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      3D Printable and Biocompatible Iongels for Body Sensor Applications 

      Luque, Gisela C.; Picchio, Matías L.; Martins, Ana P. S.; Domínguez Alfaro, Antonio; Ramos Gómez, Nicolás; Del Agua López, Isabel; Marchiori, Bastien; Mecerreyes Molero, David; Minari, Roque Javier; Tomé, Liliana C. (Wiley, 2021-08)
      Soft-ionic materials with biocompatibility and 3D printability are needed to develop next-generation devices to interface between electronic and biological signals. Herein, thermoreversible and biocompatible ionic liquid ...
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      A trade-off between ligand and strain effects optimizes the oxygen reduction activity of Pt alloys 

      Kluge, Regina M.; Haid, Richard W.; Riss, Alexander; Bao, Yang; Seufert, Knud; Schmidt, Thorsten O.; Watzele, Sebastian A.; Barth, Johannes V.; Allegretti, Francesco; Auwärter, Willi; Calle Vallejo, Federico; Bandarenka, Aliaksandr S. (RSC, 2022-10-20)
      To optimize the performance of catalytic materials, it is paramount to elucidate the dependence of the chemical reactivity on the atomic arrangement of the catalyst surface. Therefore, identifying the nature of the active ...
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      Chemical Upcycling of PET Waste towards Terephthalate Redox Nanoparticles for Energy Storage 

      Goujon, Nicolas; Demarteau, Jérémy; López de Pariza Sanz, Xabier; Casado Pérez, Nerea; Sardon Muguruza, Haritz; Mecerreyes Molero, David (MDPI, 2021-11-03)
      Over 30 million ton of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is produced each year and no more than 60% of all PET bottles are reclaimed for recycling due to material property deteriorations during the mechanical recycling ...
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      Coexistence of Superconductivity and Spin-Splitting Fields in Superconductor/Ferromagnetic Insulator Bilayers of Arbitrary Thickness 

      Hijano Mendizabal, Alberto; Ilic, Stefan; Rouco Martín, Mikel; González Orellana, Carmen; Ilyn, Maxim; Rogero Blanco, Celia; Virtanen, P.; Heikkila, T. T.; Khorshidian, S.; Spies, M.; Ligato, N.; Giazotto, F.; Strambini, E.; Bergeret Sbarbaro, F. Sebastian (American Physical Society, 2021-05-19)
      Ferromagnetic insulators (FI) can induce a strong exchange field in an adjacent superconductor (S) via the magnetic proximity effect. This manifests as spin splitting of the BCS density of states of the superconductor, an ...
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      Coherent coupling between vortex bound states and magnetic impurities in 2D layered superconductors 

      Park, Sunghun; Barrena, Víctor; Mañas-Valero, Samuel; Baldoví, José J.; Fente, Antón; Herrera, Edwin; Mompeán, Federico; García-Hernández, Mar; Rubio Secades, Angel; Coronado, Eugenio; Guillamón, Isabel; Levy Yeyati, Alfredo; Suderow, Hermann (Nature, 2021-08-03)
      Bound states in superconductors are expected to exhibit a spatially resolved electron-hole asymmetry which is the hallmark of their quantum nature. This asymmetry manifests as oscillations at the Fermi wavelength, which ...
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      Conditional Wave Function Theory: A Unified Treatment of Molecular Structure and Nonadiabatic Dynamics 

      Albareda, Guillermo; Lively, Kevin; Sato, Shunsuke A.; Kelly, Aaron; Rubio Secades, Angel (American Chemical Society, 2021-11-09)
      [EN] We demonstrate that a conditional wave function theory enables a unified and efficient treatment of the equilibrium structure and nonadiabatic dynamics of correlated electron-ion systems. The conditional decomposition ...
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      Crystallization of a Self-Assembling Nucleator in Poly(L-lactide) Melt 

      Wang, Wei; Saperdi, Angelo; Dodero, Andrea; Castellano, Maila; Müller Sánchez, Alejandro Jesús ORCID; Dong, Xia; Wang, Dujin; Cavallo, Dario (American Chemical Society, 2021-09-01)
      [EN]In the present work, crystallization of a soluble nucleator N, N′, N″-tricyclohexyl-1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylamide (TMC-328) in a poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) matrix has been studied at different temperatures. Based on ...
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      Effect of the valence state on the band magnetocrystalline anisotropy in two-dimensional rare-earth/noble-metal compounds 

      Blanco Rey, María ORCID; Castrillo Bodero, Rodrigo; Ali, Khadiza; Gargiani, Pierluigi; Bertran, François; Sheverdyaeva, P. M.; Ortega Conejero, José Enrique ORCID; Fernández, Laura; Schiller, Frederik (American Physical Society, 2022)
      [EN] In intermetallic compounds with zero orbital momentum (L = 0) the magnetic anisotropy and the electronic band structure are interconnected. Here, we investigate this connection in divalent Eu and trivalent Gd intermetallic ...
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      Elucidating the Facet-dependent Selectivity for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts 

      Iyengar, Pranit; Kolb, Manuel J.; Pankhurst, James R.; Calle Vallejo, Federico; Buonsanti, Raffaella (ACS, 2021-04-07)
      Despite being desirable high-value products of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), alcohols are still obtained with lower selectivity compared to hydrocarbons and the reaction pathways leading to their ...
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      Engineered Magnetization and Exchange Stiffness in Direct-Write Co-Fe Nanoelements 

      Bunyaev, S. A.; Budinska, B.; Sachser, Roland; Wang, Q.; Levchenko, K.; Knauer, S.; Bondarenko, A. V.; Urbanek, M.; Gusliyenko, Kostyantyn; Chumak, Andrii V.; Huth, Michael; Kakazei, Gleb N.; Dobrovolskiy, O. V. (American Institute of Physics, 2021-01-11)
      Media with engineered magnetization are essential building blocks in magnonics, spintronics, and superconductivity. However, the established thin film and lithographic techniques insufficiently suit the realization of ...
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      Engineering Three-Dimensional Moire Flat Bands 

      Xian, Lede; Fischer, Ammon; Claassen, Martin; Zhang, Jin; Rubio Secades, Angel; Kennes, Dante M. (American Chemical Society, 2021-09-22)
      Twisting two adjacent layers of van der Waals materials with respect to each other can lead to flat two-dimensional electronic bands which enables a wealth of physical phenomena. Here, we generalize this concept of so-called ...
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      Excited-state band structure mapping 

      Puppin, Michele; Nicholson, Christopher W.; Monney, Claude; Deng, Yunpei; Xiang, R. P.; Feldl, Johannes; Dong, Shuo; Domínguez García, Adriel; Hubener, Hannes; Rubio Secades, Angel; Wolf, M.; Rettig, Laurenz; Ernstorfer, Ralph (American Physical Society, 2022-02-15)
      [EN] Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is an extremely powerful probe of materials to access the occupied electronic structure with energy and momentum resolution. However, it remains blind to those dynamic states ...
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      High-Harmonic Generation from Spin-Polarised Defects in Solids 

      Mrudul, M. S.; Tancogne-Dejean, Nicolas; Rubio Secades, Angel; Dixit, Gopal (Nature, 2020-01-31)
      The generation of high-order harmonics in gases enabled to probe the attosecond electron dynamics in atoms and molecules with unprecedented resolution. Extending these techniques to solids, which were originally developed ...
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      High-Performance All-Organic Aqueous Batteries Based on a Poly(Imide) Anode and Poly(Catechol) Cathode 

      Patil, Nagaraj; Mavrandonakis, Andreas; Jérôme, Christine; Detrembleur, Christophe; Casado Pérez, Nerea; Mecerreyes Molero, David; Palma, Jesús; Marcilla, Rebeca (RSC, 2021-01-07)
      Aqueous all-polymer batteries (AqPBs) are foreseen as promising solutions for safe, sustainable, and high-performance energy storage applications. Nevertheless, their development is still challenging as it demands precise ...
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      In-Plane Anisotropic Optical and Mechanical Properties of Two-Dimensional MoO3 

      Puebla, Sergio; D'Agosta, Roberto; Sánchez Santolino, Gabriel; Frisenda, Riccardo; Munuera, Carmen; Castellanos Gómez, Andrés (Nature, 2021-04-12)
      Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) in-plane anisotropy has increasingly attracted the attention of the scientific community in the last few years. Many of the observed in-plane anisotropic properties stem from the anisotropic ...
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      Innovative Polymers for Next‐Generation Batteries 

      Mecerreyes Molero, David; Porcarelli, Luca; Casado Pérez, Nerea (Wiley, 2020-01-23)
      Lithium-ion batteries are part of modern life, being present in daily-used objects such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, watches, sport accessories, electric scooters, and cars. The next-generation batteries require ...
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      Kinetics of NH3 Desorption and Diffusion on Pt: Implications for the Ostwald Process. 

      Borodin, Dmitriy; Rahinov, Igor; Galparsoro Larraza, Oihana; Fingerhut, Jan; Schwarzer, Michael; Golibrzuch, Kai; Skoulatakis, Georgios; Auerbach, Daniel J.; Kandratsenka, Alexander; Schwarzer, Dirk; Kitsopoulos, Theofanis N.; Wodtke, Alec M. (American Chemical Society, 2021-10-21)
      We report accurate time-resolved measurements of NH3 desorption from Pt(111) and Pt(332) and use these results to determine elementary rate constants for desorption from steps, from (111) terrace sites and for diffusion ...
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      Light-Driven Extremely Nonlinear Bulk Photogalvanic Currents 

      Neufeld, Ofer; Tancogne-Dejean, Nicolas; De Giovannini, Umberto; Huebener, Hannes; Rubio Secades, Angel (American Physical Society, 2021-09-13)
      We predict the generation of bulk photocurrents in materials driven by bichromatic fields that arc circularly polarized and corotating. The nonlinear photocurrents have a fully controllable directionality and amplitude ...
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      Metal–Polymer Heterojunction in Colloidal-Phase Plasmonic Catalysis 

      Rogolino, Andrea; Claes, Nathalie; Cizaurre, Judit; Marauri, Aimar; Jumbo Nogales, Alba; Lawera, Zuzanna; Kruse, Joscha; Sanromán Iglesias, María; Zarketa Moyua, Ibai; Calvo, Unai; Jiménez Izal, Elisa; Rakovich, Yury Petrovich ORCID; Bals, Sara; Matxain Beraza, Jon Mattin ORCID; Grzelczak, Marek (American Chemical Society, 2022-03-03)
      [EN] Plasmonic catalysis in the colloidal phase requires robust surface ligands that prevent particles from aggregation in adverse chemical environments and allow carrier flow from reagents to nanoparticles. This work ...
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      Moireless Correlations in ABCA Graphene 

      Kerelsky, Alexander; Rubio Verdú, Carmen; Xian, Lede; Kennes, Dante M.; Halbertal, Dorri; Finney, Nathan; Song, Larry; Turkel, Simon; Wang, Lei; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Hone, James; Dean, Cory R.; Basov, Dmitri N.; Rubio Secades, Angel; Pasupathy, Abhay N. (National Academy of Sciences, 2021-01-26)
      Atomically thin van der Waals materials stacked with an interlayer twist have proven to be an excellent platform toward achieving gate-tunable correlated phenomena linked to the formation of flat electronic bands. In this ...