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X-ray spectroscopy and density functional theory are used to show that the electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates, while similar to the copper-based high-temperature superconductors, has significant differences.
As in haematopoietic cells and platelets, agonist binding to protease-activated receptors PAR1 and PAR2 in non-haematopoietic cells also triggers signalling pathways that lead to α5β1-integrin-mediated cell adhesion.
Mechanical fatigue occurs under cyclic stress much lower than the tensile strength, but this has not been investigated for 2D materials. Here, graphene is found to have a fatigue life of 109 cycles.
The use of high-energy-density lithium-rich layered-oxide electrodes in batteries is hindered by voltage decay on cycling. Improving the reversible cation migration by altering oxygen stacking is shown to suppress voltage decay and redox asymmetry in lithium-rich nickel manganese oxides.
Chemisorbed molecules combining glycol-ether moieties and fullerenes are shown to form uniform and air-stable self-assembled bilayers on coinage metals, and are amenable to versatile functionalization by in-place exchange of the top layer.
Although all-solid-state Li-ion batteries exhibit enhanced energy densities, electrochemical stability of solid electrolytes remains a challenge. A mechanism explaining the relationship between redox activity and electrochemical stability for typical solid electrolytes is now proposed.
Producing H2O2 electrochemically currently use electrocatalysts that are insufficient to meet the demands for industrialization. A single-atom electrocatalyst with an optimized Co–N4 moiety incorporated in nitrogen-doped graphene is shown to exhibit enhanced performance for H2O2 production.
Three-dimensional DNA frames can be created with controlled valence and coordination for the assembly of ordered arrays of biological and inorganic nanomaterials.
The dominant mechanism of nanoparticle entry into solid tumours has now been shown to be an active trans-endothelial pathway rather than the currently established passive transport via inter-endothelial gaps.
A large longitudinal resistance and zero Hall plateau—hallmarks of an axion insulator—are found in MnBi2Te4. Moreover, a moderate magnetic field drives a quantum phase transition to a Chern insulator phase with zero longitudinal resistance and quantized Hall resistance h/e2.
A mechanism of cell response to localized tension shows that syndecan-4 synergizes with EGFR to elicit a mechanosignalling cascade that leads to adaptive cell stiffening through PI3K/kindlin-2 mediated integrin activation.