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Disordered Carbon Shells Enable Shape Dependent Fluorescence Enhancement in Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors Revealed by Correlative TEM–Fluorescence Microscopy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Molten KNO2 treatment induces a lowrefractive index disordered carbon shell on fluorescent nanodiamonds, enhancing fluorescence emission while preserving spin coherence. Machine learningassisted correlative TEMPL enables direct single‐particle resolution of this enhancement relative to air‐oxidized nanodiamonds of similar morphology, establishing a ...
Parkarsh Kumar, Tom Vaillant, Mehran Kianinia, Haotian Wen, Adam Stewart, Peter J. Reece, Hugues A. Girard, Jean‐Charles Arnault, Huan‐Cheng Chang, Igor Aharonovich, Shery L. Y. Chang   +10 more
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Quantum effects in biology

Procedia Chemistry, 2011
AbstractThe idea that quantum-mechanical phenomena can play nontrivial roles in biology has fascinated researchers for a century. Here we review some examples of such effects, including light-harvesting in photosynthesis, vision, electron- and proton-tunneling, olfactory sensing, and magnetoreception.
Fleming, Graham R., Scholes, Gregory D., Cheng, Yuan-Chung   +2 more
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LL‐37 Driven Phase Transition and Stacking in Oligolamellar Gram‐Negative Bacterial Membrane Models

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work establishes oligolamellar bacterial membrane models to investigate how LL‐37 disrupts the complex dual‐bilayer architecture of Gram‐negative bacteria. Combining SAXS, cryo‐TEM, electrophoretic mobility measurements, and coarse‐grained simulations, it reveals cardiolipin‐driven phase transitions leading to bicelle‐like structures and membrane ...
Bettina Tran, Diane C.A. Lima, Linda Sandblad, Madeleine Ramstedt, Thereza A. Soares, Stefan Salentinig   +5 more
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Parametric Resonance via Neuronal Microtubules: Filtering Optical Signals by Tryptophan Qubits

Quantum Reports
This paper aims to address the possibility of parametric resonance effects in microtubules via tryptophan qubits, using the Hamiltonian of the cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) model involving photons in a waveguide and the surrounding environment ...
Akihiro Nishiyama, Shigenori Tanaka, Jack Adam Tuszynski   +2 more
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Electron spin relaxation can enhance the performance of a cryptochrome-based magnetic compass sensor

New Journal of Physics, 2016
The radical pair model of the avian magnetoreceptor relies on long-lived electron spin coherence. Dephasing, resulting from interactions of the spins with their fluctuating environment, is generally assumed to degrade the sensitivity of this compass to ...
Daniel R Kattnig, Jakub K Sowa, Ilia A Solov'yov, P J Hore   +3 more
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Establishing a Model Precursor System: Over a Decade of Research on Carbon Dots from the Citric Acid‐Urea System

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The citric acid/urea (CA‐Urea) precursor system offers a versatile, scalable route to carbon dots with tunable luminescence and multifunctionality. Mechanistic insights into precursor chemistry and reaction parameters have enabled doping, surface modification, and hybridization strategies, yielding CDs for luminescent devices, sensing, catalysis ...
Yupeng Liu, Zhiqi Cai, Xiangxin Sun, Hanyi Zhang, Yiming Hao, Jun Wu, Zekun Yan, Xue Wu, Yiqi Liang, Liming Wang, Songnan Qu   +10 more
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Interfacial Modulation for High‐Efficiency Large‐Area Organic Photovoltaics and Perovskite‐Organic Tandem Solar Modules

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) are promising hole‐transporting materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), but suffer from self‐aggregation and poor large‐area uniformity. We find that interfacial modification using nicotinic hydrazide can eliminate the residual SAM aggregates by forming energetically favorable complexes, yielding uniform SAM.
Seongwon Yoon, Kangsik Cho, Sungmin Park, Kyeongmin Kim, Hyungju Ahn, Junhyeong Kim, Ahyeon Jin, Uijoon Lee, Yoon Hee Jang, Yongseok Jun, Hae Jung Son   +10 more
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Chemistry of the origins of life: how prebiotic chemistry can be approached by computational quantum methods

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
The origins of life are a fascinating topic and a captivating scientific challenge that involve numerous hypotheses. Computational quantum techniques have been growing, modernizing, and complementing experimental efforts in the field. In this mini review,
Ana Luiza Quilici, Marcelo V. P. De Sousa, Marcelo V. P. De Sousa, Ataualpa A. C. Braga   +3 more
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Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors for Probing Free Radical Biology

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Free radicals play key roles in cellular signaling and disease but remain difficult to measure in living systems. Nanodiamonds (NDs) with nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) centers enable quantum sensing of local magnetic noise via T₁ relaxometry, providing nondestructive radical detection in living cells.
Qi Lu, Yingke Wu, Tanja Weil
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Revisiting the Quantum Brain Hypothesis: Toward Quantum (Neuro)biology?

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2017
The nervous system is a non-linear dynamical complex system with many feedback loops. A conventional wisdom is that in the brain the quantum fluctuations are self-averaging and thus functionally negligible.
Peter Jedlicka
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