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"abstract": "A variety of artificial silk spinning approaches have been attempted to mimic the natural spinning process found in silkworms and spiders, yet instantaneous silk fiber formation with hierarchical structure under physiological and ambient conditions without post-treatment procedures remains unaddressed.... | 104 |
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"abstract": "Mutualistic networks have been shown to involve complex patterns of interactions among animal and plant species, including a widespread presence of nestedness. The nested structure of these webs seems to be positively correlated with higher diversity and resilience. Moreover, these webs exhibit marked ... | 270 |
27418359 | PMC5119850 | pmc | 1,829 | {
"abstract": "The selection of microbes by enrichment on plant biomass has been proposed as an efficient way to develop new strategies for lignocellulose saccharification. Here, we report an in-depth analysis of soil-derived microbial consortia that were trained to degrade once-used wheat straw (WS1-M), switchgrass ... | 6,099 |
30746486 | PMC6358320 | pmc | 1,830 | {
"abstract": "By constructing a conjoined-network, we tackled the challenge in developing stiff and tough hydrogels of biogenic molecules.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION The design and construction of hydrogels for wide applications in biomedical fields ( 1 , 2 ), such as tissue engineering ( 3 , 4 ), drug deli... | 1,855 |
34478597 | PMC9293205 | pmc | 1,832 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Microbial communities are hugely diverse, but we do not yet understand how species invasions and extinctions drive and limit their diversity. On the one hand, the ecological limits hypothesis posits that diversity is primarily limited by environmental resources. On the other hand, the diversit... | 6,387 |
34113833 | PMC8170003 | pmc | 1,833 | {
"abstract": "Summary Harvesting mechanical energy via a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a promising strategy for solving energy problems. However, it is necessary to develop an effective and safe energy managing circuit for preventing high voltage breaking electronic devices. Here, a universal managing circui... | 8,140 |
23144897 | PMC3492453 | pmc | 1,834 | {
"abstract": "Division of labor, an adaptation in which individuals specialize in performing tasks necessary to the colony, such as nest defense and foraging, is believed key to eusocial insects' remarkable ecological success. Here we report, for the first time, a completely novel specialization in a eusocial insect... | 2,874 |
36540214 | PMC9733714 | pmc | 1,835 | {
"abstract": "Self-healing materials have attracted widespread attention owing to their capacity to extend the lifetime of materials and improve resource utilization. However, achieving superior mechanical performance and high self-healable capability simultaneously under moderate conditions remains a long-standing ... | 8,061 |
29382768 | PMC5816194 | pmc | 1,837 | {
"abstract": "Significance The origin of mitochondria is a challenging and intensely debated issue. Mitochondria are ancestrally present in eukaryotes, and their endosymbiotic inclusion was an extremely important step during the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. However, because of the unknown order of euka... | 3,584 |
31141846 | PMC6559207 | pmc | 1,838 | {
"abstract": "Summary Biomass recalcitrance is still a main challenge for the production of biofuels and high‐value products. Here, an alternative Miscanthus pretreatment method by using lignin‐degrading bacteria was developed. Six efficient Miscanthus ‐degrading bacteria were first cultured to produce laccase by... | 4,004 |
38784799 | PMC11111985 | pmc | 1,839 | {
"abstract": "Lead (Pb) is a hazardous heavy metal that accumulates in many environments. Phytoremediation of Pb polluted soil is an environmentally friendly method, and a better understanding of mycorrhizal symbiosis under Pb stress can promote its efficiency and application. This study aims to evaluate the impact ... | 3,444 |
35381088 | PMC9338886 | pmc | 1,840 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Microbial biofilms are ubiquitous. In marine and freshwater ecosystems, microbe–mineral interactions sustain biogeochemical cycles, while biofilms found on plants and animals can range from pathogens to commensals. Moreover, biofouling and biocorrosion represent significant challenges to indus... | 680 |
33462162 | PMC8506656 | pmc | 1,841 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial biofilms are communities of bacteria that exist as aggregates that can adhere to surfaces or be free-standing. This complex, social mode of cellular organization is fundamental to the physiology of microbes and often exhibits surprising behavior. Bacterial biofilms are more than the sum of th... | 2,177 |
30965888 | PMC6418621 | pmc | 1,843 | {
"abstract": "Advances in flexible and multifunctional electronic devices have enabled the realization of sophisticated skin for robotics applications. In this paper, a large-scale, flexible and self-powered tactile sensing array (TSA) for sensitive robot skin is demonstrated based on the triboelectric effect. The d... | 4,355 |
36421079 | PMC9687489 | pmc | 1,846 | {
"abstract": "The effects of the inoculum origin, temperature or operational changes on ex situ biomethanation by complex microbial communities have been investigated; however, it remains unclear how the diversity of the inoculum influences the process and its stability. We explored the effect of microbial diversity... | 4,220 |
20485560 | PMC2869309 | pmc | 1,848 | {
"abstract": "Enterobacter sp. 638 is an endophytic plant growth promoting gamma-proteobacterium that was isolated from the stem of poplar ( Populus trichocarpa × deltoides cv. H11-11), a potentially important biofuel feed stock plant. The Enterobacter sp. 638 genome sequence reveals the presence of a 4,518,71... | 4,462 |
29607036 | PMC5869360 | pmc | 1,849 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Community assembly may not follow predictable successional stages, with a large fraction of the species pool constituted by potential pioneering species and successful founders defined through lottery. In such systems, priority effects may be relevant in the determination of trajectories of de... | 5,407 |
29790348 | null | s2 | 1,851 | {
"abstract": "By combining antifouling shark-skin patterns with antibacterial titanium dioxide (TiO"
} | 21 |
32503910 | PMC7414962 | pmc | 1,852 | {
"abstract": "HMFO is the only enzyme described to date that can catalyze by itself the three consecutive oxidation steps to produce FDCA from HMF. Unfortunately, only one HMFO enzyme is currently available for biotechnological application. This availability is enlarged here by the identification, heterologous produ... | 4,326 |
26648839 | PMC4664726 | pmc | 1,854 | {
"abstract": "Neuromorphic hardware are designed by drawing inspiration from biology to overcome limitations of current computer architectures while forging the development of a new class of autonomous systems that can exhibit adaptive behaviors. Several designs in the recent past are capable of emulating large scal... | 1,589 |
36354322 | PMC9769770 | pmc | 1,856 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT l -Lactic acid (LA) is a three-carbon hydroxycarboxylic acid with extensive applications in food, cosmetic, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and bioplastic industries. However, microbial LA production is limited by its intrinsic inefficiency of cellular metabolism. Here, pathway engineering was u... | 5,520 |
35855980 | PMC9287189 | pmc | 1,857 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a technology that can be applied to both the wastewater treatment and bioenergy generation. This work discusses the contribution of improvements regarding the configurations, electrode materials, membrane materials, electron transfer mechanisms, and materials cost on the... | 2,241 |
21829627 | PMC3150374 | pmc | 1,858 | {
"abstract": "Flocks of birds are highly variable in shape in all contexts (while travelling, avoiding predation, wheeling above the roost). Particularly amazing in this respect are the aerial displays of huge flocks of starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) above the sleeping site at dawn. The causes of this variability ar... | 4,191 |
30381948 | null | s2 | 1,859 | {
"abstract": "The survival of all organisms depends on implementation of appropriate phenotypic responses upon perception of relevant environmental stimuli. Sensory inputs are propagated via interconnected biochemical and/or electrical cascades mediated by diverse signaling molecules, including gases, metal cations,... | 269 |
35889183 | PMC9319577 | pmc | 1,860 | {
"abstract": "Industrial production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and their crop application have caused considerable environmental impacts. Some eco-friendly alternatives try to solve them but raise some restrictions. We tested a novel method to produce a nitrogen bioinoculant by enriching a soil microbial comm... | 4,404 |
36087062 | PMC9826415 | pmc | 1,861 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Marine chemical sedimentary deposits known as Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) archive Archean ocean chemistry and, potentially, signs of ancient microbial life. BIFs contain a diversity of iron‐ and silica‐rich minerals in disequilibrium, and thus many interpretations of these phases suggest the... | 9,554 |
38711153 | PMC11075230 | pmc | 1,865 | {
"abstract": "Background Lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock has a huge potential for biochemical production. Still, efficient utilization of hydrolysates derived from lignocellulose is challenged by their complex and heterogeneous composition and the presence of inhibitory compounds, such as furan aldehydes. Using... | 4,814 |
27999590 | PMC5143786 | pmc | 1,866 | {
"abstract": "Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been successfully applied to solve a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems such as minimum spanning tree, traveling salesman problem, and quadratic assignment problem. Basic ACO has drawbacks of trapping into local minimum and low convergence rate. Simulate... | 4,620 |
29312225 | PMC5742216 | pmc | 1,867 | {
"abstract": "Microbial biofilms are highly structured and dynamic communities in which phenotypic diversification allows microorganisms to adapt to different environments under distinct conditions. The environmentally ubiquitous pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans colonizes many niches of the human body and implante... | 3,954 |
28779290 | PMC5569662 | pmc | 1,868 | {
"abstract": "Paddy fields are a significant source of methane and contribute up to 20% of total methane emissions from wetland ecosystems. These inundated, anoxic soils featuring abundant nitrogen compounds and methane are an ideal niche for nitrate-dependent anaerobic methanotrophs. After 2 years of enrichment wit... | 4,125 |
27035705 | PMC5042319 | pmc | 1,869 | {
"abstract": "The microbial world displays an immense taxonomic diversity. This diversity is manifested also in a multitude of metabolic pathways that can utilise different substrates and produce different products. Here, we propose that these observations directly link to thermodynamic constraints that inherently a... | 3,233 |
28210070 | null | s2 | 1,870 | {
"abstract": "A novel high throughput method for synthesis and screening of customized protein-resistant surfaces was developed. This method is an inexpensive, fast, reproducible and scalable approach to synthesize and screen protein-resistant surfaces appropriate for a specific feed. The method is illustrated here ... | 180 |
29491985 | PMC5804180 | pmc | 1,871 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Relocation is an important event in the lives of several social insects whereby all colony members have to be transferred to a new nest when conditions in the old nest become unfavorable. In the current study, network tools were used to examine the organization of this goal-oriented task in th... | 2,932 |
36823146 | PMC10236175 | pmc | 1,872 | {
"abstract": "Identification of novel, electricity-producing bacteria has garnered remarkable interest because of the various applications of electricigens in microbial fuel cell and bioelectrochemical systems. Shewanella marisflavi BBL25, an electricity-generating microorganism, uses various carbon sources and sh... | 1,619 |
36010832 | PMC9407070 | pmc | 1,874 | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of detecting multiple static and mobile targets by an autonomous mobile agent acting under uncertainty. It is assumed that the agent is able to detect targets at different distances and that the detection includes errors of the first and second types. The goal of the ag... | 2,508 |
35515857 | PMC9063668 | pmc | 1,875 | {
"abstract": "Oil/water separation (OWS) technology has become an increasingly crucial tool to protect the environment and reduce the economic losses caused by the discharge of oily wastewater and oil spills. Recently, porous materials with superwettability have been applied in effective OWS and have achieved tremen... | 2,546 |
27252693 | PMC4879347 | pmc | 1,877 | {
"abstract": "Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a microbial process widely used to treat organic wastes. While the microbes involved in digestion of municipal sludge are increasingly well characterized, the taxonomic and functional compositions of AD digesters treating industrial wastewater have been understudied. This st... | 5,265 |
29372184 | PMC5775026 | pmc | 1,878 | {
"abstract": "A process for converting fructose to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, a monomer used in the production of a renewable plastics.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Biomass is an abundant renewable carbon source for the sustainable supply of valuable intermediates for the production of fuels, chemicals, and bi... | 4,269 |
22427720 | PMC3289792 | pmc | 1,879 | {
"abstract": "In this study, a metabolic network describing the primary metabolism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was constructed. By performing chemostat experiments at different growth rates, energy parameters for maintenance and biomass formation were determined. The chemostats were run at low irradiances resulti... | 9,219 |
20333304 | PMC2841643 | pmc | 1,882 | {
"abstract": "The Yellowstone caldera contains the most numerous and diverse geothermal systems on Earth, yielding an extensive array of unique high-temperature environments that host a variety of deeply-rooted and understudied Archaea , Bacteria and Eukarya . The combination of extreme temperature and chemical ... | 11,639 |
27999158 | PMC5181773 | pmc | 1,884 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Diversity is often associated with the functional stability of ecological communities from microbes to macroorganisms. Understanding how diversity responds to environmental perturbations and the consequences of this relationship for ecosystem function are thus central challenges in microbial e... | 3,044 |
29111438 | PMC5776718 | pmc | 1,885 | {
"abstract": "L-lysine and other amino acids are commonly produced through fermentation using strains of heterotrophic bacteria such as Corynebacterium glutamicum . Given the large amount of sugar this process consumes, direct photosynthetic production is intriguing alternative. In this study, we report the develop... | 2,979 |
35316950 | PMC8889185 | pmc | 1,886 | {
"abstract": "Coordinated responses in eusocial insect colonies arise from worker interaction networks that enable collective processing of ecologically relevant information. Previous studies have detected a structural motif in these networks known as the feed-forward loop, which functions to process information in ... | 6,198 |
37454222 | PMC10349867 | pmc | 1,887 | {
"abstract": "The role of microbial interactions and the underlying mechanisms that shape complex biofilm communities are poorly understood. Here we employ a microfluidic chip to represent porous subsurface environments and show that cooperative microbial interactions between free-living and biofilm-forming bacteria... | 2,467 |
27775869 | PMC5399005 | pmc | 1,888 | {
"abstract": "Summary Lignin is a major polymer in the secondary plant cell wall and composed of hydrophobic interlinked hydroxyphenylpropanoid units. The presence of lignin hampers conversion of plant biomass into biofuels; plants with modified lignin are therefore being investigated for increased digestibility. Th... | 5,092 |
21334448 | null | s2 | 1,889 | {
"abstract": "Spider silk has been evolutionarily optimized for contextual mechanical performance over the last 400 Ma. Despite precisely balanced mechanical properties, which have yet to be reproduced, the underlying molecular architecture of major ampullate spider silk can be simplified being viewed as a versatile... | 331 |
25586643 | null | s2 | 1,890 | {
"abstract": "Cells acclimate to fluctuating environments by utilizing sensory circuits. One common sensory pathway used by bacteria is two-component signaling (TCS), composed of an environmental sensor [the sensor kinase (SK)] and a cognate, intracellular effector [the response regulator (RR)]. The squid symbiont V... | 288 |
25323067 | PMC4200409 | pmc | 1,891 | {
"abstract": "An array of micron-sized setal hairs offers geckos a unique ability to walk on vertical surfaces using van der Waals interactions. Although many studies have focused on the role of surface morphology of the hairs, very little is known about the role of surface chemistry on wetting and adhesion. We expe... | 6,414 |
37713483 | PMC10881039 | pmc | 1,892 | {
"abstract": "As the most promising candidates for the implementation of in-sensor computing, retinomorphic vision sensors can constitute built-in neural networks and directly implement multiply-and-accumulation operations using responsivities as the weights. However, existing retinomorphic vision sensors mainly use... | 2,140 |
32219464 | PMC7190589 | pmc | 1,893 | {
"abstract": "Substrates with high sulfate levels pose problems for biogas production as they allow sulfate reducing bacteria to compete with syntrophic and methanogenic members of the community. In addition, the end product of sulfate reduction, hydrogen sulfide, is toxic and corrosive. Here we show how sulfate add... | 5,101 |
38017526 | PMC10685487 | pmc | 1,895 | {
"abstract": "The biogas produced through anaerobic digestion (AD) of renewable feedstocks is one of the promising alternatives to replace fossil-derived energy. Even though lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant biomass on earth, only a small fraction is being used towards resources recovery, leaving a great ... | 2,811 |
37610031 | PMC10651141 | pmc | 1,896 | {
"abstract": "Summary Plant‐based co‐production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and seed oil has the potential to create a viable domestic source of feedstocks for renewable fuels and plastics. PHAs, a class of biodegradable polyesters, can replace conventional plastics in many applications while providing full degr... | 3,610 |
28577167 | null | s2 | 1,898 | {
"abstract": "Plant establishment during phytostabilization of legacy mine tailings in semiarid regions is challenging due to low pH, low organic carbon, low nutrients, and high toxic metal(loid) concentrations. Plant-associated bacterial communities are particularly important under these harsh conditions because of... | 284 |
24949257 | PMC4052673 | pmc | 1,900 | {
"abstract": "High power densities have been obtained from MFC reactors having a purple color characteristic of Rhodopseudomonas . We investigated the microbial community structure and population in developed purple MFC medium (DPMM) and MFC effluent (DPME) using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing. In DPMM, dominant bacteria ... | 3,043 |
26350329 | null | s2 | 1,903 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria have traditionally been studied as single-cell organisms. In laboratory settings, aerobic bacteria are usually cultured in aerated flasks, where the cells are considered essentially homogenous. However, in many natural environments, bacteria and other microorganisms grow in mixed communities, ... | 228 |
37688153 | PMC10490179 | pmc | 1,904 | {
"abstract": "Despite being primarily categorized as non-autonomous self-healing polymers, we demonstrate the ability of Diels–Alder polymers to heal macroscopic damages at room temperature, resulting in complete restoration of their mechanical properties within a few hours. Moreover, we observe immediate partial re... | 5,161 |
27805065 | PMC5090987 | pmc | 1,906 | {
"abstract": "This paper studied and realized a flexible nanogenerator based on P(VDF-TrFE) nanofibers and PDMS/MWCNT thin composite membrane, which worked under triboelectric and piezoelectric hybrid mechanisms. The P(VDF-TrFE) nanofibers as a piezoelectric functional layer and a triboelectric friction layer are fo... | 1,287 |
37735458 | PMC10515101 | pmc | 1,907 | {
"abstract": "Climate change globally endangers certain marine species, but at the same time, such changes may promote species that can tolerate and adapt to varying environmental conditions. Such acclimatization can be accompanied or possibly even be enabled by a host’s microbiome; however, few studies have so far ... | 5,425 |
24265707 | PMC3827042 | pmc | 1,910 | {
"abstract": "Understanding strategies used by animals to explore their landscape is essential to predict how they exploit patchy resources, and consequently how they are likely to respond to changes in resource distribution. Social bees provide a good model for this and, whilst there are published descriptions of t... | 3,884 |
36161026 | PMC9495442 | pmc | 1,911 | {
"abstract": "Microbes, especially abundant microbes in bulk soils, form multiple ecosystem functions, which is relatively well studied. However, the role of rhizosphere microbes, especially rhizosphere rare taxa vs. rhizosphere abundant taxa in regulating the element circling, multifunctionality, aboveground net pr... | 4,869 |
25309916 | PMC4189764 | pmc | 1,912 | {
"abstract": "The increased demand and consumption of fossil fuels have raised interest in finding renewable energy sources throughout the globe. Much focus has been placed on optimizing microorganisms and primarily microalgae, to efficiently produce compounds that can substitute for fossil fuels. However, the path ... | 1,278 |
29761099 | PMC5936788 | pmc | 1,913 | {
"abstract": "Colorful super anti-wetting coatings are receiving growing attention, but are challenging to invent. Here, we report a general method for preparing mechanically robust and thermally stable colorful superamphiphobic coatings. A composite of palygorskite (PAL) nanorods and iron oxide red (IOR) was prepar... | 2,079 |
27084981 | null | s2 | 1,914 | {
"abstract": "Advances in synthetic biology to build microbes with defined and controllable properties are enabling new approaches to design and program multispecies communities. This emerging field of synthetic ecology will be important for many areas of biotechnology, bioenergy and bioremediation. This endeavor dr... | 228 |
21949755 | PMC3176771 | pmc | 1,915 | {
"abstract": "Climate change scenarios suggest an increase in tropical ocean temperature by 1–3°C by 2099, potentially killing many coral reefs. But Arabian/Persian Gulf corals already exist in this future thermal environment predicted for most tropical reefs and survived severe bleaching in 2010, one of the hottest... | 1,711 |
30332416 | PMC6192577 | pmc | 1,916 | {
"abstract": "Natural spider silk is one of the world’s toughest proteinaceous materials, yet a truly biomimetic spider silk is elusive even after several decades of intense focus. In this study, Next-Generation Sequencing was utilised to produce transcriptomes of the major ampullate gland of two Australian golden o... | 10,328 |
35343097 | PMC9130921 | pmc | 1,919 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The rise of emerging technologies such as Big Data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, which requires efficient power schemes, is driving brainstorming in data computing and storage technologies. In this study, merely relying on the fundamental structure of two memristors and... | 7,214 |
37727686 | PMC10506583 | pmc | 1,921 | {
"abstract": "Coral reefs face an uncertain future punctuated by recurring climate-induced disturbances. Understanding how reefs can recover from and reassemble after mass bleaching events is therefore important to predict their responses and persistence in a rapidly changing ocean. On naturally extreme reefs charac... | 7,014 |
37712147 | PMC10602577 | pmc | 1,922 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Neuromorphic hardware with a spiking neural network (SNN) can significantly enhance the energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) functions owing to its event‐driven and spatiotemporally sparse operations. However, an artificial neuron and synapse based on complex complementary metal‐... | 11,572 |
39881186 | PMC11779922 | pmc | 1,924 | {
"abstract": "Analog In-memory Computing (IMC) has demonstrated energy-efficient and low latency implementation of convolution and fully-connected layers in deep neural networks (DNN) by using physics for computing in parallel resistive memory arrays. However, recurrent neural networks (RNN) that are widely used for... | 3,172 |
37636979 | PMC10448690 | pmc | 1,927 | {
"abstract": "In recent years,\nwith the increasing scarcity of fossil\nresources\nand the worsening environmental pollution, the effective utilization\nof wood and plastic waste has become a critical issue. In this paper,\npropylene glycol (PG) was used as an alcoholysis agent to degrade\nwaste poly(ethylene tereph... | 8,351 |
27019707 | PMC4786949 | pmc | 1,928 | {
"abstract": "Using a surface-based mimic of a magnetosome interior, the biomineralisation protein Mms6 was found to be a more effective nucleator than binder of magnetite nanoparticles, and performs better than its C-terminal region alone.",
"introduction": "1. Introduction Iron is an essential element in many or... | 5,966 |
28617603 | null | s2 | 1,930 | {
"abstract": "In this study, we have fabricated robust patterned surfaces that contain biocompatible and antifouling stripes, which cause microorganisms to consolidate into bare silicon spaces. Copolymers of methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) and a methacrylate-substituted dihydrolipoic acid (DHLA) were sp... | 288 |
35745302 | PMC9228757 | pmc | 1,931 | {
"abstract": "Smart fire-warning sensors based on graphene oxide (GO) nanomaterials, via monitoring their temperature-responsive resistance transition, have attracted considerable interest for several years. However, an important question remains as to whether or not different oxidation degrees of the GO network can... | 1,963 |
27386573 | PMC4928988 | pmc | 1,932 | {
"abstract": "High biodiversity promotes the evolution of more biodiversity by selecting for new species exploiting resources more thoroughly.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Biodiversity has always fluctuated during Earth’s history, with phases of massive extinction followed by adaptive radiation ( 1 ). In the li... | 3,705 |
26067975 | PMC4463539 | pmc | 1,933 | {
"abstract": "Microbacterium profundi strain Shh49 T was isolated from deep-sea sediment from a polymetallic nodule area located in the East Pacific Ocean. Strain Shh49 T contains genes related to the reduction/oxidation of metals. It has potential application in the bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated env... | 78 |
34685796 | PMC8538330 | pmc | 1,934 | {
"abstract": "Phytoremediation, a method of phytomanagement using the plant holobiont to clean up polluted soils, is particularly effective for degrading organic pollutants. However, the respective contributions of host plants and their associated microbiota within the holobiont to the efficiency of phytoremediation... | 5,527 |
34529729 | PMC8445481 | pmc | 1,935 | {
"abstract": "To solve the problem of one-sided pursuit of the shortest distance but ignoring the tourist experience in the process of tourism route planning, an improved ant colony optimization algorithm is proposed for tourism route planning. Contextual information of scenic spots significantly effect people’s cho... | 2,560 |
39417072 | PMC11480031 | pmc | 1,936 | {
"abstract": "Introduction Despite extensive studies on soil microbial community structure and functions, the significance of plant-associated microorganisms, especially endophytes, has been overlooked. To comprehensively anticipate future changes in forest ecosystem function under future climate change scenarios, i... | 3,941 |
26778946 | PMC4701906 | pmc | 1,939 | {
"abstract": "The exponential increase in data over the last decade presents a significant challenge to analytics efforts that seek to process and interpret such data for various applications. Neural-inspired computing approaches are being developed in order to leverage the computational properties of the analog, lo... | 3,378 |
32708476 | PMC7404020 | pmc | 1,940 | {
"abstract": "There are a large number of fouling organisms in the ocean, which easily attach to the surface of ships, oil platforms and breeding facilities, corrode the surface of equipment, accelerate the aging of equipment, affect the stability and safety of marine facilities and cause serious economic losses. An... | 2,145 |
38517961 | PMC10959417 | pmc | 1,942 | {
"abstract": "The limited capacity of typical materials to resist stress loading, which affects their mechanical performance, is one of the most formidable challenges in materials science. Here, we propose a bone-inspired stress-gaining concept of converting typically destructive stress into a favorable factor to su... | 1,879 |
33801700 | PMC8065543 | pmc | 1,944 | {
"abstract": "Lignocellulose is a promising feedstock for biofuel production as a renewable, carbohydrate-rich and globally abundant source of biomass. However, challenges faced include environmental and/or financial costs associated with typical lignocellulose pretreatments needed to overcome the natural recalcitra... | 1,791 |
36133608 | PMC9417570 | pmc | 1,945 | {
"abstract": "A method to electrically induce memristor performance from inkjet-printed silver (Ag) nanoparticles is presented, which is effective on a specifically designed hourglass-shaped Ag metal device. Joule heating-induced oxidation in the bottleneck region, when applying a high current to the device, results... | 8,746 |
38586583 | PMC10997342 | pmc | 1,947 | {
"abstract": "Growing interest in renewable energy continues to motivate new work on microbial biohydrogen production and in particular utilizing Escherichia coli a well-studied, facultative anaerobe. Here we characterize, for the first time the H 2 production rate and capacity, of E coli isolates from the 50 0... | 2,861 |
30449766 | PMC6307996 | pmc | 1,949 | {
"abstract": "The surface crust that caps highly weathered banded iron formations (BIFs) supports a unique ecosystem that is a post-mining restoration priority in iron ore areas. Geochemical evidence indicates that biological processes drive the dissolution of iron oxide minerals and contribute to the ongoing evolut... | 3,240 |
33952515 | PMC8099194 | pmc | 1,951 | {
"abstract": "Electron acceptor availability affects the net isotopic fractionation of a global biogeochemical reaction in marine sediments.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) with sulfate mitigates the flux of methane (CH 4 ) from the seafloor into the water column ( 1 , 2 )... | 10,166 |
28242282 | PMC5441187 | pmc | 1,952 | {
"abstract": "Enrichment of reef environments with dissolved inorganic nutrients is considered a major threat to the survival of corals living in symbiosis with dinoflagellates ( Symbiodinium sp.). We argue, however, that the direct negative effects on the symbiosis are not necessarily caused by the nutrient enrich... | 4,831 |
23610627 | PMC3631397 | pmc | 1,953 | {
"abstract": "Symbiotic dinoflagellates are unicellular photosynthetic algae that live in mutualistic symbioses with many marine organisms. Within the transcriptome of coral endosymbionts Symbiodinium sp. (type C3), we discovered the sequences of two novel and highly polymorphic hemoglobin-like genes and proposed ... | 4,019 |
34512246 | PMC8427800 | pmc | 1,954 | {
"abstract": "Computing paradigm based on von Neuman architectures cannot keep up with the ever-increasing data growth (also called “data deluge gap”). This has resulted in investigating novel computing paradigms and design approaches at all levels from materials to system-level implementations and applications. An ... | 3,670 |
37748078 | PMC10556619 | pmc | 1,955 | {
"abstract": "Significance Designing soft materials that permit the facile conversion of mechanical deformation into electricity is of significant technological importance. In this work, using fundamental science principles and the exotic phenomenon of flexoelectricity, we design a natural vegetable-based luffa spon... | 410 |
30479325 | PMC6258724 | pmc | 1,956 | {
"abstract": "Microbes in Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California) hydrothermal sediments thrive on hydrocarbons and sulfur and experience steep, fluctuating temperature and chemical gradients. The functional capacities of communities inhabiting this dynamic habitat are largely unknown. Here, we reconstructed 551 genomes ... | 3,999 |
31015996 | PMC6468064 | pmc | 1,957 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Climate change threatens coastal benthic communities on a global scale. However, the potential effects of ongoing warming on mesophotic temperate reefs at the community level remain poorly understood. Investigating how different members of these communities will respond to the future expected ... | 4,973 |
24568605 | PMC3979089 | pmc | 1,959 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a\npromising technology for energy-efficient\ndomestic wastewater treatment, but the effluent quality has typically\nnot been sufficient for discharge without further treatment. A two-stage\nlaboratory-scale combined treatment process, consisting of microbial\nfuel cells... | 6,998 |
36094206 | PMC9499035 | pmc | 1,961 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Microorganisms in nature form multicellular groups called biofilms. In biofilms, bacteria embedded in the extracellular matrix (ECM) interact intensely due to their proximity. Most studies have investigated genetically homogeneous biofilms, leaving a gap in knowledge on genetically heterogeneo... | 3,806 |
24006130 | null | s2 | 1,963 | {
"abstract": "Development of increasingly complex integrated cellular systems will be a major challenge for the next decade and beyond, as we apply the knowledge gained from the sub-disciplines of regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, micro-fabrication and nanotechnology, systems biology, and developmental biolo... | 290 |
28586408 | PMC5812522 | pmc | 1,964 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The main focus in development of yeast cell factories has generally been on establishing optimal activity of heterologous pathways and further metabolic engineering of the host strain to maximize product yield and titer. Adequate stress tolerance of the host strain has turned out to be another... | 2,606 |
37031262 | PMC10082802 | pmc | 1,965 | {
"abstract": "Photosynthetic algae have evolved mechanisms to cope with suboptimal light and CO 2 conditions. When light energy exceeds CO 2 fixation capacity, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii activates photoprotection, mediated by LHCSR1/3 and PSBS, and the CO 2 Concentrating Mechanism (CCM). How light and CO 2 sign... | 4,168 |
27443913 | PMC4956755 | pmc | 1,966 | {
"abstract": "Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in learning and cognitive tasks. In this work, we demonstrate the mapping of the probabilistic spiking nature of pyramidal neurons in ... | 1,229 |
37520694 | PMC10384274 | pmc | 1,969 | {
"abstract": "Summary The development of biohydrogen as an alternative energy source has had great economic and environmental benefits. Hydrogen production from microalgae is considered a clean and sustainable energy production method that can both alleviate fuel shortages and recycle waste. Although algal hydrogen ... | 2,988 |
36643432 | PMC9835640 | pmc | 1,970 | {
"abstract": "Water-based superamphiphobic coatings that are environmentally\nfriendly have attracted tremendous attention recently, but their performances\nare severely limited by dispersibility and mechanical durability.\nHerein, a dispersion of poly(tetrafluoroethylene)/SiO 2 @cetyltrimethoxysilane&sodium\nsilica... | 7,540 |
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