Andrea Splendiani

TL;DR: This observation shows that quantum confinement in layered d-electron materials like MoS(2), a prototypical metal dichalcogenide, provides new opportunities for engineering the electronic structure of matter at the nanoscale.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that when the MoS2 crystal is thinned to monolayer, strong photoluminescence emerges, indicating an indirect to direct bandgap transition in this d-electron system.

TL;DR: The first fin-blue whale hybrid was confirmed by the analysis of a biparentally inherited marker, the α-lactalbumin (α-lac) nuclear gene, demonstrating that the morphological analysis alone does not allow to correctly identify hybrids, especially if intermediate characters of both parental species are not clearly distinguishable as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , two mitochondrial genes (cytochrome oxidase I and cytochrome b) were examined to compare an isolated population of the Italian minnow in the central Apennines to other populations in the species’ range (Po plain) and other European minnow species.

TL;DR: The relationship between age and body length, and age at sexual maturity of Physeter macrocephalus individuals stranded along the Italian coast was investigated in this paper , showing that Mediterranean male sperm whales attain sexual maturity at 10 years and for the same body length class are older than Atlantic ones.