The unicellular microalgae Haematococcus lacustris is an astaxanthin-rich organism that is widely used for commercial cultivation, but its main limitation is its relatively low biomass yield. It is widely accepted that the use of appropriate high lig...
Lidar has the advantages of high accuracy, high resolution, and is not affected by sunlight. It has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, remote sensing detection, and intelligent robots. However, the current lidar detection sy...
Most C4 plants that naturally occur in tropical or subtropical climates, in high light environments, had to evolve a series of adaptations of photosynthesis that allowed them to grow under these conditions. In this review, we summarize mechanisms tha...
Plants pigments, such as chlorophyll and carotenoids, absorb light within specific wavelength ranges, impacting their response to environmental light changes. Although the color-specific response of plants to natural levels of light is well described...
Photosynthetic capacity is usually affected by light intensity in the field. In this study, photosynthetic characteristics of four different Triticeae crops (wheat, triticale, barley, and highland barley) were investigated based on chlorophyll fluore...
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum is a perennial alpine herb producing the anti-cancer metabolite podophyllotoxin (PPT). Although the adaptation of S. hexandrum to high altitudes has been demonstrated and the effects of temperature, precipitation, and UV-B l...
The availability and intensity of sunlight are among the major factors of growth, development and metabolism in plants. However, excessive illumination disrupts the electronic balance of photosystems and leads to the accumulation of reactive oxygen s...
In order to investigate whether an end-of-day (EOD) addition of a single light quality could help alleviate high-light stress in a cucumber, cucumber seedlings were subjected to a 9 d period of high-light stress (light intensity was 1300 ± 50...
High light intensity as one of the stresses could lead to generation of large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants, resulting in severe plant growth retardation. The photorespiration metabolism plays an important role in producing and r...
Retinal degeneration is associated with dietary factors and environmental light exposure. This study investigated the effects of a high-fructose high-fat (HFHF) diet on susceptibility to blue light (BL)-induced retinal damage. Male ICR mice were rand...
The photoprotective role of anthocyanin remains controversial. In this study, we explored the effects of anthocyanin on photosynthesis and photoprotection using transgenic ‘Galaxy Gala’ apple plants overexpressing MdMYB10 under high light...
Haematococcus pluvialis is a commercial microalga, that produces abundant levels of astaxanthin under stress conditions. Acetate and Fe2+ are reported to be important for astaxanthin accumulation in H. pluvialis. In order to study the synergistic eff...
This article presents a color light detection system integrated in 130 nm CMOS technology. The sensors and corresponding electronics detect light in a CIE XYZ color luminosity space using on-chip integrated sensors without any additional process step...
Organic light emitting transistors (OLETs) combine, in the same device, the function of an electrical switch with the capability of generating light under appropriate bias conditions. In this work, we demonstrate how engineering the dielectric layer...
The silver acetylene silver nitrate loading technology of the light initiated high explosive, as one of important means to simulate the structural response of powerful pulsed X-ray, adopts the pulse laser initiation. It has advantages of improvement...
Collagen is the primary load-bearing component in connective tissues, and its organization dictates the biomechanical properties and functions of the tissue. Polarized light imaging has been an effective tool for characterizing collagen organization....
The beneficial role of melatonin (MT) as a potent broad-spectrum antioxidant and hormone-like regulator in plant protection against adverse environmental conditions is indisputable. However, the molecular networks underlying its unique scavenging cap...
LEDs are widely employed as traffic lights. Because most LED traffic lights are driven by alternative power, they blink at high frequencies, even at twice their frequencies. We propose a method to detect a traffic light from images captured by a high...
The reflection phenomenon exhibited by highly reflective surfaces considerably affects the quality of captured images, thereby rendering the task of structured light (SL) 3D reconstruction. In this paper, a polarized SL method is proposed to address...
Brassinosteroid (BR)-deficient or -insensitive mutants exhibited altered plant architecture with the potential to impact yield, the underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms are still to be explored. In this study, we cloned three BR receptor...
The thermoacidophilic red alga Galdieria sulphuraria has been optimizing a photosynthetic system for low-light conditions over billions of years, thriving in hot and acidic endolithic habitats. The growth of G. sulphuraria in the laboratory is very m...
To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must unremittingly promote the all-round revitalization of the countryside. Industry and agriculture are inseparable. The light industry is a traditionally dominant industry in China and is closely linked to...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of white light generation and the associated aging dynamics using high-power blue laser diodes (LDs) combined with transmissive single crystal remote YAG phosphors. By systematically varying input currents...
In the nearest decades, the rapidly increasing demand of wireless connectivity has resulted in the ubiquitous deployment of wireless systems as well as heavily congested wireless spectrum. Owing to the various inherent advantages, such as spectral an...
In this article, we propose a novel natural light detector based on high-performance silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays. We achieved a highly controllable and low-cost fabrication of SiNW natural light detectors by using only a conventional micromachined...
In this study, three-dimensional finite element models of high-mast light poles without and with spiral helical strakes were built using ANSYS software to investigate their vibration characteristics in a wind environment. Based on a two-way, fluid&nd...
Melatonin (MT), an antioxidant and growth regulator, interacts with almost all phytohormones, but the molecular mechanisms of these interactions are poorly understood. Using mRNA sequencing (mRNA-seq) technology, we analysed the global regulation of...
Spatial structured light (SL) can achieve three-dimensional measurements with a single shot. As an important branch in the field of dynamic reconstruction, its accuracy, robustness, and density are of vital importance. Currently, there is a wide perf...
Structured light illumination is widely applied for surface defect detection due to its advantages in terms of speed, precision, and non-contact capabilities. However, the high reflectivity of metal surfaces often results in the loss of point clouds,...
Photosynthetic organisms, such as higher plants and algae, require light to survive. However, an excessive amount of light can be harmful due to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which cause cell damage and, if it is not effectively re...
With the development of society, there is an increasingly urgent demand for light-weight, high-strength, and high-temperature-resistant structural materials. High-entropy alloys (HEAs) owe much of their unusual properties to the selection among three...
The photosystem II PsbS protein of thylakoid membranes is responsible for regulating the energy-dependent, non-photochemical quenching of excess chlorophyll excited states as a short-term mechanism for protection against high light (HL) stress. Howev...
LED (Light-Emitting Diode) presents advantages such as luminescence, reliability, durability compared with conventional lighting. It has been widely applied for life, healthcare, smart farm, industry, and lighting from indoor to the automotive headla...
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.), a typical short-day plant (SDP), relies on photoperiod and light quality signals to regulate flowering and growth. Red light interruptions inhibit its flowering, whereas supplemental blue light can cou...
The reaction performance of producing acetylene by light cycle oil (LCO) high temperature pyrolysis was investigated with a self-made electromagnetic induction heating device. The results showed that the reaction temperature and residence time were t...
Robustness is a key factor for real-time positioning and navigation, especially for high-speed vehicles. While visible light positioning (VLP) based on LED illumination and image sensors is widely studied, most of the VLP systems still suffer from th...
Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.) is a globally significant culinary vegetable with extensive cultivation and high application value. In China, Welsh onion is vulnerable to drought and strong-light stress in summer production, resulting in growth in...
High-quality green tea is produced from buds and young leaves grown by the covering-culture method, which employs shading treatment for tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Shading treatment improves the quality of tea, but shaded tea plants undergo su...
Daily nighttime light (NTL) observations made by remote sensing satellites can monitor human activity at high temporal resolution, but are often constrained by residual physical disturbances. Even in standard products, such as NASA’s Black Marb...
Light is a source of energy for photosynthesis and hence promotes the regulation of multiple physiological and metabolic processes in photoautotrophic organisms. Understanding how brown macrophytes adjust the physical and biochemical properties of ph...
Versatile applications call for InGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to operate at ultra-high current densities with high quantum efficiency. In this work, we investigated the size-dependent effects of the electrical and optical performance of LE...
Fine-tuned interactions between melatonin (MT) and hormones affected by environmental inputs are crucial for plant growth. Under high light (HL) conditions, melatonin reduced photodamage in Arabidopsis thaliana and contributed to the restoration of t...
Light pollution worldwide promotes the progression of obesity, which is widely considered a consequence of circadian rhythm disruptions. However, the role of environmental light wavelength in mammalian obesity is not fully understood. Herein, mice fe...
High refractive index nanoparticle material was applied as a scattering layer on the inner side of a glass substrate of a bottom emission organic light emitting diode (OLED) device to enhance light extraction and to improve angular color shift. TiO2...
In full sunlight, plants often experience a light intensity exceeding their photosynthetic capacity and causing the activation of a set of photoprotective mechanisms. Numerous reports have explained, on the molecular level, how plants cope with light...
Anthocyanins are considered a stress indicator due to their involvement in the response to many stresses including high light (HL) and low temperature (LT). With the development of transcriptomics, it is necessary to find the different and common poi...
We demonstrated efficient simplified orange and white organic light-emitting devices based on a platinum(II) complex Tetra-Pt-N. The maximum current efficiency achieved from the optimized orange device was 57.6 cd/A. The emission mechanism for the sy...
A light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) is a low-cost and versatile semiconductor field-effect pH sensor. In practical application, typical pH detection based on LAPS usually adopts the method of normalizing the voltage–photocurrent (V...
In this paper, we wish to report the preparation of ultra-black films via spraying coatings composed of waterborne binders and low-cost carbon aerogels on pre-treated tinplate. The CAs were prepared by annealing resorcinol-formaldehyde resin (RF resi...
High-mountain microalgae exhibit remarkable adaptability to extreme environments, making them promising candidates for sustainable biorefineries. We evaluated how photoperiod (12:12, 18:6, 24:0 h) and LED spectra (cool white, full spectrum, red&ndash...
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