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Furthermore, the operational stability is highly improved, showing a half-lifetime of 563 min at an initial luminance of 1000 cd m-2. The proposed GAI-assisted surface engineering is a promising approach for defect passivation and phase engineering in perovskite films to achieve high-performance perovskite LEDs.With the invention of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in 1986 and the subsequent developments in liquid imaging and cellular imaging it became possible to study the topography of cellular specimens under nearly physiological conditions with nanometric resolution. The application of AFM to biological research was further expanded with the technological advances in imaging modes where topographical data can be combined with nanomechanical measurements, offering the possibility to retrieve the biophysical properties of tissues, cells, fibrous components and biomolecules. Meanwhile, the quest for breaking the Abbe diffraction limit restricting microscopic resolution led to the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques that brought the resolution of the light microscope comparable to the resolution obtained by AFM. The instrumental combination of AFM and optical microscopy techniques has evolved over the last decades from integration of AFM with bright-field and phase-contrast imaging techniques at first to correlative AFM and wide-field fluorescence systems and then further to the combination of AFM and fluorescence based super-resolution microscopy modalities. Motivated by the many developments made over the last decade, we provide here a review on AFM combined with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques and how they can be applied for expanding our understanding of biological processes.Over the past decade, on-surface fabrication of organic nanostructures has been widely investigated for the development of molecular electronic components, catalysts, and new materials. Here, we introduce a new strategy to obtain alkyl oligomers in a controlled manner using on-surface radical oligomerisations that are triggered by electrons between the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope and the Si(111)√3 ×√3 R30°-B surface. This electron transfer event only occurs when the bias voltage is below -4.5 V and allows access to reactive radical species under exceptionally mild conditions. This transfer can effectively 'switch on' a sequence leading to the formation of oligomers of defined size distribution thanks to the on-surface confinement of the reactive species. Our approach enables new ways to initiate and control radical oligomerisations with tunnelling electrons, leading to molecularly precise nanofabrication.Metal lead halide perovskite nanocrystals have emerged as promising candidates for optoelectronic applications. However, the inclusion of toxic lead is a major concern for the commercial viability of these materials. Herein, we introduce a new family of non-toxic reduced dimension Rb2CuX3 (X = Br, Cl) colloidal nanocrystals with one-dimensional crystal structure consisting [CuX4]3- ribbons isolated by Rb+ cations. These nanocrystals were synthesised using a room-temperature method under ambient conditions, which makes them cost effective and scalable. Phase purity quantification was confirmed by Rietveld refinement of powder X-ray diffraction and corroborated by 87Rb MAS NMR technique. Cyclopamine in vivo Both samples also exhibited high thermal stability up to 500 °C, which is essential for optoelectronic applications. Rb2CuBr3 and Rb2CuCl3 display PL emission peaks at 387 nm and 400 nm with high PLQYs of ∼100% and ∼49%, respectively. Lastly, the first colloidal synthesis of quantum-confined rubidium copper halide-based nanocrystals opens up a new avenue to exploit their optical properties in lighting technology as well as water sterilisation and air purification.In novel gene therapy mechanisms utilising gemini surfactants, electrostatic interactions of the surfactant molecules with the DNA strands is a primary mechanism by which the two components of the delivery vehicle bind. In this work, we show for the first time direct evidence of electrostatic interactions of these compounds visualised with Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) and correlated to their topography from atomic force microscopy (AFM). We construct monolayers of lipids and gemini surfactant to simulate interactions on a cellular level, using lipids commonly found in cell membranes, and allow DNA to bind to the monolayer as it is formed on a Langmuir-Blodgett trough. The difference in topography and electrical surface potential between monolayers with and without DNA is striking. In fact, KPFM reveals a strongly positive relative electrical surface potential in between where we identify a background lipid and the DNA strands, evidenced by the height profiles of the domains. Such identification is not possible without KPFM. We conclude that it is likely we are seeing cationic surfactant molecules surrounding DNA strands within a sea of background lipid.Aside from their amino acid content, dairy proteins are valuable for their ability to carry encrypted bioactive peptides whose activities are latent until released by digestive enzymes or endogenous enzymes within the food. Peptides can possess a wide variety of functionalities, such as antibacterial, antihypertensive, and antioxidative properties, as demonstrated by in vitro and in vivo studies. This phenomenon raises the question as to what impact various traditional cheese-making processes have on the formation of bioactive peptides in the resulting products. In this study, we have profiled the naturally-occurring peptides in two hard and two soft traditional cheeses and have identified their known bioactive sequences. While past studies have typically identified fewer than 100 peptide sequences in a single cheese, we have used modern instrumentation to identify between 2900 and 4700 sequences per cheese, an increase by a factor of about 50. We demonstrated substantial variations in proteolysis and peptide formation between the interior and rind of each cheese, which we ascribed to the differences in microbial composition between these regions. We identified a total of 111 bioactive sequences among the four cheeses, with the greatest number of sequences, 89, originating from Mimolette. The most common bioactivities identified were antimicrobial and inhibition of the angiotensin-converting enzyme. This work revealed that cheese proteolysis and the resulting peptidomes are more complex than originally thought in terms of the number of peptides released, variation in peptidome across sites within a single cheese, and variation in bioactive peptides among cheese-making techniques.