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According to the planting agronomy of Lycium barbarum L. in Ningxia, a self-propelled straddle-type sprayer was designed. The aim was to reduce the labor requirements, improve the spraying effect to the middle and lower parts of the canopy, reduce the influence of natural wind on droplet drift, and recycle excess liquid medicine to reduce environmental pollution. Tests showed that the coverage rate of liquid medicine on the leaf surface and back of the leaf peaked at 84.2% and 48.3%, respectively, when spraying pressure was high. Under different spraying distances, the coverage rate of liquid medicine on leaf surface and back of leaf reached 73.3% and 38.3% at the shortest distance. The uniformity of the spray droplet distribution was good, the use error was less than 10%, and the excess liquid was effectively recovered.

The proposal of hybrid ion batteries, which can integrate the advantages of the single ion battery, opens up a new route for developing high-performance secondary batteries. Herein, we successfully constructed an aqueous hybrid battery comprised of polyanionic-type cathode material (Na

High-performance aqueous zinc batteries are expected to be realized, rooting from component synergistic effects of the hierarchical composite electrode materials. Herein, hierarchical crystalline Ni–Co phosphide coated with amorphous phosphate nanoarrays (C-NiCoP@A-NiCoPO4) self-supporting on the Ni foam are constructed as cathode material of an aqueous zinc battery. In this unique core–shell structure, the hexagonal phosphide with high conductivity offers ultra-fast electronic transmission and amorphous phosphate with high stability, and open-framework provides more favorable ion diffusivity and a stable protective barrier. The synergistic effects of this intriguing core–shell structure endow the electrode material with outstanding reaction kinetics and structural stability, which is theoretically confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. As a result, the C-NiCoP@A-NiCoPO4 electrode exhibits a higher specific capacity of 350.6 mA h g−1 and excellent cyclic stability with 92.6% retention after 10 000 cycles. Moreover, the C-NiCoP@A-NiCoPO4 is coupled with Zn anode to assemble an aqueous pouch battery that delivers ultra-high energy density (626.33 W h kg−1 at 1.72 kW kg−1) with extraordinary rate performance (452.05 W h kg−1 at 33.56 kW kg−1). Moreover, the corresponding quasi-solid flexible battery with polyacrylamide hydrogel electrolyte exhibits favorable durability under frequent mechanical strains, which indicates the great promise of crystalline/amorphous hierarchical electrodes in the field of energy storage.

Hierarchical nanostructures with outstanding electrochemical properties and mechanical stability are ideal for constructing flexible hybrid supercapacitors. Herein, hierarchically hollow NiCo2S4@NiS nanostructures were designed and synthesized by sulfurizing the hierarchical NiCo double hydroxides (DHs) coated with nickel hydroxide nanostructures on carbon fabrics (NiCo-DHs@Ni(OH)2/CF), which trigger excellent electrochemical performances. The NiCo2S4@NiS/CF exhibits a high specific capacity of 1314.0 C g−1 at a current density of 1 A g−1, and maintains the rate performance at about 79.2% of the initial capacity at 30 A g−1. The hybrid supercapacitors of NiCo2S4@NiS//AC display a high energy density of 62.4 W h kg−1 at a power density of 800 W kg−1 with a remarkable cycling stability (96.2% of initial capacitance after 5000 cycles) and robust mechanical flexibility (no obvious decay of specific capacitance during various deformations). Consequently, NiCo2S4@NiS electrodes are expected to be a promising candidate for new smart energy storage devices with high security, stability and flexibility.

When harvesting Lycium barbarum L., excess amounts of detachments of the half-ripe fruit, unripe fruit, flowers, and leaves significantly affect the yield and adversely affect the subsequent processing, such as drying and grading. Finite element method (FEM) simulations and experiments of detachments were performed to harvest more ripe fruit and less half-ripe fruit, unripe fruit, flowers, and leaves. Three-dimensional (3D) models of the ripe fruit, half-ripe fruit, unripe fruit, flowers, leaves, fruit calyxes (flower calyx), fruit stems (flower stem), and branches were constructed using a 3D scanner, and material mechanics models of the above parts were established based on physical tests with universal testing machines. Detachment simulations and experiments of the ripe fruit, half-ripe fruit, unripe fruit, flowers, and leaves were performed to determine the detachment mechanisms and sequences. The detachment forces of each set of two parts were obtained. The field experiments showed that the detachment force between the fruit and calyx of ripe fruit was the lowest value of these forces, and only the ripe fruit was the first to detach from the calyx when harvesting. The results provided data support on the mechanics properties of wood and the optimization basis for the harvesting method of L. barbarum.

Environmental health has recently become more and more important in the discussion of international health issues. Due to the impact of haze pollution on human health, ecological environment and climate change, it has become the first problem to be solved in the process of protecting environmental health. PM2.5 is the main cause of haze pollution. Based on the observation data of PM2.5 concentration in 368 cities in China from February to march in 2020, this paper uses the statistical model of spatial data to reveal the spatial and temporal pattern distribution of PM2.5 in China during the period of severe outbreak and spread (February 3 to March 29) of 8 weeks and 56 days. The analysis results show that 1) during the epidemic period, the average concentration of PM2.5 in China ranged from 32.876 to 42.173, which generally showed a trend of rapid decrease and then rebound and continued decline after the outbreak of the epidemic. 2) in terms of space, the concentration of PM2.5 is the highest in the central region, higher in the north than in the south, and higher in the eastern bohai rim region and northern China than in the western qinghai-tibet plateau and Himalayan mountain belt. The high-value areas were mainly distributed in the north China plain, the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, urumqi and hotan regions of xinjiang. 3) the hot spot analysis shows that the hot spots of pollution distribution are the beijing-tianjin-hebei region and the north China plain. The cold spots are the pearl river delta and the yunnan-guizhou region. 4) spatial autocorrelation analysis shows that the average weekly concentration of PM2.5 shows a strong local spatial autocorrelation.

Hierarchical nanostructures with outstanding electrochemical properties and mechanical stability are ideal for constructing flexible hybrid supercapacitors. Herein, hierarchically hollow NiCo2S4@NiS nanostructures were designed and synthesized by sulfurizing the hierarchical NiCo double hydroxides (DHs) coated with nickel hydroxide nanostructures on carbon fabrics (NiCo-DHs@Ni(OH)2/CF), which trigger excellent electrochemical performances. The NiCo2S4@NiS/CF exhibits a high specific capacity of 1314.0 C g-1 at a current density of 1 A g-1, and maintains the rate performance at about 79.2% of the initial capacity at 30 A g-1. The hybrid supercapacitors of NiCo2S4@NiS//AC display a high energy density of 62.4 W h kg-1 at a power density of 800 W kg-1 with a remarkable cycling stability (96.2% of initial capacitance after 5000 cycles) and robust mechanical flexibility (no obvious decay of specific capacitance during various deformations). Consequently, NiCo2S4@NiS electrodes are expected to be a promising candidate for new smart energy storage devices with high security, stability and flexibility.

Metasurfaces are nanopatterned structures of sub-wavelength thickness. Their effective refractive index and spectral characteristic can be tailored by material composition, intrinsic and extrinsic resonances, structure size, and ambient conditions. Consequently, they allow for phase, amplitude, polarisation, and spatial control of an optical field beyond what natural materials can offer. Dielectric metasurfaces with lower loss have opened a wide range of new applications such as enhanced imaging, structural colour, holography, and planar sensors. In particular, beam steering and control measures such as nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, and quantum optics are of increasing importance for quantum communication, computation, and information processing. In this review, the recent progress on dielectric metasurfaces is summarised, including advanced fabrication technologies and novel applications from advanced wavefront shaping to quantum platforms. In addition, a perspective for the future development of the field is presented.

Background Knowledge of the factors that influence maternal serum screening (MSS) service utilization can be used to develop health policies to promote equitable access to MSS and further diagnostic tests. The purpose of this study was to find the factors associated with utilization of MSS as well as the current status of service utilization in mainland China. Methods This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study with respondents interviewed with a questionnaire designed based on Andersen’s behavioral model. Descriptive statistics, univariate analysis, and multilevel logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors associated with MSS utilization, and to explore potential methods to improve screening uptake. Results A total of 8110 women who had given birth within the previous 7 days in one of 111 participating institutions from six provinces in mainland China were interviewed. Approximately 36 % of the participants had used MSS. Women between 20 and 35 years, who resided in urban areas, were educated, were in a stable occupation, who had health knowledge, who attended maternal preparation classes, who had received eight or more prenatal checkups, who were from a region of higher social economic status, and who delivered in a tertiary healthcare institution were significantly more likely to use MSS than their counterparts. As compared with other factors, insufficient education is the single most important demographic factor for service underutilization. Conclusions Efforts should not only be made to target the population that underuses MSS, but the overall organization of MSS service delivery should be assessed during policy development to make access to MSS equitable to the entire population of mainland China.

University laboratory is an important base for cultivating high quality innovative talents. The construction of experimental teaching demonstration center plays an important role in improving the level of experimental teaching and personnel training quality, enhancing undergraduates' practical ability and innovative spirit, and improving laboratory construction and management level. Experimental teaching is an important part of the construction of national experimental teaching demonstration center. The reform must aim at improving undergraduates' ability. How to construct scientific reasonable experimental curriculum teaching with independent operation mechanism, break the situation that the experiment (practice) curriculums are too much attached on theory curriculums, promote the harmonious development of the experimental teaching quality and scale, have become the core problem of the construction of experimental teaching demonstration center. The purpose of this independent teaching operation mechanism is to improve the undergraduates' innovation ability and engineering practice ability, so that undergraduates have enough competitiveness in employment in

By introducing partial divided differences and partial inverse differences, bivariate symmetry associated continued fractions blending rational interpolation is constructed. We discuss the recursive algorithm, interpolation theorem and error estimation. We extend the conclusion to vector valued, matrix valued cases and the triangular net case.