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Polyacrylamide Ferrogels with Ni Nanowires
(MDPI, 2019-08)
Nickel magnetic nanowires (NWs) have attracted significant attention due to their unique properties, which are useful for basic studies and technological applications, for example in biomedicine. Their structure and magnetic ...
Can Ammonium Stress Be Positive for Plant Performance?
(Frontiers Media, 2019-09-24)
Ammonium (NH3/NH+4) nutrition is considered as a universal stressful situation (recently reviewed in Li et al., 2014; Esteban et al., 2016; Liu and Von Wirén, 2017). Briefly, the most common symptom of ammonium nutrition ...
Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(Nature, 2019-07-29)
Chalcogen vacancies are generally considered to be the most common point defects in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors because of their low formation energy in vacuum and their frequent observation in ...
An Exact Approach to Elimination of Leakage in a Qubit Embedded in a Three-level System
(Nature, 2019-07-30)
Leakage errors damage a qubit by coupling it to other levels. Over the years, several theoretical approaches to dealing with such errors have been developed based on perturbation arguments. Here we propose a different ...
Beyond the State of the Art: Novel Approaches for Thermal and Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Devices
(MDPI, 2019-08)
Almost any interaction between two physical entities can be described through the transfer of either charge, spin, momentum, or energy. Therefore, any theory able to describe these transport phenomena can shed light on a ...
Selective Immobilization of Fluorescent Proteins for the Fabrication of Photoactive Materials
(MDPI, 2019-08)
The immobilization of fluorescent proteins is a key technology enabling to fabricate a new generation of photoactive materials with potential technological applications. Herein we have exploited superfolder green (sGFP) ...
Providing carbon skeletons to sustain amide synthesis in roots underlines the suitability of Brachypodium distachyon for the study of ammonium stress in cereals
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-10)
Plants mainly acquire N from the soil in the form of nitrate (NO3-) or ammonium (NH4+). Ammonium-based nutrition is gaining interest because it helps to avoid the environmental pollution associated with nitrate fertilization. ...
Suckler Bulls Slaughtered at 15 Months of Age: Effect of Different Production Systems on the Fatty Acid Profile and Selected Quality Characteristics of Longissimus Thoracis
(MDPI, 2019-07-18)
The objective was to compare the quality of beef from bulls reared in typical Irish indoor systems or in novel grass-based systems. Bulls were assigned to one of the following systems: (a) grass silage plus barley-based ...
The origin of memory effects in the crystallization of polyamides: Role of hydrogen bonding
(Elsevier, 2019-12-23)
The effect of hydrogen bonding stability on the memory effects in the crystallization of long chain polyamides have been investigated by the self-nucleation calorimetric technique. Self-nucleation is characterized by three ...
Association of Maternal Iodine Status With Child IQ: A Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data
(Endocrine Society, 2019-03-28)
Context: Although the consequences of severe iodine deficiency are beyond doubt, the effects of mild to moderate iodine deficiency in pregnancy on child neurodevelopment are less well established.
Objective: To study the ...