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Consensus across all establishments in Pakistan for healthy ties with India, says former Pakistan PM Kakar

Senator seen as close to Islamabad’s military establishment says Jaishankar’s visit is an opportunity to explore sentiments on both sides




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‘The individual’s existence becomes irrelevant when one performs Theyyam,’ says photographer K.K. Gopalakrishnan

The art scholar on why the dance form of Theyyam has to be viewed from different angles




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A fluoride gradient, Zn-salt-rich hydrophobic interphase formed by a zincophilic, hydrophobic, anion-philic polymer “skin” for an anode-free solid Zn battery

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE01978D, Paper
Xinpeng Han, Jinpeng Han, Kang Ma, Jiaqi Wen, Lianpeng Li, Daliang Han, Jie Sun
A Zn2+·OC group-derived contact ion pair (CIP)/aggregate (AGG)-rich electrolyte is fabricated to generate a fluoride gradient, Zn-salt-rich hydrophobic solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer with ultrahigh mechanical properties.
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Well-regulated structure-featuring giant-molecule acceptors enable long-term stability and high-performance binary organic solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03754E, Paper
Jingyu Shi, Pengfei Ding, Jintao Zhu, Zhenyu Chen, Shuangjiao Gao, Xueliang Yu, Xiaochun Liao, Quan Liu, Ziyi Ge
Through systematically selecting the numbers and positions of selenium atom of giant-molecule acceptors, the device based on PM6:GMA-SSeS yields the highest PCE of 19.37% with high VOC of 0.917 V and exhibits extended t80% lifetimes of 5600 h.
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From generation to collection – impact of deposition temperature on charge carrier dynamics of high-performance vacuum-processed organic solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03623A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Richard Adam Pacalaj, Yifan Dong, Ivan Ramirez, Roderick C. I. MacKenzie, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Eva Bittrich, Julian Eliah Heger, Pascal Kaienburg, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Jiaying Wu, Moritz Riede, Harald Ade, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Martin Pfeiffer, James Robert Durrant
Substrate heating during co-evaporation of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells aids phase separation and improves performance. While recombination remains unaffected, hole transport improves due to more crystalline donor domains.
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Cover matters: Enhanced performance of multistage solar evaporator with tuned optical and thermal cover properties

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02710H, Paper
Shiteng Li, Shang Liu, Qijun Yang, Shuai Deng, Meng Lin
To address global water scarcity and improve off-grid pure water production, this study focuses on enhancing the performance of inverted solar evaporators by optimizing the design of cover materials. By...
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A novel high-performance all-liquid formic acid redox fuel cell: simultaneously generating electricity and restoring the capacity of flow batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8545-8556
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02450H, Paper
Dongbo Wei, Lyuming Pan, Jing Sun, Meisheng Han, Manrong Song, Jincong Guo, Qing Zhang, Cailin Xiao, Zheng Li, Shuaibin Wan, Yubai Li, Lin Zeng, Lei Wei, Tianshou Zhao
This work presents an all-liquid formic acid redox fuel cell using degraded redox flow battery electrolyte as the cathode fuel. This approach efficiently generates power while regenerating the electrolyte, advancing energy conversion and storage.
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Trimming defective perovskite layer surfaces for high-performance solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8582-8592
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03585B, Paper
Chanhyeok Kim, Kihoon Kim, Youngmin Kim, Nikolai Tsvetkov, Nam Joong Jeon, Bong Joo Kang, Hanul Min
The defect density on the top surface of the perovskite thin film was significantly higher than that in the bulk. A trimming solvent treatment removed the defective top surface, substantially reducing the defect concentration and strain.
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Unraveling the relationship between the phenethylammonium-induced 2D phase on the perovskite surface and inverted wide bandgap perovskite solar cell performance

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8658-8669
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02133A, Paper
Xiaomin Huo, Silvia Mariotti, Yaoyao Li, Ting Guo, Chenfeng Ding, Penghui Ji, Shuai Yuan, Tongtong Li, Ning Meng, Xiaomin Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Ilhem Nadia Rabehi, Yu Zhang, Suling Zhao, Hengyuan Wang, Dandan Song, Luis K. Ono, Zheng Xu, Yabing Qi
We studied the impact of phenethylammonium chloride on PIN-structured wide bandgap perovskite solar cells. Elimination of the 2D phase results in a champion efficiency of 20.61% and a VOC loss of only 410 mV with hysteresis-free J–V curves.
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Reducing carrier recombination loss by suppressing Sn loss and defect formation via Ag doping in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8609-8620
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02485K, Paper
SeongYeon Kim, Jaebaek Lee, Dae-Ho Son, Wook Hyun Kim, Shi-Joon Sung, Dae-Kue Hwang, Tae Ei Hong, Namuundari Otgontamir, Enkhjargal Enkhbayar, Tae-Hee Lee, Min-Yeong Kim, Ji-Soo Choi, Sang-Mo Koo, JunHo Kim, Jin-Kyu Kang, Dae-Hwan Kim, Kee-Jeong Yang
The position of Ag of the CZTSSe precursor significantly impacts the carrier recombination loss and overall efficiency, offering crucial insights for optimizing the CZTSSe solar cell design.
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Promoted thermoelectric performance in cubic-phase GeTe via grain-boundary phase elimination under phase diagram guidance

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8691-8701
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03090G, Paper
Fudong Zhang, Baopeng Ma, Yiyuan Luo, Lujun Zhu, Weishuai Wang, Yalin Shi, Beiquan Jia, Zhen-Hua Ge, Zupei Yang, Di Wu, Jiaqing He
The Ag8GeTe6 grain boundary phase gets eliminated in cubic-phase δ-TAGS as guided by a quaternary phase diagram.
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Achieving high performance triboelectric nanogenerators simultaneously with high-voltage and high-charge energy cycle

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8734-8744
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02447H, Paper
Open Access
Yikui Gao, Jiaqi Liu, Linglin Zhou, Lixia He, Di Liu, Peiyuan Yang, Bingzhe Jin, Zhong Lin Wang, Jie Wang
This work achieves a high-voltage and high-charge energy cycle for TENGs, as well as lossless energy transmission between TENGs and PMCs.
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Engineering ultrafast exciton dynamics to boost organic photovoltaic performance

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8776-8786
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03315A, Paper
Yu Guo, Guangchao Han, Jing Guo, Haotian Guo, Yuang Fu, Xiaodan Miao, Zhen Wang, Dongsheng Li, Shuixing Li, Xiaomin Xu, Xinhui Lu, Hongzheng Chen, Yuanping Yi, Philip C. Y. Chow
Y-type acceptors exhibiting faster migration (shorter τ) of local excitons (LEs) in disordered regions of aggregates to intermolecular charge-transfer (ICT) excitons in ordered regions can achieve higher efficiencies in organic solar cells.
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Self-healing polymer dielectric exhibiting ultrahigh capacitive energy storage performance at 250 °C

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8866-8873
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03705G, Paper
Open Access
Wenhan Xu, Fei Yang, Guodong Zhao, Shixian Zhang, Guanchun Rui, Muchen Zhao, Lingling Liu, Long-Qing Chen, Qing Wang
The Anderson localization effect has been exploited in the design of high-temperature dielectric polymers, resulting in reduced conduction loss and outstanding capacitive energy storage performance over a wide temperature range up to 250 °C.
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Global softening to manipulate sound velocity for reliable high-performance MgAgSb thermoelectrics

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8810-8819
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03521F, Paper
Open Access
Airan Li, Longquan Wang, Jiankang Li, Takao Mori
A global softening strategy using stearic acid in MgAgSb to reduce sound velocity has been shown to enhance its thermoelectric performance, achieving high zT values and demonstrating strong potential for low-grade heat harvesting.
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High-entropy doping for high-performance zero-cobalt high-nickel layered cathode materials

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05020G, Paper
Jiahui Zhou, Jiehui Hu, Xia Zhou, Zhen Shang, Yue Yang, Shengming Xu
Considering the high price and scarcity of cobalt resource, zero-cobalt, high-nickel layered cathode material (LNM) have been considered as the most promising material for next-generation high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However,...
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Surface-deprotonated ultra-small SnO2 quantum dots for high-performance perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03193H, Paper
Wuchen Xiang, Yiheng Gao, Bobo Yuan, Shuping Xiao, Rui Wu, Yiran Wan, Zhiqiang Liu, Liang Ma, Xiang-Bai Chen, Weijun Ke, Guojia Fang, Pingli Qin
SnO2 electron transport layers (ETLs) have improved perovskite solar cell (PSC) efficiencies but face issues with surface protonation, leading to energy loss and instability. We developed ultra-small (2.5 nm) SnO2...
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Former Puducherry BJP president complains of poor quality rice supplied to beneficiaries during Deepavali




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Former Deputy Commercial Tax Officer sentenced to 4 years RI for graft




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Ministerial staff urge Chief Secretary to ensure compliance with transfer policy norms

The staff body accuses Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms of failing to follow the norms for its own department, and of violating transfer policy norms prevailing in the government for more than 15 years in the matters of transfer, promotion, recruitment rules, regularisation of services, of an estimated 3,000 ministerial employees




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A decade of India’s transformative sanitation mission

The sanitation revolution, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is not just India’s achievement but is also a global one




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Calling out exploitative labour dynamics on platforms

India’s first nationwide digital strike that was organised by women gig workers is an attempt to mainstream their work issues




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Development of an automated platform for monitoring microfluidic reactors through multi-reactor integration and online (chip-)LC/MS-detection

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00004H, Paper
Open Access
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Hannes Westphal, Simon Schmidt, Sanjay Lama, Matthias Polack, Chris Weise, Toni Oestereich, Rico Warias, Tanja Gulder, Detlev Belder
Biocatalysis with packed-bed microreactors: a novel method combining microreactor technology, multi-reactor integration, and online (chip-)LC/MS analysis in a sequential automated workflow.
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The electrochemical oxidation of a thioether to form an API intermediate and the effects of substrate electronics on impurity formation

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, 9,883-887
DOI: 10.1039/D3RE00632H, Paper
Hamish R. Stephen, Holly Longhurst, Michael Nunn, Christopher D. Parsons, Matthew Burns
Electrochemistry was explored as a means of oxidising a thioether to form a sulfone API intermediate.
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Determination of intermediates and products of the uranyl aerosol formation in UF6 hydrolysis in the gas phase

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3RE00665D, Paper
Open Access
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Christian Mark Salvador, Jason M. Richards, Shannon M. Mahurin, Meng-Dawn Cheng, Joshua A. Hubbard
A graphical representation of the uranyl aerosol formation.
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Tata Motors’ Q2 profit falls 11.18% due to weak performance

Lower sales volumes, supply constraints and underperformance of JLR, PVs resulted in the decline in profits




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Wheelocity secures $15 million to transform e-commerce in semi-urban India 

Originally a B2B platform, Wheelocity has transitioned to a B2C model, now serving over 1 million households across 3,500 towns and villages




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Abnormal enterohepatic circulation of bile acids caused by fructooligosaccharide supplementation along with a high-fat diet

Food Funct., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO03353A, Paper
Fang Zeng, Shi He, Ying Sun, Xue Li, Kaiyang Chen, Hongbin Wang, Shuli Man, Fuping Lu
Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) is a widely used prebiotic and health food ingredient, but few reports have focused on its risk to specific populations.
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Acute supplementation with a curcuminoid-based formulation fails to enhance resting or exercise-induced NRF2 activity in males and females

Food Funct., 2024, 15,10782-10794
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO02681K, Paper
Open Access
Josh Thorley, Abrar Alhebshi, Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, Zicheng Zhang, Stephen J. Bailey, Neil R. W. Martin, Nicolette C. Bishop, Tom Clifford
Supplementation with a curcuminoid-based formulation for four days did not augment nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells at rest and after strenuous plyometric exercise.
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Metagenomic and transcriptomic profiling of the hypoglycemic and hypotriglyceridemic actions of Tremella fuciformis-derived polysaccharides in high-fat-diet- and streptozotocin-treated mice

Food Funct., 2024, 15,11096-11114
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO01870B, Paper
Xiaofei Xu, Xiaofei Liu, Liyan Liu, Jin Chen, Jingjing Guan, Donghui Luo
Tremella fuciformis polysaccharides exhibit hypoglycemic and hypotriglyceridemic activities through altering the taxonomic and functional attributes of the gut microbiota and modulating gene expression in the liver.
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Solid-state fermentation of green lentils by Lactiplantibacillus plantarum leads to formation of distinct peptides that are absorbable and enhances DPP-IV inhibitory activity in an intestinal Caco-2 cell model

Food Funct., 2024, 15,11220-11235
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO03326D, Paper
Elisa Di Stefano, Nico Hüttmann, Pieter Dekker, Monic M. M. Tomassen, Teresa Oliviero, Vincenzo Fogliano, Chibuike C. Udenigwe
In vitro gastrointestinal digestion, brush border enzyme activity, and microbial fermentation with Lactiplantibacillus plantarum influenced the peptidome of green lentils and peptide transport across the intestinal Caco-2 cell monolayer.
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Allergenicity evaluation of an extensively hydrolyzed infant formula based on cow milk protein

Food Funct., 2024, 15,11036-11046
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO03582H, Paper
Hongbo Li, Lin Yang, Jiayi Li, Quan Gao, Tiantian Liu, Yang Zou, Xiaohong Chen, Hongjuan Li, Jinghua Yu
We developed an extensively hydrolyzed infant formula (EHF) with a protein composition similar to breast milk (whey protein-to-casein ratio of 6 : 4) and evaluated its sensitization in vitro and in vivo.
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Correction: Using integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics to explore the effects of infant formula on the growth and development of small intestinal organoids

Food Funct., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FO90094D, Correction
Open Access
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Xianli Wang, Yuxin Jing, Chengdong Zheng, Chenxuan Huang, Haiyang Yao, Zimo Guo, Yilun Wu, Zening Wang, Zhengyang Wu, Ruihong Ge, Wei Cheng, Yuanyuan Yan, Shilong Jiang, Jianguo Sun, Jingquan Li, Qinggang Xie, Xiaoguang Li, Hui Wang
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Editorial. FMCG firms should look within for falling performance

FMCG multinationals seem to be hurt more by sector-specific disruptions that they have failed to foresee, than any economy-wide distress




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Editorial. Subdued performance

Q2 earnings point to challenges in many sectors




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Editorial. Growing rice acreage points to need for PDS reform

A household of five individuals does not need 25 kg of free grain per month. Instead, with the same level of food subsidy, pulses and oils can be introduced, where they don’t find a place in the PDS already




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Transformers One Review

If you're a fan of the Transformer films already, you will be delighted with a hearty dose of nostalgia here but... Mayur Sanap adds a caveat.




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Deshwal powers Jaipur Pink Panthers with 19-point performance against Bengaluru Bulls

Arjun Deshwal scored 19 points for the two-time PKL champions, with the second-highest scorer for the Jaipur Pink Panthers being Lucky Sharma




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Gram Sabha meetings to discuss village panchayats’ performance in sanitation




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Trump picks former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be Ambassador to Israel

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel




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Non-bailable warrant issued against former BJD MP in connection with 2010 murder case

BJD leader N. Bhaskar Rao and five others are linked to the murder of a tribal leader in 2010




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Donald Trump names Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The U.S. President elect said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.





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Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

How did the earliest, simplest cells hold it all together before elaborate membrane structures evolved?




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Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate

Scientists show that microplastic particles can have the same effects, producing ice crystals at temperatures 5 to 10 degrees Celsius warmer than droplets without microplastics.




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Riveting performance

The classic comedy of ‘Barrister Parvateesam’ was enacted brilliantly




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RBI helps rupee outperform peers amid US election jitters

The central bank has sold dollars on almost all days in the last two weeks, not allowing the rupee to fall and dampening volatility




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Reliance Jio Platforms’ ARPU in March quarter remains flat QoQ

Reliance Jio reported a net profit of ₹4,716 crore on revenue of ₹23,394 crore




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Shining a light on methane dry reforming – exploring the impact of visible light on carbon formation over Co/xCeO2–Al2O3

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00925H, Paper
George E. P. O'Connell, Richard F. Webster, Elise Elkington, Rose Amal, Jason Scott, Emma C. Lovell
Introducing light to thermal DRM may be an effective strategy to improve catalyst stability, but light's role in the stability mechanism is not well understood.
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Enhanced catalytic performance of single-atom Cu on Mo2C toward CO2/CO hydrogenation to methanol: a first-principles study

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00703D, Paper
Open Access
Anna Vidal-López, Estefanía Díaz López, Aleix Comas-Vives
First-principles calculations show the crucial role of the Cu/Mo2COx interface in enabling low-energy pathways for CO2/CO hydrogenation to methanol via successive heterolytic H2 cleavages.
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