“It's not just about the migrants.” Anti-immigrant discourse and co-opted marginality in the online public sphere by Emes, Claire Stravato

“…Co-opted marginality discourse put an unconventional association between individuals’ social situations and beliefs to the fore. Here, in-groups are disadvantaged, and outgroups are perceived as favored. …”
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Internal and external co-engineering of stable cathode interface improves cycle performance of polymer sodium batteries by Pan, Jun, Hu, Lulu, Zhang, Yuchen, Zhang, Tao, Wang, Nana, Dou, Shixue, Fan, Hong Jin

“…The development of polymer sodium batteries requires cathode materials with stable interfaces to avoid poor interfacial contact and interfacial side reactions during cycling. Here, a co-engineering strategy is deployed to tailor the cathode internal structure and improve the cathode interface stability through bonding interactions. …”
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Counting and mapping of subwavelength nanoparticles from a single shot scattering pattern by Chan, Eng Aik, Rendón-Barraza, Carolina, Wang, Benquan, Pu, Tanchao, Ou, Jun-Yu, Wei, Hongxin, Adamo, Giorgio, An, Bo, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…Particle counting is of critical importance for nanotechnology, environmental monitoring, pharmaceutical, food and semiconductor industries. Here we introduce a super-resolution single-shot optical method for counting and mapping positions of subwavelength particles on a surface. …”
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Electrically tunable steganographic nano-optical coatings by Prabhathan, Patinharekandy, Sreekanth, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu, Teng, Jinghua, Singh, Ranjan

“…Thin film coatings with tunable colors have a broad range of applications, from solid-state reflective displays to steganography. Here, we propose a novel approach to chalcogenide phase change material (PCM)-incorporated steganographic nano-optical coatings (SNOC) as thin film color reflectors for optical steganography. …”
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Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal by Maciel, Rafaella, Braga, Rodrigo Fagundes, Carvalho, Raquel L. L., Louzada, Julio, Slade, Eleanor M.

“…Tropical savannas cover more than 20% of the global land surface, and one-fifth of the world's population depends directly on these systems. 2. Here, we aim to understand how the conversion of tropical savanna into exotic pastures affects the taxonomic and functional metrics of communities and dung removal, using dung beetles as a focal group in a biodiversity hotspot—the Brazilian Cerrado biome. …”
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Single-input polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography through a catheter by Jones, Georgia L., Xiong, Qiaozhou, Liu, Xinyu, Bouma, Brett E., Villiger, Martin

“…Its clinical translation has been complicated by the need for modification of conventional OCT hardware to enable polarimetric measurements. Here, we present a signal processing method to reconstruct the polarization properties of tissue from measurements with a single input polarization state, bypassing the need for modulation or multiplexing of input states. …”
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Bio-catalyzed oxidation self-charging zinc-polymer batteries by Pan, Jun, Liu, Yanhong, Yang, Jian, Wu, Jiawen, Fan, Hong Jin

“…The low efficiency of self-charging has been the key challenge at present. Here, a more efficient autoxidation self-charging mechanism is realized by introducing hemoglobin (Hb) as a positive electrode additive in the polyaniline (PANI)-zinc battery system. …”
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Antielectric potential synthesis of plasmonic Au-Ag multidimensional dimers array for high-resolution encrypted information by Zeng, Pan, Yang, Fan, Chen, Zhiming, Wei, Ying, Cao, An, Wen, Lulu, Zhong, Shichuan, Wang, Yifan, Zhang, Tao, Li, Yue

“…Plasmonic superstructures hold great potential in encrypted information chips but are still unsatisfactory in terms of resolution and maneuverability because of the limited fabrication strategies. Here, we develop an antielectric potential method in which the interfacial energy from the modification of 5-amino-2-mercapto benzimidazole (AMBI) ligand is used to overcome the electric resistance between the Au nanospheres (NSs) and substrate, thereby realizing the in situ growth of a Au-Ag heterodimers array in large scale. …”
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A wearable thin-film hydrogel laser for functional sensing on skin by Nie, Ningyuan, Gong, Xuerui, Gong, Chaoyang, Qiao, Zhen, Wang, Ziyihui, Fang, Guocheng, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…To tackle the current challenges, here, we developed a functional thin film laser formed by encapsulating liquid crystal droplet lasers in a flexible hydrogel for monitoring metabolites in human sweat (lactate, glucose, and urea). …”
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Subnanometric osmium clusters confined on palladium metallenes for enhanced hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction catalysis by Prabhu, P., Do, Viet-Hung, Yoshida, Takefumi, Zhou, Yingtang, Ariga-Miwa, Hiroko, Kaneko, Takuma, Uruga, Tomoya, Iwasawa, Yasuhiro, Lee, Jong-Min

“…Highly efficient, cost-effective, and durable electrocatalysts, capable of accelerating sluggish reaction kinetics and attaining high performance, are essential for developing sustainable energy technologies but remain a great challenge. Here, we leverage a facile heterostructure design strategy to construct atomically thin Os@Pd metallenes, with atomic-scale Os nanoclusters of varying geometries confined on the surface layer of the Pd lattice, which exhibit excellent bifunctional properties for catalyzing both hydrogen evolution (HER) and oxygen reduction reactions (ORR). …”
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Structural insights into polyamine spermidine uptake by the ABC transporter PotD-PotABC by Qiao, Zhu, Do, Phong Hoa, Yeo, Joshua Yi, Ero, Rya, Li, Zhuowen, Zhan, Liying, Basak, Sandip, Gao, Yong-Gui

“…The PotD-PotABC protein complex in Escherichia coli, belonging to the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter family, is a spermidine-preferential uptake system. Here, we report structural details of the polyamine uptake system PotD-PotABC in various states. …”
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π-fused diazocines with controllable photoswitching properties as molecular tweezers by Yuan, Wei, Wu, Mengjiao, Qian, Cheng, Guo, Jingjing, Wu, Yinglong, He, Ting, Wei, Haipeng, Chen, Xiaokai, Wang, Dongdong, Liu, Jiawei, Zhao, Yue, Wang, Shihuai, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Zhongzheng, Chen, Yulan, Zhao, Yanli

“…Molecular engineering of diazocines, especially the π-extended ones, remains challenging due to limited synthetic methods. Here, we developed three π-fused diazocines (BAZO-1, BAZO-2, and BAZO-3) via Bischler-Napieralski cyclization. …”
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Synthesis of azahexabenzocoronenium salts through a formal [3 + 3] cycloaddition strategy by Zhang, Xinjiang, Li, Donglin, Tan, Cheryl Cai Hui, Hanindita, Fiona, Hamamoto, Yosuke, Foster, Adam S., Kawai, Shigeki, Ito, Shingo

“…However, their synthesis is quite limited because of the difficulty in selectively introducing heteroatoms into the HBC core, which poses a challenge in organic synthesis. Here we report a strategy for the in-solution synthesis of 3a2-azahexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenium salts, which are cationic nitrogen-embedded HBC derivatives. …”
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Compressible hollow microlasers in organoids for high-throughput and real-time mechanical screening by Fang, Guocheng, Ho, Beatrice Xuan, Xu, Hongmei, Gong, Chaoyang, Qiao, Zhen, Liao, Yikai, Zhu, Song, Lu, Hongxu, Nie, Ningyuan, Zhou, Tian, Kim, Munho, Huang, Changjin, Soh, Boon Seng, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…Mechanical stress within organoids is a pivotal indicator in disease modeling and pharmacokinetics, yet current tools lack the ability to rapidly and dynamically screen these mechanics. Here, we introduce biocompatible and compressible hollow microlasers that realize all-optical assessment of cellular stress within organoids. …”
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Asymmetric allylic alkynylation catalyzed by guanidine copper(I) complex by Cui, Xiyang

“…My Ph.D. thesis is divided into three chapters here to better narrate the exploration of asymmetric allylic alkynylation of racemic chiral substrates catalyzed by (guanidine)copper(I) complex. …”
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Extracellular vesicles are rapidly purified from human plasma by PRotein Organic Solvent PRecipitation (PROSPR) by Gallart-Palau, Xavier, Serra, Aida, Wong, Andrew See Weng, Sandin, Sara, Lai, Mitchell K. P., Chen, Christopher P., Kon, Oi Lian, Sze, Siu Kwan

“…However, current methods of EV isolation from blood plasma are complex and often require relatively large sample volumes, hence are inefficient for widespread use in clinical settings. Here, we report a novel and inexpensive method of rapidly isolating EVs from small volumes of human blood plasma by PRotein Organic Solvent PRecipitation (PROSPR). …”
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Cell biological mechanisms of activity-dependent synapse to nucleus translocation of CRTC1 in neurons by Ch'ng, Toh Hean, DeSalvo, Martina, Lin, Peter, Vashisht, Ajay, Wohlschlegel, James A., Martin, Kelsey C.

“…CRTC1 localizes to synapses but undergoes activity-dependent nuclear translocation to regulate the transcription of CREB target genes. Here we investigate the long-distance retrograde transport of CRTC1 in hippocampal neurons. …”
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Structure of the human telomere in Na+ solution : an antiparallel (2+2) G-quadruplex scaffold reveals additional diversity by Lim, Kah Wai, Ng, Veronica Chinn Min, Martin-Pintado, Nerea, Heddi, Brahim, Phan, Anh Tuan

“…Out of the five reported intramolecular human telomeric G-quadruplex structures, four were formed in the presence of K+ ions and only one in the presence of Na+ ions, leading often to a perception that this structural polymorphism occurs exclusively in the presence of K+ but not Na+. Here we present the structure of a new antiparallel (2+2) G-quadruplex formed by a derivative of a 27-nt human telomeric sequence in Na+ solution, which comprises a novel core arrangement distinct from the known topologies. …”
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Cytoplasmic long noncoding RNAs are frequently bound to and degraded at ribosomes in human cells by Carlevaro-Fita, Joana, Rahim, Anisa, Guigó, Roderic, Johnson, Rory, Vardy, Leah Karen Anne

“…However, these findings remain controversial, and the overall proportion of cytoplasmic lncRNAs involved is unknown. Here we make a global, absolute estimate of the cytoplasmic and ribosome-associated population of stringently filtered lncRNAs in a human cell line using polysome profiling coupled to spike-in normalized microarray analysis. …”
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Contact lens assisted imaging with integrated flexible handheld probe for glaucoma diagnosis by Hong, Jeesmond Xun Jie, Shinoj, Vengalathunadakal Kuttinarayanan, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham, Baskaran, Mani, Aung, Tin

“…The handheld probe is able to capture images of the fundus and opposite iridocorneal angle when placed at the central cornea or limbus respectively. Here, we propose the use of hydrogel contact lens as an index matching medium and better protective barrier, as an alternative to conventional ophthalmic gels. …”
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