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Solar cell parameters of all of these monolayers have been calculated using the Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit. The short-circuit current density (Jsc) of the Nb-doped CsPbCl3 monolayer was obtained around 655.45 A/m2, and the efficiency of this material came out to be around 15.68%. For the Mn-doped CsPbCl3 monolayer the value of Jsc came to be around 525.68 A/m2 and showed strikingly high efficiency of 26.88% thus being a suitable candidate for its application as an absorber layer in solar cells.Stacking order plays a central role in governing a wide range of properties in layered two-dimensional materials. In the case of few-layer graphene, there are two common stacking configurations ABA and ABC stacking, which have been proven to exhibit dramatically different electronic properties. However, the controllable characterization and manipulation between them remain a great challenge. this website Here, we report that ABA- and ABC-stacked domains can be directly visualized in phase imaging by tapping-mode atomic force microscopy with much higher spatial resolution than conventional optical spectroscopy. The contrasting phase is caused by the different energy dissipation by the tip-sample interaction. We further demonstrate controllable manipulation on the ABA/ABC domain walls by means of propagating stress transverse waves generated by the tapping of tip. Our results offer a reliable strategy for direct imaging and precise control of the atomic structures in few-layer graphene, which can be extended to other two-dimensional materials.This study vividly displays the different self-assembling behavior and consequent tuning of the fluorescence property of a peptide-appended core-substituted naphthalenediimide (N1) in the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents (n-hexane/n-decane/methyl cyclohexane) and in an aqueous medium within micelles. The N1 is highly fluorescent in the monomeric state and self-aggregates in a hydrocarbon solvent, exhibiting "H-type" or "face-to-face" stacking as indicated by a blue shift of absorption maxima in the UV-vis spectrum. In the H-aggregated state, the fluorescence emission of N1 changes to green from the yellow emission obtained in the monomeric state. In the presence of a micelle-forming surfactant, cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), the N1 is found to be dispersed in a water medium. Interestingly, upon encapsulation of N1 into the micelle, the molecule alters its self-assembling pattern and optical property compared to its behavior in the hydrocarbon solvent. The N1 exhibits "edge-to-edge" stacking or J aggregates inside the micelle as indicated by the UV-vis spectroscopic study, which shows a red shift of the absorption maxima compared to that in the monomeric state. link2 The fluorescence emission also differs in the water medium with the NDI derivative exhibiting red emission. FT-IR studies reveal that all amide NHs of N1 are hydrogen-bonded within the micelle (in the J-aggregated state), whereas both non-bonding and hydrogen-bonding amide NHs are present in the H-aggregated state. This is a wonderful example of solvent-mediated transformation of the aggregation pattern (from H to J) and solvatochromism of emission over a wide range from green in the H-aggregated state to yellow in the monomeric state and orangish-red in the J-aggregated state. Moreover, the J aggregate has been successfully utilized for selective and sensitive detection of nitrite ions in water even in the presence of other common anions (NO3-, SO42-, HSO4-, CO32-, and Cl-).For poorly soluble drugs formulated as amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs), fast and complete release with the generation of drug-rich colloidal particles is beneficial for optimizing drug absorption. However, this ideal dissolution profile can only be achieved when the drug releases at the same normalized rate as the polymer, also known as congruent release. This phenomenon only occurs when the drug loading (DL) is below a certain value. The maximal DL at which congruent release occurs is defined as the limit of congruency (LoC). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between drug chemical structure and LoC for PVPVA-based ASDs. The compounds investigated shared a common scaffold substituted with different functional groups, capable of forming hydrogen bonds only, halogen bonds only, both hydrogen and halogen bonds, or nonspecific interactions only with the polymer. Intermolecular interactions were studied and confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy. The release rates of ASDs with different DLs were investigated using surface area normalized dissolution. ASDs with hydrogen bond formation between the drug and polymer had lower LoCs, while compounds that were only able to form halogen bonds or nonspecific interactions with the polymer achieved considerably higher LoCs. This study highlights the impact of different types of drug-polymer interactions on ASD dissolution performance, providing insights into the role of drug and polymer chemical structures on the LoC and ASD performance in general.Parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) is an increasingly popular alternative to selected reaction monitoring (SRM) for targeted proteomics. PRM's strengths over SRM are that it monitors all product ions in a single spectrum, thus eliminating the need to select interference-free product ions prior to data acquisition, and that it is most frequently performed on high-resolution instruments, such as quadrupole-orbitrap and quadrupole-time-of-flight instruments. Here, we show that the primary advantage of PRM is the ability to monitor all transitions in parallel and that high-resolution data are not necessary to obtain high-quality quantitative data. We run the same scheduled PRM assay, measuring 432 peptides from 126 plasma proteins, multiple times on an Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid mass spectrometer, alternating separate liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry runs between the high-resolution Orbitrap and the unit resolution linear ion trap for PRM. We find that both mass analyzers have similar technical precision and that the linear ion trap's superior sensitivity gives it better lower limits of quantitation for over 62% of peptides in the assay.Diverse functions of proteins, including synthesis, catalysis, and signaling, result from their highly variable amino acid sequences. The technology allowing for direct analysis of protein sequences, however, is still unsatisfactory. Recent developments of nanopore sequencing of DNA or RNA have motivated attempts to realize nanopore sequencing of peptides in a similar manner. The core challenge has been to achieve a controlled ratcheting motion of the target peptide, which is currently restricted to a limited choice of compatible enzymes. By constructing peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates (POCs) and measurements with nanopore-induced phase-shift sequencing (NIPSS), direct observation of the ratcheting motion of peptides has been successfully achieved. The generated events show a clear sequence dependence on the peptide that is being tested. The method is compatible with peptides with either a conjugated N- or C-terminus. The demonstrated results suggest a proof of concept of nanopore sequencing of peptide and can be useful for peptide fingerprinting.A new mechanism for enhanced intersystem crossing in coupled three-spin systems consisting of a chromophore and an attached radical is proposed. It is shown that if the unpaired electron of the radical experiences spin-orbit coupling and different exchange interactions with the two unpaired electron spins of the chromophore, energy transfer from the chromophore to the radical can occur together with singlet-triplet intersystem crossing in the chromophore. The efficiency of this process increases dramatically when the electronic excitation of the radical is resonant with the S1-T1 energy gap of the chromophore. The types of systems in which this resonance could be achieved are discussed, and it is suggested that the mechanism could result in improved sensitization in near-IR emitting lanthanide dyes.Au nanofiber/carbon nanotube (CNT) 1D/1D composites and Janus-type Au/CNT composites have been prepared by utilizing the liquid/liquid interface between water (W) and a hydrophobic ionic liquid (IL) as a redox reaction site. AuCl4- in W is reduced at the IL/W interface where CNTs are adsorbed, by a reducing agent in the IL, leading to the formation of the Au/CNT composites. The Au/CNT composites are Janus-type in which Au microurchins and Au nanofibers are deposited on the W side and the IL side of the CNTs on the IL/W interface, respectively. Reversing the order of the CNT adsorption and AuCl4- reduction results in the formation of the Au nanofiber/CNT composites, which are 1D/1D metal/carbon composites.It is challenging to grow an epitaxial 4-fold compound superconductor (SC) on a 6-fold topological insulator (TI) platform due to the stringent lattice-matching requirement. Here, we demonstrate that Fe(Te,Se) can grow epitaxially on a TI (Bi2Te3) layer due to accidental, uniaxial lattice match, which is dubbed as "hybrid symmetry epitaxy". This new growth mode is critical to stabilizing robust superconductivity with TC as high as 13 K. Furthermore, the superconductivity in this FeTe1-xSex/Bi2Te3 system survives in the Te-rich phase with Se content as low as x = 0.03 but vanishes at Se content above x = 0.56, exhibiting a phase diagram that is quite different from that of the conventional Fe(Te,Se) systems. This unique heterostructure platform that can be formed in both TI-on-SC and SC-on-TI sequences opens a route to unprecedented topological heterostructures.We review the quantum nonadiabatic dynamics of atom + diatom collisions due to the Renner-Teller (RT) effect, i.e., to the Hamiltonian operators that contain the total spinless electronic angular momentum L̂. As is well-known, this rovibronic effect is large near collinear geometries when at least one of the interacting states is doubly degenerate. In general, this occurs in insertion reactions and at short-range, where the potential wells exhibit deep minima and support metastable complexes. Initial-state-resolved reaction probabilities, integral cross sections, and thermal rate constants are calculated via the real wavepacket method, solving the equation of motion with an approximated or with an exact spinless RT Hamiltonian. We present the dynamics of 10 single-channel or multichannel reactions showing how RT effects depend on the product channels and comparing with the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation or coexisting conical-intersection (CI) interactions. RT effects not only can significantly modify the adiabatic dynamics or correct purely CI results, but also they can be very important in opening collision channels which are closed at the BO or CI level, as in electronic-quenching reactions. In the OH(A2Σ+) + Kr electronic quenching, where both nonadiabatic effects (CI and RT) coexist, they are in competition because CI dominates the reactivity but RT couplings reduce the large CI cross section and open a CI-forbidden evolution toward products, so that CI + RT quantum results are in good agreement with experimental or semiclassical findings. link3 The different roles of these couplings are due to the unlike nuclear geometries where they are large rather far from or near to linearity for CI or RT, respectively. The OH(A2Σ+) + Kr electronic quenching was investigated with the exact RT Hamiltonian, validating the approximated one, which was employed for all other collisions.