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Research Proposal for an Experiment to Search for the Decay {\mu} -> eee

, 2013
We propose an experiment (Mu3e) to search for the lepton flavour violating decay mu+ -> e+e-e+. We aim for an ultimate sensitivity of one in 10^16 mu-decays, four orders of magnitude better than previous searches.
Bachmann, S., Berger, N., Blondel, A., Bravar, A., Dissertori, G., Eckert, P., Fischer, P., Grab, C., Gredig, R., Hildebrandt, M., Kettle, P. -R., Kiehn, M., Papa, A., Perić, I., Pohl, M., Ritt, S., Robmann, P., Schultz-Coulon, H. -C., Schöning, A., Shen, W., Stoykov, A., Straumann, U., Wallny, R., Wiedner, D., Windelband, B.   +24 more
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Charge‐Induced Morphing Gels for Bioinspired Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel electroactive actuation mechanism that enables the gel material to generate substantial and reversible shape‐changing while preserving topological and isochoric (volumetric) equivalence. The resultant morphing behaviors can mimic the movements of muscle‐driven organelles in nature, including cilia‐like beating and ...
Ciqun Xu, Saba Firouznia, Charl F. J. Faul, Majid Taghavi, Jonathan Rossiter   +4 more
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Multiple Twinning in Nacre and Aragonite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electron backscatter diffraction map of a cluster of geologic aragonite, exhibiting single, double, and triple twins. The whole cluster is approximately 2 cm wide. Colors indicate crystal orientations, so that pixels where the a‐, b‐, and c‐axis is perpendicular to the image plane are green, red, and blue, respectively.
Connor A. Schmidt, William O. Nachlas, Bil Schneider, Xiaoming Mao, Eric Tambutté, Alexander A. Venn, Sylvie Tambutté, Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert   +7 more
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Laser‐Based Sculpturing of Embedded Ultrathin Metal‐Oxide Nanopores for Enhanced Biomolecular Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Controlled laser‐drilling of embedded HfO2 membranes creates three layer nanopores with Gaussian‐shaped cavities sculptured in the supporting layers. These embedded solid‐state nanopores slow DNA translocation by 12‐fold compared to SiNx pores, enabling high‐resolution, label‐free detection of short DNAs, RNAs, and proteins.
Jostine Joby, Yulia Marom, Guocong Lin, Aleksandra Baron‐Wiechec, Amit Meller   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Soft Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) can be actuated via electromechanical, electrochemical, or electrothermal effects. a) Electromechanical effects include Maxwell stress, electrostriction, and the electroclinic effect. b) Electrochemical effects arise from electrode redox reactions.
Yakui Deng, Min‐Hui Li
wiley   +1 more source

4D Mapping of ZIF Biocomposites for High Protein Loading and Tunable Release Profiles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Systematic four‐dimensional mapping of zeolitic imidazolate framework biocomposites reveals how precursor ratios, total concentration, and washing define crystalline phase, protein loading, and release kinetics. This comprehensive study identifies conditions yielding record loading (∼85%) and precise phase–property correlations.
Michael R. Hafner, Francesco Carraro, Behnaz Abbasgholi‐NA, Simone Dal Zilio, Max Schmallegger, Helmar Wiltsche, Lingcong Ge, Michael R. Reithofer, Efwita Astria, Laura Villanova, Heinz Amenitsch, Christian Doonan, Paolo Falcaro   +12 more
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Tuning the Electronic Structure and Spin State of Fe─N─C Catalysts Using an Axial Oxygen Ligand and Fe Clusters for High‐Efficiency Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A FeN4─O/Clu@NC‐0.1Ac catalyst containing atomically‐dispersed FeN4─O sites (medium‐spin Fe2+) and Fe clusters delivered a half‐wave potential of 0.89 V for ORR and an overpotential of 330 mV at 10 mA cm−2 for OER in 0.1 m KOH. When the catalyst was used in a rechargeable Zn–air battery, a power density of 284.5 mW cm−2 was achieved with excellent ...
Yongfang Zhou, Yu Mao, Mengyao Chang, Ziyun Wang, Wenke Xie, Cuizhu Ye, Shanghai Wei, Lars Thomsen, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joint Control of Radiated and Surface Waves via Space‐Time Coding Metasurfaces

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A unified space‐time coding metasurface platform enables simultaneous control of radiated and surface‐confined waves across multiple harmonics. Demonstrated functionalities include multi‐frequency beam shaping; surface‐wave excitation, and hybrid multiplexing.
Zihao Dai, Yi Ning Zheng, Lei Zhang, Xiao Qing Chen, Giuseppe Castaldi, Tie Jun Cui, Vincenzo Galdi   +6 more
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Single Solid‐State Ion Channels as Potentiometric Nanosensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Single gold nanopores functionalized with mixed self‐assembled monolayers act as solid‐state ion channels for direct, selective potentiometric sensing of inorganic ions (Ag⁺). The design overcomes key miniaturization barriers of conventional ion‐selective electrodes by combining low resistivity with suppressed loss of active components, enabling robust
Gergely T. Solymosi, Gyula Jágerszki, Levente Illés, Péter Fürjes, Róbert E. Gyurcsányi   +4 more
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Atomically Revealing Bulk Point Defect Dynamics in Hydrogen‐Driven γ‐Fe2O3 → Fe3O4 → FeO Transformation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In situ TEM uncovers the atomic‐scale mechanisms underlying hydrogen‐driven γ‐Fe2O3→Fe3O4→FeO reduction. In γ‐Fe2O3, oxygen vacancies cluster around intrinsic Fe vacancies, leading to nanopore formation, whereas in Fe3O4, vacancy aggregation is suppressed, preserving a dense structure.
Yupeng Wu, Dongxiang Wu, Wenhui Zhu, Xiaobo Chen, Zhikang Zhou, Zhilu Liang, Shuonan Ye, Meng Li, Xiao Tong, Kim Kisslinger, Sooyeon Hwang, Dmitri Zakharov, Renu Sharma, Judith C. Yang, Guangwen Zhou   +14 more
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