Unusual behavior of cuprates explained by heterogeneous charge localization.

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：:Plants produce a myriad of taxonomically restricted specialized metabolites. This diversity-and our ability to correlate genotype with phenotype-makes the evolution of these ecologically and medicinally important compounds interesting and experimentally tractable. Trichomes of tomato and other nightshade family plants...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Leong BJ,Lybrand DB,Lou YR,Fan P,Schilmiller AL,Last RL

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the remarkable excitonic effects and controlling the exciton binding energies in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are crucial in unlocking their full potential for use in future photonic and optoelectronic devices. Here, we demonstrate large excitonic effects and gate-tunable exciton binding energies ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Qiu Z,Trushin M,Fang H,Verzhbitskiy I,Gao S,Laksono E,Yang M,Lyu P,Li J,Su J,Telychko M,Watanabe K,Taniguchi T,Wu J,Neto AHC,Yang L,Eda G,Adam S,Lu J

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The homotrimeric molecular chaperone Skp of Gram-negative bacteria facilitates the transport of outer membrane proteins across the periplasm. It has been unclear how its activity is modulated during its functional cycle. Here, we report an atomic-resolution characterization of the Escherichia coli Skp monomer-trimer t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Mas G,Burmann BM,Sharpe T,Claudi B,Bumann D,Hiller S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular dynamics govern earthquakes, avalanches, and landslides and are of fundamental importance in a variety of industries ranging from energy to pharmaceuticals to agriculture. Nonetheless, our understanding of the underlying physics is poor because we lack spatially and temporally resolved experimental measuremen...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Penn A,Tsuji T,Brunner DO,Boyce CM,Pruessmann KP,Müller CR

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a physically inspired model and an efficient algorithm to infer hierarchical rankings of nodes in directed networks. It assigns real-valued ranks to nodes rather than simply ordinal ranks, and it formalizes the assumption that interactions are more likely to occur between individuals with similar ranks. It ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： De Bacco C,Larremore DB,Moore C

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research on piezoelectric materials is predominantly devoted to enhancing the piezoelectric coefficient, but overlooks its sign, largely because almost all of them exhibit positive longitudinal piezoelectricity. The only experimentally known exception is ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride) and its c...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： You L,Zhang Y,Zhou S,Chaturvedi A,Morris SA,Liu F,Chang L,Ichinose D,Funakubo H,Hu W,Wu T,Liu Z,Dong S,Wang J

更新日期：2019-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The wings of the black butterfly, Pachliopta aristolochiae, are covered by micro- and nanostructured scales that harvest sunlight over a wide spectral and angular range. Considering that these properties are particularly attractive for photovoltaic applications, we analyze the contribution of these micro- and nanostru...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Siddique RH,Donie YJ,Gomard G,Yalamanchili S,Merdzhanova T,Lemmer U,Hölscher H

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinatively unsaturated (CUS) iron sites are highly active in catalytic oxidation reactions; however, maintaining the CUS structure of iron during heterogeneous catalytic reactions is a great challenge. Here, we report a strategy to stabilize single-atom CUS iron sites by embedding highly dispersed FeN4 centers in ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Deng D,Chen X,Yu L,Wu X,Liu Q,Liu Y,Yang H,Tian H,Hu Y,Du P,Si R,Wang J,Cui X,Li H,Xiao J,Xu T,Deng J,Yang F,Duchesne PN,Zhang P,Zhou J,Sun L,Li J,Pan X,Bao X

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins are implicated in key macromolecular interactions. However, the molecular forces underlying IDR function within multicomponent assemblies remain elusive. By combining thermodynamic and structural data, we have discovered an allostery-based mechanism regulating the so...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Blus BJ,Koh J,Krolak A,Seo HS,Coutavas E,Blobel G

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing occurrence of moderate to severe intrauterine adhesion (IUA) is seriously affecting the quality of human life. The aim of the study was to establish IUA models in nonhuman primates and to explore the dual repair effects of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (huMSCs) loaded on autocrosslinke...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang L,Yu C,Chang T,Zhang M,Song S,Xiong C,Su P,Xiang W

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful rehabilitation of oropharyngeal swallowing disorders (i.e., dysphagia) requires frequent performance of head/neck exercises that primarily rely on expensive biofeedback devices, often only available in large medical centers. This directly affects treatment compliance and outcomes, and highlights the need to...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kim MK,Kantarcigil C,Kim B,Baruah RK,Maity S,Park Y,Kim K,Lee S,Malandraki JB,Avlani S,Smith A,Sen S,Alam MA,Malandraki G,Lee CH

更新日期：2019-12-13 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：:Plasmonic metasurfaces are a promising route for flat panel display applications due to their full color gamut and high spatial resolution. However, this plasmonic coloration cannot be readily tuned and requires expensive lithographic techniques. Here, we present scalable electrically driven color-changing metasurface...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Peng J,Jeong HH,Lin Q,Cormier S,Liang HL,De Volder MFL,Vignolini S,Baumberg JJ

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Low seismic velocity regions in the mantle and crust are commonly attributed to the presence of silicate melts. Determining melt volume and geometric distribution is fundamental to understanding planetary dynamics. We present a new model for seismic velocity reductions that accounts for the anomalous compressibility o...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Clark AN,Lesher CE

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Large earthquakes occur in rocks undergoing high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphism during subduction. Rhythmic major-element zoning in garnet is a common product of such metamorphism, and one that must record a fundamental subduction process. We argue that rhythmic major-element zoning in subduction zone garnets f...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Viete DR,Hacker BR,Allen MB,Seward GGE,Tobin MJ,Kelley CS,Cinque G,Duckworth AR

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles have been extensively used for inflammation imaging and photodynamic therapy of cancer. However, the major translational barriers to most nanoparticle-based imaging and therapy applications are the limited depth of tissue penetration, inevitable requirement of external irradiation, and poor biocompatibil...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Xu X,An H,Zhang D,Tao H,Dou Y,Li X,Huang J,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is exquisitely activated only during specific cell phases. In the G1 phase, homologous recombination activity is completely suppressed. According to previous reports, the activation of homologous recombination during specific cell phases depends on the kinase activity of cyclin-dependent kinas...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Lim G,Chang Y,Huh WK

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjacent neurons in visual cortex have overlapping receptive fields within and across area boundaries, an arrangement theorized to minimize wiring cost. This constraint is traditionally thought to create retinotopic maps of opposing field signs (mirror and nonmirror visual field representations) in adjacent areas, a c...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Yu HH,Rowley DP,Price NSC,Rosa MGP,Zavitz E

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection results in a spectrum of clinical and histopathologic manifestations. It has been proposed that the environmental and immune pressures associated with different contexts of infection have different consequences for the associated bacterial populations, affecting drug suscepti...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Liu Q,Wei J,Li Y,Wang M,Su J,Lu Y,López MG,Qian X,Zhu Z,Wang H,Gan M,Jiang Q,Fu YX,Takiff HE,Comas I,Li F,Lu X,Fortune SM,Gao Q

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising sea levels will have overwhelmingly negative impacts on coastal communities globally. With previous research focused on how sea-level rise (SLR) affects storm-induced flooding, we show that SLR will also increase both the frequency and the intensity of tsunami-induced flooding, another significant coastal hazar...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Li L,Switzer AD,Wang Y,Chan CH,Qiu Q,Weiss R

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural organoids provide a powerful tool for investigating neural development, modeling neural diseases, screening drugs, and developing cell-based therapies. Somatic cells have previously been reprogrammed by transcription factors (TFs) into sensory ganglion (SG) neurons but not SG organoids. We identify a combinatio...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Xiao D,Deng Q,Guo Y,Huang X,Zou M,Zhong J,Rao P,Xu Z,Liu Y,Hu Y,Shen Y,Jin K,Xiang M

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider silk fiber rapidly assembles from spidroin protein in soluble state via an incompletely understood mechanism. Here, we present an integrated model for silk formation that incorporates the effects of multiple chemical and physical gradients on the different spidroin functional domains. Central to the process is ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Malay AD,Suzuki T,Katashima T,Kono N,Arakawa K,Numata K

更新日期：2020-11-04 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：:Porous materials, which are characterized by the large surface area and percolated nature crucial for transport, play an important role in many technological applications including battery, ion exchange, catalysis, microelectronics, medical diagnosis, and oil recovery. Phase separation of a mixture in such a porous st...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Shimizu R,Tanaka H

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the precise atomic structure of ice surfaces is critical for revealing the mechanisms of physical and chemical phenomena at the surfaces, such as ice growth, melting, and chemical reactions. Nevertheless, no conclusive structure has been established. In this study, noncontact atomic force microscopy was ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kawakami N,Iwata K,Shiotari A,Sugimoto Y

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The control and use of light polarization in optical sciences and engineering are widespread. Despite remarkable developments in polarization-resolved imaging for life sciences, their transposition to strongly scattering media is currently not possible, because of the inherent depolarization effects arising from multi...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： de Aguiar HB,Gigan S,Brasselet S

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Helicobacter pylori is a leading cause of peptic ulceration and gastric cancer worldwide. To achieve colonization of the stomach, this Gram-negative bacterium adheres to Lewis(b) (Le(b)) antigens in the gastric mucosa using its outer membrane protein BabA. Structural information for BabA has been elusive, and thus, it...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hage N,Howard T,Phillips C,Brassington C,Overman R,Debreczeni J,Gellert P,Stolnik S,Winkler GS,Falcone FH

更新日期：2015-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesoscale turbulence in the ocean strongly affects the circulation, water mass formation, and transport of tracers. Little is known, however, about how mixing varies on climate timescales. We present the first time-resolved global dataset of lateral mesoscale eddy diffusivities at the ocean surface, obtained by applyi...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Busecke JJM,Abernathey RP

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00