{"title":"Tailored Fe catalyst microenvironment for highly efficient syngas conversion to olefins with low CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.","authors":"Di Xu, Yajie Cao, Haifeng Fan, Guoqiang Hou, Yangyang Li, Siyi Huang, Ruosong He, Hanzhu Zhang, Riguang Zhang, Mingyue Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Achieving highly efficient syngas conversion to olefins on the Fe-based catalysts is promising, but remains a big challenge due to the twin coexistence of the Fischer-Tropsch to olefins (FTO) and water gas shift (WGS) reactions. Herein, we developed a strategy via regulating the microenvironment of Fe catalyst and controlling the diffusion behaviors of critical intermediates to successfully realize the syngas conversion to olefins with low CO<sub>2</sub> emission. A Fe@C catalyst with Fe species encapsulated in porous carbon was fabricated and achieved high single-pass olefins yield (>30%) and low CO<sub>2</sub> selectivity (around 20%) simultaneously, which has ranked the top among the ever-reported advanced oxide-zeolite, Co-based, and Fe-based catalysts. A series of experimental and theoretical results revealed that the unique microenvironment could enrich olefins and inhibit hydrogenation reaction, therefore favoring high value-added olefins formation. Moreover, due to the accelerated diffusion of H<sub>2</sub>O molecules, the WGS side reaction was obviously inhibited even at high CO conversion. Our research presented a new catalyst design strategy to realize highly efficient and controllable catalysis in syngas conversion.</p>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144881751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.029
James D. Bever
{"title":"Alternative stable states in ecology and their representation","authors":"James D. Bever","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"70 17","pages":"Pages 2703-2704"},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144717211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.008
Weidong Sun , Mingxing Ling
{"title":"New evidence for Palaeozoic mineralization in the world-class Bayan Obo rare earth deposit","authors":"Weidong Sun , Mingxing Ling","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"70 18","pages":"Pages 2906-2908"},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144726326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.026
Kai Liu , Leiyang Bai , Shuang Deng , Xiaotian Qi , Xuefeng Jiang
{"title":"Divergent aryne regulation for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons","authors":"Kai Liu , Leiyang Bai , Shuang Deng , Xiaotian Qi , Xuefeng Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Arynes are straightforward and effective synthons for <em>π</em>-extension accompanying by vicinal difunctionalization simultaneously, thereby being ideal building blocks for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) construction. However, C<img>C triple bond in an aromatic system, with the distorted bond angle and shortened bond distance, arouses tremendous challenges for thermodynamic stability and kinetically reactive selectivity, especially for heteroarynes. Herein, controllable aryne generation was achieved for nitrogen-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via designed cyclic pyridine–benzene <em>λ</em><sup>3</sup>-iodanes, in which the iodine ensured the thermodynamic stability and kinetic site-selectivity via <em>p</em>→<em>π</em>* interaction with aryne for chemo- and regio-selectivity. The “pyridyne–benzyne” model enabled the preeminent <em>ortho</em>-selectivity with nucleophilic capture and consecutive [4+2]-cycloaddition for <em>π</em> conjugation extension, not only assembling for <em>N</em>-doped PAHs with adjustable Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT) and inverse Suppression of Proximity Effect (SOPE) phenomenon but also establishing a reliable empirical formula for regulating generation and release of arynes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"70 18","pages":"Pages 2967-2976"},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144758789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.025
Yin-Zi Ye, Jiameng Li, Weiming Li, Xiaonan Fu, Jiajun Zhang, Shilong Yang, Wei-Guo Du
{"title":"Transcriptional control of male-specific pathway in temperature-dependent sex determination.","authors":"Yin-Zi Ye, Jiameng Li, Weiming Li, Xiaonan Fu, Jiajun Zhang, Shilong Yang, Wei-Guo Du","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How temperature affects the direction of sexual differentiation pathways in temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) remains a mystery despite decades of scientific investigation. In the accompanying study, we demonstrated the thermal switch mechanism within thermosensitive steroidogenic cells (TSSCs) that triggers the male development pathway in turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans). However, the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms linking TSSCs' cold sensitivity with pre-Sertoli cell specification remain elusive. Herein, we elucidate the regulatory schema governing the male determination pathway, including Ca<sup>2+</sup>-induced aldosterone synthesis in TSSCs and subsequent aldosterone-driven transcriptional modulation in pre-supporting cells. Aldosterone-bound NR3C1, a master regulator of the male determination pathway, activates DMRT1 gene expression, culminating in pre-Sertoli specification. Therefore, this study discovers a novel male-specific pathway by which temperature initiates male sex determination in TSD species.</p>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144938173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.010
Zuntian Chu , Xinqi Cai , Ruichao Zhu , Tonghao Liu , Huiting Sun , Fan Wu , Tiefu Li , Yuxiang Jia , Yajuan Han , Shaobo Qu , Tiejun Cui , Jiafu Wang
{"title":"Magic cube metamaterials","authors":"Zuntian Chu , Xinqi Cai , Ruichao Zhu , Tonghao Liu , Huiting Sun , Fan Wu , Tiefu Li , Yuxiang Jia , Yajuan Han , Shaobo Qu , Tiejun Cui , Jiafu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditionally, magic cube configurations, which have been employed to mechanically execute diverse and unconventional structural transformations, are capable of significantly boosting versatile electromagnetic responses of reconfigurable metamaterials. However, this idea is still in the initial exploration stage and faces many constraints. Here, we propose magic cube metamaterials with features of high transparency, multi-gradient phase distribution, full polarization, and high information, which manifest 47.58% optical transmittance, a 6-order phase distribution, a 77% fractional operating bandwidth, and 65.23 times information entropy of their planar counterparts. The reflection phase corresponding to coplanar lattice of the metamaterials can be dynamically and omni-directionally controlled via altering their spatial distributions through individually addressing each rotatable meta-particle while maintaining the polarization states. The optically transparent design allows for real-time visual interaction and sequence mapping of the reconfigurable metamaterials. As two proof-of-concept meta-devices, an achromatic metalens with an unchanged focal length and a switchable multi-functional beam generator is demonstrated by simulations and experiments in an ultra-wide band (8.0–18.0 GHz). This work provides an effective alternative for designing reconfigurable metamaterials with high information-entropy properties, paving a new route toward advanced equipment such as active signal processors and information encryption/decryption systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"70 17","pages":"Pages 2771-2783"},"PeriodicalIF":21.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144717215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}