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3D printed photonic crystals with a complete bandgap in the visible range Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
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A cuproptosis nanocapsule for cancer radiotherapy Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 You Liao, Dongmei Wang, Chenglu Gu, Xue Wang, Shuang Zhu, Ziye Zheng, Fuquan Zhang, Junfang Yan, Zhanjun Gu
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Earth-abundant Li-ion cathode materials with nanoengineered microstructures Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Han-Ming Hau, Tara Mishra, Colin Ophus, Tzu-Yang Huang, Karen Bustilo, Yingzhi Sun, Xiaochen Yang, Tucker Holstun, Xinye Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yang Ha, Gi-Hyeok Lee, Chengyu Song, John Turner, Jianming Bai, Lu Ma, Ke Chen, Feng Wang, Wanli Yang, Bryan D. McCloskey, Zijian Cai, Gerbrand Ceder
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Direct cytosolic delivery of siRNA via cell membrane fusion using cholesterol-enriched exosomes Nat. Nanotechnol. (IF 38.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Yan Zhuo, Zhen Luo, Zhu Zhu, Jie Wang, Xiang Li, Zhuan Zhang, Cong Guo, Bingqi Wang, Di Nie, Yong Gan, Guoqing Hu, Miaorong Yu
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Two-dimensional crystalline platinum oxide Nat. Mater. (IF 37.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jun Cai, Liyang Wei, Jian Liu, Chaowu Xue, Zhaoxi Chen, Yuxiong Hu, Yijing Zang, Meixiao Wang, Wujun Shi, Tian Qin, Hui Zhang, Liwei Chen, Xi Liu, Marc-Georg Willinger, Peijun Hu, Kaihui Liu, Bo Yang, Zhongkai Liu, Zhi Liu, Zhu-Jun Wang
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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining.
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Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?
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What does peak emissions mean for China — and the world? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come.
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Tackling the reality of noma Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to unravel the mystery of what causes it.
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A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and CNS Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Borja Ocón, Menglan Xiang, Yuhan Bi, Serena Tan, Kevin Brulois, Aiman Ayesha, Manali Kunte, Catherine Zhou, Melissa LaJevic, Nicole Lazarus, Francesca Mengoni, Tanya Sharma, Stephen Montgomery, Jody E. Hooper, Mian Huang, Tracy Handel, John R. D. Dawson, Irina Kufareva, Brian A. Zabel, Junliang Pan, Eugene C. Butcher
Tissue-selective chemoattractants direct lymphocytes to epithelial surfaces to establish local immune environments, regulate immune responses to food antigens and commensal organisms, and protect from pathogens. Homeostatic chemoattractants for small intestines, colon, and skin are known1 2, but chemotropic mechanisms selective for respiratory tract and other non-intestinal mucosal tissues (NIMT) remain
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Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 September 2024
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Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 J. Van Damme, S. Massar, R. Acharya, Ts. Ivanov, D. Perez Lozano, Y. Canvel, M. Demarets, D. Vangoidsenhoven, Y. Hermans, J. G. Lai, A. M. Vadiraj, M. Mongillo, D. Wan, J. De Boeck, A. Potočnik, K. De Greve
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Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Zhurun Ji, Yuzhou Zhao, Yicong Chen, Ziyan Zhu, Yuhui Wang, Wenjing Liu, Gaurav Modi, Eugene J. Mele, Song Jin, Ritesh Agarwal
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Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Munehiro Furuichi, Takaaki Kawaguchi, Marie-Madlen Pust, Keiko Yasuma-Mitobe, Damian R. Plichta, Naomi Hasegawa, Takashi Ohya, Shakti K. Bhattarai, Satoshi Sasajima, Yoshimasa Aoto, Timur Tuganbaev, Mizuki Yaginuma, Masahiro Ueda, Nobuyuki Okahashi, Kimiko Amafuji, Yuko Kiridoshi, Kayoko Sugita, Martin Stražar, Julian Avila-Pacheco, Kerry Pierce, Clary B. Clish, Ashwin N. Skelly, Masahira Hattori,
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One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Shaolou Wei, Yan Ma, Dierk Raabe
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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ron Hadas, Hernan Rubinstein, Markus Mittnenzweig, Yoav Mayshar, Raz Ben-Yair, Saifeng Cheng, Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Netta Reines, Ayelet-Hashahar Orenbuch, Aviezer Lifshitz, Dong-Yuan Chen, Michael B. Elowitz, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Jacob H. Hanna, Amos Tanay, Yonatan Stelzer
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Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Madeleine Dias Mirandela, Ansgar Zoch, Jessica Leismann, Shaun Webb, Rebecca V. Berrens, Devisree Valsakumar, Yuka Kabayama, Tania Auchynnikava, Martina Schito, Tamoghna Chowdhury, David MacLeod, Xinyu Xiang, Juan Zou, Juri Rappsilber, Robin C. Allshire, Philipp Voigt, Atlanta G. Cook, Joan Barau, Dónal O’Carroll
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Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Justine E. Paul, Yuan Gao, Yoo Kyung Go, Luis E. Rodriguez Koett, Anisha Sharma, Manxin Chen, Jacob J. Lessard, Tolga Topkaya, Cecilia Leal, Jeffrey S. Moore, Philippe H. Geubelle, Nancy R. Sottos
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Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
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Mars’s induced magnetosphere can degenerate Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Qi Zhang, Stas Barabash, Mats Holmstrom, Xiao-dong Wang, Yoshifumi Futaana, Christopher M. Fowler, Robin Ramstad, Hans Nilsson
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Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martijn S. S. L. Oei, Martin J. Hardcastle, Roland Timmerman, Aivin R. D. J. G. I. B. Gast, Andrea Botteon, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Gabriela Calistro Rivera, Reinout J. van Weeren, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Huib T. Intema, Francesco de Gasperin, S. G. Djorgovski
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Three-dimensional wave breaking Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, R. Calvert, T. Davey, F. Dias, T. S. van den Bremer
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Micronuclear battery based on a coalescent energy transducer Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Kai Li, Congchong Yan, Junren Wang, Kun Zhu, Junjun Guo, Yugang Zhang, Guozheng Shi, Yuchen Yin, Liwei Cheng, Liang Sun, Yumin Wang, Hailong Zhang, Ying Sun, Jianyu Yuan, Wanli Ma, Guoxun Ji, Zhifang Chai, Yaxing Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang, Shuao Wang
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Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Wendy W. S. Yue, Kouki K. Touhara, Kenichi Toma, Xin Duan, David Julius
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Targeted protein relocalization via protein transport coupling Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Christine S. C. Ng, Aofei Liu, Bianxiao Cui, Steven M. Banik
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Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Max T. Birch, Ilya Belopolski, Yukako Fujishiro, Minoru Kawamura, Akiko Kikkawa, Yasujiro Taguchi, Max Hirschberger, Naoto Nagaosa, Yoshinori Tokura
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Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Irina Y. Petrova, Diego G. Miralles, Florent Brient, Markus G. Donat, Seung-Ki Min, Yeon-Hee Kim, Margot Bador
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Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Cait A. Beddows, Feiyue Shi, Anna L. Horton, Sagar Dalal, Ping Zhang, Chang-Chun Ling, V. Wee Yong, Kim Loh, Ellie Cho, Chris Karagiannis, Adam J. Rose, Magdalene K. Montgomery, Paul Gregorevic, Matthew J. Watt, Nicolle H. Packer, Benjamin L. Parker, Robyn M. Brown, Edward S. X. Moh, Garron T. Dodd
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Space radiation measurements during the Artemis I lunar mission Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Stuart P. George, Ramona Gaza, Daniel Matthiä, Diego Laramore, Jussi Lehti, Thomas Campbell-Ricketts, Martin Kroupa, Nicholas Stoffle, Karel Marsalek, Bartos Przybyla, Mena Abdelmelek, Joachim Aeckerlein, Amir A. Bahadori, Janet Barzilla, Matthias Dieckmann, Michael Ecord, Ricky Egeland, Timo Eronen, Dan Fry, Bailey H. Jones, Christine E. Hellweg, Jordan Houri, Robert Hirsh, Mika Hirvonen, Scott Hovland
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Quarks show that quantum entanglement holds at high energies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martin Hentschinski
Proton–proton collisions confirm quantum principle in top-quark pairs.
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Daily briefing: Crustaceans can ‘smell’ their way back to their home cave Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Tiny crustaceans can detect their home waters using ‘smell’. Plus, the challenges that accompany the cure for sickle-cell disease.
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Small molecules help misplaced proteins hitchhike around cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Robert Yvon, Christina M. Woo
Proteins induced to shuttle between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
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Magnetic whirlpools creep and flow in response to emergent electrodynamics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Yingying Wu
Dynamic behaviours in a skyrmion-hosting material.
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Brain goop that traps hunger neurons drives obesity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.
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Crosstalk between the embryo and the developing placenta relies on same signal for multiple messages Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Proper communication between embryonic tissues is crucial to the production of the correct balance of cell types.
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Gut microbes fend off harmful bacteria by depriving them of nutrients Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Eric G. Pamer
Depletion of the molecule gluconate halts gut colonization by a pathogen.
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CERN prepares to expel Russian scientists — but won’t completely cut ties Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
The laboratory has ended its agreement with the nation, but will continue working with a Russian nuclear-research institute, raising tensions among researchers.
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Obesity is driven by a build-up of molecular mesh around hunger neurons Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Alexander Dityatev
Neuronal insulin resistance caused by excess extracellular matrix.
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Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Particle measurements at the Large Hadron Collider open the door to future high-energy tests of entanglement.
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Black holes as big as atoms might be speeding through the Solar System Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, simulations suggest.
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Enhancing electrochemical reactions in organic synthesis: the impact of flow chemistry Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF 40.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Morgan Regnier, Clara Vega, Dimitris I. Ioannou, Timothy Noël
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Cooperative intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonding in scaffolded squaramide arrays Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Luis Martínez-Crespo, George F. S. Whitehead, Iñigo J. Vitorica Yrezabal, Simon Webb
The structural, self-assembly and binding properties of oligo-(phenylene-ethynylene) (OPE) rigid rods linked to squaramides (SQs) have been studied and correlated with rod length. In the solid-state, OPE-SQ conjugates form indefinite arrays of head-to-tail hydrogen bonded SQs, arrays that include both intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. In dichloromethane solution, intramolecularly hydrogen bonded
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Intermolecular Sulfur Atom Transfer Cascade Enabled Late-Stage Introduction of Sulfilimines into Peptides Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Zeyuan He, Yuyang Liu, Guangjun Bao, Yiping Li, Xiufang Zhao, Quan Zuo, Kai Li, Wangsheng Sun, Rui Wang
Sulfilimine, a privileged class of −S(IV)=N− functional group found in nature, have been exploited as valuable building blocks in organic synthesis and as pharmacophores in drug discovery, and have aroused significant interests for chemical community. Nevertheless, the strategies for late-stage introduction of sulfilimines into peptides and proteins have still met with limited success. Herein, we have
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Copper Catalyzed Benzylic sp3 C-H Alkenylation Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Ting-An Chen, Richard J. Staples, Timothy H. Warren
The prenyl group is present in numerous biologically active small molecule drugs and natural products. We introduce benzylic C-H alkenylation of substrates Ar-CH3 with alkenylboronic esters (CH2)3O2B-CH=CMe2 as a pathway to form prenyl functionalized arenes Ar-CH2CH=CMe2. Mechanistic studies of this radical relay catalytic protocol reveal diverse reactivity pathways exhibited by the copper(II) vinyl
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Visible-light induced Mallory reaction of tertiary benzanilides via iminium intermediates Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Xiaoqiang Ma, Si Wang, Zhanyong Tang, jialin Huang, Tianhao Jia, Xingda Zhao, Depeng Zhao
The Mallory reaction is of significant synthetic importance, involving the photocyclization of stilbenes/diarylethenes and their analogues into polycyclic aromatics. However, the application of the Mallory reaction to tertiary benzanilides has not been explored to date. Besides, most of the reported Mallory reactions require ultraviolet irradiation. In this study, we show the first Mallory reaction
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Electron Transport Chain-Inspired Coordination Polymer for Macroscopic Spatiotemporal Scales of Charge Separation and Transport in Photocatalysis Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Lin Ma, Tiexin Zhang, Mochen Li, Xu Zhang, Lanqiao Li, Yusheng Shi, Rui Cai, Xueming Yang, Chunying Duan
Classic homogeneous photocatalysis is limited by the temporal transience and the spatial proximity of photoinduced charge separation and transport. The electron transfer chain (ETC) in cellular respiration can mediate unidirectional and long-range electron transfer to isolate the oxidation and reduction centres. Inspired by this, we modified electron-accepting (A) viologen with π-extending thiazolothiazole
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Two-dimensional nanomaterials based on rare earth elements for biomedical applications Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Mingjun Bai, Hao Wan, Ying Zhang, Siqi Chen, Chunyin Lu, Xiaohe Liu, Gen Chen, Ning Zhang, Renzhi Ma
As a kind of star materials, two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have attracted tremendous attention for their unique structures, excellent performance and wide applications. In recent years, layered rare earth-based or doped nanomaterials have become a new important member of the 2D nanomaterials family and have attracted significant interest, especially the layered rare earth hydroxides (LREHs) and
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Polymorphism and flexibility of six-porphyrin nanorings in the solid state Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Wojciech Stawski, Harry Laurence Anderson
Butadiyne-linked porphyrin nanorings are fascinating nanometer-sized platforms for exploring electronic delocalization and aromaticity, and they mimic ultra-fast photosynthetic energy-transfer phenomena in plants and purple bacteria. However, little is known about how they interact in the solid state. Here, we compare the crystal structures of several polymorphs of a six-porphyrin nanoring template
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Electron, hole, and energy transfer dynamics in non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Guangliu Ran, Bo Zhuang, Jiulong Huang, Hao Lu, Yahui Liu, Zhishan Bo, Feng Gai, Wenkai Zhang
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Catechol/o-Benzoquinone Exchange at Gold(III) Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Félix León, Yago García-Rodeja, Sonia Mallet-Ladeira, Karinne Miqueu, György Szalóki, Didier Bourissou
Although gold(III) chemistry has tremendously progressed in the past 2 decades, gold(III) catecholate complexes remain extremely scarce and underdeveloped. Upon preparation and full characterization of P^C-cyclometalated gold(III) complexes, we serendipitously uncovered an intriguing catechol exchange process at gold(III). Electron-rich catecholates turned out to be readily displaced by electron-poor
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Does “Zero-Strain” Lithiated Spinel Serve as a Strain Retardant and Irreversible Phase Transition Regulator for Layered Oxide Cathode? Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Zixin Wu, Qizheng Zheng, Guiyang Gao, Jianhua Yin, Leiyu Chen, Yonglin Tang, Yawen Yan, Huan Huang, Yaru Qin, Xiaoxiao Kuai, Yu Qiao, Shi-Gang Sun
Layered oxide cathodes encounter structural challenges during cycling, prompting the exploration of an ingenious heterostructure strategy, which incorporates stable components into the layered structure as strain regulators to enhance materials cycle stability. Despite considerable research efforts, identifying suitable, convenient, and cost-effective materials and methods remains elusive. Herein,
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An anthracene-containing crown ether: synthesis, host–guest properties and modulation of solid state luminescence Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Weijie Zhu, Bohan Zhao, Shuai Fang, Huangtianzhi Zhu, Feihe Huang
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Charge-assisted hydrogen bonding in a bicyclic amide cage: an effective approach to anion recognition and catalysis in water Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Chengkai Xu, Quy Gia Tran, Dexin Liu, Canjia Zhai, Lukasz Wojtas, Wenqi Liu
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Designer Pseudopeptides: Autofluorescent Polygonal Tubes via Phe-zipper and Triple Helix Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 V. Haridas, Govind P Maurya, Souvik Dutta
Chemists are increasingly turning to biology for inspiring ideas that can be adopted to develop novel and superior synthetic materials. Here, we present an innovative peptide design strategy for tubular assembly. In this simple design, a phenylene urea unit is introduced as an aglet at the N-terminus of the peptide. When α-amino isobutyric acid (Aib) is the first residue and phenylalanine (Phe) is
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Structural basis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa penicillin binding protein 3 inhibition by the siderophore-antibiotic cefiderocol Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Helen G Smith, Shyam Basak, Victor Aniebok, Matthew J Beech, Faisal M Alshref, Mark D Allen, Alistair Farley, Christopher J Schofield
The breakthrough cephalosporin cefiderocol, approved for clinical use in 2019, has activity against many Gram-negative bacteria. The catechol group of cefiderocol enables it to efficiently enter bacterial cells via the iron/siderophore transport system thereby reducing resistance due to porin channel mutations and efflux pump upregulation. Limited information is reported regarding the binding of cefiderocol
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Dual-Emissive Luminescence in OIHMH Single Crystals: Tunable Red-Green Emissions via Mn2+ Doping and Theoretical Insights Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Qianrong Jin, Rui Wu, Yuexiao Pan, Hongzhou Lian, Yihong Ding, Jun Lin, Liyi Li
The burgeoning demand for materials with tunable photoluminescence properties for applications has necessitated the exploration of novel luminescent materials. This study presents the synthesis and characterization of a novel 0D organic-inorganic hybrid metal halide (OIHMH) single crystal, C6H14N2CdBr4, which exhibits intriguing luminescent properties upon Mn2+ doping. The introduction of single Mn2+
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Helically chiral multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters and their use in hyperfluorescent organic light-emitting diodes Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jingxiang Wang, Dongyang Chen, Juan Naranjo, Francesco Zinna, Lucas Frédéric, David Bradford Cordes, Aidan P McKay, Matthew Fuchter, Xiaohong Zhang, Eli Zysman-Colman
Chiral multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) materials show great potential as emitters in circularly polarized (CP) organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) owing to their bright and narrowband CP emission. Here, two new chiral MR-TADF emitters tBuPh-BN and DPA-tBuPh-BN possessing intrinsically helical chirality have been synthesized and studied. The large steric interactions
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Bucking the trend: understanding lipopolysaccharide structure and outer membrane dynamics in cold-adapted Pseudomonas isolated from Enigma Lake, Antarctica Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Marcello Mercogliano, Stefania De Chiara, Antonio De Nicola, Jacopo Cardellini, Costanza Montis, Mikhail M Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Francesca Crisafi, Alba Silipo, Debora Berti, Giuseppe Milano, Antonio Molinaro, Flaviana Di Lorenzo
Cold environments are predominant over the Earth and are inhabited by bacteria able to cope with a series of simultaneous environmental pressures. Gram-negative species of the Pseudomonas genus are the predominant ones isolated from cold habitats, making them an excellent model for studying the mechanisms of bacterial adaptation to the most extreme habitats on our planet. Here we focused on the lipopolysaccharide
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Thiol-selective native grafting from polymerization for the generation of protein-polymer conjugates Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Melina Feldhof, Sandro Sperzel, Lorand Bonda, Susanne Boye, Adam Braunschweig, Ulla I.M. Gerling-Driessen, Laura Hartmann
Protein-polymer conjugates combine properties of biopolymers and synthetic polymers, such as specific bioactivity and increased stability, with great benefits for various applications from catalysis to biomedicine. Furthermore, polymer conjugation can mimic important posttranslational modifications of proteins such as glycosylation. There are typically two approaches to create protein-polymer conjugates:
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Introducing chirality in porous organic cages through solid-state interactions Chem. Sci. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Emma Helen Wolpert, Kim E. Jelfs
Molecular cages contain an internal cavity designed to encapsulate other molecules, resulting in applications in molecular separation, gas storage, and catalysis. Introducing chirality in cage molecules can improve the selective separation of chiral molecules and add new functionalities due to the realisation of chiral photophysical properties. It has recently been shown that solid-state supramolecular