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Planting hopes in hydroponics

Smart farming with no soil and a controlled environment has a promising market




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‘Gangster State’: How and why the Left fell in Bengal

In his debut book, Sourjya Bhowmick documents the unravelling of the communist experiment in the state




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Explainer: What are NFTs, and why the sudden frenzy about them?

Non-fungible token means something unique that cannot be substituted with another



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Why Emmys 2022 Was Such A Fun Show

Zendaya wins. Sheryl Lee Ralph makes history. Micheal Keaton delivers a beautiful speech.




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Why Are Knives Out For Daniel Craig?

The former 007 returns as the queer detective Benoit Blanc in Netflix's Knives Out.




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Why Stars Walked Out Of Premiere

The A-list cast of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer left the film's London screening midway in solidarity with the strike called by the Hollywood actors union.




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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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Cillian Murphy Dedicates His Oscar To...

Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for the biopic Oppenheimer, Irish actor Cillian Murphy gave a shout-out to his homeland, saying, 'I'm a very proud Irishman standing here tonight.'




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Towards the rational design of N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-1,4-benzenediamine (6PPD) electrochemical sensor

Analyst, 2024, 149,5165-5173
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00973H, Paper
Emily Dominique, Christophe Renault
The strong adsorption of 6PPD onto glassy carbon and its reversible two electron oxidation enables simple and sensitive electrochemical detection with an LOD of 10 nM.
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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 highly sensitive and reproducible fluorescence sensor for continuously measuring hydrogen peroxide at the sub-ppm level

Analyst, 2024, 149,5353-5359
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00975D, Paper
Yang Yang, Rui Jiang, En-lai Yang, Jiahao Liang, Ying Xu, Xu-dong Wang
Highly sensitive and reversible fluorescence H2O2 sensor with a limit of detection of 0.02 ppm had been developed. The sensor responded rather fast, had high stability, and can be massively produced with good batch-to-batch consistency.
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Hyperpolarised [2-13C]-pyruvate by 13C SABRE in an acetone/water mixture

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01005A, Paper
Open Access
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Oksana A. Bondar, Gamal A. I. Moustafa, Thomas B. R. Robertson
The NMR hyperpolarisation technique SABRE has been used to hyperpolarise 13C labelled pyruvate in a predominantly aqueous solution which has then been measured by benchtop NMR.
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Phenoxy-1,2-dioxetane-Based Activatable Chemiluminescent Probes: Tuning of Photophysical Properties for Tracing Enzymatic Activities in Living Cells

Analyst, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01082E, Critical Review
Open Access
Jagpreet Singh Sidhu, Gurjot Kaur, Atharva Rajesh Chavan, Mandeep Chahal, Rajeev Taliyan
The use of chemiluminophores for tracing enzymatic activities in live-cell imaging has gained significant attention, making them valuable tools for diagnostic applications. Among various chemiluminophores, the phenoxy-1,2-dioxetane scaffold exhibits significant...
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Rapid lung ventilation MRI using parahydrogen-induced polarization of propane gas

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01029A, Paper
Open Access
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Md Raduanul H. Chowdhury, Clementinah Oladun, Nuwandi M. Ariyasingha, Anna Samoilenko, Tarek Bawardi, Dudari B. Burueva, Oleg G. Salnikov, Larisa M. Kovtunova, Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov, Zhongjie Shi, Kehuan Luo, Sidhartha Tan, Juri G. Gelovani, Igor V. Koptyug, Boyd M. Goodson, Eduard Y. Chekmenev
The feasibility of ultrafast (1.7 s) ventilation MRI with a 1 × 1 × 50 mm3 voxel size is demonstrated using hyperpolarized propane gas contrast agent in excised rabbit lungs on a 0.35 T clinical MRI scanner without any scanner modification.
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The effect of hydrogen bonding on the π depletion and the π–π stacking interaction

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27431-27438
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02889A, Paper
Open Access
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Usman Ahmed, Dage Sundholm, Mikael P. Johansson
Calculations on molecules with self-complementary hydrogen bonding show that hydrogen bonds increase the energy of π–π stacking interactions.
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Hydrogen bond network structures of protonated 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol/ethanol mixed clusters probed by infrared spectroscopy combined with a deep-learning structure sampling approach: the origin of the linear type network preference in protonated fluoroal

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27751-27762
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03534H, Paper
Po-Jen Hsu, Atsuya Mizuide, Jer-Lai Kuo, Asuka Fujii
Infrared spectroscopy combined with a deep-learning structure sampling approach reveals the origin of the unusual structure preference in protonated fluorinated alcohol clusters.
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Theoretical insight into photodeactivation mechanisms of adenine–uracil and adenine–thymine nucleobase pairs

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27807-27816
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02817A, Paper
Open Access
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Kinga Szkaradek, Robert W. Góra
Ab initio calculations elucidate plausible intramolecular photoinduced relaxation pathways involving ring puckering and an efficient intersystem crossing in A–U and A–T base pairs, potentially hindering electron-driven proton transfer detection.
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Hydrogen tunneling with an atypically small KIE measured in the mediated decomposition of the Co(CH3COOH)+ complex

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26,27741-27750
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02722A, Paper
Open Access
Simon U. Okafor, Gabriele Pinto, Michael Brdecka, William Smith, Tucker W. R. Lewis, Michael Gutierrez, Darrin J. Bellert
Rate-limiting hydrogen/deuterium tunneling rate constants are measured in the photon initiated decay of Co(CH3COOH)+ with small KIE values.
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Insight into physico-chemical properties of oxalatoborate-based ionic liquids through combined experimental-theoretical characterization

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02296C, Paper
Open Access
Matteo Palluzzi, Giorgia Mannucci, Akiko Tsurumaki, Matteo Busato, Maria Assunta Navarra, Paola D’Angelo
An anion–anion attraction was inferred from the thermal behavior of oxalate-borate ionic liquids and confirmed through computational methods.
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Unveiling distinct bonding patterns in noble gas hydrides via interference energy analysis

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP04028G, Paper
Open Access
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Lucas Araujo, Marco A. C. Nascimento, Thiago M. Cardozo, Felipe Fantuzzi
SCGVB calculations show that in noble gas hydride ions NgH+ (Ng = He–Ar), energy well formation is driven by quantum interference. At equilibrium bond lengths, HeH+ and ArH+ exhibit covalent Ng+–H bonds, while NeH+ possesses a dative Ne → H+ bond.
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Effects of oxide platforms on the dynamics and reduction characteristics of hydrogen spillover

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03093A, Paper
Kazuki Shun, Akihito Fujimoto, Kohsuke Mori, Hiromi Yamashita
The interparticle hydrogen spillover can be facilitated over TiO2 and WO3 as a consequence of the interfacial diffusion of H+ and e pairs, while the e diffusion coupled with H+ is inhibited on MgO and CeO2.
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A hydrogen passivation strategy for the electrocatalytic chlorine evolution reaction on metal–organic frameworks: a theoretical insight

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03153A, Paper
Jiake Fan, Lei Yang, Hui Li, Zijian Sun, Mengyun Mei, Weihua Zhu
The chlorine evolution reaction (CER) is a crucial solution for treating chlorine-containing wastewater, a type of wastewater generated during the chemical production process.
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Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Delineates Stability of Non-canonical Adenine Base Pairs: A First-Principles Study

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02875A, Paper
Nicholas Adu-Effah, Nabanita Saikia
Non-canonical nucleobase pairs differ from canonical Watson-Crick (WC) pairs in their hydrogen bonding patterns. This study uses density functional theory with empirical dispersion correction to examine the stability and electronic...
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Deciphering nonlinear optical properties in functionalized hexaphyrins via explainable machine learning

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03303E, Paper
Eline Desmedt, Michiel Jacobs, Mercedes Alonso, Freija De Vleeschouwer
The NLO response of hexaphyrins is traced back to its driving forces using kernel ridge regression and explainable machine learning. Orbital and charge-transfer based features play a key role, as opposed to aromaticity and geometrical descriptors.
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Magnetic field enhanced discharge and water activation of atmospheric pressure plasma jet: effect of assistance region and underlying physico-chemical mechanism

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03938F, Paper
Xiongfeng Zhou, Bin Chen, Hua Liao, Kun Liu
Magnetic field-assistance holds the promise of becoming a new or complementary approach to enhance the efficiency of atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), but there is currently a lack of research...
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Hyrox races launch in India with first event scheduled for 2025 in Mumbai

Hyrox, the world series of indoor hybrid fitness racing, launched in India on October 17 this year. The first race is scheduled for May 3, 2025, in Mumbai




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Anna Samuel’s hyper reality cakes come in the form of biryanis and kappa-meen curry

Anna’s cakes are customised to suit client’s tastes and each is a piece of edible art




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Breaking barriers: Display by neurodiverse artists at Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad

The Art Sanctuary presents a curated art show created by neurodiverse individuals, for the first time in Hyderabad




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Hyderabad’s physician-musician Dr Bunty has composed for 100 Telugu serials

As a new serial Abhinandana airs on Gemini, Dr Bunty talks about navigating dual vocations




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Sanjeev Abhyankar’s Deepavali concert in Hyderabad

The musical concert at 6am will have a combination of classical and devotional songs




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French artist Charles Foussard brings his mural art to Hyderabad

Painted as part of the fourth edition of the Wall Art Festival, Charles Foussard’s mural explores the interconnectedness between humans and the Universe




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Why Generation Now must know Charles Correa

Architect Charles Correa’s work, his larger social vision, and his commitment to a modern India with housing is always relevant



  • Homes and gardens

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Dark and disturbing: ‘Killer Joe’ by Tracy Letss to be staged in Hyderabad

Directed by Sandeep Tadi, the play is a collaboration between Storyboard Productions and Preksha Theatre Company




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From balanced meal bowls to DIY kits for parties, these Chennai brands are putting a spin on eating healthy




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Why is Art Mumbai special?

A personalised approach, sold out showcases, and an intersection of fashion and films made the first edition a success, raising hopes for the fair next week




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Eeshaan Kashyap for Sarita Handa | In the mood for ghungroo

Musical anklets, traditional blooms and an old textile motif are reimagined in this Eeshaan Kashyap for Sarita Handa collection



  • Homes and gardens

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What is your design philosophy?

City-based Neeras Design Studio completes a year in the elite interiors segment.Sadhana Srinivasan, CEO, who studied design at the Inchbald School of Design talks to Lakshmi Krupa about the luxury market, international brands and more…



  • Q & A

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The business of physics

In this new series of columns, James McKenzie explores the value and relevance of physicists to industry




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Once a physicist: Anna Starkey

Anna Starkey is the creative director of We The Curious – an interactive science centre in Bristol, UK




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Organohypervalent heterocycles

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D2CS01055K, Review Article
Ravi Kumar, Toshifumi Dohi, Viktor V. Zhdankin
This review summarizes structural and synthetic aspects of heterocyclic molecules incorporating an atom of a hypervalent main-group element. The higher thermal stability of hypervalent heterocycles, as compared to their acyclic analogs, adds special feature to their chemistry.
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Low oxidation state and hydrido group 2 complexes: synthesis and applications in the activation of gaseous substrates

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CS00097H, Review Article
Matthew J. Evans, Cameron Jones
This review summarises advances in the chemistry of low-oxidation state and hydrido group 2 metal complexes, focussing on their use for the reductive activation of feed-stock gaseous small molecules, and their subsequent transformation into value added products.
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Peptide hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, 53,3640-3655
DOI: 10.1039/D3CS00648D, Tutorial Review
Open Access
Thangavel Vijayakanth, Sneha Dasgupta, Pragati Ganatra, Sigal Rencus-Lazar, Aamod V. Desai, Shyamapada Nandi, Rahul Jain, Santu Bera, Andy I. Nguyen, Ehud Gazit, Rajkumar Misra
This tutorial review discusses the design principles, implications, and future challenges associated with peptide-based hydrogen-bonded porous frameworks (P-HPFs).
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Why Adrian Newey’s Red Bull exit could redraw F1’s contours

In a highly complex sport, the 65-year-old design genius — F1’s foremost aerodynamicist — is the closest guarantee of success. And so while Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari move is seismic, Newey’s departure is much more significant, in terms of its potential effect on the pecking order




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Why the 2024 F1 season has the makings of a blockbuster

The sport’s fans have longed for a situation in which multiple constructors are in contention for victories, and out of nowhere in 2024, this compelling scenario has manifested. Moreover, the four teams that have tasted victory this year have top driver lineups, which allows for great racing




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From being hapless victim of a TV sting to Olympic medallist: Lalit Upadhyay's journey to stardom

Indian men's hockey team striker Lalit Upadhyay has worked hard to rebuild his career and considers all the setbacks as blessings in disguise.




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Watch: Remembering Dhyan Chand | National Sports Day

As we celebrate National Sports Day, we honour Major Dhyan Chand’s legacy




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India thrash Japan 5-1 for their second consecutive win in Asian Champions Trophy

Sukhjeet scored in the second and 60th minutes while Abhishek (3rd), Sanjay (17th) and Uttam Singh (54th) were the other Indian goal getters




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Asian Champions Trophy hockey: Raj Kumar on the prowl as India hammers Malaysia

Araijeet scores a brace while Jugraj, Harmanpreet and Uttam find the target once each as Harmanpreet’s men register their third successive win and climb to the top of the table; the Indians will take on Korea in their next match today




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Hero Asian Champions Trophy: India beats Korea; registers fourth consecutive win

Paris Olympics bronze medallist India had already defeated China 3-0, Japan 5-0 before thrashing last year's runner-up Malaysia 8-1.