Modulation of A‐site defects is crucial to the redox reactions on ABO3 perovskites for both clean air application and electrochemical energy storage. Herein we report a scalable one‐pot strategy for in situ regulation of La vacancies (VLa) in LaMnO3.15 by simply introducing urea in the traditional citrate process, and further reveal the fundamental relationship between VLa creation and surface lattice oxygen (Olatt) activation. The underlying mechanism is shortened Mn−O bonds, decreased orbital ordering, promoted MnO6 bending vibration and weakened Jahn–Teller distortion, ultimately realizing enhanced Mn‐3d and O‐2p orbital hybridization. The LaMnO3.15 with optimized VLa exhibits order of magnitude increase in toluene oxidation and ca. 0.05 V versus RHE (reversible hydrogen electrode) increase of half‐wave potential in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The reported strategy can benefit the development of novel defect‐meditated perovskites in both heterocatalysis and electrocatalysis.

Rockburst is a violent rock failure process which poses a significant threat to human safety in mining and tunneling construction. Although many in situ investigations provided valuable insights on the rockburst mechanism, the failure and rock fragmentation process during a rockburst cannot be fully examined on the site. In this paper, a modified triaxial rock testing apparatus is employed to investigate the rockburst behavior of oriented sandstone. A high-speed camera is used to record the crack propagation and the ejection of rock fragments on the unloading surface. The microscopic characteristics of the fragments generated from the rockburst tests are observed using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging technique. The trajectory sketches are drawn to calculate the initial velocities of the rock fragments ejected based on the photographs taken by the high-speed camera. The results show that the mass and velocity of fragments are the two main parameters for the identification of the energytransferring process in the rockburst test. When the bedding orientation is perpendicular to the unloading surface, the rockburst is controlled by the specimen's strength. However, when the bedding orientation is parallel to the unloading surface, the rockburst is dependent on the structural stability of the specimen.

Whereas accumulating recent evidences indicate that allopolyploid formation in plants is accompanied by rapid and non-Mendelian genomic changes, some other works showed genomic stasis in both nascent and natural allopolyploids. To further study the issue, we performed global DNA fingerprinting of a newly synthesized allohexaploid wheat and its natural counterpart, the common wheat, by AFLP analysis. It was found that ca. 20% bands showed deviation from parental additivity in both synthetic and natural common wheat. Sequence analysis indicates that a majority of the changed bands represent known-function genes and transposable elements. DNA gel blot analysis showed that the main type of changes in the amphiploid is epigenetic in nature, i.e., alteration in DNA methylation patterns. Two types of alterations in methylation, random and nonrandom, were detected, and both types were stably inherited. Possible causes and implications of the epigenetic changes in allopolyploid genome evolution and speciation are discussed.

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Experiments show that electric current would be produced in uniaxial compression of coal and roof rock. The electric current of coal shows a rapid increasing tendency when the loading stress is greater than or equal to 0.75σmaxwhich can be regarded as an omen for coal failure. The current of roof rock shows reversal tendency while loading stress is greater than or equal to 0.91σmaxand revised from negative to positive at the main fracture and the reversal of current can be regarded as the omen of rock fracture. There are obvious differences in physical and mechanical properties, composition, and failure process between coal and rock. The dominant mechanism of electric current generated by coal is triboelectrification of coal particles and charge separation during crack propagation. The mechanism of electric current of roof rock is piezoelectric effect of quartz materials in the early stage and charge separation during crack propagation in the later stage of loading. It can be found that the rapid increasing and reversal characteristic of electric current can reflect the failure process of coal and roof rock, respectively. Thus, it can be considered the omen of coal and rock failure.

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The conversion of gaseous N2 to ammonia under mild conditions by artificial methods has become one of the hot topics and challenges in the field of energy research today. Accordingly, based on density function theory calculations, we comprehensively explored the d-block of metal atoms (Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, W, and Pt) embedded in arsenene (Ars) for different transition systems of phosphorus (P) coordination as potential electrocatalysts for N2 reduction reaction (NRR). By adopting a “two-step” strategy with stringent NRR catalyst screening criteria, we eventually selected Nb@P3-Ars as a research object for a further in-depth NRR mechanism study. Our results show that Nb@P3-Ars not only maintains the thermodynamic stability at mild temperatures but also dominates the competition with the hydrogen evolution reaction when used as the electrochemical NRR (e-NRR) catalyst. In particular, while the NRR process occurs by the distal mechanism, Nb@P3-Ars has a low overpotential (0.36 V), which facilitates the efficient reduction of N2. Therefore, this work predicts the possibility of Nb@P3-Ars as an e-NRR catalyst for reducing N2 from a theoretical perspective and provides significant insights and theoretical guidance for future experimental research.