Unconventional route to dual-shelled organolead halide perovskite nanocrystals with controlled dimensions, surface chemistry, and stabilities.

abstract：:Animals, humans, and multi-robot systems operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is paramount. An effective collective response requires suitable information transfer among agents and thus critically depends on the interaction network. To investigate the influence of the...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Mateo D,Horsevad N,Hassani V,Chamanbaz M,Bouffanais R

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Grippers are widely used for the gripping, manipulation, and assembly of objects with a wide range of scales, shapes, and quantities in research, industry, and our daily lives. A simple yet universal solution is very challenging. Here, we manage to address this challenge utilizing a simple shape memory polymer (SMP) b...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Linghu C,Zhang S,Wang C,Yu K,Li C,Zeng Y,Zhu H,Jin X,You Z,Song J

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Paleogene surface height and paleoenvironment for the core area of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remain critically unresolved. Here, we report the discovery of the youngest well-preserved fossil palm leaves from Tibet. They were recovered from the Late Paleogene (Chattian), ca. 25.5 ± 0.5 million years, p...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Su T,Farnsworth A,Spicer RA,Huang J,Wu FX,Liu J,Li SF,Xing YW,Huang YJ,Deng WY,Tang H,Xu CL,Zhao F,Srivastava G,Valdes PJ,Deng T,Zhou ZK

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Photonic crystal nanocavities, which have modal volumes of the order of a cubic wavelength in the material, are of great interest as flexible platforms for manipulating photons. Recent developments in ultra-high quality factor nanocavities with long photon lifetimes have encouraged us to develop an ultra-compact and f...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Konoike R,Nakagawa H,Nakadai M,Asano T,Tanaka Y,Noda S

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered surfaces with reversibly switching interfacial properties, such as wettability and liquid repellency, are highly desirable in diverse application fields but are rare. We have developed a general concept to prepare metallic porous surfaces with exceptionally powerful wettability switch capabilities and liqui...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Liu Y,Zhao L,Lin J,Yang S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidyl arginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) is a nuclear enzyme that converts arginine residues to citrulline. Although increasingly implicated in inflammatory disease and cancer, the mechanism of action of PAD4 and its functionally relevant pathways remains unclear. E2F transcription factors are a family of master regulator...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Ghari F,Quirke AM,Munro S,Kawalkowska J,Picaud S,McGouran J,Subramanian V,Muth A,Williams R,Kessler B,Thompson PR,Fillipakopoulos P,Knapp S,Venables PJ,La Thangue NB

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ontogenetic studies provide clues for understanding important paleobiological aspects of extinct species. When compared to that of modern humans, the adult Neanderthal thorax was shorter, deeper, and wider. This is related to the wide Neanderthal body and is consistent with their hypothetical large requirements for en...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： García-Martínez D,Bastir M,Gómez-Olivencia A,Maureille B,Golovanova L,Doronichev V,Akazawa T,Kondo O,Ishida H,Gascho D,Zollikofer CPE,de León MP,Heuzé Y

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations in Earth's orbit pace the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Quaternary, but the mechanisms that transform regional and seasonal variations in solar insolation into glacial-interglacial cycles are still elusive. Here, we present transient simulations of coevolution of climate, ice sheets, and carbon cycle o...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Willeit M,Ganopolski A,Calov R,Brovkin V

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro selection of antibodies from large repertoires of immunoglobulin (Ig) combining sites using combinatorial libraries is a powerful tool, with great potential for generating in vivo scavengers for toxins. However, addition of a maturation function is necessary to enable these selected antibodies to more closely...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Smirnov IV,Golovin AV,Chatziefthimiou SD,Stepanova AV,Peng Y,Zolotareva OI,Belogurov AA Jr,Kurkova IN,Ponomarenko NA,Wilmanns M,Blackburn GM,Gabibov AG,Lerner RA

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) technology can specifically silence the expression of a target gene and has emerged as a promising therapeutic method to treat cancer. In the present study, we showed that natural halloysite nanotube (HNT)-assisted delivery of an active small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting receptor-interacti...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Liu J,Zhang Y,Zeng Q,Zeng H,Liu X,Wu P,Xie H,He L,Long Z,Lu X,Xiao M,Zhu Y,Bo H,Cao K

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfluidic devices fabricated via soft lithography have demonstrated compelling applications such as lab-on-a-chip diagnostics, DNA microarrays, and cell-based assays. These technologies could be further developed by directly integrating microfluidics with electronic sensors and curvilinear substrates as well as imp...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Su R,Wen J,Su Q,Wiederoder MS,Koester SJ,Uzarski JR,McAlpine MC

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in van der Waals heterostructures to demonstrate the emergence of a strong proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene. By performing spin transport and pr...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Khokhriakov D,Cummings AW,Song K,Vila M,Karpiak B,Dankert A,Roche S,Dash SP

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical stacking is widely viewed as a promising approach for designing advanced functionalities using two-dimensional (2D) materials. Combining crystallographically commensurate materials in these 2D stacks has been shown to result in rich new electronic structure, magnetotransport, and optical properties. In this c...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Vargas A,Liu F,Lane C,Rubin D,Bilgin I,Hennighausen Z,DeCapua M,Bansil A,Kar S

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the existing elemental characterization techniques, particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) and energy-dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectroscopy are two of the most widely used in different scientific and technological fields. Here, we present the first quantitative laser-driven PIXE and laser-driven EDX experimental i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Mirani F,Maffini A,Casamichiela F,Pazzaglia A,Formenti A,Dellasega D,Russo V,Vavassori D,Bortot D,Huault M,Zeraouli G,Ospina V,Malko S,Apiñaniz JI,Pérez-Hernández JA,De Luis D,Gatti G,Volpe L,Pola A,Passoni M

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of repair is widely used by nature to heal molecules such as proteins, lipids, sugars, and DNA that are damaged by hydrogen atom abstraction resulting from oxidative stress. We show that this strategy, rather undocumented in the field of synthetic organic chemistry, can be used in a radical chain reaction ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Povie G,Suravarapu SR,Bircher MP,Mojzes MM,Rieder S,Renaud P

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an approach to print composite polymers in high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) architectures that can be rapidly transformed to a new permanent configuration directly by heating. The permanent shape of a component results from the programmed time evolution of the printed shape upon heating via the desig...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Ding Z,Yuan C,Peng X,Wang T,Qi HJ,Dunn ML

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:While the ecological impacts of fishing the waters beyond national jurisdiction (the "high seas") have been widely studied, the economic rationale is more difficult to ascertain because of scarce data on the costs and revenues of the fleets that fish there. Newly compiled satellite data and machine learning now allow ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Sala E,Mayorga J,Costello C,Kroodsma D,Palomares MLD,Pauly D,Sumaila UR,Zeller D

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The wiring of vertebrate and invertebrate brains provides the anatomical skeleton for cognition and behavior. Connections among brain regions are characterized by heterogeneous strength that is parsimoniously described by the wiring cost and homophily principles. Moreover, brains exhibit a characteristic global networ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Goulas A,Betzel RF,Hilgetag CC

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit coupling in proximity to a superconductor is predicted to display Majorana edge states emerging under a properly oriented magnetic field. The experimental investigation of these exotic states requires assessing the one-dimensional (1D) character of the nanowire and under...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Estrada Saldaña JC,Žitko R,Cleuziou JP,Lee EJH,Zannier V,Ercolani D,Sorba L,Aguado R,De Franceschi S

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon taxes are widely regarded as a potentially effective and economically efficient policy instrument for decarbonizing the global energy supply and thus limiting global warming. The main obstacle is political feasibility because of opposition from citizens and industry. Earmarking revenues from carbon taxation for...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Beiser-McGrath LF,Bernauer T

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy band engineering is of fundamental importance in nanoelectronics. Compared to chemical approaches such as doping and surface functionalization, electrical and optical methods provide greater flexibility that enables continuous, reversible, and in situ band tuning on electronic devices of various kinds. In this ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wu E,Xie Y,Zhang J,Zhang H,Hu X,Liu J,Zhou C,Zhang D

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change on ecological and social systems. Using an ensemble of climate-marine ecosystem and economic models, we explore the effects of implementing the Agreement on fish, fishers, and seafood consumers worldwide. We find that implementing the Agreeme...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Sumaila UR,Tai TC,Lam VWY,Cheung WWL,Bailey M,Cisneros-Montemayor AM,Chen OL,Gulati SS

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely applied in bone repair because of its superior biocompatibility. Recently, a proliferation-suppressive effect of HA nanoparticles (n-HA) against various cancer cells was reported. This study was aimed at assessing the translational value of n-HA both as a bone-regenerating material ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Zhang K,Zhou Y,Xiao C,Zhao W,Wu H,Tang J,Li Z,Yu S,Li X,Min L,Yu Z,Wang G,Wang L,Zhang K,Yang X,Zhu X,Tu C,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the biophotonic gyroid material in butterfly wing scales is an exceptional feat of evolutionary engineering of functional nanostructures. It is hypothesized that this nanostructure forms by chitin polymerization inside a convoluted membrane of corresponding shape in the endoplasmic reticulum. However,...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wilts BD,Apeleo Zubiri B,Klatt MA,Butz B,Fischer MG,Kelly ST,Spiecker E,Steiner U,Schröder-Turk GE

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and animals have a "number sense," an innate capability to intuitively assess the number of visual items in a set, its numerosity. This capability implies that mechanisms to extract numerosity indwell the brain's visual system, which is primarily concerned with visual object recognition. Here, we show that netw...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Nasr K,Viswanathan P,Nieder A

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-entropy alloys exhibit exceptional mechanical properties at cryogenic temperatures, due to the activation of twinning in addition to dislocation slip. The coexistence of multiple deformation pathways raises an important question regarding how individual deformation mechanisms compete or synergize during plastic d...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Naeem M,He H,Zhang F,Huang H,Harjo S,Kawasaki T,Wang B,Lan S,Wu Z,Wang F,Wu Y,Lu Z,Zhang Z,Liu CT,Wang XL

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetics is a paradigm-changing new method to study and manipulate the behavior of cells with light. Following major advances of the used genetic constructs over the last decade, the light sources required for optogenetic control are now receiving increased attention. We report a novel optogenetic illumination pla...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Steude A,Witts EC,Miles GB,Gather MC

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how surfaces direct nucleation is a complex problem that limits our ability to predict and control crystal formation. We here address this challenge using high-speed imaging to identify and quantify the sites at which ice nucleates in water droplets on the two natural cleavage faces of macroscopic feldsp...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Holden MA,Whale TF,Tarn MD,O'Sullivan D,Walshaw RD,Murray BJ,Meldrum FC,Christenson HK

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze a collection of empirical networks in a wide spectrum of disciplines and show that strong non-normality is ubiquitous in network science. Dynamical processes evolving on non-normal networks exhibit a peculiar behavior, as initial small disturbances may undergo a transient phase and be strongly amplified in ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Asllani M,Lambiotte R,Carletti T

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular and the molecular mechanisms by which long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) may regulate presynaptic function and neuronal activity are largely unexplored. Here, we established an integrated screening strategy to discover lncRNAs implicated in neurotransmitter and synaptic vesicle release. With this approach, we ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Keihani S,Kluever V,Mandad S,Bansal V,Rahman R,Fritsch E,Gomes LC,Gärtner A,Kügler S,Urlaub H,Wren JD,Bonn S,Rizzoli SO,Fornasiero EF

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00