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Who's The MOST FASHIONABLE In Bigg Boss 16? VOTE!

Is Priyanka Chahar Choudhary your favourite? Or Soundarya Sharma? Or Tina Datta?





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Tackle those exam blues

Students of Delhi University talk about how they will face the semester exams.




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Rajinikanth: Behind a blockbuster life

Vaasanthi’s latest biography pieces together Rajinikanth’s personal and political journey: From his beedi flipping stunts as a bus conductor to his fall from grace as a politician




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‘You go to meet the prime minister and all you can talk about is my bluddy swimming pool?’

When prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was lectured on free market economics, and cornered about the luxury addition in Satish Sharma’s farmhouse




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Worried about post-Olympics blues? These podcasts promise to keep the flame alive

Inspired by the Tokyo Olympics, here is a round-up of podcasts that celebrate sports and those who devote their lives to the pursuit of sporting greatness




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‘A Death in Shonagachhi’: A world neither black, white nor grey

Rijula Das’s debut novel is a hard-hitting portrayal of life and death in the red light district




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Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up scale the highest summit in the world




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Oscars 2017: The 10 Most Memorable Moments

Raja Sen lists the highlights from the 89th annual Academy Awards.




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Oscars 2018: The 10 Most Memorable Moments

Here are our top 10 moments from this year's Oscars.





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Rihanna Dresses Up For Black Panther

Black Panther returns to our lives with Wakanda Forever, a new installment in the hit superhero franchise.




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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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The Oscars Are Not Always Predictable

In the biggest surprise of the night, Emma Stone grabbed the Best Actress trophy for the complex portrayal of a Frankenstein-like character Bella, in Yargos Lanthimos' electrifying and most original film Poor Things. Aseem Chhabra recaps the 96th Annual Academy Awards.




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Fluorescent probe to quantify lipid-derived electrophiles in edible oils

Analyst, 2024, 149,5255-5264
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00780H, Paper
Lucille Kuster, Priscilia Diane Mamboundou, Asma Boushih, Yasmine Rassi, Alexandre Benoît, Samuel Parent-Vézina, Michel Lord-St-Vincent, Jean-Philippe Guillemette, Mathieu Frenette
Edible oils oxidize in air to form a variety of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl containing products collectively called ‘lipid-derived electrophiles’. A commercially available “turn-on” fluorescent probe 7-mercapto-4-methylcoumarin is used to quantify ‘electrophilic content’ in oil-containing foods.
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A rapid and ultrasensitive paper sensor for Bacillus cereus Haemolysin BL detection

Analyst, 2024, 149,5243-5254
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00813H, Paper
Chunhao Wei, Xinxin Xu, Lingling Guo, Aihua Qu, Aihong Wu, Chuanlai Xu, Hua Kuang
LFIA has been successfully applied to actual sample detection for Hbl B and L2, with an LOD of 1 ng mL−1.
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Analysis of blue and green REACH compliant tattoo inks

Analyst, 2024, 149,5329-5335
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00793J, Paper
Kelli Moseman, Sasha Noble, Sage Sanders, Huiyuan Guo, John R. Swierk
REACH legislation in Europe has banned the use of Pigment Blue 15:3 and Pigment Green 7 in tattoo inks and permanent makeups and requires all labels include an accurate list of ingredients.
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Automatic detection of fluorescent droplets for droplet digital PCR: a device capable of processing multiple microscope images

Analyst, 2024, 149,5213-5224
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01028K, Paper
Kaihao Mao, Ye Tao, Wenshang Guo, Qisheng Yang, Meiying Zhao, Xiangyu Meng, Yinghao Zhang, Yukun Ren
An automated microscope image detection device (A-MMD) is designed to detect fluorescent droplets in droplet digital PCR images captured by multiple microscopes.
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A highly sensitive and reproducible fluorescence sensor for continuously measuring hydrogen peroxide at the sub-ppm level

Analyst, 2024, 149,5353-5359
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00975D, Paper
Yang Yang, Rui Jiang, En-lai Yang, Jiahao Liang, Ying Xu, Xu-dong Wang
Highly sensitive and reversible fluorescence H2O2 sensor with a limit of detection of 0.02 ppm had been developed. The sensor responded rather fast, had high stability, and can be massively produced with good batch-to-batch consistency.
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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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In situ study of the interactions between metal surfaces and cationic surfactant corrosion inhibitors by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy coupled with visible spectroscopy

Analyst, 2024, 149,5372-5380
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00861H, Paper
Open Access
Felix Frank, Daniela Tomasetig, Peter Nahringbauer, Wolfgang Ipsmiller, Gerd Mauschitz, Karin Wieland, Bernhard Lendl
Coupling Raman and VIS spectroscopy enables the study of AgNP aggregations induced by surfactants.
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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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Evaluating protocols for reproducible targeted metabolomics by NMR

Analyst, 2024, 149,5423-5432
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01015A, Paper
Darcy Cochran, Panteleimon G. Takis, James L. Alexander, Benjamin H. Mullish, Nick Powell, Julian R. Marchesi, Robert Powers
Evaluating how sample preparation methods and data analysis platforms impact measured metabolite concentrations underscores the need for a universal consensus in the followed approaches for metabolomics data analysis.
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Double-channel sensors for high precision measurement of methane based on a dual-path Herriott cell

Analyst, 2024, 149,5527-5534
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01107D, Paper
Hongliang Ma, Shiqi Wang, Gaoxuan Wang, Qilei Zhang, Shenlong Zha, Xueyuan Cai, Lingli Li, Pan Pan, Qiang Liu, Shengbao Zhan
A novel method combining dual-channel concentration signal averaging with detector gain optimization is proposed to improve the measurement precision and response speed of the sensor within the 1–10 second integration time.
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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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Towards high-resolution water isotope analysis in ice cores using laser ablation – cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01054J, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Eirini Malegiannaki, Pascal Bohleber, Daniele Zannoni, Ciprian Stremtan, Agnese Petteni, Barbara Stenni, Carlo Barbante, Bo M. Vinther, Vasileios Gkinis
A new micro-destructive technique for high-resolution water isotope analysis of ice samples using a Laser Ablation (LA) system coupled with a Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer (CRDS) is presented.
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Impact of valley degeneracy on the thermoelectric properties of zig-zag graphene nanoribbons with staggered sublattice potentials and transverse electric fields

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27591-27601
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03178D, Paper
David M. T. Kuo
This study investigates the band inversion of flat bands in zig-zag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using a tight-binding model.
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Unveiling distinct bonding patterns in noble gas hydrides via interference energy analysis

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP04028G, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Lucas Araujo, Marco A. C. Nascimento, Thiago M. Cardozo, Felipe Fantuzzi
SCGVB calculations show that in noble gas hydride ions NgH+ (Ng = He–Ar), energy well formation is driven by quantum interference. At equilibrium bond lengths, HeH+ and ArH+ exhibit covalent Ng+–H bonds, while NeH+ possesses a dative Ne → H+ bond.
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Structural Distortion Driven Polaronic Transport and Table-like Magnetocaloric Properties in Polycrystalline Tb0.7Sr0.3MnO3 compound

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03760J, Paper
Dipak Mazumdar, I. Das, Kalipada Das
This research mainly explores the structural, magnetic, magneto-transport, and magnetocaloric properties of the polycrystalline Tb0.7Sr0.3MnO3 compound. The results reveal a significant modification of the compound’s ground state with increasing the...
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Electronic Relaxation Pathways in Thio-Acridone and Thio-Coumarin: Two Heavy-Atom-Free Photosensitizers Absorbing Visible Light

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03720K, Paper
Open Access
Chris Acquah, Sean J. Hoehn, Sarah E. Krul, Steffen Jockusch, Shudan Yang, Sourav Kanti Seth, Eric Lee, Han Xiao, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Heavy-atom-free photosensitizers (HAF-PSs) have emerged as a new class of photosensitizers aiming to broaden their applicability and versatility across various fields of the photodynamic therapy of cancers. The strategy involves...
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Deciphering nonlinear optical properties in functionalized hexaphyrins via explainable machine learning

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03303E, Paper
Eline Desmedt, Michiel Jacobs, Mercedes Alonso, Freija De Vleeschouwer
The NLO response of hexaphyrins is traced back to its driving forces using kernel ridge regression and explainable machine learning. Orbital and charge-transfer based features play a key role, as opposed to aromaticity and geometrical descriptors.
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Identifying Winner-Takes-All Emergence in Random Nanowire Networks: an Inverse Problem

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03242J, Paper
Fábio Rangel Duarte, shardul mukim, Mauro Ferreira, Claudia Gomes da Rocha
Random nanowire networks (NWNs) are interconnects that enable the integration of nanoscopic building blocks (the nanowires) in a disorganized fashion, enabling the study of complex emergent phenomena in nanomaterials and...
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Bengaluru in shades of grey, green and blue

Jagdish Krishnaswamy, who is working on building a long-term urban ecological observatory in Bengaluru, says that blue, green, and grey infrastructure can be integrated to sustain urban biodiversity




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From Lollapalooza to the Cherry Blossom festival, here is a list of India’s top music festivals to look forward to

Missed out on the Coldplay tickets? There’s lots more coming up, starting with Maroon 5 in December. Plan for the months ahead with our line-up of the top festivals that promise thrilling performances and immersive experiences




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Durable, and ‘green’ too

If one addresses thermal comfort, the other has properties for facing the monsoon. A look at ACC Concrete’s latest offerings by Ranjani Govind



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A Beginner’s Guide to Using BlueSky for Business Success

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses are always on the lookout for new ways to connect with their audience. BlueSky, a decentralized social media platform, is quickly gaining attention as a fresh alternative to traditional platforms like Twitter and Instagram. While it's still early days for BlueSky, its unique structure offers a big opportunity for businesses to build communities and engage with users in a more transparent, user-focused way.




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Recent progress and prospects of dimer and multimer acceptors for efficient and stable polymer solar cells

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3CS00895A, Review Article
Open Access
Jin-Woo Lee, Jin Su Park, Hyesu Jeon, Seungjin Lee, Dahyun Jeong, Changyeon Lee, Yun-Hi Kim, Bumjoon J. Kim
This review summarizes the recent progress, key design principles and prospects of dimer and multimer acceptors for developing polymer solar cells (PSCs) with high efficiency and long-term stability.
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Radical reactions enabled by polyfluoroaryl fragments: photocatalysis and beyond

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3CS00889D, Review Article
Mikhail O. Zubkov, Alexander D. Dilman
The review summarizes advances in the radical chemistry of polyfluorinated arenes under photocatalytic conditions. The fluoroaryl fragment serves as enabling motif for the reaction design and efficient generation of reactive intermediates.
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