Weitao Liu

Oct 29, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | Sammani Ramanayaka |Kirk Semple |Xinwei Shi |Weitao Liu

Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter (Zhu et al., 2023). A growing body of evidence confirms that MPs are widely present in agricultural soil (Wang et al., 2021). The MPs are mainly derived from agricultural film covers, sludge landfills, applied compost, irrigation and wastewater flooding, atmospheric deposition, and automobile tire debris, with the abrasion of agricultural films being the main source of MPs contamination in soils (Fig.

Sep 30, 2024 | mdpi.com | Weitao Liu |Mengke Han |Jiyuan Zhao

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Sep 11, 2024 | mdpi.com | Lin Shi |Weitao Liu |Yafeng Wu |Chenxu Dai

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Sep 5, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Ruiying Shi |Weitao Liu |Jinzheng Liu |Xiang Li

1. IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Over 400 million years of coevolution with herbivores, plants have developed a range of defensive mechanisms, including constitutive and induced defenses. (1,2) Constitutive defenses refer to the inherent resistance of the plant to insects, such as structures, like the epidermal hairs and waxes of the plant. Induced defenses, on the other hand, are triggered after a phytophagous attack and can save defense costs.

Sep 4, 2024 | nature.com | Xiaoyang Chen |Tianlun Yu |Meng Zhang |Fatima Alarab |Vladimir N. Strocov |Yilin Wang | +5 more

AbstractEmergent superconductivity at the LaAlO3/KTaO3 interfaces exhibits a mysterious dependence on the KTaO3 crystallographic orientations. Here by soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we directly resolve the electronic structure of the LaAlO3/KTaO3 interfacial superconductors and the non-superconducting counterpart. We find that the mobile electrons that contribute to the interfacial superconductivity show strong k⊥ dispersion.