The authors would like to thank the financial support from Sakura Science Program (Japan Science and Technology Agency), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51627803, 51402348, 11474333, 91433205, 51421002, and 51372270) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sodium-doped carbon nitride nanotubes (Nax-CNNTs) were prepared by a green and simple two-step method and applied in photocatalytic water splitting for the first time. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) elemen...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61205173, 51272254, 51502292, and 61405206) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. CXJJ- 15M055).
A Nd-doped GdNbO4 single crystals have been grown successfully using the Czochralski technique. The chemical etching method was employed to study the defects in the structural morphology of Nd:GdNbO4 crystal with pho...
Financial support from the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KGCX2-YW-341) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21376247, 21573240) is gratefully acknowledged.
Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4)/lithium manganese phosphate (LiMnPO4)-positive material was suc- cessfully prepared through ball milling and high-temperature sintering using manganese acetate, lithium hydroxide, ...
This study was supported by West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lunar Program of Geochemical Institute), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41373067 and 40803019).
Indications of buried lunar bedrock may help us to understand the tectonic evolution of the Moon and provide some clues for formation of lunar regolith. So far, the information on distribution and burial depth of luna...
Wei-jun Zheng acknowledges the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KJCX2-EW-H01) and Hong-guang Xu acknowl- edges the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.21103202) for financial support. The theoretical calculations were conducted on the ScGrid and Deep- Comp 7000 of the Supercomputing Center, Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The growth pattern and electronic properties of TiGen^- (n=7-12) clusters were investigated using anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. For both anionic and neutral TiGen clust...
This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian (No. 2012J05105), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51208490), the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. IUEQN201306) and the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Nitrogen is one of major contaminants in wastewater; however, nitrogen, as bio-elements for crop growth, is the indispensable fertilizer in agriculture. In this study, two-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were fi...
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (Nos. 2013CB947900, 2013CB945502 and 2014CB943101) of China (973), by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31371519) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KSCX2-EW-R-07).
The blood-testis barrier (BTB) is found between adjacent Sertoli cells in the testis where it creates a unique microenvironment for the development and maturation of meiotic and postmeiotic germ cells in seminiferou...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11174280, 60990323, and 60990320, and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No YYYJ-1123.
Transformation optics offers remarkable control over electromagnetic fields and has recently opened an exciting gateway to design 'field rotator devices'. We propose a distributed field rotator with open windows bas...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 41374179 and 41121003, and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KZZD-EW-01-4.
The Jovian magnetosphere is modulated by the solar wind and centrifugal force. The configuration of the magnetic field in the previous model of the magnetosphere including the centrifugal force is consistent with the ...
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Solar Energy Initiative of the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Two polythiophene derivatives using fluorine atoms and hexyl or hexyloxy group as electron-withdrawing and donating substituents have been synthesized. The introduction of fluorine atoms to the polythiophene backbones...