Background:There are many studies on disentangling the responses of autotrophic(AR)and heterotrophic(HR)respiration components of soil respiration(SR)to long-term drought,but few studies have focused on the mechanisms...Background:There are many studies on disentangling the responses of autotrophic(AR)and heterotrophic(HR)respiration components of soil respiration(SR)to long-term drought,but few studies have focused on the mechanisms underlying its responses.Methods:To explore the impact of prolonged drought on AR and HR,we conducted the 2-year measurements on soil CO_(2) effluxes in the 7th and 8th year of manipulated throughfall reduction(TFR)in a warm-temperate oak forest.Results:Our results showed long-term TFR decreased HR,which was positively related to bacterial richness.More importantly,some bacterial taxa such as Novosphingobium and norank Acidimicrobiia,and fungal Leptobacillium were identified as major drivers of HR.In contrast,long-term TFR increased AR due to the increased fine root biomass and production.The increased AR accompanied by decreased HR appeared to counteract each other,and subsequently resulted in the unchanged SR under the TFR.Conclusions:Our study shows that HR and AR respond in the opposite directions to long-term TFR.Soil microorganisms and fine roots account for the respective mechanisms underlying the divergent responses of HR and AR to long-term TFR.This highlights the contrasting responses of AR and HR to prolonged drought should be taken into account when predicting soil CO_(2) effluxes under future droughts.展开更多
Nonstructural carbohydrates(NSC)are indicators of tree carbon balance and play an important role in regulating plant growth and survival.However,our understanding of the mechanism underlying drought-induced response o...Nonstructural carbohydrates(NSC)are indicators of tree carbon balance and play an important role in regulating plant growth and survival.However,our understanding of the mechanism underlying drought-induced response of NSC reserves remains limited.Here,we conducted a long-term throughfall exclusion(TFE)experiment to investigate the seasonal responses of NSC reserves to manipulative drought in two contrasting tree species(a broadleaved tree Castanopsis hystrix Miq.and a coniferous tree Pinus massoniana Lamb.)of the subtropical China.We found that in the dry season,the two tree species differed in their responses of NSC reserves to TFE at either the whole-tree level or by organs,with significantly depleted total NSC reserves in roots in both species.Under the TFE treatment,there were significant increases in the NSC pools of leaves and branches in C.hystrix,which were accompanied by significant decreases in fine root biomass and radial growth without significant changes in canopy photosynthesis;while P.massoniana exhibited significant increase in fine root biomass without significant changes in radial growth.Our results suggested that under prolonged water limitation,NSC usage for growth in C.hystrix is somewhat impaired,such that the TFE treatment resulted in NSC accumulation in aboveground organs(leaf and branch);whereas P.massoniana is capable of efficiently utilizing NSC reserves to maintain its growth under drought conditions.Our findings revealed divergent NSC allocations under experimental drought between the two contrasting tree species,which are important for better understanding the differential impacts of climate change on varying forest trees and plantation types in subtropical China.展开更多
The binary pnictide semimetals have attracted considerable attention due to their fantastic physical properties that include topological effects, negative magnetoresistance, Weyl fermions, and large non-saturation mag...The binary pnictide semimetals have attracted considerable attention due to their fantastic physical properties that include topological effects, negative magnetoresistance, Weyl fermions, and large non-saturation magnetoresistance. In this paper, we have successfully grown the high-quality V_(1-δ)Sb_(2) single crystals by Sb flux method and investigated their electronic transport properties. A large positive magnetoresistance that reaches 477% under a magnetic field of 12 T at T = 1.8 K was observed. Notably, the magnetoresistance showed a cusp-like feature at the low magnetic fields and such feature weakened gradually as the temperature increased, which indicated the presence of a weak antilocalization effect(WAL). In addition, based upon the experimental and theoretical band structure calculations, V_(1-δ)Sb_(2) is a research candidate for a flat band.展开更多
EuCd_(2)As_(2)was theoretically predicted to be a minimal model of Weyl semimetals with a single pair of Weyl points in the ferromagnet state.However,the heavily p-doped Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)crystals in previous experiments...EuCd_(2)As_(2)was theoretically predicted to be a minimal model of Weyl semimetals with a single pair of Weyl points in the ferromagnet state.However,the heavily p-doped Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)crystals in previous experiments prevent direct identification of the semimetal hypothesis.Here,we present a comprehensive magneto-transport study of high-quality Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)crystals with ultralow bulk carrier density(10^(13)cm^(-3)).In contrast to the general expectation of a Weyl semimetal phase,Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)shows insulating behavior in both antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic states as well as surface-dominated conduction from band bending.Moreover,the application of a dc bias current can dramatically modulate the resistance by over one order of magnitude,and induce a periodic resistance oscillation due to the geometric resonance.Such nonlinear transport results from the high nonequilibrium state induced by an electrical field near the band edge.Our results suggest an insulating phase in Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)and put a strong constraint on the underlying mechanism of anomalous transport properties in this system.展开更多
Dual titanium boride layers consisting of continuous TiB2 top-layer and TiB whisker sub- layer were formed on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy using powder-pack boriding technique. An iso-thickness diagram of the whole bo...Dual titanium boride layers consisting of continuous TiB2 top-layer and TiB whisker sub- layer were formed on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy using powder-pack boriding technique. An iso-thickness diagram of the whole boride layer was fitted with the data of thickness of the coating, treatment time and process temperature using Sigma Plot10.0 software. Growth kinetics of the titanium boride layer were analyzed by measuring the extent of penetration of TiB2 and TiB whisker as a function of boriding time in the range of 5-20 h and boriding temperature in the range of 1000-1100 ℃. By the linear regression analysis of growth kinetics of titanium boride layer, the diffusivity K and average diffusion activation energy (Q) of boron atoms in Ti6Al4V alloy were calculated, respectively.展开更多
Ultrasound with deep penetration depth and high security could be adopted in sonodynamic therapy(SDT)by activating sonosensitizers to generate cytotoxic reactive oxygen species(ROS).Herein,two-dimensional(2D)coordinat...Ultrasound with deep penetration depth and high security could be adopted in sonodynamic therapy(SDT)by activating sonosensitizers to generate cytotoxic reactive oxygen species(ROS).Herein,two-dimensional(2D)coordination nanosheets composed of Zn^(2+)and Tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin(TCPP)are fabricated.While exhibiting greatly enhanced ultrasoundtriggered ROS generation useful for noninvasive SDT,such Zn-TCPP 2D nanosheets show high loading capacity of oligodeoxynudeotides such as cytosine—phosphorothioate-guanine(CpG),which is a potent toll like receptor 9(TLR9)agonist useful in activating immune responses.Highly effective SD T of primary tumors could release tumor-associated antigens,which working together with Zn-TCPP/CpG adjuvant nanosheets could function like whole-tumor-cell vaccines and trigger tumor-specific immune responses.Interestingly,ultrasound itself could strengthen anti-tumor immune responses by improving the tumor-infiltration of T cells and limiting regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment.Thus,SDT using Zn-TCPP/CpG nanosheets after destruction of primary tumors could induce potent antitumor immune responses to inhibit distant abscopal tumors without direct SD T treatment.Moreover,SDT with Zn-TCPP/CpG could trigger strong immunological memory effects to inhibit cancer recurrence after elimination of primary tumors.Therefore,the 2D coordination nanosheet may be a promising platform to deliver potent SDT-triggered immunotherapy for highly effective cancer treatment.展开更多
In recent years, Compressed Sensing(CS) has been a hot research topic. It has a wide range of applications, such as image processing and speech signal processing owing to its characteristic of removing redundant inf...In recent years, Compressed Sensing(CS) has been a hot research topic. It has a wide range of applications, such as image processing and speech signal processing owing to its characteristic of removing redundant information by reducing the sampling rate. The disadvantage of CS is that the number of iterations in a greedy algorithm such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit(OMP) is fixed, thus limiting reconstruction precision.Therefore, in this study, we present a novel Reducing Iteration Orthogonal Matching Pursuit(RIOMP) algorithm that calculates the correlation of the residual value and measurement matrix to reduce the number of iterations.The conditions for successful signal reconstruction are derived on the basis of detailed mathematical analyses.When compared with the OMP algorithm, the RIOMP algorithm has a smaller reconstruction error. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can accurately reconstruct signals in a shorter running time.展开更多
Different instabilities have been confirmed to exist in the three-dimensional(3D) electron gas when it is confined to the lowest Landau level in the extreme quantum limit. The recently discovered 3D topological semime...Different instabilities have been confirmed to exist in the three-dimensional(3D) electron gas when it is confined to the lowest Landau level in the extreme quantum limit. The recently discovered 3D topological semimetals offer a good platform to explore these phenomena due to the small sizes of their Fermi pockets, which means the quantum limit can be achieved at relatively low magnetic fields. In this work, we report the high-magnetic-field transport properties of the Dirac semimetal state in pressurized black phosphorus. Under applied hydrostatic pressure, the band structure of black phosphorus goes through an insulator-semimetal transition. In the high pressure topological semimetal phase, anomalous behaviors are observed on both magnetoresistance and Hall resistivity beyond the relatively low quantum limit field, which is demonstrated to indicate the emergence of an exotic electronic state hosting a density wave ordering. Our findings bring the first insight into the electronic interactions in black phosphorus under intense field.展开更多
Topological nodal-line semimetal is a new emerging material, which is viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analog of graphene with the conduction and valence bands crossing at Dirac nodes, resulting in a range of exot...Topological nodal-line semimetal is a new emerging material, which is viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analog of graphene with the conduction and valence bands crossing at Dirac nodes, resulting in a range of exotic transport properties. Herein, we report on the direct quantum transport evidence of the 3D topological nodal-line semimetal phase of ZrSiS with angular-dependent magnetoresistance (MR) and the combined de Hass-van Alphen (dHvA) and Shubnikov-de Hass (SdH) oscillations. Through fitting by a two-band model, the MR results demonstrate high topological nodal-line fermion densities of approximately 6 × 10^21 cm^-3 and a perfect electron/hole compensation ratio of 0.94, which is consis- tent with the semi-classical expression fitting of Hall conductance Gxy and the theoretical calculation. Both the SdH and dHvA oscillations provide clear evidence of 3D topological nodal-line semimetal characteristic.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFC0507301)by Research and Development Project of RIFEEP,Chinese Academy of Forestry(99802–2020).
文摘Background:There are many studies on disentangling the responses of autotrophic(AR)and heterotrophic(HR)respiration components of soil respiration(SR)to long-term drought,but few studies have focused on the mechanisms underlying its responses.Methods:To explore the impact of prolonged drought on AR and HR,we conducted the 2-year measurements on soil CO_(2) effluxes in the 7th and 8th year of manipulated throughfall reduction(TFR)in a warm-temperate oak forest.Results:Our results showed long-term TFR decreased HR,which was positively related to bacterial richness.More importantly,some bacterial taxa such as Novosphingobium and norank Acidimicrobiia,and fungal Leptobacillium were identified as major drivers of HR.In contrast,long-term TFR increased AR due to the increased fine root biomass and production.The increased AR accompanied by decreased HR appeared to counteract each other,and subsequently resulted in the unchanged SR under the TFR.Conclusions:Our study shows that HR and AR respond in the opposite directions to long-term TFR.Soil microorganisms and fine roots account for the respective mechanisms underlying the divergent responses of HR and AR to long-term TFR.This highlights the contrasting responses of AR and HR to prolonged drought should be taken into account when predicting soil CO_(2) effluxes under future droughts.
基金This study was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31930078)the Ministry of Science and Technology of China for Key R&D Program(Grant No.2021YFD2200405).
文摘Nonstructural carbohydrates(NSC)are indicators of tree carbon balance and play an important role in regulating plant growth and survival.However,our understanding of the mechanism underlying drought-induced response of NSC reserves remains limited.Here,we conducted a long-term throughfall exclusion(TFE)experiment to investigate the seasonal responses of NSC reserves to manipulative drought in two contrasting tree species(a broadleaved tree Castanopsis hystrix Miq.and a coniferous tree Pinus massoniana Lamb.)of the subtropical China.We found that in the dry season,the two tree species differed in their responses of NSC reserves to TFE at either the whole-tree level or by organs,with significantly depleted total NSC reserves in roots in both species.Under the TFE treatment,there were significant increases in the NSC pools of leaves and branches in C.hystrix,which were accompanied by significant decreases in fine root biomass and radial growth without significant changes in canopy photosynthesis;while P.massoniana exhibited significant increase in fine root biomass without significant changes in radial growth.Our results suggested that under prolonged water limitation,NSC usage for growth in C.hystrix is somewhat impaired,such that the TFE treatment resulted in NSC accumulation in aboveground organs(leaf and branch);whereas P.massoniana is capable of efficiently utilizing NSC reserves to maintain its growth under drought conditions.Our findings revealed divergent NSC allocations under experimental drought between the two contrasting tree species,which are important for better understanding the differential impacts of climate change on varying forest trees and plantation types in subtropical China.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U2032214, U2032163, and 11904002)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2017483)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province, China (Grant No. 1908085QA15)。
文摘The binary pnictide semimetals have attracted considerable attention due to their fantastic physical properties that include topological effects, negative magnetoresistance, Weyl fermions, and large non-saturation magnetoresistance. In this paper, we have successfully grown the high-quality V_(1-δ)Sb_(2) single crystals by Sb flux method and investigated their electronic transport properties. A large positive magnetoresistance that reaches 477% under a magnetic field of 12 T at T = 1.8 K was observed. Notably, the magnetoresistance showed a cusp-like feature at the low magnetic fields and such feature weakened gradually as the temperature increased, which indicated the presence of a weak antilocalization effect(WAL). In addition, based upon the experimental and theoretical band structure calculations, V_(1-δ)Sb_(2) is a research candidate for a flat band.
基金sponsored by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFA1405700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12174069,and 92365104)+6 种基金the Shuguang Program supported by Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commissionsupported by the Double First-Class Initiative Fund of Shanghai Tech Universitythe open project from Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physicssupported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFA1602603)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12122411)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12274090)the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(Grant No.22ZR1406300)。
文摘EuCd_(2)As_(2)was theoretically predicted to be a minimal model of Weyl semimetals with a single pair of Weyl points in the ferromagnet state.However,the heavily p-doped Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)crystals in previous experiments prevent direct identification of the semimetal hypothesis.Here,we present a comprehensive magneto-transport study of high-quality Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)crystals with ultralow bulk carrier density(10^(13)cm^(-3)).In contrast to the general expectation of a Weyl semimetal phase,Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)shows insulating behavior in both antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic states as well as surface-dominated conduction from band bending.Moreover,the application of a dc bias current can dramatically modulate the resistance by over one order of magnitude,and induce a periodic resistance oscillation due to the geometric resonance.Such nonlinear transport results from the high nonequilibrium state induced by an electrical field near the band edge.Our results suggest an insulating phase in Eu Cd_(2)As_(2)and put a strong constraint on the underlying mechanism of anomalous transport properties in this system.
文摘Dual titanium boride layers consisting of continuous TiB2 top-layer and TiB whisker sub- layer were formed on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy using powder-pack boriding technique. An iso-thickness diagram of the whole boride layer was fitted with the data of thickness of the coating, treatment time and process temperature using Sigma Plot10.0 software. Growth kinetics of the titanium boride layer were analyzed by measuring the extent of penetration of TiB2 and TiB whisker as a function of boriding time in the range of 5-20 h and boriding temperature in the range of 1000-1100 ℃. By the linear regression analysis of growth kinetics of titanium boride layer, the diffusivity K and average diffusion activation energy (Q) of boron atoms in Ti6Al4V alloy were calculated, respectively.
基金the National Research Programs of China(No.2016YFA0201200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91959104,21927803,51903182,51525203,)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20190826)Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology,and the 111 Program from the Ministry of Education of China.
文摘Ultrasound with deep penetration depth and high security could be adopted in sonodynamic therapy(SDT)by activating sonosensitizers to generate cytotoxic reactive oxygen species(ROS).Herein,two-dimensional(2D)coordination nanosheets composed of Zn^(2+)and Tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin(TCPP)are fabricated.While exhibiting greatly enhanced ultrasoundtriggered ROS generation useful for noninvasive SDT,such Zn-TCPP 2D nanosheets show high loading capacity of oligodeoxynudeotides such as cytosine—phosphorothioate-guanine(CpG),which is a potent toll like receptor 9(TLR9)agonist useful in activating immune responses.Highly effective SD T of primary tumors could release tumor-associated antigens,which working together with Zn-TCPP/CpG adjuvant nanosheets could function like whole-tumor-cell vaccines and trigger tumor-specific immune responses.Interestingly,ultrasound itself could strengthen anti-tumor immune responses by improving the tumor-infiltration of T cells and limiting regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment.Thus,SDT using Zn-TCPP/CpG nanosheets after destruction of primary tumors could induce potent antitumor immune responses to inhibit distant abscopal tumors without direct SD T treatment.Moreover,SDT with Zn-TCPP/CpG could trigger strong immunological memory effects to inhibit cancer recurrence after elimination of primary tumors.Therefore,the 2D coordination nanosheet may be a promising platform to deliver potent SDT-triggered immunotherapy for highly effective cancer treatment.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61379134)by Fundamental Research Funds or the Central Universities(No.06105031)
文摘In recent years, Compressed Sensing(CS) has been a hot research topic. It has a wide range of applications, such as image processing and speech signal processing owing to its characteristic of removing redundant information by reducing the sampling rate. The disadvantage of CS is that the number of iterations in a greedy algorithm such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit(OMP) is fixed, thus limiting reconstruction precision.Therefore, in this study, we present a novel Reducing Iteration Orthogonal Matching Pursuit(RIOMP) algorithm that calculates the correlation of the residual value and measurement matrix to reduce the number of iterations.The conditions for successful signal reconstruction are derived on the basis of detailed mathematical analyses.When compared with the OMP algorithm, the RIOMP algorithm has a smaller reconstruction error. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can accurately reconstruct signals in a shorter running time.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11534010, 11504378 and 11474287)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS, China (QYZDY-SSW-SLH021)+2 种基金the National Key R&D Program of the MOST of China (2016YFA0300201 and 2017YFA0303001)the Hefei Science Center, CAS (2016HSC-IU001)the Innovative Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology (2017FXCX001)
文摘Different instabilities have been confirmed to exist in the three-dimensional(3D) electron gas when it is confined to the lowest Landau level in the extreme quantum limit. The recently discovered 3D topological semimetals offer a good platform to explore these phenomena due to the small sizes of their Fermi pockets, which means the quantum limit can be achieved at relatively low magnetic fields. In this work, we report the high-magnetic-field transport properties of the Dirac semimetal state in pressurized black phosphorus. Under applied hydrostatic pressure, the band structure of black phosphorus goes through an insulator-semimetal transition. In the high pressure topological semimetal phase, anomalous behaviors are observed on both magnetoresistance and Hall resistivity beyond the relatively low quantum limit field, which is demonstrated to indicate the emergence of an exotic electronic state hosting a density wave ordering. Our findings bring the first insight into the electronic interactions in black phosphorus under intense field.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0303302, 2018YFA030560 and 2017YFA0303301)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11934005, 11474058, 11874116, 11674028 and 11534001)+9 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1932154)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (19511120500)the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2019SHZDZX01)the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (20XD1400200)supported by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. DMR-1644779, No. DMR-1157490the State of Floridasupport from China Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program (BX20190085)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019 M661331)supported by the Scientific Instrument Developing Project of CAS (YJKYYQ20180059)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2018486)。
文摘Topological nodal-line semimetal is a new emerging material, which is viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analog of graphene with the conduction and valence bands crossing at Dirac nodes, resulting in a range of exotic transport properties. Herein, we report on the direct quantum transport evidence of the 3D topological nodal-line semimetal phase of ZrSiS with angular-dependent magnetoresistance (MR) and the combined de Hass-van Alphen (dHvA) and Shubnikov-de Hass (SdH) oscillations. Through fitting by a two-band model, the MR results demonstrate high topological nodal-line fermion densities of approximately 6 × 10^21 cm^-3 and a perfect electron/hole compensation ratio of 0.94, which is consis- tent with the semi-classical expression fitting of Hall conductance Gxy and the theoretical calculation. Both the SdH and dHvA oscillations provide clear evidence of 3D topological nodal-line semimetal characteristic.