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    Layer-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...

    Mingfeng Liu, Jiantao Wang, Junwei Hu, Peitao Liu, Haiyang Niu in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Gradient 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 ...

    Jie Huang, Yuyang Kang, Jianan Liu, Tingting Yao, Jianhang Qiu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    The 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...

    Minghui Kang, Haolin Wu, Huanhuan Liu, Wenyu Liu, Mingjia Zhu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Interfacial 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 ...

    Xuexi Yan, Yixiao Jiang, Qianqian **, Tingting Yao, Weizhen Wang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Genomic 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...

    Zefu Wang, Minghui Kang, Jialiang Li, Zhiyang Zhang, Yufei Wang in Nature Communications (2022)

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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...

    Ruishi Qi, Ruochen Shi, Yuehui Li, Yuanwei Sun, Mei Wu, Ning Li, **long Du in Nature (2021)

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    Multi-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...

    Wei Zhang, Yan Li, Lijun Wu, Yandong Duan, Kim Kisslinger in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Genome 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...

    Hong-Qing Ling, Bin Ma, **aoli Shi, Hui Liu, Lingli Dong, Hua Sun, Yinghao Cao in Nature (2018)

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    Learning 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...

    Daoyi Dong, Chengzhi Wu, Chunlin Chen, Bo Qi, Ian R. Petersen in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    In-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...

    Chunlin Chen, Ziyu Hu, Yanfen Li, Limin Liu, Hirotaro Mori in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    In 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...

    Han Wang, Chunlin Chen, Yexin Zhang, Lixia Peng, Song Ma in Nature Communications (2015)

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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-...

    Yanxi Li, Zhongchang Wang, Jianjun Yao, Tiannan Yang in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Misfit 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 ...

    Chunlin Chen, Zhongchang Wang, Takeharu Kato, Naoya Shibata in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Robust 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 ...

    Daoyi Dong, Chunlin Chen, Bo Qi, Ian R. Petersen, Franco Nori in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Atomic-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...

    Keith P. McKenna, Florian Hofer, Daniel Gilks, Vlado K. Lazarov in Nature Communications (2014)

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    Atomic-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...

    Junjie Li, Zhongchang Wang, Chunlin Chen, Sumei Huang in Scientific Reports (2014)