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Yes, China does have the ability to produce original products people can’t miss.Schematic of the bottom-up approach to regenerate isotropic wood. (a) Natural wood particles, for example, wood sawdust. (b) Surface-etched wood particle with cellulose microfibers exposed from the surface. (c) Surface nanocrystallized wood particle (SNWP) with numerous cellulose nanofibers expanded from the surface. (d) Assembly of SNWP induced by Ca2+ and hydrogen bonds. (e) The obtained RGI-wood by hot-pressing.Structure of RGI-wood. Photographs of (a) untreated wood sawdust (natural wood particles), (b) surface-etched freeze-dried wood particles and (c) freeze-dried free-standing sponge of SNWP. (d) RGI-wood sample with a volume of 400 × 400 × 19 mm3, weighing 4.1 kg. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of (e) untreated wood particles, (f) surface-etched wood particles with the cellulose microfibers exposed from surface, (g) freeze-dried SNWP with numerous cellulose nanofibers expanding from surface and (h) section of RGI-wood sample, a large number of cellulose nanofibers pulling out during the break. (i) The BET surface areas of natural wood particles, surface-etched wood particles and SNWP are 12.63 m2 g−1, 14.72 m2 g−1 and 41.99 m2 g−1, respectively. (j) XRD patterns show that the crystallinity of cellulose of natural wood particles is 63.9 ± 0.70%, whereas that of SNWP is 71.4 ± 0.26%, which confirms a typical feature of cellulose nanofibers. (k) The increasing mechanical performance of different stages of wood particles proved that the outstanding mechanical performance results from the surface nanostructure of the wood particles in RGI-wood. The blue columns represent flexural strength and the yellow columns represent flexural modulus. [1] Regenerated isotropic woodThe team of Academician Yu Shuhong [2] of the University of Science and Technology of China has deeply analyzed the microstructure of biomass, and used the new biomass surface nanometering strategy of natural structure to construct a new type of all-biomass bionic wood without adhesives successfully.In this high-performance bionic wood, a large number of nanofibers are exposed on micron-sized wood chips particles. These fibers are combined into an intertwined nanofiber network through the effects of ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, and physical entanglement. Without adding any binder, the wood pellets are tightly combined by these fiber networks to form a high-strength dense structure.Experiment results show that the mechanical strength of the bionic wood prepared by this strategy surpasses natural solid wood and traditional man-made panels, can be made into large-size materials, and also exhibits excellent flame retardancy, water resistance, conductivity and electromagnetic shielding. It can achieve self-heating at a low voltage of 1.75 volts, and it can be heated to 60 degrees Celsius within 5 minutes. This feature can effectively ensure the safety of self-heating equipment and reduce energy consumption.The first new generation large-size integrated circuit silicon single crystal growth equipment jointly developed by Xi'an University of Technology and Xi'an Eswell Silicon Technology Co., Ltd. has achieved a successful trial production in Xi'an recently.Since 2018, the team of Professor Liu Ding of Xi'an University of Technology has worked closely with Xi'an Eswell Silicon Wafer Technology Co., Ltd. to carry out technical research and successfully developed high-quality silicon single crystal materials with a diameter of 300 mm and a length of 2,100 mm. It has achieved a breakthrough in successfully drawing large-size, high-quality integrated circuit-level silicon single crystal materials using independently developed domestic equipment in China.The Chinese made hybrid Tianjic Chip is the world's first heterogeneous fusion brain-like chip, and has successfully verified the feasibility of general intelligence through self-driving bicycles. [3] The revolutionary chip can adopt various core architectures, reconfigurable building blocks and so on, to accommodate both computer-science-based machine-learning algorithms and neuroscience-oriented schemes such as brain-inspired circuits.On October 14th, 2020, Zhang Youhui's team from the Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University and Shi Luping's team from the Department of Precision Instruments and their collaborators published an article in the journal Nature, and proposed for the first time the "completeness of brain-like computing" and the decoupling of software and hardware system hierarchy. This is the third result published in the regular issue of Nature after Tsinghua University's "Tianjic Movement Core" and "Multi-array Memristor Storage and Computing Integrated System" in the past year. It is also the first completion unit of the Department of Computer Science and the first "Nature" paper published by a communication unit.The research result is the further exploration of Shi Luping's team in the field of brain-inspired computing and general artificial intelligence.Professor Luping Shi’s team published a cover paper in Nature - Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architectureAt present, the team has started research on the next-generation chip, which is expected to be completed early next year.Lei Deng | Innovators Under 35On December 3, 2020, the world's first high-position turbine generator set has officially entered the stage of trial operation with load. That is the Chinese independent design and construction of such 660MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired generator sets.It was confirmed on site that the technical indicators of the unit were in compliance with the design requirements, the swing parameters of the high-position layout were within the normal range, and the unit was in good condition, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent commercial operation of the unit.As a key construction project of the Chinese National Air Pollution Prevention and Control Plan, the latest 660MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired generating sets are built andThe "world's first" high-level arrangement of steam turbine generator sets, the "world's first" eight-machine and one-control centralized control method, the "world's first" integral frame spring-isolated steam turbine generator base, direct air cooling, and a single boiler auxiliary unit are adopted. 16 environmental protection innovations, intelligent and intelligent technologies such as series and centralized control of the whole plant will provide key technical reserves for the next development of 700℃ high-parameter and large-capacity thermal power units in China, which is of great significance to promote the Chinese energy technology revolution.It is understood that the conventional thermal power generator set is arranged at a height of 13.7 meters. After the project is arranged in a high position, the steam turbine generator set is arranged on a 65-meter high platform, which is equivalent to a 20-story building. Arranging the steam turbine generator set at a high position can effectively save the steam supply pipeline. Generally speaking, it shortens the high temperature and high pressure steam supply pipeline from the boiler to the steam turbine. This alone can save project investment of 49.8 million yuan and reduce the coal consumption of power supply by 1.1 g/ Kilowatt hours.At present, the steam temperature of the world's thermal power generating units is in the range of 620-635 degrees Celsius. In the next step, the Chinese will develop high-parameter, large-capacity thermal power units at 700 degrees Celsius. The high-temperature, high-pressure, large-capacity units require longer pipelines and higher prices. Therefore, the high-level arrangement of steam turbine generator sets successfully connected to the grid for power generation has very important and far-reaching significance for promoting the energy technology revolution in my country.The smooth grid-connected power generation of the world’s first high-level turbine generator set will, on the one hand, effectively improve the clean and efficient utilization of coal resources in northern Shaanxi, China, increase the coal conversion rate on the spot, and make a positive contribution to the national air pollution control; on the other hand, the successful practical application of high-level layout technology will effectively enhance the technical competitiveness of the Chinese thermal power industry, and is important for optimizing the energy structure, promoting green and low-carbon development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern in which the domestic and big cycle is the main body and the domestic and international double cycles promote each other.Quantum computational advantage using photonsA research team led by the renowned Chinese quantum physicist Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China, announced Friday, 12/04/2020, they made a significant breakthrough in quantum computational advantage.The team established a quantum computer prototype, named "Jiuzhang," via which up to 76 photons were detected. The study was published in Science magazine online.This achievement marks that China has reached the first milestone on the path to full-scale quantum computing, a quantum computational advantage, also known as "quantum supremacy".No traditional computer can perform the same task in a reasonable amount of time, and the speedup is unlikely to be overturned by classical algorithmic or hardware improvements, according to the team.In the study, Gaussian boson sampling (GBS), a classical simulation algorithm, was used to provide a highly efficient way of demonstrating quantum computational speedup in solving some well-defined tasks.The average detected photon number by the prototype is 43, while up to 76 output photon-clicks were observed.Jiuzhang's quantum computing system can implement large-scale GBS 100 trillion times faster than the world's fastest existing supercomputer.The team also said the new prototype processes 10 billion times faster than the 53-qubit quantum computer developed by Google."Quantum computational advantage is like a threshold," said Lu Chaoyang, professor of the University of Science and Technology of China. "It means that, when a new quantum computer prototype's capacity surpasses that of the strongest traditional computer in handling a particular task, it proves that it will possibly make breakthroughs in multiple other areas."The breakthrough is the result of 20 years of effort by Pan's team, which conquered several major technological stumbling blocks, including a high-quality photon source."For example, it is easy for us to have one sip of water each time, but it is difficult to drink just a water molecule each time," Pan said. "A high-quality photon source needs to 'release' just one photon each time, and each photon needs to be exactly the same, which is quite a challenge."Compared with conventional computers, Jiuzhang is currently just a "champion in one single area," but its super-computing capacity has application potential in areas such as graph theory, machine learning and quantum chemistry, according to the team.A quantum computer that measures light has achieved quantum supremacyChinese scientists won the highest award for hepatitis B research for the first time.Dr. Wenhui Li, a senior researcher at the Beijing Institute of Life Sciences and a professor at the Biomedical Intersection Institute of Tsinghua University, won the world’s highest award in the field of hepatitis B research and treatment on November 12th, 2020, for his outstanding contributions to promoting hepatitis B research and treatment, Baruch S. Blumberg Prize.Named after Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1976, this award was established by the Hepatitis B Foundation in Pennsylvania, USA, and aims to reward important research and treatment related to hepatitis B. Individuals who promote and contribute significantly are hailed as the highest honor in the field. Baruch Blumberg, who passed away in 2011, won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of hepatitis B virus. He was also the co-founder of the Hepatitis B Foundation.After receiving his doctorate degree from Peking Union Medical College in 2001, Dr. Li Wenhui went to Harvard Medical School for postdoctoral research and later served as a lecturer. After the SARS outbreak in 2003, he and his colleagues fought day and night and discovered the first SARS receptor ACE2 in the world, which caused a sensation among international colleagues. In 2007, Dr. Li Wenhui returned to China to join the Beijing Institute of Biological Sciences and began to focus on the study of hepatitis B and hepatitis D virus infection. After five years of painstaking research, his team finally discovered the co-receptor of hepatitis B and hepatitis D viruses invading human cells-NTCP (sodium taurocholate cotransporter).The discovery of hepatitis B virus receptors opened a new door. After the publication of Dr. Li Wenhui's research results, internationally renowned hepatitis B research institutions and pharmaceutical companies are adopting the R&D technology system he created to carry out follow-up research and drug development.On September 16, 2020, Weichai Group, a leader in China's internal combustion engine industry, held a launch ceremony in Jinan, Shandong, China, officially launching the world's first commercialized diesel engine with a brake thermal efficiency over 50%.Weichai created five original Chinese proprietary technologies: advanced fields synergy combustion technology, harmonius design technology, exhaust energy distribution technology, subzone lubrication technology and WISE control technology, which all help solve a series of world-class problems and achieve high efficiency combustion with low heat transfer, high PFP with high reliability, low friction loss, low emission pollutants, intelligent control, etc., so that the brake thermal efficiency of the base diesel engine exceeds 50%. This diesel engine with a brake thermal efficiency over 50% is the best in the world.Groups of Chinese scientists, led by Tu Youyou, managed to discover and extract a substance, artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite. The substance was extracted from the plant, sweet wormwood. That is a completely Chinese original product in the world.Tu Youyou got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015.The first Chinese original hydrogen bomb was made in 1967.Yunnan Baiyao is an original Chinese proprietary traditional Chinese medicine very effectively used to stop bleeding either internally or externally.Dongfanghong I was the first original Chinese proprietary satellite launched successfully on 24 April 1970.On May 24, 2017, for the first time in the world, Chinese engineers have successfully extracted natural gas from icy deposits beneath the South China Sea. The exact location is in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea, about 300km southeast of Hong Kong.China has set two world records in terms of the total gas output in a month and the daily gas production of 28,700 cubic meters. The Chinese scientists and engineers invented the 32 key original Chinese technologies including the horizontal well drilling in deep sea's shallow soft layer and 12 pieces of original Chinese core equipment including the deep sea's wellhead suction anchor.Recently, on August 14, 2020, the team of Academician Yu Shuhong at the University of Science and Technology of China inspired by natural shells, has developed a new type of thin film material, which exhibits mechanical and optical properties far exceeding traditional plastics in terms of strength, toughness, and light transmittance. If it is buried in the soil about two months, it can be degraded without pollution. It is expected to become an ideal material for flexible electronic devices, and so on.The Chinese research team successfully constructed a "brick-fiber" shell-like layered structure using two natural components of nano-clay sheet and bacterial cellulose, and developed a high-performance composite film material using aerosol-assisted biosynthesis.Experiment measurement results show that the strength of this new type of film material reaches 482 MPa, which is more than 6 times that of the current commonly used commercial plastic film. It has good flexibility and can be folded into various shapes without obvious damage after unfolding. This new material also has excellent light transmittance, achieving high transparency of more than 73% and high optical haze of more than 80% in the visible light range of the human eye.Traditional plastic film is very easy to soften and deform at high temperature. In contrast, this new material has excellent thermal stability. When the temperature changes by 100 degrees Celsius, its size change is only three ten thousandths, and its stable structure and performance can still be maintained at 250 degrees Celsius.More importantly, the unique raw material composition makes this new material green and pollution-free throughout its life cycle. Bacterial cellulose will degrade naturally in the soil in about two months.Recently, the research results were published in the academic journal "Substance" (or “Materials”) under the "Cell" Publishing Group. Because of the advantages of high performance, low cost, and simple process, this new material is very competitive in the fields of flexible electronic devices, new displays, and photoelectric conversion. At present, the Chinese scientific research team is actively promoting application and industrialization of the new material.Chinese scientists successfully developed degradable bionic transparent filmOn November 10, 2020, the third-generation methanol-to-olefins (DMTO-Ⅲ) technology developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has passed the scientific and technological achievement appraisal organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation in Beijing.Since the 1980s, Dalian Institute of Chemical Industry has conducted more than 30 years of research and development work on methanol-to-olefin catalysts and process technology. It has overcome a series of difficulties in catalysts, reaction processes, engineering and industrialization complete sets of technologies, and achieved A series of inventions and innovations finally formed a methanol-to-olefin technology that can use non-petroleum resources to produce low-carbon olefins.The main researcher of this technology, academician Liu Zhongmin of the institute, said that this technology has been developed for three generations. In June 2006, the first-generation methanol-to-olefins (DMTO) technology completed the 10,000-ton-level industrial test. In August 2010, the first industrialization of coal-based methanol to low-carbon olefins was realized in the world. In May 2010, the second-generation methanol-to-olefins (DMTO-II) technology completed the 10,000-ton industrial test and achieved its first industrialization in December, 2014.DMTO-Ⅲ technology is a complete technical solution including a new high-efficiency fluidized bed reactor and a new generation of catalysts. In terms of DMTO-Ⅲ technology development, the Dalian Institute of Chemical Technology team conducted in-depth research on the multi-scale process of methanol to olefins, established a theoretical method from molecular sieve reaction diffusion to the distribution of carbon deposits on the catalyst in the reactor, and developed the control of olefins through the carbon deposits Selective technical route. On this basis, based on a new generation of methanol-to-olefin catalyst, a high-efficiency fluidized bed reactor with large methanol processing capacity, few side reactions, and flexibility to optimize the catalyst operating window has been developed, and the kiloton-level pilot test has been completed.Compared with the previous technology, the economy of DMTO-Ⅲ technology has been significantly improved. According to estimates, the unit olefin cost of the DMTO-Ⅲ technology industrial plant is reduced by about 10% compared with the existing DMTO plant, and the energy consumption per unit of olefin production capacity can be significantly reduced.The industrialization of a new generation of catalysts and the successful development of DMTO-Ⅲ technology have enabled my country to maintain a continuous international leading position in the field of methanol-to-olefin technology. This technology will also play an important role in ensuring energy security and promoting clean and efficient use of coal.There you have a partial original Chinese inventions for your reference. More is available until next time.Footnotes[1] Regenerated isotropic wood[2] http://en.scms.ustc.edu.cn/2011/0703/c13455a89259/page.htm[3] Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in…

Pain is not a sense, like touch, sight, or hearing. Pain is an emotion (Wells & Nown, 1998). Hence, emotion is a fundamental part of the pain experience and not a reaction to the sensory appreciation of pain.Source Pain is an EmotionYes, there certainly is such a thing as emotional pain. And there is physical pain. Sometimes extreme emotional pain can cause physical pain and vice versa.Physical pain has to do with damaged nerve endings in the body sending a signal to the brain saying "look out!". We experience physical pain as a warning to us that something is not right in our body and needs attention. Physical pain helps keeps us safe from further injury.While both types of pain are signals from the brain, they are two distinct sensations. As I mentioned, they can cause the other type of pain.I've had my feelings hurt so badly my face turns red and starts stinging. This stinging sensation is not caused by bodily damage but from my experience of intense emotional distress. When my sister died, I felt a deep throbbing in my middle chest area and a sense of nausea. Again, these physical sensations are caused by an emotional response, not an actual physical injury. Heavy emotional pain can cause the release of certain hormones and adrenaline. These chemicals are released in our body to help us deal with an impending physical threat. It's a bit of a primitive response, fight or flight. How often have you heard someone say "it makes me sick!". As I mentioned when my sister died I felt nausea, this is a surplus of chemicals in my system.I've hurt my back pretty badly a couple of times and ended flat out for weeks at a time. My inability to move, my frustration, anger, and helplessness caused an emotional response, temporary depression. Physical injuries can easily cause extreme sadness the provoke all the symptoms of an emotional injury.I may not have been as clear with this answer as I'd like to have been. I will certainly come back and make edits if necessary. Of course leave observations and comments.Source for below excerpt Pain is an Emotion (bold emphasis mine)Pain is not a sense, like touch, sight, or hearing. Pain is an emotion (Wells & Nown, 1998). Hence, emotion is a fundamental part of the pain experience and not a reaction to the sensory appreciation of pain.Given its complexity, it has been harder to define emotion. For most of us, when we think of emotion, we associate it with the limbic system and generally recognized emotion to be a sensation-like feeling that compels us to act in certain ways. Other definition of emotions has defined it as "the nervous process that determines what kind of stimuli coming from the inner and outer environments are desirable for the organism and what are not". Yet another definition of emotion states that it is "a transitory social role (a social constituted syndrome) that includes an individual's appraisal of a situation and that is interpreted as a passion rather than as an action" (Bromm & Desmedt, 1995). The difference in these definitions and many other definition of emotion not listed here, reflects the divergent theoretical frameworks within which emotion researchers work, and their investigation of different subjective, behavioral, and social events.There are also many different theories of emotion (Bromm & Desmedt, 1995). For example, one theory proposed by Izard and Blumberg in 1985, states that "the emotion system is viewed as the principle motivational system for human beings. The emotion s are seen as adaptive and motivating organizers of experience and behavior" (Bromm & Desmedt, 1995). From this point of view, pain-induced emotion represents disruption and a redirection of activity. This notion of emotion is also shared by another researcher by the name of Frijda, who states that emotions "can be defined in terms of some form of action tendency or some form of activation or lack thereof" (Bromm & Desmdt, 1995).Despite these differences in defining what emotion is, there is sufficient agreement among mainstream emotion researchers on the following six points (Bromm & Desmedt, 1995): a) Emotional responses to stimuli and emotional expression subserve biological adaptation and emotional phenomena evolved to foster survival of the individual and the species. b) Emotions impute positive or negative hedonic qualities to a stimulus in accordance with the biologic importance and meaning of that stimulus. c) The central neuroanatomy for emotion corresponds to the limbic brain. d) Emotion activates - they produce impulses to act or to express one self. e) Emotions communicate, and the negative emotional expression of one individual will tend to produce negative emotion in another. f) Human cognition and emotions function interdependently. These points of agreement help to clarify what science currently mean by emotion, but as far as having a conclusive definition for emotion goes, there is not a universally accepted definition.

They love you a lot and are a bit paranoid. The right front seat in a car has traditionally been thought of as the most dangerous seat to be in during an accident. Generally it is thought that the middle of the rear seat is safest, and the right front is least safe. However, that has changed since seat belts and air bags were put in cars. Now, the biggest danger to kids in the right front seat is not so much from accidents, but from not wearing a seat belt and the the Air Bags going off—either accidentally or as the result of an accident. Because the release of the Air Bag is so violent, it has harmed and even killed babies and small children. There is even a switch in the car that lets the driver turn off the air bag when for some reason, a child less than Age 12 has to be riding in that seat.As far as I can tell, age 12 is the turning point when kids are considered large enough to survive an air bag deployment.So, do some homework on the Internet and find out what age it says is old enough to ride in that front seat. (the oldest I saw was 13, and usually 12). Also ask to see the Owners Manual that came with the car. There should be information about air bag use in there with recommendations . Have a sit-down chat with your parents and go over the information with them. Be persistent and be glad they love you. Remind them that you will be driving in a year or so and really should be getting used to the view from the front seat .Best of luck !