Cable-less micro-robots have exhibit great capabilities for remote applications in small and constrained environments, especially in biotechnology and healthcare. This paper presents a swimmer propelled by its undulat...
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Nuclear reactor applied on ship or floating platform recommend miniaturization and optimization of PRHRs. Due to much larger volume and heat transfer area in PRHRs heat exchanger, miniaturization and design of PRHRs n...
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The flow-induced vibration of reactor structures is directly related to nuclear safety and has long been closely watched by the nuclear engineering community. A large number of theoretical, experimental and numerical ...
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The actuation and control of mini-scale swimming robots have exhibit promising potential in limited and constrained environments, such as biomedical, micro-assembly and microfluidic applications. However, closed-loop ...
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Harnessing bioenergy from waste activated sludge (WAS) is crucial for sustainable development in wastewater treatment field; however, traditional anaerobic digestion with pretreatment is energy-intensive. We developed...
Harnessing bioenergy from waste activated sludge (WAS) is crucial for sustainable development in wastewater treatment field; however, traditional anaerobic digestion with pretreatment is energy-intensive. We developed a novel, partially energy-autonomous biotechnology that synergistically co-processes wastewater and WAS using a self-generated biocatalyst (ppm-level FNA) without any external energy or chemical input. This self-sustained FNA-centric system simultaneously enables rapid organic resource recovery, sludge disintegration, and denitrification within only 20.5 h, representing a major advancement over traditional multi-day anaerobic processes. The multifunctional process recovered 3264.7 mg/L of net organics, reduced sludge by 7.92 kg/m 3 ·d, and removed nitrogen at a rate of 0.71 kg N/m 3 ·d with 92.5 % efficiency. A 58.4 % decrease in cell membrane thickness (from 10.42 nm to 4.7 nm) and significant perforation were observed under biocatalyst treatment. Comprehensive analysis, including cell surface morphology, microorganism survival status, organic resource dynamic, and proteins spatial distribution, underscore organic resource recovery from sludge relying on multifaceted biocatalytic and stress effects. Consequently, even after biocatalyst completed consumption, organic release rate remained constant at 87.7–122 mg COD/h. Furthermore, unlike the detrimental effects on biodiversity, specific microbial communities were selectively enriched, remarkable enhancing in glycolysis, fatty acid synthesis, and denitrification functionalities. Results demonstrate feasibility of partial energy self-sufficiency, contributing to achievement of carbon neutrality in wastewater and WAS management.
Quantized Hall conductance without an external magnetic field, known as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), may have important applications in dissipationless spintronics, yet to date, it has only been realized ...
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Quantized Hall conductance without an external magnetic field, known as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), may have important applications in dissipationless spintronics, yet to date, it has only been realized in magnetically doped topological insulators and at very low temperatures. Here we design a physically realistic system for realizing QAHE by expanding the recently discovered two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulators as a new class of candidate materials. Based on first-principles calculations, we predict that a CrMnI6 monolayer is energetically stable and can be readily exfoliated. This system is further shown to be a ferromagnetic insulator, with a transition temperature of ∼87K, higher than that of CrI3. Most strikingly, such a monolayer is characterized as an intrinsic QAHE system with a high Chern number of C = 2, and the underlying mechanism for the nontrivial topology is attributed to the two inequivalent subset sites of the Cr and Mn atoms. The present study thus provides an ideal platform for realizing high-temperature QAHE beyond the prevailing materials class of magnetically doped topological insulators.
The orbital degree of freedom plays a critical role in contemporary condensed-matter physics, with recent discoveries of orbital-dependent many-body effects including electron correlation and superconductivity. Nevert...
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The orbital degree of freedom plays a critical role in contemporary condensed-matter physics, with recent discoveries of orbital-dependent many-body effects including electron correlation and superconductivity. Nevertheless, these orbital-dependent many-body effects have mainly been observed in bulk materials, wherein the electrons' orbital attribute is challenging to tailor selectively. Here, by planar tunneling into the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface, we observed a Kondo resonance, a model many-body phenomenon. The observation of the Kondo resonance provides an ideal opportunity to quantitatively exploit the emerging interfacial Kondo physics. Furthermore, it was found that the Kondo coupling strength and resonance line shape can be effectively regulated by electrostatic gating and show a sharp transition at the Lifshitz point, where the orbital occupancy of the 2DES changes from only dxy to both dxy and dxz/yz. This unusual behavior is attributed to the orbital selectivity effect in this unique multiple-d-band system, wherein the itinerant dxy and dxz/yz electrons have different orbital symmetries and therefore different Kondo exchange coupling with the localized dxy electrons. The present study may pave the way for manipulating many-body effects in 2D multiband materials via orbital engineering of itinerant electrons.
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