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목차
BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY
1 BACKGROUND 5
2 METHODOLOGY 6
2.1 RESEARCH FRONTS SELECTION AND NAMING 6
2.2 FINAL SELECTION AND INTERPRETATION OF KEY RESEARCH FRONTS 7
AGRICULTURAL PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCES
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 11
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN AGRICULTURAL PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCES 11
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Using plant growth-promoting bacteria to alleviate salinity stress in plants 13
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Plant diseases and pests detection based on deep learning 16
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 20
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN AGRICULTURAL PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCES 20
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – The application of anthocyanins in intelligent food packaging films 20
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 23
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 23
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Planetary boundaries transgression and Earth system risk governance 25
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Preparation of biomass derived porous activated carbon adsorbent and CO2 capture performance 29
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 32
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 32
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Microbial mechanisms of volatile fatty acids generation from sludge anaerobic fermentation 33
GEOSCIENCES
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 35
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN GEOSCIENCES 35
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Types of shale oil in China’s continental basins and resource potential in key regions 36
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Causes and climate risks of flash drought events 40
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 42
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN GEOSCIENCES 42
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Regional extreme precipitation and landslide dynamic model in China 43
CLINICAL MEDICINE
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 45
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE 45
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Triple therapy of CFTR modulators has enabled the transition from symptom control to etiological treatment in cystic fibrosis 47
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Weakly-supervised deep learning framework for whole-slide pathological images 50
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 54
2.1 SUMMARY OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE 54
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Application of artificial intelligence large language model ChatGPT in medical and health fields 55
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 57
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 57
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Application of Network Pharmacology in the modernization research of Traditional Chinese Medicine 59
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Tumor microbiome 62
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 66
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 66
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – New breakthroughs in AI-driven structural prediction and design of biomolecular complexes 67
CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 69
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 69
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Chemical recycling and upcycling of waste polyolefin plastics 70
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Halide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries 74
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 77
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 77
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Strategies for enhancing conversion efficiency and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells 77
PHYSICS
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 79
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN PHYSICS 79
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Superconducting diode effect 80
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Petawatt-class lasers and their applications 84
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 88
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN PHYSICS 88
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – High-temperature superconductivity in bilayer nickelate superconductor La₃Ni₂O₇ 88
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 91
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 91
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Cosmological constraints based on light curves of supernovae 92
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Searching for low-mass dark matter candidates via direct detection experiment 95
MATHEMATICS
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 101
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN MATHEMATICS 101
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Double descent curve and generalization phenomena in modern machine learning 102
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Methods and applications of physics-informed neural networks in solving partial differential equations 106
INFORMATION SCIENCE
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 111
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE 111
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – 6D object pose estimation and tracking technology 112
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Generation and detection of neural rendering and deepfakes 116
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 119
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE 119
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Performance optimization of movable antennas in intelligent wireless communications 120
ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES
1 HOT RESEARCH FRONT 123
1.1 TREND OF THE TOP 10 RESEARCH FRONTS IN ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES 123
1.2 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Robotics development and employment transition 125
1.3 KEY HOT RESEARCH FRONT – Personalized and data-driven psychotherapy research 128
2 EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT 131
2.1 OVERVIEW OF EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS IN ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES 131
2.2 KEY EMERGING RESEARCH FRONT – Application practice and risk management of generative AI in the business domain 132
APPENDIX RESEARCH FRONTS IN SEARCH OF THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE 134
REPORT RESEARCH TEAM 144
