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Phytochemicals protect L02 cells against hepatotoxicity induced by emodin via the Nrf2 signaling pathway

Toxicol. Res., 2019, 8,1028-1034
DOI: 10.1039/C9TX00220K, Paper
Yan Yan, Kang Wang, Xu Tang, Jun-feng Gao, Bin-yu Wen
Dihydromyricetin (DMY), hyperoside and silybin are phytochemicals that belong to a class called flavonoids, and they have been used in liver protection pharmaceutical preparations, but the specific mechanism of these chemicals is still unclarified.
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Benzoquinone alters the lipid homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Toxicol. Res., 2019, 8,1035-1041
DOI: 10.1039/C9TX00139E, Paper
Abhishek Raj, Vasanthi Nachiappan
BQ exposure inhibited cell growth, increased the ROS-mediated apoptosis, and altered the phospholipids that resulted in membrane proliferation.
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Cytotoxic effect of silica nanoparticles against hepatocellular carcinoma cells through necroptosis induction

Toxicol. Res., 2019, 8,1042-1049
DOI: 10.1039/C9TX00240E, Paper
Yuexiang Niu, Engong Tang, Qingan Zhang
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common cancer that affects people worldwide with high morbidity and mortality, and its resistance to current chemotherapeutic drugs is a serious concern.
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The protective effect of thymoquinone on tert-butylhydroquinone induced cytotoxicity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells

Toxicol. Res., 2019, 8,1050-1056
DOI: 10.1039/C9TX00235A, Paper
Zahra Karimi, Maryam Ghaffari, Jafar Ezzati Nazhad Dolatabadi, Parvin Dehghan
2-tert-Butyl-4-hydroquinone (TBHQ) is used for inhibition of oxidative rancidity in the food industry.
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Central Board of Direct Taxes amends Rule 44G of Income-tax Rules 1962

It also states that if a resolution is arrived, the same shall be communicated to the assessee, who shall communicate his acceptance or non-acceptance within 30 days




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AIIB extends $500 mn loan to India to deal with coronavirus crisis

The bank's board of directors has approved a loan to India to strengthen the preparedness of the country's national health system




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India's credit profile to face further pressure due to Covid-19: Moody's

Moody's rating on the government of India is Baa2 with negative outlook




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Franklin Templeton issues apology to Sebi for global chief's remarks

Stung by the comments made by the global chief, market regulator on Thursday issued a press release defending the new rules it introduced in October last year




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SC's struggles with 'unruly horse' of public policy in foreign awards

The Nafed-Alimenta judgment shows it might perhaps be time for Parliament to intervene and clarify the notion of public policy in the context of foreign arbitral awards




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Nomura predicts Indian GDP to contract by 5.2% in FY21, more rate cuts

Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect the Indian economy to contract 0.4 per cent in FY21 versus consensus median 2.7 per cent




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Only 13% of industrial units resume ops after Odisha eases lockdown

Micro units in the state have not been able to resume operations to catch up with their larger peers




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Amarinder Singh asks administration to ensure welfare of migrant workers

The chief minister asked the industry ministry to "aggressively" pursue the development of the four industrial parks already announced by the state government in the budget for this fiscal.




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Moody's pegs FY21 GDP growth at 0%, says upgrade unlikely in near term

The rapid and widening spread of the Covid-19, deteriorating global economic outlook, falling oil prices, and financial market turmoil are creating a severe and extensive economic and financial shock




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Export contraction in April could surpass March's steep 25-year decline

Major forex earning sectors cite lack of labour, funds and key supplies




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Govt hikes market borrowing limit by over 50% to Rs 12 trillion

The government resorts to market borrowing to make up for the mismatch between its revenue and expenditure.




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Vizag gas leak: NGT orders LG Polymers to deposit Rs 50 cr pending probe

NGT bench set up fact-finding committee, to be headed by former AP High Court judge




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Gujarat eases labour laws, offers land to firms shifting base from China

The state government also offered land and infrastructure for companies and projects that were looking to shift base from China to other destinations




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CBDT orders tax officials to not issue scrutiny notices to taxpayers

Move comes after a group of IRS created panic and tax policy uncertainty




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Govt must work to revive consumption, not worry about rating: Rahul Gandhi

Congress wants lockdown lifted across country on May 18, save hotspots; Gandhi urges Centre to make citizens 'psychologically' prepared to for lockdown exit




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Govt hikes borrowing limit by over 50% to Rs 12 trn as virus grips economy

Sources say the Centre has asked RBI to do whatever to keep yields in check, which may result in massive secondary market bond purchases




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HC orders closure of Liquor shops in Tamil Nadu, allows online sales

The opening of shops in districts, except Chennai on May 7, has resulted in people thronging the outlets without maintaining social distancing norms




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Lockdown period not to be counted for determining residency of NRIs: CBDT

There were apprehensions that this extended stay could lead to these individuals becoming Indian residents as per Section 6 of the Income Tax Act




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Working closely with states on labour reforms to help industry: Centre

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) suggested to the Labour Ministry to "direct workers to join back to their workplace" by issuing a circular




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Covid-19 lockdown effect: Every second Indian now on internet in cities

The data released by Nielsen and the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) shows that internet usage has grown sharply in cities over the last one month, touching 54 per cent




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Additional borrowing to widen fiscal deficit, but help govt perk up economy

He did not think that the move will crowd out borrowings of the private sector, saying demand of the government and the private sector are not contradictory in these circumstances




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FM to discuss credit flow to NBFCs, businesses with banks on Monday

The FM will take stock of the credit sanction and disbursement by the banks since March 1, 2020, and the Covid-19-related emergency credit lines opened by the lenders




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Ministry of Defence inks Rs 1,200 cr contract to boost electronics sector

The deal, Modernisation of Air Field Infrastructure Phase 2 (MAFI-2), follows from an earlier contract, called MAFI-1, which TPSED won in 2011 to upgrade 30 IAF airfields.




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Lockdown worsening poverty levels among workers in informal economy: ILO

In high-income countries, relative poverty levels among informal workers are estimated to increase by 52 percentage points




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Assam latest to go for labour reforms, plans raising work hours by 50%

Unlike other BJP-ruled states, it isn't doing away with most existing laws, but seeks to introduce fixed-term employment to facilitate direct hiring of contract labour by firms




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UP steps up efforts to reach out to 74 global firms looking to exit China

European Business Group hails covid-19-induced labour reforms in UP; state goes online to connect with five nations and companies like Microsoft, Dow and IBM and showcase investment opportunities




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Miners want mandatory capex rule relaxed as workers stay away fearing Covid

None of the merchant mines in Odisha whose lease validity expired by March 31 has been able to restart. Though the successful bidders have got LoI, they awaiting formal vesting orders




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Probing permanent dipoles in CdSe nanoplatelets with transient electric birefringence

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00884B, Paper
Ivan Dozov, Claire Goldmann, Patrick Davidson, Benjamin Abécassis
Transient electric birefringence experiments with colloidal suspensions of zinc-blende CdSe semiconducting nanoplatelets prove that these particles bear a large ground-state electric dipole despite the cubic structure of bulk zinc-blende CdSe.
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Release of graphene-related materials from epoxy-based composites: characterization, quantification and hazard assessment in vitro

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10245K, Paper
Open Access
Woranan Netkueakul, Daria Korejwo, Tobias Hammer, Savvina Chortarea, Patrick Rupper, Oliver Braun, Michel Calame, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Tina Buerki-Thurnherr, Peter Wick, Jing Wang
We measured the cytotoxicity of pristine GRMs and the abraded particles from epoxy/GRM composites, which indicated low risks to consumers of such composites.
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RGD functionalized chitosan nanoparticle mediated targeted delivery of raloxifene selectively suppresses angiogenesis and tumor growth in breast cancer

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10673A, Paper
Amit S. Yadav, N. Naga Venkata Radharani, Mahadeo Gorain, Anuradha Bulbule, Dattatrya Shetti, Gaurab Roy, Thejus Baby, Gopal C. Kundu
Peptide functionalized pH sensitive raloxifene-chitosan nanoparticles with high biocompatibility synergistically inhibit tumor growth and angiogenesis in breast cancer.
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Efficient sub-15 nm cubic-phase core/shell upconversion nanoparticles as reporters for ensemble and single particle studies

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02172E, Paper
Meiling Tan, Melissa-Jane Monks, Dingxin Huang, Yongjun Meng, Xuewen Chen, Ying Zhou, Shuang-Fang Lim, Christian Würth, Ute Resch-Genger, Guanying Chen
A set of sub-15 nm ytterbium-enriched α-NaYbF4:Er3+@CaF2 core/shell upconversion nanoparticles have been developed for both ensemble- and single particle-level imaging studies, presenting a high quantum yield of 0.77% at a low saturation power density of 110 W cm−2.
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Conductive-bridging random-access memories for emerging neuromorphic computing

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01671C, Review Article
Jun-Hwe Cha, Sang Yoon Yang, Jungyeop Oh, Shinhyun Choi, Sangsu Park, Byung Chul Jang, Wonbae Ahn, Sung-Yool Choi
This review covers CBRAM-based artificial synapses and neurons towards emerging computing applications from the operation principles of CBRAMs to state-of-the-art experimental demonstrations.
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Dual-sensitized Upconversion-assisted, Triple-band Absorbing Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01008A, Paper
Sung Kyung Nam, Kiwon Kim, Ji-Hwan Kang, Jun Hyuk Moon
Luminescent solar concentrator-photovoltaic systems (LSC-PV) harvest solar light by using transparent photoluminescent plates, which is expected to be particularly useful for building-integrated PV applications. LSC panels that absorb multiple wavelength...
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Dy2@C79N: A New Member of Dimetalloazafullerenes with Strong Single Molecular Magnetism

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02519D, Paper
Yuanyuan Wang, Jin Xiong, Jie Su, Zi-Qi Hu, Fang Ma, Rong Sun, Xue-You Tan, Hao-Ling Sun, Bingwu Wang, Zujin Shi, Song Gao
Enhancing the exchange interaction between magnetic ions is a long-term target in molecular magnetism. Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) provide a possibility for achieving such a goal by imprisoning multiple magnetic centers...
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Multi-praseodymium-and-tungsten bridging octameric tellurotungstate and its 2D honeycomb composite film for detecting estrogen

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01901A, Paper
Yan Zhang, Jun JIang, Yifan Liu, Pan Li, Yong Liu, Lijuan Chen, Junwei Zhao
Under coordination driving force of tungsten and rare-earth (RE) bridges, we synthesized a novel giant multi-tungsten-and-RE—bridging octameric tellurotungstate (TT) [H2N(CH3)2]16K8Na6H10[Pr8(H2O)20W16O48][B-α-TeW9O33]8·70H2O (1) in CH3CN-H2O mixed solvent. The cluster anion {[Pr8(H2O)20W16O48][B-α-TeW9O33]8}40– features...
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Wrinkle-induced highly conductive channels in graphene on SiO2/Si substrate

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01406K, Paper
Ruisong Ma, Jiajun Ma, Jiahao Yan, Liangmei Wu, Wei Guo, Shuai Wang, Qing Huan, Lihong Bao, Sokrates T Pantelides, Hong-Jun Gao
Graphene wrinkle is a quasi-one-dimensional structure and can alter the intrinsic physical and chemical activity, modify the band structure and introduce transport anisotropy in graphene thin films. However, their quasi-one-dimensional...
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Plasma-assisted filling electron beam lithography for high throughput patterning of large area closed polygon nanostructures

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01032D, Paper
You Sin Tan, Hailong Liu, Qifeng Ruan, Hao Wang, Joel K. W. Yang
The PFEBL process allows enhancement of electron beam writing efficiency for patterning of closed polygon structures using a post-exposure plasma treatment.
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Mechanistic Insight in Site-selective and Anisotropic Etching of Prussian Blue Analogues toward Designable Complex Architectures for Efficient Energy Storage

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02241A, Paper
Hai Xu, Xi Zhao, Chenyang Yu, Yue Sun, Zengyu Hui, Ruicong Zhou, Jialu Xue, Henghan Dai, Yue Zhao, Lumin Wang, Yujiao Gong, Jin Yuan Zhou, Jianing An, Qiang Chen, Gengzhi Sun, Wei Huang
Engineering coordination compounds, e.g., prussian blue (PB) and its analogues (PBAs), with designable complex nanostructures via chemical etching holds great opportunities for improving energy storage performances by adjusting topological geometry,...
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Correction: Anomalous polarization dependence of Raman scattering and crystallographic orientation of black phosphorus

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR90098B, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Jungcheol Kim, Jae-Ung Lee, Jinhwan Lee, Hyo Ju Park, Zonghoon Lee, Changgu Lee, Hyeonsik Cheong
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Pristine Graphene Induces Innate Immune Training

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR09661B, Paper
Filipa Lebre, John B Boland, Pedro Gouveia, Aoife Gorman, Mimmi Lundahl, Fergal J O'Brien, Jonathan N Coleman, Ed Lavelle
Graphene-based materials are of increasing interest for their potential use in biomedical applications. However, there is a need to gain a deeper understanding of how graphene modulates biological responses before...
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Spin-coated fluorinated PbS QD superlattice thin film with high hole mobility

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02299C, Paper
Pan Xia, Daniel Davies, Bijal Patel, Maotong Qin, Zhiming Liang, Kenneth R Graham, Ying Diao, Ming Lee Tang
Motivated by the oleophobic and electron-withdrawing nature of perfluorocarbons, we explore the effect of a trifluoromethyl coating on lead sulfide quantum dots (PbS QDs) in thin film transistor (TFT) geometry....
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Functional nanoarrays for investigating stem cell fate and function

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9306-9326
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10963C, Review Article
Jin-Ho Lee, Jeffrey Luo, Hye Kyu Choi, Sy-Tsong Dean Chueng, Ki-Bum Lee, Jeong-Woo Choi
An overview of the recent progress of nanoarray synthesis and applications for controlling stem cell fate and monitoring live cell functions.
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Realization of high-quality optical nanoporous gradient-index filters by optimal combination of anodization conditions

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9404-9415
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10526C, Paper
Cheryl Suwen Law, Siew Yee Lim, Lina Liu, Andrew D. Abell, Lluis F. Marsal, Abel Santos
High-quality nanoporous anodic alumina gradient-index filters are realized by sinusoidal pulse anodization under optimized anodization conditions.
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Self-responsive co-delivery system for remodeling tumor intracellular microenvironment to promote PTEN-mediated anti-tumor therapy

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9392-9403
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00563K, Paper
Yifei Wang, Ruiting Wang, Sixuan Wu, Jingyi An, Yan Liang, Lin Hou, Zhenzhong Zhang
Delivering the pten gene into tumor cells to reacquire PTEN functionality is considered to be an attractive method for cancer treatment.
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Boosting the photocatalytic CO2 reduction of metal–organic frameworks by encapsulating carbon dots

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9533-9540
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01696A, Paper
Shumin Li, Kang Ji, Meng Zhang, Cangshuang He, Jin Wang, Zhengquan Li
Small carbon dots as cocatalysts were loaded in MOF particles for CO2 reduction and their location effect was explored.
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Ionic liquid assisted preparation and modulation of the photoluminescence kinetics for highly efficient CsPbX3 nanocrystals with improved stability

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9569-9580
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00579G, Paper
Ting Chen, Yanqiao Xu, Zhixiang Xie, Weihui Jiang, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang
A facile approach was performed to synthesize CsPbBr3 NCs with the assistance of ionic liquid [Bmim]Br, which could modulate the surface property and enhace the stability of NCs effectively.
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