Establishing distinctive theories and methods of design science rooted in Chinese traditional culture

The human social development saw the formation of five unique civilizations,with the latter forming their own distinctive cultures.China’s traditional culture is its most fundamental ideological weapon for solving problems.The Chinese are good at comprehensive thinking,dialectical thinking,and systematic analysis.These ideological weapons can solve the problems of formal science and technology and create scientific and technological achievements on par with global advanced scale.Ancient China is filled with original scientific and technological achievements,which strongly prove ancient China’s possession of its own science and technology different from that of Western Renaissance.Therefore,a comprehensive understanding of science,technology,experience,and intuition is necessary.The long-held superstition regarding the West,the lack of confidence,self-denial,blind imitation of ideas,and shackles must be thrown away.Only then can we take the road toward an authentic Chinese creative design as we learn from others.

Ultrasensitive determination of mercury by ICP-OES coupled with a vapor generation approach based on solution cathode glow discharge

We herein proposed a sample introduction technique based on solution cathode glow discharge(SCGD)of a portable design for inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry(ICP-OES)and its ap-plication in sensitive determination of mercury.The products from SCGD containing mercury vapor,were transported by an Ar flow to ICP spectrometer for detection.A gas liquid separator(GLS)and a dryer were used to condense and remove most of the accompanying moisture,which greatly improved both the stability and sensitivity of the signal.The detection limit(DL)acquired by this developed method was 0.22μg/L(194.1 nm),which was nearly 82 times lower than that obtained by pneumatic nebuliza-tion(PN).The relative standard deviation(RSD)was 1.4%(n=14)for a 50μg/L standard.Blank solution(HNO_(3),pH 1)can effectively elute mercury residue.Its accuracy and practicality were also demonstrated by the determination of GBW10029(fish)certified reference material,shrimp,crawfish,soil and human hair samples.The results showed good consistency with the certified values and the values obtained us-ing inductively coupled plasma−mass spectrometry.