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New terminal operating system and bunching of ships disrupt truck movements at Kattupalli and Ennore container terminals

While the issue with the of TOS has been addressedsorted out, the trailers are still facing delays in the scanning centre




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Release Viability Gap Funding to Vizhinjam port as grant, not loan, Kerala Chief Minister requests Centre 

Letter to Union Finance Minister requests treatment on a par with Outer Harbour project of VO Chidambaranar Port




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India looks to alleviate container shortage amid Chinese front-loading and rising freight costs

Govt working on policy interventions and increased capacities to address global demand




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India could benefit from re-orientation of global supply chain away from China after Trump's victory: Report

The report highlighted the Trump’s plans include imposing a 60 per cent tariff on imports from China, as well as additional tariffs ranging from 10 per cent to 20 per cent on imports from other countries




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Kerala set to start its seaplane service from Kochi, looks forward to boost in tourism

Kerala Tourism Minister Mohamed Riyas will flag off the trial run on Monday




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Seaplane service between Kochi and Idukki takes off

The service is be operated by a Switzerland-based private company and SpiceJet




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An enriching experience

Gayathri Girish intelligent structuring of her recital paid rich dividends.




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Quadrupolar dinuclear hypervalent tin(IV) compounds with near-infrared emission consisting of Schiff bases based on π-conjugated scaffolds

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15,17950-17961
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05006A, Edge Article
Open Access
Kazuya Tanimura, Kento Tanaka, Masayuki Gon, Kazuo Tanaka
The study focuses on dinuclear hypervalent tin(IV) compounds with near-infrared (NIR) emission and unique quadrupolar orientations, showing potential for constructing electronic structures with narrow energy gaps.
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The chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in asymmetric spin transport: from solution to device applications

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05736H, Review Article
Open Access
Ritu Gupta, Anujit Balo, Rabia Garg, Amit Kumar Mondal, Koyel Banerjee Ghosh, Prakash Chandra Mondal
This review highlights recent experimental findings related to the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect. This effect is demonstrated to explain asymmetric electron's spin transport in chiral molecules for various technological applications.
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Pd/NHC sequentially catalyzed atroposelective synthesis of planar-chiral macrocycles

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05482B, Edge Article
Open Access
Gongming Yang, Shangde Liu, Shujie Ji, Xingsen Wu, Jian Wang
The unprecedented non-enzymatically atroposelective synthesis of planar-chiral macrocycles via a Pd/NHC sequential catalytic intermolecular macrocyclization is reported.
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Strain-induced charge delocalization achieves ultralow exciton binding energy toward efficient photocatalysis

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05873A, Edge Article
Open Access
Junyuan Duan, Yinghe Zhao, Yu Wu, Youwen Liu, Junnian Chen, Ruoou Yang, Jiazhao Huang, Chuanqi Luo, Mao Wu, Xiaodong Zheng, Pengyu Li, Xueliang Jiang, Jianguo Guan, Tianyou Zhai
A novel approach of strain-induced charge delocalization is developed to significantly reduce the exciton binding energy of Ta2O5 nanorods to below ambient thermal energy, leading to a remarkable enhancement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
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Tailoring Hierarchical MnO2 Nanostructures on Self-Supporting Cathodes for High-Mass-Loading Zinc-Ion Batteries

Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06182A, Edge Article
Open Access
Weijie Zheng, Zhibiao Cui, Cong Liu, Libei Yuan, Shengsong Li, Lilin Lin, Tao Meng, Liangui Yang, Yexiang Tong, Dong Shu
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) with MnO2 cathodes have promising application prospects, however, their performance is hindered by their low efficiency and insufficient life. By leveraging the nanomicellar properties of cetyltrimethylammonium...
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Morphology of Lithium Halides in Tetrahydrofuran from Molecular Dynamics with Machine Learning Potentials

Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04957H, Edge Article
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Marinella de Giovanetti, Sondre H. Hopen Eliasson, Sigbjørn L. Bore, Odile Eisenstein, Michele Cascella
The preferred structures of lithium halides (LiX, with X = Cl, Br, I) in organic solvents have been the subject of a wide scientific debate, and a large variety of...
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‘I’d like to think that one day I’ll be Chinese’

Committed Sinophile and one of the debut filmmakers at MAMI this year, Jordan Schiele is alsoan enthusiastic Mumbaikar discovers Satya Kandala




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Accepting queer children

A new anthology of stories, translated from Marathi, is about ordinary folks coming to terms with the queer sexuality of their children and siblings




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Snatching value back from a fire

When you suddenly cannot afford to continue paying the premiums on a life policy, you may still be able to protect value. A new measure from IRDAI helps you in this quest 




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Justice Sanjiv Khanna sworn in as 51st Chief Justice of India




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Chinmaya Mission takes up growing challenges of mental health




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Towards real-time myocardial infarction diagnosis: a convergence of machine learning and ion-exchange membrane technologies leveraging miRNA signatures

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00640B, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Xiang Ren, Ruyu Zhou, George Ronan, S. Gulberk Ozcebe, Jiaying Ji, Satyajyoti Senapati, Keith L. March, Eileen Handberg, David Anderson, Carl J. Pepine, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Fang Liu, Pinar Zorlutuna
Rapid diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is crucial for optimal patient management.
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Microfluidic antisolvent crystallization for chiral symmetry breaking

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,5055-5064
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00658E, Paper
Jiye Jang, Gerard Coquerel, Tae Seok Seo, Woo-Sik Kim, Bum Jun Park
Microfluidic antisolvent crystallization was used to study the effect of solution volume on chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) in NaClO3 crystals. 100% CSB occurs below a critical emulsion volume due to rapid molecule depletion and suppressed nucleation.
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Exploring cancer-associated fibroblast-induced resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in hepatoma cells using a liver-on-a-chip model

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,5043-5054
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00624K, Paper
Madhu Shree Poddar, Yu-De Chu, Gaurav Pendharkar, Cheng-Hsien Liu, Chau-Ting Yeh
3D liver-on-a-chip reveals AHSG and CLEC3B to mediate cancer-associated fibroblast-induced resistance to TKIs in hepatoma cells.
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Rapid low-cost assembly of modular microvessel-on-a-chip with benchtop xurography

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,5065-5076
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00565A, Paper
Open Access
Shashwat S. Agarwal, Marcos Cortes-Medina, Jacob C. Holter, Alex Avendano, Joseph W. Tinapple, Joseph M. Barlage, Miles M. Menyhert, Lotanna M. Onua, Jonathan W. Song
Our study is a novel implementation of xurography for multi-layer microfluidic device fabrication. We demonstrate the versatility of this approach by presenting several modular 3D vessel-matrix arrangements.
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Self-actuated microfluidic chiplet for two-stage multiplex nucleic acid amplification assay

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00752B, Paper
Open Access
Felix Ansah, Marziyeh Hajialyani, Fatemeh Ahmadi, Yuming Gu, Ergün Alperay Tarım, Michael G. Mauk, Gordon A. Awandare, Haim H. Bau
Self-actuated chiplet for Penn-RAMP assay.
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Correction: Deciphering hepatoma cell resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors: insights from a Liver-on-a-Chip model unveiling tumor endothelial cell mechanisms

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC90093F, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Madhu Shree Poddar, Yu-De Chu, Chau-Ting Yeh, Cheng-Hsien Liu
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A gravity-driven tissue chip to study the efficacy and toxicity of cancer therapeutics

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00404C, Paper
Open Access
Pouria Rafsanjani Nejad, Astha Lamichhane, Prasiddha Guragain, Gary Luker, Hossein Tavana
A 96-well plate format, fully-automated multi-organ tissue chip array with gravity-driven flow for cancer research.
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5-axis CNC micro-milling machine for three-dimensional microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00496E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Mitchell Modarelli, Devin Kot-Thompson, Kazunori Hoshino
The gold standard of microfluidic fabrication techniques, SU-8 patterning, requires photolithography equipment and facilities and is not suitable for 3D microfluidics. A 3D printer is more convenient and may achieve...
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Impact of microchannel width on axons for brain-on-chip applications

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,5155-5166
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00440J, Paper
Open Access
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Katarina Vulić, Giulia Amos, Tobias Ruff, Revan Kasm, Stephan J. Ihle, Joël Küchler, János Vörös, Sean Weaver
Axon growth is influenced by the width and number of microchannels, with growth cone adaptability reaching its limit for constraints smaller than 350 nm. Tradeoffs between axon growth and control need to be made for neurofluidic devices.
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Observing root growth and signalling responses to stress gradients and pathogens using the bi-directional dual-flow RootChip

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00659C, Paper
Open Access
Claudia Allan, Yiling Sun, Stephen C. Whisson, Michael Porter, Petra C. Boevink, Volker Nock, Claudia-Nicole Meisrimler
Using a bi-directional dual-flow RootChip with integrated force sensing micropillars, root growth and signalling responses to stress gradients and pathogens were studied in Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana and Solanum lycopersicum.
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SERS-based pump-free microfluidic chip sensor for highly sensitive competitive immunoassay of cortisol in human sweat

Lab Chip, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00858H, Paper
Siyue Xiong, Chushu Zhu, Chengxuan Wang, Peitao Dong, Xuezhong Wu
Cortisol, known as the "stress hormone," is secreted by the adrenal cortex. Measuring cortisol levels in body fluids is essential for evaluating stress levels, adrenal function, hormone imbalances, and psychological...
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Two youngsters from Kochi determined to smash their disabilities on the badminton court

Atul Krishna and Jyothish Kumar defy physical limitations to excel in badminton, inspiring with their determination and talent.




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No child will be left out of school sports meet in future, says Sivankutty




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Police control room in Kochi gets bomb threat call




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Drenched in sweat, student volunteers have a bittersweet experience at sports meet in Kochi




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Civic authorities racing against time to save Central funds for Edakochi STP

The deadline for the ₹18.6-crore project is December 31, and failure to complete it in time will lead to the Corporation losing the Central share of ₹7.75 crore




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Union Minister Suresh Gopi inaugurates ‘Confluence-24’ in Kochi




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Laugh in life: Kochi-based comedians Abhishek and Akshay on their latest show, their inspirations and more

The duo has been performing stand-up comedy for around three years now.




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Tooth-brushing event held to create awareness about oral health among children




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HC declines former Chief Secretary’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance

Court exempts Palakkad Collector from personal appearance on condition that she will appear through virtual mode




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Thrissur and Kochi take early lead as curtain goes up on CBSE State Kalotsav




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New CEO for Kochi Biennale Foundation




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Seaplane arrives in Kochi backwaters for demo flight to Mattupetty Dam

Seaplane service will boost tourism by fostering new enterprises and creating job opportunities allowing holidaymakers to explore more destinations quickly, say Tourism Secretary




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Seaplane demo flight in Kochi draws mixed response




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Delay in completing work on ferry jetties hits commuters in West Kochi

Irrigation department is reportedly being blamed for the delay in completing dredging at Mattancherry Jetty; delay in renovating the Customs Jetty is causing safety issues, CSML asks contractor to expedite work




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HC asks Wayanad DLSA to formulate action plan to prevent child marriages among tribal communities




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The politics of child marriage

India's stand at the UN Human Rights Council was viewed with apprehension by the intelligentsia in Kerala. Many see it as yet another example of appeasement politics.



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Grizzly should repeat in the Chief Minister’s Trophy




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Chief Minister’s Trophy declared null and void due to false start




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Geographique, Supernatural, Jade and Psychic Star impress




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GST portal: Pan masala, tobacco manufacturers to register their machines

GST portal introduces forms for manufacturers of pan masala and tobacco to register machines and track inputs/outputs




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India imposes anti-dumping duty on pentaerythritol imports from China, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan

Kanoria Chemicals had filed the petition seeking anti dumping probe