There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

다중혈관 관상동맥 환자에서 y-문합을 이용하여 양쪽 내흉동맥만을 사용한 우회술의 조기 성적

抗原变异可使得多种致病微生物易于逃避宿主免疫应答。表达在感染红细胞表面的恶性疟原虫红细胞表面蛋白1（PfPMP1）与感染红细胞、内皮细胞、树突状细胞以及胎盘的单个或多个受体作用，在黏附及免疫逃避中起关键的作用。每个单倍体基因组var基因家族编码约60种成员，通过启动转录不同的var基因变异体为抗原变异提供了分子基础。

疟原虫var基因转换速率变化导致抗原变异[英]／Paul H, Robert P, Christodoulou Z, et al//Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, Modifications, and Applications

Fully exploiting the properties of graphene will require a method for the mass production of this remarkable material. Two main routes are possible: large-scale growth or large-scale exfoliation. Here, we demonstrate graphene dispersions with concentrations up to approximately 0.01 mg ml(-1), produced by dispersion and exfoliation of graphite in organic solvents such as N-methyl-pyrrolidone. This is possible because the energy required to exfoliate graphene is balanced by the solvent-graphene interaction for solvents whose surface energies match that of graphene. We confirm the presence of individual graphene sheets by Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction. Our method results in a monolayer yield of approximately 1 wt%, which could potentially be improved to 7-12 wt% with further processing. The absence of defects or oxides is confirmed by X-ray photoelectron, infrared and Raman spectroscopies. We are able to produce semi-transparent conducting films and conducting composites. Solution processing of graphene opens up a range of potential large-area applications, from device and sensor fabrication to liquid-phase chemistry.

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High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

The growth behavior of a layer of a quinacridone derivative (QA16C) on the Ag(110) surface was studied using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. At very low coverage, molecule−substrate interactions determine the adsorption sites of QA16C molecules on Ag(110), and two distinct orientations of single molecules can be observed on silver terraces. At higher coverages up to 1 ML, intermolecular interactions drive the QA16C molecules to form rowlike nanostructures. Meanwhile, step-edge alignments of silver substrate induced by adsorbed organic molecules can be observed at very low coverage and at monolayer coverage. When the QA16C molecule coverage increases further to the second layer, different rowlike structures are formed. Intermolecular interactions, such as hydrogen bonds and alkyl−alkyl and π−π interactions, dominate the second-layer structure. In addition, we show that the second layer of QA16C molecules can be controlled by increasing the growth temperature during deposition.

Epitaxial Growth of Quinacridone Derivative on Ag(110) Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Controlling the atomic configurations of structural defects in graphene nanostructures is crucial for achieving desired functionalities. Here, we report the controlled fabrication of high-quality single-crystal and bicrystal graphene nanoislands (GNI) through a unique top-down etching and post-annealing procedure on a graphite surface. Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) combined with density functional theory calculations reveal that most of grain boundaries (GBs) formed on the bicrystal GNIs are 5-7-5-7 GBs. Two nanodomains separated by a 5-7-5-7 GB are AB stacking and twisted stacking with respect to the underlying graphite substrate and exhibit distinct electronic properties, forming a graphene homojunction. In addition, we construct homojunctions with alternative AB/twisted stacking nanodomains separated by parallel 5-7-5-7 GBs. Remarkably, the stacking orders of homojunctions are manipulated from AB/twist into twist/twist type through a STM tip. The controllable fabrication and manipulation of graphene homojunctions with 5-7-5-7 GBs and distinct stacking orders open an avenue for the construction of GBs-based devices in valleytronics and twistronics.

Hong-Jun Gao

Papers

Epitaxial Growth of Quinacridone Derivative on Ag(110) Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Fabrication and manipulation of nanosized graphene homojunction with atomically-controlled boundaries

Local field emission of electrons from an individual boron nanowire at nanometer electrode separation

Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in two-dimensional aggregation