Nutrient availability affects soil microbial activity, thereby regulating soil carbon (C) formation, turnover and storage. Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs are altering soil nutrients, but their co...
Nutrient availability affects soil microbial activity, thereby regulating soil carbon (C) formation, turnover and storage. Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs are altering soil nutrients, but their consequences for soil organic carbon (SOC) and its components in P-limited tropical forests are poorly understood. We conducted a 13-year-long nutrient addition experiment in two tropical montane forests to investigate the effects of N and P additions on soil particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC). Long-term high-N addition increased soil POC concentration and its contribution to SOC through altering edaphic conditions (i.e., soil acidification and nutrient imbalance) and suppressing microbial biomass C together with activity of lignin-modifying enzymes. However, P addition had minor effects on POC pool, which was mainly attributed to alleviate P limitation and stimulate microbial decomposition. In addition, N and P additions did not significantly change soil MAOC in both forests. Our results indicated that soil microorganisms play key roles in regulating soil C cycling through extracellular enzymes under N and P additions, suggesting a necessity of incorporating it into the prediction of ecosystem C dynamics under global change.
Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is a cardiovascular disease prevalent in the aging population, resulting in high morbidity and mortality rates. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying CAVD remain unclear. We...
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Dislocations are thought to be the principal mechanism of high ductility of the novel B2 structure intermetallic compounds YAg and YCu. In this paper, the edge dislocation core structures of two primary slip systems {...
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Dislocations are thought to be the principal mechanism of high ductility of the novel B2 structure intermetallic compounds YAg and YCu. In this paper, the edge dislocation core structures of two primary slip systems <100>{010}and <100>{011} for YAg and YCu are presented theoretically within the lattice theory of dislocation. The governing dislocation equation is a nonlinear integro-differential equation and the variational method is applied to solve the equation. Peierls stresses for <100>{010} and <100>{011} slip systems are calculated taking into consideration the contribution of the elastic strain energy. The core width and Peierls stress of a typical transition-metal aluminide NiAl is also reported for the purpose of verification and comparison. The Peierls stress of NiAl obtained here is in agreement with numerical results, which verifies the correctness of the results obtained for YAg and YCu. Peierls stresses of the <100>{0lT} slip system are smaller than those of <100>{010} for the same intermetallic compounds originating from the smaller unstable stacking fault energy. The obvious high unstable stacking fault energy of NiAl results in a larger Peierls stress than those of YAg and YCu although they have the same B2 structure. The results show that the core structure and Peierls stress depend monotonically on the unstable stacking fault energy.
A systematic method from the discreteness to the continuity is presented for the dislocation equation of the triangular lattice. A modification of the Peierls equation has been derived strictly. The modified equation ...
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A systematic method from the discreteness to the continuity is presented for the dislocation equation of the triangular lattice. A modification of the Peierls equation has been derived strictly. The modified equation includes the higher order corrections of the discrete effect which are important for the core structure of dislocation. It is observed that the modified equation possesses a universal form which is model-independent except the factors. The factors, which depend on the detail of the model, are related to the derivatives of the kernel at its zero point in the wave-vector space. The results open a way to deal with the complicated models because what one needs to do is to investigate the behaviour near the zero point of the kernel in the wave-vector space instead of calculating the kernel completely.
The core structure of (110){001} mixed disloca- tion in perovskite SrTiO3 is investigated with the modified two-dimensional Peierls-Nabarro dislocation equation con- sidering the discreteness effect of crystals. The...
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The core structure of (110){001} mixed disloca- tion in perovskite SrTiO3 is investigated with the modified two-dimensional Peierls-Nabarro dislocation equation con- sidering the discreteness effect of crystals. The results show that the core structure of mixed dislocation is independent of the unstable energy in the (100) direction, but closely related to the unstable energy in the (110) direction which is the direction of total Burgers vector of mixed dislocation. Furthermore, the ratio of edge displacement to screw one nearly equals to the tangent of dislocation angle for differ- ent unstable energies in the (110) direction. Thus, the con- strained path approximation is effective for the (110){001} mixed dislocation in SrTiO3 and two-dimensional equation can degenerate into one-dimensional equation that is only related to the dislocation angle. The Peierls stress for (110) {001 } dislocations can be expediently obtained with the one-dimensional equation and the predictive values for edge, mixed and screw dislocations are 0.17, 0.22 and 0.46 GPa, respectively.
Glutaraldehyde (Glut) cross-linked bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) have shown great performance in the replacement treatment of severe valvular heart diseases in recent years due to the rapid development of transcat...
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Tungsten disulfide (WS2) becomes one of the potential anode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) thanks to its large theoretical specific capacity and interlayer distance. This study employs pure WS2 as a case to...
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Applying the parametric derivation method, Peierls energy and Peierls stress are calculated with a non-sinusoidal force law in the lattice theory, while the results obtained by the power-series expansion according to ...
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Applying the parametric derivation method, Peierls energy and Peierls stress are calculated with a non-sinusoidal force law in the lattice theory, while the results obtained by the power-series expansion according to sinusoidal law can be deduced as a limiting case of non- sinusoidal law. The simplified expressions of Peierls energy and Peierls stress are obtained for the limit of wide and narrow. Peierls energy and Peierls stress decrease monotonically with the factor of modification of force law. Present results can be used expediently for prediction of the correct order of magnitude of Peierls stress for materials.
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