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Open AccessLayer-by-layer phase transformation in Ti3O5 revealed by machine-learning molecular dynamics simulations
Reconstructive phase transitions involving breaking and reconstruction of primary chemical bonds are ubiquitous and important for many technological applications. In contrast to displacive phase transitions, t...
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Open AccessGradient tungsten-doped Bi3TiNbO9 ferroelectric photocatalysts with additional built-in electric field for efficient overall water splitting
Bi3TiNbO9, a layered ferroelectric photocatalyst, exhibits great potential for overall water splitting through efficient intralayer separation of photogenerated carriers motivated by a depolarization field along ...
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Open AccessThe pan-genome and local adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana serves as a model species for investigating various aspects of plant biology. However, the contribution of genomic structural variations (SVs) and their associate genes to the local adaptatio...
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Open AccessInterfacial interaction and intense interfacial ultraviolet light emission at an incoherent interface
Incoherent interfaces with large mismatches usually exhibit very weak interfacial interactions so that they rarely generate intriguing interfacial properties. Here we demonstrate unexpected strong interfacial ...
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Open AccessGenomic evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation between ancestors of two different genera
Homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS) has been increasingly recognized as occurring widely during species diversification of both plants and animals. However, previous studies on HHS have mostly focused on closely...
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Measuring phonon dispersion at an interface
The breakdown of translational symmetry at heterointerfaces leads to the emergence of new phonon modes localized at the interface1. These modes have an essential role in thermal and electrical transport propertie...
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Open AccessMulti-electron transfer enabled by topotactic reaction in magnetite
A bottleneck for the large-scale application of today’s batteries is low lithium storage capacity, largely due to the use of intercalation-type electrodes that allow one or less electron transfer per redox cen...
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Open AccessGenome sequence of the progenitor of wheat A subgenome Triticum urartu
Triticum urartu (diploid, AA) is the progenitor of the A subgenome of tetraploid (Triticum turgidum, AABB) and hexaploid (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) wheat1,2. Genomic studies of T. urartu have been useful for inv...
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Open AccessLearning robust pulses for generating universal quantum gates
Constructing a set of universal quantum gates is a fundamental task for quantum computation. The existence of noises, disturbances and fluctuations is unavoidable during the process of implementing quantum gat...
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Open AccessIn-Situ High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation of Overheating of Cu Nanoparticles
Synthesizing and functionalizing metal nanoparticles supported on substrates is currently the subject of intensive study owing to their outstanding catalytic performances for heterogeneous catalysis. Revealing...
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Open AccessIn situ oxidation of carbon-encapsulated cobalt nanocapsules creates highly active cobalt oxide catalysts for hydrocarbon combustion
Combustion catalysts have been extensively explored to reduce the emission of hydrocarbons that are capable of triggering photochemical smog and greenhouse effect. Palladium as the most active material is wide...
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Magnetoelectric quasi-(0-3) nanocomposite heterostructures
Magnetoelectric composite thin films hold substantial promise for applications in novel multifunctional devices. However, there are presently shortcomings for both the extensively studied bilayer epitaxial (2-...
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Open AccessMisfit accommodation mechanism at the heterointerface between diamond and cubic boron nitride
Diamond and cubic boron nitride (c-BN) are the top two hardest materials on the Earth. Clarifying how the two seemingly incompressible materials can actually join represents one of the most challenging issues ...
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Open AccessRobust manipulation of superconducting qubits in the presence of fluctuations
Superconducting quantum systems are promising candidates for quantum information processing due to their scalability and design flexibility. However, the existence of defects, fluctuations and inaccuracies is ...
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Open AccessAtomic-scale structure and properties of highly stable antiphase boundary defects in Fe3O4
The complex and intriguing properties of the ferrimagnetic half metal magnetite (Fe3O4) are of continuing fundamental interest as well as being important for practical applications in spintronics, magnetism, cata...
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Open AccessAtomic-Scale Observation of Migration and Coalescence of Au Nanoclusters on YSZ Surface by Aberration-Corrected STEM
Unraveling structural dynamics of noble metal nanoclusters on oxide supports is critical to understanding reaction process and origin of catalytic activity in heterogeneous catalysts. Here, we show that aberra...