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This work, thereby, makes a significant step toward the practical applications of MoS2 monolayers and the large-scale integration of 2D electronics.Confining light in extremely small cavities is crucial in nanophotonics, central to many applications. Employing a unique nanoparticle-on-mirror plasmonic structure and using a graphene film as a spacer, we create nanoscale cavities with volumes of only a few tens of cubic nanometers. The ultracompact cavity produces extremely strong optical near-fields, which facilitate the formation of single carbon quantum dots in the cavity and simultaneously empower the strong coupling between the excitons of the formed carbon quantum dot and the localized surface plasmons. This is manifested in the optical scattering spectra, showing a magnificent Rabi splitting of up to 200 meV under ambient conditions. In addition, we demonstrate that the strong coupling is tuneable with light irradiation. This opens new paradigms for investigating the fundamental light emission properties of carbon quantum dots in the quantum regime and paves the way for many significant applications.High-performance Ag-Se-based n-type printed thermoelectric (TE) materials suitable for room-temperature applications have been developed through a new and facile synthesis approach. A high magnitude of the Seebeck coefficient up to 220 μV K-1 and a TE power factor larger than 500 μW m-1 K-2 for an n-type printed film are achieved. A high figure-of-merit ZT ∼0.6 for a printed material has been found in the film with a low in-plane thermal conductivity κF of ∼0.30 W m-1 K-1. Using this material for n-type legs, a flexible folded TE generator (flexTEG) of 13 thermocouples has been fabricated. The open-circuit voltage of the flexTEG for temperature differences of ΔT = 30 and 110 K is found to be 71.1 and 181.4 mV, respectively. Consequently, very high maximum output power densities pmax of 6.6 and 321 μW cm-2 are estimated for the temperature difference of ΔT = 30 K and ΔT = 110 K, respectively. The flexTEG has been demonstrated by wearing it on the lower wrist, which resulted in an output voltage of ∼72.2 mV for ΔT ≈ 30 K. Our results pave the way for widespread use in wearable devices.Self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccines are highly advantageous, as they result in enhanced protein expression compared to mRNA (mRNA), thus minimizing the required dose. However, previous delivery strategies were optimized for siRNA or mRNA and do not necessarily deliver saRNA efficiently due to structural differences of these RNAs, thus motivating the development of saRNA delivery platforms. Here, we engineer a bioreducible, linear, cationic polymer called "pABOL" for saRNA delivery and show that increasing its molecular weight enhances delivery both in vitro and in vivo. We demonstrate that pABOL enhances protein expression and cellular uptake via both intramuscular and intradermal injection compared to commercially available polymers in vivo and that intramuscular injection confers complete protection against influenza challenge. Due to the scalability of polymer synthesis and ease of formulation preparation, we anticipate that this polymer is highly clinically translatable as a delivery vehicle for saRNA for both vaccines and therapeutics.A novel electron-transporting unit, imidazo [1,2-b]pyridazine (IP), was first reported for developing host materials. The IP moiety possesses excellent electron-transporting ability and great thermal stability. Using carbazole as p-type units and IP as n-type units, several bipolar host materials, namely, IP6Cz, IP68Cz, IP36Cz, and IP368Cz, were developed through altering the substitution site of the IP core. Among these four materials, 6-site-substituted IP6Cz and 6,8-site-substituted IP68Cz exhibit the best electroluminescence (EL) performance. IP6Cz- and IP68Cz-based red phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes using Ir(pq)2acac as the emitter exhibit extremely high EL efficiency with the maximum external quantum efficiency (ηext,max) of 26.9 and 25.2% and an insignificant efficiency roll-off. Moreover, IP6Cz- and IP68Cz-based deep-red devices doped by Ir(piq)2acac also show satisfactory EL performance with a ηext,max of 20.5 and 19.9%, respectively. The influence of different substitution sites of the IP core on the photophysical and electrochemical properties was systematically investigated. This study demonstrates that IP could be a first-rate electron-transporting unit for bipolar materials for red-emitting devices.In this study, we report independent measurements of all stable isotope ratios of gadolinium. Our study employs multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) with National Research Council Canada (NRC) HALF-1 isotopic hafnium standard as a primary calibrator and surveys four commercial gadolinium materials, including a NRC candidate isotopic reference material, GADS-1. The isotopic composition of gadolinium is determined using the regression model without reliance on conventional normalizing isotope ratios or mass-dependent isotope ratio correction models. In this work, all gadolinium isotope ratios were obtained from 160Gd/158Gd which, in turn, was measured from hafnium 178Hf/177Hf either directly or indirectly through 167Er/166Er. selleckchem The latter approach was used for the final determination of gadolinium isotopic composition, as it provides smaller combined uncertainty. We report high-precision measurements of the isotopic composition of gadolinium, which support a revised standard atomic weight. Isotope amount ratios of R152/158 = 0.008 20(2)k=1, R154/158 = 0.087 98(12)k=1, R155/158 = 0.596 81(63)k=1, R156/158 = 0.825 08(57)k=1, R157/158 = 0.630 60(22)k=1, and R160/158 = 0.879 10(60)k=1, and the atomic weight of Ar(Gd) = 157.2502(6)k=1 were obtained for gadolinium in GADS-1.OBJECTIVE Obesity is associated with differences in task-evoked and resting-state functional brain connectivity (FC). However, no studies have compared obesity-related differences in FC evoked by high-calorie food cues from that observed at rest. Such a comparison could improve our understanding of the neural mechanisms of reward valuation and decision making in the context of obesity. METHODS The sample included 122 adults (78% female; mean age = 44.43 [8.67] years) with body mass index (BMI) in the overweight or obese range (mean = 31.28 [3.92] kg/m). Participants completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan that included a resting period followed by a visual food cue task. Whole-brain FC analyses examined seed-to-voxel signal covariation during the presentation of high-calorie food and at rest using seeds located in the left and right orbitofrontal cortex, left hippocampus, and left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. RESULTS For all seeds examined, BMI was associated with stronger FC during the presentation of high-calorie food, but weaker FC at rest.