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Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing (2023)
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Shiffa, M., Dewes, B. T., Bradford, J., Cottam, N. D., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2024). Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing. Small, 20(7), Article 2305865. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305865

2D semiconductors (2SEM) can transform many sectors, from information and communication technology to healthcare. To date, top‐down approaches to their fabrication, such as exfoliation of bulk crystals by “scotch‐tape,” are widely used, but have limi... Read More about Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing.

Room temperature bio-engineered multifunctional carbonates for CO2 sequestration and valorization (2023)
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Mohamed, H., Hkiri, K., Botha, N., Cloete, K., Azizi, S., Ahmed, A. A. Q., …Maaza, M. (in press). Room temperature bio-engineered multifunctional carbonates for CO2 sequestration and valorization. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 16783. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42905-5

This contribution reports, for the first time, on an entirely green bio-engineering approach for the biosynthesis of single phase crystalline 1-D nano-scaled calcite CaCO3. This was validated using H2O as the universal solvent and natural extract of... Read More about Room temperature bio-engineered multifunctional carbonates for CO2 sequestration and valorization.

Liver investigation: Testing marker utility in steatohepatitis (LITMUS): Assessment & validation of imaging modality performance across the NAFLD spectrum in a prospectively recruited cohort study (the LITMUS imaging study): Study protocol (2023)
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Pavlides, M., Mózes, F. E., Akhtar, S., Wonders, K., Cobbold, J., Tunnicliffe, E. M., …Harrison, S. (2023). Liver investigation: Testing marker utility in steatohepatitis (LITMUS): Assessment & validation of imaging modality performance across the NAFLD spectrum in a prospectively recruited cohort study (the LITMUS imaging study): Study protocol. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 134, Article 107352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2023.107352

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the liver manifestation of the metabolic syndrome with global prevalence reaching epidemic levels. Despite the high disease burden in the population only a small proportion of those with NAFLD will develop... Read More about Liver investigation: Testing marker utility in steatohepatitis (LITMUS): Assessment & validation of imaging modality performance across the NAFLD spectrum in a prospectively recruited cohort study (the LITMUS imaging study): Study protocol.

Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade (2023)
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Zheng, R.-H., Su, S.-L., Song, J., Li, W., & Xia, Y. (2023). Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade. Physical Review A, 108(4), Article 042405. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.042405

Multipartite entangled states involving nonlocality are one of the most fascinating characteristics of quantum mechanics. In this work we propose a thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic entangled states with Rydberg dressed atoms. We en... Read More about Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade.

z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: III. Physical properties (2023)
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Berta, S., Stanley, F., Ismail, D., Cox, P., Neri, R., Yang, C., …Vlahakis, C. (2023). z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: III. Physical properties. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, Article A28. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346803

The z-GAL survey observed 137 bright Herschel-selected targets with the IRAM Northern Extended Millimeter Array, with the aim to measure their redshift and study their properties. Several of them have been resolved into multiple sources. Consequently... Read More about z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: III. Physical properties.

z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: I. Overview (2023)
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Cox, P., Neri, R., Berta, S., Ismail, D., Stanley, F., Young, A., …Yang, C. (2023). z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: I. Overview. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, Article A26. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346801

Using the IRAM NOrthern Extended Millimetre Array (NOEMA), we conducted a Large Programme (z-GAL) to measure redshifts for 126 bright galaxies detected in the Herschel Astrophysical Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS), the HerMES Large Mode Survey (HeLMS), a... Read More about z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: I. Overview.

z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: II. Dust properties (2023)
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Ismail, D., Beelen, A., Buat, V., Berta, S., Cox, P., Stanley, F., …Urquhart, S. (2023). z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: II. Dust properties. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, Article A27. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346804

We present the dust properties of 125 bright Herschel galaxies selected from the z-GAL NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey. All the galaxies have precise spectroscopic redshifts in the range 1.3 < z < 5.4. The large instantaneous bandwidth of NOEMA p... Read More about z-GAL: A NOEMA spectroscopic redshift survey of bright Herschel galaxies: II. Dust properties.

The cosmological constant is probably still zero (2023)
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Liu, Y., Padilla, A., & Pedro, F. G. (2023). The cosmological constant is probably still zero. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(10), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10%282023%29014

We consider a wide class of four-dimensional effective field theories in which gravity is coupled to multiple four-forms and their dual scalar fields, with membrane sources charged under the corresponding three-form potentials. Four-form flux, quanti... Read More about The cosmological constant is probably still zero.

Thickness dependence of telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen films of polydimethylsiloxane (2023)
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Sharp, J. S., & Roberts, N. M. (2023). Thickness dependence of telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen films of polydimethylsiloxane. Soft Matter, 19(40), 7796-7803. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm01051a

The thickness dependence of telephone cord blister formation in thin films of solvent swollen polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was studied using a simple imaging setup. Chloroform was deposited on top of PDMS that had been spin coated on to glass slides c... Read More about Thickness dependence of telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen films of polydimethylsiloxane.

Saturation of the anomalous Hall effect at high magnetic fields in altermagnetic RuO2 (2023)
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Tschirner, T., Keßler, P., Gonzalez Betancourt, R. D., Kotte, T., Kriegner, D., Büchner, B., …Veyrat, L. (2023). Saturation of the anomalous Hall effect at high magnetic fields in altermagnetic RuO2. APL Materials, 11(10), Article 101103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160335

Observations of the anomalous Hall effect in RuO2 and MnTe have demonstrated unconventional time-reversal symmetry breaking in the electronic structure of a recently identified new class of compensated collinear magnets, dubbed altermagnets. While in... Read More about Saturation of the anomalous Hall effect at high magnetic fields in altermagnetic RuO2.

Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications (2023)
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Jaafar, A. H., Gee, A., & Kemp, N. T. (2023). Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 56(50), Article 503002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/acfaaa

The electronics market is highly competitive and driven by consumers desire for the latest and most sophisticated devices at the lowest cost. In the last decade there has been increasing interest in printing electronic materials on lightweight and fl... Read More about Printed and flexible organic and inorganic memristor devices for non-volatile memory applications.

Spinning black holes with axion hair (2023)
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Burrage, C., Fernandes, P. G. S., Brito, R., & Cardoso, V. (2023). Spinning black holes with axion hair. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 40(20), Article 205021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/acf9d6

In this work we construct and analyze non-perturbative stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions in general relativity coupled to an electromagnetic and an axion field. The axion field is coupled to the electromagnetic field, which leads... Read More about Spinning black holes with axion hair.

Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation (2023)
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Annie Vinsla, J. V., Vinosha, P. A., Vijayalakshmi, S., Xavier, B., Muthukrishnaraj, A., Ayyar, M., & Henini, M. (2023). Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 34(27), Article 1844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-11255-3

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanocrystals are of greater importance for wastewater remediation, and synthesizing these h-BN nanocrystals with high surface area adds significance. Hence a facile and economically viable hydrothermal technique was ado... Read More about Investigation on ammonia-free scalable cobalt-doped hexagonal boron nitride for environmental remediation.

Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study (2023)
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C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, Raman, B., McCracken, C., Cassar, M. P., Moss, A. J., Finnigan, L., …Francis, S. (2023). Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 11(11), 1003-1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2823%2900262-X

Introduction The multiorgan impact of moderate to severe coronavirus infections in the post-acute phase is still poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate the excess burden of multiorgan abnormalities after hospitalisation with COVID-19, evaluate thei... Read More about Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study.

Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer (2023)
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Cech, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Carollo, F. (2023). Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer. Physical Review Letters, 131(12), Article 120401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.131.120401

Quantum computers have recently become available as noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Already these machines yield a useful environment for research on quantum systems and dynamics. Building on this opportunity, we investigate open-system dyn... Read More about Thermodynamics of Quantum Trajectories on a Quantum Computer.

A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients (2023)
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Bhuiyan, E. H., Chowdhury, M. E., & Glover, P. M. (2023). A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients. IEEE Access, 11, 107004-107018. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3318171

To determine head pose within an MR scanner using measurements of gradient-induced voltage from a multiple coil. A practical implementation of this approach would involve measuring the position-sensitive voltages induced by the imaging gradients rath... Read More about A novel approach to monitor head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients.

Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia (2023)
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Lemine, O., El-Boubbou, K., Orue, I., Ángel García, J., Elansary, M., Ali, R., …Henini, M. (2023). Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 587, Article 171279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171279

Most research groups, including us, utilize calorimetric methods to determine the heat dissipation by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) under an alternating magnetic field (AMF). Herein, we report the heating efficiencies of γ-Fe2O3 and doped γ-Fe2O3 NPs... Read More about Heating efficiency of Gd- and Co-doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles measured by AC magnetometer for magnetic-mediated hyperthermia.

Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit (2023)
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Geißler, A., & Garrahan, J. P. (2023). Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit. Physical Review E, 108(3), Article 034207. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.034207

We study the unitary dynamics of the bosonic quantum East model, a kinetically constrained lattice model which generalizes the quantum East model to arbitrary occupation per site. We consider the semiclassical limit of large (but finite) site occupan... Read More about Slow dynamics and nonergodicity of the bosonic quantum East model in the semiclassical limit.

Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits (2023)
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Astrakhantsev, N., Lin, S.-H., Pollmann, F., & Smith, A. (2023). Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits. Physical Review Research, 5(3), Article 033187. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033187

Simulating time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems using classical numerical approaches has an exponentially growing cost either with evolution time or with the system size. In this work we present a polynomially scaling hybrid quantum-cl... Read More about Time evolution of uniform sequential circuits.

Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (2023)
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Lakshmi, C. B., Venus, S. A., Velanganni, S., Muthukrishnaraj, A., Ayyar, M., & Henini, M. (2023). Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Carbon Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-023-00608-x

Photoanode optimization is a fascinating technique for enlightening the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this present study, V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposites (NCs) were prepa... Read More about Structural, optical and photovoltaic properties of V2O5/ZnO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-V2O5/ZnO nanocomposite photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells.