Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2021
Special Topic: Ecological Civilization-Insights into Humans and Nature
GUEST EDITORIAL
Ecological civilization: a revived perspective on the relationship between humanity and nature
PERSPECTIVES
SCIENCE POLICY
Ecological civilization: China's effort to build a shared future for all life on Earth
Integrating climate, biodiversity, and sustainable land-use strategies: innovations from China
Defining ‘science-based targets’
Unity of Nature and Man: a new vision and conceptual framework for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
Wildlife conservation and management in China: achievements, challenges and perspectives
Conceptual and theoretical dimensions of biodiversity research in China: examples from plants
COMMENTARIES
SCIENCE POLICY
Biodiversity science in China
ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
Biodiversity science blossoms in China
Applied biodiversity science in China in the global context
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
INFORMATION SCIENCE
Self-replicating digital data storage with synthetic chromosomes
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS
Accelerated passage of gene-modified monkeys by hormone-induced precocious puberty
RESEARCH ARTICLES
NEUROSCIENCE
SNX14 deficiency-induced defective axonal mitochondrial transport in Purkinje cells underlies cerebellar ataxia and can be reversed by valproate
EARTH SCIENCES
Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision
An unexpected large continental source of reactive bromine and chlorine with significant impact on wintertime air quality
This study discovered persistent high levels of a reactive halogen compound (bromine chloride, BrCl) which was produced from coal burning and atmospheric photochemistry during winter in northern China, and upon photolysis, BrCl boosts the atmospheric oxidative power and aggravates winter haze and mercury pollution.
Iron in the NEEM ice core relative to Asian loess records over the last glacial–interglacial cycle
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Palladium nanoplates scotch breast cancer lung metastasis by constraining epithelial-mesenchymal transition
PdPL manifests a robust capability to combat breast cancer lung metastasis largely due to its inhibition on the EMT program through blocking TGF-β signaling.
Regenerated isotropic wood
A new kind of sustainable structural material ‘regenerated isotropic wood’ (RGI-wood) has been prepared from natural wood particles through a bottom-up strategy with surface micro/nanoscale structure design.
Molecular grafting towards high-fraction active nanodots implanted in N-doped carbon for sodium dual-ion batteries
High-fraction active material (95.6 wt%) implanted in nitrogen-doped carbon matrix is designed for sodium-based dual-ion batteries with superior rate performance and long-term cycling life.
Tracking structural evolution: operando regenerative CeOx/Bi interface structure for high-performance CO2 electroreduction
Operando structural identifications at multiscale levels are employed to track the structural evolution of catalysts under realisticelectrochemical CO2 reduction conditions.
Controlled direct synthesis of single- to multiple-layer MWW zeolite
The single- to fewer-layer ultrathin MWW zeolite with controlled structure, high crystallinity and excellent thermal/hydrothermal stability was facilely synthesized by using commercially available structure-directing reagents, which makes it an industrially important catalyst for converting bulky molecules.
CHEMISTRY
Multimodal channel cancer chemotherapy by 2D functional gadolinium metal–organic framework
The unique gadolinium MOF based nanosheets with the paddlewheel frameworks have been constructed to realize the ultrahigh drug loading and bimodal-imaging guided cancer chemotherapy.
Ultra-small hollow ternary alloy nanoparticles for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
The ultra-small hollow ternary alloy nanoparticles are synthesized via a simple one-pot method, and the PtNiCu nanoparticles exhibited excellent catalytic activity and stability in the hydrogen evolution reaction.
PHYSICS
Novel 2D CaCl crystals with metallicity, room-temperature ferromagnetism, heterojunction, piezoelectricity-like property and monovalent calcium ions
Counter to conventional wisdom, two-dimensional CaCl crystals with +1 calcium ions have been observed, which show unexpected metallicity, room-temperature ferromagnetism, heterojunction, piezoelectricity-like property, and distinct hydrogen storage and release capability.
Ideal type-II Weyl points in topological circuits
The unique gadolinium MOF based nanosheets with the paddlewheel frameworks have been constructed to realize the ultrahigh drug loading and bimodal-imaging guided cancer chemotherapy.