Recently, Wu Zhengyan and Zhang Jia's team, from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Professor CAI Dongqing in Donghua University, developed a promising remedy for the rapid and efficient removal of Cd(II) in water, which is a step forward in heavy metal pollution remediation.
The environmental problems in the water area are becoming increasingly prominent. Many cleaning robots on water surface has been invented to clean floating garbage. However, traditional unmanned surface vehicle can only collect garbage within 3 meters in width. Is there any way to do this work more efficiently?
FeSe is an important prototype material to study the superconducting related properties, and the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) plays an important role in FeSe. Pressure changes the structure of the FeSe, which results in the changes of the EPC.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are important precursors for SOA formation. As a significant aromatic compound of VOC, 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene (1,3,5-TMB, C9H12) has been attracting much attention. It’s mostly emitted from automobile exhaust, solvent use and industry. In the atmosphere, the oxidation reaction of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene is mainly initiated by OH radicals.
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Jiang Changlong from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed two nanosensors based on upconversion nanoparticles(UCNPs) to detect semicarbazide(SEM) and heparin, respectively.