Prof. FENG Xinbin’s group of IGCAS has done a series studies on methylmercury cycling in rice paddy in mercury mining areas, Southwestern China. Based on the principle of DGT, special DGT probes for MeHg were developed by FENG’s group. The scientists investigated MeHg dynamics and spatial MeHg trends in pore water of rice paddy during the rice grown season using the DGT technique and tested the ability of DGT to predict MeHg uptake by rice.
A recent study published in the journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(6) provides the first detailed description of its postcranial skeleton based on the holotype and four other well-preserved skeletons. A phylogenetic analysis incorporating these new postcranial data confirms previous suggestions that Jeholosaurus is a basal ornithopod, and indicates that it forms a clade with Changchunsaurus and Haya. The name Jeholosauridae is proposed for this apparently endemic group of Cretaceous East Asian taxa.
Researchers at R&D Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis, LICP, have, for the first time, successfully applied the vibrational Stark effect (VSE) spectroscopy to measure the intrinsic electric fields in ILs, and have carried out an evaluation of the results by performing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results show that the electric fields of ionic liquids are only slightly higher than those of common molecular solvents, and are strongly structure-dependent. They noticeably decrease with the increasing of the size of anion and cation.
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