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Highly sensitive wearable sensor based on a flexible multi-layer graphene film antenna
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.014 2018-04-03 The use of advanced carbon nanomaterials for flexible antenna sensors has attracted great attention due to their outstanding electromechanical properties. However, carbon nanomaterial based composites have yet to overcome drawbacks, such as low conductivity a... |
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Self-template synthesis of double-layered porous nanotubes with spatially separated photoredox surfaces for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.015 2018-04-03 Improving charge carriers separation to achieve high photoconversion efficiency in heterogeneous photocatalysts is highly desirable. Herein, heterostructured ZnS@CdS double-layered porous nanotubes (PNTs), in which the spatially separated reduction and oxidat... |
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PCL2 regulates p53 stability and functions as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.012 2018-03-30 Polycomblike2 (PCL2) is a well-known component of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and plays important roles in H3K27 methylation and homeotic gene silencing. However, the involvement of PCL2 in breast cancer development remains unclear. Here, we establis... |
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Multimetallic AuPd@Pd@Pt core-interlayer-shell icosahedral electrocatalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.013 2018-03-26 Incorporating Pt with core metals into Pt-based core-shell catalysts is regarded as a promising strategy to substantially enhance the catalytic properties towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells due to the synergetic effect between distinct meta... |
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Temperature variability in Northern Iran during the past 700 years
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.011 2018-03-23
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Magnetic-field enhanced high-thermoelectric performance in topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 crystal
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.010 2018-03-21 Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduc... |
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Unveiling the charge density wave inhomogeneity and pseudogap state in 1T-TiSe2
10.1016/j.scib.2018.02.018 2018-03-21 By using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)/spectroscopy (STS), we systematically characterize the electronic structure of lightly doped 1T-TiSe2, and demonstrate the existence of the electronic inhomogeneity and the pseudogap state. It is found that the int... |
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The development of MOFs-based nanomaterials in heterogeneous organocatalysis
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.009 2018-03-20 Metal-organic framework (MOF) is a class of inorganic-organic hybrid material assembled periodically with metal ions and organic ligands. MOFs have always been the focuses in a variety of frontier fields owing to the advantageous properties, such as large BET... |
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Epitaxially grown monolayer VSe2: an air-stable magnetic two-dimensional material with low work function at edges
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.008 2018-03-20 Recent experimental breakthroughs open up new opportunities for magnetism in few-atomic-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials, which makes fabrication of new magnetic 2D materials a fascinating issue. Here, we report the growth of monolayer VSe2 by molecular b... |
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Experimental demonstration of nonlinear quantum metrology with optimal quantum state
10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.007 2018-03-20 Nonlinear quantum metrology may exhibit better precision scalings. For example, the uncertainty of an estimated phase may scale as Δϕ∝1/N2Δϕ∝1/N2 under quadratic phase accumulation, which is 1/N1/N times smaller than the linear counterpart, where N is probe n... |