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A Comparison of Molecular Iodine Evolution on the Chemistry of Lead and Tin Perovskites Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Thomas Webb, Saif Ahmed Haque
The development of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has gone from strength to strength over the last decade, enabling low-cost, flexible and high-efficiency photovoltaic devices. However, the significance of molecular iodine (I2) evolution within the perovskite layer on device longevity is only recently becoming realised. In lead-based perovskites, the formation of I2 is determinantal to both the photovoltaic
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Urea Electrochemical Production Using Carbon Dioxide and Nitrate: State of the Art and Perspectives Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Mohsin Muhyuddin, Giovanni Zuccante, Piercarlo Mustarelli, Jonathan Filippi, Alessandro Lavacchi, Lior Elbaz, Yu-Han Chen, Plamen Atanassov, Carlo Santoro
Complete decarbonization of hard-to-abate industrial sectors is critical to reach the carbon neutrality goal set for 2050. The production of nitrogen-containing fertilizers (N-fertilizers) is responsible for 2.1% of the overall global carbon dioxide emissions. Urea is the most common N-fertilizer, and it is currently produced through the Bosch-Meiser process starting from ammonia (NH3) and carbon dioxide
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Silicon nanowire/ionic hydrogel-based hybrid moist-electric generators with enhanced voltage output and operational stability Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Wenjing Duan, Beibei Shao, Zhiqi Wang, Kun Ni, Shanfei Liu, Xianrong Yuan, Yusheng Wang, Baoquan Sun, Xiaohong Zhang, Ruiyuan Liu
Moist electric generators (MEGs) are promising portable power sources for harvesting energy from atmospheric moisture. However, the lack of an efficient device design and the associated working mechanisms related to ion interactions have resulted in relatively low electrical performance and short output times. In this study, we developed an efficient organic–inorganic hybrid MEG by in situ preparation
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Virtual Water Embodied in Interregional Energy Trade in China: A City-Level Analysis Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Yi Jin, Cuiyang Feng, Rong Yuan, Jialiang Yang, Paul Behrens
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Bedroom Concentrations and Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds during Sleep Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Betty Molinier, Caleb Arata, Erin F. Katz, David M. Lunderberg, Jennifer Ofodile, Brett C. Singer, William W Nazaroff, Allen H. Goldstein
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Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries but Can Be Halved by Plastic Debris Removal Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiang Zhao, Fengqi You
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Nontarget Identification of Novel Organophosphorus Flame Retardants and Plasticizers in Indoor Air and Dust from Multiple Microenvironments in China Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Ji Yang, Yiming Yao, Xiaoxiao Li, Ana He, Shijie Chen, Yulong Wang, Xiaoyu Dong, Hao Chen, Yu Wang, Lei Wang, Hongwen Sun
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Rebuttal to Correspondence on “Effect of Mass Fraction on Leaching Kinetics of Hydrophobic Ultraviolet Stabilizers in Low-Density Polyethylene” Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Anh T.Ngoc Do, Yeonjeong Ha, Jung-Hwan Kwon
We appreciate Chen and Zhang (1) for their insightful comments on our article. (2) In their comment, they argued for the use of eq 1 instead of eq 2, which was used in our article, to describe the desorbed fraction of ultraviolet (UV) stabilizers from low-density polyethylene (LDPE) fibers. In our experimental system, C0 might be estimated from the distribution constants between LDPE and the co-solvent
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Serum Phthalate Concentrations and Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Adipose Tissue in a Spanish Adult Cohort Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Celia Pérez-Díaz, Francisco M. Pérez-Carrascosa, Blanca Riquelme-Gallego, Elena Villegas-Arana, Alejandro Joaquín Armendariz, Javier Galindo-Ángel, Hanne Frederiksen, Josefa León, Pilar Requena, Juan Pedro Arrebola
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Aqueous-Phase Photoreactions of Mixed Aromatic Carbonyl Photosensitizers Yield More Oxygenated, Oxidized, and less Light-Absorbing Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) than Single Systems Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Beatrix Rosette Go Mabato, Yong Jie Li, Dan Dan Huang, Chak K. Chan
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Prioritizing Organic Pollutants for Shale Gas Exploitation: Life Cycle Environmental Risk Assessments in China and the US Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Keyan Chen, Fan Wu, Liang Li, Keshuo Zhang, Jiehui Huang, Fei Cheng, Zhiqiang Yu, Andrea L. Hicks, Jing You
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Interaction Effects between the Main Components of Protein-Rich Biomass during Microwave-Assisted Pyrolysis Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Cheng Hou, Chenxi Zhou, Nan Li, Yuanbo Song, Xiaogang You, Jiang Zhao, Xuefei Zhou, Zheng Shen, Yalei Zhang
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High-Efficiency Electrocatalytic Reduction of N2O with Single-Atom Cu Supported on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zhe Li, Yunshuo Wu, Haiqiang Wang, Zhongbiao Wu, Xuanhao Wu
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A Noninvasive Quantitative Method for Evaluating Intestinal Exposure to Microplastics Based on the Excretion and Metabolism Patterns of Microplastics and Their Additives Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zehua Yan, Ziao Hao, Zhanao Zhang, Runqi Liu, Kanglin Zhao, Yan Zhang
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Correction to “Disentangling the History of Deep Ocean Disposal for DDT and Other Industrial Waste Off Southern California” Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Jacob T. Schmidt, Mong Sin Christine Wu, Hailie E. Kittner, J. Samuel Arey, Douglas E. Hammond, Earth 182A Group, David L. Valentine
The Acknowledgment section has been updated and revised to reflect the contribution of each of the members of the Earth 182A Group more appropriately. This correction does not affect any other results or conclusions in our work. We thank Frank Kinnaman for logistical and laboratory support, Tina Treude for use of multicoring equipment on field excursions, the Southern California Marine Institute staff
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Microbial Sources and Sinks of Nitrous Oxide during Organic Waste Composting Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Zhicheng Xu, Xingzu Gao, Guoxue Li, Long D. Nghiem, Wenhai Luo, Fusuo Zhang
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Reducing Indoor Particulate Air Pollution Improves Student Test Scores: A Randomized Double-Blind Crossover Study Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jia Xu, Hong Zhao, Yujuan Zhang, Wen Yang, Xinhua Wang, Chunmei Geng, Yan Li, Yun Guo, Bin Han, Zhipeng Bai, Sverre Vedal, Julian D. Marshall
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Bioconcentration of Inorganic and Methyl Mercury by Algae Revealed Using Dual-Mass Single-Cell ICP-MS with Double Isotope Tracers Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xiangwei Tian, Ying Wang, Tao Xu, Yingying Guo, Yonghong Bi, Yanqun Liu, Yong Liang, Wenbin Cui, Yanwei Liu, Ligang Hu, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai, Guibin Jiang
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Arsenic-Hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata Effectively Uses Sparingly-Soluble Phosphate Rock: Rhizosphere Solubilization, Nutrient Improvement, and Arsenic Accumulation Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Songge Deng, Dong-Xing Guan, Yue Cao, Chunxue Wang, Chenjing Liu, Lena Q. Ma
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The Impact of Bisphenol A on the Anaerobic Sulfur Transformation: Promoting Sulfur Flow and Toxic H2S Production Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Qizi Fu, Chenxi Li, Zirui Liu, Xingyu Ma, Yunhao Xu, Yan Wang, Xuran Liu, Dongbo Wang
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Hydrophobic Sorption Properties of an Extended Series of Anionic Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Characterized by C18 Chromatographic Retention Measurement Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Satoshi Endo, Sadao Matsuzawa
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Geospatial Variability of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter in Urban Watersheds: Relationships with Land Cover and Wastewater Infrastructure Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Jahir A. Batista-Andrade, Claire Welty, Diego Iglesias Vega, Anna McClain, Lee Blaney
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Biological Self-Assembled Transmembrane Electron Conduits for High-Efficiency Ammonia Production in Microbial Electrosynthesis Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Yao Li, Sen Qiao, Meiwei Guo, Liying Zhang, Guangfei Liu, Jiti Zhou
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Adopting Mechanistic Molecular Biology Approaches in Exposome Research for Causal Understanding Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Amy L. Foreman, Benedikt Warth, Ellen V. S. Hessel, Elliott J. Price, Emma L. Schymanski, Gaia Cantelli, Helen Parkinson, Helge Hecht, Jana Klánová, Jelle Vlaanderen, Klara Hilscherova, Martine Vrijheid, Paolo Vineis, Rita Araujo, Robert Barouki, Roel Vermeulen, Sophie Lanone, Søren Brunak, Sylvain Sebert, Tuomo Karjalainen
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Meta-Analysis of Optical Surrogates for the Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Julie A. Korak, Garrett McKay
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Using Network Analysis and Predictive Functional Analysis to Explore the Fluorotelomer Biotransformation Potential of Soil Microbial Communities Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Sheng Dong, Peng-Fei Yan, Melissa P. Mezzari, Linda M. Abriola, Kurt D. Pennell, Natalie L. Cápiro
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TP or Not TP? Successful Comparison of Two Independent Methods Validates Total Phosphorus Inference for Long-Term Eutrophication Studies Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Madeleine Moyle, John Boyle, Helen Bennion, Richard Chiverrell
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Phosphotungstic Acid as a Dechlorination Agent Collaborates with CeO2 for Synergistic Catalytic Elimination of NOx and Chlorobenzene Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Huiqian Yang, Aling Chen, Fuli Wang, Tianwei Lan, Jin Zhang, Xiaonan Hu, Yongjie Shen, Danhong Cheng, Dengsong Zhang
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Structural disorder determines capacitance in nanoporous carbons Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Xinyu Liu, Dongxun Lyu, Céline Merlet, Matthew J. A. Leesmith, Xiao Hua, Zhen Xu, Clare P. Grey, Alexander C. Forse
The difficulty in characterizing the complex structures of nanoporous carbon electrodes has led to a lack of clear design principles with which to improve supercapacitors. Pore size has long been considered the main lever to improve capacitance. However, our evaluation of a large series of commercial nanoporous carbons finds a lack of correlation between pore size and capacitance. Instead, nuclear
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High energy density in artificial heterostructures through relaxation time modulation Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Sangmoon Han, Justin S. Kim, Eugene Park, Yuan Meng, Zhihao Xu, Alexandre C. Foucher, Gwan Yeong Jung, Ilpyo Roh, Sangho Lee, Sun Ok Kim, Ji-Yun Moon, Seung-Il Kim, Sanggeun Bae, Xinyuan Zhang, Bo-In Park, Seunghwan Seo, Yimeng Li, Heechang Shin, Kate Reidy, Anh Tuan Hoang, Suresh Sundaram, Phuong Vuong, Chansoo Kim, Junyi Zhao, Jinyeon Hwang, Chuan Wang, Hyungil Choi, Dong-Hwan Kim, Jimin Kwon, Jin-Hong
Electrostatic capacitors are foundational components of advanced electronics and high-power electrical systems owing to their ultrafast charging-discharging capability. Ferroelectric materials offer high maximum polarization, but high remnant polarization has hindered their effective deployment in energy storage applications. Previous methodologies have encountered problems because of the deteriorated
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First glowing animals lit up the oceans half a billion years ago Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Family tree of ‘octocorals’ pushes origin of bioluminescence back to 540 million years ago, when the first animal species developed eyes.
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Las Boriqueñas remembers the forgotten Puerto Rican women who tested the first pill Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Clinical trials of the first oral contraceptive recalled in a bold theatre production.
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Ecologists: don’t lose touch with the joy of fieldwork Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Amid the data deluge provided by lab-based techniques, such as environmental-DNA analysis, true connection still comes only in the outdoors.
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WHO redefines airborne transmission: what does that mean for future pandemics? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
The World Health Organization was criticized for being too slow to classify COVID-19 as airborne. Will the new terminology help next time?
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A chemical method for selective labelling of the key amino acid tryptophan Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
A technique that accurately identifies tryptophan side chains in proteins helps reveal interactions with positively charged molecules.
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Monkeypox virus: dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
A cluster of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparks worries of a wider outbreak.
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AI & robotics briefing: Winged robot demystifies insect flight Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Robot fly helps to unravel the workings of the insect wing hinge. Plus, AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source and general rules for AI in publishing are coming.
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In This Issue Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 17, April 2024.
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India’s 50-year-old Chipko movement is a model for environmental activism Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Letter to the Editor
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The Middle East’s largest hypersaline lake risks turning into an environmental disaster zone Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Letter to the Editor
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Charles Darwin investigates: the curious case of primrose punishment Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Chemistry lab destroyed by Taiwan earthquake has physical and mental impacts Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Letter to the Editor
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More work is needed to take on the rural wastewater challenge Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Letter to the Editor
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Any plan to make smoking obsolete is the right step Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
The United Kingdom is correct to attempt to end the single largest preventable cause of illness and death, as was New Zealand before its government changed its mind.
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European ruling linking climate change to human rights could be a game changer — here’s how Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
The European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in a Swiss case cements the concept that climate inaction violates human rights — responsible nations around the world will take heed.
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Lethal AI weapons are here: how can we control them? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23
Autonomous weapons guided by artificial intelligence are already in use. Researchers, legal experts and ethicists are struggling with what should be allowed on the battlefield.
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Star Formation Shut Down by Multiphase Gas Outflow in a Galaxy at a Redshift of 2.45 Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Sirio Belli, Minjung Park, Rebecca L. Davies, J. Trevor Mendel, Benjamin D. Johnson, Charlie Conroy, Chloë Benton, Letizia Bugiani, Razieh Emami, Joel Leja, Yijia Li, Gabriel Maheson, Elijah P. Mathews, Rohan P. Naidu, Erica J. Nelson, Sandro Tacchella, Bryan A. Terrazas, Rainer Weinberger
Large-scale outflows driven by supermassive black holes are thought to play a fundamental role in suppressing star formation in massive galaxies. However, direct observational evidence for this hypothesis is still lacking, particularly in the young universe where star formation quenching is remarkably rapid1–3, thus requiring effective removal of gas4 as opposed to slow gas heating5,6. While outflows
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Dozens of genes are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22
Findings underscore that genetic factors contribute to development of the condition after a traumatic incident.
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Multimodal cell atlas of the ageing human skeletal muscle Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Yiwei Lai, Ignacio Ramírez-Pardo, Joan Isern, Juan An, Eusebio Perdiguero, Antonio L. Serrano, Jinxiu Li, Esther García-Domínguez, Jessica Segalés, Pengcheng Guo, Vera Lukesova, Eva Andrés, Jing Zuo, Yue Yuan, Chuanyu Liu, José Viña, Julio Doménech-Fernández, Mari Carmen Gómez-Cabrera, Yancheng Song, Longqi Liu, Xun Xu, Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, Miguel A. Esteban
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Your perception of time is skewed by what you see Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22
Features of a scene such as size and clutter can affect the brain’s sense of how much time has passed while observing it.
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Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst mass bleaching event on record Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22
Iconic coral reef is ‘transforming’ from repeated bleaching events. Plus, researchers face the possibility of animal consciousness and science explores the neurodiversity of visual imagery.
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How volcanoes shaped our planet — and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22
The world should learn from past disasters and prepare for the effects of future, inevitable volcanic catastrophes, a wide-reaching book teaches us.
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Daily briefing: why queasiness kills hunger Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-19
Feelings of hunger, nausea and fullness seem to be governed by separate brain circuits. Plus, nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking and Jupiter’s moon, Io, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System.
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Daily briefing: ‘Goldene’ is a gilded cousin of graphene that is one atom thick Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18
Single-atom-thick sheet of gold is probably the first 2D metal. Plus, some bumblebees can survive up to a week underwater and what crackdowns on smoking and vaping will do for public health.
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Constructing a novel super-crosslinked triazine COF through molecular expansion for enhanced photocatalytic performance under visible light Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Yuxuan Shao, Dan You, Yuqi Wan, Zhiquan Pan, Qingrong Cheng
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Correction: Nano-pelargonidin modulates p53/PARP/HSP 90/XRCC1 signaling axis to combat cypermethrin-induced genotoxicity and metabolic dysfunction in fish: a molecular docking predicted in vivo approach Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Priyanka Sow, Sudatta Dey, Rishita Dey, Asmita Samadder, Sisir Nandi, Debojyoti Tarafdar, Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh
Correction for ‘Nano-pelargonidin modulates p53/PARP/HSP 90/XRCC1 signaling axis to combat cypermethrin-induced genotoxicity and metabolic dysfunction in fish: a molecular docking predicted in vivo approach’ by Priyanka Sow et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3en00965c.
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Repairing Humidity-Induced Interfacial Degradation in Quasi-2D Perovskite Solar Cells Printed in Ambient Air Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zhi Xing, Baojin Fan, Xiangchuan Meng, Dengxue Li, Zengqi Huang, Linfeng Li, Yanyan Zhang, Fuyi Wang, Xiaotian Hu, Ting Hu, Thomas Riedl, Yiwang Chen
Due to the moisture sensitivity of organic cations, the presence of adsorbed water (H2Oad) during the printing process in air tends to complicate the structure transformation and poses potential hazards to the long-term operational stability, particularly in alternating-cation interlayer layered halide perovskite (LHPs) solar cells with a sophisticated organic cation composition. Here, H2Oad as a nucleation
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Correction: Preferred planar crystal growth and uniform solid electrolyte interfaces enabled by anion receptors for stable aqueous Zn batteries Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Xinyu Wang, Yiran Ying, Xiaomin Li, Shengmei Chen, Guowei Gao, Haitao Huang, Longtao Ma
Correction for ‘Preferred planar crystal growth and uniform solid electrolyte interfaces enabled by anion receptors for stable aqueous Zn batteries’ by Xinyu Wang et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16, 4572–4583, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EE01580G.
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Electrode binder design for high-power, low-Pt loading and durable high temperature fuel cells Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Hui Li, Peipei Zuo, Wenyi Wu, Gonggen Tang, Junkai Fang, Tongwen Xu, Zhengjin Yang
State-of-the-art high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells enabled by the phosphoric acid-doped polybenzimidazole material platform are promising for long-haul transport, but suffer from low output power, low Pt utilization, and rapid phosphoric acid loss under harsh/dynamic operating conditions. Here, we report a multifunctional phosphonated ionomeric binder (PFPA-PIM-SBI), derived