Professor Jinzhe Zhang: An accomplished and upright doctor who emphasizes benevolence and humanistic care of sick children

Professor Jinzhe Zhang(1920–) is one of the founders of China's pediatric surgery and is considered the'father of China's pediatric surgery'. He graduated from Shanghai Medical College in 1945 and was director of the Department of Surgery and vice president of Beijing Children's Hospital since 1955. He is also doctoral mentor of the Department of Pediatrics at Capital Medical University. In 1977, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Er intercalation and its impact on transport properties of epitaxial graphene

Intercalation of atomic species is a practicable method for epitaxial graphene to adjust the electronic band structure and to tune the coupling between graphene and Si C substrate. In this work, atomically flat epitaxial graphene is prepared on 4H-SiC(0001) using the flash heating method in an ultrahigh vacuum system. Scanning tunneling microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and electrical transport measurements are utilized to investigate surface morphological structures and transport properties of pristine and Er-intercalated epitaxial graphene. It is found that Er atoms are intercalated underneath the graphene layer after annealing at 900℃, and the intercalation sites of Er atoms are located mainly at the bufferlayer/monolayer-graphene interface in monolayer domains. We also report the different behaviors of Er intercalation in monolayer and bilayer regions, and the experimental results show that the diffusion barrier for Er intercalated atoms in the buffer-layer/monolayer interface is at least 0.2 eV higher than that in the first/second graphene-layer interface. The appearance of Er atoms is found to have distinct impacts on the electronic transports of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001).

Widespread glacier advances across the Tian Shan during Marine Isotope Stage 3 not supported by climate-glaciation simulations

Whether there were more extensive glaciations during the Marine Isotope Stage(MIS)3 relative to MIS 2 across the Tian Shan in Central Asia is intensely debated because of the uncertainty in chronological data and fully understanding the driving mechanisms.To help resolve the ongoing debate,we assess the climate sensitivity of the glaciers and reconstruct the extent of glaciation during MIS 2 and 3 across the Tian Shan,using a glacier-resolving(250×250 m)ice sheet model asynchronously coupled with a global climate model.Our results demonstrate that the equilibrium-line altitude(ELA)over the Tian Shan decreases by∼180 m for every 1°C cooling under a modern precipitation regime,but precipitation reduction greatly lowers the sensitivity of the glaciers to temperature decrease(e.g.,the effect of 2°C cooling is broadly offset by a 50%decrease in precipitation).Under the modeled colder/drier-than-present climate,the model predicts an ELA depression(∆ELA)of∼75 m(162 m)over the Tian Shan during MIS 3 interstadials(stadials).The extent of MIS 3 glaciation is much smaller than that during MIS 2(i.e.,∆ELA=∼726 m).The more extensive glaciation during MIS 2 is largely attributed to the enhanced summer cooling.Furthermore,through a site-to-site model-data comparison,we find that the closest match between the modeled glacier margin and the locations of the glacial deposits previously argued to be MIS 3 is generally achieved under MIS 2 climatic conditions.These results suggest more extensive glacier advances over the Tian Shan during MIS 2 than MIS 3 on a regional scale,although MIS 3 glaciation may still occur in individual glacier catchments.This pattern suggests general synchronicity with the timing of maximum Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glacial,which should be further tested in a multimodel framework in the future.

Construction of homozygous diploid potato through maternal haploid induction

Reinventing the tetraploid potato into a seed-propagated,diploid,hybrid potato would significantly accelerate potato breeding.In this regard,the development of highly homozygous inbred lines is a prerequisite for breeding hybrid potatoes,but self-incompatibility and inbreeding depression present challenges for developing pure inbred lines.To resolve this impediment,we developed a doubled haploid(DH)technology,based on mutagenesis of the potato DOMAIN OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION 679 membrane protein(StDMP)gene.Here,we show that a deficiency in StDMP allows the generation of maternal haploids for generating diploid potato lines.An exercisable protocol,involving hybridization,fluorescent marker screening,molecular and flow cytometric identification,and doubling with colchicine generates nearly 100%homozygous diploid potato lines.This dmp-triggered haploid induction(HI)system greatly shortens the breeding process and offers a robust method for generating diploid potato inbred lines with high purity.

Ten years of rapid development of pediatric thoracic surgery in China

China’s pediatric surgery is a specialty first established in 1954 by Prof.Jinzhe Zhang,an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.During the same period,several professors(most notably Anquan Ma,Yaxiong She,Zanyao Wang,and Erchang Tong)successively established pediatric surgery specialties1 in Shanghai and Wuhan,as well as in Shenyang,Chengdu,Chongqing,and Guangzhou.Initially,pediatric surgery primarily focused on treatment of emergencies,such as trauma,burns,surgical infection,and acute abdomen.Subsequently,as economic conditions improved,emergency cases decreased;in contrast,cases of congenital malformation increased annually as a focus of pediatric surgery.