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Monodispersed superparamagnetic nickel colloidal nanocrystal clusters synthesized by pyrolysis can capture bacteria and bacterial spores and simultaneously exert antimicrobial activity.
Exposure to nanoparticles induces indirect autophagy-mediated signalling events, leading to neuron damage via astrocytes in a human model of the placenta and to DNA damage in the neonatal hippocampus in vivo.
A detailed mechanistic study between nanoparticles and radionuclides reveals the roles of β particles and γ radiation in observed light and the possibility of generating X-rays, expanding the radionuclides available for biomedical applications and offering a multicolour nuclear imaging modality.
The spin state of a single electron is shown to control the transmission of single photons through a nanophotonic waveguide, thus realizing a spin-based photonic switch.
The van der Waals gaps in h-BN and MoS2 provide quantum confinement effects at ambient temperature, dominating the entry barriers of protons and deuterons.
Left-handed amyloid fibrils form nematic and right-handed cholesteric tactoids with confinement-induced transitions from an ordered to an ordered state.
A trailing flexoelectric field induced by SPM tip motion enables the selective control of multiple domain switching pathways in ferroelectric materials.
The spirit of collaboration in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Scotland served as a model for being creative in science, as Fraser Stoddart explains, recounting his journey to Stockholm.