Chemical control over the energy-level alignment in a two-terminal junction.

abstract：:Perovskite solar cells present one of the most prominent photovoltaic technologies, yet their stability, scalability, and engineering at the molecular level remain challenging. We demonstrate a concept of multifunctional molecular modulation of scalable and operationally stable perovskite solar cells that exhibit exce...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bi D,Li X,Milić JV,Kubicki DJ,Pellet N,Luo J,LaGrange T,Mettraux P,Emsley L,Zakeeruddin SM,Grätzel M

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Because monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have exceptional specificity and favorable pharmacology, substantial efforts have been made to functionalize them, either with potent cytotoxins, biologics, radionuclides, or fluorescent groups for therapeutic benefit and/or use as theranostic agents. To exploit our recently discov...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bzymek KP,Puckett JW,Zer C,Xie J,Ma Y,King JD,Goodstein LH,Avery KN,Colcher D,Singh G,Horne DA,Williams JC

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional implementations of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy typically spatially average over ~1010 chromophores spread over ~104 micron square area, limiting their ability to characterize spatially heterogeneous samples. Here we present a variation of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy that is capable...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tiwari V,Matutes YA,Gardiner AT,Jansen TLC,Cogdell RJ,Ogilvie JP

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infects 30% of all humans and kills someone every 20-30 s. Here we report genome-wide binding for ~80% of all predicted MTB transcription factors (TFs), and assayed global expression following induction of each TF. The MTB DNA-binding network consists of ~16,000 binding events from 154...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Minch KJ,Rustad TR,Peterson EJ,Winkler J,Reiss DJ,Ma S,Hickey M,Brabant W,Morrison B,Turkarslan S,Mawhinney C,Galagan JE,Price ND,Baliga NS,Sherman DR

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in northeast Mongolia is, to our knowledge, the only Pleistocene hominin fossil found in the country. It was initially described as an individual with possible archaic affinities, but its ancestry has been debated since the discovery. Here, we determine the age of the Salkhit sku...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Devièse T,Massilani D,Yi S,Comeskey D,Nagel S,Nickel B,Ribechini E,Lee J,Tseveendorj D,Gunchinsuren B,Meyer M,Pääbo S,Higham T

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Electric eels (Electrophorus electricus) are legendary for their ability to incapacitate fish, humans, and horses with hundreds of volts of electricity. The function of this output as a weapon has been obvious for centuries but its potential role for electroreception has been overlooked. Here it is shown that electric...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Catania KC

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroenteritis accounts for nearly 500,000 deaths in children younger than 5 years annually. Although probiotics have been touted as having the potential to expedite diarrhea resolution, recent clinical trials question their effectiveness. A potential explanation is a shift in pathogens following the introduction of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Freedman SB,Xie J,Nettel-Aguirre A,Pang XL,Chui L,Williamson-Urquhart S,Schnadower D,Schuh S,Sherman PM,Lee BE,Gouin S,Farion KJ,Poonai N,Hurley KF,Qiu Y,Ghandi B,Lloyd C,Finkelstein Y,Pediatric Emergency Research Can

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9 has led to great advances in gene editing for a broad spectrum of applications. To further the utility of Cas9 there have been efforts to achieve temporal control over its nuclease activity. While different approaches have focused on regulation of CRISPR interference or editing in mammalian cells, none of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iwasaki RS,Ozdilek BA,Garst AD,Choudhury A,Batey RT

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect vectors are required for the transmission of many species of parasitic nematodes, but the mechanisms by which the vectors and nematodes coordinate their life cycles are poorly understood. Here, we report that ascarosides, an evolutionarily conserved family of nematode pheromones, are produced not only by a plan...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao L,Zhang X,Wei Y,Zhou J,Zhang W,Qin P,Chinta S,Kong X,Liu Y,Yu H,Hu S,Zou Z,Butcher RA,Sun J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition metal-catalyzed enantioselective Sonogashira-type oxidative C(sp3)-C(sp) coupling of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds with terminal alkynes has remained a prominent challenge. The difficulties mainly stem from the regiocontrol in unactivated C(sp3)-H bond functionalization and the inhibition of readily occurring ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang ZH,Dong XY,Du XY,Gu QS,Li ZL,Liu XY

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During apoptosis, Bak and Bax are activated by BH3-only proteins binding to the α2-α5 hydrophobic groove; Bax is also activated via a rear pocket. Here we report that antibodies can directly activate Bak and mitochondrial Bax by binding to the α1-α2 loop. A monoclonal antibody (clone 7D10) binds close to α1 in non-act...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iyer S,Anwari K,Alsop AE,Yuen WS,Huang DC,Carroll J,Smith NA,Smith BJ,Dewson G,Kluck RM

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the chemical composition and molecular structure of materials. At the nanometer scale, NMR has the prospect of mapping the atomic-scale structure of individual molecules, provided a method that can sensitively detect single nuclei and mea...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zopes J,Cujia KS,Sasaki K,Boss JM,Itoh KM,Degen CL

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast lacks dedicated photoreceptors; however, blue light still causes pronounced oscillations of the transcription factor Msn2 into and out of the nucleus. Here we show that this poorly understood phenomenon is initiated by a peroxisomal oxidase, which converts light into a hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) signal that is sen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bodvard K,Peeters K,Roger F,Romanov N,Igbaria A,Welkenhuysen N,Palais G,Reiter W,Toledano MB,Käll M,Molin M

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium metal batteries have been considerably limited by the problems of uncontrolled dendritic lithium formation and the highly reactive nature of lithium with electrolytes. Herein, we have developed functional porous bilayer composite separators by simply blade-coating polyacrylamide-grafted graphene oxide molecula...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li C,Liu S,Shi C,Liang G,Lu Z,Fu R,Wu D

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Valosin-containing protein (VCP, also called p97) is an essential and highly conserved adenosine triphosphate-dependent chaperone implicated in a wide range of cellular processes in eukaryotes, and mild VCP mutations can cause severe neurodegenerative disease. Here we show that mammalian VCP is trimethylated on Lys315...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kernstock S,Davydova E,Jakobsson M,Moen A,Pettersen S,Mælandsmo GM,Egge-Jacobsen W,Falnes PØ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic conjugated polymers demonstrate great potential in transistors, solar cells and light-emitting diodes, whose performances are fundamentally governed by charge transport. However, the morphology-property relationships and the underpinning charge transport mechanisms remain unclear. Particularly, whether the non...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang J,Niu J,Shao B,Yang G,Lu C,Li M,Zhou Z,Chuai X,Chen J,Lu N,Huang B,Wang Y,Li L,Liu M

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent levelling of global mean temperatures after the late 1990s, the so-called global warming hiatus or slowdown, ignited a surge of scientific interest into natural global mean surface temperature variability, observed temperature biases, and climate communication, but many questions remain about how these find...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Johnson NC,Xie SP,Kosaka Y,Li X

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut-derived orexigenic peptide hormone ghrelin enhances neuronal firing in the substantia nigra pars compacta, where dopaminergic neurons modulate the function of the nigrostriatal system for motor coordination. Here we describe a novel mechanism by which ghrelin enhances firing of nigral dopaminergic neurons by i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shi L,Bian X,Qu Z,Ma Z,Zhou Y,Wang K,Jiang H,Xie J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In just 20 years of history, the field of optomechanics has achieved impressive progress, stepping into the quantum regime just 5 years ago. Such remarkable advance relies on the technological revolution of nano-optomechanical systems, whose sensitivity towards thermal decoherence is strongly limited due to their ultr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tavernarakis A,Stavrinadis A,Nowak A,Tsioutsios I,Bachtold A,Verlot P

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanocrystal quantum dots are attractive materials for applications as nanoscale light sources. One impediment to these applications is fluctuations of single-dot emission intensity, known as blinking. Recent progress in colloidal synthesis has produced nonblinking nanocrystals; however, the physics underlying blinking...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Galland C,Ghosh Y,Steinbrück A,Hollingsworth JA,Htoon H,Klimov VI

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien species accumulations across regions and taxa. Using a novel database of 45,813 first records of 16,926 established alien species, we show that ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Seebens H,Blackburn TM,Dyer EE,Genovesi P,Hulme PE,Jeschke JM,Pagad S,Pyšek P,Winter M,Arianoutsou M,Bacher S,Blasius B,Brundu G,Capinha C,Celesti-Grapow L,Dawson W,Dullinger S,Fuentes N,Jäger H,Kartesz J,Kenis M

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound sensors have wide applications across science and technology. However, improved sensitivity is required for both miniaturisation and increased spatial resolution. Here, we introduce cavity optomechanical ultrasound sensing, where dual optical and mechanical resonances enhance the ultrasound signal. We achie...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Basiri-Esfahani S,Armin A,Forstner S,Bowen WP

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing processing-structure-property relationships for monolayer materials is crucial for a range of applications spanning optics, catalysis, electronics and energy. Presently, for molybdenum disulfide, a promising catalyst for artificial photosynthesis, considerable debate surrounds the structure/property relat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chou SS,Sai N,Lu P,Coker EN,Liu S,Artyushkova K,Luk TS,Kaehr B,Brinker CJ

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic mutations predispose the serine protease inhibitor α1-antitrypsin to misfolding and polymerisation within hepatocytes, causing liver disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This misfolding occurs via a transiently populated intermediate state, but our structural understanding of this process is limi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jagger AM,Waudby CA,Irving JA,Christodoulou J,Lomas DA

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary bone tumor with poor prognosis. Through RNA-sequencing of 100,987 individual cells from 7 primary, 2 recurrent, and 2 lung metastatic osteosarcoma lesions, 11 major cell clusters are identified based on unbiased clustering of gene expression profiles and canonical markers. The...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou Y,Yang D,Yang Q,Lv X,Huang W,Zhou Z,Wang Y,Zhang Z,Yuan T,Ding X,Tang L,Zhang J,Yin J,Huang Y,Yu W,Wang Y,Zhou C,Su Y,He A,Sun Y,Shen Z,Qian B,Meng W,Fei J,Yao Y,Pan X,Chen P,Hu H

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital polymers with precisely ordered units acting as the coded 0- or 1-bit, are introduced as a promising option for molecular data storage. However, the pursuit of better performance in terms of high storage capacity and useful functions never stops. Herein, we propose a concept of an information-coded 2D digital ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang Z,Shi Q,Guo J,Meng F,Zhang Y,Lu Y,Qian Z,Li X,Zhou N,Zhang Z,Zhu X

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The most explosive basaltic scoria cone eruption yet documented (>20 km high plumes) occurred at Sunset Crater (Arizona) ca. 1085 AD by undetermined eruptive mechanisms. We present melt inclusion analysis, including bubble contents by Raman spectroscopy, yielding high total CO2 (approaching 6000 ppm) and S (~2000 ppm)...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Allison CM,Roggensack K,Clarke AB

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Quasicrystals, materials with aperiodic long-range order, have been found in intermetallics, soft materials such as colloids and supermolecules, and also in two-dimensional monolayer films. Here we present the first example of three-dimensional growth of a single-element quasicrystalline film. Using a hitherto unexplo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sharma HR,Nozawa K,Smerdon JA,Nugent PJ,McLeod I,Dhanak VR,Shimoda M,Ishii Y,Tsai AP,McGrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials with a negative Poisson's ratio, also known as auxetic materials, exhibit unusual and counterintuitive mechanical behaviour-becoming fatter in cross-section when stretched. Such behaviour is mostly attributed to some special re-entrant or hinged geometric structures regardless of the chemical composition and...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu L,Yan Q,Ruzsinszky A

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxide-ion conductors have found applications in various electrochemical devices, such as solid-oxide fuel cells, gas sensors, and separation membranes. Dion-Jacobson phases are known for their rich magnetic and electrical properties; however, there have been no reports on oxide-ion conduction in this family of materia...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang W,Fujii K,Niwa E,Hagihala M,Kamiyama T,Yashima M

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00