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Open AccessRobust multiferroic in interfacial modulation synthesized wafer-scale one-unit-cell of chromium sulfide
Multiferroic materials offer a promising avenue for manipulating digital information by leveraging the cross-coupling between ferroelectric and ferromagnetic orders. Despite the ferroelectricity has been uncov...
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Open AccessSingle-molecular insights into the breakpoint of cellulose nanofibers assembly during saccharification
Plant cellulose microfibrils are increasingly employed to produce functional nanofibers and nanocrystals for biomaterials, but their catalytic formation and conversion mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we chara...
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Open AccessPlant cell wall hydrolysis process reveals structure–activity relationships
Recent interest in Populus as a source of renewable energy, combined with its numerous available pretreatment methods, has enabled further research on structural modification and hydrolysis. To improve the biodeg...
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Joint utility optimization for wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting and cooperation
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the limited battery capacity restricts the lifetime of the sensor nodes and thus degrades the system performance. The energy harvesting and cooperation techniques are promis...
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Open AccessAtomic switches of metallic point contacts by plasmonic heating
Electronic switches with nanoscale dimensions satisfy an urgent demand for further device miniaturization. A recent heavily investigated approach for nanoswitches is the use of molecular junctions that employ ...
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Modulation and Control of Charge Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions
The ability to modulate and control charge transport though singlemolecule junction devices is crucial to achieving the ultimate goal of molecular electronics: constructing real-world-applicable electronic com...
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Open AccessSelf-assembly of polycyclic supramolecules using linear metal-organic ligands
Coordination-driven self-assembly as a bottom-up approach has witnessed a rapid growth in building giant structures in the past few decades. Challenges still remain, however, within the construction of giant a...
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Open AccessSupramolecular Kandinsky circles with high antibacterial activity
Nested concentric structures widely exist in nature and designed systems with circles, polygons, polyhedra, and spheres sharing the same center or axis. It still remains challenging to construct discrete neste...
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Open AccessSelf-assembly of a supramolecular hexagram and a supramolecular pentagram
Five- and six-pointed star structures occur frequently in nature as flowers, snow-flakes, leaves and so on. These star-shaped patterns are also frequently used in both functional and artistic man-made architec...
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Open AccessLabel-free biosensing of Salmonella enterica serovars at single-cell level
The emerging nanotechnologies have greatly facilitated the development of label-free biosensors. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to study the molecular mechanism of the reactions for protein an...
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Modulation and Control of Charge Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions
The ability to modulate and control charge transport though single-molecule junction devices is crucial to achieving the ultimate goal of molecular electronics: constructing real-world-applicable electronic co...
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Molecular rectifier composed of DNA with high rectification ratio enabled by intercalation
The predictability, diversity and programmability of DNA make it a leading candidate for the design of functional electronic devices that use single molecules, yet its electron transport properties have not be...
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Open AccessReal-time single molecular study of a pretreated cellulose hydrolysis mode and individual enzyme movement
The main challenges of large-scale biochemical conversion involve the high costs of cellulolytic enzymes and the inefficiency in enzymatic deconstruction of polysaccharides embedded in the complex structure of...
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Open AccessMap** out the structural changes of natural and pretreated plant cell wall surfaces by atomic force microscopy single molecular recognition imaging
Enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass (mainly plant cell walls) is a critical process for biofuel production. This process is greatly hindered by the natural complexity of plant cell walls and limite...
