A polymer that breaks down in sunlight has been used to create a glider that can transport objects behind enemy lines at night, then disappear without a trace
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Publication date: Available online 26 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Siyu Hou, Bin Wu, Yao Luo, Yunzhen Li, Hang Ma, Dinghua Peng, Heng XuAbstractIn-situ passivation of soil chromium (Cr) contamination based on chemical and biological passivators has been widely concerned, however, the cooperative effect of two types of passivators on Cr passivation and soil properties was little investigated. In this study, nano zero valent iron (nZVI) and humic acid (HA) as the chemical...
Publication date: Available online 24 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Seung-Ki Back, Bup-Mook Joung, Eun-Song Lee, Jin-Ho Sung, A H M Mojammal, Yong-Joon Park, Yong-Chil SeoAbstractThis study evaluated the correlation between the amount of mercury (Hg) compounds in waste phosphor powder from spent UV curing lamps and their leaching characteristics. The appropriate thermal treatment conditions and Hg content in the residue necessary to satisfy the leaching criteria for...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Kun Tan, Huimin Wang, Lihan Chen, Qian Du, Peijun Du, Cencen PanAbstractHyperspectral imaging, with the hundreds of bands and high spectral resolution, offers a promising approach for estimation of heavy metal concentration in agricultural soils. Using airborne imagery over a large-scale area for fast retrieval is of great importance for environmental monitoring and further decision support. However, few...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Yichao Wu, Yinfeng Xia, Xinxin Jing, Peng Cai, Avanthi Deshani Igalavithana, Chuyang Tang, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Yong Sik OkAbstractBiofouling is the Achilles Heel of membrane processes. The accumulation of organic foulants and growth of microorganisms on the membrane surface reduce the permeability, shorten the membrane life, and increase the energy consumption. Advancements in novel carbon-based materials...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Daniela Plachá, Petr Kovář, Jakub Vaněk, Marcel Mikeska, Kateřina Škrlová, Ondřej Dutko, Lenka Řeháčková, Jiří SlabotínskýAbstractChemical warfare agents are still a threat to humanity despite the existence of a ban on their production and use. There are many new materials that have been experimentally verified to be effective in degrading and eliminating various chemical warfare agents; however, clay minerals...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Jie Guo, Xiaomei Luo, Shufei Tan, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Zhenming XuAbstractWaste printed circuit boards mounted with electronic components (WPCB-ECs) are generated from electronic waste dismantling and recycling process. Air-borne pollutants, including particulate matter (PM) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), can be released during thermal treatment of WPCB-CEs. In this study, organic substances from...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Adrián de la Torre, Irene Navarro, Paloma Sanz, María de los Ángeles MartínezAbstract52 pollutants including organophosphate flame retardants and plasticizers (OPs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs) were evaluated in household dust from Belgium, Italy and Spain. Pollutant pattern was dominated by ∑OPs (12.8 μg/g; median) followed in decreasing order by...
Publication date: Available online 24 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Guixiang Quan, Qinya Fan, Andrew R. Zimmerman, Jianxiong Sun, Liqiang Cui, Hailong Wang, Bin Gao, Jinlong YanAbstractEffects of biotic aging on the characteristics of biochar and its water-soluble organic products were determined through a one-year laboratory incubation study. Biochar had a positive influence on microbial population size. Without microbial addition, biochars showed little change, except...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Mehdi Tabatabaei Majd, Mohammad Ramezanzadeh, Bahram Ramezanzadeh, Ghasem BahlakehAbstractThis study aims at finding a suitable alternative for traditional and hazardous organic/inorganic corrosion inhibitors. In this study, the aqueous extract of Esfand seed (ESE) was used as a unique green source of nitrogen-based organic compound with great capability of the steel corrosion inhibition in a saline solution....
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Thomas F. Ducey, Lisa M. Durso, Abasiofiok M. Ibekwe, Robert S. Dungan, Charlene R. Jackson, Jonathan G. Frye, B. Lana Castleberry, Diana M.C. Rashash, Michael J. Rothrock, Debbie Boykin, Terence R. Whitehead, Zeanmarj Ramos, Morgan McManus, Kimberly L. CookAbstractThere are limited numbers of Escherichia coli isolate panels that represent United States food animal production. The majority of existing Escherichia...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Qiong Wang, Min Zhou, Lei ZhangAbstractIn this work, 3D hierarchical Cu2SnS3@SnS2 flower assembled from nanopetals with sandwich-like Cu2SnS3-SnS2-Cu2SnS3 double interfacial heterojunction was successfully designed and synthesized on fluoride doped tin oxide (FTO) for photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor by in situ electrodeposition p-type Cu2SnS3 nanoparticles on both inner and outer surfaces of n-type SnS2...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Bin Wang, Jing-Hao Liu, Jiamei Yu, Jie Lv, Chen Dong, Jian-Rong LiAbstractThe broad spectrum detection of veterinary drugs is very important for rapid and large-scale safe screen of animal-derived foods. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), as a kind of emerged functional porous materials are quite promising in the chemical sensing and molecular detection. In this work, we report the high-performance broad spectrum...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Romina Romero, David Contreras, Mónica Sepúlveda, Nataly Moreno, Cristina Segura, Victoria MelinAbstractIron ligands as 1,2-dihydroxybenzenes (1,2-DHBs) have been used to increase the oxidizing ability of Fenton systems. However, these kinds of ligands become toxic quinones in the process creating an environmental problem since these compounds cannot be easily separated from a solution. To avoid this problem,...
Fate of antibiotic resistance genes in reclaimed water reuse system with integrated membrane process
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Jian Lu, Yuxuan Zhang, Jun Wu, Jianhua Wang, Ying CaiAbstractThe fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in reclaimed water reuse system with integrated membrane process (IMR) was firstly investigated. Results indicated that ARGs, class 1 integrons (intI1) and 16S rRNA gene could be reduced efficiently in the IMR system. The absolute abundance of all detected ARGs in the reuse water after reverse osmosis...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Chunjing Tang, Xuerong Huang, Haoying Wang, Huijie Shi, Guohua ZhaoAbstractEnhanced and selective photocatalytic oxidation of nonylphenol (NP), a typical hydrophobic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), was realized on hydrophobic titanium dioxide nanotubes (H-TiO2NTs), which was fabricated by an electrochemical anodization method, followed by grafting of perfluorooctyl groups. The water contact angle...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Jeong-Hee Kang, Yeojoon Yoon, JiHyeon SongAbstractBiogas commonly contains both H2S and NH3, and these impurities need to be removed before use. In this study, a combined system consisting of an absorption column and an electro-oxidation reactor was developed to simultaneously treat H2S and NH3. In particular, the effect of the pH (6, 8, and 10) on the system performance was investigated. The mass transfer...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Takashi Fujimori, Asako Toda, Kota Mukai, Masaki TakaokaAbstractThe incineration of waste carbon nanomaterials will become an inevitable waste management strategy following the disposal of products containing carbon nanomaterials. We investigated the formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) during the incineration of selected carbon nanomaterials...
Publication date: 15 January 2020Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 382Author(s): Ling Zhu, Lihong Tong, Nan Zhao, Xiang Wang, Xixiang Yang, Yizhong LvAbstractModified biochar has great potential for adsorbing cadmium (Cd) in the aquatic environment, but the micro-immobilization mechanisms, driven by surface modifications, remain unclear. There has been no attempt to determine the key adsorption factors by integrating the numerous physiochemical indicators. In this study, surface oxidized...
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Yooeun Chae, Rongxue Cui, Jieun Lee, Youn-Joo AnAbstractHydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a strong oxidizer and bleaching agent included in the list of substances requiring accident preparedness by the National Chemical Information System, Korea. Although chemical accidents related to H2O2 frequently occur globally, few studies have evaluated its toxicity and risk to soil ecosystems. Herein, accidental exposure...
Publication date: Available online 22 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Marika Turek, Barbara Pawłowska, Ewa Różycka-Sokołowska, Robert Biczak, Joanna Skalik, Krzysztof Owsianik, Bernard Marciniak, Piotr BałczewskiAbstractPhenoxyacetate herbicides, such as 2,4-D and MCPA, having a high toxicity to non-target organisms are commonly used for controlling broadleaf weeds in agriculture. However, novel and environmentally friendly analogs are constantly sought after. For this...
Publication date: Available online 22 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Bianca M. Souza-Chaves, Márcia Dezotti, Chad D. VecitisAbstractHere, we investigated the synergistic effect towards phenol degradation and mineralization between ozonation (O3) and electrochemical filtration (ECF) using perforated titanium as cathode and porous carbon nanotube (CNT) networks as anode. A flow rate of 1.6 mL min-1, 10 mM of sodium sulfate electrolyte, 1.0 mM of phenol (model aromatic compound),...
Publication date: Available online 22 August 2019Source: Journal of Hazardous MaterialsAuthor(s): Qiaopeng Tian, Xin Dou, Lin Huang, Lei Wang, Di Meng, Lixin Zhai, Yu Shen, Cuiping You, Zhengbing Guan, Xiangru LiaoAbstractA native laccase (Lac-Q) with robust cold-adapted and thermostable characteristics from the white-rot fungus Pycnoporus sp. SYBC-L10 was purified, characterized, and used in antibiotic treatments. Degradation experiments revealed that Lac-Q at 10.0 U mL−1 coupled with 1.0 mmol L−1...
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Series Type : Methylation profiling by genome tiling array ; Expression profiling by arrayOrganism : Homo sapiensThis SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Contributors : Sven Beyes ; Geoffroy Andrieux ; Monika Schrempp ; David Aicher ; Janna Wenzel ; Melanie Boerries ; Andreas HechtSeries Type : Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensAt the molecular level, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) necessitates extensive transcriptional reprogramming which is orchestrated by a small group of gene regulatory proteins. The transcription factor SNAIL1 is a zinc-finger DNA-binding protein and well-known...
Contributors : Guillermo Martín-Serrano ; Osvaldo Graña-Castro ; Cristina Montero-Conde ; Mercedes RobledoSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensWe explored alternative splicing events upon hsa-miR-139-5p/HNRNPF axis regulation in our cell system using the Multivariate Analysis of Transcript Splicing (rMATS) computational tool (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419161111). Differential analysis of major splicing outcomes (skipped exon, alternative 5’/3’...
Contributors : Guillermo Martín-Serrano ; Osvaldo Graña-Castro ; Cristina Montero-Conde ; Mercedes RobledoSeries Type : Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensSmall RNAs of 49 thyroid tissues were extracted and isolated to investigate the correlation of miRNome profiles with specific clinic-pathological and molecular features of the tumors.
Contributors : Justine M Abais-Battad ; David L MattsonSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Rattus norvegicusBackground. The Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat is an established model of salt-sensitive hypertension and renal damage. Recently, sodium-independent dietary effects were shown to be important in the development of the SS hypertensive phenotype. Compared to Dahl SS/JrHsdMcwi (SS/MCW) rats fed a purified diet (AIN-76A), grain-fed Dahl SS/JrHsdMcwiCrl rats...
Contributors : Won Yoo ; Tae Kim ; Sung-Jong HongSeries Type : Expression profiling by arrayOrganism : Clonorchis sinensisDevelopmental gene expression patterns (9812 genes) of juvenile and adult C. sinensis were analyzed using a 12K oligonucleotide microarray (a total of 11617 genes). A number of significantly differentially expressed genes having more than 2-fold difference were observed in adult stage compared to juvenile stage. This finding suggests that the expression levels of different...
Contributors : Michael Simons ; Pei-Yu ChenSeries Type : Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensEndothelial TGFβ signaling is one of the primary drivers of atherosclerosis-associated vascular inflammation. Inhibition of endothelial TGFβ signaling in hyperlipidemic mice reduces vessel wall inflammation and vascular permeability and leads to arrest of disease progression and regression of established lesions. We performed scRNAseq method to examine...
Contributors : Charles M Perou ; Daniel P HollernSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Mus musculusThis study identifies mechanisms of response to immune checkpoint inhibition in mouse models of triple negative breast cancer.
Contributors : Alison Hirukawa ; Willliam Muller ; Jarey WangSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensMonoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinase ERBB2/HER2, such as Trastuzumab, are the standard of care therapy for breast cancers driven by ERBB2 overexpression and activation. However, a substantial proportion of patients exhibits de novo resistance. Here, by comparing matched Trastuzumab-naïve and post-treatment patient...
Series Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing ; Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiens ; Mus musculusThis SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
GSE134555 Endothelial TGFb signaling drives vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis [bulk RNA-Seq]
Contributors : Michael Simons ; Pei-Yu ChenSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensEndothelial TGFβ signaling is one of the primary drivers of atherosclerosis-associated vascular inflammation. Inhibition of endothelial TGFβ signaling in hyperlipidemic mice reduces vessel wall inflammation and vascular permeability and leads to arrest of disease progression and regression of established lesions. We performed scRNAseq method to examine endothelial cell...
Contributors : Michael Simons ; Pei-Yu ChenSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Mus musculusEndothelial TGFβ signaling is one of the primary drivers of atherosclerosis-associated vascular inflammation. Inhibition of endothelial TGFβ signaling in hyperlipidemic mice reduces vessel wall inflammation and vascular permeability and leads to arrest of disease progression and regression of established lesions. We performed scRNAseq method to examine endothelial cell...
Contributors : Sornkom Jirawas ; Poortinga GretchenSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensOur results confirmed that CX-5461, a Pol I inhibitor, does not significantly impact mRNA expression at 6 hrs, while I-BET151 alone, known to inhibit MYC and expression of other oncognes, resulted in widespread changes in select gene expression programs as previously demonstrated (Dawson et al., 2011). Interestingly, the combination of CX-5461 and I-BET151 demonstrated...
Contributors : Zhengyi Zhang ; Jingnan Pi ; Dongling Zou ; Xiaoshuang Wang ; Jiayue Xu ; Yanni Ma ; Dong Wang ; Jia YuSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensTwo miRNA arms from the same precursor, miR-574-5p and miR-574-3p, were reversely expressed and played exact opposite role in gastric cancer progression. miR-574-5p/-3p ratio was also strongly correlated with higher TNM stages and shorter survival of patients. The increase of miR-574-5p/-3p...
Contributors : Zhengyi Zhang ; Jingnan Pi ; Dongling Zou ; Xiaoshuang Wang ; Jiayue Xu ; Yanni Ma ; Dong Wang ; Jia YuSeries Type : Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Homo sapiensTwo miRNA arms from the same precursor, miR-574-5p and miR-574-3p, were reversely expressed and played exact opposite role in gastric cancer progression. miR-574-5p/-3p ratio was also strongly correlated with higher TNM stages and shorter survival of patients. The increase of miR-574-5p/-3p...
Contributors : Xiaqing Yu ; Zaobing Zhu ; Tinglin Zhang ; Ji Li ; Chunyan Cheng ; Qunfeng Lou ; Carl-Otto Ottosen ; Jinfeng ChenSeries Type : Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Cucumis hystrix ; Cucumis sativus ; Cucumis x hytivusAllopolyploidy is long recognized as an essential driving force in plant evolution. Recent studies have demonstrated that small RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs), play important roles in the process of allopolyploidy. However, the question...
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