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CAUL and Taylor & Francis announce new open access agreement for Australasian researchers

Taylor & Francis Group
Business Announcement

From January 2026, researchers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will have an expanded range of open access (OA) publishing options through a new three-year agreement negotiated by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) and Taylor & Francis.

3D-printed hydrogel “power patches” harvest low-grade heat as wearable thermocells

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

China, Tianjin-Researchers at Nankai University have 3D-printed soft hydrogel thermocell “power patches” that can hug skin and devices, turning gentle temperature differences into electricity. By Combining 3D printing and immersion activation strategies, they “sculpt” microstructured hydrogel thermocell surfaces that grip rough, moving heat sources and boost power output several-fold. These patches can also serve as self-powered touch and motion sensors, suggesting that customizable wearable power supplies could quietly harvest waste heat from bodies and irregular heat sources for future sustainable, human-integrated electronics.

Journal: National Science Review

New bioelectronics device based on hydrogel- elastomer conductive nanomembranes

Institute for Basic Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), together with Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), has developed a new class of ultra-thin, flexible bioelectronic material that can seamlessly interface with living tissues. The researchers introduced a novel device called THIN (Transformable and Imperceptible Hydrogel-Elastomer Ionic-Electronic Nanomembrane). THIN is a membrane just 350 nanometers thick that transforms from a dry, rigid film into an ultra-soft, tissue-like interface upon hydration.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Institute for Basic Science

Memristor chip accelerates compressed sensing by 11 times through hardware-software co-optimization

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To tackle the high energy and latency costs of compressed sensing workloads in edge computing, researchers at Tsinghua University developed a memristor-based compressed sensing accelerator (memCS). By utilizing a computing-in-memory (CIM) architecture and hardware-software co-optimization framework to mitigate accuracy loss from hardware non-idealities, the memCS achieved a near-software computing accuracy (31.11 dB peak signal-to-noise ratio) while delivering an 11.22x speedup and 30.46x energy savings compared to GPUs, paving the way for efficient edge computing.

Journal: National Science Review

Manure-integrated nitrogen management reshapes soil microbes to cut greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing crop yields

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research teamreveals how integrating manure with synthetic nitrogen fertilizers can significantly reduce agricultural nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions without lowering crop productivity.

Duckweed cuts nitrogen oxides from rice paddies but raises greenhouse gas emissions

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team reveals that introducing duckweed (Lemna minor) into rice paddies sharply reduces nitrogen oxide emissions but simultaneously increases nitrous oxide and ammonia release.

Optimized nitrogen strategy boosts rice yields and cuts pollution in central Myanmar

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has identified economically and ecologically optimal nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates that can significantly improve both rice yields and environmental sustainability in central Myanmar.

New framework reveals hidden nitrogen pathways driving pollution from farms to cities

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has uncovered how different hydrological pathways—rather than total runoff alone—govern the movement of nitrogen (N) pollution across rural–urban landscapes.

Unraveling nitrogen removal in riverine wetlands: key roles of denitrification and anammox across a latitudinal gradient

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team recently conducted an extensive study on nitrogen removal processes in riverine wetlands across China, focusing on the microbial processes of denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox).