Uranium extraction from seawater has attracted increasing attentions for nuclear raw material to support the sustainable development of nuclear power plants. However, it is still a grand challenge to overcome the high salinity background and ultra-low uranyl concentration. Herein, we...

As a rising star among two-dimensional materials, transition metal carbides (MXenes) with prominent characteristic including chemical functionality and high hydrophilic unfold enormous potential for radionuclide sequestration. The design of functionalized MXenes with high uptake capacity and...

Under the strategy of rural revitalization, China has a considerable demand for building rural green housing, and the self-built mode of rural housing is in favor of green building (GB) development. However, the GB development in rural housing still remains in demonstration phase within recent...

This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and...

By using a smooth entropy function to approximate the non-smooth max-type function, a vertical linear complementarity problem (VLCP) can be treated as a family of parameterized smooth equations. A Newton-type method with a testing procedure is proposed to solve such a system. We show that the...

A new smoothing approach based on entropic perturbation is proposed for solving mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints. Some of the desirable properties of the smoothing function are shown. The viability of the proposed approach is supported by a computational study on a set of...