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Structuring white rice with gellan gum reduces the glycemic response in healthy humans (2024)
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Alshammari, N. A., Riches, K., Muttakin, S., Hoad, C. L., Strkalj, L., Gouseti, O., Bakalis, S., Lovegrove, A., Spiller, R. C., Gowland, P. A., Aithal, G. P., Yakubov, G. E., Taylor, M. A., & Marciani, L. (2024). Structuring white rice with gellan gum reduces the glycemic response in healthy humans. Food Research International, 196, Article 115090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2024.115090

White rice has a high glycemic index and its consumption has been linked to an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes mellitus, increased diabetes associated complications and obesity. In recent in vitro studies we have shown that addition of f... Read More about Structuring white rice with gellan gum reduces the glycemic response in healthy humans.

High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy (2024)
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Makarovsky, O., Hill, R. J. A., Cheng, T. S., Summerfield, A., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Mellor, C. J., Patanè, A., Eaves, L., Novikov, S. V., & Beton, P. H. (2024). High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy. Communications Materials, 5(1), Article 189. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00633-x

Graphene placed on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has received significant interest due to its excellent electrical performance and physics phenomena, such as superlattice Dirac points. Direct molecular beam epitaxy growth of graphene on hBN offers an... Read More about High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy.

The effect of cosmic web filaments on galaxy evolution (2024)
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O'Kane, C. J., Kuchner, U., Gray, M. E., & Aragón-Salamanca, A. (2024). The effect of cosmic web filaments on galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(3), 1682-1699. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2142

Galaxy properties are known to be affected by their environment. This is well established for the extremes of the density scales, between the high-density cluster environment and the low-density field. It is however not fully understood how the inter... Read More about The effect of cosmic web filaments on galaxy evolution.

The JWST EXCELS survey: Too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 (2024)
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Carnall, A. C., Cullen, F., Mclure, R. J., Mcleod, D. J., Begley, R., Donnan, C. T., Dunlop, J. S., Shapley, A. E., Rowlands, K., Almaini, O., Arellano-Córdova, K. Z., Barrufet, L., Cimatti, A., Ellis, R. S., Grogin, N. A., Hamadouche, M. L., Illingworth, G. D., Koekemoer, A. M., Leung, H.-H., Lovell, C. C., …Wild, V. (2024). The JWST EXCELS survey: Too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(1), 325–348. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2092

We report ultra-deep, medium-resolution spectroscopic observations for 4 quiescent galaxies with log 10 (M * /M ⊙) > 11 at 3 < z < 5. These data were obtained with JWST NIRSpec as part of the Early eXtragalactic Continuum and Emission Line Science (E... Read More about The JWST EXCELS survey: Too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5.

RMS asymmetry: a robust metric of galaxy shapes in images with varied depth and resolution (2024)
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Sazonova, E., Morgan, C. R., Balogh, M., Alatalo, K., Benavides, J. A., Bluck, A., Brough, S., Busa, I., Demarco, R., Donevski, D., Figueira, M., Martin, G., Mullaney, J. R., Rodriguez-Gomez, V., Román, J., & Rowlands, K. (in press). RMS asymmetry: a robust metric of galaxy shapes in images with varied depth and resolution. Open Journal of Astrophysics, 7, https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.123524

Structural disturbances, such as galaxy mergers or instabilities, are key candidates for driving galaxy evolution, so it is important to detect and quantify galaxies hosting these disturbances spanning a range of masses, environments, and cosmic time... Read More about RMS asymmetry: a robust metric of galaxy shapes in images with varied depth and resolution.

Impact of calcined temperatures on the crystalline parameters, morphological, energy band gap, electrochemical, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and hemolysis behavior of nanocrystalline tin oxide (2024)
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Gajendiran, J., Gnanam, S., Shynu, R. K., Ramana Ramya, J., Kavimani, V., Vijayalakshmi, R., Ramachandran, K., Thanigai Arul, K., Henini, M., Selvalakshmi, S., Venkatesh Bharathi, N., Gokul Raj, S., & Ramesh Kumar, G. (2024). Impact of calcined temperatures on the crystalline parameters, morphological, energy band gap, electrochemical, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and hemolysis behavior of nanocrystalline tin oxide. Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 101(11), Article 101370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jics.2024.101370

To construct a battery, the precipitation-synthesized SnO2 products at 450 °C and 650 °C were separately taken and mixed with graphite as the anode and PbO2,V2O5, and graphite materials as cathode materials to make the pellets and e... Read More about Impact of calcined temperatures on the crystalline parameters, morphological, energy band gap, electrochemical, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and hemolysis behavior of nanocrystalline tin oxide.

de Sitter vacua in O(d,d) invariant cosmology (2024)
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Liu, Y., Padilla, A., Saffin, P. M., & Smith, R. G. C. (2024). de Sitter vacua in O(d,d) invariant cosmology. Physical Review D, 110(6), Article 063522. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.063522

We perform a thorough analysis of de Sitter solutions in O⁡(𝑑,𝑑) invariant cosmologies. Starting with a homogeneous and isotropic framework we examine conditions for the existence of such solutions to the vacuum field equations, nonperturbative in 𝛼′... Read More about de Sitter vacua in O(d,d) invariant cosmology.

Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation (2024)
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Brown, H. J., Martin, G., Pearce, F. R., Hatch, N. A., Bahé, Y. M., & Dubois, Y. (2024). Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(1), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2084

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters made up of intergalactic stars is termed the intracluster light (ICL). Although there is a developing understanding of the mechanisms by which the ICL is formed, no strong consensus has yet been reache... Read More about Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation.

Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics (2024)
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Shao, X.-Q., Su, S.-L., Li, L., Nath, R., Wu, J.-H., & Li, W. (2024). Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211071

Dense atom ensembles with Rydberg excitations display intriguing collective effects mediated by their strong, long-range dipole–dipole interactions. These collective effects, often modeled using Rydberg superatoms, have gained significant attention a... Read More about Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics.

Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive (2024)
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Swift, M. R., & Smith, M. I. (2024). Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive. Soft Matter, 20(35), 7038-7043. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00566j

The strength of interparticle interactions in a granular system controls how a collection of insulating particles flow, cohere and fragment. Forces due to electrostatic charging, particularly in free-fall or low gravity environments, can dominate the... Read More about Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive.