Abstract. The mesoporosity development in high silica HZSM-5 was carried out by alkaline desilication treatment and soft template method, and its relationship with the catalytic performance of the modified catalysts in methanol-to-propylene reaction was studied. High propylene selectivity (42.2%) and propylene/ethylene ratio (10.1) were observed on the high silica HZSM-5 catalyst modified b…
Abstract. The main target of this work is to characterize the abatements of particulate matter (PM), hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) froman actual diesel exhaust using dielectric barrier discharge technology (DBD). The effects of several parameters, such as peak voltage, frequency and engine load, on the contaminant removals have been investigated intensively. The present study …
Hexagonally patterned arrays of well-aligned, regular ZnO nanopillars with controlled size, shape, and orientation were directly fabricated on zinc foils via a facile wet chemical approach with the assistance of monolayer colloidal crystals (MCC). Two kinds of templates that were derived from MCC, i.e., inverted MCC (IMCC) and connected MCC (CMCC), were employed as masks to define the growth…
Abstract Questions: How can we understand the limitations to plant growth at high altitudes? Our aimwas to test the hypotheses that for alpine grasslands along a large altitudinal gradient in semi-arid regions, plant growth is mainly limited by drought at low altitudes but by low temperature at high altitudes, resulting in a unimodal pattern of biomass and productivity associated with an opti…
Roots play important roles in plant survival and productivity as they not only anchor the plants in the soil but are also the primary organ for the uptake of nutrients from the outside. The growth and development of roots depend on the specification and maintenance of the root meristem. Here, we report a previously unknown role of TIME FOR COFFEE (TIC) in controlling root meristem size in Arabi…