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Reconstitution of Assembly Assurance Committee stirs row




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Judiciary has played a key role in ‘shaping and reshaping’ Indian society: Puducherry L-G

Speaking at the South India Conference (Puducherry) of the All India Advocate’s Federation in the Union Territory, the L-G said the judiciary is the cornerstone of India’s democracy. 




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BJP leader dismisses reports linking him to cash seizure




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Protest held against Speaker’s decision to remove legislator from Assembly panel




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Puducherry has submitted project report to Centre seeking nod for availing ₹4,750 crore loan from Asian Development Bank: CM




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Basketball stadium inaugurated in Auroville

The project, initially launched in 2018, was expedited over the last couple of years after securing essential resources and funding




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CM’s Liberation Day address was mere rhetoric, says CPI




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NGT stays public hearings in Puducherry on revised coastal zone maps




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Measures to improve traffic situation in Puducherry discussed at an inter-departmental meeting

The need to introduce paid two-wheeler parking system on Jawaharlal Nehru Street, White Town, and issues pertaining to road improvement in Puducherry were discussed.




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Puducherry Police arrest five in connection with sexual assault of minor girl




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Accused in sexual assault of minor girl remanded in judicial custody




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CPI(M) urges government to take measures to strengthen healthcare sector




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Congress demands CBI probe into temple land forgery case in Karaikal

After the Kamatchiamman Temple land grabbing case in Puducherry region, the incident of Sri Parvatheeswarar Swamy Devasthanam land forgery case has emerged in Karaikal region, says MP and PCC chief V. Vaithilingam.




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Kashmiri youth call on L-G




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How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the society they once knew. […]




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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse? Can we use words like “fascism,” for example, with fidelity to the meaning of that word in world history? The […]




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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another 23 songs, mostly hits from their large catalog of music. Originally live […]




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Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More

The term gaslight has gained so much traction in popular discourse so recently that you’d swear it was coined around 2010. In fact, that particular usage goes at least as far back as 1938, when British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton wrote a stage thriller about a husband who surreptitiously rearranges things in the house so […]




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How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years

For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The narrator of the Insider video above describes it as “the scene that set the standard for all modern car chases,” one made “iconic partly because of the characters, but also because of their cars.” The pursuer drives a Dodge […]




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Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December

F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years ago. For about ten of those years, Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it. He wouldn’t be the first: Werner Herzog cast Klaus Kinski as the blood-sucking aristocrat at the center of his own version in 1979, and, though […]




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High-Performance Photodetector based on ZnO/CsPbBr3 Quantum-dot-level-contact Hybrid Sandwich Structure

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03359K, Paper
Song Wang, Shuhua Yang, Zenglong Xu, Huiyan Xu, Guanbin Duan, Degang Zhao, Xiutong Wang, Bingqiang Cao
Perovskite quantum dot photodetectors have attracted intensive research interest due to their outstanding optical and electronic properties. However, the nonradiative recombination of photo-generated electron-hole pairs on the surface of CsPbBr3...
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Investigation of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene and 3,4-dimethoxythiophene as linkage units for multi-dimensional dimeric acceptors

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03646H, Paper
Shaohui Yuan, Baofa Lan, Xinyi Ji, Jiaying Wang, Wenkai Zhao, Guankui Long, Xiangjian Wan, Bin Kan, Yongsheng Chen
Despite the versatile processibility of three-dimensional CH8 series acceptors in efficient organic solar cells (OSCs), understanding the relationship between linkage units and performance continues to present significant challenges. To address...
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Lightweight flexible self-powered photo-supercapacitors with good stability through photoelectrochemical deposition of tellurium on PPy–V2O5 films as a new visible light active dual photoelectrode

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03090G, Paper
Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Hossein Mohammadzadeh Aydisheh, Byeong-Kyu Lee, Ali Naderi
Lightweight flexible solid-state photosupercapacitors (FSSPC) with two identical Te@PPy–V2O5 photoelectrodes showed good performance and maintained functionality under different bending angles. They also demonstrated stability from −10 °C to 50 °C.
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An efficient and stable deep-blue oxygen-bridged triphenylborane-based fluorophore with hybridized local and charge-transfer states

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17475-17481
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03114H, Paper
Jichen Lv, Jie Li, Shengnan Wang, Haoran Shen, Lifen Xia, Yuchao Liu, Shanfeng Xue, Dongge Ma, Shian Ying, Shouke Yan
A multifunctional deep-blue HLCT fluorophore with remarkable performance was developed by incorporating a boron/oxygen-based multi-resonance skeleton.
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Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells in a high boiling point solvent by introducing a highly mixed tolerant guest acceptor

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17403-17410
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03192J, Paper
Open Access
Xiangyu Shen, Xiaoning Wang, Jianxiao Wang, Rulin Wang, Yonghai Li, Fuzhen Bi, Xichang Bao
Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells were fabricated based on a highly mixed tolerant acceptor in a high boiling point solvent.
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An advanced self-powered visible-light photodetector based on the asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 junction

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17395-17402
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03510K, Paper
Zairan Liu, Gang Cao, Zhaozhi Guan, Yan Tian, Jidong Liu, Jun Chen, Shaozhi Deng, Fei Liu
An asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 self-powered photodetector exhibits greatly enhanced visible-light photosensitive performances with the help of an interfacial built-in field.
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Low-pressure hydrogen sensing mechanism based on the field emission of defect-controlled ZnO nanorods

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17419-17428
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01951B, Paper
Mingliang Dong, Weijin Qian, Youqing Tu, Guitao Chen, Weijun Huang, Haijun Luo, Changkun Dong
The work function of ZnO is reduced with H adsorbed on oxygen defects, leading to the hydrogen sensing effect.
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An aluminum-based hybrid film photoresist for advanced lithography by molecular layer deposition

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17544-17553
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02794A, Paper
Xingkun Wang, Taoli Guo, Yiyang Shan, Ou Zhang, Hong Dong, Jincheng Liu, Feng Luo
Al-based dry photoresists synthesized by molecular layer deposition (MLD) have good resolution and excellent etch resistance, so their application in photolithography is very promising.
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Melt-preparation of organic–inorganic Mn-based halide transparent ceramic scintillators for high-resolution X-ray imaging

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17411-17418
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03459G, Paper
Zhi-Zhong Zhang, Zi-Lin He, Qing-Peng Peng, Jing-Hua Chen, Bang Lan, Dai-Bin Kuang
A large size TBP2MnBr4 transparent ceramic is prepared by the melt processing method, which shows a high transmittance of >80% in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 800 nm, for realizing a high-resolution (16 lp mm−1) X-ray imaging.
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Superior energy storage performance and transparency in (K0.5Na0.5)(Nb0.97Ta0.03)O3-based ceramics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17439-17447
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03682D, Paper
Wenjing Bi, Ying Li, Juan Du, Jingwen Sun, Zhe Wang, Wenna Chao, Jigong Hao, Peng Fu, Peng Li, Wei Li
Strongly relaxed ferroelectric KNN-based ceramics with nano-domains are developed, and synergistic enhancement with a large Wrec and good transparency is realized.
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Design of lithium disilicate glass-ceramic based highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter for dynamic laser illumination

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17533-17543
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03186E, Paper
Yusai Xu, Qianxiong Wen, Xidong Wang, Cong Zhao, Enrou Mei, Meilin Fu, Tengfei Tian, Xiaojuan Liang, Wenxia Gao, Weidong Xiang
In this study, a novel lithium disilicate glass-ceramic was developed as a glass matrix for a highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter, enabling efficient dynamic laser illumination.
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Fabrication of effect pigments with full visible photonic crystal colors via the shear-induced assembly of multinary colloidal nanoparticles

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17695-17703
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02761B, Paper
Qilin Guo, Huateng Li, Xiuli Wang, Changchun Wang
An efficient shear-induced co-assembly strategy is provided for creating full-spectrum tunable structural color materials and complex photonic nanostructures by handily manipulating varied relative ratios of multinary colloidal nanoparticles.
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Cuprous-based layered single-crystalline scintillators for X-ray detection and imaging

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17587-17594
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03080J, Paper
Yuke Zhao, Danping Chen, Haitao Tang, Hailin Liu, Yong Liu, Yangyang Dang, Qianqian Lin
A new metal halide single crystal (C6H10N2)2Cu2I3(PO2)3 was demonstrated. The optical and X-ray properties of (C6H10N2)2Cu2I3(PO2)3 were fully characterized and evaluated, which demonstrated great potential for X-ray detection and imaging.
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n-Type redox-tuneable conducting polymer optical nanoantennas

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17469-17474
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03038A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Suraya Kazi, Pravallika Bandaru, Haoran Tang, Yulong Duan, Shangzhi Chen, Fei Huang, Magnus P. Jonsson
We show that the n-type conducting polymer PBFDO can be optically metallic for wavelengths above around 695 nm after post-treatment, and that nanostructures of the material can act as optical nanoantennas that are dynamically switchable.
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Online and offline learning using fading memory functions in HfSiOx-based ferroelectric tunnel junctions

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17362-17376
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03397C, Communication
Jungwoo Lee, Chaewon Youn, Jungang Heo, Sungjun Kim
We demonstrate online and offline learning as well as associative learning such as in Pavlov's dog experiments using the non-volatile and volatile properties of HfSiOx-based FTJs.
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Correction: Charge transfer properties of novel linear carbon chain-based dyes

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17704-17704
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC90100B, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Giuseppe Consiglio, Adam Gorczyński, Salvatore Petralia, Giuseppe Forte
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Highly sensitive OFET based room temperature operated gas sensors using a thieno[3,2-b]thiophene extended phthalocyanine semiconductor

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03208J, Paper
Recep Isci, Ozgur Yavuz, Sheida Faraji, Dilara Gunturkun, Mehmet Eroglu, Leszek A. Majewski, Ismail Yilmaz, Turan Ozturk
A novel thienothiophene (TT) and phthalocyanine (Pc) based conjugated material was designed, synthesized, fabricated for an organic field effect transistor (OFET) and utilized as an OFET based gas sensor for hazardous gases such as NO2 and SO2.
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Strain and U driven phase transitions in monolayer intrinsic ferrovalley NbIn2As2Se2

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03637A, Paper
Jiajun Zhu, Heyun Zhao, Wanbiao Hu
Strain and U value driven topological phase transitions in monolayer NbIn2As2Se2.
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Shear-Structured Piezoelectric Accelerometers based on KNN Lead-Free Ceramics for Vibration Monitoring

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04292A, Communication
Yi Ding, Yu Wang, Wenbin Liu, Yongqi Pan, Ping Yang, Dechao Meng, Ting Zheng, Jiagang Wu
The process of promoting the transition of piezoelectric devices to lead-free requires consideration from multiple dimensions, including materials, devices and processes. In the key field of vibration monitoring, there has...
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Enhanced electrical properties of lead-free sodium potassium niobate piezoelectric ceramics prepared via cold sintering assisted sintering

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04031G, Paper
Yao Huang, Xinyue Song, Renbing Sun, Hai Jiang, Peng Du, Laihui Luo
The CSAS method can increase the density of the ceramics and reduce the volatilization of the A-site elements, thus changing the phase structure of the ceramics and making them high piezoelectric properties.
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Temperature and locomotion dual self-sensing soft robot based on liquid crystal polymer foams

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03668A, Paper
Shuyun Zhuo, Jie Jiang, Yaru Ma, Yiming Chen, Yue Zhao
Stimuli-triggered actuation and capability of sensing are two important prerequisites for self-sensing soft robots. Currently, liquid crystal polymer (LCP) based soft robots face difficulties in balancing the actuation and sensing...
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Recent advances in plasma etching for micro and nano fabrication of silicon-based materials: a review

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC00612G, Review Article
Chaojiang Li, Yuxin Yang, Rui Qu, Xun Cao, Guodong Liu, Xin Jin, Yuxuan Liu, Shenggui Liu, Wang Jiang, Xianchao Zhang
This review provides the mechanism, simulation, chemistries and processes employed in the plasma etching of silicon-based materials. Current applications and research prospects in plasma etching for micro and nanofabrication are discussed.
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Tailoring electromagnetic interference shielding, electrical and thermal properties of poly(vinylidene fluoride) based hybrid nanocomposites with carbon nanofiber and magnetite nanoparticles

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02880E, Paper
Aleena Sabu, Sabarish Narayanan B. B, Pratheep Kumar Annamalai, Ramanujam Brahmadesam Thoopul Srinivasa Raghava
Flexible polymer nanocomposite films hold great potential for microwave absorption applications and their electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE) can be tailored by optimising the electrical properties such as conductivity....
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Study on the time-resolved detection performance of β-Ga2O3-based SBUV photodetectors: surface chemical analysis and the impacts of non-VO factors

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03701D, Paper
Zeming Li, Rensheng Shen, Wancheng Li, Teng Jiao, Yuchun Chang, Hongwei Liang, Xiaochuan Xia, Baolin Zhang
The sub-intense component in the XPS O 1s spectra of β-Ga2O3 is not associated with oxygen vacancies, the intrinsic indirect bandgap and the surface traps contribute to the extension of the response and recovery times of β-Ga2O3-based PDs.
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Light-induced magnetic switching in a coumarin-based Tb Single Molecule Magnet

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03152K, Paper
Open Access
Elena Bartolomé, Ana Arauzo, Javier Luzón, Laura Gasque
We present the intriguing magneto-optical properties of the lanthanide complex [Tb(coum)3(batho)]·0.7EtOH], named Tb-batho, based on coum = 3-acetyl-4-hydroxylato-coumarin and batho = bathophenanthroline ligands. Tb-batho displays visible-range luminescence with a notable...
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Influence of a diketopyrrolopyrrole spacer on the ultrafast nonlinear optical properties and excited state dynamics of dimeric zinc porphyrin molecules

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03281K, Paper
Rahul Murali, Chinmoy Biswas, Sudhanshu Kumar Nayak, Hanping Wu, Xiaobin Peng, Vipin Kumar, Prabhakar Chetti, Venugopal Rao Soma, Sai Santosh Kumar Raavi
This work highlights the significance of adding a DPP unit to the zinc-porphyrin core with ethynylene bridges to enhance third-order NLO properties under femtosecond laser excitation.
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Has the perovskite LED stability problem been solved?

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02975E, Perspective
Muhammad Umair Ali, Atta Ur Rehman, Aleksandra B. Djurišić
T 50 lifetimes of green PeLEDs reported in the literature vary widely even for very efficient devices. Standardization of stability testing and prolonged testing time instead of T50 estimates from accelerated testing is needed for consistent progress.
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Fast synthesis of nickel phosphide nanosheets for ultra-stable hydrogen evolution in seawater splitting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03004D, Paper
Weiwu Chen, Feng Lin, Chong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang, Zhaojun Qin
The short synthesis time, great catalytic activity, and ultra-long-term stability make Co–Ni5P4-5m a suitable candidate in actual applications of seawater splitting for hydrogen.
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High-performance circularly polarized photodetectors based on chiral transfer of achiral poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene)

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03735A, Paper
Xiaocheng Wu, Junjie Liu, Yunhao Xu, Longzhen Qiu, Xiaohong Wang
High-performance circularly polarized photodetectors with photocurrent asymmetry factor (|gph|) as high as 0.58 were prepared by a blending-induced chiral transfer method.
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Enhanced performance of a Mg2Si/Si heterojunction photodetector grown with the assistance of nanostructures

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04029E, Paper
Hang Yu, Jun Gou, Yanshuai Zhang, Xiutao Yang, Gaoyun Zhang, Lixin Liu, He Yu, Zhiming Wu, Jun Wang
This graph shows a Mg2Si/Si heterojunction photodetector fabricated with the assistance of nanostructures, enabling enhanced optoelectronic performance with a 173–402% improvement in responsivity and a 111–281% improvement in specific detectivity.
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