The groups around Guoqiang XU and Xindang MU at CAS QIBEBT have developed a process whereby biomass-derived biofuels such as ethanol and butanol can be transformed in a one-pot chemical reaction with > 90 % selectivity to C8-C19 ketones and alcohols which have biofuel...
Three unmanned deep sea devices oft he type Haidou descended over 10,000 meters underwater and completed sea tests in the Pacific. China is the third country after Japan and the United States to build submersibles capable of reaching depths in excess of 10,000 meters....
The Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics has completed a project to provide equipment for soil remediation technology targeted at typical industrial pollution sites. Three kinds of phosphate-based heavy metal contaminated soils were studied. An electrodynamic...
The group of HANG Tao and QIAO Botao from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) synthesized a ZnO nanowire supporting a Rh single-atom catalyst. The Rh1/ZnOnw single-atom catalyst was used for hydroformylation of olefins with remarkable activity under mild...
The tree shrew, a small mammal that looks like a squirrel, shares a higher degree of similarities with humans than rats do. The group around Ping ZHENG has developed methods to introduce cell surface markers into spermatogonial stem cells of this animal and will...
