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    A promising perovskite primary explosive

    A primary explosive is an ideal chemical substance for performing ignition in military and commercial applications. For over 150 years, nearly all of the developed primary explosives have suffered from various...

    Yongan Feng, Jichuan Zhang, Weiguo Cao, Jiaheng Zhang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Taming nitroformate through encapsulation with nitrogen-rich hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks

    Owing to its simple preparation and high oxygen content, nitroformate [C(NO2)3, NF] is an extremely attractive oxidant component for propellants and explosives. However, the poor thermostability of NF-based deri...

    Jichuan Zhang, Yongan Feng, Richard J. Staples, Jiaheng Zhang in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Effects of individual base-pairs on in vivo target search and destruction kinetics of bacterial small RNA

    Base-pairing interactions mediate many intermolecular target recognition events. Even a single base-pair mismatch can cause a substantial difference in activity but how such changes influence the target search...

    Anustup Poddar, Muhammad S. Azam, Tunc Kayikcioglu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Tandem Spinach Array for mRNA Imaging in Living Bacterial Cells

    Live cell RNA imaging using genetically encoded fluorescent labels is an important tool for monitoring RNA activities. A recently reported RNA aptamer-fluorogen system, the Spinach, in which an RNA aptamer bin...

    Jichuan Zhang, **gyi Fei, Benjamin J. Leslie, Kyu Young Han in Scientific Reports (2015)