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Advances in quinoxaline derivatives: synthetic routes and antiviral efficacy against respiratory pathogens

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35400-35423
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA04292A, Review Article
Open Access
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Fateme Dehnavi, Malihe Akhavan, Ahmadreza Bekhradnia
3D lung visualization showing COVID-19 infection areas alongside respiratory pathogens. The antiviral drug structure and comparison of healthy vs. infected lungs demonstrate how the drug could restore lung health.
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An efficient extraction device for microplastics in marine sediments and its applications

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35610-35617
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA04347B, Paper
Open Access
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Wang Jiahan, Liu Xiaowei, Yang Feng, Yang Xiujiu, Jiao Wenguang, Tang Kai, Wang Jinli, Chen Yan
Microplastics, defined as small pieces of plastic with a size less than 5 millimeters, constitute a significant sink for microplastics in marine sediments.
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A safe and efficient synthesis of N-Boc-β3-amino acid methyl esters from α-amino acids: applications in the formal synthesis of sedum alkaloids

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,36016-36021
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA07506D, Paper
Open Access
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Bohua Long, Lijie Ren, Mengmeng Jiang, Shengquan Hu, Qianqian Jiang, Limin Li, Xuanluan Chen, Zhengzhi Wu
β3-Amino acids are essential components in the synthesis of biologically active compounds.
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Chitosan supported ionic liquid, a multifaceted catalyst for streamlined and efficient synthesis of carboxylic, amino acid and carbohydrate esters

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,36193-36208
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05725B, Paper
Open Access
Praachi Kakati, Satish Kumar Awasthi
Development of a solid heterogeneous catalyst in the form of an ionic liquid incorporated in chitosan which shows high recyclability. This was used in a solvent free esterification reaction of carboxylic acids, amino acids and carbohydrates.
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Israel's Netanyahu adds rival to Cabinet, strengthens hold on office

Gideon Saar had left Netanyahu's Likud party four years ago after accusing the prime minister of turning it into a "cult of personality"




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Netanyahu’s office is accused of leaks to thwart Gaza cease-fire

Many in Israel’s security establishment dismissed the demand and accused Netanyahu of avoiding a deal to keep the war going




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Taliban administration officials to attend UN climate conference in Azerbaijan

Taliban officials have taken part in U.N.-organised meetings on Afghanistan in Doha, and Taliban ministers have attended forums in China and Central Asia in the past two years




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Construction of efficient Pb(II) carboxylate catalysts for Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02958E, Paper
Janak ., Vijay Sarjerao Sapner, Bhaskar Ramchandra Sathe, Sadhika Khullar
The development of cost-effective and efficient electrocatalysts can solve the problem in the production of energy via water splitting reactions. In this work, we focused on two lead-based coordination polymers...
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Stable homogeneous silver(I) catalysts for the highly efficient cycloaddition of azides onto terminal alkynes in water

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02825B, Communication
Meysam Kakavand, Anna Kozakiewicz, Abdollah Neshat
To develop stable and efficient silver(I) catalysts and evaluate the role of sulfur and phosphorus donor ligands in the catalytic cycloaddition of selected organic azides and alkynes (AAC), a series...
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Construction of oxygen-rich vacancies and heterojunctions coupled with different morphologies of CeO2/mesoporous TiO2 framework structures for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17963-17975
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02014F, Paper
Morigejile Liu, Guangmei Jiang, Zaiwang Zhao, Ying Shi, Siqin Zhao
Construction of oxygen-rich vacancies and heterojunction-coupled CeO2/mesoporous TiO2 framework structures with different morphologies and efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance.
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Appeal to Karnataka government to officially celebrate Shankar Nag’s birthday as ‘Driver’s Day’

Several auto drivers’ unions made an appeal to Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy




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Yaduveer flays DKS for his remarks on Bandipur night traffic ban




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DKS remarks on night traffic ban through Bandipur rile activists

They held that the State government had already spent nearly ₹75 crore for strengthening alternate route via Hunsur-Gonikoppa-Kutta




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HMT forest land denotification: Forest Department issues notice to former and current officers




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Judicial Commission visits MUDA office in Mysuru

The State government constituted the Commission headed by Justice P.N. Desai to look into the alleged irregularities in the allotment of sites by the MUDA




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




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Amsterdam violence: Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers for France-Israel soccer match

Israel’s National Security Council warned citizens abroad to avoid sports and cultural events, specifically the match in Paris, and be careful of violent attacks “under the pretense of demonstrations”




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VVIP visits and traffic jams: Time to think out of the box?




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Enhanced removal efficiency of Tetradesmus obliquus for nevirapine removal via co-substrate supplementation: removal mechanisms, relative gene expression and metabolomics

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EW00576G, Paper
Karen Reddy, Nirmal Renuka, Muneer Ahmad Malla, Brenda Moodley, Faizal Bux, Sheena Kumari
The bioremediation of pharmaceutical wastewater by microalgae has gained scientific attention due to its cost-effectiveness and environmental friendliness.
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Polyphosphazene-based hyper crosslinked polymers for efficient uranium ion removal from nuclear wastewater

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,2961-2980
DOI: 10.1039/D4EW00614C, Paper
Rimsha Khalid, Isham Areej, Faiza Ashraf, Saqlain Raza, Amin Abid, Tayyab Ahsan, Bien Tan
This study focuses on the removal of uranium ions from nuclear wastewater by fabricating inorganic–organic hybrid cyclic and linear polyphosphazene based polymers.
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SEBI directs Embassy Office Parks to suspend CEO

Embassy REIT is India's first publicly listed Real Estate Investment Trust




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ED raids offices of sellers using Amazon, Flipkart platforms in FEMA probe

Amazon and Flipkart have for years faced allegations from Indian brick-and-mortar retailers that they violate foreign investment rules by working with select preferred sellers




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Ireland-based semiconductor firm Trasna’s office inaugurated in Technopark




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IAS officers flay ‘insinuations’ about Kannur Collector




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Stalemate over protest of private waste collectors in front of Corporation office continues




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Govt. caught napping as key officials wrangle in public




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Police fail to confirm hacking of IAS officer’s phone in row over religious WhatsApp group

Opposition accuses CM of turning a blind eye to the infiltration of the IAS by fundamentalists




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Former Kerala Minister Mercykutty Amma wades into IAS officers’ spat, says Prasanth plotted against her

State govt. is considering disciplinary action against N. Prasanth, Special Secretary, Agriculture department, for his social media comments on Additional Chief Secretary A. Jayathilak




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Dowry demand: panel seeks report from women protection officer in capital

The woman’s family refused to solemnise marriage after a dowry demand was made and approached the Kerala Women’s Commission




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‘Mallu Hindu’ WhatsApp group row: Kerala government suspends two IAS officials

Officials subjected to punitive action are Industries department Director K. Gopalakrishnan and Special Secretary, Agriculture, N. Prasanth.




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Swedish officials quiz Julian Assange at Ecuador embassy in London




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China’s first aircraft carrier ‘combat ready’: Official

Liaoning, which had previously been described in Chinese media as a surface platform for tests and training, has now "formally been described as having a real combat capacity," the state-run Global Times said.




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India-European Free Trade Association deal | $100-billion investment target was breakthrough moment: Swiss official

EFTA negotiator cautions that actual investment can only come from European private sector, not guaranteed by governments, and hopes FTA will be ratified by 2024-end




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Coordination environment-tailored electronic structure of single atomic copper sites for efficient electrochemical nitrate reduction toward ammonia

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8360-8367
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02746A, Paper
Tianchi Huang, Taiyu Liang, Jiao You, Qihua Huo, Shuai Qi, Jingwen Zhao, Na Meng, Jinglian Liao, Chunyan Shang, Hengpan Yang, Qi Hu, Chuanxin He
A robust strategy is developed to finely tune the electronic structure of Cu by employing single atomic Cu–N–C via both first and second coordination shell engineering, thereby boosting the performance for the nitrate reduction reaction.
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De-templated crystallization in 2D perovskites for enhanced photovoltaic efficiency

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8284-8292
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03272A, Paper
Fang Zeng, Zhenhuang Su, Weiyu Kong, Feng Li, Yuhang Liang, Xingmo Zhang, Tao Wang, Lin Zhang, Yuze Lvtao, Runkai Liu, Xingyu Gao, Jun Huang, Xudong Yang, Rongkun Zheng
A de-templated crystallization strategy using a stable intermediate to promote out-of-plane crystallization of layered 2D perovskites was proposed, in favor of highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.
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Heterojunction lithiation engineering and diffusion-induced defect passivation for highly efficient Sb2(S,Se)3 solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8402-8412
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03135K, Paper
Cong Liu, Anweng Gong, Chen Zuo, Tao Liu, Xiaoyang Liang, Donglou Ren, Kai Shen, Jianzha Zheng, Qifan Xue, Zhiqiang Li, Ruud E. I. Schropp, Bingsuo Zou, Yaohua Mai
A heterojunction lithiation strategy has been developed to achieve a certified efficiency of 10.50%, which is the record efficiency for all of the Sb-based solar cells.
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Efficient 1.77 eV-bandgap perovskite and all-perovskite tandem solar cells enabled by long-alkyl phosphonic acid

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8219-8227
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02483D, Paper
Hongling Guan, Shiqiang Fu, Guojun Zeng, Weiqing Chen, Chen Wang, Hongsen Cui, Dexin Pu, Peng Jia, Weiwei Meng, Guojia Fang, Weijun Ke
Incorporating dodecylphosphonic acid additives into 1.77 eV-bandgap perovskites enabled single-junction solar cells to achieve a PCE of 20.2%. Tandem cells further reached impressive PCEs of 27.41% (two-terminal) and 28.65% (four-terminal).
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Stabilizing doped Spiro-OMeTAD by organic molten salt for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04310C, Paper
Tengfei Pan, Zhiwei Li, Biyun Ren, Wan Yang, Xueqin Ran, Yajing Li, Yutian Xu, Yue Wang, Deli Li, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Lingfeng Chao, Yonghua Chen
Bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide (LiTFSI) and 4-tert-butylpyridine (TBP) have been currently suggested to be irreplaceable in classic doped 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis (N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9'-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD) for high-performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the stability of Spiro-OMeTAD was...
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Stress regulation via surface micro-etching and reconstruction for enhancing triple-cation perovskite solar cells with an efficiency of 25.54%

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04248D, Paper
Yang Ding, Erming Feng, Siyuan Lu, Jianhui Chang, Caoyu Long, Sichao Tong, Hengyue Li, Junliang Yang
A surface micro-etching and reconstruction strategy is developed to regulate the stresses in a perovskite film, achieving a benign transition from tensile stress to compressive stress.
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Asymmetric evaporation for efficient and simultaneous extraction of freshwater, salt, and electrical energy from seawater

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04201H, Paper
Yitian Wu, Chaoliang Ma, Kangxin Zhu, Lizheng Jin, Lvfu Song, Lanze Li, Yingzhuo Lu, Yu Zheng, Yaoxin Zhang, Xin Zheng, Sai Wu, Yajun Pang, Zhehong Shen, Swee Ching Tan, Hao Chen
This study presents an asymmetric evaporation strategy that simultaneously achieves freshwater production, salt collection, and electrical energy generation.
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A donor:hole-transport layer alloy for high-efficiency and stable binary organic solar cells with promoted hole collection and suppressed recombination

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04072D, Paper
Xianghui Zeng, Ting Xu, Hansheng Chen, Baoshen Deng, Qing Yan, Xuanlin Wen, Zijian Li, Haoxuan Zeng, Chuanlin Gao, Yaodong Xiao, Jiwei Liao, Hui Liu, Bin He, Peigang Han, Guangye Zhang, Shunpu Li, Yiwang Chen, Chen Xie
A donor-based nanoparticle (NPs)-incorporated hole-transport layer was synthesized for fine-tuning the energy level of anodes in organic solar cells. The conventional and inverted devices achieved record efficiencies of 19.9% and 17.2%, respectively.
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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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Reduction of bulk and interface defects via photo-annealing treatment for high-efficiency antimony selenide solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02877E, Paper
Xiaoyang Liang, Xinhua Wang, Qiwei Chang, Bingxin Yang, Wei Dang, Zheng Zhang, Yingnan Guo, Lin Yang, Zhiqiang Li
A novel interface engineering strategy with a photo-annealing treatment is proposed for regulating the interface of the Sb2Se3/CdS heterojunction.
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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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Ordered grain boundary reconstruction induces high-efficiency thermoelectric power generation in SnTe

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04639K, Paper
Qian Deng, Fujie Zhang, Xiaoyu Yang, Ruiheng Li, Chengliang Xia, Pengfei Nan, Yue Chen, Binghui Ge, Ran Ang, Jiaqing He
The “ordered grain boundary reconstruction” significantly improved the thermoelectric performance of SnTe, achieving a record conversion efficiency of ∼10.5%.
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Naphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c']bis([1,2,3]thiadiazole) enables the design of efficient halogen-free polymer donors and fabrication of organic solar cells with >19% efficiency

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8593-8608
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02414A, Paper
Tao Jia, Yongmin Luo, Yulong Hai, Tao Lin, Xudong Qin, Ruijie Ma, Kezhou Fan, Aleksandr A. Sergeev, Top Archie Dela Peña, Yao Li, Mingjie Li, Kam Sing Wong, Gang Li, Jiaying Wu, Shengjian Liu, Fei Huang
Fusion and isomerization strategies are used to develop an electron-withdrawing motif naphtho[1,2-d:5,6-d']bis([1,2,3]thiadiazole) (iNT) and a halogen-free polymer donor achieving an efficiency of 19.1%.
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An energy-efficient tellurium electrode enabled by a Cs2TeI6 perovskite structure for durable aqueous Zn–Te batteries

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8633-8642
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02916J, Paper
Jinye Li, Chengjun Lei, Pengjie Jiang, Chen Xu, Tingting Liu, Xiao Liang
CsI in 2 M ZnSO4 aqueous electrolyte facilitates the formation of Cs2TeI6 perovskite phase for Te electrode, effectively suppressing Te4+ hydrolysis and sustaining fast redox kinetics in multi-electron transfer Zn–Te aqueous batteries.
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Post-deposition in situ passivation of AgBiS2 nanocrystal inks for high-efficiency ultra-thin solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8885-8892
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03266G, Paper
Jae Taek Oh, Yongjie Wang, Carmelita Rodà, Debranjan Mandal, Gaurav Kumar, Guy Luke Whitworth, Gerasimos Konstantatos
A post-deposition in situ passivation strategy using a multi-functional molecular agent is reported with enhanced colloidal dispersibility of an environmentally-friendly AgBiS2 nanocrystal ink, achieving a PCE over 10% in a solar cell.
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An octave box inspired energy regularization triboelectric nanogenerator for highly efficient wave energy harvesting

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8829-8837
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02969K, Paper
Yuanchao Ren, Zizhuo Wang, Jie Chen, Fei Wu, Hengyu Guo
Inspired by the mechanical transmission structure of octave boxes, this work proposes a novel energy regularization triboelectric nanogenerator to effectively convert chaotic wave energy into stable electric output.
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Advancing high-efficiency, stretchable organic solar cells: novel liquid metal electrode architecture

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,8915-8925
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03406F, Paper
Seungbok Lee, Sungjun Oh, Seungseok Han, Dongchan Lee, Jihyung Lee, Yonghwi Kim, Hoe-Yeon Jeong, Jin-Woo Lee, Min-Ho Lee, Wu Bin Ying, Seonju Jeong, Seungjae Lee, Junho Kim, Yun Hoo Kim, Bumjoon J. Kim, Eun-chae Jeon, Taek-Soo Kim, Shinuk Cho, Jung-Yong Lee
Highly efficient and stretchable organic solar cells were developed with a novel liquid metal top electrode. Metallic interlayers enabled its fabrication via thermal evaporation, achieving 14.6% PCE and 70% PCE retention under 63% strain.
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