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'I don't know how I won Indian Idol!'

'Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be standing next to renowned personalities and singing songs in front of them!'









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Bigg Boss 16: Another Dosti Is OVER!

Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia and Gautam Vig, who have been acting as BFFs since the start, get into a ugly fight.




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Bigg Boss 16: Is Soundarya Dominating?

With so many equations changing everyday, the Bigg Boss game is finally beginning to seem exciting.




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BB16: Why Does Archana Love Pangas?

Archana Gautam is a strong contestant on Bigg Boss 16, but she is slowly losing the plot.




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'Most of them don't deserve to win'

'Be it Nimrit or Tina or Shaleen or Sajid Khan, they are all faking it.'




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'Women don't understand women'

'In a family, your mother-in-law or sister-in-law are your core team.''If they don't support you, it becomes very difficult.'




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'Why don't you call Salman a TV actor?'

'Salman is on television for the last 15 years.''Why don't you call Amitabh Bachchan a TV actor? He's been doing Kaun Banega Crorepati for 20 years.'




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'Once you do TV, you won't get films'

'You found me eligible and you think I am the perfect cast, then why don't you give me work?''That used to happen only because I have done TV.'




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'Where does Manisha get energy to bitch?'

'I hope Jad has seen the footage and he knows what he has done to ruin my reputation or my bond with people outside.'




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'Don't be in a relationship that doesn't...'

'...make you happy because you are supposed to be happy since you live life only once.'




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Looking through the kaleidoscope

How do we develop the mental agility to find creative solutions?




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At K Sureshkumar’s pedagogical laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram students understand basic concepts of Physics by doing experiments on their own

National award-winning science teacher K Sureshkumar’s pedagogical laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram enables students of high school to conduct experiments in Physics and learn the concepts themselves



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Radioactive — How Ushaben’s broadcasts transmitted the message of freedom

The spirited 22-year-old woman, who earned the sobriquet Radioben, was an integral part of the underground radio service during the Quit India movement




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Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century











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What's Elvis Doing In Cannes?

Baz Luhrmann's new film Elvis got a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes film festival.




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Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr Win Golden Globes

Here's a quick look at the winners of the 81st Annual Golden Globe awards.




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Oscars: Robert Downey Jr Thanks 'Terrible Childhood'

Robert Downey Jr bagged his first ever Oscar award for his performance in the biopic drama film, Oppenheimer.




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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering enhancement using a hybrid gold nanoparticles@carbon nanodot substrate for herbicide detection

Analyst, 2024, 149,5277-5286
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00649F, Paper
Open Access
Naghmeh Aboualigaledari, Anitha Jayapalan, Panesun Tukur, Mengxin Liu, Frank Tukur, Yanling Zhang, Gerald Ducatte, Madan Verma, Janet Tarus, Simona E. Hunyadi Murph, Jianjun Wei
Hybrid nanoparticles composed of gold nanoparticles and carbon nanodots provide great signal amplification in SERS detection of herbicide molecules.
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A cerium-doped tungsten trioxide-functionalized sensing platform for photoelectrochemical detection of ascorbic acid with high sensitivity

Analyst, 2024, 149,5206-5212
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01165A, Paper
Xueying Zhu, Tikai Liang, Dianping Tang
A highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) strategy was proposed for the determination of ascorbic acid (AA).
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Double-channel sensors for high precision measurement of methane based on a dual-path Herriott cell

Analyst, 2024, 149,5527-5534
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01107D, Paper
Hongliang Ma, Shiqi Wang, Gaoxuan Wang, Qilei Zhang, Shenlong Zha, Xueyuan Cai, Lingli Li, Pan Pan, Qiang Liu, Shengbao Zhan
A novel method combining dual-channel concentration signal averaging with detector gain optimization is proposed to improve the measurement precision and response speed of the sensor within the 1–10 second integration time.
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Towards high-resolution water isotope analysis in ice cores using laser ablation – cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01054J, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Eirini Malegiannaki, Pascal Bohleber, Daniele Zannoni, Ciprian Stremtan, Agnese Petteni, Barbara Stenni, Carlo Barbante, Bo M. Vinther, Vasileios Gkinis
A new micro-destructive technique for high-resolution water isotope analysis of ice samples using a Laser Ablation (LA) system coupled with a Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer (CRDS) is presented.
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Magneto-optical properties of heavily Fe-doped GaAs: a density functional approach

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27510-27518
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03101F, Paper
J. Zarpellon, D. H. Mosca, J. Varalda
Heavily Fe-doped GaAs, investigated using a DFT approach, reveals a spin polarized electronic band structure correlated with magnetic circular dichroism and complex Kerr and Faraday rotation angles in agreement with some previous experiments.
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Hole-states in Li doped NiO: doping dependence of Zhang-Rice spectral weight

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27735-27740
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03373F, Paper
Suman Mandal, Krishnakumar S. R. Menon
The structural and spectroscopic evolution of Li-doped NiO, along with the behavior of doped hole states, are investigated using XRD and XAS.
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Electrochemical system of nitrogen-doped TiO2, Fe–N–C, and copper hexacyanoferrate electrodes for photo-assisted energy conversion in acidic wastewater treatment

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27498-27509
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02063D, Paper
Bianca Tainá Ferreira, Matheus Martins, Fritz Huguenin
This study examines the electrochemical performance of nitrogen-doped TiO2, Fe–N–C, and CuHCF electrodes for energy conversion in acidic solution neutralization, capturing 62.9 kJ per mole of protons.
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Structural insights into carboxylic-acid based DES across H-bond donor ratios: impact of CL&Pol refinement

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27486-27497
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03233K, Paper
Jon Zubeltzu, Elixabete Rezabal
Improved force field parameters refine H-bond network and long-range structure in carboxylic-acid-based deep eutectic solvents.
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Molten salt synthesized Tb3+, Pr3+ or Dy3+ single doped CaTa4O11 with persistent luminescence

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03989K, Paper
Yuhan Fan, Yongze Cao, Meiling Li, Sai Xu, Yichao Wang, Xizhen Zhang, Jinsu Zhang, B. J. Chen
A series of Tb3+, Pr3+ and Dy3+ monodoped CaTa4O11(CTO) persistent luminescence (PersL) phosphors have been successfully synthesized by molten salt method with KCl flux. The PersL color is green and...
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Direct capture of the alanine ghost in alanine-doped triglycine sulfate crystals

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03839H, Communication
Open Access
Yukana Terasawa, Toshimichi Shibue, Toru Asahi
15 N-labelled L-alanine in TGS crystals was directly observed by solid 15N-NMR, with two chemical states of alanine doped into GI being reported and a new crystal structure model proposed.
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Mechanistic Insights into CO2 Activation on Pristine, Vacancy-containing and Doped Goldene: A Single-Atom Layer of Gold

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03087G, Paper
Kamal Kumar, Nora Henriette De Leeuw, Jost Adam, Abhishek Kumar Mishra
Goldene, a one-atom-thick gold sheet, is an emerging graphene-like flat 2-dimensional material. In this study, the geometrical and electronic properties, as well as CO2 adsorption characteristics, of the pristine,...
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Electronic Relaxation Pathways in Thio-Acridone and Thio-Coumarin: Two Heavy-Atom-Free Photosensitizers Absorbing Visible Light

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03720K, Paper
Open Access
Chris Acquah, Sean J. Hoehn, Sarah E. Krul, Steffen Jockusch, Shudan Yang, Sourav Kanti Seth, Eric Lee, Han Xiao, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Heavy-atom-free photosensitizers (HAF-PSs) have emerged as a new class of photosensitizers aiming to broaden their applicability and versatility across various fields of the photodynamic therapy of cancers. The strategy involves...
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Identifying Winner-Takes-All Emergence in Random Nanowire Networks: an Inverse Problem

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03242J, Paper
Fábio Rangel Duarte, shardul mukim, Mauro Ferreira, Claudia Gomes da Rocha
Random nanowire networks (NWNs) are interconnects that enable the integration of nanoscopic building blocks (the nanowires) in a disorganized fashion, enabling the study of complex emergent phenomena in nanomaterials and...
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A walk down the queer side of Varanasi | Debashish Paul’s first solo exhibition

The artist explores his identity, and highlights self-doubt, desire and societal dissonance through performance images, sketches and sculptures




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A documentary, new launches mark Hindustan Trading Company’s 50th anniversary

Hindustan Trading Company turns 50 this week with new products, and a documentary on late founder PN Venketakrishnan



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Say ‘I do’ at these off-beat wedding venues like vineyards, trains, and museums

From heritage mansions to sunny beaches, we find examples of unique locations where you can tie the knot



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