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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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Boxing competition disrupted by man claiming to be YouTuber in Kerala




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BMW M4 Competition M xDrive launched

This all-wheel-drive version is priced at ₹1.53 crore




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Competitive exam coaching centre at NIEPMD opens a new innings

Haran Nataraj is the first from the batch to get a government job




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Australian Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn to retire from competition after backlash

“Raygun”, as she was known, plans to retire after being ridiculed for her unconventional routine at the Paris Olympics




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Trump rules out former Cabinet members Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley in his administration

Pompeo served as the CIA Director and Secretary of State in his first term, Haley served as his ambassador to the United Nations in the first two years of Trump’s presidency




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First emperor penguin known to reach Australia found on tourist beach

The adult male penguin was found on November 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate southwest Australia and now is being cared for by a wildlife expert




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On paper characterisation of droplet and evaporation study using impedance spectroscopy

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00303A, Paper
O. Kare Siva Prakasam, Akashlina Basu, Koel Chaudhury, Soumen Das
A paper chip employs an impedance method to determine the characteristics of the droplet. We compare the traditional evaporation method with the electrical method to study the evaporation of various liquids.
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One-step electrodeposited hybrid nanofilms in amperometric biosensor development

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00290C, Tutorial Review
Yuliya E. Silina
This review summarizes developments in amperometric biosensors with electrodeposited sensing films. It was shown how the analytical merit of one-step designed biosensors can be controlled by the change of chemical factors within the same engineering platform.
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Correction: An impedimetric sensor based on molecularly imprinted nanoparticles for the determination of trypsin in artificial matrices – towards point-of-care diagnostics

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY90029D, Correction
Open Access
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Sabrina Di Masi, Marco Costa, Francesco Canfarotta, Antonio Guerreiro, Alicia Hartley, Sergey A. Piletsky, Cosimino Malitesta
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Paddy crop loss compensation pegged at ₹36,500




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Plea to include ‘panneer karumbu’ in Pongal gift hamper




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Urban Primary Health Centre stuck in cramped, temporary facility




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Tiruchi district SHGs compete to prepare healthy millet-based recipes at food festival

Women entrepreneurs urged to take advantage of social media platforms to advertise and market their products to a wider customer base




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Saidapet-Teynampet elevated corridor project: Highways Dept. removes footpaths on Anna Salai to construct flyover

The removal of the footpaths will help increase the width of the carriageway at points where lanes on either side of the median will be barricaded




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Mechanical characterization of freestanding lipid bilayers with temperature-controlled phase

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8524-8537
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00706A, Paper
Open Access
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Arash Yahyazadeh Shourabi, Roland Kieffer, Djanick de Jong, Daniel Tam, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Lipid membranes formed in a microfluidic device are studied with temperature-controlled optical tweezers, revealing how mechanical properties of ripple phase and gel-fluid phase-separated membranes change when heated above the transition temperature.
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Editorial. End compensation cess

States can benefit from GST rate rationalisation




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Four from Kurnool selected for national gymnastic competition in Kolkata




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Kurnool district students excel in belt grading competitions

Out of the total 28 participating students, 14 children participated in Yellow category, 13 in Yellow-1 category and one child in Green-1 category




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Two GOs and a competitive exam

After much delay and controversy, the Group-I test begins in Telangana




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Poojary asks officials to hasten Karavali junction-Malpe stretch highway widening project by paying compensation to land losers by November 10




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CCI probe: Zomato, Swiggy say committed to complying with competition law

Zomato and Swiggy termed news reports on the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) investigation "misleading", maintaining that the CCI is yet to pass its final order on the matter of unfair business practices, including alleged preferential treatment to some restaurant partners




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Arihant partners with Empee Hotels to build new commercial space in Chennai

This project will integrate office space with hospitality services, says a release




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Pd-catalyzed S-glycosylation of cysteine-containing peptides at room temperature

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6347-6352
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01389A, Research Article
Linhua Shen, Franck Le Bideau, Gong Chen, Samir Messaoudi
This study reports the synthesis of thioglycopeptides via a Pd-catalyzed coupling of cysteine-containing peptides with iodoglycals. A variety of cysteine-containing peptides and other thiol nucleophiles including thiosugars and thiophenols were used.
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Shami's return to competitive cricket delayed; not to play for Bengal against Karnataka, M.P.

Other than Shami, Bengal will also miss the services of prolific opener Abhimanyu Easwaran, wicketkeeper batter Abhishek Porel and pacer Mukesh Kumar, who are with India A squad in Australia.




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Low temperature synthesis of franklinite stabilized cefixime as a multifunctional nanoformulation

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,34156-34164
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06435F, Paper
Open Access
Amna Munsaf, Muhammad Naeem Ahmed, Aroosa Zafar, Bilal Akram, Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim
Cefixime, an antibiotic with low solubility, stability, bioavailability and therapeutic effectiveness, needs to be administered in larger doses for effective treatment.
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Superior low temperature activity over α-MnO2/β-MnOOH catalyst for selective catalytic reduction of NOx with ammonia

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35498-35504
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05934D, Paper
Open Access
Masanori Takemoto, Haruko Fujinuma, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Yukichi Sasaki, Kenta Iyoki, Tatsuya Okubo, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Toru Wakihara
α-MnO2/β-MnOOH catalysts were synthesized by post-synthetic planetary ball milling for OMS-2, enhancing catalytic activity in low-temperature NH3-SCR.
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Hathras stampede: 11 accused appear in court, next hearing on August 23

The police had last month arrested 11 people in connection with the July 2 Hathras stampede




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Bihar temple stampede: Police arrest flower vendor, security tightened

Temple premises made vendor-free zone; temporary medical camp set up




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Jumpers Shaili and Eldhose shocked as WA marks Slovakia’s Jumps Fest results as ‘uncertified’

AFI president Sumariwalla writes to the governing body about the issue




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Athletics Federation of India to restructure domestic competition

South Asian Athletics Federation president Bhanot says SAAF plans to conduct the South Asian senior meet in Ranchi in October and a cross country event in Pakistan




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PIX: Happy campers, Kiwis celebrate with their kids

And joining the players in celebration were their families.




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Man United stunned 1-1 by Dutch club Twente in revamped Europa League

99% is not enough, You have to give 100%. You have kill the game. You have to finish it off, says Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag




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Bulk photovoltaic effect in a zero-dimensional room-temperature molecular ferroelectric [C8N2H22]1.5[Bi2I9]

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02698E, Paper
Zhibo Chen, Tianhong Luo, Jinrong Wen, Zhanqiang Liu, Jingshan Hou, Yongzheng Fang, Ganghua Zhang
Non-toxic molecular ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest due to their unique flexibility, low costs, and environmental friendliness. However, the variety of such materials with narrow bandgaps and above room temperature...
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Heavy fog affects 21 flights at Kempegowda International Airport in Devanahalli in Bengaluru

There were more than 15 delays, and six flights diverted




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State-level mock Parliament competition for high school and PU students in Shivamogga tomorrow




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Maha CM asks officials to provide compensation for farm losses due to unseasonal rains




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Mohammed Shami to return to competitive cricket; to play for Bengal against M.P. in Ranji Trophy

India have opted for a largely untested pace attack for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with rookies such as Akash Deep, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Prasidh Krishna backing senior pros Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.




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Mathematical modeling to size anaerobic stabilization ponds intended for slaughterhouse wastewater treatment – the role of temperature and hydraulic retention time

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,2882-2896
DOI: 10.1039/D4EW00557K, Paper
P. E. S. Soldera, R. F. Dantas, E. Fagnani
A new mathematical model for constructing anaerobic stabilization pond treatment systems for high organic load wastewater, based on biochemical oxygen demand, temperature and hydraulic retention time, is discussed.
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GST Council sets up GoM on compensation cess; panel to submit report by December 31

In the GST regime, compensation cess at varied rates is levied on luxury, sin and demerit goods over and above the 28% tax




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Vision for Viksit Bharat: State-level investment competition, fresh blood in politics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for State-level investment push, focus on green jobs, birth of first-generation political leaders




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Igniting scientific temper

At the science exhibition at the Mahatma Montessori Higher Secondary School, students showcased their skills in innovation




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Congress is competent to fight polls on its own in Haryana: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

‘I am satisfied with our performance in the Lok Sabha election because the INDIA bloc vote share was the highest in Haryana among all other States — 47.62%,’ the former Haryana CM said




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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
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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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Metastable interphase induced pre-strain compensation enables efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03801K, Paper
Hongyu Xu, Yun Xiao, Karim A Elmestekawy, Pietro Caprioglio, Qiuyang Li, Qixuan Zhong, Yongqiang Ji, Tianyu Huang, Haoming Yan, Yingguo Yang, Laura M Herz, Qihuang Gong, Henry Snaith, Rui Zhu, Lichen Zhao
High-efficiency metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) include the rigid substrates with low thermal-expansion coefficients (TECs), resulting in a significant TEC mismatch with the perovskites with high TECs at the...
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XRDMatch: a semi-supervised learning framework to efficiently discover room temperature lithium superionic conductors

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02970D, Paper
Zheng Wan, Zhenying Chen, Hao Chen, Yizhi Jiang, Jinhuan Zhang, Yidong Wang, Jindong Wang, Hao Sun, Zhongjie Zhu, Jinhui Zhu, Linyi Yang, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Xiao He, Jinrong Yang
We propose XRDMatch, a semi-supervised learning framework that integrates consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling. Using X-ray diffraction patterns as descriptors, it effectively addresses data scarcity by leveraging abundant unlabeled data.
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Bicontinuous-phase electrolyte for a highly reversible Zn metal anode working at ultralow temperature

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8966-8977
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02815E, Paper
Mi Xu, Beinuo Zhang, Yudong Sang, Dan Luo, Rui Gao, Qianyi Ma, Haozhen Dou, Zhongwei Chen
A bicontinuous-phase electrolyte with a well-balanced solvation sheath is proposed, which delivers fast desolvation kinetics and generates a uniform in situ solid electrolyte interface, thus achieving a long-lasting Zn anode at low temperatures.
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Advancing high-temperature electrostatic energy storage via linker engineering of metal–organic frameworks in polymer nanocomposites

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04085F, Paper
Zongliang Xie, Zhiyuan Huang, He Li, Tianlei Xu, Haoyu Zhao, Yunfei Wang, Pang Xi, Zhiqiang Cao, Virginia Altoe, Liana M Klivansky, Zaiyu Wang, Steven Shelton, Shiqi Lai, Peng Liu, Chenhui Zhu, Michael D. Connolly, Corie Y. Ralston, Xiaodan Gu, Zongren Peng, Jian Zhang, Yi Liu
High-performance, thermally resilient polymer dielectrics are essential for film capacitors used in advanced electronic devices and renewable energy systems, particularly at elevated temperatures where conventional polymers fail to perform. Compositing...
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More coaching centres for competitive exams to be opened in State, says Higher Education Minister




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Experimental study of CO2 capture from air via steam-assisted temperature-vacuum swing adsorption with a compact kg-scale pilot unit

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, 9,910-924
DOI: 10.1039/D3RE00460K, Paper
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H. M. Schellevis, D. W. F. Brilman
Reactor design and process performance evaluation.
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