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Assessing the importance of nitric acid and ammonia for particle growth in the polluted boundary layer
Andrea Baccarini, Imad El Haddad, Lubna Dada, Houssni Lamkaddam
Aerosols formed and grown by gas-to-particle processes are a major contributor to smog and haze in megacities, despite the competition between growth and loss rates. Rapid growth rates from ammonium nitrate formation have the potential to sustain particle ...
2024The rule of four: anomalous distributions in the stoichiometries of inorganic compounds
Nicola Marzari, Marnik Bercx, Elena Gazzarrini, Carl Simon Adorf
Why are materials with specific characteristics more abundant than others? This is a fundamental question in materials science and one that is traditionally difficult to tackle, given the vastness of compositional and configurational space. We highlight he ...
Nature Portfolio2024Beyond the coupled distortion model: structural analysis of the single domain cupredoxin AcoP, a green mononuclear copper centre with original features
Cupredoxins are widely occurring copper-binding proteins with a typical Greek-key beta barrel fold. They are generally described as electron carriers that rely on a T1 copper centre coordinated by four ligands provided by the folded polypeptide. The discov ...
Cambridge2024The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide
Athanasios Nenes, Mária Lbadaoui-Darvas, André Welti
Heterogeneous ice nucleation is a ubiquitous process in the natural and built environment. Deposition ice nucleation, i.e. heterogeneous ice nucleation that - according to the traditional view - occurs in a subsaturated water vapor environment and in the a ...
Royal Soc Chemistry2024Molecular intercalation in the van der Waals antiferromagnets FePS3 and NiPS3
Bruce Normand, Ying Chen, Sheng Xu, Shuo Li, Xiaoyu Xu, Zeyu Wang, Weiqiang Yu
We have performed electrochemical treatment of the van der Waals antiferromagnetic materials FePS3 and NiPS3 with the ionic liquid EMIM-BF4, achieving significant molecular intercalation. Mass analysis of the intercalated compounds, EMIMx-FePS3 and EMIMx-N ...
Amer Physical Soc2024Ru(II)-Arene Complexes of Curcumin and Bisdesmethoxycurcumin Metabolites
Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji
Curcuminoids and their complexes continue to attract attention in medicinal chemistry, but little attention has been given to their metabolic derivatives. Here, the first examples of (arene)Ru(II) complexes with curcuminoid metabolites, tetrahydrocurcumin ...
Amer Chemical Soc2024Supramolecular interactions using β-cyclodextrin in controlling perovskite solar cell performance
Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Parnian Ferdowsi, Jiyoun Seo
In the context of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), enhancing device performance often involves adding a small excess of lead iodide (PbI2) to the precursor solution. However, the presence of unreacted PbI2 can lead to accelerated degradation compromising lon ...
Royal Soc Chemistry2024Mapping orthorhombic domains with geometrical phase analysis in rare-earth nickelate heterostructures
Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Bernat Mundet, Jean-Marc Triscone
Most perovskite oxides belong to the Pbnm space group, composed of an anisotropic unit cell, A-site antipolar displacements, and oxygen octahedral tilts. Mapping the orientation of the orthorhombic unit cell in epitaxial heterostructures that consist of at ...
Melville2024Flash Melting Amorphous Ice
Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Constantin Richard Krüger, Nathan Junior Mowry, Gabriele Bongiovanni
Water can be vitrified if it is cooled at high rates, which makes it possible to outrun crystallization in so-called no man’s land, a range of deeply supercooled temperatures where water crystallizes rapidly. Here, we study the reverse process in pure wate ...
2024How Reproducible is the Synthesis of Zr-Porphyrin Metal-Organic Frameworks? An Interlaboratory Study
Wendy Lee Queen, Jocelyn Richard Roth, Rawan Al Natour
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a rapidly growing class of materials that offer great promise in various applications. However, the synthesis remains challenging: for example, a range of crystal structures can often be accessed from the same building b ...
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