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A Flower Bud from the Lower Cretaceous of China

Biology, 2022
Background: Although various angiosperms (including their flowers) have been reported from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of China, which is famous worldwide for its fossils of early angiosperms, no flower bud has hitherto been seen in the Early
Li-Jun Chen, Xin Wang
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Rational Tuning of Hygroscopic Oscillation of Stacked Nanoflake Assemblies for Continuous Ambient Energy Harvesting

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Stacked nanoflake assembly (SNA) membranes can oscillate autonomously, offering opportunities for soft actuation and energy harvesting. This work uncovers the physical mechanism behind the sustained oscillation of SNA membranes in gradient humidity and identifies three governing dimensionless parameters, enabling rational design for optimizing SNA ...
Zijing Zhang, Jimin Fu, Gesa Zhang, Zhihua Liang, Boxun Zhang, Haimin Yao   +5 more
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A Fossil Buttercup [PDF]

Nature, 1922
WHEN we examine a catalogue of fossil plants, such as that for North America recently published by Knowlton, we are struck by the enormous number of recorded species, and readily receive the impression that the flora of former ages is quite well known.
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New data on the winged fruits of Carpolithus prangosoides Berry from the Eocene of western Tennessee and Kentucky

Acta Palaeobotanica, 2020
We reexamined the morphology of the winged fruits Carpolithus prangosoides Berry (later synonym: Terminalia vera Berry) from the Eocene Claiborne Formation of southeastern North America, based on original and more recently collected specimens from ...
Steven R. Manchester, Rachel G. Reback
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Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
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Deep-Seated Processes Controlling Mesozoic Differential Metallogeny in the Southern Region of South China: Insights from Hf-Nd Isotope Mapping

Geosciences
The southern region of the South China Block hosts a super-large metallogenic province. However, the Mesozoic differential metallogeny between the southern Cathaysia Block (W-Sn) and the southern Yangtze Block (Au-Sb) remains enigmatic.
Yuqing Yin, Bo Xu, Maowen Yuan, Zhuang Miao, Jin Wang, Zihao Wen, Tianli Jin, Peidong Chai, Wenqi Song, Shiying Fu, Masroor Alam   +10 more
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Interface‐Mediated Catalysis for Improved Hydrogen Storage in Reactive Hydride Composites

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Catalyst–hydride interfaces are engineered in Co@C‐ and Ni@C‐modified 2LiH + MgB2 reactive hydride composites to accelerate hydrogen uptake and release. Multiscale scattering, in‐situ synchrotron radiation powder x‐ray diffraction and density functional theory calculations reveal the structural and electronic origin of the catalytic enhancement ...
Yuanyuan Shang, Pawan Kumar Soni, Han Ge, Weijie Yang, Fahim Karimi, Thi Thu Le, Tamás Simon, Michael Fröba, Jitendra Mata, Joshua King, Hai‐Wen Li, Thomas Klassen, Claudio Pistidda   +12 more
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Long-Term Shifts in Faunal Composition of Freshwater Mollusks in Spring-Fed Rivers of Florida

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Florida’s freshwater spring and river ecosystems have been deteriorating due to direct and indirect human impacts. However, while the conservation and restoration strategies employed to mitigate these effects often rely on faunal surveys that go back ...
Kristopher M. Kusnerik, Guy H. Means, Roger W. Portell, Alshina Kannai, Mariah M. Monroe, Ryan Means, Michal Kowalewski   +6 more
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Strong Fully Reprocessable Engineered Wood Composites

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Engineering a hyperbranched adhesive with complementary imine‐bond and hydrogen‐bond networks, combining it with wood particles to fabricate the wood composite (WP/HTP) under mild hot‐pressing conditions. The WP/HTP exhibits 100% mechanical strength recovery after three cycles of reprocessing, and the reprocessed modulus of rupture (MOR) and modulus of
Xilin Zhang, Zheng Liu, Zhezhe Zhou, Mark Lynch, Jianzhang Li, Paulomi Burey, Jingchao Li, Cheng Zhang, Qiang Gao, Pingan Song   +9 more
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Charge Storage and Dark Photocatalysis in Multivariate Ti‐Based Metal‐Organic Frameworks

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The mixed‐linker series of the titanium‐based metal–organic framework COK‐47 enables systematic tuning of photoresponsiveness and (dark) photocatalytic activity, deepening our understanding of structure‐property‐function relationships. Tailored metal‐to‐ligand charge transfer between the secondary building units (metal‐oxo layers and organic linkers ...
Julia E. Knapp, Bibhuti Bhusan Rath, Borja Ortín‐Rubio, Lukas Bauder, Kristina Gjorgjevikj, Saunak Das, Mariia Ferree, Frédéric Laquai, Lorenzo Tesi, Bettina Baumgartner, Simon Krause, Bettina V. Lotsch   +11 more
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