This work establishes a new paradigm for designing high-activity and durable EOCM catalysts. The oxygen species engineering and interfacial synergy strategy not only enhances the efficiency of methane conversion but also advances the foundational framework for SOEC applications in low-carbon energy conversion.

Researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) have suggested that a combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the world’s coastal towns and cities. Their study has for the first time drawn together existing research which has highlighted the presence of microplastics in sewage overspills, and the role of the wind in picking up and transporting sea spray and sea foam into the air and onto land.

This work shows that multi-DOF metamaterials are limited by their energy-driven deformation, restricting their mechanical behaviors. By using one-DOF mechanisms and inverse design, the team created lightweight, highly deformable, easy-to-make metamaterials with tunable, programmable, and anisotropic mechanical responses. This opens a new path toward smart, reconfigurable materials for advanced engineering and adaptive applications.

In a paper published on aBIOTECH, the authors examine the current status of research and applications of agricultural GMOs in China, analyze future prospects and challenges, and discuss strategies to promote the development and utilization of agricultural biotechnology in China.

To address the above issues, Prof. Zhongwen Li's team at Ningbo Eye Institute, Wenzhou Medical University, introduced the Ocular Surface Pretrained Model (OSPM), a novel self-supervised learning-based domain-specific model to mitigate the scarcity of labeled data. It leverages 0.76 million unlabeled ocular surface images from 10 clinical centers across China to learn ocular surface feature representations, which can be easily adapted for classifying OSTs.