Location of the skeletons found in room A. Credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park. Almost 2,000 years ago,…
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Development of a 3D printed perfusable in vitro blood–brain barrier model for use as a scalable screening tool
Despite recent technological advances in drug discovery, the success rate for neurotherapeutics remains alarmingly low compared…
Study finds most Afghans support women’s rights, especially when men think of their daughters
Children playing in Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan. Credit: Firoz Sidiqy, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A majority of people…
Scientists develop new AI method to create material ‘fingerprints’
The AI-NERD model learns to produce a unique fingerprint for each sample of XPCS data. Mapping…
1,5-Hydrogen atom transfer of α-iminyl radical cations: a new platform for relay annulation for pyridine derivatives and axially chiral heterobiaryls
The exploitation of new reactive species and novel transformation modes for their synthetic applications have significantly…
Understanding contact electrification via direct covalent bond cleavage of polymer chains for ultrahigh electrostatic charge density
The ancient and pervasively observed phenomenon of contact electrification (CE) is generally recognized to involve the…
Synthesis of a new 1,2,3-triazoles scaffold using a heterogeneous multifunctional copper photocatalyst for in vitro investigation via click reaction
In this work, a new ternary-layered double-hydroxide photocatalyst, denoted as Fe3O4/AlZn–Cu, was synthesized using a specific…
Highly intense NIR emissive Cu4Pt2 bimetallic clusters featuring Pt(i)–Cu4–Pt(i) sandwich kernel
Metal nanoclusters (NCs) capable of near-infrared (NIR) photoluminescence (PL) are gaining increasing interest for their potential…
Photo-thermal synergistic CO2 hydrogenation towards CO over PtRh bimetal-decorated GaN nanowires/Si
Photo-thermal-synergistic hydrogenation is a promising strategy for upcycling carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals by maximally…
Role of the heptagonal channel of crystalline Mo3VOx catalyst for the selective oxidation of acrolein and methacrolein
Crystalline orthorhombic Mo3VOx (MoVO) is a promising catalyst for the selective oxidation of acrolein (ACR) and…