Healthy Buildings 2023 Asia and Pacific Rim International Conference was successfully held at Tianjin from July 17 to 19, 2023. This conference was jointly organized by Tianjin University and Dalian University of Technology, along with co-organizers of the University of Colorado, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the National Residential and Living Environment Engineering ...
The Ediacaran (635 to 539 million years ago) was a pivotal time period in Earth history, marked by the diversification of macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes (i.e., the “Ediacara biota”). Numerous studies have linked the rise of the Ediacara biota to ocean oxygenation. A relatively large body of geochemical datasets seem to suggest that there were transient (lasting up to a few million years...
From May 26 to 29, 2023, the China-UK workshop on “Catalysis for a Sustainable Future” was held at Tianjin University. This workshop was co-hosted by the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen.Workshop chairmen Professor Ma Xinbin, Vice President of Tianjin University and Professor Russell F. Howe from ...
As one of the essential products of nylon materials, nylon-6 is widely used in the nylon fiber, engineering plastics and film industries. Cyclohexanone oxime is an important precursor for the synthesis of nylon-6, and more than 90% of it is produced by the traditional cyclohexane-hydroxylamine method (Figure 1a) in the world. However, this method needs hazardous hydrogen and corrosive sulphuric...
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), such as Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic intestinal inflammatory diseases that occur worldwide and influence millions of people. Intestinal milieu disorders are strongly related to the occurrence of IBDs, which results from mucosa destruction, epithelium disruption and tight junction (TJ) proteins loss. Excess of H2S in the intes...