Heterogeneous integration of amorphous silicon carbide on thin film lithium niobate by Zizheng Li, Naresh Sharma, Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Roald van der Kolk, Thomas Scholte, Hugo Voncken, Jasper van der Boom, Simon Gröblacher, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh

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Impact of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis on Photosynthetic, Antioxidant Enzyme, and Water Flux Parameters in Salt-Stressed Chickpea (<i>Cicer arietinum</i>) Plants by Pooja Pooja, Sarita Devi, Sridevi Tallapragada, Yogesh K. Ahlawat, Nisha Sharma, Pankaj Kasnia, Nita Lakra, Rosa Porcel, Jose M. Mulet, Khalid M. Elhindi

“…When exposed to salinity stress, the plants exhibited decreased leaf relative water content (RWC %) (21.13–31.30%), increased leaf relative stress injury, decreased chlorophyll content (45.22–58.24%), photochemical quantum yield, photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, and stomatal conductance as compared to the control plants, but opposite results were observed in AMF colonized plants. …”
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MARVEL Analysis of the Measured High-resolution Spectra of 12C16O by Salman Mahmoud, Nayla El-Kork, Nariman Abu Elkher, Mubarak Almehairbi, Malathe Samir Khalil, Tibor Furtenbacher, Attila G. Császár, Olga P. Yurchenko, Sergey N. Yurchenko, Jonathan Tennyson

“…The measured transitions span states with vibrational and rotational quantum numbers less than or equal to 41 and 123, respectively, with the highest validated energy level lying at 67,148.1 cm ^−1 . …”
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Geometrical Distances of Extragalactic Binaries through Spectroastrometry by Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang, Yuan Cao, XueFei Chen, JianPing Xiong, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Rong-Gen Cai

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Investigation of the Performance of a Sb2S3-Based Solar Cell with a Hybrid Electron Transport Layer (h-ETL): A Simulation Approach Using SCAPS-1D Software by Pierre Gérard Darel Kond Ngue, Ariel Teyou Ngoupo, Aimé Magloire Ntouga Abena, François Xavier Abomo Abega, Jean-Marie Bienvenu Ndjaka

“…Simulation results show that the cell with MoO3 HTL achieves higher performance due to its high hole mobility and high quantum efficiency in the visible region; it also allows the solar cell to have better thermal stability (TC=−0.32%/K) than the cell with Spiro-OMeTAD HTL (TC=−0.53%/K). …”
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Experimental and computational approach on the corrosion inhibition properties of two newly pyrazole derivatives on carbon steel in acid medium by Nawal Setti, Asma Barrahi, Mohamed Maatallah, Yassine Kaddouri, Taibi Ben Hadda, Halima Outada, Abhinay Thakur, Rachid Touzani, Khalid Karrouchi, Hatem A. Abuelizz, Burak Dikici, Abdelkader Zarrouk, Ali Dafali

“…The computational results of quantum chemistry were in agreement with those acquired by experimental methods.…”
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Efficient synthesis of fluorinated triphenylenes with enhanced arene–perfluoroarene interactions in columnar mesophases by Yang Chen, Jiao He, Hang Lin, Hai-Feng Wang, Ping Hu, Bi-Qin Wang, Ke-Qing Zhao, Bertrand Donnio

“…UV–vis absorption and fluorescence emission spectroscopies reveal green photoluminescence with fluorescence quantum yields of up to 33% for the Fn derivatives. …”
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Codicology in Lithuania in 1918-1990: Between Book History and Palaeography by Rima Cicėnienė

“…This was also the time when the discipline of codicology in Western Europe underwent a quantum leap - with the birth of the term codicology and the emphasis on its distinction from palaeography. …”
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One-pot green synthesis of BSA-capped O-CQDs as an effective fluorescent sensing platform for sensitive and selective detection of promethazine drug by S. Viji, A. Dinesh, K. Radhakrishnan, L. Srimathi Priya, C. Sivasankari, Madhappan Santhamoorthy, Manikandan Ayyar, V. Mohanavel, Mohamed Hashem, Hassan Fouad, G. Ramachandran, S. Santhoshkumar

“…This work reports on bovine serum albumin (BSA)-capped oxygen rich carbon quantum dots (O-CQDs) to improve the accuracy of promethazine sensing. …”
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Mechanism of the blood-brain barrier modulation by cadherin peptides by Elinaz Farokhi, Ahmed L. Alaofi, Vivitri D. Prasasty, Filia Stephanie, Marlyn D. Laksitorini, Krzysztof Kuczera, Teruna J. Siahaan

“…The binding properties of ADTC5, ADTC7, and ADTC9 to the extracellular-1 (EC1) domain of E-cadherin were evaluated using chemical shift perturbation (CSP) method in the two dimensional (2D) 1H-15N-heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. …”
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Assessment of salicylic acid and potassium nitrate to mitigate frost stress in autumn-sown potato crop cv. Sutlej by Muhammad Wasim Haider, Syed Mohsin Abbas, Tanveer Hussain, Muhammad Tahir Akram, Umar Farooq, Mona S. Alwahibi, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Zaid Shakeel, Muhammad Nafees, Muhammad Rizwan, Rashid Iqbal

“…This included increased plant height by 14% and 17.6%, leaf area index by 6.3% and 26.3%, shoot biomass by 15.4% and 46.2%, crop growth rate by 16.7% and 43.3%, average tuber weight by 8.2% and 23%, tuber diameter by 6.8% and 12.2%, tuber yield by 26.1% and 46.3%, leaf angle by 16.2% and 21.6%, quantum yield of photosystem II by 20.6% and 28.2%, photosynthetically active radiations by 20.5% and 32.4%, chlorophyll content by 6.3% and 14.6%, leaf thickness by 14% and 29%, linear electron flow by 20% and 32.7%, O–2 by 6% and 14.4%, H2O2 by 11.7% and 27.6%, enzyme activities of catalase by 20.7% and 28.5%, superoxide dismutase by 28.6% and 28.5%, peroxidase by 8.3% and 13.5%, ascorbate peroxidase by 17.2% and 37.8%, total protein by 21% and 37%, proline by 36.2% and 114%, and phenolic content by 33% and 63.3% with a reduction in non-photochemical quenching by 12.7% and 29.6%, non-regulatory energy dissipation by 169.5% and 268.5%, and leaf electrolyte leakage by 57.5% and 180%, compared to KNO3 and the control, respectively. …”
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Influence of Irradiance, Flow Rate, Reactor Geometry, and Photopromoter Concentration in Mineralization Kinetics of Methane in Air and in Aqueous Solutions by Photocatalytic Membra... by Ignazio Renato Bellobono, Mauro Rossi, Andrea Testino, Franca Morazzoni, Riccardo Bianchi, Giulia de Martini, Paola Maria Tozzi, Rodica Stanescu, Cristina Costache, Liliana Bobirica, Mauro Luigi Bonardi, Flavia Groppi

“…The influence of reactor geometry on k values is discussed in view of standardization procedures of photocatalytic experiments. Modeling of quantum yields, as a function of substrate concentration and irradiance, as well as of concentration of photopromoter, was carried out very satisfactorily. …”
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Towards a better understanding of biofoams: Multi-technique characterization of various tannin-furanic foams to assist in material selection for product design by Thomas Sepperer, Giulia Saccomano, Diana E. Bedolla, Raphael J.F. Berger, Primoz Šket, Elena Longo, Gregor A. Zickler, Saeed Borhani, Diego Dreossi, Lisa Vaccari, Maurizio E. Musso, Francesco D’Amico

“…The chemical characterization was performed by using NMR, FTIR and UV Raman, assisted by DFT quantum mechanics simulations. The morphological characterization was done by Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray micro-Tomography. …”
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A distinct double-ring LH1–LH2 photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph by Kazutoshi Tani, Kenji V. P. Nagashima, Risa Kojima, Masaharu Kondo, Ryo Kanno, Issei Satoh, Mai Kawakami, Naho Hiwatashi, Kazuna Nakata, Sakiko Nagashima, Kazuhito Inoue, Yugo Isawa, Ryoga Morishita, Shinichi Takaichi, Endang R. Purba, Malgorzata Hall, Long-Jiang Yu, Michael T. Madigan, Akira Mizoguchi, Bruno M. Humbel, Yukihiro Kimura, Yutaka Nagasawa, Takehisa Dewa, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo

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Optical time-lapsed in situ mechanochemical studies on metal halide perovskite systems by Yonghao Xiao, David G. Bradley, Wei Xin Chan, Xinwen Hu, Lian Xiao, Zhenpeng Liu, Zi Yang Tan, Xin Zhao, Chenfei Li, Mansour Sadek, Vikash Kumar Ravi, Ying Hern Tam, Xiaotao Wang, Felipe García, Handong Sun, Seow Chin Low, Poh Boon Phua, Tze Chien Sum, Xiuwen Zhou, Yee-Fun Lim, John V. Hanna, Han Sen Soo

“…Moreover, we can accelerate the evaluation and directly observe the effects of different synthetic strategies for enhancing the photoluminescence quantum yield and stability of the perovskites, providing near-infrared (NIR) emitting tin-based perovskites FASnI z Br3-z (where z = 0 to 3) with core-shell structures. …”
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Physicochemical and Luminescent Properties of Copolymers Composed of Three Monomers: Polythiophenes Based on 3-Hexylthiophene and 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene by Marco Antonio Ramírez-Gómez, Karla Karina Guzmán-Rabadán, Edgar González-Juárez, Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz, Jorge Enrique Alba-Rosales, Huehueteotl Panzo-Medrano, Victor Barba, Mario Rodríguez, José Luis Maldonado, Miguel Ángel Basurto-Pensado

“…Characterizations by 1H NMR, FT-IR, DSC-TGA, GPC, UV-vis, cyclic voltammetry, fluorescence quantum yield, excited state lifetime, and two-photon absorption cross-section were carried out. …”
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Structural tailoring of etoricoxib: A spectrochemical, medicinal and pharmacological study by Bakul Akter, Silvia Aishee, Abdullah Hridoy, Md. Mehedi Hasan Pulok, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Antu Biswas, Aurna Patwary, Majedul Hoque, MD. Sazidul Islam, Md. Nipatul Hasan Nirob, Faisal Islam Chowdhury, Monir Uzzaman

“…A total of 21 derivatives were designed by introducing various functioning sets at the R3, R2, and R1 sites of ETC. Quantum chemical calculations were performed to assess alterations in physicochemical properties, such as HOMO–LUMO energy gaps, electrostatic potential, enthalpy, and dipole moments. …”
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Sliding ferroelectric memories and synapses based on rhombohedral-stacked bilayer MoS2 by Xiuzhen Li, Biao Qin, Yaxian Wang, Yue Xi, Zhiheng Huang, Mengze Zhao, Yalin Peng, Zitao Chen, Zitian Pan, Jundong Zhu, Chenyang Cui, Rong Yang, Wei Yang, Sheng Meng, Dongxia Shi, Xuedong Bai, Can Liu, Na Li, Jianshi Tang, Kaihui Liu, Luojun Du, Guangyu Zhang

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Mechanism of deactivation processes of excited iron(III) thiocyanato complexes with benacen-type ligands

“…Formation of polystyrene containing bonded NCS group when irradiating the complexes in the presence of styrene monomer used as a radical scavenger indicates that the primary photoreduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) is accompanied by the oxidation of NCS<mml:math alttext="$^ - $"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mi/> <mml:mo>&#x2212;</mml:mo> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> ligand to <mml:math alttext="$^ ullet $"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mi/> <mml:mo>&#x2022;</mml:mo> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math>NCS radical. 4-R-benacen-ligands behave as an innocent moiety virtually not participating in the photoinduced redox processes. The quantum yield of Fe(II) formation <mml:math alttext="$phi _{{ext{Fe}}left( {{ext{II}}} ight)} $"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>&#x03C6;</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext>Fe</mml:mtext> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext>II</mml:mtext> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> decreases significantly with increased wavelength of the incident radiation, and is slightly influenced by the peripheral groups R of the 4-R-benacen-ligands.…”
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A deep learning algorithm to generate synthetic computed tomography images for brain treatments from 0.35 T magnetic resonance imaging by Luca Vellini, Flaviovincenzo Quaranta, Sebastiano Menna, Elisa Pilloni, Francesco Catucci, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Claudio Votta, Michele Aquilano, Andrea D’Aviero, Martina Iezzi, Francesco Preziosi, Alessia Re, Althea Boschetti, Danila Piccari, Antonio Piras, Carmela Di Dio, Alessandro Bombini, Gian Carlo Mattiucci, Davide Cusumano

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