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Butterfly-inspired technology could change the way we monitor air

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Inspired by a special drinking behavior observed in butterflies, researchers at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry have developed a new pump-free airborne sampling technology that operates entirely without external power and costs as little as $0.12 per disposable unit.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Researchers map how antibodies neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and how the virus escapes them

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by Prof. WANG Qihui and Prof. George F. Gao from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have mapped how antibodies target a key region of the virus's spike protein, how they neutralize the virus, and how emerging variants escape them.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

New strategy improves power conversion efficiency of TOPCon solar cells

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new synergistic metallization strategy for tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells. The approach achieved a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26.31%, among the highest reported for this technology.

Journal: Matter

History, not age, determines the genomic importance of ancient trees

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Uppsala University found that ancient trees are far from genetically uniform. Some preserve rare genetic variation that is poorly represented elsewhere, while others largely harbor genetic variation already found in surviving wild or cultivated populations.

Journal: Nature Plants

Ancient icehouse hyperthermal event offers insights into modern climate change

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Professor YAO Le from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), in collaboration with researchers from institutions in China and abroad, has reconstructed the process and mechanism of a major warming event that occurred about 300 million years ago during the Earth's penultimate icehouse, known as the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA).

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

New strategy advances scalable production of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chinese scientists have developed a new method that could facilitate the large-scale production of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells. The method employs a multidentate anchoring molecule-assisted co-deposition strategy to improve the fabrication of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) through blade coating—a technique that applies a thin film to a substrate with a blade and is suitable for large-scale manufacturing.

Journal: Chem

Oak leaves harbor distinct microbial worlds on their opposite surfaces

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found that the upper and lower surfaces of a single oak leaf function as two fundamentally different microbial habitats. The sun-exposed upper surface and the shaded, humid underside harbor distinct microbial communities that show striking seasonal divergence.

Journal: New Phytologist

Siberia’s growing methane threat could offset 20% of global methane reduction targets by 2050

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team led by Prof. LIU Yi from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated how CH₄ emissions in Siberia are evolving under climate change, showing how atmospheric circulation promotes wildfire activity and methanogenesis and thereby drives the recent sharp rise in CH₄ emissions.

Journal: Science

New strategy improves power conversion efficiency of TOPCon solar cells

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Improving the efficiency of solar cells is key to reducing the cost of solar power. Now, scientists have developed a new synergistic metallization strategy for tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells. The approach achieved a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26.31%, among the highest reported for this technology.

Journal: Matter

BESIII experiment identifies X(2370) as a glueball dominated particle

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Meeting Announcement

At the International Conference on High Energy Physics held in Brazil, the BESIII Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider announced in a special plenary report that after fifteen years of sustained research, the BESIII Collaboration identified that the dominant constituent of the X(2370) is a pseudoscalar glueball with spin-parity quantum numbers of 0⁻⁺.

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