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Nano-Bio Interactions of Gum Arabic-Stabilized Lanthanide-based Upconverting Nanoparticles: In Vitro and In Vivo Study

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TB01579G, Paper
Hana Mirmajidi, Hyojin Lee, Niepukolie Nipu, Jith Thomas, Zuzana Gajdosechova, David Kennedy, Jan A. Mennigen, Eva Hemmer
Lanthanide-based nanoparticles (Ln-NPs) are highly valued for their unique optical and magnetic properties, making them useful in various scientific fields, including materials science and biomedicine. This study investigated the use...
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Eco-Friendly Self-Clean Coatings: Fundamentals, Fabrication, Applications, and Sustainability

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TB01392A, Review Article
Tanaji K. Chavan, Sushanta Kumar K. Sethi
Eco-friendly self-clean coatings have garnered significant attention due to their potential to address environmental concerns while offering remarkable properties. This review explores the dynamic field of such coatings, focusing on...
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Fluorescence sensing techniques for quality evaluation of traditional Chinese medicines: a review

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TB01886A, Review Article
Yanyu Xiao, Hui Wang, Chenxia Gao, Xinyi Ye, Yuting Lai, Meiling Chen, Xiaoliang Ren
We summarized the advantages and advanced applications of fluorescence sensing technology compared with other analytical techniques, as well as the challenges and prospects of current application in the field of TCM quality evaluation.
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Bigg Boss: Who Will Get Evicted This Week? PREDICT!

Christmas may be around the corner but will that stop an elimination from the Bigg Boss 16 house this weekend?




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Bigg Boss: 'I am glad I came out'

'I am lucky I didn't spoil anybody's dream.'




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Bigg Boss: 'Nobody knows how we survived'

'I have learnt to say no.''I would never say no to anybody before, even when my friends asked for money.' 'Learning to say no is priceless.'




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Bigg Boss: Superstar Evicted In 24 Hrs!

The second season of Bigg Boss OTT premiered over the weekend on JIO Cinema and it was an exciting watch, thanks to host Salman Khan and an interesting line-up of contestants.




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Bigg Boss: 'Everyone gave me respect'

'My emotions overflowed inside the Bigg Boss house and there is a reason for this: For 13 years, I have not shown my emotional side to the world.'




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Bigg Boss: Anil Kapoor Is Only Good Part

This season of BB OTT may be a difficult watch, observes Namrata Thakker.




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Bigg Boss: Ranvir Shorey's 5 Revelations

The actor has used the platform to make a few revelations about his personal life. Namrata Thakker lists them out.




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The Scindias: Straddling royalty and politics with equal ease

Rasheed Kidwai’s book on the Gwalior royal family is as much a palace chronicle as it is a companion volume to modern Indian political history




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Sulli deals: Women caught in the tentacles of the dark Web

Doxxing, or sharing a woman’s picture online without her consent, is a crime that has proliferated during the pandemic — chillingly, against one particular community




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Plant humanities: A discipline takes shape

The words buzz in my head: Plants, pollinators, medicinal cannibalism, history of transplanted trees and bodies... And I wish for educators to use this slant of thinking into their curriculum




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Weaving Connections: British designer William Morris’s colonial inspirations

The handcrafted colourful textiles of South Asia appealed immensely to the celebrated 19th-century craftsperson and polymath. A new exhibition of his works highlights these influences




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Rejigging superheroes: AC Bradley on tweaking the Marvel universe

What if Peggy Carter was Captain Carter? What if Iron Man was a zombie unleashing mayhem? The show creator of ‘What If...?’ on exploring these moments in the anthology series




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Funeral Nights: Hills that speak

A group of strangers come together to attend a death ceremony and the event throws up fascinating stories on the Khasi way of life




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SAG Awards: Emma Stone, Denzel Washington win

The award function was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.





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BAFTAs: Check what movies made it

Sally Hawkins, we think, will pip Frances McDormand.



  • NameDarkest HourDunkirkThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside of Ebbing
  • IMAGE
  • Missouri
  • Tonya
  • Vanessa TaylorThree Billboards Outside of Ebbing
  • Darkest HourThe Death of StalinGod
  • BAFTA
  • HoytemaThe Shape of Water
  • Phantom ThreadOctavia Spencer
  • James IvoryThe Death
  • Hans ZimmerPhantom Thread
  • Daniel Day Lewis
  • Your NameChristopher Nolan
  • Jonny GreenwoodThe Shape
  • TonyaKristin Scott Thomas
  • Steven RogersLady Bird



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Golden Globes: Meet The Red Carpet Divas

The 80th Annual Golden Globe awards saw Hollywood's A-set at their glamorous best.




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Golden Globes: Naatu Naatu Wins Best Original Song

A quick look at the winners of the 80th Annual Golden Globe awards.




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BAFTA Nominations: RRR Out, All That Breathes In

This comes as a rare miss for RRR, which bagged a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the song Naatu Naatu and Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language film and Best Song.




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Oscar Nominations: A Quick Glance

The nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards have been announced.




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Oscars: Robert Downey Jr Thanks 'Terrible Childhood'

Robert Downey Jr bagged his first ever Oscar award for his performance in the biopic drama film, Oppenheimer.




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Storing liquid chromatographic separations on surface energy traps: decoupling the LC and the mass spectrometer

Analyst, 2024, 149,5336-5343
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00828F, Paper
Timothy T. Salomons, David Simon, Richard Oleschuk
A micro-fractionation device to archive liquid chromatographic separations on an array of surface energy traps.
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Phenoxy-1,2-dioxetane-Based Activatable Chemiluminescent Probes: Tuning of Photophysical Properties for Tracing Enzymatic Activities in Living Cells

Analyst, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01082E, Critical Review
Open Access
Jagpreet Singh Sidhu, Gurjot Kaur, Atharva Rajesh Chavan, Mandeep Chahal, Rajeev Taliyan
The use of chemiluminophores for tracing enzymatic activities in live-cell imaging has gained significant attention, making them valuable tools for diagnostic applications. Among various chemiluminophores, the phenoxy-1,2-dioxetane scaffold exhibits significant...
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Advancing triage of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia subtypes diagnosis: label-free Raman spectroscopy for precise single-cell phenotyping and subtype classification

Analyst, 2024, 149,5443-5454
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00956H, Paper
Patrycja Leszczenko, Anna M. Nowakowska, Patrycja Dawiec, Karolina Czuja, Justyna Jakubowska, Marta Zabczynska, Agata Pastorczak, Kinga Ostrowska, Szymon Tott, Wojciech Mlynarski, Malgorzata Baranska, Katarzyna Majzner
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is a complex disease in pediatric oncology, necessitating accurate diagnostic strategies for effective treatment planning.
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Advancing cerumen analysis: exploring innovative vibrational spectroscopy techniques with respect to their potential as new point-of-care diagnostic tools

Analyst, 2024, 149,5381-5393
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00868E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Edoardo Farnesi, Matteo Calvarese, Chen Liu, Carl Messerschmidt, MohammadSadegh Vafaeinezhad, Tobias Meyer-Zedler, Dana Cialla-May, Christoph Krafft, Jonas Ballmaier, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Michael Schmitt, Jürgen Popp
The study demonstrates the potential of advanced vibrational spectroscopy to reveal the complex molecular composition of cerumen, suggesting its promising application as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for identifying disease-related biomarkers.
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Impact of blue light on cutaneous barrier structures and properties: NPLC/HR-MSn and Raman analyses

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01244E, Paper
Léa Habib, Rime Michael-Jubeli, Marie Abboud, Roger Lteif, Ali Tfayli
Blue light alters lipids and proteins in the reconstructed human epidermis.
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Spintronic performance of bent zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons: effects of mechanical deformation and gate voltage

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27363-27370
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03470H, Paper
Rouhollah Farghadan
This study explores how bending and gate voltage tune the spintronic properties of zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons (ZPNRs) for advanced applications.
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Magneto-optical properties of heavily Fe-doped GaAs: a density functional approach

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27510-27518
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03101F, Paper
J. Zarpellon, D. H. Mosca, J. Varalda
Heavily Fe-doped GaAs, investigated using a DFT approach, reveals a spin polarized electronic band structure correlated with magnetic circular dichroism and complex Kerr and Faraday rotation angles in agreement with some previous experiments.
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Oxidation of fine aluminum particles: thermally induced transformations in particle shells and kinetics of oxide nucleation

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27602-27616
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03355H, Paper
Andrey V. Korshunov
A submicron aluminum particle during oxidation is a shrinking spherical segment due to the growth of a single γ-Al2O3 nucleus.
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An in-depth investigation of lead-free KGeCl3 perovskite solar cells employing optoelectronic, thermomechanical, and photovoltaic properties: DFT and SCAPS-1D frameworks

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27704-27734
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02974G, Paper
Md. Tarekuzzaman, Mohammad Hasin Ishraq, Md. Shahazan Parves, M. A. Rayhan, Sohail Ahmad, Md. Rasheduzzaman, K A Al Mamun, M. Moazzam Hossen, Md. Zahid Hasan
Crystal structure of KGeCl3 and the design configuration of the KGeCl3-based PSC.
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Simulated conformality of atomic layer deposition in lateral channels: the impact of the Knudsen number on the saturation profile characteristics

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP00131A, Paper
Open Access
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Christine Gonsalves, Jorge A. Velasco, Jihong Yim, Jänis Järvilehto, Ville Vuorinen, Riikka L. Puurunen
Systematic analysis of saturation profile characteristics allowed development of an extended slope method that relates the slope of the adsorption front to the sticking coefficient for any Knudsen number.
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Structural insights into carboxylic-acid based DES across H-bond donor ratios: impact of CL&Pol refinement

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27486-27497
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03233K, Paper
Jon Zubeltzu, Elixabete Rezabal
Improved force field parameters refine H-bond network and long-range structure in carboxylic-acid-based deep eutectic solvents.
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Optimization of preparation conditions and design of device configurations for Cu3AsS4 solar cells: a combined study of first-principles calculations and SCAPS-1D device simulations

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03392B, Paper
Yi Huang, Changqing Lin, Yang Xue, Bingyuan Huang, Dan Huang
Former studies have investigated the band structure and optoelectronic properties of Cu3AsS4 and suggested that it is a promising photovoltaic (PV) absorber. However, its power conversion efficiency (PCE) from experiments...
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Effects of surface oxygen vacancy on CO2 adsorption and its activation towards C2H4 using metal (Cu, Pd, CuPd) cluster-loaded TiO2 catalysts: A first principles study

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03507K, Paper
Sajjad Hussain, Lina Zhang, Zhengzheng Xie, Jianjun Yang, Qiuye Li
The conversion of the highly selective CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into desired value-added multicarbon compounds, like C2H4, is crucial, but it is mainly constrained by high energy barrier for C-C...
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The decisive role of Au in CO diffusion on Pt surfaces: a DFT study.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03618B, Paper
Ana Lucia Reviglio, Paula Sofia Cappellari, German Jose Soldano, Marcelo Mario Mariscal, Gabriel Angel Planes
The modification of metallic surfaces with adsorbed atoms of a second metal is presented as an ideal method for producing electrocatalysts. In this work, we examined the role of Au...
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Synthesis and modification of boron nitride nanomaterials for gas sensors: from theory to application

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02137A, Review Article
Yan Zhang, Yan Wang, Cong Qin, Jianliang Cao
The synthesis and modification of BN based nanomaterials for gas sensors is summarized from theory to application.
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Prediction of high-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure with diamond-like structures: B2CX (X = N, P)

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03755C, Paper
Yi Wan, Ying-Jie Chen, Shu-Xiang Qiao, Kai-Yue Jiang, Guo-Hua Liu, Na Jiao, Ping Zhang, Hong-Yan Lu
We predict B2CX (X = N, P) are standard phonon-mediated superconductors with Tc = 44.3–46.1 K, higher than most diamond-like superconductors. Coupling between metallic σ electrons and softened E phonons contributes greatly to their superconductivity.
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A hydrogen passivation strategy for the electrocatalytic chlorine evolution reaction on metal–organic frameworks: a theoretical insight

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03153A, Paper
Jiake Fan, Lei Yang, Hui Li, Zijian Sun, Mengyun Mei, Weihua Zhu
The chlorine evolution reaction (CER) is a crucial solution for treating chlorine-containing wastewater, a type of wastewater generated during the chemical production process.
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Investigation on the combustion mechanism for NF3/H2 in DF/HF chemical lasers: a new perspective based on deep potential molecular dynamics simulations

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03014A, Paper
Yinhua Ma, Dongmei Mu, Meiheng Lv, Nan Wang, Huaxin Liu, Fangjian Shang, Jianyong Liu
Combustion-driven deuterium fluoride/hydrogen fluoride (DF/HF) lasers are a crucial type of chemical lasers.
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Self-Healing in Dielectric Capacitors: a Universal Method to Computationally Rate Newly Introduced Energy Storage Designs

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03988B, Paper
Nadezhda Andreeva, Vitaly V. Chaban
Metalized-film dielectric capacitors provide lump portions of energy on demand. While the capacities of various capacitor designs are comparable in magnitude, their stabilities make a difference. Dielectric breakdowns – micro-discharges...
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Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Delineates Stability of Non-canonical Adenine Base Pairs: A First-Principles Study

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02875A, Paper
Nicholas Adu-Effah, Nabanita Saikia
Non-canonical nucleobase pairs differ from canonical Watson-Crick (WC) pairs in their hydrogen bonding patterns. This study uses density functional theory with empirical dispersion correction to examine the stability and electronic...
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