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{ "abstract": "Genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions and constraint-based analyses are powerful methods that have the potential to make functional predictions about microbial communities. Genome-scale metabolic networks are used to characterize the metabolic functions of microbial communities via several tec...
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PMC10636363
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{ "abstract": "Significance In microbial communities, metabolic functions are distributed across interacting members, depending on the current environment. If the external environment changes, microbes remodel their metabolism. How are interactions consequentially adjusted? How is the growth of community members resu...
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PMC11284109
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{ "abstract": "Bioelectrochemical systems offer unique opportunities to remove recalcitrant environmental pollutants in a net positive energy process, although it remains challenging because of the toxic character of such compounds. In this study, microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology was applied to investigate the be...
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PMC9829402
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{ "abstract": "Summary Ester‐linked p ‐hydroxybenzoate occurs naturally in poplar lignin as pendent groups that can be released by mild alkaline hydrolysis. These ‘clip‐off’ phenolics can be separated from biomass and upgraded into diverse high‐value bioproducts. We introduced a bacterial chorismate pyruvate lyase g...
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PMC10780097
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Ice formation and accumulation on surfaces has a negative impact in many different sectors and can even represent a potential danger. In this review, the latest advances and trends in icephobic coatings focusing on the importance of their durability are discussed, in an attempt to pave the roadmap from...
2,821
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PMC3851020
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Coral bleaching is a significant contributor to the worldwide degradation of coral reefs and is indicative of the termination of symbiosis between the coral host and its symbiotic algae (dinoflagellate; Symbiodinium sp. complex), usually by expulsion or xenophagy (symbiophagy) of its dinoflagellates....
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PMC6522478
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Self-healing materials with the ability to partially or completely restore their mechanical properties by healing the damage inflicted on them have great potential for applications where there is no or only limited access available to conduct a repair. Here, we demonstrate a bio-inspired new design for...
5,667
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PMC9082455
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The present work reported a simple and effective approach to fabricate a low-cost, self-cleaning and mechanically durable superhydrophobic coating. The coating was prepared by dip-coating certain substrates in an ethyl acetate suspension of silica nanoparticles (SiO 2 ), hydroxyl acrylic resin, cross-l...
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PMC7810751
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The brick-and-mortar architecture of biological nacre has inspired the development of synthetic composites with enhanced fracture toughness and multiple functionalities. While the use of metals as the “mortar” phase is an attractive option to maximize fracture toughness of bulk composites, non-mechanic...
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{ "abstract": "Next-generation biofuels must be compatible with current transportation infrastructure and be derived from environmentally sustainable resources that do not compete with food crops. Many bacterial species have unique properties advantageous to the production of such next-generation fuels. However, no s...
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PMC5989612
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Microorganisms are the drivers of biogeochemical methane and nitrogen cycles. Essential roles of chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms in these cycles were predicted long before their identification. Dedicated enrichment procedures, metagenomics surveys and single-cell technologies have enabled...
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PMC11267239
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{ "abstract": "The persistence of reef-building corals is threatened by macroalgal competitors leading to a major demographic bottleneck in coral recruitment. Whether parental effects exist under coral–algal competition and whether they influence offspring performance via microbiome alterations represent major gaps i...
5,833
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PMC11558148
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) combine contact electrification and electrostatic induction effects to convert waste mechanical energy into electrical energy. As conventional devices contribute to electronic waste, TENGs based on ecofriendly and biocompatible materials have been developed...
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30833729
PMC6453112
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Methanogenesis is an ancient metabolism of key ecological relevance, with direct impact on the evolution of Earth’s climate. Recent results suggest that the diversity of methane metabolisms and their derivations have probably been vastly underestimated. Here, by probing thousands of publicly available ...
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PMC3878185
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{ "abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h...
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PMC3878185
pmc
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{ "abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h...
1,824
23673639
PMC3878185
pmc
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{ "abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h...
1,824
23673639
PMC3878185
pmc
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{ "abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h...
1,824
29500185
PMC5866589
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Significance Lignin valorization is critical for economic viability of future biorefineries but is hindered due to the challenges of engineered bio-chassis such as the slow kinetics of substrate uptake, aromatics toxicity, and cost. Here, an autoregulatory system involving a vanillin autoinducible prom...
1,940
22347151
PMC3270576
pmc
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{ "abstract": "We demonstrate bistable attractor dynamics in a spiking neural network implemented with neuromorphic VLSI hardware. The on-chip network consists of three interacting populations (two excitatory, one inhibitory) of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. One excitatory population is distinguished by str...
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{ "abstract": "Human functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data are acquired while participants engage in diverse perceptual, motor, cognitive, and emotional tasks. Although data are acquired temporally, they are most often treated in a quasi-static manner. Yet, a fuller understanding of the mechanisms that su...
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PMC4061545
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{ "abstract": "This report discusses the electrical characteristics of two-terminal synaptic memory devices capable of demonstrating an analog change in conductance in response to the varying amplitude and pulse-width of the applied signal. The devices are based on Mn doped HfO 2 material. The mechanism behind recon...
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PMC5030696
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Members of the candidate phylum Hyd24-12 are globally distributed, but no genomic information or knowledge about their morphology, physiology or ecology is available. In this study, members of the Hyd24-12 lineage were shown to be present and abundant in full-scale mesophilic anaerobic digesters at Dan...
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PMC11784650
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are bioplastics produced by few bacteria as intracellular lipid inclusions under excess carbon source and nutrient-deprived conditions. These polymers are biodegradable and resemble petroleum-based plastics. The rising environmental concerns have increased the deman...
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PMC6225455
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{ "abstract": "A major biological challenge in the postgenomic era has been untangling the composition and functions of microbes that inhabit complex communities or microbiomes. Multi-omics and modern bioinformatics have provided the tools to assay molecules across different cellular and community scales; however, me...
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PMC4335971
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is an important sink of methane that plays a significant role in global warming. AOM was first found to be coupled with sulfate reduction and mediated by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). ANME, often forming consortia w...
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{ "abstract": "The study of quorum sensing, bacterial cell-to-cell communication mediated by the production and detection of small molecule signals, has skyrocketed since its discovery in the last third of the 20th century. Building from early investigations of bacterial bioluminescence, the process has been characte...
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{ "abstract": "We performed a comparative study on the Gaussian noise and memristance variation tolerance of three crossbar architectures, namely the complementary crossbar architecture, the twin crossbar architecture, and the single crossbar architecture, for neuromorphic image recognition and conducted an experimen...
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PMC6345747
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{ "abstract": "Marine cleaning interactions have been useful model systems for exploring evolutionary game theory and explaining the stability of mutualism. In the Indo-Pacific, cleaner organisms will occasionally “cheat” and remove live tissue, clients use partner control mechanisms to maintain cleaner honesty, and ...
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PMC6418196
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Materials with in situ reversible wettability have attractive properties but remain a challenge to use since the inverse process of liquid spreading is normally energetically unfavorable. Here, we propose a general electrochemical strategy that enables the in situ reversible superwetting transition bet...
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PMC9804144
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{ "abstract": "Summary Biofilms are surface-attached multicellular microbial communities. Their genetics have been extensively studied, but the cell-scale morphogenetic events of their formation are largely unknown. Here, we recorded the entirety of morphogenesis in Escherichia coli , and discovered a previously unk...
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing is a process in which bacteria secrete and sense a diffusible molecule, thereby enabling bacterial groups to coordinate their behavior in a density-dependent manner. Quorum sensing has evolved multiple times independently, utilizing different molecular pathways and signaling molecules. A...
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PMC10025973
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{ "abstract": "Summary Neuromorphic computing is a promising computing paradigm toward building next-generation artificial intelligence machines, in which diverse types of synaptic plasticity play an active role in information processing. Compared to long-term plasticity (LTP) forming the foundation of learning and m...
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PMC5959977
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{ "abstract": "The production of biogas by anaerobic digestion (AD) of agricultural residues, organic wastes, animal excrements, municipal sludge, and energy crops has a firm place in sustainable energy production and bio-economy strategies. Focusing on the microbial community involved in biomass conversion offers th...
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PMC7890512
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{ "abstract": "Social insects are one of the best examples of complex self-organized systems exhibiting task allocation. How task allocation is achieved is the most fascinating question in behavioural ecology and complex systems science. However, it is difficult to comprehensively characterize task allocation pattern...
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PMC10223960
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{ "abstract": "The extensive utilization of traditional petroleum-based plastics has resulted in significant damage to the natural environment and ecological systems, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have emerged as promising bioplastics that can compete with pet...
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PMC3081813
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{ "abstract": "Division of labour (DoL) is a fundamental organisational principle in human\nsocieties, within virtual and robotic swarms and at all levels of biological\norganisation. DoL reaches a pinnacle in the insect societies where the most\nwidely used model is based on variation in response thresholds among\ni...
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PMC10433335
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) are self-healing\nprotective coatings that can be made by infiltration of a porous scaffold\nwith a chemically resistant oil. A popular method to apply a SLIPS\ncoating is using electrospinning to deposit a nanofiber mesh onto\nthe intended substrate. How...
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PMC4264147
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In order to use cyanobacteria for the biological production of hydrogen, it is important to thoroughly study the function and the regulation of the hydrogen-production machine in order to better understand its role in the global cell metabolism and identify bottlenecks limiting H 2 production. Most of...
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30906420
PMC6426328
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms are communities of bacteria adhered to surfaces. Recently, biofilms of rod-shaped bacteria were observed at single-cell resolution and shown to develop from a disordered, two-dimensional layer of founder cells into a three-dimensional structure with a vertically-aligned core. Here, we elucidat...
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PMC12060303
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{ "abstract": "Background Low salinity is a crucial environmental stressor that affects estuarine coral ecosystems considerably. However, few studies have focused on the effects of low-salinity conditions on coral-associated microorganisms and the adaptability of coral holobionts. Methods We explored the community st...
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PMC11802840
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{ "abstract": "Coral-associated microbes have essential roles in promoting and regulating host function and health. As climate change advances and other environmental perturbations increasingly impact corals, it is becoming ever more important that we understand the composition of the microbial communities hosted. Wi...
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PMC7617349
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{ "abstract": "Significance Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal network up-regulating their defense mechanisms. It has been hypothesized that this represents signaling, with attacked plants producing a signal to warn ot...
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PMC11702357
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{ "abstract": "Marine heatwaves are starting to occur several times a decade, yet we do not understand the effect this has on corals across biological scales. This study combines tissue-, organism-, and community-level analyses to investigate the effects of a marine heatwave on reef-building corals. Adjacent conspeci...
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PMC11803100
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{ "abstract": "Mining activities produce a significant amount of gold mine tailings (GMT) rich in rare earth elements. Despite this, little information is available regarding the effective extraction of these precious elements from GMT. We describe a novel strategy for removing Pr, Ce, and Eu from GMT using Acidithi...
9,708
38817912
PMC11137280
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In this study, we explore spintronic synapses composed of several Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), leveraging their attractive characteristics such as endurance, nonvolatility, stochasticity, and energy efficiency for hardware implementation of unsupervised neuromorphic systems. Spiking Neural Network...
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PMC6838517
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Recent advances in metabolic engineering enable the production of high-value chemicals via expressing complex biosynthetic pathways in a single microbial host. However, many engineered strains suffer from poor product yields due to redox imbalance and excess metabolic burden, and require compartmentali...
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PMC6929412
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell–cell communication mechanism among bacterial populations that is regulated through gene expression in response to cell density. The pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris ( Xcc ) is modulated by the diffusible signal factor (DSF)-mediated QS system. DSF...
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PMC8879938
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In embedded neuromorphic Internet of Things (IoT) systems, it is critical to improve the efficiency of neural network (NN) edge devices in inferring a pretrained NN. Meanwhile, in the paradigm of edge computing, device integration, data retention characteristics and power consumption are particularly i...
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PMC10870720
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Bioconversion of plant biomass into biofuels and bio-products produces large amounts of lignin. The aromatic biopolymers need to be degraded before being converted into value-added bio-products. Microbes can be environment-friendly and efficiently degrade lignin. Compared to fungi, bacteria ...
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PMC11414745
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic polyurethanes offer robust hydrophobicity and corrosion resistance. However, it is essential to consider the durability and environmental constraints associated with these materials. This study prepared a bio-based superhydrophobic polyurethane coating film using epoxidized soybean oil...
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PMC9045482
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The success of tropical scleractinian corals depends on their ability to establish symbioses with microbial partners. Host phylogeny and traits are known to shape the coral microbiome, but to what extent they affect its composition remains unclear. Here, by using 12 coral species representing ...
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PMC10836727
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Conductive hydrogels have a remarkable potential for applications in soft electronics and robotics, owing to their noteworthy attributes, including electrical conductivity, stretchability, biocompatibility, etc. However, the limited strength and toughness of these hydrogels have traditionally impeded t...
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PMC8810406
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary The metabolic activity of microbial communities plays a primary role in the flow of essential nutrients throughout the biosphere. Molecular genetics has revealed the metabolic pathways that model organisms utilize to generate energy and biomass, but we understand little about how the metabolism...
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PMC4716644
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{ "abstract": "Background Methanosarcina acetivorans is a model archaeon with renewed interest due to its unique reversible methane production pathways. However, the mechanism and relevant pathways implicated in (co)utilizing novel carbon substrates in this organism are still not fully understood. This paper provide...
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PMC10301184
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{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been shown to assist plants in increasing metal tolerance and accumulation in heavy metal (HM)-contaminated soils. Herein, a greenhouse pot experiment was conducted to assess the interactions of growth substrates (S1, S2, and S3, respectively) with various HM con...
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PMC4794241
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Pollinators, such as bees, often develop multi-location routes (traplines) to exploit subsets of flower patches within larger plant populations. How individuals establish such foraging areas in the presence of other foragers is poorly explored. Here we investigated the foraging patterns of pairs of bum...
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PMC6648443
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A water\ncontact angle greater than 150° together with a sliding\nangle less than 10° is a special surface phenomenon that appears\non superhydrophobic surfaces. In this paper, a brief introduction\nof the development history and present research on superhydrophobic\nsurfaces was given. Polymeric super...
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PMC5493405
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf (PAG) survive extreme sea temperatures (summer mean: >34°C), and it is unclear whether these corals have genetically adapted or physiologically acclimated to these conditions. In order to elucidate the processes involved in the thermal tolerance of PAG corals, it is e...
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PMC4119280
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{ "abstract": "Certain environmental parameters are accessible to cells only indirectly and require an encoding step for cells to retrieve the relevant information. A prominent example is the phenomenon of quorum sensing by microorganisms, where information about cell density is encoded by means of secreted signaling...
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PMC5750032
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Extraordinary water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces make them novel candidates for a great variety of potential applications. A general approach to achieve superhydrophobicity requires low-energy coating on the surface and roughness on nano- and micrometre scale. However, typical cons...
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PMC9565234
pmc
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{ "abstract": "As a unique surface wettability, superhydrophobicity has great application value. A variety of preparation methods for superhydrophobic surfaces have been reported, which have the disadvantages of high cost and complicated process. In order to design a method that is easy to operate, low-cost, and suit...
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PMC11314723
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biopolymers are highly desirable alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics owing to their biodegradable nature. The production of bioplastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), has been widely reported using various bacterial cultures with substrates ranging from pure to biowaste-derived sugars....
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{ "abstract": "Methods to generate fibers from hydrogels, with control over mechanical properties, fiber diameter, and crystallinity, while retaining cytocompatibility and degradability, would expand options for biomaterials. Here, we exploited features of silk fibroin protein for the formation of tunable silk hydrog...
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PMC11181286
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Piezoelectric energy harvesters have gained significant\nattention\nin recent years due to their ability to convert ambient mechanical\nvibrations into electrical energy, which opens up new possibilities\nfor environmental monitoring, asset tracking, portable technologies\nand powering remote “Internet...
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PMC3715747
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Conventional leaching (extraction) methods for gold recovery from electronic waste involve the use of strong acids and pose considerable threat to the environment. The alternative use of bioleaching microbes for gold recovery is non-pollutive and relies on the secretion of a lixiviant or (bio)chemical ...
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PMC3102110
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Corals worldwide are in decline due to climate change effects (e.g., rising seawater temperatures), pollution, and exploitation. The ability of corals to cope with these stressors in the long run depends on the evolvability of the underlying genetic networks and proteins, which remain largel...
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PMC9191775
pmc
837
{ "abstract": "Significance Enabling distributed neurologic and cognitive functions in soft deformable devices, such as robotics, wearables, skin prosthetics, bioelectronics, etc., represents a massive leap in their development. The results presented here reveal the device characteristics of the building block, i.e.,...
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PMC7842101
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Background Biogas production with anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most promising solutions for both renewable energy production and resolving the environmental problem caused by the worldwide increase in organic waste. However, the complex structure of the microbiome in AD is poorly und...
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PMC8633030
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Maintaining the superhydrophobicity underwater offers drag resistance reduction, antifouling, anti-corrosion, noise reduction, and gas collection for boat hulls and submarine vehicles. However, superhydrophobicity typically does not last long underwater since the Cassie state is metastable. Her...
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PMC9090926
pmc
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{ "abstract": "To promote the water vapor condensation efficiency in the presence of a non-condensable gas, both high nucleation rate and efficient droplet departure are desired on the condensing surface. Superhydrophobic surfaces with large water contact angles ensure the dropwise condensation mode and efficient dro...
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PMC10116617
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Water-based superamphiphobic coatings are environment-friendly,\nwhich have attracted tremendous attention recently, but the performances\nare severely limited by the dispersibility of hydrophobic particles.\nTo solve the poor dispersibility of modified silica powder with hydrophobicity,\nsilica disper...
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23468605
PMC3585391
pmc
847
{ "abstract": "The spontaneous emergence of pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature, often arising as a collective phenomenon from interactions among a large number of individual constituents or sub-systems. Understanding, and controlling, collective behavior is dependent on determining the low-level dynamical prin...
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PMC11934532
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Biofuels produced from algae have enormous advantages in replacing fossil fuels, and Microcystis aeruginosa has a great potential for biofuel production, due to growing fast to form large amounts of biomass. Light is essential for algal growth, and the optimum light quality can promote the...
6,320
21347422
PMC3036657
pmc
850
{ "abstract": "Microbial consortia constitute a majority of the earth's biomass, but little is known about how these cooperating communities persist despite competition among community members. Theory suggests that non-random spatial structures contribute to the persistence of mixed communities; when particular struc...
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{ "abstract": "Predominant frameworks for understanding plant ecology have an aboveground bias that neglects soil micro-organisms. This is inconsistent with recent work illustrating the importance of soil microbes in terrestrial ecology. Microbial effects have been incorporated into plant community dynamics using ide...
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PMC8329666
pmc
852
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a novel spiking neural network (SNN) classifier architecture for enabling always-on artificial intelligent (AI) functions, such as keyword spotting (KWS) and visual wake-up, in ultra-low-power internet-of-things (IoT) devices. Such always-on hardware tends to dominate the power effi...
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PMC9685438
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Resistive random‐access memories are promising candidates for novel computer architectures such as in‐memory computing, multilevel data storage, and neuromorphics. Their working principle is based on electrically stimulated materials changes that allow access to two (digital), multiple (multil...
1,141
26426118
PMC4591267
pmc
854
{ "abstract": "Bleaching episodes caused by increasing seawater temperatures may induce mass coral mortality and are regarded as one of the biggest threats to coral reef ecosystems worldwide. The current consensus is that this phenomenon results from enhanced production of harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) that d...
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36248639
PMC9560128
pmc
855
{ "abstract": "Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been widely studied by researchers due to their biological interpretability and potential application of low power consumption. However, the traditional clock-driven simulators have the problem that the accuracy is limited by the time-step and the lateral i...
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30708986
PMC6387213
pmc
856
{ "abstract": "The creation of functional materials from renewable resources has attracted much interest. We previously reported on the genetic code expansion of the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori to functionalize silk fiber with synthetic amino acids such as 4-azido-L-phenylalanine (AzPhe). The azido groups act...
3,507
35377486
PMC9325543
pmc
857
{ "abstract": "Summary \n Renewed interests in the development of bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials have elicited new strategies for engineering the lignin of biomass feedstock plants. This study shows, for the first time, that 3,4‐dihydroxybenzoate (DHB) is compatible with the radical coupling reactions that...
4,943
30979882
PMC6461649
pmc
858
{ "abstract": "On coral reefs, microorganisms are essential for recycling nutrients to primary producers through the remineralization of benthic-derived organic matter. Diel investigations of reef processes are required to holistically understand the functional roles of microbial players in these ecosystems. Here we ...
3,044
37177655
PMC10181665
pmc
859
{ "abstract": "Conventional processing of sensory input often relies on uniform sampling leading to redundant information and unnecessary resource consumption throughout the entire processing pipeline. Neuromorphic computing challenges these conventions by mimicking biology and employing distributed event-based hardw...
6,274
34622046
PMC8482434
pmc
863
{ "abstract": "Vehicle routing problem is a widely researched combinatorial optimization problem. We developed a hybrid of three strategies—a modified ant system, a sweep algorithm, and a path relinking—for solving a capacitated vehicle routing optimization problem, a vehicle routing problem with a capacity constrain...
3,357
29588660
PMC5863372
pmc
865
{ "abstract": "Background Lignin is a heterogeneous polymer representing a renewable source of aromatic and phenolic bio-derived products for the chemical industry. However, the inherent structural complexity and recalcitrance of lignin makes its conversion into valuable chemicals a challenge. Natural microbial commu...
7,337
28000139
PMC5174012
pmc
866
{ "abstract": "The metabolic state of microflora (mixed microbial cultures) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is currently unclear. Metabolomic analyses were conducted of microflora growing on the anodic electrodes of MFCs operated at pH 7.0, 5.5, or 4.0 and utilizing starch as the major carbon substrate. A much higher ...
2,146
25336453
PMC4212834
pmc
867
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Microbial conversion of carbon dioxide to organic commodities via syngas metabolism or microbial electrosynthesis is an attractive option for production of renewable biocommodities. The recent development of an initial genetic toolbox for the acetogen Clostridium ljungdahlii has suggested th...
5,149
39597724
PMC11596381
pmc
868
{ "abstract": "Rhizosphere microorganisms are crucial for enhancing plant stress resistance. Current studies have shown that Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can facilitate vegetation recovery in heavy metal-contaminated soils through interactions with rhizosphere microbiota. However, the mechanisms by which AMF in...
3,497
38970122
PMC11225162
pmc
869
{ "abstract": "Background Despite rapid advances in genomic-resolved metagenomics and remarkable explosion of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), the function of uncultivated anaerobic lineages and their interactions in carbon mineralization remain largely uncertain, which has profound implications in biotechnology ...
4,324
39888291
PMC12005752
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract In this work, the regulation of liquid self‐transport is achieved through architectural and thermal coupling, transitioning from free surfaces to open channels. Hierarchical structures inspired by the skin of a Texas horned lizard are designed, with the primary structure of wedged grooves and ...
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38251164
PMC11154518
pmc
871
{ "abstract": "A synaptic device with a multilayer structure is proposed to reduce the operating power of neuromorphic computing systems while maintaining a high-density integration. A simple metal–insulator–metal (MIM)-structured multilayer synaptic device is developed using an 8-inch wafer-based and complementary m...
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37072642
PMC10238223
pmc
872
{ "abstract": "Abstract In the era of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), advanced data storage and processing technologies are in urgent demand. The innovative neuromorphic algorithm and hardware based on memristor devices hold a promise to break the von Neumann bottleneck. In recent years, carbon nanodots (C...
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33990331
PMC8121431
pmc
873
{ "abstract": "High dimensionality and fading memory for in-sensor reservoir computing are achieved via two-dimensional memristors.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION The massive amount of data produced and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT) requires new insight into real-time information processing by edge c...
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25247576
PMC4200787
pmc
874
{ "abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a novel platform for treating wastewater and at the same time generating electricity. Using Pseudomonas \n putida ( BCRC 1059 ), a wild-type bacterium, we demonstrated that the refinery wastewater could be treated and also generate electric current in an air-cath...
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28083531
PMC5183647
pmc
875
{ "abstract": "Ion-conducting memristors comprised of the layered materials Ge 2 Se 3 /SnSe/Ag are promising candidates for neuromorphic computing applications. Here, the spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) application is demonstrated for the first time with a single memristor type operating as a synapse over a ...
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21791580
PMC3143844
pmc
876
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Carbonate chimneys at the Lost City hydrothermal field are coated in biofilms dominated by a single phylotype of archaea known as Lost City Methanosarcinales . In this study, we have detected surprising physiological complexity in single-species biofilms, which is typically indicative of mult...
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PMC11568993
pmc
877
{ "abstract": "Abstract Biochemical methane potential (BMP) test is an important tool to evaluate the methane production biodegradability and toxicity of different wastes or wastewaters. This is a key parameter for assessing design and feasibility issues in the full-scale implementation of anaerobic digestion process...
6,290
30374283
PMC6196279
pmc
878
{ "abstract": "In computational neuroscience, synaptic plasticity learning rules are typically studied using the full 64-bit floating point precision computers provide. However, for dedicated hardware implementations, the precision used not only penalizes directly the required memory resources, but also the computing...
4,529
35149672
PMC8837800
pmc
879
{ "abstract": "Advances in synthetic biology permit the genetic encoding of synthetic chemistries at monomeric precision, enabling the synthesis of programmable proteins with tunable properties. Bacterial pili serve as an attractive biomaterial for the development of engineered protein materials due to their ability ...
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