High-performance semitransparent polymer solar cells were demonstrated for synergistic control of solar energy generation on water bodies and algal growth in diverse aquatic habitats.

Atmospheric deposition is recognized as a significant source of nutrients in the surface ocean. The East Asia region is among the largest sources of aerosol emissions in the world, due to its large industrial, agricultural, and energy production. Thus, East Asian aerosols contain a large proportion of anthropogenic particles that are characterized by small size, complex composition, and high nutrient dissolution, resulting in important influences on marine microbes and biogeochemical cycles in the downwind areas of the northwest Pacific Ocean (NWPO). By using remote sensing, modeling, and incubation experimental methods, enhanced primary production due to the East Asian aerosol input has been observed in the NWPO, with subsequent promotion and inhibition impacts on different phytoplankton taxa. Changes of bacterial activity and diversity also occur in response to aerosol input. The impact of East Asian aerosol loadings is closely related to the amount and composition of the aerosol deposition as well as the hydrological condition of the receiving seawater. Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the atmospheric nutrients and the effects of the East Asian aerosols on microbes in the NWPO region. Future research perspectives are also proposed.

Multicluster ALLIANCES is a recently proposed packet collision resolution (PCR) scheme based on vir- tual-MIMO techniques. In multicluster ALLIANCES, a large-scale wireless Ad Hoc network is divided into clusters and the ALLIANCES scheme is applied independently to resolve collisions in the clusters. However, there are still some flaws in multicluster ALLIANCES. In this paper, by presenting a concise theoretic analytic model and a new CNS algorithm, a novel multicluster PCR scheme is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can obtain higher performance gain than both multicluster ALLIANCES and single cluster ALLIANCES.