After the Paris Climate Conference (Conference of the Paris COP: 21), most developing countries face challenges to attain a sustainable economy and carbon neutrality targets with minimum CO2 ...emission. The next eleven (N-11) economies are in line with the global phenomena of environmental degradation; very few studies have analyzed the effects of green technology innovation on environmental degradation in N-11 countries. Therefore, the present study addresses the gap and examines green technology innovation and renewable energy with CO2 emission from 1980 to 2018. The present study considers all the issues related to panel data analysis, such as cross-sectional dependence, stationarity, heterogeneity in slope parameters, and structural break with advanced panel estimators. Moreover, the cross-sectional augmented autoregressive distributed lags (CS-ARDL) test results show the negative and significant impact of green technology innovation and renewable energy with CO2 emission in the long run. However, the short-run association of green technology innovation is not significant—further, the results endorsed by the robustness tests such as AMG and CCEMG. To reduce environmental deterioration in N-11 countries, governments are suggested implementing some policies to support green innovation technologies and renewable energy resources.
•We examine the effect of green innovation and renewable energy on CO2 emissions.•We applied advance cross-sectional augmented autoregressive distributed lags.•Green technology innovation shows a negative impact on CO2 emissions.•Renewable energy also shows a negative impact on CO2 emissions.•Green technology innovation is not significant for CO2 emissions in the short run.
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Graphene with massless Dirac fermions can have exceptionally strong third-order optical nonlinearities. Yet reported values of nonlinear optical susceptibilities for third-harmonic generation (THG), ...four-wave mixing (FWM) and self-phase modulation vary over six orders of magnitude. Such variation likely arises from frequency-dependent resonance effects of different processes in graphene under different doping. Here, we report an experimental study of THG and FWM in graphene using gate tuning to adjust the doping level and vary the resonant condition. We find that THG and sum-frequency FWM are strongly enhanced in heavily doped graphene, while the difference-frequency FWM appears just the opposite. Difference-frequency FWM exhibited a novel divergence towards the degenerate case in undoped graphene, leading to a giant enhancement of the nonlinearity. The results are well supported by theory. Our full understanding of the diverse nonlinearity of graphene paves the way towards future design of graphene-based nonlinear optoelectronic devices.
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Chemical
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-glycosylation has been well developed to improve stereoselectivity in recent years. Due to its high efficiency to build
C
-glycosides or
O
-cyclic compounds,
C
-glycosylation has found ...widespread use in the synthesis of biologically active molecules. This review highlights the
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-glycosylation methods that have been practised in the total synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals in the past decade.
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-Glycosylation has found widespread use in the synthesis of biomedically important natural products and pharmaceuticals.
The fabrication of nanowire (NW)‐based flexible electronics including wearable energy storage devices, flexible displays, electrical sensors, and health monitors has received great attention both in ...fundamental research and market requirements in our daily lives. Other than a disordered state after synthesis, NWs with designed and hierarchical structures would not only optimize the intrinsic performance, but also create new physical and chemical properties, and integration of individual NWs into well‐defined structures over large areas is one of the most promising strategies to optimize the performance of NW‐based flexible electronics. Here, the recent developments and achievements made in the field of flexible electronics composed of integrated NW structures are presented. The different assembly strategies for the construction of 1D, 2D, and 3D NW assemblies, especially the NW coassembly process for 2D NW assemblies, are comprehensively discussed. The improvements of different NW assemblies on flexible electronics structure and performance are described in detail to elucidate the advantages of well‐defined NW assemblies. Finally, a short summary and outlook for future challenges and perspectives in this field are presented.
Directional assembly of nanowires into 1D, 2D, and 3D assemblies toward flexible electronic devices benefits many potential applications. 1D assemblies with fiber structures can be used as flexible electronics for textiles, 2D assemblies can be used as transparent electrodes or units for logic circuits, and 3D assemblies can be used in the fabrication of pressure sensors or high‐performance energy‐storage devices.
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Fifteen transcription factors in the CAMTA (calmodulin binding transcription activator) family of soybean were reported to differentially regulate in multiple stresses; however, their functional ...analyses had not yet been attempted. To characterize their role in stresses, we first comprehensively analyzed the
family in silico and thereafter determined their expression pattern under drought. The bioinformatics analysis revealed multiple stress-related
-regulatory elements including
,
,
and
, 10 unique miRNA (microRNA) targets in
transcripts and 48 proteins in GmCAMTAs' interaction network. We then cloned the 2769 bp CDS (coding sequence) of
in an expression vector and overexpressed in soybean and Arabidopsis through
-mediated transformation. The T3 (Transgenic generation 3) stably transformed homozygous lines of Arabidopsis exhibited enhanced tolerance to drought in soil as well as on MS (Murashige and Skoog) media containing mannitol. In their drought assay, the average survival rate of transgenic Arabidopsis lines OE5 and OE12 (Overexpression Line 5 and Line 12) was 83.66% and 87.87%, respectively, which was ~30% higher than that of wild type. In addition, the germination and root length assays as well as physiological indexes such as proline and malondialdehyde contents, catalase activity and leakage of electrolytes affirmed the better performance of OE lines. Similarly,
overexpression in soybean promoted drought-efficient hairy roots in OE chimeric plants as compare to that of VC (Vector control). In parallel, the improved growth performance of OE in Hoagland-PEG (polyethylene glycol) and on MS-mannitol was revealed by their phenotypic, physiological and molecular measures. Furthermore, with the overexpression of
, the downstream genes including
,
,
and
were upregulated in Arabidopsis. Likewise, in soybean hairy roots,
,
and
were significantly upregulated as a result of
overexpression and majority of these upregulated genes in both plants possess CAMTA binding
motif in their promoters. Taken together, we report that
plays substantial role in tolerance of soybean against drought stress and could prove to be a novel candidate for engineering soybean and other plants against drought stress. Some research gaps were also identified for future studies to extend our comprehension of
-mediated stress regulatory mechanisms.
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•Systematic fundamental summary of thermoelectric coolers (TECs).•Detailed overview of TEC design, from materials to device engineering.•Deep theoretical understanding-based TEC ...performance discussion.•Pointing out the future research direction of TECs.
Traditional cooling technologies, employing cooling refrigerants, have caused severe ozone depletion and global warming. Alternatively, thermoelectric coolers, with the advantages of emission-free, noise-free, and environmentally friendly, have attracted extensive research interest and shown great application potential. Here, to render a systematic review on thermoelectric coolers, we firstly discuss the application potential from battery cooling to microchip cooling, and then summarize the key parameters to evaluate performance of thermoelectric coolers. After that, material suitability and device engineering strategies with enhanced performance are systematically overviewed from the physics, chemical, and material fundamentals. Finally, we point out the future directions of thermoelectric coolers from materials manufacturing to device design. This review can render systematic understanding and guidance to the cooling performance optimization and application field expansion of thermoelectric coolers.
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Intrauterine adhesion (IUA), and its severe form Asherman syndrome (Asherman’s syndrome), is a mysterious disease, often accompanied with severe clinical problems contributing to a significant ...impairment of reproductive function, such as menstrual disturbance (amenorrhea), infertility or recurrent pregnancy loss. Among these, its correlated infertility may be one of the most challenging problems. Although there are many etiologies for the development of IUA, uterine instrumentation is the main cause of IUA. Additionally, more complicated intrauterine surgeries can be performed by advanced technology, further increasing the risk of IUA. Strategies attempting to minimize the risk and reducing its severity are urgently needed. The current review will expand the level of our knowledge required to face the troublesome disease of IUA. It is separated into six sections, addressing the introduction of the normal cyclic endometrial repairing process and its abruption causing the formation of IUA; the etiology and prevalence of IUA; the diagnosis of IUA; the classification of IUA; the pathophysiology of IUA; and the primary prevention of IUA, including (1) delicate surgical techniques, such as the use of surgical instruments, energy systems, and pre-hysteroscopic management, (2) barrier methods, such as gels, intrauterine devices, intrauterine balloons, as well as membrane structures containing hyaluronate–carboxymethylcellulose or polyethylene oxide–sodium carboxymethylcellulose as anti-adhesive barrier.
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•Eu doping could enhance the SO2 resistance of Mn/TiO2 catalyst for SCR reaction.•The addition of Eu on Mn/TiO2 catalyst inhibited the formation of surface sulfate.•The SCR reaction ...(with SO2) over MnEu/TiO2 catalyst took place through L-H pathway.
Mn/TiO2 catalyst is a promising candidate for future utilization in low-temperature NH3-SCR reaction, but its bad resistance to SO2 is still a great challenge for practical application. In this study, Eu was successfully used as the additive to improve its resistance to SO2 under SCR conditions, while the pretreatment of Mn/TiO2 and MnEu/TiO2 catalyst by SO2 + O2 had a strong deactivation effect on them. In situ DRIFT study clarified that the deactivation of Mn/TiO2-S (SCR + SO2), Mn/TiO2-S (SO2 + O2) and MnEu/TiO2-S (SO2+O2) were mainly originated from the inhibited adsorption of NH3 and NOx species, as well as the formation of a large amount surface sulfate species on them, which had a strong blacking effect on the SCR reactions over the three catalysts via both E-R and L-H routes. After the addition of Eu, SCR reaction over MnEu/TiO2 catalyst with the existence of SO2 took place through L-H pathway, accompanied by the generation of less surface sulfate species, which brought about the excellent SO2 tolerance of MnEu/TiO2 catalyst under SCR conditions.
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Flexible Bi2Te3‐based thermoelectric devices can function as power generators for powering wearable electronics or chip‐sensors for internet‐of‐things. However, the unsatisfied performance of n‐type ...Bi2Te3 flexible thin films significantly limits their wide application. In this study, a novel thermal diffusion method is employed to fabricate n‐type Te‐embedded Bi2Te3 flexible thin films on flexible polyimide substrates, where Te embeddings can be achieved by tuning the thermal diffusion temperature and correspondingly result in an energy filtering effect at the Bi2Te3/Te interfaces. The energy filtering effect can lead to a high Seebeck coefficient ≈160 µV K−1 as well as high carrier mobility of ≈200 cm2 V−1 s−1 at room‐temperature. Consequently, an ultrahigh room‐temperature power factor of 14.65 µW cm−1 K−2 can be observed in the Te‐embedded Bi2Te3 flexible thin films prepared at the diffusion temperature of 623 K. A thermoelectric sensor is also assembled through integrating the n‐type Bi2Te3 flexible thin films with p‐type Sb2Te3 counterparts, which can fast reflect finger‐touch status and demonstrate the applicability of as‐prepared Te‐embedded Bi2Te3 flexible thin films. This study indicates that the thermal diffusion method is an effective way to fabricate high‐performance and applicable flexible Te‐embedded Bi2Te3‐based thin films.
In this study, flexible n‐type Bi2Te3‐based thin‐films are successfully prepared through facile thermal diffusion method and further induce Te/Bi2Te3 heterojunctions and energy filtering effect at the Te/Bi2Te3 interfaces to optimize the thermoelectric performance through tuning the diffusion temperature.
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Ontologies are often viewed as the answer to the need for interoperable semantics in modern information systems. The explosion of textual information on the Read/Write Web coupled with the increasing ...demand for ontologies to power the Semantic Web have made (semi-)automatic ontology learning from text a very promising research area. This together with the advanced state in related areas, such as natural language processing, have fueled research into ontology learning over the past decade. This survey looks at how far we have come since the turn of the millennium and discusses the remaining challenges that will define the research directions in this area in the near future.
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