible,highly efficient electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding,and self-healable triboelectric nanogenerator(TENG)that is assembled by modified Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) MXene(m-MXene)-based nanocomposite elastomers.Benefitting from the excellent electronegativity of m-MXene,the single-electrode mode-based TENG can generate high open-circuit voltage(V_(oc))oscillating between-65 and 245 V,high short-circuit current(I_(sc))of 29 μA,and an instantaneously maximum peak power density of 1150 mW m^(-2) that can power twenty light-emitting diodes(LEDs).Moreover,the resultant TENG possesses outstanding EMI shielding performance with the maximum shielding effectiveness of 48.1 dB in the X-band.The enhanced shielding capability is dominated by the electromagnetic absorption owning to high conduction loss in m-MXene network,multiple reflections between m-MXene sheets,and polarization effect on the surface of m-MXene sheets.Additionally,a self-powered wearable sensor is fabricated based on the as-prepared TENG.The sensor shows an intrinsic healing ability with healing efficiency of 98.2% and can accurately detect the human large-scale motions and delicate physical signal.This work provides an enhanced way to fabricate the wearable electronics integrated with smart functions,and the reported MXene-based TENG may have a broad prospect in the fields of aerospace,artificial intelligence,and healthcare systems.
基金the Key University Science Research Project of Anhui Province(No.KJ2019A0641)the Key Research and development program of Anhui Province(No.202004i07020010)+1 种基金the Resistance in Winter Wheat Region in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River(No.2017YFD0100800)the Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences Research and Application Innovation Team Project of Aquaculture Water Environment(No.2020YL043)。
文摘The pollution caused by agricultural production poses a threat to the ecological integrity of river ecosystems,altering the structure and function of river ecosystems.Differences in microbial community structure provide useful information about the impact of agricultural pollution on the biological integrity of ecosystems,but generally convey little information regarding ecosystem functions.In this study,using Illumina MiSeq sequencing technology based on the 16 S rRNA gene,river sediment samples associated with four different types of agricultural pollution were comprehensively analyzed.The results show that the total organic carbon(TOC)content was highest at the YZS site(animal husbandry sewage)among the assayed sites,but the species richness and uniformity were lowest at this site,which may have been caused by the high nutrient source of the sewage.Furthermore,in the three YZS samples affected by the long-term discharge of aquaculture tail-water,the unique genus Dechloromonas and the genus Candidatus-Competitor were observed,which are strongly correlated with phosphorus conversion.The formation of network modules may correspond to the coexistence of functional bacteria accustomed to multiple niche combinations under different agricultural pollution conditions in river sediments.According to the PICRUSt functional prediction,the bacterial community in the agricultural polluted river sediment primarily harbored 46 subfunctions,exhibiting richness of functions.Overall,our results provide a more comprehensive understanding of the structure and ecological processes associated with the aggregation of bacterial communities,which is beneficial for the management of river environments.
