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48 times improvement in the detection sensitivity. Our results highlight the approach based on the dynamic glass relaxation may provide new opportunities for construction of scintillating glass fiber and compact radiation fiber detector.Developing cost-efficient electrocatalysts for ambient N2-to-NH3 conversion and revealing the reaction mechanism are appealing yet challenging tasks. Some transition metal oxides have been recently used to catalyze the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR), but their further applications are greatly impeded because of their questionable conductivity, poor dispersion, limited active sites, and so forth. Herein, three-dimensional Ni foam-supported urchin-like Al-doped Co3O4 nanospheres rich in surface oxygen vacancies (Al-Co3O4/NF) were prepared via a hydrothermal process and subsequent annealing treatment. It is shown that introducing Al atoms into Co3O4 effectively tunes the electronic properties of the catalyst, and the increased surface oxygen vacancies induced by Al doping facilitate the activation of nitrogen. What is more, this urchin-like nanostructure, demonstrating an ability to limit the coalescence of gas bubbles, enables the rapid removal of small gas bubbles and better exposure of active sites to N2, thus yielding an impressive ammonia electrosynthesis activity (NH3 yield rate 6.48 × 10-11 mol s-1 cm-2; Faradaic efficiency 6.25%) in 0.1 M KOH. Electrochemical-based in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was employed to study the mechanism of NRR, indicating an associative alternating pathway.Piezocatalysts have attracted much attention due to their excellent degradation ability for organics. In this work, three types of BaTiO3 (BTO) nanostructures, including hydrothermally synthesized nanocubes (NCs), sol-gel calcined nanoparticles (NPs), and electrospun nanofibers (NFs), are prepared for catalyzing the dye degradation. Compared with the NCs and NPs, the NFs exhibit a higher piezocatalytic degradation performance due to the large specific surface area, fine crystal size, and easy deformation structure. Moreover, the kinetic factors, including initial dye concentration, ionic strength, ultrasonic power, and applied action, influencing the degradation performance of the BTO NFs are analyzed deeply. A high degradation rate constant of 0.0736 min-1 is achieved for rhodamine B, which is superior compared with the previous reports. The excellent stability of BTO NFs is demonstrated by the cycling tests, where a high degradation efficiency of 97.6% within 110 min is still obtained after the third cycle. Furthermore, the mechanism of piezocatalysis revealed that the hydroxyl and superoxide radicals are the main reactive species in the degradation process. This work is of importance for the development of high-performance piezocatalysts and highlights the potential of piezocatalysis for water remediation.in English, French Contexte L’hypertension intracrânienne (HTIC) idiopathique est une affection rare qui touche surtout les femmes atteintes d’obésité en âge de procréer. Les symptômes courants sont des maux de tête, des troubles de la vue, des acouphènes pulsatiles et un oedème papillaire. Le lien entre l’HTIC idiopathique et l’obésité est bien établi dans la littérature, ce qui suggère que la perte de poids pourrait améliorer le tableau clinique de l’HTIC. Pour les patients atteints d’obésité sévère pour lesquels le traitement conservateur ne fonctionne pas, la chirurgie bariatrique est un moyen efficace de perdre du poids. Cette revue systématique de la littérature vise à déterminer l’efficacité de la chirurgie bariatrique dans le traitement de l’HTIC idiopathique. Méthodes Nous avons interrogé MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, la Bibliothèque Cochrane et Web of Science (limites études portant sur les humains publiées en anglais entre janvier 1946 et juillet 2015). Résultats Douze études primaires (n = 39 patients) ont été incluses dans la revue systématique. Tous les patients avaient un di