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Nanodiamonds-based non-canonical autophagy inhibitor synergistically induces cell death in oxygen-deprived tumors

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00993G, Communication
Nan Chen, Yuping Han, Yao Luo, Yanfeng Zhou, Xingjie Hu, Yun Yu, Xiaodong Xie, Min Yin, Jinli Sun, Wenying Zhong, Yun Zhao, Haiyun Song, Chunhai Fan
Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a key role in tumor progression and has been actively explored as a promising target for cancer therapy. One key challenge in TME-based therapy lies in...
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Bi2OS2: A Direct-Gap Two-dimensional Semiconductor with High Carrier Mobility and Surface Electron States

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01001C, Communication
Xiwen Zhang, Bing Wang, Xianghong Niu, Yunhai Li, Yunfei Chen, Jinlan Wang
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with desirable band gap and high carrier mobility are highly sought for future application in nanoelectronics. Herein, by means of first-principles calculations, we predict that a new...
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Direct ink writing of organic and carbon aerogels

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00603B, Communication
Swetha Chandrasekaran, Bin Yao, Tianyu Liu, Wang Xiao, Yu Song, Fang Qian, Cheng Zhu, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Yat Li, Marcus A. Worsley
Additive manufacturing is used to overcome inherent aerogel limitations. 3D printed aerogels simultaneously exhibit large capacitance and fast ion transport in millimeter-thick electrodes.
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Reconstructing Bimetallic Carbide Mo6Ni6C for Carbon Interconnected MoNi Alloys to Boost Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00664D, Communication
Mengyang Zu, Chongwu Wang, Le Zhang, Lirong Zheng, Huagui Yang
The search for efficient, durable and low-cost oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is extremely essential, because OER is a major efficiency-limiting process in many electrochemical energy conversion devices. Here we...
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Focused ion beam milling of self-assembled magnetic superstructures: an approach to fabricate nanoporous materials with tunable porosity

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01112E, Communication
Verner Håkonsen, Gurvinder Singh, Jianying He, Zhiliang Zhang
Fabricating nanoporous materials with tunable pore sizes while keeping the freedom of materials choice, is an active area of research because of its practical relevance in a wide range of...
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Electrochemically in situ controllable assembly of hierarchically-ordered and integrated inorganic–carbon hybrids for efficient hydrogen evolution

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00773J, Communication
Zhong-Li Wang, Keju Sun, Joel Henzie, Xianfeng Hao, Yusuke Ide, Toshiaki Takei, Yoshio Bando, Yusuke Yamauchi
A novel redox-unit cooperative assembly strategy is developed to construct hierarchically-ordered and integrated inorganic–carbon hybrids by electrochemically tuning the PANI to controllably bond metal complexes.
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Photoluminescence manipulation of WS2 flakes by an individual Si nanoparticle

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01072B, Communication
C.R. Ma, J. H. Yan, Yingchong Huang, Guowei Yang
Optical manipulation of photoluminescence (PL) emission in 2D materials through nanophotonic structures has attracted a lot of attention. However, it has not been achieved through individual all-dielectric nanoparticles (NPs) so...
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Polymer Networks Based on Photo-Caged Diene Dimerization

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00951A, Communication
Tim Krappitz, Florian Feist, Iris Lamparth, Norbert Moszner, Hendrik John, James P Blinco, Tim Richard Dargaville, Christopher Barner-Kowollik
A powerful, simple and efficient method for photochemical crosslinking, exploiting the self-dimerization of photo-caged dienes based on o-methylbenzaldehydes (o-MBAs) is introduced. Using a small molecule model system it is possible...
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Amphibious Superamphiphilic Fabrics with Self-healing Underwater Superoleophilicity

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00898A, Communication
Sida Fu, Hua Zhou, Hongxia Wang, Haitao Niu, Weidong Yang, Hao Shao, Tong Lin
Most of superamphiphilic surfaces reported so far show an oleophobic feature in underwater environment because once they are wetted with water their wettability is governed by the water layer adsorbed...
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Host dependence of the electron affinity of molecular dopants

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00921J, Communication
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Jing Li, Ivan Duchemin, Otello Maria Roscioni, Pascal Friederich, Marie Anderson, Enrico Da Como, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Wolfgang Wenzel, Claudio Zannoni, David Beljonne, Xavier Blase, Gabriele D'Avino
Accurate molecular modeling reveal the surprisingly large impact of the solid-state environment on the electron acceptor levels of molecular dopants.
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Physical Magnification Of Objects

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00931G, Focus
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Ed Boyden
For hundreds of years, scientists have aimed photons, electrons, and x-rays at objects in order to obtain magnified images of them, revealing their micro- and nanoscale architecture, and revolutionizing every...
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How to quantify isotropic negative thermal expansion: magnitude, range, or both?

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01065J, Focus
Chloe Simone Coates, Andrew Goodwin
Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is the useful and counterintuitive material property of volume contraction on heating. Isotropic NTE is the rarest and most useful type, and is known to occur...
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Etching silver nanoparticles by DNA

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01126E, Communication
Shengqiang Hu, Tiantian Yi, Zhicheng Huang, Biwu Liu, Jianxiu Wang, Xinyao Yi, Juewen Liu
While DNA has been widely used for directing the growth and assembly of nanomaterials, the reverse reaction, etching nanoparticles by DNA has yet to be demonstrated. We herein communicate that...
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Seamless interconnections of sp2-bonded carbon nanostructures via crystallization of a bridging amorphous carbon joint

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01154K, Communication
Longze Zhao, Yong Cheng, Qiaobao Zhang, Mingsheng Wang
Two multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were seamlessly connected via crystallization of a bridging amorphous carbon (a-C) joint in a transmission electron microscope. Technically, such a CNT connection involves electron beam...
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Improving the photoluminescence quantum yields of quantum dot films through a donor/acceptor system for near-IR LEDs

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01122B, Communication
Nathaniel. J. L. K. Davis, Jesse R. Allardice, James Xiao, Arfa Karani, Tom C. Jellicoe, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham
The PLQE of QD films can be increased by the incorporation of a relatively small fraction of well-passivated acceptor QDs.
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Unexpected surface interactions between fluorocarbons and hybrid organic inorganic perovskites evidenced by PM-IRRAS and their application towards tuning the surface potential

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01119B, Communication
Subha Sadhu, Kyler Aqueche, Thierry Buffeteau, Jean-Marc Vincent, Lionel HIRSCH, Dario Bassani
The chemical nature and orientation of fluorinated monolayers on CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites is probed through XPS and PM-IRRAS measurements. We show that even perfluoro-n-alkanes interact with the HOIP surface to from...
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Identifying glioblastoma margin using dual-targeted organic nanoparticles for efficient in vivo fluorescence image-guided photothermal therapy

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00946E, Communication
Xiaolei Cai, Aishwarya Bandla, Chan Kim Chuan, Gayathiri Magarajah, LunDe Liao, Daniel Boon Loong Teh, Brian K. Kennedy, Nitish Thakor, Bin Liu
Current therapeutics for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treatment are unsatisfying due to their limited ability to control the progression from tumour margins. In this work, organic nanoparticles (NPs) are synthesized by...
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Large-scale colloidal films with robust structural colors

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00248G, Communication
Jing Zhang, Zhijie Zhu, Ziyi Yu, Luting Ling, Cai-Feng Wang, Su Chen
Inspired by commonly-seen “milk skin” phenomena, a general scheme, namely “colloid skin”-regulated assembly route, is demonstrated for colloidal film deposition, which easily suppresses the ubiquitous coffee ring effect accompanied with...
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Soft Stimuli-Responsive Grippers and Machines with High Load-to-Weight Ratios

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00888D, Communication
Yajuan Sun, Linfeng Chen, Yan Jiang, Xuan Zhang, Xiukai Yao, Siowling Soh
Soft untethered grippers and machines are emerging fields of research due to their wide range of desirable properties and capabilities over traditional hard robots. Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are naturally soft and...
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Growth of a dense gadolinium metal–organic framework on oxide-free silicon for cryogenic local refrigeration

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01012A, Communication
Giulia Lorusso, Eva Natividad, Marco Evangelisti, Olivier Roubeau
Films of gadolinium formate are grown on oxide-free Si with carboxylic-acid terminated monolayers. A single adiabatic demagnetization of the films has the refrigeration potential to cool a 2 μm Si membrane from 5 to below 1 K, making the reported approach an alternative for local cryogenic cooling.
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