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'I hated my film Bandish'

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Pink interview: 'To play a molested victim was difficult'

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'Abbas-Mustan never treated me like a son'

'The only time I went on set was during Badshah. I was very young at that time. After being there for about an hour, I was bored and wanted to go. I couldn't watch it again and again, the retakes.' But Mustafa Burmawalla could not stay away from the arc lights for long.





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When Salman called out to Shah Rukh Khan

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Pix: Sonam flirts with purple and red at Cannes!

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Worried about your sex life? Get tips from Sunny Leone

Relationship advice from Sunny Leone and Rannvijay Singha.





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SEE: Why Sridevi refused to work with Amitabh

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When Disha called Anil Kapoor CRAZY!

"After this film, Aditya (Roy Kapur) and Disha (Patani) are going to be major stars," Anil Kapoor assured at the trailer launch of his new film, Malang.




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PIX: Aamir-Kiran at Javed Akhtar's birthday bash

Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday celebrations started early with the unveiling of an exhibition of photographs from his life. His family also threw a retro-themed party for him at their home, and invited his friends over.







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When Your Calling Is Challenged

As hardships come, you have 1 of 3 options.

This was not how things were supposed to work out.

Every night for a year, my husband and I had prayed that God would direct us to the right place in his right timing. Based on our own prayers as well as confirmation from others, it seemed that the “right place” would be a church where Dave could serve as senior pastor, giving him more opportunities to exercise his gifts of preaching and shepherding. Now that we had two little boys, we also desired to be closer to family. We told God that we would go anywhere he led us (and we meant it!), but that we would love to end up somewhere in the southeastern United States, ideally within three hours of Dave’s parents.

We explored options around the country. We prayed, waited, and sought counsel from wise and mature believers. We continued to serve faithfully in our current ministries. We prayed and waited some more.

Twelve months later, our little family made the 1,200-mile journey from Minnesota to our new church in North Carolina—just two and a half hours from our sons’ beloved Nana and Papa—where Dave would serve as lead pastor. We felt God had clearly answered our earnest prayers, as evidenced by all sorts of confirmations that seemed like way more than coincidence. I mean, at the boarding gate for our flight home from our interview weekend, we discovered that our pilot “happened” to be a friend who first came up to Dave a year earlier and said he felt God was preparing my husband for a lead pastoral role!

We were over-the-moon excited. We felt we had come home, and we thought we’d be at that church and in that city for life.

Yet three years in, our dream situation had turned to a nightmare. Our church was slowly dying, our marriage ...

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Cation doping and strain engineering of CsPbBr3-based perovskite light emitting diodes

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01332C, Review Article
Dexin Yang, Dexuan Huo
All-inorganic cesium lead bromide demonstrates better thermal and chemical stability compared to their hybrid counterparts, and thus it can provide a base for high stability and performance of CsPbBr3-based perovskite...
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Nitrile-Substituted 2-(Oxazolinyl)-Phenols: Minimalistic Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT)-Based Fluorophores

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00776E, Paper
Dominik Göbel, Daniel Duvinage, Tim Stauch, Boris Johannes Nachtsheim
Herein, we present minimalistic single-benzene, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT)-based fluorophores as powerful solid-state emitters. The very simple synthesis gave access to all four regioisomers of nitrile-substituted 2 (oxazolinyl)-phenols (MW...
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Achieving high energy density and discharge efficiency in multi-layered PVDF–PMMA nanocomposites composed of 0D BaTiO3 and 1D NaNbO3@SiO2

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00838A, Paper
Qinzhao Sun, Jiping Wang, Lixue Zhang, Pu Mao, Shujuan Liu, Liqiang He, Fang Kang, Rong Xue
The choice of dielectric fillers and structure design play an important role in improving the energy storage properties of polymer-based nanocomposites.
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Electro-forming-free Mechanism for Cu2O Solid-electrolyte Based Conductive-bridge Random Access Memory (CBRAM)

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01325K, Paper
Ki-Hyun Kwon, Dong Won Kim, Hea-Jee Kim, SooMin Jin, Dae Seong Woo, Sang-Hong Park, Jea-Gun Park
In a CuxO solid-electrolyte-based CBRAM cell using a Ag top electrode, electro-forming-free and electro-reset processes could be achieved at a specific ex-situ annealing temperature of the solid electrolyte (i.e., 250...
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Influence of Thermally-Induced Structural Transformations over Magnetic and Luminiscence Properties of Tartrate-based Chiral Lanthanide Organic-Frameworks

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00736F, Paper
Uxua Huizi-Rayo, Andoni Zabala-Lekuona, Alessio Terenzi, Carlos M. Cruz, Juan Manuel Cuerva, Antonio Rodríguez Diéguez, José Ángel García, José M Seco, Eider San sebastian, Javier Cepeda
This work reports on the synthesis and characterization of five enantiomeric pairs of isostructural 3D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with the general formula {[Ln2(μ4-tar)2(μ-tar)(H2O)2]·xH2O}n [where Ln(III) = Tb (Tb-L and Tb-D),...
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Activation of carbon tow electrodes for use in iron aqueous redox systems for electrochemical applications

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00594K, Paper
Philipp Schröder, Noemí Aguiló-Aguayo, Andrea Auer, Christoph Griesser, Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser, Yibo Ma, Michael Hummel, Dagmar Obendorf, Thomas Bechtold
Excellent chemical inertness, good conductivity and high overpotentials for water electrolysis make carbon fibres (CFs) an ideal electrode material for electrochemical applications. A customized design of three-dimensional (3D) carbon electrodes...
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First Member of an Appealing Class of Cyclometalated 1,3-Di-(2-Pyridyl)Benzene Platinum(II) Complexes for Solution-Processable OLEDs

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01565B, Paper
Claudia Dragonetti, Francesco Fagnani, Daniele Marinotto, Armando di Biase, Dominique Roberto, Massimo Cocchi, Simona Fantacci, Alessia Colombo
The preparation and characterization of a new platinum(II) complex bearing a N^C^N-cyclometalating ligand and a thiolate coligand, namely 5-mesityl-1,3-di-(2-pyridyl)benzene and 1-phenyl-1H-tetrazole-5-thiolate, is reported. Its structure is determined by X-ray diffraction...
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All-inorganic 0D/3D Cs4Pb(IBr)6/CsPbI3-xBrx Mixed-dimensional Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Efficiency and Stability

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01832E, Paper
Zhenzhen Li, Xiaolong Liu, Jia Xu, Shujie Yang, Hang Zhao, Hui Huang, Shengzhong Liu, Jianxi Yao
The inorganic halide perovskite CsPbI3 has shown great promise in efficient solar cells. However, the α-phase CsPbI3 is thermodynamically unstable at room temperature, limiting its applications. Herein, we have successfully...
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