Video-rate super-resolution imaging through biological tissue can visualize and track biomolecule interplays and transportations inside cellular organisms. Structured illumination microscopy allows for wide-field supe...
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The development of light-sheet microscopy(LSM)1,2 has revolutionized high-resolution imaging of biological organisms in three dimensions(3D)with minimal photodamage3 and high temporal resolution,4 therefore allowing l...
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The development of light-sheet microscopy(LSM)1,2 has revolutionized high-resolution imaging of biological organisms in three dimensions(3D)with minimal photodamage3 and high temporal resolution,4 therefore allowing long-term observation of biological processes.5,6 The key is to obtain information on subcellular events at both high spatial and temporal resolutions,but the spatial resolution of current LSM methods has been pixel-limited when each frame of the image is collected under a large field of view from an entire large-volume specimen.
Quantization of topological charges determines the various topological spin textures that are expected to play a key role in future spintronic devices. While the magnetic skyrmion with a unit topological charge Q = ...
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Isocyanide-metal binding is governed by σ-donation and π-back-bonding, which affects the energy of the isocyanide stretching mode—a characteristic probe for ligand-metal interactions. While extensive correlations e...
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We report an all-aqueous and biocompatible platform for the generation of polyelectrolyte microcapsules using magnetic water-in-water droplet microfluidics. We use a polymeric aqueous two-phase system to generate the ...
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An ultra-microporous, bio-based zirconium metal-organic framework (MIP-202), was successfully synthesized and formulated into compressed pellets and extrudates through incorporation with the biopolymer chitosan, targe...
An ultra-microporous, bio-based zirconium metal-organic framework (MIP-202), was successfully synthesized and formulated into compressed pellets and extrudates through incorporation with the biopolymer chitosan, targeting efficient CO 2 adsorption. The effects of formulation pressure and the addition of chitosan as a co-binder were systematically investigated to optimize the physical integrity and performance of the shaped adsorbents. Comprehensive physicochemical characterizations were conducted using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analysis. The formulated pellets and extrudates demonstrated excellent thermal stability, good mechanical durability, and retention of their ultra-microporous structure (<1 nm) after formulation. Remarkably, they preserved up to 99 % of the CO 2 adsorption capacity of the pristine powder form (18.7 cm 3 g −1 at 298 K and 1 bar), with a low isosteric heat of adsorption (30–40 kJ mol −1 ), which also facilitates easy CO 2 desorption and enhances regeneration efficiency. Furthermore, they exhibited a high CO 2 /N 2 (15/85, v /v), towards CO 2 with a selectivity ratio of 24–25 under dry and humid conditions. The materials maintained moderate moisture stability over 20 days, strong resistance in N 2 O environments, and excellent cyclic stability over 10 temperature swing adsorption (TSA) cycles. Combined with the low cost of the MOF bio-ligand, L-aspartic acid (∼$36/kg), these findings highlight the potential of MIP-202 pellets and extrudates as robust and economically viable candidates for industrial flue gas separation applications.
Electrochromic phosphorescent materials have recently attracted much attention, however, achieving the efficient electrophosphorochromism in pure organic materials is highly challenging and has not been reported yet. ...
Electrochromic phosphorescent materials have recently attracted much attention, however, achieving the efficient electrophosphorochromism in pure organic materials is highly challenging and has not been reported yet. Herein, a kind of pure organic host-guest system (BA@CzPA) is constructed by one-pot in-situ melt blending of (9-phenyl-9H-carbazol-2-yl)boronic acid (CzPA) and boric acid (BA). Because of the efficient intersystem crossing promoted by covalent, hydrogen bonding, and confinement effect, the proposed BA@CzPA exhibit the superior room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) efficiency, including an ultralong lifetime of up to 4.23 s and a high phosphorescent quantum yield of 10.9%. Importantly, the BA@CzPA have a unique electrophosphorochromism property, and their electrically-induced RTP emission can gradually red-shift from 440 nm to 548 nm as the current density increases, which is attributed to the transformation of host matrices of BA@CzPA from metaboric acid to B 2 O 3 under the electrical stimuli. This finding provides us not only with a new idea to develop pure organic electrophosphorochromism materials with high RTP efficiency, but also with a powerful strategy to fabricate correlation color temperature tunable white light emitting diodes.
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are foundational spintronics devices with applications ranging from stable magnetic memory to emerging stochastic computing schemes. Integrating van der Waals magnets into these device...
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Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are foundational spintronics devices with applications ranging from stable magnetic memory to emerging stochastic computing schemes. Integrating van der Waals magnets into these devices could enable the realization of atomically thin MTJs with unique functionalities. Here, we demonstrate that the strain-tunable magnetism of the layered semiconductor CrSBr offers a new type of programmable MTJ operation. Switching the CrSBr tunnel barrier from antiferromagnetic (AFM) to ferromagnetic (FM) order by strain generates a giant tunneling magnetoresistance ratio without an external magnetic field. In addition to the purely FM and AFM states, we observe a variety of intermediate magnetic states consisting of both FM- and AFM-coupled layers. The layer-dependent magnetization of these states can be actively switched via the application of strain pulses. Alternatively, finely adjusting the static strain to minimize the energy difference between AFM and FM interlayer coupling results in stochastic switching with a strain-tunable sigmoidal response curve. Our results demonstrate new approaches for manipulating layered two-dimensional (2D) magnetism toward spintronic devices.
materials with increased functionality are often based on crystalline structures with significant local disorder. Typical examples are ferroic oxides exhibiting large spontaneous polarization that can be rotated by an...
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materials with increased functionality are often based on crystalline structures with significant local disorder. Typical examples are ferroic oxides exhibiting large spontaneous polarization that can be rotated by an applied electric field, finding use in many important applications. Despite years of investigation, the exact structural origin of the increased piezoelectric response of oxide ferroics is still unclear. Frequently evoked models attribute it to emerging polar nanoregions inside a nonpolar matrix, the existence of a morphotropic boundary separating polar phases with different crystallographic symmetry, low-symmetry bridging phases facilitating polarization rotation, and displacive and order-disorder structural phase transitions. Here we use both conventional and resonant high-energy x-ray diffraction coupled to atomic pair distribution function analysis and three-dimensional computer simulations to examine the relationship between the local structure and piezoelectric properties of exemplary sodium-potassium niobate ferroics. We show that their increased piezoelectric response is primarily due to a geometrical frustration in the underlying perovskite lattice induced by local fluctuations in the tilt pattern of the constituent niobium-oxygen octahedra, and not to a crystal-crystal phase transition or distinct nanodomains. The fluctuations peak when the sodium to potassium ratio approaches 1, leading to a softening of the perovskite lattice and easing of polarization rotation under an electric field. Based on the experimental data and model calculations involving Goldschmidt's tolerance factor for the stability of perovskites, we also show that the fluctuations are driven by the mismatch between the radii of sodium and potassium atoms, and the increased piezoelectric response of sodium-potassium niobates indeed scales with the variance in the distribution of these radii about the average value. Thus, we settle important aspects of the debate over the stru
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