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Optimizing agricultural irrigation as virtual energy storage to match renewable power profiles unlocks climate benefits during the energy transition

Agricultural irrigation is energy intensive and a key source of carbon emissions. This study shows that aligning irrigation schedules with renewable energy availability can cut emissions, ease grid load and use surplus clean power. Using China as a case study, it demonstrates a scalable, low-carbon strategy that maintains crop productivity while supporting the energy transition.

Rui Wang
Wenfeng He
Beibei Liu
Research16 Jan 2026
Nature Food

Volume: 7, P: 27-37
Competing quantum tunneling processes of heavy and light particles in isocyanic acid radical anions

A counterintuitive mass effect in the quantum tunneling of the HNCO^{• −} anion is reported: the cis-to-trans isomerization is driven by heavy-atom carbon tunneling rather than hydrogen tunneling and occurs more rapidly than electron detachment tunneling from HNCO^{• −} to neutral HNCO.

Jingjing Tang
Wenbin Fan
Mingfei Zhou
ResearchOpen Access27 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-8
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H₂ and N₂ activation for ammonia synthesis

Although ammonia synthesis represents a major chemical industry, developing highly effective non-iron catalysts is a challenging task. Now it has been shown that anchoring fullerene onto non-iron transition metals separates and activates catalytic sites for hydrogen and nitrogen intermediates, boosting ammonia synthesis rates.

Yangyu Zhang
Xuanbei Peng
Su-Yuan Xie
Research04 Sept 2024
Nature Chemistry

Volume: 16, P: 1781-1787
Highly compressible and environmentally adaptive conductors with high-tortuosity interconnected cellular architecture

Developing highly elastic and conductive hydrogels is challenging, especially for use in harsh environments including organic solvents and extreme temperatures. Now, a self-assembly and in situ polymerization method is reported for the fabrication of highly compressible and environmentally adaptive conductive hydrogels with concrete-type constituents and high-tortuosity interconnected cellular architectures.

Yangyu Wang
Haili Qin
Shu-Hong Yu
ResearchOpen Access03 Oct 2022
Nature Synthesis

Volume: 1, P: 975-986
Synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides and their high-entropy alloys

A space-confined chemical vapour transport strategy is reported for synthesizing multicomponent two-dimensional materials without phase separation and composition inhomogeneity. Twelve types of transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides and their high-entropy alloys (up to nine elements) are synthesized.

Haifeng Que
Bixuan Li
Yongji Gong
Research10 Feb 2025
Nature Synthesis

Volume: 4, P: 582-591
Macroscopically uniform interface layer with Li⁺ conductive channels for high-performance Li metal batteries

Here, authors report a macroscopical grain boundary-free interface layer with microscopic Li + -selective conductive channels enables the ultra-dense Li metal deposition, resulting in a high energy density (506 Wh kg⁻¹) and long cycle life (160 cycles) pouch cell performance.

Qian Chen
Binyin Gao
Yongji Gong
ResearchOpen Access20 Nov 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-12
Efficient federated learning for pediatric pneumonia on chest X-ray classification

Zegang Pan
Haijiang Wang
Yangyu Shen
ResearchOpen Access07 Oct 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Ultra-flat and long-lived plasmons in a strongly correlated oxide

Dispersionless plasmons could find important practical applications, but previous demonstrations have been limited to 2D materials and small momentum range. Here the authors report ultra-flat plasmons propagating over a wide range of momenta in a 3D strongly correlated oxide α-Ti₂O₃.

Han Gao
Chao Ding
Yangyang Li
ResearchOpen Access09 Aug 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-9
Automated and fast building of three-dimensional RNA structures

Yunjie Zhao
Yangyu Huang
Yi Xiao
ResearchOpen Access15 Oct 2012
Scientific Reports

Volume: 2, P: 1-6
Cities in global and sustainable scientific collaboration network: unveiling cooperation centers

Lu Zhang
Jiaying Gong
Jing Li
ResearchOpen Access27 Aug 2025
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-17
A stratified precision screening strategy for enhancing hepatitis B- and C-associated liver cancer detection: a prospective study

Hua He
Yanhua Wu
Jing Jiang
ResearchOpen Access03 Apr 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-12
Robust face mask detection in complex scenarios using YOLOv8 and context-aware convolutions

Yingjie Wei
Huili Li
Yu Yang
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-14
Hypoxia-inducible miR-210 contributes to preeclampsia via targeting thrombospondin type I domain containing 7A

Rongcan Luo
Yongqing Wang
Yan-ling Wang
ResearchOpen Access22 Jan 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-11
Spatial transcriptomic survey of human embryonic cerebral cortex by single-cell RNA-seq analysis

Xiaoying Fan
Ji Dong
Fuchou Tang
ResearchOpen Access04 Jun 2018
Cell Research

Volume: 28, P: 730-745
Probability of severe postpartum hemorrhage in repeat cesarean deliveries: a multicenter retrospective study in China

Lili Du
Ling Feng
Dunjin Chen
ResearchOpen Access19 Apr 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
A database on the abundance of environmental antibiotic resistance genes

Wenjuan Xu
Zhizhen Pan
Qiansheng Huang
ResearchOpen Access27 Feb 2024
Scientific Data

Volume: 11, P: 1-9

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