The continuous consumption of fossil fuels causes two important impediments including emission of large concentrations of CO2 resulting in global warming and alarming utilization of energy assets.The conversion of gre...The continuous consumption of fossil fuels causes two important impediments including emission of large concentrations of CO2 resulting in global warming and alarming utilization of energy assets.The conversion of greenhouse gas CO2 into solar fuels can be an expedient accomplishment for the solution of both problems,all together.CO2 reutilization into valuable fuels and chemicals is a great challenge of the current century.Owing to limitations in traditional approaches,there have been developed many novel technologies such as photochemical,biochemical,electrochemical,plasma-chemical and solar thermochemical.They are currently being used for CO2 capture,sequestration,and utilization to transform CO2 into valuable products such as syngas,methane,methanol,formic acid,as well as fossil fuel consumption reduction.This review summarizes different traditional and novel thermal technologies used in CO2 conversion with detailed information about their working principle,types,currently adopted methods,developments,conversion rates,products formed,catalysts and operating conditions.Moreover,a comparison of these novel technologies in terms of distinctive key features such as conversion rate,yield,use of earth metals,renewable energy,investment,and operating cost has been provided in order to have a useful review for future research direction.展开更多
The applications of fluorescence resonance energy transfer(FRET)are coming to be one of the simplest and most accessible strategy with super-resolved optical measurements.Meanwhile,nanomaterials have become ideal for ...The applications of fluorescence resonance energy transfer(FRET)are coming to be one of the simplest and most accessible strategy with super-resolved optical measurements.Meanwhile,nanomaterials have become ideal for constructing FRET-based system,due to their unique advantages of tunable emission,broad absorption,and long fluorescence(FL)lifetime.The limitations of traditional FRET-based detections,such as the intrinsic FL,auto-FL,as well as the short FL lifetime,could be overcome with nanomaterials.Consequently,numbers of FRET-based nanomaterials have been constructed for precise,sensitive and selective detections in biological systems.They could act as both energy donors and/or acceptors in the optical energy transfer process for biological detections.Some other nanomaterials would not participate in the energy transfer process,but act as the excellent matrix for modifications.The review will be roughly classified into nanomaterial-involved and uninvolved ones.Different detection targets,such as nucleic acids,pathogenic microorganisms,proteins,heavy metal ions,and other applications will be reviewed.Finally,the other biological applications,including environmental evaluation and mechanism studies would also be summarized.展开更多
BioNetSim,a Petri net-based software for modeling and simulating biochemistry processes,is developed,whose design and implement are presented in this pa-per,including logic construction,real-time access to KEGG(Kyoto ...BioNetSim,a Petri net-based software for modeling and simulating biochemistry processes,is developed,whose design and implement are presented in this pa-per,including logic construction,real-time access to KEGG(Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes),and BioModel database.Furthermore,glycolysis is simulated as an example of its application.BioNetSim is a helpful tool for researchers to download data,model biological network,and simulate complicated biochemistry processes.Gene regulatory networks,metabolic pathways,signaling pathways,and kinetics of cell interaction are all available in BioNetSim,which makes modeling more efficient and effective.Similar to other Petri net-based softwares,BioNetSim does well in graphic application and mathematic construction.Moreover,it shows several powerful predominances.(1)It creates models in database.(2)It realizes the real-time access to KEGG and BioModel and transfers data to Petri net.(3)It provides qualitative analysis,such as computation of constants.(4)It generates graphs for tracing the concentration of every molecule during the simulation processes.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(5152260151950410590)+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Fund(2019M651284)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HIT.NSRIF.2020054)。
文摘The continuous consumption of fossil fuels causes two important impediments including emission of large concentrations of CO2 resulting in global warming and alarming utilization of energy assets.The conversion of greenhouse gas CO2 into solar fuels can be an expedient accomplishment for the solution of both problems,all together.CO2 reutilization into valuable fuels and chemicals is a great challenge of the current century.Owing to limitations in traditional approaches,there have been developed many novel technologies such as photochemical,biochemical,electrochemical,plasma-chemical and solar thermochemical.They are currently being used for CO2 capture,sequestration,and utilization to transform CO2 into valuable products such as syngas,methane,methanol,formic acid,as well as fossil fuel consumption reduction.This review summarizes different traditional and novel thermal technologies used in CO2 conversion with detailed information about their working principle,types,currently adopted methods,developments,conversion rates,products formed,catalysts and operating conditions.Moreover,a comparison of these novel technologies in terms of distinctive key features such as conversion rate,yield,use of earth metals,renewable energy,investment,and operating cost has been provided in order to have a useful review for future research direction.
基金the financial support provided by the National Key Research and Development Programof China(No.2019YFC1805600)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NNSFC,No.21874012)the financial support provided by the NNSFC(No.21974010).
文摘The applications of fluorescence resonance energy transfer(FRET)are coming to be one of the simplest and most accessible strategy with super-resolved optical measurements.Meanwhile,nanomaterials have become ideal for constructing FRET-based system,due to their unique advantages of tunable emission,broad absorption,and long fluorescence(FL)lifetime.The limitations of traditional FRET-based detections,such as the intrinsic FL,auto-FL,as well as the short FL lifetime,could be overcome with nanomaterials.Consequently,numbers of FRET-based nanomaterials have been constructed for precise,sensitive and selective detections in biological systems.They could act as both energy donors and/or acceptors in the optical energy transfer process for biological detections.Some other nanomaterials would not participate in the energy transfer process,but act as the excellent matrix for modifications.The review will be roughly classified into nanomaterial-involved and uninvolved ones.Different detection targets,such as nucleic acids,pathogenic microorganisms,proteins,heavy metal ions,and other applications will be reviewed.Finally,the other biological applications,including environmental evaluation and mechanism studies would also be summarized.
基金supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(Grant No.2012CB721000)the Key Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(No.11JC1406400)the Research Innovation Project of Shanghai Education Commission(No.09YZ95).
文摘BioNetSim,a Petri net-based software for modeling and simulating biochemistry processes,is developed,whose design and implement are presented in this pa-per,including logic construction,real-time access to KEGG(Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes),and BioModel database.Furthermore,glycolysis is simulated as an example of its application.BioNetSim is a helpful tool for researchers to download data,model biological network,and simulate complicated biochemistry processes.Gene regulatory networks,metabolic pathways,signaling pathways,and kinetics of cell interaction are all available in BioNetSim,which makes modeling more efficient and effective.Similar to other Petri net-based softwares,BioNetSim does well in graphic application and mathematic construction.Moreover,it shows several powerful predominances.(1)It creates models in database.(2)It realizes the real-time access to KEGG and BioModel and transfers data to Petri net.(3)It provides qualitative analysis,such as computation of constants.(4)It generates graphs for tracing the concentration of every molecule during the simulation processes.
