The nexus between water, food and energy is one of the most fundamental relationships and challenges for society. Indeed, seepage of wastes stored into dumping sites of Edea township, favor their lixiviation. Soluble ...The nexus between water, food and energy is one of the most fundamental relationships and challenges for society. Indeed, seepage of wastes stored into dumping sites of Edea township, favor their lixiviation. Soluble components of matter are slowly dissolves, drained by meteoric water and flowed into tail bay vicinity. Knowledge of trace and toxic metal concentrations in the biotic matrices is important for assessing the effects of pollutants and the risk of exposure. In this study, A1, Mn, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn were quantified respectively in 33 samples of soil and water, using ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry), Pb were found between 1.38-88.28 mg/L. Higher concentrations of Al were found in Alucam industrial wastes (315,502.33 mg/kg), and in Hysacam domestic wastes (54,126.93 mg/kg). Concentrations of Cd (1.955 mg/kg), Pb (469.00 mg/kg) and Zn (853.00 rng/kg) are higher in domestic wastes. The ones of Mn (696.96 mg/kg) and Cu (1,320.10 mg/kg) are higher in industrial wastes. Higher concentrations of Pb and Cu let assume that it is a risk of poisoning relative to these elements around this area. These findings illustrate that lixiviation of dumping wastes has great influence on water and soils pollutions of the study ecosystem.展开更多
The aim of our study was to better understand the different responses of rice seedling to different species of inorganic arsenic As203 (As(Ill)) and Na2HAsO4 (As(V)). Our results indicate that the biomass of r...The aim of our study was to better understand the different responses of rice seedling to different species of inorganic arsenic As203 (As(Ill)) and Na2HAsO4 (As(V)). Our results indicate that the biomass of rice seedling decreased as arsenic concentration increased, with the decrease being more significant at higher arsenic concentrations. In addition, the analysis of superoxide dimutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and catalase (CAT) in rice roots and leaves showed that the activity of these three enzymes significantly decreased in rice tissues, especially in rice roots, as arsenic concentration was increased,. Further, the uptake and utilization efficiencies of N, P, and K were found to decrease as arsenic concentration was increased. However, the uptake and utilization efficiencies of P and K were mainly affected by As(IlI), whereas those of N were mainly affected by As(V). Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used to assay arsenic accumulation in rice tissues; the results indicate that the arsenic content in rice tissues was enhanced when arsenic concentration was increased, especially in rice roots after arsenic treatment.展开更多
A highly sensitive and selective 3D excitation-emission fluorescence method has been proposed to rapidly quantify the combined antidiabetics Repaglinide(Re) and Irbesartan(Ir) in rat and human plasmas with the aid of ...A highly sensitive and selective 3D excitation-emission fluorescence method has been proposed to rapidly quantify the combined antidiabetics Repaglinide(Re) and Irbesartan(Ir) in rat and human plasmas with the aid of second-order calibration method based on alternating trilinear decomposition(ATLD) method. Re and Ir with weak fluorescence can be endowed with strong fluorescent property by changing the microenvironment in samples and improving the fluorescence quantum yield by using an appropriate micellar enhanced surfactant. The enhanced excitation-emission matrix fluorescence of Re and Ir can be accurately resolved and can simultaneously attain the optimal concentration even in the presence of a potentially strong intrinsic fluorescence from complex biological matrices, such as rat and human plasmas, by using the ATLD method, which completely exploits the "second-order advantage". The average recoveries of Re and Ir obtained from ATLD with the factor number of 3(N=3) were 101.0%±4.3% and 99.1%±4.1% for rat plasma and 100.5%±5.4% and 97.1%±3.6% for human plasma. Several statistical methods, including Student's t-test, figures of merit, and elliptical joint confidence region, have been utilized to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method. Results show that the developed method can maintain second-order advantage in simultaneous determinations of the weak fluorescent analytes of interest in different biological plasma matrices.展开更多
We report the plasmon-enhanced polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells with Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) obtained via chemical method. Here, the AgNPs films with different particle densities are introduced between the pol...We report the plasmon-enhanced polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells with Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) obtained via chemical method. Here, the AgNPs films with different particle densities are introduced between the poly (3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) buffer layer and the poly (3-hexythiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-c61 butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT: PCBM) layer. By improving the optical absorption of the active layer owing to the localized surface plasmons, the power conversion efficiency of the solar cells is increased compared with the control device. It is shown that the efficiency of the device increases with the density of AgNPs. For the device employing higher density, the resulted power conversion efficiency is found to increase from 2.89% to 3.38%, enhanced by 16.96%.展开更多
Despite extensive research on various global waves in solar eruptions, debate continues on the intrinsic nature of them. In this work, we performed numerical experiments of the coronal mass ejection with emphases on t...Despite extensive research on various global waves in solar eruptions, debate continues on the intrinsic nature of them. In this work, we performed numerical experiments of the coronal mass ejection with emphases on the associated large-scale MHD waves. A fast-mode shock forms in front of the flux rope during the eruption with a dimming region following it, and the development of a three-component structure of the ejecta is observed. At the flank of the flux rope, the slow-mode shock and the velocity vortices are also invoked. The dependence of the eruption energetics on the strength of the background field and the coronal plasma density distribution is apparent: the stronger the background field is, and/or the lower the coronal plasma density is, the more energetic the eruption is. In the lower Alfven speed environment, the slow mode shock and the large scale velocity vortices may be the source of the EIT wave. In the high Alfvdn speed environment, on the other hand, the echo due to the reflection of the fast shock on the bottom boundary could be so strong that its interaction with the slow mode shock and the velocity vortices produces the second echo propagating downward and causing the secondary disturbance to the boundary surface. We suggest that this second echo, together with the slow shock and the velocity vortices, could constitute a possible candidate of the source for the EIT wave.展开更多
Coronal mass ejections(CMEs) and solar flares are the large-scale and most energetic eruptive phenomena in our solar system and able to release a large quantity of plasma and magnetic flux from the solar atmosphere in...Coronal mass ejections(CMEs) and solar flares are the large-scale and most energetic eruptive phenomena in our solar system and able to release a large quantity of plasma and magnetic flux from the solar atmosphere into the solar wind. When these high-speed magnetized plasmas along with the energetic particles arrive at the Earth, they may interact with the magnetosphere and ionosphere, and seriously affect the safety of human high-tech activities in outer space. The travel time of a CME to 1 AU is about 1–3 days, while energetic particles from the eruptions arrive even earlier. An efficient forecast of these phenomena therefore requires a clear detection of CMEs/flares at the stage as early as possible. To estimate the possibility of an eruption leading to a CME/flare, we need to elucidate some fundamental but elusive processes including in particular the origin and structures of CMEs/flares. Understanding these processes can not only improve the prediction of the occurrence of CMEs/flares and their effects on geospace and the heliosphere but also help understand the mass ejections and flares on other solar-type stars. The main purpose of this review is to address the origin and early structures of CMEs/flares, from multi-wavelength observational perspective. First of all, we start with the ongoing debate of whether the pre-eruptive configuration, i.e., a helical magnetic flux rope(MFR), of CMEs/flares exists before the eruption and then emphatically introduce observational manifestations of the MFR. Secondly, we elaborate on the possible formation mechanisms of the MFR through distinct ways. Thirdly, we discuss the initiation of the MFR and associated dynamics during its evolution toward the CME/flare. Finally, we come to some conclusions and put forward some prospects in the future.展开更多
A novel method of initiating nuclear fusion reactions in a full plasma environment was suggested, and a proof-of-concept experiment was carried out with the D +D → n+3He reaction. In this new approach, two plasma j...A novel method of initiating nuclear fusion reactions in a full plasma environment was suggested, and a proof-of-concept experiment was carried out with the D +D → n+3He reaction. In this new approach, two plasma jets generated by high-intensity lasers collide headon-head. The center-of-mass energy of the nuclei increases accordingly, and therefore, reaction products can be significantly enhanced, especially in the sub-Coulomb barrier ranges. As a result of the fusion reaction, up to - 7.6 ×105 neutrons had been observed. This new type of "plasma collider" could provide an innovative tool to study nuclear reactions under astrophysical conditions.展开更多
"Solar storm" has been commonly accepted by academic community and the public as a very popular scientific term. It is avivid description of violent ejections of a huge amount of magnetized plasma from the S..."Solar storm" has been commonly accepted by academic community and the public as a very popular scientific term. It is avivid description of violent ejections of a huge amount of magnetized plasma from the Sun as strong flare/CMEs, which sweepover into interplanetary space, develop, and affect our space environment. The solar storm could bring us disastrous spaceweather, destroy crucial technology, and cause a large-scale blackout. It is one of the natural disasters faced by modern humanbeings. Here we first briefly summarize the observational features of solar storms and introduce some key issues, and then wefocus on major advances in observational studies. We mainly introduce the efforts made by the Chinese scientists and comment on the challenges and opportunities that they are facing. In this era when scientific breakthroughs in solar storm studiescrucially depend on space-borne devices and large-aperture ground-based telescopes, the Chinese solar research communityneeds to develop its own major observational facilities and improve space weather forecasting abilities.展开更多
文摘The nexus between water, food and energy is one of the most fundamental relationships and challenges for society. Indeed, seepage of wastes stored into dumping sites of Edea township, favor their lixiviation. Soluble components of matter are slowly dissolves, drained by meteoric water and flowed into tail bay vicinity. Knowledge of trace and toxic metal concentrations in the biotic matrices is important for assessing the effects of pollutants and the risk of exposure. In this study, A1, Mn, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn were quantified respectively in 33 samples of soil and water, using ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry), Pb were found between 1.38-88.28 mg/L. Higher concentrations of Al were found in Alucam industrial wastes (315,502.33 mg/kg), and in Hysacam domestic wastes (54,126.93 mg/kg). Concentrations of Cd (1.955 mg/kg), Pb (469.00 mg/kg) and Zn (853.00 rng/kg) are higher in domestic wastes. The ones of Mn (696.96 mg/kg) and Cu (1,320.10 mg/kg) are higher in industrial wastes. Higher concentrations of Pb and Cu let assume that it is a risk of poisoning relative to these elements around this area. These findings illustrate that lixiviation of dumping wastes has great influence on water and soils pollutions of the study ecosystem.
文摘The aim of our study was to better understand the different responses of rice seedling to different species of inorganic arsenic As203 (As(Ill)) and Na2HAsO4 (As(V)). Our results indicate that the biomass of rice seedling decreased as arsenic concentration increased, with the decrease being more significant at higher arsenic concentrations. In addition, the analysis of superoxide dimutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and catalase (CAT) in rice roots and leaves showed that the activity of these three enzymes significantly decreased in rice tissues, especially in rice roots, as arsenic concentration was increased,. Further, the uptake and utilization efficiencies of N, P, and K were found to decrease as arsenic concentration was increased. However, the uptake and utilization efficiencies of P and K were mainly affected by As(IlI), whereas those of N were mainly affected by As(V). Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used to assay arsenic accumulation in rice tissues; the results indicate that the arsenic content in rice tissues was enhanced when arsenic concentration was increased, especially in rice roots after arsenic treatment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21205145, 21575039)the Open Funds of State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics of Hunan University (201111)The Open Research Program (2015ZD001, 2015ZD002) from the Modernization Engineering Technology Research Center of Ethnic Minority Medicine of Hubei province
文摘A highly sensitive and selective 3D excitation-emission fluorescence method has been proposed to rapidly quantify the combined antidiabetics Repaglinide(Re) and Irbesartan(Ir) in rat and human plasmas with the aid of second-order calibration method based on alternating trilinear decomposition(ATLD) method. Re and Ir with weak fluorescence can be endowed with strong fluorescent property by changing the microenvironment in samples and improving the fluorescence quantum yield by using an appropriate micellar enhanced surfactant. The enhanced excitation-emission matrix fluorescence of Re and Ir can be accurately resolved and can simultaneously attain the optimal concentration even in the presence of a potentially strong intrinsic fluorescence from complex biological matrices, such as rat and human plasmas, by using the ATLD method, which completely exploits the "second-order advantage". The average recoveries of Re and Ir obtained from ATLD with the factor number of 3(N=3) were 101.0%±4.3% and 99.1%±4.1% for rat plasma and 100.5%±5.4% and 97.1%±3.6% for human plasma. Several statistical methods, including Student's t-test, figures of merit, and elliptical joint confidence region, have been utilized to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method. Results show that the developed method can maintain second-order advantage in simultaneous determinations of the weak fluorescent analytes of interest in different biological plasma matrices.
基金supported by the Project of Tianjin Ministry of Education (No. 20100723)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60876046)
文摘We report the plasmon-enhanced polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells with Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) obtained via chemical method. Here, the AgNPs films with different particle densities are introduced between the poly (3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) buffer layer and the poly (3-hexythiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-c61 butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT: PCBM) layer. By improving the optical absorption of the active layer owing to the localized surface plasmons, the power conversion efficiency of the solar cells is increased compared with the control device. It is shown that the efficiency of the device increases with the density of AgNPs. For the device employing higher density, the resulted power conversion efficiency is found to increase from 2.89% to 3.38%, enhanced by 16.96%.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB811403)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10873030)+3 种基金the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2009J2-34)the CMA (Grant No. GYHY201106011)NASA (Grant No. NNX11AB61G)the Smithsonian Institution Sprague Endowment Fund during FY10
文摘Despite extensive research on various global waves in solar eruptions, debate continues on the intrinsic nature of them. In this work, we performed numerical experiments of the coronal mass ejection with emphases on the associated large-scale MHD waves. A fast-mode shock forms in front of the flux rope during the eruption with a dimming region following it, and the development of a three-component structure of the ejecta is observed. At the flank of the flux rope, the slow-mode shock and the velocity vortices are also invoked. The dependence of the eruption energetics on the strength of the background field and the coronal plasma density distribution is apparent: the stronger the background field is, and/or the lower the coronal plasma density is, the more energetic the eruption is. In the lower Alfven speed environment, the slow mode shock and the large scale velocity vortices may be the source of the EIT wave. In the high Alfvdn speed environment, on the other hand, the echo due to the reflection of the fast shock on the bottom boundary could be so strong that its interaction with the slow mode shock and the velocity vortices produces the second echo propagating downward and causing the secondary disturbance to the boundary surface. We suggest that this second echo, together with the slow shock and the velocity vortices, could constitute a possible candidate of the source for the EIT wave.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11303016, 11373023, 11533005, 11203014)National Key Basic Research Special Foundation (Grant No. 2014CB744203)
文摘Coronal mass ejections(CMEs) and solar flares are the large-scale and most energetic eruptive phenomena in our solar system and able to release a large quantity of plasma and magnetic flux from the solar atmosphere into the solar wind. When these high-speed magnetized plasmas along with the energetic particles arrive at the Earth, they may interact with the magnetosphere and ionosphere, and seriously affect the safety of human high-tech activities in outer space. The travel time of a CME to 1 AU is about 1–3 days, while energetic particles from the eruptions arrive even earlier. An efficient forecast of these phenomena therefore requires a clear detection of CMEs/flares at the stage as early as possible. To estimate the possibility of an eruption leading to a CME/flare, we need to elucidate some fundamental but elusive processes including in particular the origin and structures of CMEs/flares. Understanding these processes can not only improve the prediction of the occurrence of CMEs/flares and their effects on geospace and the heliosphere but also help understand the mass ejections and flares on other solar-type stars. The main purpose of this review is to address the origin and early structures of CMEs/flares, from multi-wavelength observational perspective. First of all, we start with the ongoing debate of whether the pre-eruptive configuration, i.e., a helical magnetic flux rope(MFR), of CMEs/flares exists before the eruption and then emphatically introduce observational manifestations of the MFR. Secondly, we elaborate on the possible formation mechanisms of the MFR through distinct ways. Thirdly, we discuss the initiation of the MFR and associated dynamics during its evolution toward the CME/flare. Finally, we come to some conclusions and put forward some prospects in the future.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2013CBA01501 and2013CB834401)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11135012 and 11135005)+1 种基金the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China(20120073110065)Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission(11DZ2260700)for the supports
文摘A novel method of initiating nuclear fusion reactions in a full plasma environment was suggested, and a proof-of-concept experiment was carried out with the D +D → n+3He reaction. In this new approach, two plasma jets generated by high-intensity lasers collide headon-head. The center-of-mass energy of the nuclei increases accordingly, and therefore, reaction products can be significantly enhanced, especially in the sub-Coulomb barrier ranges. As a result of the fusion reaction, up to - 7.6 ×105 neutrons had been observed. This new type of "plasma collider" could provide an innovative tool to study nuclear reactions under astrophysical conditions.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB811402 and 2011CB811403)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11221063, 40890161 and 11173062)
文摘"Solar storm" has been commonly accepted by academic community and the public as a very popular scientific term. It is avivid description of violent ejections of a huge amount of magnetized plasma from the Sun as strong flare/CMEs, which sweepover into interplanetary space, develop, and affect our space environment. The solar storm could bring us disastrous spaceweather, destroy crucial technology, and cause a large-scale blackout. It is one of the natural disasters faced by modern humanbeings. Here we first briefly summarize the observational features of solar storms and introduce some key issues, and then wefocus on major advances in observational studies. We mainly introduce the efforts made by the Chinese scientists and comment on the challenges and opportunities that they are facing. In this era when scientific breakthroughs in solar storm studiescrucially depend on space-borne devices and large-aperture ground-based telescopes, the Chinese solar research communityneeds to develop its own major observational facilities and improve space weather forecasting abilities.