Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering found that two-dimensional ionic liquids show a completely different melting behaviour than the bulk phase, leading to a high CO₂ adsorption capacity and structural robustness during the CO₂ adsorption-desorption process.

Economic losses from flooding in China at 2C of global warming could be double those at 1.5C, research suggests. The study, published in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, estimates future flood risk across China under 1.5C and 2C of warming and its impact on people and wider society.

China is set to start production of the world's largest coal-to-ethanol plant in September, which will be capable of producing over half a million metric tons of the key industrial ingredient each year, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A research team led by Prof. ZENG Jie from the University of Science and Technology of China developed a novel Cu-Fe catalyst that can realize the production of long-chain olefins by carbon dioxide hydrogenation under low pressure.

Scientists developed the activated carbon-supported Co catalysts to produce clean liquid fuels from syngas with high selectivity. Using these catalysts, they have realized industrially synthesizing 150 kt/a of clean liquid fuels from syngas derived from coal in slurry-bed reactors in Yulin, China.

A research team led by Prof. DING Yunjie and Prof. YAN Li from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has realized highly-efficient industrial production of propanal/n-propanol via heterogeneous ethylene hydroformylation.

Researchers from the Institute of Mechanics and their collaborators have provided new insights into the microscopic reaction mechanism of CO in catalytic combustion and chemical looping combustion processes over the cubic Cu₂O catalyst.

Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics revealed the influence of the air-sea teleconnection on the GPP interannual variation across China during the spring, summer, and autumn growing seasons.

Dr. LIN Guigang at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), together with his colleagues Dr. WANG Xugao, Dr. ZENG Dehui and Dr. YUAN Zuqiang at IAE and Prof. Richard P. Phillips at Indiana University, has recently investigated the differences in soil nitrogen dynamics between forests dominated by arbuscular mycorrhizal trees and ectomycorrhizal trees at four spatial scales (local, regional, continental and global scales).

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources have found that climate warming will not change greenhouse gas emission of biocrust in arid sandy areas.

Chinese researchers have developed a hybrid electro-biosystem, coupling spatially separate CO₂ electrolysis with yeast fermentation, which efficiently converted CO₂ to glucose.

China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS), a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), confirmed on April 21 that it received data from the newly launched atmospheric environmental monitoring satellite.