The term ‘‘micronaire” describes an important cotton fiber property by characterizing both the fiber maturity and fineness. In practice, micronaire is regularly measured in laboratories with the well established high volume instrumentation (HVITM) protocol. In most scenarios,cotton breeders/geneticists sent cotton breeding line field trial samples to laboratories equipped to use the HVITM…
Genome-scale sequence data have become increasingly available in the phylogenetic studies for understanding the evolutionary histories of species. However, it is challenging to develop probabilistic models to account for heterogeneity of phylogenomic data. The multispecies coalescent model describes gene trees as independent random variables generated from a coalescence process occurring alo…
Abstract. A simple solvothermal method has been used to synthesize highly graphitized lace-like carbon (GLC) using ethanol as the carbon source and Mg as reducing agent. The GLC is characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption, Raman spectroscopy and electrochemical techniques. The GLC synthesized at optimized conditions shows interlaced structure with an …
Abstract. Y-junctions and related carbon nanotube (CNT) junctions were synthesized by Au-catalyzed chemical vapor deposition. The catalyst was prepared by evaporating a 10-nm-thick Al2O3 film and a 1-nm-thick Au film on a Si substrate. Based on thorough investigations under a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the CNT junctions were proved to be formed by a unified catalyst-merg…
Abstract Ce-promoted Ru/SBA-15 catalysts were prepared by a ‘‘two solvents’’ impregnation method. In liquidphase hydrogenation of benzene, the Ce-promoted Ru/SBA-15 catalysts exhibited superior catalytic performance to the un-promoted catalyst. The optimum bulk Ce/Ru molar ratio was determined to be 0.25, at which a cyclohexene yield of 53.8% was obtained. Based on characterizations…