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Open AccessSilicone-based highly stretchable multifunctional fiber pumps
Recent advancements on electrohydrodynamic (EHD) soft pumps demonstrate their applicability to various fluid-driven systems such as soft robots, wearable devices, and stretchable electronics. In particular, fi...
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Open AccessCelestial two-point functions and rectified dictionary
A naive celestial dictionary causes massless two-point functions to take the delta-function forms in the celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). We rectify the dictionary, involving the shadow transformation ...
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Open AccessEmergent zero-field anomalous Hall effect in a reconstructed rutile antiferromagnetic metal
The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) that emerges in antiferromagnetic metals shows intriguing physics and offers numerous potential applications. Magnets with a rutile crystal structure have recently received atte...
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Open AccessArtificially controlled nanoscale chemical reduction in VO2 through electron beam illumination
Chemical reduction in oxides plays a crucial role in engineering the material properties through structural transformation and electron filling. Controlling the reduction at nanoscale forms a promising pathway...
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Giant bulk piezophotovoltaic effect in 3R-MoS2
Given its innate coupling with wavefunction geometry in solids and its potential to boost the solar energy conversion efficiency, the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) has been of considerable interest in the pa...
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Open AccessPeristaltic micropump using polyvinyl chloride gels with micropatterned surface
This paper presents a pump using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel. PVC gels are compliant, have a simple structure, and exhibit large deformation at voltages in the range of 100–1000 V, which make them suitable fo...
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Open AccessProbiotic-derived heptelidic acid exerts antitumor effects on extraintestinal melanoma through glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity control
Several microorganisms inhabit the mammalian gastrointestinal tract and are associated with the pathogenesis of various diseases, including cancer. Recent studies have indicated that several probiotics produce...
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Open AccessWriting of strain-controlled multiferroic ribbons into MnWO4
Local and low-dimensional structures, such as interfaces, domain walls and structural defects, may exhibit physical properties different from the bulk. Therein, a wide variety of local phases were discovered i...
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Open AccessInsect wing 3D printing
Insects have acquired various types of wings over their course of evolution and have become the most successful terrestrial animals. Consequently, the essence of their excellent environmental adaptability and ...
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Open AccessProbiotic Aspergillus oryzae produces anti-tumor mediator and exerts anti-tumor effects in pancreatic cancer through the p38 MAPK signaling pathway
Intake of probiotics or fermented food produced by some probiotic bacteria is believed to exert anti-tumor functions in various cancers, including pancreatic cancer, because several studies have demonstrated t...
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Open AccessCurrent-induced switching of proximity-induced ferromagnetic surface states in a topological insulator
Electrical manipulation of magnetization could be an essential function for energy-efficient spintronics technology. A magnetic topological insulator, possessing a magnetically gapped surface state with spin-p...
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Creation of magnetic skyrmions by surface acoustic waves
Non-collinear and non-coplanar spin textures, such as chiral domain walls1 and helical or triangular spin structures2,3, bring about diverse functionalities. Among them, magnetic skyrmions, particle-like non-copl...
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Open AccessNonlocal accumulation, chemical potential, and Hall effect of skyrmions in Pt/Co/Ir heterostructure
Magnetic skyrmion is a swirling topological spin texture behaving as an individual particle. It shows a gyro-motion similarly to that of a charged particle under a magnetic field, being led to the transverse s...
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Open AccessElectric-field control of anomalous and topological Hall effects in oxide bilayer thin films
One of the key goals in spintronics is to tame the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) that links spin and motion of electrons, giving rise to intriguing magneto-transport properties in itinerant magnets. Prominent exam...
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Morphological dissection of behavior: thoracic musculature clarifies independent development of jum** mechanisms between sister groups, planthoppers and leafhoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)
Morphological and behavioral characters are frequently examined for comparative studies. Unlike morphology, a single behavioral trait is difficult to subdivide as multiple characters, even when achieved by man...
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Open AccessTerahertz spectroscopy on Faraday and Kerr rotations in a quantum anomalous Hall state
Electrodynamic responses from three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the universal magnetoelectric term constituent of the Lagrangian formalism. The quantized magnetoelectric coupling, w...
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Open AccessNitrogen-containing bisphosphonates inhibit RANKL- and M-CSF-induced osteoclast formation through the inhibition of ERK1/2 and Akt activation
Bisphosphonates are an important class of antiresorptive drugs used in the treatment of metabolic bone diseases. Recent studies have shown that nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates induced apoptosis in rabbit o...
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Open AccessActivation of NF-κB by the RANKL/RANK system up-regulates snail and twist expressions and induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in mammary tumor cell lines
Increased motility and invasiveness of cancer cells are reminiscent of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), which occurs during cancer progression and metastasis. Recent studies have indicated the expr...
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Open AccessTracking 3D Picometer-Scale Motions of Single Nanoparticles with High-Energy Electron Probes
We observed the high-speed anisotropic motion of an individual gold nanoparticle in 3D at the picometer scale using a high-energy electron probe. Diffracted electron tracking (DET) using the electron back-scat...
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Light Effective Mass in the Widely-Dispersed Valence Band of Single Crystalline Rubrene Observed by High-Resolution Angle-Resolved Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
High-resolution angle resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurements were conducted on rubrene single crystals successfully through relief of the sample charging assisted by a laser illumination....
