Top Stories Archive

2025

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February 2025
Band engineering in 2D superlattices with rotation-symmetry-mismatched interfaces
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February 2025
A novel fullerene structure on a topological insulator surface

2024

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December 2024
Coherent control of strongly driven quantum dynamics using FERMI shaped pulses
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December 2024
Excitation of nanoscale coherent magnons by EUV transient gratings
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November 2024
An innovative platform for NO₂ detection for cleaner air and safer cities


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November 2024
Lifting the spin degeneracy in Graphene's Dirac cones
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October 2024
Tracking carbon atomic wires growth with in situ resonant UV Raman
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July 2024
Fundamental spatial limits of all-optical magnetization switching


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July 2024
High-pressure synthesis of carbonic acid polymorphs from carbon dioxide clathrate hydrate
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June 2024
Enhancing FEL imaging resolution with OAM and ptychography
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June 2024
Breaking the Fourier barrier: time-domain Brillouin scattering


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June 2024
A closer look at the toxicity mechanisms of erionite, a major natural carcinogen
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May 2024
Towards phase contrast lung CT in patients – a human chest phantom study
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May 2024
New material for hydrogen storage confines this clean yet troublesome fuel


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April 2024
The interference between phonons and its effects on heat propagation
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April 2024
A new phase of quantum matter: a surface spin-orbital chiral metal
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April 2024
Ultrafast dynamics in a molecular photoswitch


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March 2024
Tunable high-efficiency light modulator for soft X-rays
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February 2024
Superradiant Thomson scattering from graphite in the extreme ultraviolet
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February 2024
Unveiling Anharmonicity in Carbon Atomic Wires through UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy


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February 2024
Zn-air batteries: spectral STXM shows how working conditions impact cathode stability
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January 2024
Extreme Domain Wall Speeds Observed in Ferromagnets
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January 2024
A new non-linear optics technique developed at FERMI

2023

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November 2023
Single-spin flat bands in monolayer graphene
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October 2023
High-resolution synchrotron techniques detect labeled nanoplastics in macrophages
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September 2023
Polarization shaping of ultrashort extreme-ultraviolet light pulses


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September 2023
Single shot 3D imaging using free electron laser radiation
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August 2023
Winding of electrons in the quantum world
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August 2023
Probing the arrangement of subsurface dopants in a silicon quantum device platform


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August 2023
Transparent conductive oxide water etching revealed by operando spectroscopy
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July 2023
When the second strike is harder than the first: efficient indirect ionization of He nanodroplets
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May 2023
Vacancy influence on manganese hexacyanoferrate: a structural perspective


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April 2023
Filming molecular chiral dynamics from the inside with FEL
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April 2023
Breakthrough in Terahertz Photodetection using Cobalt Ditelluride
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March 2023
Unveiling the H2 production mechanism in methanol decomposition on Ni3Sn4 surfaces


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March 2023
Understanding the electrochemistry of a Prussian Blue Analogue
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February 2023
Van der Waals Engineering of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Magnetic Heterostructures
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February 2023
Enhancing Electron Correlation at a 3d Ferromagnetic Surface


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February 2023
Tuning thermal expansion properties by insertion of guest molecules
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February 2023
Real-time observation of hydrocarbon polymerization
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February 2023
Overcoming fluctuations by correlation: a new way to attosecond resolution at FELs


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January 2023
Molecular architecture of the PTG/PP1 holoenzyme: a promising target for Lafora disease

2022

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December 2022
Graphene coated nickel foams for hydrogen storage
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December 2022
Identifying the true reaction pathway of a prototypical ring-opening isomerization
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December 2022
Visible light effects on photostrictive/magnetostrictive PMN-PT/Ni heterostructure


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November 2022
Ultrafast all-optical spin injection in silicon revealed at FERMI
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November 2022
UV Resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals uniqueness of carbon atomic wires
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November 2022
Intense x-ray radiation changes how light and matter interact


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October 2022
Unraveling the structural transformation of Li-rich materials in lithium-batteries
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September 2022
A novel van der Waals material for electrochemistry, photochemistry and gas sensing
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September 2022
Rabi dynamics in a 2-level system at XUV wavelength


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August 2022
Enigmatic Dirac fermions in graphene
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August 2022
Spin-polarized hybrid states in epitaxially-aligned and rotated graphene on cobalt
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June 2022
Nanoscale limits of all-optical switching


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June 2022
A Terahertz Ruler for ultra-short XUV Pulses
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May 2022
Ultrafast chiral domain wall dynamics probed by time-resolved resonant magnetic scattering
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May 2022
Light-Induced Magnetization at the Nanoscale


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April 2022
Moiré Superlattice Effects and Band Structure Evolution in Near-30-Degree Twisted Double layer Graphene
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April 2022
Structural Insight of MOFs under Combined Mechanical and Adsorption Stimuli
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March 2022
Revealing the time evolution of different vibrations by noise correlation spectroscopy


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March 2022
Observation of magnetic helicoidal dichroism with extreme ultraviolet light vortices
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February 2022
Interfacial Chemical Reactions and Stability in 5V Lithium Ion Cells
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February 2022
A candidate quantum detergent for spintronics


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January 2022
Field-induced band-shifts in two-dimensional heterostructures
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January 2022
One-dimensional ribbon-like structures embedded in single-layer graphene on Ni(100)

2021

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December 2021
2D Molybdenum Carbide MXenes for Enhanced Selective Detection of Humidity in Air
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November 2021
Observation of Magnetoelectric Coupling at the Ni/Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Interface
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October 2021
NiMoO4@Co3O4 core-shell nanorods: in situ catalyst reconstruction towards high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction


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October 2021
Enhanced above threshold ionization (ATI) in resonantly excited helium nanodroplets: All for one and one for high energies
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September 2021
Electronic Properties of Ti Sites in Ziegler–Natta Catalysts
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September 2021
Seeing a buried interface with elemental specificity


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September 2021
Activation of order-disorder dynamics in crystalline Buckybowls
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August 2021
Copper oxide nanomaterials as possible nanofertilizers in zucchini plants
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August 2021
Probing the transient adsorbate excitation with sub-ps resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Is non-thermalized electron-hole pairs responsible for the ultrafast initial excitation?


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August 2021
Measuring electron temperature dynamics of gold nanoparticles by ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy
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August 2021
Filamentous cable bacteria display long-range electron transport
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July 2021
A novel nanocomposite with gas sensing properties obtained through high-pressure synthesis


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June 2021
Defect aggregates and transport properties in the Ce1-x(Nd0.74Tm0.26)xO2-x/2 system
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June 2021
Recycling alginate composites for thermal insulation
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May 2021
First evidence of spectral tuning in extreme ultraviolet light pulses after interaction with opaque materials


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May 2021
Measuring eXtreme UltraViolet (XUV), femtosecond Laser pulses with slow, visible cameras
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May 2021
Magnetic dynamics at the nanoscale revealed by transient magnetization gratings
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April 2021
Demonstration of Plasmonic-mediated Charge Transfer in Hybrid Semiconductor-Plasmonic Photocatalyst


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April 2021
Unraveling the Molecular Structure, Self-Assembly, and Properties of a Cephalopod Protein Variant
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April 2021
Enhanced electrocatalytic activity in GaSe and InSe nanosheets: the role of surface oxides
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March 2021
Metavalent Bonding in GeSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance


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March 2021
Spectroscopic evidence of a dimensionality-induced metal-to-insulator transition in the Ruddlesden−Popper Lan+1NnO3n+1 Series
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February 2021
Inducing transparency by kicking the atoms
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February 2021
Unusual reversibility of molecular break-up of PAHs: the case of pentacene dehydrogenation on Ir(111)


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January 2021
Disclosing the time evolution of magnetic chirality after an optical excitation
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January 2021
How the anisotropy of surface oxide formation influences the transient activity of a surface reaction
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January 2021
The power of surfaces: getting meta-polyaniline from para-aminophenol

2020

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December 2020
Titanium defective sites in TS-1: structural insights by combining spectroscopy and simulation
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December 2020
Direct X-ray and electron-beam lithography of halogenated zeolitic imidazolate frameworks
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November 2020
New Method for Measuring Angle-Resolved Phases in Photoemission


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October 2020
Orbital angular momentum carried by an optical field can be imprinted onto a propagating electron wave
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October 2020
Electron and X‑ray Focused Beam-Induced Cross-Linking in Liquids: Toward Rapid Continuous 3D Nanoprinting and Interfacing using Soft Materials
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October 2020
Observation of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene


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October 2020
Who stole the light? Self-induced ultrafast demagnetization limits the amount of light diffracted from magnetic samples at soft x-ray energies
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September 2020
Liquid carbon can be disclosed if one is ultrafast enough
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August 2020
Laser, camera, action: Ultrafast ring opening of thiophenone tracked by time-resolved XUV photoelectron spectroscopy


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August 2020
Transition-metal dichalcogenide NiTe2: an ambient-stable material for catalysis and nanoelectronics
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July 2020
Determination of interatomic coupling between two-dimensional crystals using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
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July 2020
Terahertz tuning of Dirac plasmons in Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator


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July 2020
Ecosystems at risk in Antarctica due to microplastics
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July 2020
Stabilization by Configurational Entropy of the Cu(II) Active Site during CO Oxidation on Mg0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O
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June 2020
Morphological evolution of Zn-sponge electrodes monitored by in situ X-ray computed microtomography


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June 2020
Very efficient desorption of NO2 from Carbon nanotubes filled with Ni nanoclusters
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May 2020
Synthesis of mesoscale ordered 2D π-conjugated polymers with semiconducting properties
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May 2020
Massive and massless charge carriers in an epitaxially strained alkali metal quantum well on graphene


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April 2020
Origin of the flat band in heavily Cs-doped graphene
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April 2020
Titanium-based potassium-ion battery positive electrode
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March 2020
On the origin of metallicity and stability of the metastable phase in chemically exfoliated MoS2


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March 2020
Tracking attosecond wave packets with extreme ultraviolet pulses
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February 2020
Mechanistic insight into carbon-carbon bond formation on cobalt under simulated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis conditions
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January 2020
Probing the ultrafast relaxation of superfluid helium


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January 2020
Surface state band inversions generate Weyl-like states in NbGeSb

2019

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December 2019
Complete characterization of phase and amplitude of bichromatic XUV light
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December 2019
Covalent Organic Framework (COF‐1) under pressure
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December 2019
Translucency of Graphene to van der Waals Forces


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November 2019
Highlighting the Dynamics of Graphene Protection toward the Oxidation of Copper Under Operando Conditions
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October 2019
Insight into competitive advantage of modern humans over Neanderthals
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August 2019
Dual-route hydrogenation of epitaxial graphene


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July 2019
Visualizing electrostatic gating effects in two-dimensional heterostructures
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July 2019
X-rays overdose: quantifying the cellular damage caused by synchrotron X-ray Micro-CT in plants
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July 2019
Indirect chiral magnetic exchange through Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya enhanced RKKY interactions in manganese oxide chains on Ir(100)


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July 2019
Real-Time Dynamics of the Formation of Hydrated Electrons upon Irradiation of Water Clusters with Extreme Ultraviolet Light
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June 2019
Surface Instability and Chemical Reactivity of ZrSiS and ZrSiSe Nodal-Line Semimetals
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June 2019
Uravelling the growth mechanism of the coprecipitation of iron oxide nanoparticles with the aid of synchrotron X-Ray diffraction in solution


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May 2019
Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas phosphoribulokinase crystal structures complete the redox structural proteome of the Calvin-Benson cycle and shed light on their molecular evolution in eukaryotes
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May 2019
Coherent soft x-ray pulses from an echo-enabled free-electron laser
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May 2019
Raman spectroscopy based on spectral covariance in stochastic light pulses


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April 2019
Wayforlight: The Catalogue of European Light Sources
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April 2019
Structure of human telomere G-quadruplex in the presence of a model drug
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April 2019
Indirect to Direct Gap Crossover in Two Dimensional InSe Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy


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March 2019
A 3D trip into the violin varnish - Physicists and chemists ally to bring back the forgotten secrets of ancient violin-makers
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March 2019
In-Gap States and Band-Like Transport in Memristive Devices
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March 2019
Signatures of enhanced superconducting phase coherence in cuprates


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February 2019
Magnetic patterning by electron beam assisted carbon lithography
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February 2019
2 for the price of 1: how double ionization becomes an efficient process
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February 2019
The shapes of spinning superfluid quantum droplets


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January 2019
Understanding chemical reactions on solid surfaces covered by two-dimensional materials

2018

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December 2018
Spectroscopic characterization of MoS2 monolayers grown on a Graphene/Iridium substrate
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December 2018
In-situ single-shot diffractive fluence mapping for x-ray free-electron laser pulses
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November 2018
Ferroelectric control of the spin texture in GeTe


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November 2018
Doped epitaxial graphene close to the Lifshitz transition
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October 2018
When is a laser a real laser?
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October 2018
Steering the outcome of photoionization in a molecule


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October 2018
A comparative high-resolution endostructural study reveal Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old human dental remains from the Italian Peninsula
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September 2018
Neural network approach to EXAFS analysis
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September 2018
Nanocrystal superlattices: revealing a shape-induced orientation phase within 3D nanocrystal solids


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September 2018
Ultralow-fluence for Phase-Change Process
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June 2018
An Electrifying View on Catalysis
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June 2018
Three-dimensional carbon nanotube-polymer composite promotes functional reconnection of organotypic spinal slices


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April 2018
Localized Symmetry Breaking for Tuning Thermal Expansion
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March 2018
Tailoring the Surface Chemical Reactivity of Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide PtTe2 Crystals
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February 2018
Functionalized graphdiyne nanowires: on-surface synthesis and assessment of band structure, flexibility, and information storage potential


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February 2018
Quantum effects in hydrogen bonding: core level photoemission spectroscopy of acetylacetone
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February 2018
The teeth of a prehistoric fetus give us information about the last months of a mother and child, who lived 27.000 years BP
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February 2018
Extreme-ultraviolet vortices from a free-electron laser


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February 2018
High coherence and intensity at FERMI enables new X-ray interfacial probe
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January 2018
An extra sugar provides protection
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January 2018
Molecular dynamics on the femtosecond timescale: a close look at photochemical reactions


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January 2018
Co/ZnO nanorod heterostructure: an innovative magneto-electric system
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January 2018
Enhanced magnetic hybridization of a spinterface through Insertion of a two-dimensional magnetic oxide layer

2017

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December 2017
Topological insulator gap in graphene contacted with Pb
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December 2017
Subfilamentary Networks in Memristive Devices
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November 2017
Ubiquitous formation of type-I and type-II bulk Dirac cones and topological surface states from a single orbital manifold in transition-metal dichalcogenides


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November 2017
Multi-orbital charge transfer at highly oriented organic/metal interfaces
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November 2017
Quantum spectroscopy, for the measurements of dynamical current current thermalization
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October 2017
Maximal Rashba-like spin splitting via kinetic-energy-coupled inversion-symmetry breaking


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October 2017
Size contrast of Pt nanoparticles formed on neighboring domains within suspended and supported graphene
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September 2017
Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay
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July 2017
Fluorination of suspended graphene


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June 2017
Substrate Doping Effect and Unusually Large Angle van Hove Singularity Evolution in Twisted Bi- and Multilayer Graphene
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June 2017
The wounds of drought: imaging of embolized xylem conduits in plants
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April 2017
Time-resolved measurement of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by two-photon double excitation of Ne2


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April 2017
Liquid-phase chemistry: Graphene nanobubbles
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March 2017
Chemistry at the protein-mineral interface: the nucleation site of iron mineral in human L ferritin revealed by anomalous x-ray diffraction
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March 2017
Quantification of ion confinement and desolvation in nanoporous carbon supercapacitors with modelling and in situ X-ray scattering


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February 2017
One major step towards the design of controlled thermal expansion materials
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February 2017
Electronic states of silicene allotropes on Ag(111)
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February 2017
Determination of band offsets, hybridization and exciton binding in 2D semiconductor heterostructures


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January 2017
A low temperature route towards hierarchically structured titania films for thin hybrid solar cells
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January 2017
Structural basis of human PCNA sliding on DNA
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January 2017
Evidence for a Strong Topological Insulator Phase in ZrTe5

2016

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December 2016
Environmental control in graphene: influence of the substrate’s metallicity
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November 2016
Manipulating the topological interface using molecular adsorbates
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October 2016
Combined photoemission spectroscopy and electrochemical study of a mixture of (Oxy)carbides as potential innovative supports and electrocatalysts


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October 2016
Understanding gold catalysis: the effect of water and the presence of low-coordinated sites
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October 2016
Self-assembly of the cephalopod protein reflectin
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September 2016
Evolution of the valley position in bulk transition-metal chalcogenides and their monolayer limit


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July 2016
Soft X-ray coherent diffraction imaging for tracking electrodeposition dynamics
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July 2016
Fragmentation of magnetism in artificial dipolar spin ice
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July 2016
Crystal structure of the earthworm toxin reveals the mechanism of assembly and its potential application


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June 2016
Two-dimensional self-assembly of benzotriazole on an inert substrate
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May 2016
The dance of coronene: molecular twisting, lifting and curling
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May 2016
Rashba coupling amplification by a staggered crystal field


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April 2016
Towards Low-Voltage and Bendable X-ray Direct Detectors Based on Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals
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April 2016
Multiple Coexisting Dirac Surface States in Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator PbBi6Te10
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March 2016
Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperatures


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March 2016
Layer-dependent quantum cooperation of electron and hole states in the anomalous semimetal WTe2
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February 2016
Controlling electrons with attosecond time resolution
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February 2016
Ultrafast charge transfer pathways through a prototype amino-carboxylic molecular junction


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February 2016
Ultrafast optical control of the electronic properties of ZrTe5
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January 2016
Counting electrons on supported nanoparticles
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January 2016
Photon number statistics uncover the fluctuations in non-equilibrium lattice dynamics


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January 2016
Quasi-free-standing single layer of graphene and h-BN on Pt(111) by a single molecular precursor

2015

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December 2015
Nanobubbles at GPa pressure under graphene
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October 2015
Trapping of charged gold adatoms by dimethyl sulfoxide on a gold surface
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October 2015
Electrodeposition and pyrolysis of Mn/polypyrrole nanocomposites: a study based on soft X-ray absorption, fluorescence and photoelectron microspectroscopies


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September 2015
Reversible Photoswitching of a Spin-Crossover Molecular Complex in the Solid State at Room Temperature
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September 2015
Single-shot spectro-temporal characterization of XUV pulses from a seeded free-electron laser
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August 2015
Polymer/Nanocrystal Hybrid Solar Cells: Influence of Molecular Precursor Design on Film Nanomorphology, Charge Generation and Device Performance


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July 2015
Depth profiling of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Li-ion electrodes
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June 2015
Comparing graphene growth on Cu(111) versus oxidized Cu(111)
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May 2015
Charge distribution in an oxide heterostructure


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April 2015
FEL-based four-wave-mixing @ FERMI
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April 2015
Epitaxial growth of a single-domain hexagonal boron nitride monolayer
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March 2015
Identification of the primary lesion of toxic aluminum (Al) in plant roots


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January 2015
Enhanced Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission by an Optical Klystron at FERMI

2014

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December 2014
Magnetization reversal by a femtosecond laser pulse
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November 2014
FELs rely on the accurate design of their driving high brightness linear accelerators
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November 2014
Molecular Orbital Tomography: Reconstruction of phase symmetry from circular dichrosim experiments


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October 2014
Bottom-up approach for the low-cost synthesis of graphene-alumina nanosheet interfaces using bimetallic alloys
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October 2014
X-ray holography with a customizable reference
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October 2014
Interface Functionalities in Multilayer Stack Organic Light Emitting Transistors


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August 2014
Imaging the way molecules desorb from catalysts
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August 2014
The Photoenhanced antinodal conductivity as a key to understand the phase diagram of High-Tc cuprates
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July 2014
A novel lithographic technique to structure the chemical composition of nanocrystal films


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July 2014
Imaging Ultrafast Demagnetization Dynamics after a Spatially Localized Optical Excitation
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June 2014
Unexpected Physisorption of NOx on ultrapure Carbon Nanotubes
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May 2014
Possible superconductivity in Ca-doped graphene


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April 2014
Electric control of magnetism at the Fe/BaTiO3 interface
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February 2014
Polarization Sensitive Surface Band Structure of Doped BaTiO3(001)
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January 2014
Internal architecture and micro-biomechanical behaviour of the Neanderthal Kebara 2 hyoid bone compared with modern human hyoids: implication for speech capacity

2013

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December 2013
Interfacial complexation reactions in vacuo: a self-terminating protocol via metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
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December 2013
Electron beam instrumentation for FELs
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December 2013
Insight into organometallic intermediate and its evolution to covalent bonding in surface-confined Ullmann polymerization


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November 2013
Hund’s exchange controls the physics of 3d adatoms on surfaces
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November 2013
Unconventional ordering phenomena in cuprates
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October 2013
Temperature Driven Reversible Rippling and Bonding of a Graphene Superlattice


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October 2013
Generation of two-color FEL pulses and first two-color pump-probe experiments at FERMI free electron laser
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October 2013
Aluminum nanoparticle arrays push the high-energy limits of plasmonics
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July 2013
Microfabrication and tailoring of permselective properties of microporous polymers by Deep X-ray Lithography


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July 2013
Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy using ptychography with randomly phased illumination
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May 2013
Microscopic origin of electron accumulation in In2O3
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March 2013
The interaction of asbestos and iron in lung tissue revealed by synchrotron-based scanning X-ray microscopy


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February 2013
Optical conductivity of GaTa4Se8 under high pressure supports theoretical predictions
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February 2013
Tailoring Bimetallic Alloy Surface Properties by Kinetic Control of Self-Diffusion Processes at the Nanoscale
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February 2013
Metalation of 2H-tetraphenyl-porphyrins by picking-up a substrate metal atom

2012

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December 2012
Transfer-Free Electrical Insulation of Epitaxial Graphene
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October 2012
With Fermi@Elettra full coherence is now available in the extreme ultraviolet
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October 2012
First coherent photons from a double stage cascaded FEL with fresh bunch injection technique


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October 2012
A combination of modern physics tools reveals the oldest dental filling, dating back to the Stone Age
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October 2012
H-bond mediated dissociation of ammonia on Si(001)
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October 2012
Determination of the ion temperature in matter exposed to intense ultrashort laser pulses


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July 2012
Edge and facet atoms in graphene-supported nanoclusters
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July 2012
Resonant Circular Dichroism in Photoelectron Spectroscopy
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June 2012
Organic single crystals as low power, room temperature electrical X-ray detectors


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January 2012
X-ray-based methods to model the release of a highly water-soluble drug from lipid microspheres
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