British Naturalists in Qing China

Botany, Informal Empire and the Colonial Roots of British Gardens

“…23 Fan suggests that the fact that the CMCS was a Chinese government body might have led Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General, to decline to offer much official assistance to Kew Gardens, in spite of the Kew Director's requests. 24 The study of Augustine Henry's practices, I suggest, sheds light on the relationship between science and informal empire in Yunnan in distinct and important ways, spanning first, the agency of collectors, second, the nature of the scientific networks in which they operated, and third, their motivations and the impact these motivations had on their collecting practices.…”

A novel combined in-situ and operando techniques approach to analyze the gas evolution at high-voltage supercapacitors

“…, their mobility, degree of corrosion, and electrochemical stability. At these ions, the usual combination is KOH(FUKUSHIMA et al, 2018;IBUKUN;SEMAN;AZAM, 2020; XIAO et al, 2019b), Na2SO4 (NGUYEN;LE; PHUNG, 2020; SINGH et al, 2021; VIRYA et al, 2020; WANG et al, 2020c), H2SO4 (LIU et al, 2022 NASKAR, 2022; VERMA et al, 2022), KCl (MATSUBARA;MURAKAMI;MURAMOTO, 2018;REECE;SMITH, 2019; YANG et al, 2017), LiClO4 (NA et al, 2016 RACHEDI et al, 2022), LiOH (SHIN et al, 2020 WANG et al, 2016b), etc. …”