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Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The water permeability of amorphous carbon dots (CDs) is demonstrated by investigating their plasticization. Novel polyamide‐based and amorphous nanoparticles are synthesized by controlling their inner packing density. Water plasticization is evidenced by the decrease of the CDs glass transition temperature with increasing the hydration degree.
Elisa Sturabotti, Valerio Di Lisio, Lucia Cardo, Alessandro Camilli, Estela Moretón Alfonsín, Daniele Cangialosi, Amaia Iturrospe Ibarra, Arantxa Arbe, Maurizio Prato   +8 more
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Detailed definition of temperature for nonequilibrium thermodynamics: Essential for information and quantum thermodynamics

AIP Advances
The detailed definition of temperature has been the fundamental subject for the nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory essentially for information and quantum thermodynamic theories.
Hiroshi Kobayashi
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Clock-driven quantum thermal engines

New Journal of Physics, 2015
We consider an isolated autonomous quantum machine, where an explicit quantum clock is responsible for performing all transformations on an arbitrary quantum system (the engine), via a time-independent Hamiltonian. In a general context, we show that this
Artur S L Malabarba, Anthony J Short, Philipp Kammerlander   +2 more
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Solvent‐Free Thermal Defect Engineering in Molecular Frameworks With Volatile Linkers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Thermal removal of neutral volatile linkers enables precise and solvent‐free generation of metal vacancies in MOFs. This strategy affords redox‐stable, coordinatively unsaturated FeII sites with tunable spin, ligand coordination, and catalytic behavior. The approach offers a general route to design defect‐functional materials through local coordination
Sonia Martínez‐Giménez, Alejandro Orellana‐Silla, Marta Galbiati, Efrén Navarro‐Moratalla, Luca Braglia, Sara Stolfi, José Antonio Real, Víctor Rubio‐Giménez, Sergio Tatay, Carlos Martí‐Gastaldo   +9 more
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Nonlinear bosonic Maxwell’s demon by coupling to qubits

Communications Physics
The concept of Maxwell’s demon, proposed in classical physics as a means to extract work from a thermodynamics system beyond the constraints set by the second law of thermodynamics, has since been extended to modern quantum physics.
Atirach Ritboon, Radim Filip
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2D Co‐Mo‐Hydroxide‐Based Multifunctional Material for the Development of H2‐Based Clean Energy Technologies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
2D α‐Co(OH)2 interleaved with Mo species displays an appealing dual functionality for the production and use of green hydrogen.Mo incorporation greatly benefits the electrochemical behaviour in Oxygen Evolution Reaction for H2 production, while the magnetocaloric response at liquid H2 temperature paves the way for alternative cryogenic refrigerants ...
Daniel Muñoz‐Gil, Celia Castillo‐Blas, Dawid Krystian Feler, Isabel Gómez‐Recio, Miguel Tinoco, Ana Querejeta‐Fernández, Rodrigo González‐Prieto, Felipe Gándara, Romualdo Santos Silva Jr, Pilar Ferrer, Carlos Prieto, Luc Lajaunie, José Luis Martinez‐Peña, María Luisa Ruiz‐González, José María González‐Calbet   +14 more
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Flexoelectrically Induced Polar Topology in Twisted SrTiO3 Membranes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Twisted SrTiO3 bilayers host polar vortices of flexoelectric origin, revealed through combined experiment and theory. By reconstructing polarization from the toroidal moment of strain gradients, the work establishes a 3D chiral state with broken inversion and mirror symmetries.
Isabel Tenreiro, Hugo Aramberri, Víctor Rouco, Gabriel Sánchez‐Santolino, Mariona Cabero, Fernando Gallego, David Sánchez‐Manzano, José M. González‐Calbet, Federico Mompeán, Mar García‐Hernández, Alberto Rivera‐Calzada, Jorge Íñiguez‐González, Carlos León, Jacobo Santamaría   +13 more
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A Cu‐Based Near‐IR Active MOF with an Ion‐Pair Guest Exhibiting Versatile and Selective Gas‐Solid Reactivity

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The new Cu‐containing MOF (Me2NH2)(CuICl2)@[Cu4(INA)4Cl2O]·1.5dmf (3) contains a cation and an anion as guests and shows UV‐near‐mid‐IR absorption and near‐IR emission. MOF 3 shows gas‐solid reactivity in the presence of NH3 and HCOOH to yield two new 3D MOF.
Rajat Saha, Alejandro Cortés‐Villena, Silvia Gómez‐Coca, Alberto Fernández‐Alarcón, Joaquín Calbo, Raquel E. Galian, Enrique Ortí, Eliseo Ruiz, Mónica Giménez‐Marqués, Samia Benmansour, Carlos J. Gómez‐García   +10 more
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Atomistic Mechanisms Triggered by Joule Heating Effects in Metallic Cu‐Bi Nanowires for Spintronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bi doped metallic Cu nanowires are promising for spintronics thanks to the stabilization of a giant spin Hall effect. However, heat resulting from current injection forces Bi to leave solution, forcing segregation into monoatomic decorations which evolve into coherent crystalline aggregates.
Alejandra Guedeja‐Marrón, Juan Ignacio Beltrán, Matilde Saura‐Múzquiz, Paolo Perna, M. Carmen Muñoz, Lucas Pérez, Maria Varela   +6 more
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Quantum thermodynamics of single particle systems. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Ali MM, Huang WM, Zhang WM.
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