26 research outputs found
The role of 245 phase in alkaline iron selenide superconductors revealed by high pressure studies
Here we show that a pressure of about 8 GPa suppresses both the vacancy order
and the insulating phase, and a further increase of the pressure to about 18
GPa induces a second transition or crossover. No superconductivity has been
found in compressed insulating 245 phase. The metallic phase in the
intermediate pressure range has a distinct behavior in the transport property,
which is also observed in the superconducting sample. We interpret this
intermediate metal as an orbital selective Mott phase (OSMP). Our results
suggest that the OSMP provides the physical pathway connecting the insulating
and superconducting phases of these iron selenide materials.Comment: 32 pages, 4 figure
Robust magnetism against pressure in non-superconducting samples prepared from lutetium foil and H2/N2 gas mixture
Recently, the claim of "near-ambient superconductivity" in a N-doped lutetium
hydride attracted enormous following-up investigations in the community of
condensed matter physics and material sciences. But quite soon, the
experimental results from different groups indicate consistently that no
evidence of near-ambient superconductivity is found in the samples synthesized
by the same method as the reported one, or by the other alternative methods.
From our extended high-pressure heat capacity and magnetic susceptibility
measurements on the samples prepared with the lutetium foil and H2/N2 gas
mixture, we report the finding of a magnetic transition at the temperature
about 56 K. Our results show that this magnetic phase is robust against
pressure up to 4.3 GPa, which covers the critical pressure of boosting the
claimed near room temperature superconductivity.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Temporal-Spatial Transcriptome Analyses Provide Insights into the Development of Petaloid Androecium in Canna indica
Canna indica (Zingiberales) is one of the most important ornamental species characterized with beautiful petaloid staminodes, which are considered to evolve from stamens. However, the genetic basis for the development of petaloid staminodes remains unclear largely because the genomic sequences are not available. By using RNA-Seq, we sequenced the transcripts in the flower of Canna indica, and quantified the temporal gene expressions in flower primordium and differentiated flower, as well as the spatial gene expressions in petal and petaloid staminode. In total, 118,869 unigenes were assembled, among which 67,299 unigenes were annotated. Quantification analysis identified the differentially expressed genes in the temporal and spatial two comparisons, based on which, Gene Ontology enrichment analysis highlighted the representative terms in each sample, such as specification of organ number in flower primordium, growth in differentiated flower, secondary cell wall biogenesis in petal and cell division in petaloid staminode. Among the 51 analyzed MADS-box unigenes, 37 were up-regulated in differentiated flower compared with those in flower primordium. A-class unigenes were expressed higher in petal than in petaloid staminode, and C-class unigenes were expressed oppositely, whereas B-class unigenes demonstrated close expression levels in these two organs, indicating that petaloid staminode retains stamen identity to some degree. In situ hybridization provided more detailed expression patterns of these unigenes, and revealed the extended expression of B-class to the carpel at later stages when the style turned flat. These results constitute a preliminary basis for the study of flower development in Canna indica and can be applied in further study of the evolution of Zingiberales