Nature Communications
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Behind the paper blog post
In our Nature Communications paper on “Hardening in Au-Ag Nanoboxes from Stacking Fault-Dislocation Interactions”, we use colloidal synthesis techniques to make metallic nanoboxes of ~100 nm in size, and study their intriguing mechanical behavior using in-situ SEM, in-situ TEM and MD simulations.
Engineering “smart” co-cultures
Synthetic biologists are increasingly using co-culture systems, but tools to control the composition of subpopulations are lacking. We designed a co-culture with signal translator and growth controller modules where culture composition autonomously adjusts in response to the AI-2 QS molecule.
Synthesis and versatile reactivity of scandium phosphinophosphinidene complexes
Due to the energy mismatching between the frontier orbitals of rare-earth metal and ligand atom, the rare-earth metal-phosphorus multiple bonds are very unstable. This Behind introduces our group’s struggling trip to the first rare-earth monometallic phosphinidene complex during the past 10 years.
