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Special Collection on “Extracellular Vesicles During Development and Disease”
- EVs produced by healthy cells versus transformed, diseased, or damaged cells
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Articles
Commentary on “Spraying of Water Microdroplets Forms Luminescence and Causes Chemical Reactions in Surrounding Gas” by Y. Meng, Y. Xia, J. Xu, and R. N. Zare, Sci. Adv. 11, 1–8 (2025)
- 13 July 2025
Biomechanical Analysis of Mongolian Bronze and Iron Age Four‐Legged Walking Petroglyphs
- 23 June 2025
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Top: Photograph (by Krisztián Bécs) of an Iron Age Mongolian rock-goatpetroglyph. Bottom:
Atomic Force Microscopy of Emulsions and Their Interfacial Nanoparticles
- 18 June 2025
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Emulsion droplets and their interfacial nanoparticles were imaged under water by atomic force microscopy. Changes in the sample were triggered by increasing the applied mechanical force. Mechanical data was overlaid on the topography data for an improved understanding of the properties and behavior of the droplets and particles.
Designing Water‐in‐Oil Emulsion Using Microfluidic Systems Through Machine Learning
- 3 June 2025
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Trikafta Rescues F508del‐CFTR by Tightening Specific Phosphorylation‐Dependent Interdomain Interactions
- 26 May 2025
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The most common cystic fibrosis mutation, F508del, destabilizes the first of two nucleotide-binding domains (NBD1 and NBD2) and compromises Mg/ATP-dependent gating at the interface between two transmembrane domains (TMD1 and TMD2) in the human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). However, Trikafta can correct thermal and gating defects by enhancing TMD1–TMD2 (blue) and NBD1–NBD2 (orange) interactions and regulating the thermoring structures (red) of NBD1 through the specific binding of the dynamic phosphorylated regulatory domain (purple) to the TMD1/TMD2/NBD1 interfaces (cyan).
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Visible‐light‐switchable azobenzenes: Molecular design, supramolecular systems, and applications
- 8 November 2022
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Para‐ortho hydrogen conversion: Solving a 90‐year old mystery
- 12 January 2021
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First-principles quantum calculations finally explain how para-ortho hydrogen conversion is catalyzed by paramagnetic molecules.
Consecutively fused single‐, double‐, and triple‐expanded helicenes
- 3 March 2022
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Defect-free single-, double-, and triple-expanded helicenes with C-, S-, and M-shaped fully conjugated helical ladder structures, respectively, are quantitatively and chemoselectively synthesized through acid-promoted intramolecular multistep cascade alkyne benzannulations of anthracene-based cyclization precursors composed of a large number of chiral (racemo) and achiral (meso) dynamic stereoisomers arising from axial chirality. The configurationally stable and optically pure triple-expanded helicene emits intense circularly polarized light with the highest circularly polarized luminescence brightness among all the reported CPL-active helicenes and helicenoids.
Direct measurement of key exciton properties: Energy, dynamics, and spatial distribution of the wave function
- 7 June 2021
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Real-space density distribution of an excitonic wave function retrieved from time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Similarity of anthropogenic stressors is multifaceted and scale dependent
- 2 November 2021
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