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Shipping FAQ Update!

We've totally changed the way we ship stuff, so today we've replaced our long-standing Shipping FAQ File. Stuff's flowing out quickly now, and there are no pre- or back-orders: If it's for sale, it's in stock!




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A.P. has second thoughts on dropping Telangana lessons




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‘CBSE, a pioneer of reforms’




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Tapping woman power

Even as more and more women graduate, why do very few seek jobs or get hired?




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A science Olympiad for juniors

The selection process and training happens for a whole year before the IJSO.




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The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon

Kamkwamba, William, 1987- author




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Poetry 101 : from Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to iambic pentameter and blank verse, everything you need to know about poetry / Susan Dalzell

Dalzell, Susan, author




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Pineshish the blue jay : an Algonquin story / written by Michel Noël ; illustrated by Camille Lavoie ; translated by Louis Anctil

Noël, Michel, 1944-2021, author




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Quand l'éléphant écoute avec ses pieds. English

Grundmann, Emmanuelle, author




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The music of life : Bartolomeo Cristofori & the invention of the piano / by Elizabeth Rusch ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

Rusch, Elizabeth, author




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Investors scramble for a slice of AI pie

AI start-up valuations skyrocket as venture capitalists vie to spot an OpenAI-like home-grown winner 




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Venture capital: On the trail of buying power

Why VC firm Elevation Capital chooses to stay invested in consumer brands




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Subscribing to a new way of shopping

How startups are hooking buyers to subscriptions for repeat purchases like food, beverages and personal care products 




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Coaching future Olympians with AI-aided computer vision

Why Bengaluru startup Game Theory believes technology offers our best shot at sporting glory




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Bidirectional strain release in a thermosalient organic salt crystal induced by anisotropic thermal expansion and phase transformation

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04764H, Communication
Priyasha Harsha, Dinabandhu Das
Two-way release of strain followed by jumping in an organic salt crystal can be attributed to the anisotropic thermal expansion by heating and phase transformation followed by shear deformation of the crystals by cooling.
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Boosting the electrochemical performance of Ni-rich LiNi0.96Co0.02Mn0.02O2 cathode by high-valence Zr/Mo dual-doping

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04275A, Communication
Hongmei Cao, Yudong Zhang, Xunzhu Zhou, Jie Yu, Xiang Chen, Lin Li
Ni-rich oxides are attractive high-energy cathodes for lithium-ion batteries but suffer from inherent instability. Herein, we employed an ectopic Zr4+/Mo6+ dual-doping strategy to reinforce the layered structure through robust M-O...
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Lipidic biomass as a renewable chemical building block for polymeric materials

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04993D, Feature Article
Rafael Turra Alarcon, Gabriel Iago Iago, Caroline Gaglieri, Aniele De Moura, Éder Tadeu Gomes Cavalheiro, Gilbert Bannach
Polymers are intrinsically connected to our modern society and are found and used in different technologies. Although polymers are worthwhile, concerns about synthetic polymers from non-renewable sources have arisen. Therefore,...
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Pivotal role of starch in restoring the photocatalytic performance of chitosan films for eliminating water pollutants

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13364-13367
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04759A, Communication
Aman Chauhan, Archana Negi, Kirti, Moondeep Chauhan, Ajeet Kaushik, Ganga Ram Chaudhary
The enhanced adsorption properties of chitosan films after starch impregnation combined with the excellent charge-transfer traits of the CdS@CuS catalyst restore the reduced photocatalytic activity towards ciprofloxacin degradation.
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Expedient (3+3)-annulation of carbonyl ylides with azaoxyallyl cations: formal access to oxa-benzo[c]azepin-3-ones

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13368-13371
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04946B, Communication
Kshitiz Verma, Hemanga Bhattacharyya, Sharajit Saha, Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy
Cascade C–C/C–N bond formation of carbonyl ylides with azaoxyallyl cations generated in situ using Rh-catalysis has been accomplished in the presence of a base at room temperature.
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Bioinspired hydrogels: polymeric designs towards artificial photosynthesis

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13314-13324
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04033C, Feature Article
Open Access
Reina Hagiwara, Ryo Yoshida, Kosuke Okeyoshi
This Feature Article outlines the design of polymer networks for water splitting induced by visible light to develop artificial chloroplasts. The network serves as a mediator for photoinduced electron transfer among precisely organised molecules.
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Origin of anisotropic thermal transport in CsPbBr3

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05037A, Communication
Open Access
Wilarachchige D. C. B. Gunatilleke, Oluwagbemiga P. Ojo, George S. Nolas
We reveal the specific structural and bonding features that result in anisotropic thermal transport for CsPbBr3 by directional single-crystal measurements and elucidate the bases for the low Debye temperature and speed of sound.
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Rapid identification of P–C bonds in phosphorus–carbon anode materials

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03317E, Communication
Yadong Ye, Qiang Xiao, Huanyu Xie, Hongchang Jin, Hengxing Ji
This work presents a simple, rapid, and convenient spectroscopic analysis method for characterizing the bonding state in phosphorus-carbon composites.
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Rapid and sensitive detection of vanillylmandelic acid based on a luminescent fourteen-metal Tb(III) planar nanocluster

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03667K, Communication
Yanheng Meng, Shiqing Wang, Xiaoli Lv, Xianfeng Huang, Wei-Bing Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, Desmond Schipper, Xiaoping Yang
A 14-metal Tb(III) nanocluster with four CO32- anions as templates was constructed for the quantitative and qualitative detection of vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) with high sensitivity and selectivity. The luminescence response...
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Laccase-catalyzed tyrosine click reaction with 1-methyl-4-arylurazole: rapid labeling on protein surfaces

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03802A, Communication
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Keita Nakane, Chizu Fujimura, Shogo Miyano, Zhengyi Liu, Tatsuya Niwa, Hafumi Nishi, Tetsuya Kadonosono, Hideki Taguchi, Shusuke Tomoshige, Minoru Ishikawa, Shinichi Sato
Our study shows efficient tyrosine labeling using 1-methyl-4-arylurazole (MAUra) with laccase under mild conditions. This method achieves a high efficiency (kcat/Km = 7.88 × 104 M−1 s−1), selectively targeting exposed tyrosine sites on proteins.
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Hot and spicy on the menu

Chef William Tong on revamping the menu of Chinapolis Chinese speciality restaurant, at Vivanta by Taj, Thycaud, with his signature Sichuan and Cantonese dishes.




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Moringa honey: How Italian bees are helping farmers in sweet enterprise

Moringa honey is among the most popular varieties of floral nectar in the food sector. Farmer and beekeeper N Dhandayuthapani is one of those in the Cauvery delta reaping the benefit of combining apiary with agriculture




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Coimbatore’s Kaapi 2.0 offers healthy snacks with strong filter coffee

Kaapi 2.0, a new chain of minimalist cafes in the city, offers healthy snack options to munch on along with filter coffee



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Take home a piece of heritage at this Visakhapatnam sweet store

Sarvani Sweets launches its series sweet boxes featuring some iconic heritage spots of Visakhapatnam




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Predictions for 2023: AI, VR boom in hospitality, wellness and gaming, and Balenciaga in India

This is the time of year when that we draw up the Best Of 2022 lists, and trend forecasts for 2023. And But how do you predict the unpredictable? We start with gains from the past.



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Symbol that inspires jnana




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Spiritual journey




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Solvent and Stoichiometry-dependent Versatile Organogelation and Robust Crystallization from Supramolecular Association of Adipic Acid and Triethanolamine

New J. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00559G, Paper
Gerald Lepcha, Indrajit Pal, Santanu Majumdar, Yogesh Dhasmana, Sanjay Mondal, Ennio Zangrando, Deepak Chopra, Biswajit Dey
Supramolecular self-assembly directed two unique organogels were achieved through varying gel-immobilized solvents. One gel is comprised of adipic acid (ADP) and triethanolamine (TEA) in pure dimethylformamide medium (i.e., ADP-TEA-DMF), while...
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A rapid and selective “on-off” fluorescence detection of lethal pulmonary agent phosgene with theoretical approach: a cost-effective sensing tool for household bleach and soil analysis

New J. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00774C, Paper
Malavika S. Kumar, Malay Dolai, Avijit Kumar Das
A fluorescent probe, 4-(di-phenylamino)-benzaldehyde oxime (DPBO), has been developed comprising of 4-(diphenylamino) benzaldehyde as the fluorophore and hydroxyl amine, where the resutant oxime group leads to the formation of a...
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Ligand-assisted solvothermal precipitation synthesis of quantum-sized SnO2 nanoparticles and their application in quantum dot light emitting diodes

New J. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00811A, Paper
Jiaxin Gao, Mengxin Liu, Xinan Shi, Daocheng Pan
Quantum dot-light emitting diodes with an external quantum efficiency of 12.9% are fabricated based on quantum sized SnO2 nanoparticles as electron transportation layers.
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Impact of Cr doping on the structural and optoelectronic properties of a CsPbIBr2 perovskite solar cell

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7205-7212
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00681J, Paper
M. I. Khan, Ali Mujtaba, Saddam Hussain, Asif Hussain, Dalil Bulayis N AlResheedi, Zainab Mufarreh Elqahtani, El Sayed Yousef, Norah Alwadai
The Cr–CsPbIBr2 device showed enhanced performance, with increased grain size, reduced energy band gap, and elevated efficiency from 9.64% to 12.06%.
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Research progress of Co-based spinel oxide materials for direct methanol fuel cells

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7148-7167
DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ05431D, Paper
Zhiyang Zhong, Qinghui Zhang, Yingying Zhu, Bingyu Chen, Siyan Xu, Tianyu Shen, Aijuan Xie, Shiping Luo
With decades of research, both the synthesis and applications of spinels have achieved greatly increased development. The preparation, regulation strategies, and their application in MOR of Co based spinels are reviewed in this paper.
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Effects of silylene ligands on the catalytic activity of [PSiP] pincer cobalt(II) chloride for N2 silylation

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7334-7339
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00883A, Paper
Min Zhang, Yanhong Dong, Qingshuang Li, Xiaoyan Li, Hongjian Sun
Three silyl [PSiP] pincer cobalt(II) chlorides [(2-Ph2PC6H4)2MeSiCo(Cl)(PMe3)] (1), [(2-iPr2PC6H4)2MeSiCo(Cl)(PMe3)] (2) and [(2-Ph2PC6H4)2MeSiCo(Cl)(LSi:)] (LSi: = {PhC(NtBu)2}SiCl) (3) were used as catalysts for dinitrogen silylation was studied.
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Vacancy engineering modulates spin polarization to enhance the charge dynamics of CuIn5S8 for photocatalytic sterilization

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7394-7404
DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ05482A, Paper
Wenbin Wu, Jing Wang, Xiaojie Liang, Laixi Luo, Yaohong Yang, Fan Zhou, Shuduan Deng, Yumin Song, Le Yang, Kunyong Kang
Photocatalytic sterilization technology is a strategy that is environmentally friendly for killing drug-resistant bacteria using solar energy.
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Evaluation of the antiepileptic activity of hesperidin by fluorescence imaging

New J. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00801D, Paper
Yan Yin, Wenhui Song, Yinhu Ai, Weiying Lin
Evaluation of the antiepileptic activity of hesperidin via near-infrared fluorescence imaging based on viscosity.
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Enhanced photocatalytic activity of carbon nitride nanosheets with alkali metal ion doping

New J. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ01210K, Paper
Xinhang Sun, Gang Zhao, Songyuan Li, Mingju Huang, Junhui Liu
Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants is one of the most promising strategies for addressing environmental issues associated with wastewater from textile and other dyeing industries. Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has emerged...
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Facile synthesis of spiro-pyrazolone-tetrahydrofurans/pyrans: ipso-cyclization of arylidene pyrazolones with haloalcohols

New J. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00447G, Paper
Kavyashree Kuppayya Gond, Mahagundappa Rachappa Maddani
Facile synthesis of spiro-pyrazolone-tetrahydrofurans & pyrans by base-mediated cascade ipso-cyclization of haloalcohols & arylidine pyrazolones is realised. Features include brief reaction time, practicality, good yields and mild reaction conditions.
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Ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid-mediated green method for synthesis of 1,3-diphenylpyrazole-based spirooxindolopyrrolizidines, their anti-tubercular activity, molecular docking study and ADME predictions

New J. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00563E, Paper
Sravanthi Baddepuri, G. Rama Krishna, Jyothi Kumari, Sriram Dharmarajan, Srinivas Basavoju
The aim of the study is to develop the synthesis of a novel series of potent anti-tubercular (anti-TB) activity of 1,3-diphenylpyrazole-based spirooxindolopyrrolizidine derivatives via an efficient green approach achieved by...
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Updates to the Google Photos APIs: Picker API launch and Library API changes

The new Picker API enables secure photo selection, while the Library API will focus on managing photos and videos uploaded by your application.




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Now in Developer Preview: Enhancing Chat with the Google Chat API

The Google Chat API has been launched, allowing developers to build Chat apps that enable real-time collaboration between Google Chat and other systems.




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Bringing AI Agents to production with Gemini API

AgentOps uses the Gemini API to provide cost-effective and powerful LLM-powered agent observability for enterprises.




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Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search

Grounding with Google Search for the Gemini API and Google AI Studio enhances the accuracy and freshness of Gemini's responses by leveraging Google Search data.




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Sugar and spice and all things nice

Whether it’s food, décor or crafts, the second edition of The Gourmet Bazaar has a great range of stuff on offer




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English dystopian thriller ‘Edgar and Annabel’ comes to Chennai

British playwright Sam Holcroft’s Edgar and Annabel, a dystopian story of dissenters fighting against the establishment, comes to Chennai, directed by Sunandha Raghunathan




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Broadway Cinemas opens in Coimbatore with IMAX Laser and EPIQ Premium Large Format screens

With state-of-the-art laser projection and 12-channel sound with EPIQ premium large format, Broadway Cinemas offers an immersive movie experience




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Drawing inspiration from cityscapes are Urban Sketchers in different Indian cities

With more than 15 chapters in India, Urban Sketchers are documenting many aspects of everyday life and architecture



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