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09 2015
A joint research team from the Single-Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guanghua School and Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) has developed a microbiota-based approach for predicting early childhood caries Microbiota are present everywhere in the biosphere. Can we employ them as indigenous “biosensors”, to diagnose and predict the health of their ecosystems? A joint research team from the Single-Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Biop...
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08 2015
A room-temperature, ultrafast methylamine-induced defect-healing (MIDH) technology was developed to gain better control over the crystallization of perovskite from solution. Owing to their unique optical, electric and magnetic properties as well as simple preparation and inexpensive fabrication routes, organolead halide perovskites have become an attractive light-absorber with a rapid improvement of efficiencies from ...
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08 2015
As a dominant terrestrial biomass, wood is used for myriad applications such as construction, paper making, pulping and as a feedstock for biofuels. It is challenging to elucidate the molecular mechanism that underlies wood formation and controls poplar vegetative growth phase. This is an efficient strategy to increase biomass utilization. As a dominant terrestrial biomass, wood is used for myriad applications such as construction, paper making, pulping and as a feedstock for biofuels. It is challenging to elucidate the molecular mechanism that underlies wood formation and controls ...
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07 2015
Natural peroxidases are of great practical significance in the fields of catalytic industry, pharmaceuticals, biosensor, food safety, environmental protection and genetic breeding. However, natural peroxidases as proteins suffer some disadvantages such as cockamamie steps for isolation and purification, as well as denaturation in complex conditions. As the efficient peroxidase alternatives, nanomaterial-based enzyme mimetics (nanozymes) have many unique properties including high stability, low cost, large surface-to-volume ratio and high catalytic activity. However, to date, most of the reported peroxidase mimetics need to work in acidic conditions (pH < 5.0) rather than nearly neutral conditions (pH 6.0-7.4), which would limit their practical applications. Natural peroxidases are of great practical significance in the fields of catalytic industry, pharmaceuticals, biosensor, food safety, environmental protection and genetic breeding. However, natural peroxidases as proteins suffer some disadvantages...
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06 2015
The ‘attached cultivation’ technique for microalgae production, combining the immobilized biofilm technology with proper light dilution strategies, has shown improved biomass production and photosynthetic efficiency over conventional open-pond suspended cultures. However, how light is transferred and distributed inside the biofilm has not been clearly defined yet.
Attached biofilm cultivation has been the hotspot of microalgae cultivation technology, which has demonstrated very high biomass productivity. However, it is still unknown why the culture of microalgae has high photosynthesis efficiency.
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06 2015
Monitoring Alkane Synthesis with Fluorescent Biosensor Producing aliphatic hydrocarbon biofuels using microorganisms has been an attractive idea since the discovery of the natural alkane-producing species and various alkane synthesis pathways. Though many efforts have been made to improve the hydrocar...
