Rui Zhai

ORCID: 0000-0002-9368-1735
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Research Areas
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Diabetes Management and Research

National Institute of Metrology
2017-2025

Nanjing University of Science and Technology
2017-2025

Shanghai Ocean University
2025

Henan University
2024

Northwest A&F University
2022-2024

China Mobile (China)
2020-2023

Northeast Forestry University
2023

Hefei University of Technology
2022

Wuhan University of Science and Technology
2022

Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
2017-2022

Stem vascular cambium cells in forest trees produce wood for materials and energy. WOX4 affects the proliferation of such Populus. Here we show that PtrWOX4a is most highly expressed stem vascular-cambium-specific (VCS) gene P. trichocarpa, its expression controlled by product second VCS gene, PtrVCS2, encoding a zinc finger protein. PtrVCS2 binds to promoter as part PtrWOX13a-PtrVCS2-PtrGCN5-1-PtrADA2b-3 protein tetramer. prevented interaction between PtrGCN5-1 PtrADA2b-3, resulting H3K9,...

10.1038/s41477-022-01315-7 article EN cc-by Nature Plants 2023-01-09

DLC pretreatment, which is simple and of low cost, not only facilitates biomass logistics but also provides a feedstock with high digestibility fermentability.

10.1039/d1gc01362a article EN Green Chemistry 2021-01-01

Any pretreat process used on lignocellulosic substrates, such as steam pretreatment, although opening up and enhancing access to the cellulose, will typically generate inhibitory compounds (i.e., soluble mono/oligomeric sugars, phenolics, furans, extractives, etc.) that limit or restrict efficiency of enzyme mediated cellulose hydrolysis. In work reported here, major groups inhibitors derived from various, "real-life" pretreated biomass were identified their effects rate extent enzymatic...

10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b00481 article EN ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2016-04-12

Inorganic nanostructures and their assemblies play important roles in immobilizing biomolecules. Herein, we developed a facile green methodology to assemble natural halloysite nanotubes (1D building blocks) into nest-like porous microspheres (3D architecture). We further modified the with dopamine form biomimetic entity. The interconnected hierarchical pores within provide larger pore volume entrap biomolecules, abundant functional groups on surface bond covalently enzyme enhance...

10.1021/sc400199v article EN ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2013-07-31

Twinned zigzag SiC nanoneedles have been synthesized by silicon evaporation onto multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTS) at 1500 °C for 8 h. The product was characterized X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), and high-resolution transmission (HRTEM). results show that the a surface, which is composed of (111) [112̄] periodic twined segments. growth twinned realized vapor−solid (VS) reaction, in plane stacks twinning manner, creating (111̄) faceting over...

10.1021/jp070115q article EN The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007-04-06

Nanofibrillated celluloses (NFCs) have recently drawn much attention because of their exceptional physicochemical properties. However, the existing preparation procedures either produce low yields or severely degrade cellulose and, moreover, are not energy efficient. The purpose this study was to develop a novel process using ultrasonic homogenization isolate fibrils from bamboo fiber (BF) with assistance negatively charged entities. obtained samples were characterized by degree substitution...

10.1155/2017/9850814 article EN cc-by International Journal of Polymer Science 2017-01-01

In the current biorefinery concept, hydrothermal-based pretreatments such as steam pretreatment are often used to first open up plant cell wall structure and increase accessibility of cellulose component cellulase enzymes. However, this process also generates water-soluble phenolics that strongly inhibitory enzymes, therefore limiting efficiency enzymatic hydrolysis pretreated biomass. Although some earlier work assessed influence on hydrolysis, characteristics most influenced inhibition...

10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04178 article EN ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2018-02-05

Abstract Background For bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass, phenolics derived pretreatment have been generally considered as highly inhibitory towards enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. As are produced lignin degradation during pretreatment, it is likely that the will exert a strong impact on structure of phenolics, resulting in varied levels inhibition bioconversion process. Despite extensive studies remains unclear how process affects properties generated effect...

10.1186/s13068-020-01686-z article EN cc-by Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020-03-11

This study presents an advanced approach for the comprehensive analysis of low-abundance proteins in soybean seeds, addressing challenges posed by high-abundance storage proteins. We compared effectiveness Data-Dependent Acquisition (DDA), Data-Independent (DIA), and BoxCar mass spectrometry techniques to identify two types seeds: High-Oil High-Protein seeds. The results indicate that DIA method, particularly methods, significantly improve detection DDA, offering deeper insights into seed...

10.3390/ijms26030949 article EN International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-01-23

Iron is an essential microelement for all living organisms. The vacuolar iron transporters (VIT) gene family found in various species, including yeast, fungi, protozoa, and plants, where it plays a crucial role sequestration, homeostasis, tolerance of the heavy metals, particularly manganese. However, presence function VIT genes marine phytoplankton have not been previously reported. study aims to identify within diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum analyze these genes. We conducted...

10.1038/s41598-024-82161-9 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Scientific Reports 2025-03-26
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