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Metal telluride nanosheets by scalable solid lithiation and exfoliation
Transition metal tellurides (TMTs) have been ideal materials for exploring exotic properties in condensed-matter physics, chemistry and materials science1–3. Although TMT nanosheets have been produced by top-down...
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Open AccessSelf-triggered thermoelectric nanoheterojunction for cancer catalytic and immunotherapy
The exogenous excitation requirement and electron-hole recombination are the key elements limiting the application of catalytic therapies. Here a tumor microenvironment (TME)-specific self-triggered thermoelec...
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Open AccessA polymer electrolyte design enables ultralow-work-function electrode for high-performance optoelectronics
Ambient solution-processed conductive materials with a sufficient low work function are essential to facilitate electron injection in electronic and optoelectronic devices but are challenging. Here, we design ...
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Open AccessAnthrahydroquinone-2-6-disulfonate is a novel, powerful antidote for paraquat poisoning
Paraquat (PQ) is a widely used fast-acting pyridine herbicide. Accidental ingestion or self-administration via various routes can cause severe organ damage. Currently, no effective antidote is available commer...
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Open AccessAn ultrasensitive molybdenum-based double-heterojunction phototransistor
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising for next-generation photo detection because of their exceptional properties such as a strong interaction with light, electronic and optical properties that depend o...
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Open AccessNeck circumference and waist circumference associated with cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes (Bei**g Community Diabetes Study 23)
Obesity increases the risk of develo** cardiovascular disease and other metabolic diseases. We intended to compare three different anthropometric indicators of obesity, in predicting the incidence of cardiov...
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Open AccessA flexible ultrasensitive optoelectronic sensor array for neuromorphic vision systems
The challenges of develo** neuromorphic vision systems inspired by the human eye come not only from how to recreate the flexibility, sophistication, and adaptability of animal systems, but also how to do so ...
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Open AccessA FinFET with one atomic layer channel
Since its invention in the 1960s, one of the most significant evolutions of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOS-FETs) would be the three dimensionalized version that makes the semiconductin...
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Open AccessUltrafast growth of nanocrystalline graphene films by quenching and grain-size-dependent strength and bandgap opening
Nanocrystallization is a well-known strategy to dramatically tune the properties of materials; however, the grain-size effect of graphene at the nanometer scale remains unknown experimentally because of the la...
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Open AccessInterlayer epitaxy of wafer-scale high-quality uniform AB-stacked bilayer graphene films on liquid Pt3Si/solid Pt
Large-area high-quality AB-stacked bilayer graphene films are highly desired for the applications in electronics, photonics and spintronics. However, the existing growth methods can only produce discontinuous ...
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Open AccessThe introduction of the Barbier reaction into polymer chemistry
The Barbier reaction, a widely utilized reaction for carbon–carbon bond formation, has played important roles in modern organic chemistry for more than a century. Here, we show its successful introduction to p...
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Open AccessGate-controlled reversible rectifying behaviour in tunnel contacted atomically-thin MoS2 transistor
Atomically thin two-dimensional semiconducting materials integrated into van der Waals heterostructures have enabled architectures that hold great promise for next generation nanoelectronics. However, challeng...
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Open AccessSLC39A4 expression is associated with enhanced cell migration, cisplatin resistance, and poor survival in non-small cell lung cancer
The zinc transporter SLC39A4 influences epithelial cell morphology and migration in various cancers; however, its role in regulating cell invasion and chemotherapeutic resistance in human lung cancer is not ye...
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Open AccessTRPM8 in the negative regulation of TNFα expression during cold stress
Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin-8 (TRPM8) reportedly plays a fundamental role in a variety of processes including cold sensation, thermoregulation, pain transduction and tumorigenesis. However, the rol...
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Open AccessMitochondria play an important role in the cell proliferation suppressing activity of berberine
After being studied for approximately a century, berberine (BBR) has been found to act on various targets and pathways. A great challenge in the pharmacological analysis of BBR at present is to identify which ...
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Open AccessDendritic cell-elicited B-cell activation fosters immune privilege via IL-10 signals in hepatocellular carcinoma
B cells are prominent components of human solid tumours, but activation status and functions of these cells in human cancers remain elusive. Here we establish that over 50% B cells in hepatocellular carcinoma ...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Growth of semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes with a narrow band-gap distribution
Nature Communications 7: Article number: 11160 (2016); Published 30 March 2016; Updated 27 April 2016 This Article contains an error in Fig. 6. In Fig. 6a, the units on the y-axis should be ‘μA’ not ‘mA’.
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Open AccessGrowth of semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes with a narrow band-gap distribution
The growth of high-quality semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes with a narrow band-gap distribution is crucial for the fabrication of high-performance electronic devices. However, the single-wall carbon...
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Open AccessEnhanced spontaneous functional connectivity of the superior temporal gyrus in early deafness
Early auditory deprivation may drive the auditory cortex into cross-modal processing of non-auditory sensory information. In a recent study, we had shown that early deaf subjects exhibited increased activation...
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Open AccessTATA boxes in gene transcription and poly (A) tails in mRNA stability: New perspective on the effects of berberine
Berberine (BBR) is a natural compound with variable pharmacological effects and a broad panel of target genes. We investigated berberine’s pharmacological activities from the perspective of its nucleotide-bind...
